Nalini Malani, Robert Storr, Listening to the Shades, Charta 2008, HC, Fine

Malani, Nalini, Robert Storr, Listening to the Shades. Milano: Charta, 2008. English, Near Fine hardcover quarto, Milano: Charta, 2008

ISBN: 8881587033

Near Fine, 4to in multicolored pictorial paper-covered boards with gil edges. White and orange lettering on dark blue spine. Covers have light rubbing and slightly bumped tips, else pristine and intact, binding tight. Pages pristine and intact, replete with color illustrations. Unpaginated, 160 pp., including illustrations. An artist's book featuring essays by Nalini Malani and Robert Storr and facsimile reprints of Malani's paintings. Nalini Malani (b. 1946) is an Indian artist who has worked with various media including video, drawing, painting, performance art, and installation art. Many of her works are informed by the partition of India and support women's rights. Her paintings depicted herein tell a reverse story of what freedoms women have been deprived of. Robert Storr (b. 1949) is an American curator, art critic, author, and painter. Acquired from the private library of Photorealist Robert Bechtle and art historian Whitney Chadwick.