Red Grooms and Ruckus Manhattan

Judd Tully

ISBN 10: 0807608483 / ISBN 13: 9780807608487

Published by George Braziller, 1977

About this Item

George Braziller, Published 1977. Hardcover, 31 pp. plus 30 leaves of plates; 29 cm; First Edition; illustrated with 44 color plates and 40 black-and-white reproductions. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Cream linen cloth boards, black lettering on spine, mild shelf wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket (priced $17.50, not clipped) has several notches and short tears of 1/2 inch or less with creasing along edges, mild to moderate shelf wear, color loss along edges and spine, and mild staining to verso. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.Documents Red Grooms's "Ruckus Manhattan," the room-sized, walk-in sculptural reconstruction of New York City built in a thirteen-month collaboration by Grooms and his "Ruckus Construction Co." crew of painters, sculptors, engineers, carpenters, and welders. Judd Tully's introduction traces Grooms's path from the Happenings of the late 1950s through the accidental genesis and feverish making of the work. The plates reproduce the installation, the World Trade Center, Woolworth Building, Rockefeller Plaza, and the walk-in graffiti subway car, in 44 color and 40 black-and-white photographs, most made expressly for this book, with comparative views of the real-life subjects, portraits of Grooms and his crew, preparatory sketches, and earlier related works.Contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Ruckus Construction Co.; Red Grooms; Selected Bibliography; List of Plates; Plates.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Grooms and Ruckus Manhattan
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807608483
• ISBN 13: 9780807608487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Weight: 26 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art & Architecture

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Synopsis

[publisher: George Braziller, New York, NY] First Edition A fabulous, "larger-than-life sculptural reconstruction of New York City "by the artist and his team of painters, sculptors, engineers, carpenters and welders; an informative essay on its genesis, 84 illustrations, 44 in color, bibliography included; a portent of greater things to come from Red Grooms; the exhibit, itself, was a joy to behold;