1973 SIGNED NUMBERED Both Red Grooms Richard Snow The Funny Place LTD ED

  
Richard Snow [SIGNED TWICE, DATED 1974]. Description: New York: Adventures In Poetry, 1973. First Edition & Limited Numbered Letter C signed by the poet and the artist, one of 26 copies; additionally inscribed and dated 1974 by the poet.

Quarto stapled card wraps, mimeo. The Funny Place is a narrative poem about Coney Island, about which the poet John Ashbery said, "An accomplished craftsman, Snow has revived "blank verse-of a sort-as the appropriate medium for his tale; it moves forward on the waltz rhythms of carrousel organs as heard in intervals between the surf and the din of the boardwalk. Snow's music is "light classical, " his strokes are broad and his colors the jubilant pastel ones of a poster announcing the imminent arrival of an astounding phenomenon.

But there is something tragic here too: the power that snapshots of forgotten afternoons have to force the reader suddenly to confront the present with the past, life with death. Condition: Very Good with toning from age to front cover top and tape removal damage to rear cover. Illustration still bright and quirky in the Red Grooms iconic style and inside is clean and tight.

Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown's Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann.

Grooms' work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States, as well as Europe, and Japan. His art is included in the collections of thirty-nine museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Knoxville Museum of Art.

In 2003, Grooms was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Academy of Design. Cavemodern was founded in 2005 as a home for important "modern" books and works on paper.

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• Author: Richard Snow
• Language: English
• Illustrator: Red Grooms
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated, Inscribed, Limited Edition, Luxury Edition, Signed
• Binding: Softcover, Wraps
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Year Printed: 1973
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Topic: Art History & Criticism
• Subject: Art & Photography
• Region: North America
• Place of Publication: New York
• Publisher: Adventures In Poetry