Magazine Abstract Art by Pavia Philip Guston Kline Franz (2 results)

64 pp.; 28.8 x 22.9 cm.; glue bound; other special feature[s]; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; First issue of six issues published of "It Is: A Magazine for Abstract Art." Director and collator: Sebastian Gallo. Contents include: "Recent Attacks on Abstract Art," by Hubert Crehan; "The Canvas Plane, or Onwards and Upwards," by Michael Goldberg; "Drawing the Figure," by Nicholas Marsicano; "Ambiance and Abstract Sculpture," by E.A. Navaretta; "44 Titles for Artists Under 45," by Ad Reinhardt; "The Literary Style in Art Writings Today," by Ruthven Todd; "A Manifesto-in-Progress," by P.G. Pavia and "Polemics," by P.G. Pavia. Artists include Landis Lewitin, Michael Lakakis, Reubin Nakian, Philip Guston, William de Kooning, Ad Reinholt, Ernie Briggs, Enrico Donati, John Ferren, Robert Goodnough, Raoul Hague, David Hare, Carl Holty, Angelo Ippolito, Franz Kline, Elaine de Kooning, Al Kotin, Ibram Lassaw, Mercedes Matter, Constantino Nivola, Ray Parker, Milton Resnick, James Rosati, Ludwig Sander, David Slivka, George Spaventa, Estaban Vincente, Alfred Duhrssen, Ray Parker, Jack Tworkov and Wilfred Zogbaum. Includes a statement and cahier section from various artists. Front cover: Landis Lewitin. Back cover: Michael Lekakis and Reuben Nakian. Reference : "Artists' Magazines : An Alternative Space for Art" by Gwen Allen. Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom : The MIT Press, 2011, pp. 269. Fair / Good. Repaired and moisture damaged copy. 12.2 cm. area of yellow soiling to top edge and right side edge of recto. Removed cloth binding tape along spine edge and recto and verso at spine. Two 2 cm. tears to top edge of spine. Intact cloth binding tape to interior along inside front cover and title page and last page and inside back cover. 6 cm. of water staining to top corner of pages. 9 cm. business card from previous owners adhered to inside of back cover. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Sold "as-is.".

First Edition. Quarto. Six issues (all published) of the influential arts magazine founded by sculptor and polemicist Philip Pavia, committed to "catalyze and catalogue" the development of Abstract Expressionism. With contributionswhether statements, transcripts, or reproductions of worksfrom the likes of Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Pavia, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Larry Rivers, Milton Resnick, Mark Rothko, Salvatore Scarpitta, Walasse Ting, Mark Tobey, Jack Tworkov, and Esteban Vicente. With adjacent contributions from the likes of André Breton, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Allen Ginsberg, Allan Kaprow, and Piet Mondrian. Thoroughly illustrated in black-and-white, with several color plates. Aside from some minor scuffing to illustrated wrappers, and short edge tear to front panel of issue 5, this set in near fine condition; first five issues in illustrated wrappers, with the sixth in plain wrappers and brown card jacket, printed in black and copper ink. Full sets uncommon, with fewer than a dozen OCLC records located in North America.