Rapture of the Deep: The Art of Ray Troll by Ray Troll; Introduction-Brad Matsen; Foreword-David James Duncan - 2004-09-28

Berkeley . 2004. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520239474. With An Introduction by Brad Matsen & Commentary by The Artist. Foreword by David James Duncan. 136 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Art Humor Fish. FROM THE PUBLISHER - For more than two decades, Ray Troll has been luring, hooking, and landing fans around the world with his zany, irreverent, and often surreal art. Featured in museums, galleries, and books, as well as on immensely popular T-shirts, his work-part natural history adventure and part underground comic-depicts beautiful and accurately drawn fish of all kinds, Northwest Coast totems, Freud and Darwin, fossils, resurrections of extinct animals, and much more. Rapture of the Deep collects some of Troll's best-known art along with many images never before published. The book makes powerful connections between biological diversity, the evolution of life on earth, and the careless habits of people. Rapture of the Deep celebrates… Read More

University of California Press, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. Like new hardcover. No writing or names inside. Dust jacket is almost like new with slight sun fading to spine. 2004 first printing.

Berkeley : University Of California Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 133 pages; Description: iv, 133 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. Subjects: Troll, Ray (1954-) --Fishes in art --Catalogs. Summary: For more than two decades, Ray Troll has been luring, hooking, and landing fans around the world with his zany, irreverent, and often surreal art. Featured in museums, galleries, and books, as well as on immensely popular T-shirts, his work--part natural history adventure and part underground comic--depicts beautiful and accurately drawn fish of all kinds, Northwest Coast totems, Freud and Darwin, fossils, resurrections of extinct animals, and much more. Rapture of the Deep collects some of Troll's best-known art along with many images never before published. The book makes powerful connections between biological diversity,… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of California Press, 2004-09-28. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!