BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY (In Knowing One, One Will Know the Other ) Inscribed Copy

Hendricks, Geoffrey

ISBN 10: 0920089518 / ISBN 13: 9780920089514

Published by Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown PE, 2003

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(CAD) Presumed 1st eidtion. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST: " For L---/ and further meeting in Canada east + west/ Geoffrey/ 20 IV 04/ San Francisco", no other marking, several tiny spots to the front cover, thus Near Finee. White wraps, 60pp, colour photos of artworks having to do with sky and earth. Hendricks was an American but it was on Cape Breton Island, in 1965, that Hendricks began his sky series with Sky Boots, painting a blue sky with clouds on a pair of old work boots that he found in his barn. This life-long practice included Sky Laundry (1966), Sky Car (1979), Sky Ladder (1984), Sky Shovel (1990), 100 Skies (1993) and the exhibition "More than 100 Skies" at the Fondation du Doute, in Blois, France, in 2017.(1.3 JM 0815 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY (In Knowing One, One Will Know the Other ) Inscribed Copy
• Publisher: Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown PE
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0920089518
• ISBN 13: 9780920089514
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed By Artist
• Book Type: Exhibition Catalogue
• Seller catalogs:
  • Inscribed or Signed Non-fiction Books
  • Art, Graphic Design, Commercial Art

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Synopsis

Internationally renowned performance and visual artist GEOFFREY HENDRICKS created "Sky Boots, his first sky piece, shortly after his first visit to Cape Breton Island in 1964. Since, then he has used the isolated coastline of his Cape Breton home as a lens through which to explore his deep connection to place and history. The result is the impressive and multifaceted body of work in the exhibition "Between Earth & Sky (in knowing one, one will know the other): Geoffrey Hendricks. In her catalogue essay, curator SHAUNA McCABE traces Hendricks's interest in combining sky imagery with unexpected art forms to his involvement in the New York-based Fluxus movement of the early 1960s. Spearheaded by avant-garde artists such as Yoko Ono, Fluxus presumes that all media and artistic disciplines can be combined and fused. Hendricks, a key player in contemporary art, has always achieved an extraordinary balance of the regional and the personal with his work's international and universalist underpinnings. The catalogue of this ground-breaking retrospective exhibition features an essay by noted curator WAYNE BAERWALDT; SHAUNA McCABE's essay; and the artist's own chronology, reflecting on his experiences of the Cape Breton landscape.