Barry Le Va: Fictional Excerpts, Notes, Interviews, Scrapbooks

Edited by Christophe Cherix; Saul Ostrow and Willoughby Sharp

ISBN 10: 2940271542 / ISBN 13: 9782940271542

Published by JRP Ringier Kunstverlag AG, 2003

About this Item

140 pp., 80 tritone illustrations, 11 tipped-in plates. Text is in French and English. Extremely minor stain to cover, but otherwise the paper covered hardcover boards are in sharp and tight condition, with a clean interior, free of markings. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Cabinet des estampes du Musée d'art et d'histoire 9 October-14 December 2003.

Seller Inventory # 006326

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Barry Le Va: Fictional Excerpts, Notes, Interviews, Scrapbooks
• Publisher: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag AG
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2940271542
• ISBN 13: 9782940271542
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art: Drawings, Works on Paper
  • Art: Sculpture
  • Art: Monographs

About this title

Synopsis

Barry Le Va is back. After more than ten years without a major exhibition in the United States, a mini-blockbuster of a retrospective at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Contemporary Art in early 2005 rescattered Le Va's felt, reimbedded his cleavers in a wall and rebroke his sheets of plate glass--to extraordinary critical acclaim. Now, to complement that exhibition and for insight into a mind that has remained consistently true to a renegade vision for some 35 years, we have a collection of writings, studies, notes, drawings, sketches and more, from a cult artist who has influenced a younger generation that includes Jason Rhoades, Cady Noland, Karen Kilimnik and Rirkrit Tiravanija. The book brings together for the first time in one place three major early interviews, and adds a new one with Christophe Cherix.

About the Author

Barry La Va was born in Long Beach, California, in 1941 and studied mathematics and architecture at California State University and art at Otis Art Institute, from which he graduated in 1967. Known primarily for his iscatteri pieces, which he called idistributions,i from the 60s and 70s, he became one of the most important artists to emerge during that time. Le Va has worked and lived in New York City for more than two decades.