Description

GHava Press [Published Date: 2009]. Hardcover, 135 pp. Inscribed (personalized) and signed by Cameron Martin on title page. With essays by Martha Schwendener & Alexander Dumbadze. Image index. Very good in very good dust jacket. Black Paper over Boards with white lettering on front and spine. light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few nicks and light creasing to edges. light overall scuffing to jacket as well. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality Brodart Cover NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From front jacket flap] Purposely overlapping the traditional categories of artist book and monograph, analogue is an amalgam of images that forms a visual account of what motivates artist Cameron Martin's methodology and production. The non-hierarchical layout positions appropriated advertisements, travel snapshots, found images and studio pictures alongside reproductions of actual paintings and drawings. What emerges is a complex view of the artists thinking about representation of the contemporary landscape. Rather than the typical explanatory essays found in most books about artists, the included writings have an asymptotic relationship to the imagery, framing the visual material with further texture. Martha Schwendener's wide-reaching text takes on the history of landscape and the sublime as they have been filtered through painting and photography. Alexander Dumbadze's essay on Robert Manry's solo voyage across the North Atlantic in a thirteen-and-a-half-foot sailboat provokes questions about the relationship between nature, will and failure. The combination results in this unusual and remarkable volume.