Boxes by Samaras Lucas (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Catalog Published for the Lucas Samaras "Boxes" exhibit, October 30 - December 12, 1971, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. Tightly staple bound with B/W photographic covers. Slight shelf wear and faint smudges on title page, remains Very Good.

First edition. 28 pp. Foxing inside covers and first and last leaves, else very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Nice copy. The front cover is smudge, but not affecting legibility. Binding is secure and inside is clean and unmarked.

Softcover, staple-bound, 28 pages, very good condition, small creases to spine; owner's name; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Softcover exhibition catalog, 36 pages, very good condition; light rubbing to covers; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 28 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 30 through December 2, 1971. Featuers an essay by Joan C. Siegfried. Includes 50 illustrations with 2 in color and a checklist. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers and with laid in compliments slip.…

Exhibition invite, 9 x 10 inches; good condition; curled at right and left edge; an unmailed copy.

Condition: Very good. - An original 22-1/2 inch high by 17-1/2 inch wide poster illustrated by Lucas Samaras with minuscule words spelling out "I Love You" densely printed in blue within a rectangle centered on a silver gray background. The poster is folded once vertically and three times horizontally for mailing with "Lucas Samaras / "Pastels - Plasters - Boxes - Etcetera" / December 5-23 / Preview December 5 . 5-7 p.m. / Green Gallery / 15 West 57th Street - Pl 2-4055 / Tuesday - Saturday . 11-6" printed within one of the panels on the verso. The edges are slightly creased with pinholes to the top corners. There is a crease to the bottom right corner a tiny tear to the top along the fold, and a tiny spot rubbed near the top right. Very good. The Greek born American artist Lucas Samaras debuted his assemblage boxes in this 1961 exhibition.Born in Kastoria, Greece in 1936, the American artist Lucas Samaras met Allan Kaprow and George Segal while studying on a scholarship at Rutgers University. He participated in "Happenings" by Kaprow as well as those created by Claes Oldenburg. His self-investigatory "Auto-Interviews" were text works which he created from his own history and biography. In that same vein, his multi-media collages which he called "Photo-Transformations" were often based on self-portraits. Samaras is also known for his assemblage boxes which were featured in several exhibitions.…

[2] pp.; 14.3 x 22.2 cm (folded) ; 57 x 44.5 cm. (unfolded); black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Folded exhibition announcement poster printed on metalized paper published in conjunction with show held December 5 - 23, [1961]. Fair / Good. Folded in eight as issued, and then folded gently in half again. Significant dinging and creasing of metalized sheet with 3.4 cm. tear to left side edge at centerfold. Overall dust soiling to verso with the most significant soiling to recto and verso of poster when folded.…