Pencier Nicholas (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Excellent, near new copy of a massive volume of photography, essays and poetry illuminating the human ephoc. In amazing photographs that are both stunning and disconcerting, Burtynsky, Baichwal, and de Pencier document species extinction (the burning of elephant tusks to disrupt the illegal trade of ivory), technofossils (swathes of discarded plastic forming geological layers), and terraforming (mines and industrial agriculture). The book also features a range of essays by artists, curators, and scientists, some part of an international group of scientists who have proposed that the Earth is now entering a new era of geological time where human activity is the driving force behind environmental and geological change — i.e. the Anthropocene. Thus the book brings contemporary art into conversation with environmental science and anthropology on a topic that urgently affects all of us. Anthropocene was published to coincide with a major international exhibition that opened simultaneously in September 2018 at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada and the release of a film on the same topic by Baichwal and de Pencier.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. 9.25 x 6.75 in. Illustrated paper boards. Black pasted and free endpapers. 251+ pp. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2018. Illustrated in colour. Near fine example. Light handling.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 251 pages. 23.5 cm. Couverture rigide (photo collée sur plat avant et arrière). Pages de garde en vert. Illustrations (nombreuses photographies couleur des oeuvres d'artistes + env. 20 pages de photos couleur pleine-page au début et à la fin du livre montrant les artistes à l'oeuvre. "L'exposition Anthropocène est le fruit d'une collaboration soutenue par les artistes et cinéastes Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal et Nicholas de Pencier. avec pour but de sensibiliser les spectateurs à la transformation irréversible de la planète occasionnée par l'activité humaine" (Avant-propos). Imprimé du du papier glacé, ouvrage lourd. Document exceptionnel à l'état neuf.…