Um tributo a muhammad ali! muhammad ali é uma das personalidades mais marcantes do nosso tempo e o maior desportista de todos os tempos a caminhar na terra
Para homenagear essa lenda viva, a taschen criou uma obra que é de fato épica em escala e com o objetivo de ser tao unica quanto o próprio boxeador
Um tributo digno de sua vida deve refletir a escala de suas realizaçoes, e goat (greatest of all time: maior de todos os tempos) prepara-se para cumprir essa tarefa
Quatro anos de preparaçao, e o estudo mais abrangente de ali recentemente, goat contém páginas de fotografias de arquivo e originais, arte gráfica, artigos e ensaios - muitas delas inéditas - e relata seis décadas de sua vida em detalhes impressionantes
Para coroar tudo, o projeto acontece com a participaçao pessoal de ali e os membros de seu círculo interno que estiveram mais próximos ao longo dos anos: de gerentes e importantes profissionais do pugilismo a amigos, familiares e crianças; de conselheiros espirituais e outros às empresas de radiodifusao, ensaístas e jornalistas
- livro no idioma original: inglês
A tribute to muhammad ali muhammad ali is one of the most remarkable personalities of our time and the greatest sportsman ever to walk the earth
To honor this living legend, taschen has created a work that is epic in scale and as unique and vibrant as the man himself
A worthy tribute to his life should reflect the scale of his achievements, and goat - greatest of all time is fully up to that task: the collector's edition: no
1,001 - 10,000 "..
The biggest, heaviest, most radiant thing ever printed in the history of civilization." - der spiegel, hamburg, october 6, 2003 "full of stunning, never seen before photographs and articles, goat will fairly take your breath away with its sheer beauty and size
The book is a must-have collector's item." in press, manila, on goat - the "collector's edition" shows ali's torso with pink lettering
- limited to 9,000 individually numbered copies, each one signed by muhammad ali and jeff koons
-every "collector's edition" comes with the photo-litho radial champs by jeff koons in the size 50 x 40 cm (20" x 16")
-over 3,000 images - photographs, art and memorabilia, much of it published for the first time - from over 150 photographers and artists
Original essays and the best interviews and writing on the champ of the last five decades, from hundreds of writers, totaling 600,000 words
-xxl-format: 792 pages, including two gatefold sequences measuring 200 cm x 50 cm (80" x 20") and nine gold-metallic double-page spreads printed in silkscreen, open each chapter
Measuring 50 cm x 50 cm (20" x 20"), goat tips the scales at 34 kgs (75 lbs)
-each copy comes in a silk-covered box illustrated with neil leifer's iconic 1966 photo, ali vs williams
-bound by the official bindery for the vatican, in pink leather, the color of ali's first cadillac
The bindery, specializing in the most elaborate and oversized editions of the bible and the koran, enforces the strictest standards of quality control and only several hundred copies can be assembled per week
-utilizing state-of-the-art digital technology, no expense has been spared to restore the original photographic materials to the highest possible standards
The results of this effort create unparalleled intensity and range in the colors, and exquisite tone and density within the duotone images
-eight-color printing on galaxi keramik 200 gsm semi-matte paper with gloss varnish on all images
Imagens meramente ilustrativas.