SignLanguage

Mortensen, Viggo (Coordinater); Schjrring, Jens H. (editor); Kumari, Prasanna (editor); Hjelm, Norman A. (editor)

ISBN 10: 1889195499 / ISBN 13: 9781889195490

Published by Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A., 2002

About this Item

Rare, first printing hardcover. One of 500 total hardcover editions printed for Viggo Mortensen's exhibit at Track 16 Gallery. Signed by Viggo Mortensen on the title page. Small impression most likely from a pen cover being left in the book and then closing it. See photos.

Seller Inventory # 002843

Bibliographic Details

• Title: SignLanguage
• Publisher: Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1889195499
• ISBN 13: 9781889195490
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • For Sale

About this title

Synopsis

This long awaited second publication by the highly recognized film actor and artist/poet, Viggo Mortensen melds his acutely sensitive ability to intertwine words, paintings and photography into one lyrical conceptual landscape. Working like a personal diary, SignLanguage, takes us on a visual journey into the soul of Mortensen's creative forces. His diary-based photographs, taken while filming 'The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Rings' become dream-like landscapes shrouded in mystery and suspense while his multi-layered paintings entwine themselves around stanzas of poetry. The melding of all three forces allows the reader to become acutely aware of the details surrounding the artists existence, a multiple of split-second images burned into the mind of a thousand different places.

SignLanguage exquisitely features extensive color and black and white reproductions of both his photographic works and his intensely personal collage based paintings, partly intertwined in an informative essay by international critic and poet, Kevin Power. Special highlights also include unique photographs by Mortensen while on location during the filming of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'.

About the Author

An established film actor, with roles in A Perfect Murder and Gus Van Sant's Psycho and most recently a leading role

in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Viggo Mortensen has also proven himself to be an accomplished poet and artist.