RES: LA VERDAD INUTIL ("THE USELESS TRUTH") : THE DELUXE EDITION

Buenos Aires, Argentina: La Marca Editora, 2006. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/Fine Dust Jacket.. Buenos Aires, Argentina: La Marca Editora, 2006. Hardcover. As New/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 208 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. Deluxe Clamshell Box Edition of 100 Roman Numeral-numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are many, particularly the regular trade Hardcover and Softcover Editions. The Deluxe Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by RES: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and photo-tableaux by RES. Essays by various contributors. 8 X 10 inch original color print, "Las piernas de Crista" ("Crista's Legs"), encased in its own glassine sheet and laid into the book. Matching black cloth clamshell box. Printed on pristine-white, thick glossy stock paper in Buenos Aires to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents, in its Deluxe Edition format, RES' "La Verdad Inutil". The art of the artist known simply as RES (the initials of Raul Eduardo Stolkiner). Marks the very first time that RES's remarkable body of work is presented in its entirety in book form, nine sequences in all that are preceded by illuminating critical texts. Like many of the most ambitious and enormously talented artists of Latin America, RES is a natural-born aesthete who is also a committed social/political thinker. RES believes in political art. But he also believes that the conventional conception of political art in the Western/Latin-American tradition wrongly elevated politics at the expense of art when it should have been the other way around: Art is enhanced and enlarged by politics. Art is, by definition, autonomous, therefore "useless". The only way art can become "useful" is for the artist and audience to regard it as a model of thought. Thought is the beginning - and ongoing basis - of genuine action, including politics. A revered cult figure in Argentina, RES is one of the most intelligent and imaginative artist/photographers of our time. His work can only be described as cerebral, without losing any of art's sensuous qualities. Being exposed to, understanding, and appreciating his work is one of the life-changing experiences a lover of art photography will have. An absolute "must-have" title for RES collectors. This is a copy of the Deluxe Clamshell Box Edition of 100 Roman Numeral-Numbered copies, indicated/numbered as such in black pen on the Front Limitation Page by RES. It is very boldly and beautifully signed in the same black pen by the artist/photographer. Laid-in is an 8 X 10 inch original color print of "Las piernas de Crista" ("Crista's Legs"), also number-stamped in matching Roman Numerals and very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by RES. It is also very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by his model-muse and long-time RES collaborator, Constanza Piaggio. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Deluxe Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER RES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).