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This is the first monograph on Chicago-based Hairy Who artist Suellen Rocca (born 1943), presenting her paintings, drawings and prints from the 1960s. Among her contemporaries, Rocca’s work is notable for its vocabulary of pictographic imagery inspired by consumer catalogues, magazine advertisements and children’s activity books.
Featuring full-color plates of more than 50 artworks, virtually all of which are reproduced here for the first time, this volume presents a thorough overview of the artist’s work from 1964 to 1969. An essay by Dan Nadel traces Rocca’s artistic development, situating her within art history. Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer’s essay employs verse and prose to explore the thematic undercurrents of Rocca’s work. Completing the book are a bibliography and a narrative chronology of the artist’s life, illustrated with historical photographs and ephemera from her archive.
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A lesser-known member of a lesser-known art movement - the bumptiously surrealistic Chicago Hairy Who of the nineteen sixties, Rocca is a find. (The Newyorker)
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Seller: Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Suellen Rocca, the artist s first monograph, presents her paintings, drawings, and prints from the 1960s. During this period Rocca was a member of the Hairy Who, a group of six Chicago artists whose energetic work has provoked generations of artists in Chicago and beyond. Rocca s work is notable for its unique visual language a vocabulary of pictographic imagery inspired by consumer catalogues, magazine advertisements, and children s activity books. In her 1965 painting Bare Shouldered Beauty and the Pink Creature, for example, feminine silhouettes share the canvas with an array of engagement rings, ice cream cones, television sets, and dresses. Rocca strived to capture what she calls the cultural icons of beauty and romance expressed by the media that promised happiness to young women of that generation. This was the culture that surrounded me. Featuring full-color plates of over fifty artworks, virtually all of which are reproduced here for the first time, Suellen Rocca presents a thorough overview of the artist s work from 1964 to 1969. An essay by Dan Nadel traces Rocca s artistic development from her childhood as an art prodigy on Chicago s north side to her years with the Hairy Who while situating her in the wider context of art history. Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer s essay employs verse and prose to explore the thematic undercurrents of Rocca s work. Completing the book are a bibliography and a narrative chronology of the artist s life, illustrated with historical photographs and ephemera from her personal archive. Clothbound, 104 pages, 81 images, 11 1/2 x 9 inche, 29 x 23 cm. New copy in its original shrink wrap. Seller Inventory # ABE-1499270618432
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Hardcover without dustacket as issued, 104 pages; as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # SuRoMa30
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized. Seller Inventory # M1944929010Z3
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Suellen Rocca [Hardcover] Rocca, Suellen; Nadel, Dan and Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah
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Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1944929010
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Hard Cover. Condition: near fine. 30 x 24 cm. 102 pp. Blue cloth with color pictorial paste-on to front cover. A very nice copy. Published to accompany a 2016 Matthew Marks Gallery exhibition. Suellen Rocca passed in March of 2020. Seller Inventory # 81337
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This is the first monograph on Chicago-based Hairy Who artist Suellen Rocca (born 1943), presenting her paintings, drawings and prints from the 1960s. Among her contemporaries, Roccas work is notable for its vocabulary of pictographic imagery inspired by consumer catalogues, magazine advertisements and childrens activity books.Featuring full-color plates of more than 50 artworks, virtually all of which are reproduced here for the first time, this volume presents a thorough overview of the artists work from 1964 to 1969. An essay by Dan Nadel traces Roccas artistic development, situating her within art history. Sarah Lehrer-Graiwers essay employs verse and prose to explore the thematic undercurrents of Roccas work. Completing the book are a bibliography and a narrative chronology of the artists life, illustrated with historical photographs and ephemera from her archive. Erratum: Page 38: The correct date for Bare Shouldered Beauty and the Pink Creature is 1965 (not 1968). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781944929015