{"id":1924,"date":"2010-01-17T00:59:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T07:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:39:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:39:17","slug":"featured-john-chamberlain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-john-chamberlain\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: JOHN CHAMBERLAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Chamberlain<\/span> attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1951 to 1952. At that time, he began making flat, welded sculpture, influenced by the work of David Smith. Starting in 1955 Chamberlain studied and taught sculpture at Black Mountain College, near Ashville, North Carolina, where most of his friends were poets, among them Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson. By 1957, he began to include scrap metal from cars in his work, and from 1959 onward he concentrated on sculpture built entirely of crushed automobile parts welded together.<\/p>\n

Chamberlain\u2019s work was widely acclaimed in the early 1960s. His sculpture was included in The Art of Assemblage at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1961. From 1962, Chamberlain showed frequently at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and in 1964 his work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale. While he continued to make sculpture from auto parts, Chamberlain also experimented with other mediums. From 1963 to 1965, he made geometric paintings with sprayed automobile paint. In 1966, the same year he received the first of two fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he began a series of sculptures of rolled, folded, and tied urethane foam. These were followed in 1970 by sculptures of melted or crushed metal and heat-crumpled Plexiglas. Chamberlain\u2019s work was presented in a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1971.
\nIn the early 1970s, Chamberlain began once more to make large works from automobile parts. Until the mid-1970s, the artist assembled these auto sculptures on the ranch of collector Stanley Marsh in Amarillo, Texas. These works were shown in New York, and in 1973 and at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, in 1975. His next major retrospective was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1986; the museum simultaneously co-published John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 of the Sculpture 1954\u20131985<\/span><\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> Hard bound first printing with dust jacket. Catalogue raisonne to the year 1985. Over 800 pieces! 239 pages profusely illustrated. Published in association with the Museum of Contempoary Art, L.A. A very nice copy of a scarce hard bound edition, bright and clean.<\/p>\n

Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 16413<\/p>\n

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SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n

John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Sculpture, 1954-1985<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\nSylvester, Julie<\/span><\/p>\n

Publisher:<\/strong> Hudson Hills Press<\/span>
\nPublication Date:<\/strong> 1986<\/span>
\nBinding:<\/strong> Hard Cover<\/span>
\nBook Condition:<\/strong> Near Fine<\/span>
\nDust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> Near Fine<\/span>
\nEdition:<\/strong> First Edition<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Chamberlain attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1951 to 1952. At that time, he began making flat, welded sculpture, influenced by the work of David Smith. Starting in 1955 Chamberlain studied and taught sculpture at Black Mountain College, near Ashville, North Carolina, where most of his friends were poets, among them Robert Creeley, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[102,61,17],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold","tag-art","tag-sculpture","tag-very-rare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15125,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/15125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}