Poses. An Essay Drawn from the Model. Richard Diebenkorn drawings; forword by Mark Doty. Designed by Robin Ann McIntosh
2012322604Berkeley: Kelly's Cove Press 2012. Paperback. 126p. numerous illustrations most of these by RD see color vignettes w/ notes on terminal leaves plates are b&w but tinted where called for. Softbound first edition in 9x6 inch decorated wraps. Item provides some of the excellences of "fine press" but does not mention any limitation in its colophon. Bound in preceeding the half-title is a color-enhanced invitation to a 2012 release party this narrow insert inscribed by Lentine "for Robin". Find a lengthy further inscription to designer Robin on the titlepage opposite a frontis plate of a guy in jockey shorts all other pix of women. Covers appear to be slightly sunned without damage to graphics. A very good copy bearing only faint signs of handling. "A book like no other" runs Doty's intro; Lentine painstakingly recounts the experience of doing each drawing and what the model might have been going through as she or he was drawn. Diebenkorn's pencil-work is terrific; these may all have been done as two-minute poses and are very fluid. Kelly's Cove Press paperback
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