Cecil
Woodstock, NY: Shivastan Publishing, 2004. 1st Edition. Octavo, publisher's stapled illustrated handmade paper wraps, yellow endpapers.
First edition presentation copy of a late collection by poet, art critic, and downtown tastemaker René Ricard, inscribed to photographer Marcia Resnick. Ricard was a fixture at Warhol's Factory, a regular and influential contributor to Artforum magazine, a prolific poet and painter (frequently text-based), and was revered and feared for his remorseless aperçus: "he was our Catullus, writing elegant and obscene poems of love and hate with brevity and dispatch. But maybe it was best to avoid him?" (Raymond Foye, Brooklyn Rail). Printed on the 2004 Summer Solstice in Kathmandu for poet Shiv Mirabito's Shivastan Publishing, this collection comprises brief poems by Ricard alongside Tibetan illustrations printed on handmade lokta paper. Number 7 of 250 copies, with this copy inscribed by Ricard to Marcia Resnick on the colophon: "for Marcia / xx Rene Ricard / 2004." Born in Brooklyn, Resnick is best known for chronicling the downtown scene of the 1970s and 80s in real time, taking portraits of musicians, artists, filmmakers, and writers such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Belushi, Iggy Pop, Andy Warhol, and Susan Sontag (Resnick photographed Ricard in 1979), and for her regular feature in the SoHo Weekly News, "Resnick’s Believe-It-or-Not." Fine, with exceptional provenence. Item #12835
$500.00