STERANKO - ARTE NOIR - only career spanning book on Steranko - limited and signed 0

[*paull*]

STERANKO: ARTE NOIR, published in 2002, is still the most comprehensive book on Steranko to date. There are no books with Jim's participation on the horizon. As his fans know, he wants to design his own work, and nothing has been mentioned. We aren't going to see anything like this anytime soon.

The book was a limited edition of 3,000 copies. A subset of those were signed by Steranko.  This copy is signed.  In VF condition with original slipcase.  Slight wear to slipcase. This book includes a ton of images including some published for the first time:  AT THE EDGE OF ETERNITY from Superman 400 in glorious B&W, the entire CHANDLER: RED TIDE in black & white, portion of Dante's Inferno (story intended for Marvel following his AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT, but never published), his DRACULA concept paintings, and portions of his Outland adaption in black & white. This book is beyond awesome.

From the publisher:

The massive book incorporates eleven detailed chapters of behind-the-scenes stories, historic documentation, personal anecdotes, and analytical insights about the controversial artist-writer-performer, and is annotated by J. David Spurlock and Angel de la Calle, with additional essays scribed especially for the book by a host of internationally-renowned authors, critics, and pop-culture writers, including Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.

STERANKO: ARTE NOIR is the largest and most comprehensive collection of the controversial creator's work ever published, packed with classic, new, and rare art, including hundreds of color and black & white images spanning the full range of his career-from comics to book covers, trading cards to limited-edition prints, film production illustrations to movie posters-many never before compiled in book form.

The hefty 8" x 10" volume features 200 pages of Steranko visual magic in a high-quality, perfect-bound deluxe format, printed on 80-pound coated matte stock with a heavy, full-color, laminated card stock cover with flaps, and housed in a hard-surfaced leatherette, crimson-foil embossed slipcase. Each copy has been personally autographed by Steranko.

In July, 2001, Steranko was Guest of Honor at Spain's gala Semana Negra festival of the arts, a multi-cultural event, which ran for ten days and showcased the largest exhibition of his work ever shown in Europe, with well over 1,000,000 in attendance. In addition to functioning as a career retrospective, STERANKO: ARTE NOIR, sponsored by the Gijon Museum of Modern Art, also served as the show's exhibition catalog and was produced with bilingual text throughout.

All text in both English and Spanish.  Book is in very nice condition. Jim is charging $50 for his signature alone today, and this book is a good deal at:

$169 shipped to US address.  Payment by PayPal.  takes it

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by *paull*