THE STATIC ALIGNMENTS: Austin Osman Spare's School of Draughtsmanship. DeLuxe Edition in Slipcase.
London: Jerusalem Press, 2020. The DeLuxe edition is limited to sixty hand-numbered copies only. A FINE UNCIRCULATED COPY, quarter bound in Scarlet leather, with silk boards, and matching silk marker, marbled end papers, dust jacket, and a linen slipcase. Signed and numbered by the authors Stephen Pochin, Michael Staley, and Dr. William Wallace. Included with the deLuxe edition only, a special sleeve containing Lucian Taylor's monograph, "Unknown Equations", plus unusual material related to Austin Spare, including an unpublished color photograph of AOS with life-model. Two color plate sections with forty four plates, and 277 additional black & white images. Contents includes unpublished artworks and preparatory sketches, including a lavish set of large-scale instructions detailing Spare's notion of evolutionary figuration, a detailed catalogue of the categories of the artist's work from Cockney Portraits to Automatic drawings, Frank Letchford's notes based on the personal instructions given to him by AOS, Spare's devotion to geometry is revealed by William Wallace in relation to Dürer, the Occult, and to Spare's monogram, early drawings, and late aphorisms, and further historical clues and conclusions from Dr. William Wallace. Introduction by Michael Staley, and an Afterword by Stephen Pochin, examining the life-long appropriation of photographic sources by Spare. 300 pages. Tall Octavo. Item #18487
Price: $375.00
