Anima Mundi (Deluxe Edition w/Print) (Shelfwear) [2001]

Anima Mundi by Mark Ryden [2001]

A new copy whose box was displayed briefly and this has shelf wear on the fabric, as shown in the pictures. Inside is perfect and untouched!

Complete in clamshell. Includes a signed an numbered print and book-mark.
Hardcover; 152 pages
Last Gasp of San Francisco / Porterhouse
8 pounds; 10.75 x 1 x 10.5 inches
867195096

This is the first and most essential overview of Mark Ryden's early career. It's a long desired and long sold out important piece of his work. A standard trade edition is also available.

via Porterhouse: ‘Special Boxed Limited Edition of "Anima Mundi: the Art of Mark Ryden" is a 152 page, full color, 10" x 10", hardback book of Mark's work. Special Limited Edition of 500, signed and numbered, includes a 10" x 10" giclee print, a Special Edition Anima Mundi bookmark and comes in a fabric box.’

Mark Ryden's paintings instantly trigger a warped deja vu. His work recalls a parallel universe of 1950s Golden Books and the whimsy of Lewis Carroll. His cheery bunnies, rendered in the glowing hues of children's books are likely to be carving slabs of meat rather than frolicking in the forest. Ryden's work mingles superb technique with outre images to create a world of strange and disturbing beauty. At once intriguing and unsettling, baffling and enchanting, [Ryden's] works ... are subtle amalgams of many sources and influences as wide-ranging as Psychedelic and Vienna School artists Neon Park and Ernst Fuchs, to classical French formalists Ingres and David Panik.