The Real Work: Interviews & Talks 1964-1979 (association copy)
NY: New Directions, 1980. First edition. Softcover. Fifth printing. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Suzi Gablik, Gary Snyder, 1993." With her marginal lines and exes (x) clustered in a few pieces. Suzi Gablik (see her Guardian obit) was "an artist and pioneering writer on art who argued from the mid-1980s that the arts needed to turn away from modernism and recognise again the ecological and social function of art. Her writing had a profound impact on the evolution of a vast array of artists, arts collectives, thinkers and ecological activists." She is best known for her book Has Modernism Failed (1984) and for her 1995 book Conversations Before the End of Time which investigated ecological themes in art via interviews with other artists (Gary Snyder is mentioned in the book, but not interviewed). A near fine book with one minor bump to lower right front corner. A nice association among ecological thinkers, and no doubt Gablik was thinking about the genre of the interview and its possibilities as she encountered this book. Near fine. Item #1641
ISBN: 9780811207614
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