Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects, The MIT Press, 2005, HC, Fine.

Hobbs, Robert. London: The MIT Press, 2005.

English, Fine, HC, 4to, 11 1/4" x 8 3/4", [viii] xii, 423 pp.

ISBN: 0262083396

Gray cloth over board, stamped silver lettering and publisher's mark to spine, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block, dust jacket and endpapers. Fine blue pictorial dust jacket, featuring Alice Aycock's 1983 artwork, The Thousand and One Nights in the Mansion of Bliss to front panel, detail of same work to back panel, white and yellow lettering to front and back panels, and spine. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. [viii] xii, 423 pp., replete with black-and-white and full-color images of Aycock's site-specific sculptural and installation works. Includes Acknowledgements, 24 chapters with topics including, M.A. Thesis: The Highway Network and Writerly Texts and Schizophrenia, Conclusion, Postscript, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index, and Appendices A, B, C, and D with texts accompanying projects: I Have Tried to Imagine the Kind of City You and I Could Live in as King and Queen, The City of the Walls,  How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts, Collected Ghost Stories from the Workhouse, and The New & Favorite Game of the Universe and the Golden Egg.  From the dust jacket: "Alice Aycock's large, semi-architectural works deal with the interaction of structure, site, materials, and the psychophysical responses of the viewer...In Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects, Robert Hobbs examines the development of Aycock's work over twenty years and her negotiation--along with other artists who came of age in the early 1970s--of the transition from modernism to postmodernism."