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paperback. Condition: Good. Good condition. Pages are clean with no writing or highlighting. Cover shows moderate shelf wear with edge/corner wear and light creasing/scuffing. Binding solid. Ships next day in a bubble mailer.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade PB. 4to. Square. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI, 1969. 103 pages with 394 objects illustrated. Illustrated with color and black and white plates. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Andy Warhol ruffled the concepts of the museum as a construction of quality and selected items from the storage which had never been viewed before as they were considered mediocre or copies or damaged. This project was the idea of Dominique de Menil, Director of the Museum who writes in his introduction "For what is beautiful to the artist, becomes beautiful. What is poetical to the poet, becomes poetical. So let's visit museums with poets and artists." De Menil invited Warhol as a 'Pop Artist' to 'relook at the collection with his eyes' which resulted in what is still one of the most interesting experiments in museumology. David Bourdon records the process of the making of the show in detail, and documents the installation process. An exhibition selected from the storage vaults of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. The exhibition began at the Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston TX 29 October, 1969-4 January 1970, The Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans LA 17 January-15 February 1970 and ending with the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI 23 April-30 June 1970. E-184; 8.4 X 6.9 X 0.4 inches; 13 pages.

103 pp.; 22.8 x 17.8 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, October 29, 1969 - January 4, 1970. Traveled to The Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, January 17 - February 15, 1970; and Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, April 23 - June 30, 1970. Texts by Daniel Robbins and David Bourdon. Catalogue by Stephen E. Ostrow. So they set Andy Warhol loose in the storage area of the Museum of Art at RISD [aka "The Icebox"] and the exhibition became what he found there and selected for the exhibition. Artist as curator. But rather than choosing painting, sculpture, and drawings, he curated a rich show incorporating decorative arts too - Bandboxes and Hatboxes; Baskets; Ceramics; Chairs; Costume Accessories, Footwear, Parasols and Umbrellas Textiles and Wallpaper. Very Good. Light edge-wear including rubbing and bumping of recto corners and 3 cm. of bumping and creasing to spine. Contents are clean and unmarked.

Condition: new.