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Verlag: MFA Publications, 2009
ISBN 10: 0878467467ISBN 13: 9780878467464
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Buch
Zustand: Used - Like New. Fine. Cloth, D-j. 2009. Originally published at $35.
Verlag: MFA Publications, 2009
ISBN 10: 0878467467ISBN 13: 9780878467464
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Buch
Zustand: Used - Very Good. 2009. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Slight shelf-wear. Very Good.
Verlag: MFA Publications, 2009
ISBN 10: 0878467467ISBN 13: 9780878467464
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Buch
Zustand: New. Fine. Cloth, D-j. 2009. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Originally published at $35.
Verlag: MFA Publications, Boston, 2009
ISBN 10: 0878467467ISBN 13: 9780878467464
Anbieter: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Buch Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st. 239 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. First published under title: Vie possible de Christian Boltanski. Translated from the French by Marc Lowenthal. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world's most renowned contemporary artists. And yet, despite the centrality of biography and testimony to his work, Boltanski's own story is little known and has never been fully told. Published on the occasion of the artist's sixty-fifth birthday, The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski, written in the form of a book-length interview (which the artist likens to a 'psychoanalysis' or 'confession') with the art historian Catherine Grenier, is Boltanski's oral autobiography. In it, he recounts his unusual wartime childhood ('my mother hid my father under the floorboards. He stayed there for a year and a half, between two floors in the house. He'd come out from time to time--I'm living proof of that!'), his career, friendships and marriage, successes and regrets, his approaches to art and teaching, how he created various installations, his relations with dealers and the public, and other matters that illuminate as never before his complex, enigmatic works. Boltanski is refreshingly phlegmatic about the realities of the world (art and otherwise), and he relates his remarkable stories--some enormously amusing, others tragic--with a matter-of-factness and self-deprecating humor that highlight his capacity for humane responsiveness. As both the self-portrait of a major contemporary artist and a frank, fascinating memoir, this is a document of capital importance." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Luc Sante; 1. Childhood; 2. Becoming an Artist; 3. Making a Splash; 4. Personal Mythologies; 5. Idea that Means a Lot to Me; 6. Shaking Things Up; 7. Beautiful Photographs; 8. Miracle of Success; 9. All Saints; 10. Between the Trivial and the Dramatic; 11. Artist's Life; 12. Artistic Affinities; 13. Dark Years; 14. Before Dying; 15. Life of Works; 16. Tell the Truth?; 17. Catalogue Raisonne. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Verlag: Boston, MA: Museum Of Fine Art Publications, 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0878467467ISBN 13: 9780878467464
Anbieter: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, USA
Buch Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 239 pages. Published in 2009. The artist's oral autobiography. One of the best art and photography books of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The title alludes to one of Christian Boltanski's masterpieces, "La Vie Impossible" ("The Impossible Life"). The book is beautifully produced, with a Preface by the culture critic Luc Sante (which appears in the American Edition only), a brilliant DJ design by Mark Polizzotti, vintage photographs appended at the center of the book, and a title page that is in continuous, "back-to-back" pages (instead of the usual single page or doublespread). Presents "The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski" in a felicitous English translation. His personal story, told entirely in the form of a series of Interviews conducted by Catherine Grenier. The beauty of Grenier's interview format is that it gives us Christian Boltanski's voice in all its acute particularity. His voice leaps off the page, resulting in a narrative that once began is impossible to put down: Intelligent, candid, and for admirers of his solemn installations and Artist Books, surprisingly and refreshingly humorous. "Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives, and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world's most renowned contemporary artists. And yet, despite the centrality of biography and testimony to his work, Boltanski's own story is little-known and has never been fully told. He recounts his unusual wartime childhood, his career, friendships, marriage, successes, regrets, his approaches to art and teaching, and other matters that illuminate as never before his complex, enigmatic works" (Publisher's blurb). Now that he is (really) dead, the grief one feels for the vanished Life is somehow mitigated by the timeless beauty of the Art. An absolute "must-have" title for Christian Boltanski collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Christian Boltanski. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art and photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest artists of the 20th century and our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0878467467. Signed by Author.
Verlag: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON, 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0878467467ISBN 13: 9780878467464
Anbieter: DR Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
Buch Erstausgabe Signiert
Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is hand SIGNED by Christian Boltanski; First American Edition and First Printing on acid-free paper; 239pp numbered pages or 256pp with the illustrations, 3 color & 13 b&w illustrations, 5-½ x 8in.; "Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world's most renowned contemporyary artists. Yet, his own story is little known. Here, in the form of a book-length interview, he recounts his unusual wartime childhood - including "episodes of family life that could have been drawn from a novel" - his career, friendships and marriage, successes and regrets, his approaches to art and teaching, how he created various installations, his relationships with dealers & the public, and other matters illuminating his works."; PROVENANCE: Sept. 2009 book signing at Strand Bookstore (on front dustjacket is Strand's removeable sticker stating "A STRAND SIGNED COPY); hardboards with black cloth spine, dustjacket has just a little rubbing and a few small creases, otherwise boards and interior pages in EXCELLENT COND. Signed by Author(s).
Verlag: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009
Anbieter: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First American edition. First American edition. 239 pp. An artfully constructed memoir of the life of conceptual artist Christian Boltanski told in the form of a book-length interview with Catherine Grenier. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. Foreword by Luc Sante. Translated from the French by Marc Lowenthal. This copy INSCRIBED by Boltanski on the front endpaper.