Description
Skira, Published 2007. Paperback, 103 pp.; 27 cm; First Edition; illustrated with color plates and black-and-white photographs.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Black pictorial paper covers with french flaps, color reproduction of a Pousette-Dart painting to front; light bumping to edges and corners, mild edge and shelf wear. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Exhibition catalogue for the retrospective held at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (February 17 to May 20, 2007) and the Galleria Gottardo, Lugano (October 10 to December 22, 2007), curated by Philip Rylands. Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) was among the youngest of the first-generation Abstract Expressionists and a central figure of the New York School. Essays by Philip Rylands, Kirstin Hübner, and Lowery Stokes Sims trace his early work and its origins and his place within Abstract Expressionism, followed by a catalogue of works, a chronology, and a bibliography. Text in English. Contents: Notes on Richard Pousette-Dart; Richard Pousette-Dart's Early Work and Its Origins; Richard Pousette-Dart and Abstract Expressionism: Critical Perspectives; Catalogue; Appendices; Richard Pousette-Dart: Chronology; Recent Bibliography.