{"id":8703,"date":"2011-05-05T08:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=8703"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:26:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T22:26:56","slug":"conrad-marca-relli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/conrad-marca-relli\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: CONRAD MARCA-RELLI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"first3words\">Conrad Marca-Relli was a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism. <\/span>He is most celebrated for his large-scale collages, composed of pieces of canvas or natural linen overpainted with gestural brushstrokes. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Marca-Relli was actively involved in the avant-garde art world in Greenwich Village. He helped to found the \u201cEighth Street Club,\u201d an artists\u2019 group whose members included Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. Marca-Relli taught at Yale University from 1954 to 1955. He lived and worked in many countries around the world. In his final years, he lived in Parma, Italy with his wife, Anita Gibson, whom he married in 1951.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> First Italian Edition. Hard bound in die cut dust jacket, as issued. Text by H. H. Arnason. Collection edited by Ezio Gribaudo. 134 plates. Includes exhibition checklist, chronolgy and brief biography. Tan cloth boards with brown titles show some wear, with lower spine edge bumped. Front hinge weak, but holding. Wear and some soiling to dust jacket, otherwise very good. SCARCE!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 22954<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Marca-Relli<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Arnason, H. H.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Edizioni D&#8217;arte Fratelli Pozzo<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 1971<br \/>\n<strong>Binding:<\/strong> Hard Bound<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition:<\/strong> Very Good<br \/>\n<strong>Dust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> Good<br \/>\n<strong>Edition:<\/strong> First Italian Edition<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conrad Marca-Relli was a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism. He is most celebrated for his large-scale collages, composed of pieces of canvas or natural linen overpainted with gestural brushstrokes. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Marca-Relli was actively involved in the avant-garde art world in Greenwich Village. He helped to found the \u201cEighth Street Club,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-8703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703","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=8703"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15086,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions\/15086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}