Action Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955-60 (Signed by Five Artists)
Published by Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1984
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.Harper's Books, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since May 22, 1997
Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 577.85
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First Edition. Oblong quarto. SIGNED in pencil to the title page by five of the six exhibited artists in the year of publication: Alfred Leslie, Grace Hartigan, Norman Bluhm, Al Held, and Michael Goldberg. A seminalcatalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition curated by Paul Schimmel at the New Port Harbor Museum in Newport Beach (Jun. 28 - Sep. 9, 1984); the exhibition then traveled to five additional museums through 1985. Schimmel here helped to re-contextualize the second generation of Abstract Expressionists; a group previously derided as derivative. Near fine copy in cloth boards, in illustrated jacket with minor creasing at corners, close to near fine.
Seller Inventory # 23196
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Action Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955-60 (Signed by Five Artists)
- Author
- SCHIMMEL, Paul (curator), Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Alfred Leslie, et al.
- Publisher
- Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- dj
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Art
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