Other details
- Description:
- 16 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Published:
- Ballybeg, Ireland : Coracle ; New York : Granary Books, 2005.
- Language:
- English
- Notes:
- "Comprised of photographs, diagrams and text, The Purification records the series of experiments and performance which detail the afterlife of a specimen of local vegetation. The book begins, "Situated at the perimeter of Weeping Beach Tree Park in Queens, New York, was a small pavilion looking on to a stump of the oldest Weeping Beach in America." -- Publisher's web site.
Purification of Fagus sylvatica var pendula was first exhibited for the exhibition 'Crossing the Line' at the Queens Museum of Art, June 24-Oct. 7, 2001.
"Edition of six hundred copies .... Sixty copies enclose a laser printed photograph of the crystal jacket and beechnut, signed and numbered by the artist ; the remaining books are numbered sixty-one to six hundred, the first forty of which are artist copies."--Colophon
Condition: no library markings, in protective enclosure.
- OCLC Number:
- 62245763