LARRY RIVERS

Boards (HB) in very good condition. Ex lib. with only 1 stamp page edges, 2 stickers and card pocket inside front cover. Dust jacket in very good condition with 1 sticker bottom of spine and tape to cover edges. In clear plastic cover. Text is in English with no marks, writine or folds of any kind. "Rivers's public persona as an artist combines that of bohemian outsider, sensualist and entertainer.Eschewing abstraction, he came up with startling, disquieting figures.Hunter makes a case for Rivers as a social realist: witness his powerful construction piece Ghetto Stoop or recent works that include searching portraits of Primo Levi, Leonard Bernstein and New York's ex-mayor Ed Koch. "358 pages, 400 illustrations, 155 plates in full color. As this book is both over sized and heavy there will be an extra charge for priority or for mailing it outside of the country.