Refractions: Fallen Visionary.
London: Jerusalem Press, 2012. First Edition, Deluxe. Hardcover in slipcase. Large octavo. 200+ pp. Bound in quarter leather with cloth boards, silver titling to spine, title panel to upper board. Double-sided color dustjacket. Color plates and illustrations, matching clothbound slipcase. This Deluxe edition is limited to 100 copies, numbered by way of a specially printed postcard of Spare's 1933 "Green Self-Portrait", this being no. 31 of 100. Effectively a companion to the "Cockney Visionary" volume, which focused on the 2010 Austin Osman Spare Exhibition held at the Cuming Museum in South London. This new work contains complete transcriptions of the talks delivered at the exhibition by Judy Aitken, Phil Baker, Geraldine Beskin, Christopher Jordan, Ross MacFarlane, Stephen Pochin, Michael Staley, William Wallace, and Caroline Wise, along with reproductions of related images. It also includes detailed photographs of the displays, a fully illustrated list of the 110 works (including cabinet objects) that were displayed, and a more detailed survey of the loan items than was given in "Cockney Visionary." In an interesting touch the sequence of self-portraits by Spare as they were displayed at the museum is reproduced in the inside of the dustjacket. Appears unused, thus Fine condition, in same dust jacket and slipcase. Was $375.00. Item #62886
ISBN: 9780956700421
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