Kota Ezawa, The Crime of Art, 2017, SIGNED, New hardcover w/DJ + accordion prints

Hofmann, Irene, et al. Santa Fe: Radius Books, 2017.

English, New, HC, 4to, 10 1/2" x 9 1/4", 106 pp. 

ISBN: 9781942185321

Hardcover in white paper. Slight cocking to spine. 106 pp. Includes reproductions of black-and-white photographs and full-color reproductions of Ezawa's artwork, including stills from his animated films The Simpson Verdict and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and a drawing series titled The History of Photography Remix. From inside the dust jacket: "The Crime of Art looks at Kota Ezawa's oeuvre using crime as a topical lens. This book presents photographs and reproductions from Ezawa's exhibitions at Mead Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe, featuring remakes of paintings stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. In addition, the book draws connections from this project to other works by Ezawa from 2002 to 2017 that contemplate crime." Also included is an accordion fold print of Ezawa's stills from his animated film The Crime of Art, tucked in an envelope attached to the back pastedown.