Books are man-made artifacts designed to convey information. When they are inevitably invaded by forces of nature and decay, they become suggestive of an alternative literary universe. Noted photographer and collage artist Rosamond Purcell has been exploring this universe for the past thirty years, and in this extraordinarily beautiful collection, the first retrospective of her work, her images teach us to read in a new way. Here are two conjoined volumes transformed by a nesting mouse into a heap of disrupted plot and ...
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Books are man-made artifacts designed to convey information. When they are inevitably invaded by forces of nature and decay, they become suggestive of an alternative literary universe. Noted photographer and collage artist Rosamond Purcell has been exploring this universe for the past thirty years, and in this extraordinarily beautiful collection, the first retrospective of her work, her images teach us to read in a new way. Here are two conjoined volumes transformed by a nesting mouse into a heap of disrupted plot and straw; a 19th century French economics text re-interpreted by foraging termites, and many other oddities from a fertile imagination. Bookworm's 125 color reproductions are imaginative evidence of those processes that render literal meaning irrelevant.
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Add this copy of Bookworm: the Art of Rosamond Purcell to cart. $14.42, very good condition, Sold by HPB-Movies rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Quantuck Lane.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Artist Cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., . no wear or flaws. clean, no markings. no tears, chips, clips. tight binding.; signed by rosamond purcell on the half-title page with no additional inscription.; 160pp., illustrated throughout in color.; publisher's cardstock note card announcement of book's publication laid-in.
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