I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now

HIRST, Damien

Published by Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1997

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HIRST, Damien I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1997 Large square folio; red leatherette, embossed in blind with Biochemicals organic compounds for research and diagnostic reagents ; together with nuclear H symbol gilt to lower edge; arrow border design in blind to right hand edge, and lettered in black to upper board and spine; lower board featuring a repeating circle motif and gilt printing of the globe; pictorial dustwrapper with periodic table, chemical models, and photographs; photographic endpapers; pp. [v], 6-334, proliferated throughout with text and images in full colour, along with die-cut cutouts, folding plates, moveables, pop-ups, stickers; printed on a variety of glossy papers; front free endpaper with light vertical crease; two moveables sadly unstuck (as is common) to p. 259 and 324-5); aside from a few light creases and a couple of white marks to upper board, a near-fine copy of this monumental publication. First edition, first printing of Hirst s first ever publication. This example signed by the artist to p. [i]. Damien Hirst is one of the most controversial artists of his generation. Through his own words, and a collection of over 700 images, this publication was designed in collaboration with Jonathan Barnbrook, and reproduces nearly every work created by the artist up to 1997. Included are photographs from Hirst s own personal collections, an artist s statement, as well as reproduced images of some of his most graphic and controversial art installations. In many ways a work of art in and of itself, the work features a series of dark images on the subject of death, including artworks inspired by Hirst s grandmother (who died of cancer), his butterfly room entitled in and out of love (together with double page pop-up of a butterfly), a pig s head sliced in two, and his shark in formaldehyde: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of the Living , 1991. The book also includes the unused sticker page (for application to p.178-181 and p.266), four acetate sheets with applied stickers featuring preserved cows, and a folding poster of I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere… A brilliant, sordid, uncompromising and twisted imagination . *Please note that the publication does include some graphic images*. Seller Inventory # 306

Bibliographic Details

Title: I want to spend the rest of my life ...

Publisher: Booth-Clibborn Editions

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition