Description
Caskey-Lees/Sha-Dor, 1996. Paperback, 37 pp. and 75 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated in color and black-and-white. Two show catalogues bound together tete-beche, each reading from its own front cover, for shows held at the Armory at Gramercy Park, New York: The New York Tribal Antiques Show (American Indian, African, Oceanic, Art of the Americas and American Folk Art), October 18-20, 1996, and the New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show, October 11-14, 1996. Catalogue design by Marcia Loeb Graphic Design. With a HALI magazine subscription folder and its order card laid in.
Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Pictorial wraps, teal and wood-grain on the Tribal cover, purple and green on the Pacific Asia cover; light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, light scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Catalogues for two fairs run in October 1996 by Caskey-Lees, the Topanga, California, promoters of tribal and Asian art fairs, with lecture programs, exhibitor lists, floor plans of the Armory, and dealer advertisements illustrating the material on offer. The Tribal Antiques Show catalogue describes the opening gala, held to establish the Lloyd Kiva New Scholarship Fund for Native American students in museum studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, with a profile of New, the Cherokee designer and co-founder of the Institute of American Indian Arts; the two-day symposium "Caring for American Indian Cultural Materials: Policies and Practices," presented with the National Museum of the American Indian; lectures on Native American basketry, Zaire Basin masks and Mexican silver; and a private exhibition of the Taxco silver and paintings of Hubert Harmon. The Arts of Pacific Asia Show catalogue, from the fair's second year, includes "Exploring the Magic Mountain," an interview by Valerie C. Doran with sculptor Richard Rosenblum on his collection of Chinese scholar's rocks (reprinted from Orientations, March 1996), illustrated with four rocks from his collection; Beverley Jackson's "Chinese Footbinding"; and John E. Vollmer's "Clothed to Rule the Universe: Qing Dynasty Costume." Contents (Tribal Antiques Show): Lecture Series and Special Events; Symposium; Lloyd Kiva New Scholarship Fund; Gramercy Park Armory Floor Plan; Exhibitor's List; Exhibitor's Advertisements. Contents (Arts of Pacific Asia Show): Lecture Series; Exhibitor's List; Gramercy Park Armory Floor Plan; Exploring the Magic Mountain: An Interview with Richard Rosenblum; Chinese Footbinding by Beverley Jackson; Qing Dynasty Costume by John E. Vollmer; Exhibitor's Advertisements
