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  • Seller image for Art in America May 1981 for sale by Argyl Houser, Bookseller

    Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Good-Very Good. No clipped or missing pages. All pages clean. Most pages undamaged (a few have a little wear along the lower edge). A little foxing to outer page edges. Light soiling to front cover. A 1" tear from the bottom edge along the seam between front cover and spine. Very little wear otherwise. The magazine will be backed with cardboard and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Art Attack!" by Carrie Rickey; "Moving Downtown: LA's Museum of Contemporary Art: An Update" Sarah McFadden; "The Writing on the Wall" by Carrie Rickey; "Bricks, Brushes and Barbells" by Peter Clothier; "Pasadena Pluralism: The Painting '70s" by Walter Gabrielson; "James Turrell: The Art of Deception: The sensuous appeal of Turrell's 'perceptual environments' is counterpoised by their distinctly ironic stance" by Nancy Marmer; "Of Earthly Objects and Stellar Sights: Vija Celmins: From her early disaster series to her recent panoramic views of nature, Celmins has pursued a resonant balance of image and technique" by Richard Armstrong; "The Real Thing: Wherein the author, upon viewing a collection of Impressionist pictures, ruminates on the topic of authenticity in both art and experience" by David Antin; "Turner: The Chastened Sublime: A recent exhibition of watercolors mounted at Yale presented the artist in a distinctly 18th-century light" by Brooks Adam; "Flicks and Tapes: Although the selection was decidedly conservative, this year's Whitney Biennial devoted an unprecedented amount of space to film and video" by Ann-Sargent Wooster; "Telling Stories: John Baldessari's genuinely funny art is rooted in a certain kind of calculated duplicity" by Craig Owens; "Review of Books"; "Photography: Daguerre's Progeny" by Pepe Karmel; "Artworld"; "The Pasadena Case" by Hunter Drobojowska and "Review of Exhibitions: New York".