Nonchaloir

by Paul P.

introduction by Collier Schorr 

First edition.  Brooklyn:  powerHouse Books, 2007 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition.

• Dark brown cloth covers are mostly clean, with black text and illustrated plate laid-on. 
• Boards show a couple of smudges, a small bump to back corner. 
• Spine has black text and is bright with firm ends.
• Binding is strong. 
• End papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear.
• Illustrations are bright and clear.  
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2025.0827

158 pages. 7.25 x 9.25 inches

ISBN: 978-1-57687-379-3

A Very Good+ copy of the first edition of this collection of paintings and drawings based on anonymous photographs from 70's gay publications.  Chocolate brown linen-backed boards with color pastedown, with eighty-four plates and an introduction by photographer Collier Schorr.  

Artist Paul P. (Canadian, b. 1977) became internationally known for his haunting paintings and drawings of the faces and figures of young men, all sourced from pre-AIDS gay magazines.  The artist mines this huge archive of figures and reimagines these young men with the aesthetic vocabulary of late nineteenth-century art.  Nonchaloir, the artist’s first monograph, collects over 100 of these stunning portraits in a small, intimate volume.  P.’s subjects and their poses, at times languishing, wistful, or weary, are imbued with references to famed painters James McNeil Whistler and John Singer Sargent. 

First edition, limited run of 2000 copies.

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