milette richard (4 risultati)

Soft cover. [280 x 200mm]. 15pp. Stapled spine. Couple of small brown spots to front cover. Autographed and dated by Richard Milette. Good provenance, available on request.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Catalogue of exhibition at the Gardiner Museum presenting the gay-themed ceramics of 3 French-Canadian artists. Numerous full page colour reproductions. Texts in French and English. Faint shelf wear to covers, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy with no noticeable signs of use. s180.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 45 pages. Published in 1997. Exhibition Catalog. One of the most beautiful books on contemporary ceramic art ever published. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only that sold out upon publication. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. An austerely elegant production by the Musee du Quebec: Regular-sized volume format. Red softcovers with titles on the cover, as issued. Art by Leopold Foulem, Paul Mathieu, and Richard Milette. Essay (in French) by ceramic expert/scholar Paul Bourassa. Printed on pristine-white, glossy stock paper in Quebec, Canada to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition of the same name held at the Musee du Quebec in 1997. Presents the ceramic art of the reigning Canadian triumvirate: Leopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu, and Richard Milette. A movement unto themselves. They and their highly provocative and brilliant work are rightly seen as expressions of the singular, unusual, "queer" self, in all its performative gestures: "Explores the concept of camp as manifested in the works of three important Canadian ceramic artists. Camp has been identified as a concept, an aesthetic sensibility, and a form of oppositional critique central to gay and lesbian culture. Camp has been variously understood to include elements of irony, exaggeration, excess, humor, sentimentality, theatricality, artifice, parody, and devotion; as a disputed field of appropriation and counter-appropriation; and of alternative signifying codes. Leopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu, and Richard Milette have made Camp (and gay male culture) a central part of their respective artistic practice. Their shared perception that they are outside of the artistic and social mainstream has helped drive them to create an aesthetically powerful and intellectually engaging body of work that is rooted in and critical of conventional art history, ceramic history, and contemporary culture" (David Kaye). This intellectual baggage aside, the pieces do speak for themselves: They are objects of beauty that will give enormous pleasure to anyone with an open mind and regardless of one's sexual identity, orientation, or preference. An absolute "must-have" title for Foulem/Mathieu/Milette collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in blue ink-pen on the title page by the artists: "Dear Martha, Warmest regards, Leopold Foulem, Richard (Milette). It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Martha Schneider, who is named, is an authority in the art photography world, and also a ceramic art expert. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed copy of the Exhibition Catalog available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. Three of the finest ceramic artists of our time. A fine copy. Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condizione: Near fine in wraps. First Edition. 20 x 25cm near fine paperback exhibition catalogue with texts and single page colour reproductions.