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(WOOL, CHRISTOPHER). Banks, Eric, Ann Goldstein, Richard Hell, Jim Lewis, Glenn O'Brien & Anne Pontegnie. Hans Werner Holzwarth, Editor. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2012. First Edition. Small Folio. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 424pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, French and German. Designed by Hans Werner Holzwarth. "Christopher Wool became known in the mid-1980s through paintings produced with rubber rollers commonly used to simulate decorative wallpaper patterns on walls. By 1988 he had hit stride with his dry, dead-pan word paintings while continuing to explore the possibilities of pattern painting. Since the 1990s, he has been developing the painterly qualities of his work, using a mostly black-and-white palette, starting from abstract lines drawn with a spray gun or layered stock images, overpainting silkscreens on linen, wiping out images, with a widening variety of media, a process that can involve photography, silkscreen, and, in the new millennium, also the computer. This monograph is staggering in scope and depth, exploring Wool’s work in large-scale reproductions, production Polaroids, and installation photos by Wool himself". A brand new, most handsome example of the 2012 Taschen trade edition of what had been first issued as a deluxe collector's edition in 2008. 3-8365-3562-9 Inventory Number: 025966