Long Description:
Muhammad Ali is one of the most remarkable personalities of our time and the greatest sportsman ever to walk the earth. To honour this legend, TASCHEN has created a work that is epic in scale and and a worthy tribute to his life, GOAT – GREATEST OF ALL TIME:
- The Collector's Edition: No. 1,001-10,000. Limited to 9,000 individually numbered copies, each signed by Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons.
- Each comes with the photo-litho Radial Champs by Jeff Koons in the size 50 x 40 cm.
- Over 3,000 images - photographs, art and memorabilia, much of it published for the first time. Original essays and the best interviews and writing on the Champ of the last five decades, totalling 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, who specialize in the most elaborate editions of the Bible and the Koran.
- Utilizing state-of-the-art digital technology to restore the original photographic materials.
Full of stunning, never seen before photographs and articles, GOAT will fairly take your breath away with its sheer beauty and size.