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Universe Books, Published 1988. Wraps, 160 pp.; 28 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated with black-and-white and color reproductions of artwork and photographs.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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In Very Good condition. Glossy illustrated covers show light bumping and creasing to edges and corners with mild shelf wear, and light fading to spine. Binding tight; pages clean and unmarked.Exhibition catalog for Unknown Secrets: Art and the Rosenberg Era, the national traveling exhibition of the Rosenberg Era Art Project, with an introduction by Margaret Randall and an essay by curator Nina Felshin. Gathers fifty-seven plates of art alongside essays, memoirs, poems, and plays responding to the trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; artists represented include Picasso, Leger, and Alice Neel, and contributing writers include Arthur Miller, Adrienne Rich, E. L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, and Robert Coover. Edited by Rob A. Okun.Contents: Our Backbone Culture (Margaret Randall); Haunted Memories: The Rosenberg Era Art Project (Rob A. Okun); The United States vs. Rosenbergs and Sobell: A Capsule View (Walter and Miriam Schneir); Unknown Secrets: Art and the Rosenberg Era (Nina Felshin), with 57 plates; The Rosenbergs and Postwar Social Protest Art (Peter Selz); The Crucible and the Execution: A Memoir (Arthur Miller); Not So Happy Days: The Politics and Culture of the 1950s (Paul Von Blum); poems and prose by Adrienne Rich, Allen Ginsberg, E. L. Doctorow, Robert Coover, W. E. B. DuBois, and others; Checklist; Lenders to the Exhibition; Rosenberg Case Bibliography.