Description

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, N.C. [Published date: 1996]. Softcover, xiv, 115 pp; illustrated throughout with color and black-and-white reproductions of artwork, photographs, and portraits; 26 cm. In good+ condition. Cream and blue illustrated paper covers have bumping and creasing to the bottom corner of covers and the text block as well. Light overall scuffing to covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition "Figure, Form, Formula: The Art of Pinchas Cohen Gan," held at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery. Curated by Ruth K. Beesch and Kristine Stiles, with contributions by Peter Selz and the artist. Offers a comprehensive survey of Cohen Gan's work from 1968-1996, reflecting his use of linguistic theory, mathematical formulas, cybernetic systems, and information theory as tools for integrating art, science, and humanity. Contents include: Lenders to the Exhibition; Donors; Preface and Acknowledgments by Ruth K. Beesch; Foreword by Kristine Stiles; Biography, Nature, Mystery by Ruth K. Beesch; Orphan's Kaddish by Pinchas Cohen Gan; Rampman against a Portable Field by Kristine Stiles; Confessions by Pinchas Cohen Gan; Influences on the Art of Pinchas Cohen Gan by Peter Selz; Works 1968-1996: Jerusalem; London; Activities; Language of Art; Visual Mathematics; Language Trees; Non-Euclidean; Figure, Form, Formula; Atomic Art; Normal Art; Wars; Logic Furniture; The Remaking of History; Checklist; Artist's Biography; Biography of Creation by Pinchas Cohen Gan.