Liz Rideal, Mandrake Tango: Sculpture, Photographs, Monotypes, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2002, Near Fine signed

Rideal, Liz. Amherst, MA, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2002. 

English, Signed First Edition, Near Fine, Soft Cover, 4to, 8 ¼” x 10 ¼,” 48 pp.

ISBN: 0929597168

Full-color pictorial stiff wraps featuring photograph of Rideal’s sculpture, black and red text to front and back, white and black text to spine. Very minor edgewear, minor bumping to head and tail of spine, minimal shelf wear to spine, otherwise clean, tightly bound, and excellent. 48 pp. Replete with full color photographs of Rideal’s works throughout. Complete with texts by Bill Berkson, Judith Collins, Emmanuel Cooper, and Emily Dickinson, list of exhibitions, and closing essay by University Gallery curator Regina Coppola. Signed on p. 2, “For Whitney, with my best wishes, Liz 13.9.02” and artist signature on p. 3. Catalog accompanies the exhibition at University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst from September 14 - October 25, 2002. A collection of Rideal’s works with floral, vegetal, and organic influences that feel both familiar and mystifying. From Emmanuel Cooper’s essay: “Rideal’s work touches on both the form of objects - be they plants or woven fabrics - and on the photographic process and its ability to imitate, to yield simulacra that takes on an independence quite apart from the subject shown. In seeking to explore the nature of things Rideal offers alternate ways of looking at the natural and the fabricated in which one is intimately bound up with the other.”