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Published by Museum of Contemporary Art / Rizzoli International Publications Los Angeles / New York, CA / NY, 1992
ISBN 10: 0847816311ISBN 13: 9780847816316
Seller: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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256; 29.7 x 22.8 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, December 6, 1992 - March 7, 1993. Traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, April 3 - June 20, 1993 and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 16 - October 3, 1993. Edited by Russell Ferguson. Texts by David Deitcher, Stephen C. Foster, Dick Hebdige, Linda Norden, Kenneth E. Silver and John Yau. Artists include Billy Al Bengston, Jim Dine, Jean Follett, Joe Goode, Grace Hartigan, Jess, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, , Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Mel Ramos, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Edward Ruscha, Peter Saul, Wayne Thiebaud, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol. Includes index, bibliography and artists' exhibition histories. Very Good / Fine. Very light rubbing of covers and subtle yellowing of page edges from age, otherwise Fine. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges may be required for international orders.
Published by Harry N. Abrams Inc. New York, NY, 1966
Seller: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
343 pp.; 31 x 31.5 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Large-scale Allan Kaprow burlap-covered book with text and design by Kaprow. Features Kaprow's theory of the evolution of abstract expressionist painting into Proto-Pop, Neo-Dada, assemblage, environments and Happenings of the early 1960s. Documents works by Kaprow, Jean Follett, Robert Rauschenberg, Gloria Graves, Red Grooms, Robert Whitman, Jackson Pollock, Renee Miller, Martha Edelheit, Jim Dine, Clarence Schmidt, Yayoi Kusama, Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, Ay-o, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Jean Tinguely, Gutai Group [Sadamasa Motonaga, Akira Kanayama, Shuzo Mukai, Saburo Murakami, Shozo Shimamoto, Kazuo Shiraga, Atsuko Tanaka, Michio Yoshihara, Tsuruko Yamsaki], Jean-Jacques Lebel, Wolf Vostell, Ken Dewey, Milan Knízák. Extensive photographs of works and performances by photographers Robert R. McElroy and Peter Moore. A critical volume documenting the precursors of contemporary performance art. References : "Allan Kaprow : A Bibliography" by Allan Kaprow, Giorgio Maffei. Milano, Italy : Mousse Publishing, 2011, pp. 26 - 29. "Book as Artwork 1960 / 1972" by Germano Celant. London, United Kingdom : Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd., 1972, pp. 62. Very Good. 1.6 cm. tear to burlap covers at bottom edge of spine, sunning and rubbing of covers. Soiling to title page and pages 2 - 3 with light bumping of bottom right corner of endpapers and title page. additional light handling wear to pages and with ink rubbing. Otherwise clean and unmarked. This copy lacking unprinted vinyl dust jacket. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
Published by Martha Jackson Gallery New York, NY, 1960
Seller: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
[28] pp.; 27.8 x 21.6 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held [June 6 - 24], 1960. Foreword by Martha Jackson. Texts "Junk Culture as Tradition" by Lawrence Alloway, and "Some Observations on Contemporary Art" by Allan Kaprow. Artists included Anthea Alley, Stephen Antonakos, Hans Arp, Hubert Berke, Jose Bermudez, Ronald Bladen, Lee Bontecou, Harry Bouras, George Brecht, Alberto Burri, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, David Chapin, Chryssa, Christo Coetzee, Bruce Conner, Joseph Cornell, Roy De Forest, Sari Dienes, James Dine, Enrico Donati, Tom Doyle, Jean Dubuffet, Claire Falkenstein, Dan Flavin, Jean Follett, Peter Forakis, William Giles, Charles Ginnever, Mathias Goeritz, Red Grooms, Grover Hendricks, Edward Higgins, Robert Indiana, Paul Jenkins, Jasper Johns, Zoltan Kemeny, Yffe Kimball, Yves Klein, Irving Kriesberg, Bernard Langlais, John Latham, John Little, Hubert Long, Anthony Magar, Robert Mallary, Glen Michaels, Manolo Millares, Renee Miller, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Claes Oldenburg, George Ortman, Alfonso Ossorio, Lil Picard, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Leo Rabkin, Robert Rauschenberg, Irwin Rubin, Salvatore Scarpitta, Kurt Schwitters, Richard Stankiewicz, Takis, Antonio Tapies, Alice Terry, Sofu Teshigahara, Stanley Vanderbeek, Robert Whitman, May Wilson and Wilfred Zogbaum. Includes eight installation images by Rudolph Burckhardt and checklist of the exhibition with prices listed. Very Good. Light rubbing of covers and edges with 7.1 cm. of yellowing to recto. Contents are clean and unmarked.