STOKES, Telfer

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NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984. [116]pp; b&w illus. Small 8vo. Sewn in wraps. Rubbing and light creasing to covers; light foxing to fore-edge; about very good. Bookwork by Scot tish artist Telfer Stokes (b. 1940) pairing black-and-white photographs with brief texts; the second in a series of five books exploring the combination of text and image referred to as "The Millboard Series" on Stokes's Weproductions website, which cites an edition size of 2,000 and further notes: "The several modes of storytelling in this book relate to different layers of time. The snapshots of renaissance buildings evoke the distant past in the present while the people in the scenes and text portray the recent past in the present. The photo realism of the imposed objects that sit on the pages and breal them up as illusionistic windows, suggest the present or the present now past. Commissioned by Riva Castleman, this book is one of a series published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York." Show more