Description
Auster, Pezman and Farrand, Published 1980. Paperback, 90 pp.; 23 x 31 cm, oblong; illustrated throughout with color and black-and-white reproductions.
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Condition & notes
In good condition. Glossy pictorial covers show mild shelf wear with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners. A nick and some chipping to the thin glossy coating along the top edge of the front cover near the spine. Scattered light spotting and soiling to both covers, with mild toning to the rear panel. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. An annual record of the Laguna Beach Festival's exhibitors. The Festival began in 1932, when Laguna's painters roped off a stretch of El Paseo Street and hung their work from the limbs of the eucalyptus trees; Sally Reeve's essay traces that history through to the Pageant of the Masters. The bulk of the book is the exhibitor gallery: color plates of work in every Festival medium, oils and watercolors through ceramics, hand-blown glass, jewelry, weaving and model ships, followed by an index of roughly 150 exhibitors by medium, each with street address and gallery affiliation. Published by three Laguna Beach men: Ken Auster (1949-2016), then a silkscreen printer and listed in the index alongside Jim Warren, later a leading California plein air painter; Steve Pezman, publisher of Surfer magazine from 1969 to 1991; and Howard Farrand. Contents: Festival Origins by Sally Reeve; Festival '80 Gallery; New Exhibitors; Index of Exhibitors; Appendix: South Coast Galleries and Fine Art Services.