IT IS
A Magazine for Abstract Art.
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Nos. 1-6, Spring 1958-Spring 1960 & Autumn 1965. NY: Second Half, 1958-65. Profusely illustrated (part color). Original wrappers, 29 x 24 cm. Not pristine, but still a good set, which has become rare. (Number 1: cover lightly soiled and light damage caused by the removal of a small sticker from lower front page; number 2 cover lightly stained; number 3 lightly stained and small shaving on lower front cover like in number 1; number 4, cover lightly stained, faint crease and small tear to right bottom corner of front cover, back cover lightly damaged; number 5 with light foxing only; number 6 clean and with the 12 triple gatefolds all properly folded).
EUR 500.00
Complete and official record of the New York School Abstract Expressionists, ed. by Phillip Pavia (sculptor). Numbers 1-4 include Pavia's 'Manifesto in Progress', no.5 the edited transcript of a sculpture panel held at Peter Agostini's studio in April 1960, no.6 is devoted to 2 panels on sculpture ("The spontaneous and design") held in New York in March 1965.
Numerous ills., partly in colour, of works by more than 150 American painters and sculptors, 36 photo portraits (17 by Fred McDarrah), and 2 photographs of New York's 8th Street. Panel discussions, artists' statements, and many reproductions. Contributing artists include Guston, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Reinhardt, Lee Krasner, Kline, Tworkov, and many others. Essays by Pavia, Ad Reinhard, Al Held, Hans Hofmann, Rosenberg, De Kooning;
covers by Kline, Lekakis, Motherwell, a.o.
Numerous ills., partly in colour, of works by more than 150 American painters and sculptors, 36 photo portraits (17 by Fred McDarrah), and 2 photographs of New York's 8th Street. Panel discussions, artists' statements, and many reproductions. Contributing artists include Guston, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Reinhardt, Lee Krasner, Kline, Tworkov, and many others. Essays by Pavia, Ad Reinhard, Al Held, Hans Hofmann, Rosenberg, De Kooning;
covers by Kline, Lekakis, Motherwell, a.o.