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Otis Art Institute Gallery, 1974. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Accompanied November 26, 1974-January 12, 1975 exhibition at the Otis Art Institute Gallery, Los Angeles. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. Interview of Robert Motherwell with Richard Wagener, June 14, 1974, with additional comments by Melinda Wortz. Photograph of the artists. Unpaginated. Measures 7.25x10.5 inches.
A Dialogue with Wood Engraving. With an Introduction by the Artist. by Wagener, Richard - 2019
by Wagener, Richard
A Dialogue with Wood Engraving. With an Introduction by the Artist.
by Wagener, Richard
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Vancouver, British Columbia:] Barbarian Press, 2019 Endgrain Editions 5. One of 80 deluxe copies in a total edition of 130. The deluxe copies are bound in quarter red morocco and include a slipcase and a signed proof of the book's frontispiece. Patterned paper-covered boards in red, black, and white, quarter red morocco. With spine label lettered in gilt. Housed in a black cloth slipcase paneled with patterned paper matching the book's covers. . Folio. With 75 wood engravings by Richard Wagener, 15 of which are in color, all printed from the original blocks. Each image is accompanied by a date (from 1983 to 2018), title, and caption. Two of the engravings are fold-out panoramas of Yosemite landscapes. Text printed in black and red using Eric Gill's Joanna typeface on Zerkall paper. Includes a tipped-in frontispiece and an additional proof of the frontispiece, signed and numbered in pencil by Richard Wagener and housed in a large black envelope. A fine copy. A Dialogue with Wood Engraving is a retrospective on the nearly four-decade career of California-based engraver Richard Wagener (b. 1944). The introduction by Wagener, along with his captions and epigrams, narrate and illuminate his work: the epigram that accompanies his piece Migration (2007) reads "I think in wood."
- Bookseller Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Format/Binding Patterned paper-covered boards in red, black, and white, quarter red morocco. With spine label lettered in gilt. Housed in a bla
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- Edition Endgrain Editions 5. One of 80 deluxe copies in a total edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Barbarian Press,
- Place of Publication Vancouver, British Columbia:]
- Date Published 2019
- Pages Unpaginated
- Size Folio
- Size Folio