$225.00 | only one available - ships to US destinations only. This monumental publication, the first comprehensive survey of Richard Misrach's epic work-in-progress, serves as an exhibition catalogue for a major midcareer retrospective organized by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The beauty, mystery, and abuse of the American desert are topics explored by Misrach in this breathtaking Desert Cantos series, one of the most ambitious and innovative photographic projects of our time. Evolving over the course of two decades, the series now comprises eighteen numbered and names subsidies, or cantos, and a prologue. With subjects as diverse as a military base in Utah, a man-made flood in California, nuclear test sites, sublime skies in Arizona, and arts happenings in Nevada, the images raise probing and compelling questions about contemporary society's relationship to the desert.
First edition, hardcover. Signed in blue ink, dated 1996 on title page by Misrach. Fine brown cloth covered boards with title stamped in gold on spine. With photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Richard Misrach, Curated by Anne Wilkes Tucker with an essay by Rebecca Solnit. 192 pages. 11-1/2 x 12-1/4 inches.
PUBLISHER: Bullfinch Press, 1996
EDITION: 1st Edition
BINDING: Hardcover
ISBN: 0821222546
CONDITION: Near Fine / One page slightly creased PRICE: $225.00