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YOSHITOMO NARA: THE COMPLETE WORKS - TWO VOLUME SET IN SLIPCASE WITH AN ARTIST'S MULTIPLE
(NARA, YOSHITOMO). Gilman, Larry, Editor. With texts by Yoshitomo Nara, Kristin Chambers, Josh Kun, Ingrid Schaffner, Billie Joe Armstrong, Carrie Brownstein, John Doe, Dave Eggers, Lars Frederickson, Debbie Harry, Leonard Nimoy, Ozomatli & Jill Snyder. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2011. First Edition. Stout 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Slipcase. Catalogue Raisonné. As New/As New. This lavishly produced two-volume catalogue raisonné was produced with the full participation of Yoshitomo Nara. Featuring two four-hundred page volumes bound in fabric featuring Nara's designs and housed in a similar slipcase, it is the most extensive, authoritative, and beautiful expression of the artist's work published to date. The set documents nearly all of the artist's prolific output over the span of his career to date, including more than four thousand, five hundred paintings, drawings, editions, sculptures, photographs, and collaborations with other artists. Included are new essays written by Nara himself as well as texts from Banana Yoshimoto, Takashi Murakami, Hiroshi Sugito, Midori Matsui, Kristin Chambers, Josh Kun, Ingrid Schaffner, Billie Joe Armstrong, Carrie Brownstein, John Doe, Dave Eggers, Lars Frederickson, Debbie Harry, Leonard Nimoy, Ozomatli, and Jill Snyder. A brand new, most handsome example of this now-unavailable massive undertaking still in shrinkwrap in the publisher's decorative cardboard outer shipping box with the Nara-designed limited edition tote bag / artist's multiple, as issued. 0-8118-7028-6 Inventory Number: 026318