Author: MOSER, BARRY (AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR AND PRINTMAKER, BORN 1940)
Title: One hundred portraits engraved by Barry Moser / with a foreword by Ann Patchett and an afterword by the artist.
Description: Boston : David R. Godine. publisher. 2010. Stated First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 125 pages; Physical description. : xi. 125 p. : chielfy ports. ; 26 cm. Subject: Moser. Barry (American illustrator and printmaker. born 1940) - Catalogues. Artists - Portraits. Authors - Portraits. Poets - Portraits. Composers - Portraits. Summary: Barry Moser is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed wood engravers in the world. Portraits have long been a staple of his career. from his first book in 1970. through to the present day. 'One Hundred Portraits' brings together a collection of fifty of Moser's best known portraits. and fifty new ones created especially for this volume. The portraits include: Charles Dickens; Edgar Allen Poe; Martin Luther King; Jane Austen; Abraham Lincoln; William Shakespeare; Walt Whitman; and many more. This volume also includes an essay by the Orange Award-winning writer Ann Patchett that closely examines Moser's portraits and the subject of portraiture in general.Weight in Kg appr.:

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