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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art / University of California Press, 2003. First edition. First printing. Full black cloth, gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Quarto, 192 pages, with 93 illustrations, including 13 color plates. "Jay DeFeo and The Rose" is the first comprehensive study of DeFeo's monumental painting "The Rose," a nearly two-thousand-pound work created over eight years and long considered a masterpiece of the San Francisco Beat scene. The volume documents the painting's creation, its decades in storage, and its painstaking conservation before its installation at the Whitney Museum. Editors: Jane Green, Leah Levy. Essays by David A. Ross, Martha Sherrill, Walter Hopps, Bill Berkson, Lucy R. Lippard, Sandra S. Phillips, Greil Marcus, Niccolo Caldararo, Richard Cándida Smith, Carter Ratcliff, and Judith Dunham. Jay DeFeo (19291989) was a San Francisco painter, sculptor, and central figure in the Beat generation art movement. Known primarily for "The Rose," she also produced a wide-ranging body of experimental paintings, drawings, and photographs. "Jay DeFeo and The Rose" remains the definitive monograph on both her life and her most famous work.…