Bessie Cornelia (4 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated by B & W Photographs (illustrator).

[12] pp.; 22.8 x 15.5 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held May 16 - June 29, 1991. Text by Cornelia [Connie] Butler. Artists include Chelo Amezcua, Prophet William J. Blackmon, Freddie Brice, Ray Hamilton, Bessie Harvey, Asterios Matakos, and Phillip Travers. Includes images, artist biographies, and quotes from interviews for some of the included artists. "As an alternative space, Artists Space has for seventeen years been committed to dissolving the many boundaries historically present in the art world-boundaries established to exclude certain art and artists from the ''mainstream'' culture. By consistently exhibiting the work of people of color, unknown emerging artists and work with difficult scale and uncommodifiable concepts, Artists Space has insisted that the "mainstream" concept of contemporary art and art history is a bankrupt one. It is my hope that the whole notion of the mainstream be dissolved and that we begin to look at the range of human ''art'' production with fresh eyes---not to ghettoize what we see with elitist categories like folk, outsider, primitive, ethnographic etc. By exhibiting the work of untrained, non-art educated artists that "mainstream" concept is further dissolved. This show is one of many before and many to follow which forces us to look and not to name. I am convinced that through looking we can recognize a vision of power and quality." -- from Gregory Amenoff''s introduction. Very Good / Fine. Light wear to covers. Contents clean and unmarked. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photos, some of Cornelia (a couple partially nude), her mother, some scenes in France and Switzerland, some newspaper clippings that Cornelia liked, and a few things missing here and there -- seems at least just as likely to have fallen out or disintegrated as to having been intentionally removed, but who knows. Not a lot of anything but oddly interesting. Cornelia was a book editor. Simon Michael Bessie was one of the founders of Atheneum Books in 1959. Cornelia began working for Atheneum as an editor a year or two later. Cornelia and Simon married in 1968 and remained together until his death in 2008. The last parts of their lives seem to have been spent mostly in Connecticut.…