Artspace Books

The Father Costume

By Ben Marcus and Matthew Ritchie.

Behold a stunning world, composed largely of water, where clothing changes people's behavior and time itself can be worn and discarded like cloth. Witness a father who takes his two boys out to sea, in flight from some menace at home, thus launching their adventures in a strange and dangerous territory. Artist Matthew Ritchie's striking images blend scientific diagramming with vivid, colorful renderings of the apocalypse, while writer Ben Marcus's cold prose plumbs the inner workings of two boys caught out at sea with a father whose costumes grow increasingly menacing. In this collaborative work, Ritchie's and Marcus's shared obsessions of mythology, physics and ancient texts have produced a conjunction of text and image in which people themselves are merely costumes for the darker needs that drive them.

PUBLISHED BY:Artspace Books
LIST PRICE: US $20.00 CAD $24.00
FORMAT:Hardcover, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 90 pgs / 16 color.
ISBN: 9781891273032 ISBN10: 1891273035
PUBLICATION DATE:05/02/2002
AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies.
D.A.P. DISTRIBUTION CODE:TRADE