Pratt Elspeth (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 75 pp. with full-colour illustrations. Catalogue for an exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery from November 14, 1998 to January 31, 1999, celebrating the work of ten Vancouver artists creating contemporary abstract art. Slight soiling along staple ridges at spine.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. White cover shows some smudges. 76 pages. 6 7/8"w x 9".

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 57. Slim Square 8vo. Cardboard-type binding held with a masktape style binding along the spine. The binding embodies the central thesis of the exhibition namely that of the emergence of vernacular art. Replete with lovely colour photographs, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding. Near fine. "Significant attention has been paid in recent years to the vernacular turn in contemporary art. The burgeoning notion that artists are moving away from industrial fabrication and precious materials toward handmade processes and modest mediums has come to be seen as emblematic of a generation of artists "returning" to the studio to the scale of the everyday".