Isbn: 9780932499998 - saturated blue: writings from the notebooks (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Saturated Blue: Writings From the Notebooks by Sam Francis. Published by Lapis Press, Santa Monica, 1995 With an afterword by Pontus Hulten. In the voluminous and unsystematic notebooks that the artist Sam Francis kept throughout his life, an array of highly introspective and short writings appear alongside his records of dreams, lists of paints to be prepared, possible titles for paintings, quotations from books being read, and reminders about the minutiae of the day. Sam Francis did not craft these short stanzas and phrases of self-examination as fixed literary objects. Impossible to categorize within any single genre, they are thoughts that needed to be written down for the most personal of reasons. Like the unfixed and contradictory region of interiority itself, the mode of expression is both precise and elliptical, abbreviated but utterly expansive. The method and the temper reflect his love of the poetry of Holderlin, the psychic cosmology of Jung, the fragments of Heraclitus, and the writings of Nietzsche and of William Blake, especially their most aphoristic works. These writings reveal a temperament that was inventive in the extreme, convinced that the action of creating should never be confined merely to a canvas but be incorporated within every aspect of living. The edition is illustrated with Sam Francis's rarely reproduced self-portraits and mandalas, which he used as interconnected modes of personal reflection and generation. The book concludes with an afterword by Pontus Hulten. BBS.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket (As Issued). First Edition. Slight rubbing to covers (pictorial boards); else a near fine copy as issued. [ca. 250] pages (unpaginated). Selected excerpts from the artist's notebooks, including reproductions of self-portraits and mandalas; afterword by Pontus Hulten.About 100 Color Illustrations (including endpapers). // 'In the voluminous and unsystematic notebooks that the artist Sam Francis kept throughout his life, an array of highly introspective and short writings appear alongside his records of dreams, lists of paints to be prepared, possible titles for paintings, quotations from books being read, and reminders about the minutiae of the day. Sam Francis did not craft these short stanzas and phrases of self-examination as fixed literary objects. Impossible to categorize within any single genre, they are thoughts that needed to be written down for the most personal of reasons. Like the unfixed and contradictory region of interiority itself, the mode of expression is both precise and elliptical, abbreviated but utterly expansive. The method and the temper reflect his love of the poetry of Holderlin, the psychic cosmology of Jung, the fragments of Heraclitus, and the writings of Nietzsche and of William Blake, especially their most aphoristic works. These writings reveal a temperament that was inventive in the extreme, convinced that the action of creating should never be confined merely to a canvas but be incorporated within every aspect of living. The edition is illustrated with Sam Francis's rarely reproduced self-portraits and mandalas, which he used as interconnected modes of personal reflection and generation. The book concludes with an afterword by Pontus Hulten.' -- publisher.…

Glossy Pictorial Boards. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. A crisp, unread copy. Unpaginated (about 200), afterword by Pontus Hulten, 45 color plates interspersed amongst the writings of artist Sam Francis. Illustration and text by Sam Francis, self-published by his Lapis Press: his writings are not analytic texts; they are poems, single lines, haiku and lapidary phrases, interspersed by illustrations and reproductions of hand-written pages. A beautiful production. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Clean, very bright copy. With full page artwork in color. Sturdy thick covers have tiny dings to corner tips. Heavy and oversize. No jacket, if it came with one.

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, unpaginated, in English; as new condition, clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Boards. Zustand: Fine. No DJ, as Issued. First edition. 4to, pp. unnumbered, color plates throughout. Afterword by Pontus Hulton.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used - Very Good. In the voluminous and unsystematic notebooks that the artist Sam Francis kept throughout his life, an array of highly introspective and short writings appear alongside his records of dreams, lists of paints to be prepared, possible titles for paintings, quotations from books being read, and reminders about the minutiae of the day. Sam Francis did not craft these short stanzas and phrases of self-examination as fixed literary objects. Impossible to categorize within any single genre, they are thoughts that needed to be written down for the most personal of reasons. Like the unfixed and contradictory region of interiority itself, the mode of expression is both precise and elliptical, abbreviated but utterly expansive. The method and the temper reflect his love of the poetry of Holderlin, the psychic cosmology of Jung, the fragments of Heraclitus, and the writings of Nietzsche and of William Blake, especially their most aphoristic works. These writings reveal a temperament that was inventive in the extreme, convinced that the action of creating should never be confined merely to a canvas but be incorporated within every aspect of living. The edition is illustrated with Sam Francis's rarely reproduced self-portraits and mandalas, which he used as interconnected modes of personal reflection and generation. The book concludes with an afterword by Pontus Hulten. No dj as issued. Binding tight no interior marks. …

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Very clean. HARDCOVER. No Dust Jacket as Issued. Binding is pictorial boards. Please note: International and Domestic Priority orders for this item will require additional shipping.

hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Unpaginated. (blue spine) 4to. sized. First edition. The text supported by a number of colour photographic reproductions plus writings from the notebooks. A lovely, fresh, clean, tight and bright near fine or fine copy.

Cloth. Zustand: New. No Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated (196 pages) with 45 color plates. Afterword by Pontus Hulten. Illustrated boards. Illustration and text by Sam Francis.