INTERNATIONAL TERRITORY—Adam Bartos (photos)—Christopher Hitchens (text)

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A (VERY SCARCE) First Edition, First Printing in Hardcover: • “INTERNATIONAL TERRITORY: THE UNITED NATIONS 1945–95” (VERSO, 1994) • Color Photographs by ADAM BARTOS • Text by CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “These are wonderful things. No question about it.”—WILLIAM EGGLESTON • “ADAM BARTOS’s remarkable photos of the UN building in New York look cold and formal. But only at first. Actually they are full of feeling. This is the haunted house of idealist bureaucracy, filled with the ghosts of promises and suffused with nostalgia for the Utopian rigor of high modernism. Nobody has ever put that in a photo before, and CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS’s essay expertly peoples the empty spaces of BARTOS’s work.”—ROBERT HUGHES • “Taken between 1989 and 1993, BARTOS’s color photos of the U.N. headquarters capture a building trapped in a 1950s’ time warp. So optimistic and modern when first built (Le Corbusier was a member of the Board of Design), it is now a bit worn, much like its tenant.”—LIBRARY JOURNAL • “In a striking series of color photographs, ADAM BARTOS affirms the beauty of the UN’s modern architecture while capturing the wear and tear of an idealism thwarted by decades of diplomatic compromise. The accompanying text, written with characteristic wit and acuity by CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, explores the themes of Utopia and the limits of governmental good intentions.”—FROM THE PUBLISHER • “ADAM BARTOS shows up as witness to the moment when history is passing, when culture is fading, when time has stopped…. His images catch the space between things: the stopped time; the jazz shuffle; the downbeat, half-skipped heartbeat that is life as it is lived and as it is passing.”—A.M. HOMES•• For details about this title, please see below. • TITLE: “INTERNATIONAL TERRITORY: The United Nations 1945–95” PHOTOGRAHS: ADAM BARTOS TEXT: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS TYPE: HARDCOVER PAGES: 104 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: VERSO (London/New York), 1994 EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING NOTE: NOT an ex-library copy. NOT a book club edition. ISBN: 1-85984-901-6 CONDITION of DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD.Wear along edges and spine. Rubbing on corners. Small chip/tear on top right corner of front and crease/tear along bottom of back. Light smudging in spots. Overall: Bright and clean. (Now protected in archival Brodart cover.) CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS. Boards are clean w/ sharp corners. Spine is tight w/ lightly bumped tips. Bumping on corners. Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. There is a "Julie Saul Gallery" stamp on the half-title page. Otherwise, pages are unmarked, clean, & bright. 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Price: 68 USD

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-08-28T16:44:16.000Z

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