Krims, Les – THE DEERSLAYERS, A limited edition folio by Les Krims.*

€175,00

Author: Alex Sweetman.
Publisher: Self-published
Year: 1972
ISBN: x

23 sepia-toned plates printed on glossy card stock housed in box with tipped-on cover image. Signed and hand-numbered 380 on separate sheet that contains Sweetman’s text. Plates Plates have tiny push-pin holes in the corners. Box moderate edgewear on the corners
Condition: A very good copy.

"The Deerslayers," supposed hunters to be conceptual artists making sculpture. Near the end of Vietnam war, radical leftist activists using nasty ad hominem attack, characterized any gun-toting hunter as a murderer; police, as some may remember, were called "pigs." Tongue only slightly in cheek, I suggested that the deer trussed to cars, pick-ups, and campers-commonplace in upstate New York during hunting season-were best understood as sculpture, and a "performance" Hermann Nitsche would enjoy. The title was suggested by James Fennimore Cooper's novel, The Deerslayer. Those pictures were meant to conjure a creative appraisal and positive spin for a utilitarian sport practiced by many people living outside the radical-intellectual epicenter of New York City. Most deer hunters ate what they shot. And it's my guess that many lefty intellectuals would have strapped-on a Glock and gone hunting, too, if lox ran wild in Central Park."

--Les Krims

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