Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY JOHN STEINBECK TO THE PRINT ARTIST FUMI KOMATSU! Modern library copy with Thomas Benton cover. Some wear to dust jacket with a few small closed tears and chips, otherwise good. A VERY RARE SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY!.

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The Grapes Of Wrath
Steinbeck, John

Publisher: Modern Library
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author

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Roy Lichtenstein merged popular imagery and “high art” to establish his own unique style. His paintings were based in part on the motifs and procedures of comic strips and graphic ad’s of the 1960’s. Along with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein was one of the central figures of American Pop Art movement. Rather than attempt to reproduce his subjects, his work tackled the way mass media portrays them.

Description: Paperback copy published on the occasion of the October 8, 1993 exhibition held by the Guggenheim. 393 pages profusely illustrated. This work aims to be the definitive monograph on Roy Lichtenstein, a founder of American Pop Art. It covers every phase of his career including: still lifes; landscapes; the “Brushstroke”, “Modern”, “Mirror”, “Entablature” and “Interiors” series; sculptures; murals; and public commissions. Some minor wear to wrappers, otherwise very good.

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Early in the 1960s reacting to what he called the ” illusion ” in abstract painting Donald Judd began to create art that used ” real materials existing in real space “. He did not attempt to deliver his own political or social messages, but insisted his goal was to focus on the space occupied and created by his objects – their purity of form. This style of art was called minimalism, and Judd was one of it’s greatest proponents. He became well known for sleek, boxlike constructions made of industrial materials such as plywood, sheet metal, and plexiglass that were painted using commercial techniques. Stacked, aligned, cantilevered, or centered, their strict geometric arrangements eliminated the idea of composition and achieved a singular focus on the object itself. Although his art is resolutely three-dimensional, Judd refused to call them sculpture, a term he associated with the hand-crafted art of an earlier era. Instead, he referred to them as “specific objects“–a phrase meant to suggest their neutral, discrete and unique nature.

“I wanted to create reality
not a picture of it”
– Donald Judd

Description: Paperback exhibition catalogue published in association with W. W. Norton. Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from October 20 – December 31, 1988 and at the Dallas Museum of Art, from February 12 – April 16, 1989. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. 160 pages. A nice copy with only the most minor edge wear.

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Donald Judd
Haskell, Barbara

ISBN: 0874270618
Publisher: The Whitney Museum of American Art
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist’s artistic consciousness.
Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.”
-Donald Judd

Description: Paperback exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the Sept. 16, 1994 exhibition. 31 pages. A nice copy, bright and clean.

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Donald Judd: Sculpture
Agee, William C.

ISBN: 1878283464
Publisher: Pace Wildenstein, New York
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

American sculptor and art writer Donald Judd (1928-1994) was best known as a major practitioner of and spokesman for Minimalism in the 1960s. His works, or “specific objects,” display an overall sense of wholeness and clarity and reiterate the belief that art and idea are inseparable.

Description: Paperback exhibition catalogue of the exhibition at The Pace Gallery, September – October 1991. Essay by Yve-Alain Bois. 11 Color Photographs and 5 b/w Illustrations. A nice copy, bright and clean. Bookseller

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Donald Judd: New Sculpture
Bois, Yve – Alain

Publisher: The Pace Gallery, New York
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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Zhang Huan is widely considered to be one of the most vital and influential contemporary artists working today.  He was born in 1965 in a small town called Anyang in Henan Province just prior to the Cultural Revolution.  At one year of age, Zhang Huan went to live with his grandparents in a tiny village in the countryside known as Tangyin County.  At age fourteen, he started his artistic training in the so-called Su-style or Soviet style and traveled by bus each day for his lessons.

Zhang enrolled in undergraduate studies at the Art Department, Henan University, Kaifeng to concentrate on Chinese ink painting, drawing, oil painting and art history in 1984.  Upon completion in 1988, Zhang was an instructor at Zhengzhou College of Education for three years.  He studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing from 1991 to 1993, and it was during this period that he first started experimenting with performance art.  Zhang Huan’s first public performance was called Angel, which he staged on the front steps of the National Art Museum of China as part of a group exhibition for students at the Central Academy.  Angel was openly critical of the Chinese government’s controversial “one child” policy and it resulted in the entire exhibition being closed.

During this same period, a group of young Chinese artists, including Zhang Huan, established the “Beijing East Village.”  It was in this community that Zhang developed his early performance practices and many of the works that would soon bring him international attention.  Conceived as both existential explorations and social commentary, performances like 12 Square Meters, in which the artist sat for an hour, covered in honey and fish oil, in a fly infested public latrine or To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, where nine people lay on top of one another to raise the summit by a meter. These performances and many others came to be known by their photographic documentation, which are now considered the artist’s first iconic works.

Description: Hard bound with grey boards, no dust jacket. 179 pages profusely illustrated. Published on the occasion of the October 10, 2007 London exhibition.

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Zhang Huan : Ash
Huan, Zhang

Publisher: Haunch of Venison, London
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good

Description: Hard bound with wood vaneer on cardboard, no dust jacket, as issued. Published on the occasion of the May 9, 2008 exhibition. Mnor wear to boards, otherwise very good.

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Zhang Huan : Blessings
Huan, Zhang

Publisher: Pace Wildenstein, New York
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
Edition: First Edition

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Description: Paperback copy with 321 pages. Profusely illustrated. Sunning to spine edge, otherwise good.

Bookseller Inventory # 17018

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Frank Stella
VV Staff

Publisher: T.F. Editores
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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Gypsy Rose Lee was one of the most famous strippers of all time. It was her burlesque act which earned her legendary status. She brought a sharp sense of humor into her act. She became as famous for her onstage wit, as for her striping style. She was spotted by H.K. Minsky, who featured her in his infamous New York club, from there to theatre, 12 films, and eventually her own television show. She wrote two mystery novels, and an autobiography, which was a bestseller. The walls of her Los Angeles home were adorned with pictures by Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, all of which were reportedly gifts to her by the artists themselves.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Gypsy Rose Lee. Some edge wear. Dust jacket shows some wear, with chipping to spine edges and corners, otherwise good.

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Mother Finds a Body
Lee, Gypsy Rose

Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Publication Date: 1942
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author
Edition: First Edition

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Description: Hard bound first printing bound in yellow cloth with red lettering. Glassine dust jacket. Text in German. 106 pages, profusely illustrated. #1 in the series – Bauhausbucher. Very progressive architecture for the time, showing the most early ideas of modernism in architecture. Some wear and minor soiling to cloth boards. Corners and spine edges threadbare. iInterior clean and binding tight. RARE hardbound copy!.

Bookseller Inventory # 18266

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Internationale Architektur
Gropius, Walter & Nagy, Moholy L.

Publisher: Albert Langen Verlag
Publication Date: 1925
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition

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“You are all a lost generation”
—Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway

In the 1920’s a group of young writers and artists met while living in Paris. It was the Jazz age and Paris was the cultural center of Europe. The young moderns congregated around the bookstores and Cafes, collectively they became known as ” The Lost Generation”. This group which included Ernst Hemingway and other expats such Harry Crosby, spearheaded a new literary movement while living in Paris. They universally rejected the moral and social values of the past generation, in favor of a new modern and bohemian lifestyle. Parisian culture, combined with the disillusionment caused by the loss of life in World War One, led to some of the most important writing of the new century.

Harry Crosby was born into Boston’s Social elite,it was not unusual for some one of his class to spend time living abroad. Harry being one of the few members of the lost generation to speak fluent French, he easily adapted to a life in Paris. While living and writing in Paris Harry Crosby founded The Black Sun Press, one of the finest small preses of the twentieth century.

With the help of his wife Caresse The Black Sun Press published Hemingway, Joyce, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, Kay Boyle, D. H. Lawrence, Dorothy Parker and others. Harry Crosby epitomised the jazz age, a playboy living his life with reckless abandon. Once he hired 4 horse drawn carriages, and raced them through the streets of Paris like Ben Hur! Known for his wild parties, and numerous affairs, he was both loved and despised. In 1929 while briefly back in New York he attended a party hosted by his close friend Hart Crane. In attendance were E. E.Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Walker Evans and many other artists of day, It was the last time Harry would be seen alive.

Crosby had been caring on an affair with a young newly married woman named Josephine Bigelow. He refers to her in his poetry as his fire princess. Soon after Crane’s party both Harry and Josephine were found dead, a tragic double suicide that made the headlines in the day. Harry’s collected work was published in four seperate volumes on black sun Press, we offer two of the four volumes for sale.

…With Love
(As she goes to the Sun
And is seen by the world no more)
-Harry Crosby

Description: Paperbound with glassine dust wrapper. Preface by T. S. Eliot. Volume 2 in the collected poetry of Harry Crosby. Printed on nauarre paper in a limited editon of 500 copies by Carosse Crosby at the Black Sun Press, Paris. The glassine dust jacket shows tanning and chipping. Spine edges chipped and back strip cracked. (not binding) Interior clean and binding still tight. VERY RARE

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Transit of Venus
Crosby, Harry

Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.
-Harry Crosby

Description: Paperbound with glassine dust wrapper. The third voulme of the collected poety of Harry Crosby. Published by the black Sun Press, Rue Cardinale, Paris by Caresse Crosby in a limited issue of only 500 copies. Glassine jacket shows tanning and chipping. Spine edges show some chipping. Interior clean and binding still strong. VERY RARE in any condition!

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Sleeping Together
Crosby, Harry

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Slim Aaron’s photographs, where wealthy people lounge poolside, looking effortlessly beautiful, are the definitive insiders look into the private lives of the Leisure Class of the 1950’s and 60’s. Aarons as part of the Jet-set photographed from Beverly Hills, to the French Riviera, capturing the Kennedys, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, and other elite jet-setters. Aarons worked without stylists or elaborate lighting, preferring to photograph celebrities in their own clothes and own surroundings. As a faithful chronicler of the High Society he has no equal.

Description: Hard bound first edition in dust jacket. A very nice copy bright and clean.

Bookseller Inventory # 18341

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Slim Aarons: Once upon a Time
Aarons, Slim

ISBN: 0810946033
Publisher: Abrams
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Edition: First Edition

Aarons made his career out of what he called “photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places. I knew everyone, They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn’t hurt them. I was one of them.
-Slim Aarons

Description: Paperback published by Hearst Magazines in association with Getty images. A selection of images of the jet-set at play, originally published by Aarons in a book of the same title. 82 pages. Profusely illustrated! Minor wear to wrappers, otherwise fine.

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A Wonderful Time
Aarons, Slim

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The Fifth Column
by Ernest Hemingway

This beautiful signed first edition has been professionally rebound in full brown leather with raised bands & gilt detail. The Scribner’s “A” is present on the copyright page indicating a true first edition. The interior is excellent,no previous owner’s names or other markings. Lovely marbled endpapers & the statement “signed first edition” in gilt on spine.

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Description: NEW IN PUBLISHERS SHRINKWRAP. Hard bound with dust jacket. This book brings together a dazzling array of jewels, many from private collections shown here for the first time, and presents them in the context of Lalique’s contemporary work in glass. Profusely illustrated. Published in conjunction with exhibitions held in New York, Washington D. C. and Dallas in 1998 & 1999. Scarce!.

Bookseller Inventory # 18346

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The Jewels of Lalique
Brunhammer, Yvonne

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 Description: The Mauritius Command by Patrick O’Brian Published by Collins,1977. The First British Edition,so stated – the true first- of the fourth Jack Aubrey book. A beautiful copy in likewise dj that is bright & luminous with no discoloration, chips or tears. The dj is not price clipped. The inner flap shows some light spotting & the volume itself has a very slight lean-otherwise this is about the freshest, most attractive copy of this book you could hope to find. Nice tight binding,clean interior-a very good copy of a rare modern first!

Bookseller Inventory # 17087

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The Mauritius Command
O’Brian,  Patrick

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Description: Paperback copy. 172 pages. Published on the occasion of the August 17, 2002 exhibition organized by the Hagley Museum A very nice copy, bright and clean.

Bookseller Inventory # 17472

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Publisher: Hagley Museum and Library
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Very Good

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Signed and Inscribed by Charles Addams to an intimate friend and colleague. Large original drawing by Addams directly on the half title page!

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Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Some minor sunning to spine edge of dust jacket, otherwise very good.

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Horst: Interiors
Plumb, Barbara 

ISBN: 0821220462
Publisher: Bulfinch, New York
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Very Good
Edition: First Edition

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Description: Hard bound first edition with original V. Bell dust jacket. Red cloth boards show some edge wear. Some wear and soiling to jacket. Spine edge of dust jacket worn with authors name abraded off, but title visible. Interior free of marks and binding strong. Minor foxing, otherwise good.

Bookseller Inventory # 16294

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Haunted House and Other Stories
Woolf, Virginia

Publisher: The Hogarth Press, London
Publication Date: 1943
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hard bound with Vanessa Bell dust jacket. Signed by the Jazz composer Claude Thornhill on the front lower left hand corner of the dust jacket. Blue cloth boards show some wear o edges. Spine edges and corners of jacket show chipping. Some damp staining to page edges, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 17259

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Between the Acts
Woolf, Virginia

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Co.
Publication Date: 1941
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition:First U. S. Edition

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Celine’s second masterpiece was written as a prequel to Journey to the End of the Night. A work constructed with an immediate prose style, shocking for the time. Celine aspired to present humanity as is, without the stylistic trappings, and pretense he saw in his contemporaries. Offensive, vulgar, raw, and cynical; he was directly influenced by the tension felt in Europe between the wars. In this existential masterpiece, Celine explores the darker side of the psyche. His influence is far reaching, inspiring such authors as John Fante, Charles Bukowski, and Henry Miller.

Description: Hard bound first U. S. printing with unclipped dust jacket. 593 pages. Corners and edges of dust jacket worn. Minor chipping to edges, and one large chip to lower rear corner of dust jacket. Some sunning to red title on spine edge, otherwise good. Interior clean and binding strong.

Bookseller Inventory # 17150

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Death on the Installment Plan
Celine, louis Ferdinand

Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Publication Date: 1938
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition

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Burk Uzzle at the age of 23 became the youngest contract photographer for Life magazine, and five years later he joined the legendary agency Magnum Photos. During his fifteen years as a Magnum member, he served two terms as president. His photographs have appeared in numerous magazines worldwide, including Life, Newsweek, Fortune, and the New York Times Magazine. His work has been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, and is represented in many private and museum collections, including the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Library of Congress; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Smithsonian Institution.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket published on the occasion of the Nov. 17 – Feb. 17, 1985 exhibition held by The Philadephia Museum of Art. Distributed by Aperture. Stated first printing. Inscribed by Burk Uzzle ” for Cheryl, Burk Uzzle”. Some tanning to edges of white boards. Dust jacket shows some wear and spotting. Interior clean and binding tight.

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All American
Uzzle, Burk

ISBN: 0961361603
Publisher: St. David’s Books / Aperture
Publication Date: 1984
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Signed: inscribed by Photographer
Edition: First Edition

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Description: Signed by John Irving on the title page. Hard bound with dust jacket. Stated first trade edition. Some wear to unclipped dust jacket that shows some sun fading to spine edge. Some wear to edges of boards and previous owners name on front free end page and half title page, otherwise very good. Covered in protective Brodart cover.

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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Irving, John

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Description: Hard bound first edition in price clipped dust jacket. Some minor edge wear, otherwise very good.

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Setting Free the Bears
Irving, John

John Irving’s first novel is a dark comic story of two students who conspire to liberate the animals from the Vienna zoo. The story is loosly based on a an actual incident from the last days of World War II. Many of the themes of Irving’s later work are explored here; the absurdity of existence, the idealism of youth, and the ever present dark veil of looming catrosphe.

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Description: Hard bound first edition with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY SAUL BELLOW TO THE ARTIST FUMI KOMATSU on the front free endpage. Wear and a few large chips to dust jacket edges. Some minor foxing, otherwise very good. A RARE INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE AUTHORS SECOND BOOK!.

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The Victim
Bellow, Saul

Publisher: Vanguard Press
Publication Date: 1947
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author
Edition: First Edition

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A true visionary who defies classification. This collection of  short work was first printed in magazines such as Esquire, Playboy, The Atlantic Monthly. Vonnegut can be both humorous and satirical, his speculative fiction has the ability show the fantastic in the commonplace, and absurdity within the seemingly normal.

Description: Hard bound first printing with dust jacket. Yellow spine and black paper boards. Minor wear to boards. Dust jacket with some minor spotting, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight.

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Welcome to the Monkey House
Vonnegut, Kurt

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This beautiful book is illustrated with full color plates of Chihuly’s hand blow glass pieces inspired by the sea.

My work, to this day, revolves around a simple set of circumstances: fire, molten glass, human breath, spontaneity, centrifugal force and gravity.”
-Dale Chihuly

Description: Hard bound in pink cloth, no dust jacket. SIGNED by Chihuly in blue, yellow and green paint on front board! Some minor sunning to boards, otherwise very good.

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Chihuly Seaforms
Chihuly, Dale

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Helen Frankenthaler’s woodcuts combine abstract expressionism with the quality and texture of paintings on wood.

“The process is totally different from painting or lithography or etching or anything else,” Frankenthaler says. “As with any other medium, I had to learn from what it offered, what it resisted and what I could bring to it.” Judith Goldman, who is the exhibit’s guest curator and the former print curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, says Frankenthaler’s woodcuts are “a landmark in her evolution as an artist and in the evolution of the woodcut medium.”

The woodcut, a notoriously difficult and rigid medium, could not be further from the artistic realm of a gestural, spontaneous painter. As a painter, Frankenthaler’s creative process is driven by the development of a dialogue with the work itself, ‘a fighting, loving dialogue with this piece of material. You force something on it and it gives you an answer back … until you know that this is right.’8 To a certain extent, the work directs her and it evolves out of itself. Therefore, when creating a woodcut, a medium which requires careful planning and numerous technical adjustments, either the style of the artist or the rules governing the medium must shift. Frankenthaler saw the woodcut as a challenge and has been determined not only to learn its language, but to master it.

Frankenthaler has worked with Tyler Graphics in a collaboration that has dramatically shifted the parameters of the woodcut. Frankenthaler’s experimental nature drove her to use paper pulp as a support for her woodcut Freefall, 1993and hand-dyed paper for Radius, 1993. The artist experimented with the combination of woodcut and other print techniques such as lithography in All about blue, 1994 and etching and aquatint in Ariel, 1996. By casting the rules aside, Frankenthaler has succeeded in coercing the woodcut into yielding printed works bearing the hallmarks of her unique lyrical style. The woodcut is no longer solely the medium of the graphic artist working alone in the studio; it is now also a medium to explore the abstract, a medium of collaboration, the medium of an entire print workshop working in sync with an artist.

In The Tales of Genji Helen Frankenthaler has created a series of six exquisite woodcuts. Working closely with Yasuyuki Shibata (a master of ukiyo-e printmaking), she has forged a new process that brings her unmistakable style to the ancient medium of woodblock printing.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the 2002 exhibition in association with George Braziller. A very nice copy, bright and clean. Scarce hardbound!.

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Frankenthaler: The Woodcuts
Goldman, Judith;Frankenthaler, Helen

ISBN: 0807615099
Publisher: Naples Museum of Art, Florida
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition

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