Mystic Bones by Taylor, Mark C - 2007

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University of Chicago Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2007. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 120 pages. 8.00x10.00x0.75 inches.

University of Chicago Press , pp. 120 . Hardback. Used.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New. The desert has long been a theme in Mark C. Taylor's work, from his inquiries into the religious significance of Las Vegas to his writings on earthworks artist Michael Heizer. At once haunted by absence and loss, the desert, for Taylor, is a place of exile and wandering, of temptation and tribulation. Bones, in turn, speak to his abiding interest in remnants, ruins, ritual, and immanence. Taylor combines his fascination in the detritus of the desert and its philosophical significance with his work in photography in Mystic Bones. A collection of remarkably elegant close-up images of weathered bones--remains of cattle, elk, and deer skeletons gathered from the desert of the American West--Mystic Bones pairs each photograph with a philosophical aphorism. These images are buttressed by a major essay, "Rubbings of Reality," in which Taylor explores the use of bones in the religious rituals of native inhabitants of the Western desert and, more broadly, the appearance of bones… Read More

Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press 2007. Original publisher's light-brown cloth hardback, white title spine, pictorial dustjacket, oblong shaped small 4to: frontispiece, 36pp., [84]pp., 40 page-large coloured photographs of bones, introductory essayacknowledgements, notes & references. Very fine copy - as new.

New York: University Of Chicago Press. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0226790371 . Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. ; 0.7 x 10.1 x 8.3 Inches; 120 pages .

University of Chicago Press, 2007-02-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!