Weschler Jeffrey (3 results)

Paperback. Cream wraps with deckled edge, color illustration and red lettering on covers. Approx [24] pp. 4 color, 15 bw plates. Catalogue of an exhibition held April 1 to June 3, 1990. Includes works by Baziotes, Crampton, Frankenthaler, Francis, Gottlieb, Gorky, Hofmann, Kamrowski, Motherwell, Newman, Ossorio, Pepi, Pollock, Pousette-Dart, Reinhardt, Rosenberg, Rothko, Schwabacher, Seliger, Stamos, Tobey. 49 works listed total. VG (light scuffs, marks to wraps. rubbing to corners. foxing to opening vellum fly-leaf). …

Softcover. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated glued wraps. vii,195 pp. 11 color, 214 bw plates. "This is not an exhibition of REALISM, as such, but rather of artists who used recognizable imagery, at a time when this was immensely unfashionable." Catalogue lists 162 works by 78 artists. Includes 5 works by Edwin Dickinson. Essays by Greta Berman and Jeffrey Weschler. An extraordinary exhibition, with lengthy essays and copious notes. Index to artists at rear. Scarce. Published to accompany the exhibition held in New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Art Gallery, Jan. 17 to Mar. 26, 1982, two other locations. Contents as follows: Realism 1940-1960: dilemmas and definitions -- Tradition maintained and transformed -- Social content: continuity and change -- Objective and subjective reactions to war -- Realism in the age of anxiety -- The grotesque -- The "romantic": themes and variations -- The many paths of "straight" painting -- Locating a style: the "Bay Area Figurative School" -- The range of reality -- The anti-realist bias -- Afterword. VG. Some wear around wrapper edges.…

SOFTCOVER. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued without a dustjacket. 1st Edition. Square 4to in stiff card covers, 20pp, colour plates, etc . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (hint of sunning to covers) ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…