Author: | Beek Ruth van (Zaandam NL, 1977) - |
Title: | The Arrangement. VERY FINE COPY / RARE. |
Publisher: | RVB Books, (Paris), 2013 |
Description: | Buckram jacket over limp boards (softcover), 34 x 25 cms., (48) pp. with 28 collages & 13 archive photographs. |
Note: | First Edition. Artist's Book. From the publisher: "The Arrangement is a group of images Ruth Van Beek made with a collection of books on flower arranging. She has been collecting books on this subject for years, mostly instructional books dating from the fifties to the seventies. They combine colorful still lifes of flower arrangements with the functional photography of a manual. Ruth Van Beek is specially interested in the translation of the strict rules and symbols of Japanese Ikebana into instructional books for Dutch housewifes". Rare! |
Book No: | 26223 |