Description
Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, Published 2003. Hardcover, 311 pp.; 29 cm; English-language edition; 306 illustrations, 247 in color. Edited by Carsten Ahrens.
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In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Blue-gray cloth boards with name blind-stamped on front cover and spine; mild shelf and edge wear. Red endpapers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Glossy black pictorial dust jacket with a photograph of a Plensa light installation (lines from William Blake's Proverbs of Hell in red) on front panel, white lettering on front panel and spine, publisher's "ENGLISH" label above barcode on rear panel; a few quarter-inch nicks and short tears, some creasing and peeling along edges, a one-inch scratch with small dings on either side near top edge of rear panel, and mild overall scuffing and shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Monograph on the Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa (born Barcelona 1955), covering two decades of work to 2002: cast-iron text sculptures, the illuminated resin Cloudy Boxes, glass, light and sound installations, public commissions, and set and costume designs for opera, among them Falla's Atlantida with La Fura dels Baus (Granada, 1996), Debussy's Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien (Rome, 1997) and Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust (Salzburg Festival, 1999). Ahrens's essay "One Thought Fills Immensity" takes Plensa's 2000 survey exhibition Chaos-Saliva at the Palacio de Velazquez (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid) as its starting point. Texts on individual works by Ahrens, Robert Hopper, Jose Jimenez, Stefan von Senger, Keith Patrick and Susan Crown, with Plensa's own writings and poems throughout. The final section shows The Crown Fountain for Millennium Park, Chicago, as a work in progress, with digital images of the project; the fountain opened in 2004. Contents: One Thought Fills Immensity (Carsten Ahrens); Texts on Works (Carsten Ahrens, Robert Hopper, Jose Jimenez, Stefan von Senger, Keith Patrick, Susan Crown); Writings (Jaume Plensa); Biography; Bibliography; List of Works.