| #4768763 in Books | Emigre Inc | 1999-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.05 x5.41 x8.43l, | File type: PDF | 96 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A multimedial Emigré experience.|By Witold Riedel|"Palm Desert" was originally designed to accompany a CD containing loose adaptations of one of Van Dyke Park's musical compositions from the 1968 Warner Brothers release "Song Cycle". The original recording of "Palm Desert" is track one on the CD in the book. (The other three, quite experimental tracks are by "Itchy Pet"||"It's a beautiful tribute, a work of art in and of itself." -- Open Sky
"The startling contrast between the desert-alone and the desert-intervened is made clear in Vanderlans's color photographs." -- The Journal of Artists Books <
Palm Desert is the first book of photographs by Emigre magazine creator Rudy VanderLans. It is based on the music and lyrics of Los Angeles-based composer Van Dyke Parks and pays tribute to both Parks and Southern California. Somewhere between fact, fantasy and fiction, Palm Desert strives to echo Parks's creative approach of blending classical, historical, vernacular and environmental themes. The result is a curious mix of tribute, documentary photography, impressionism...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Palm Desert | Rudy VanderLans. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
