Lang, Wes

Wes Lang [SIGNED WITH DRAWINGS - 2013 PICTURE BOX/HALF GALLERY MONOGRAPH]

Picture Box and Half Gallery, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED COPY picture box / half gallery in 2013. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition,First Printing. 160 pages filled with color illustrations throughout featuring the art of Wes Lang, the US artist that designed Kanye West's Yeezus tour merchandise and covers for a 2012 Grateful Dead box set chronicling their epic 1990 tour. Wes Lang's first monograph focuses on his works on paper--complicated arrangements of his typically American iconography, expertly rendered in ink and paint and juxtaposed in riotous combinations. These images, selected from a decade's worth of material, range from the artist's covers for a 2012 Grateful Dead box set chronicling their epic 1990 tour (fulfilling a teenage dream of Lang's) to precise classical drawing reminiscent of a nineteenth-century illustrator, in a dizzying mix of American history, biker culture, tattoo iconography, ornament, Native American art, pin-ups, newspaper headlines and Taoist texts. Includes an essay by author James Frey. SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Wes Lang with an original drawing of Death carrying a scythe: "For Reed, THE WORLD IS YOURS ... / Best wishes, / Wes Lang". BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Near Fine dust jacket showing light rubbing to panels and small abrasion to upper margin of front panel and ruffling to lower edge of rear panel margin (presents nicely in a new, clear, brodart protector). SIGNED. Fine / fine. Item #5620
ISBN: 9781939799111

Price: $850.00