Color illustrated boards, quarto. 287 pages, appendices. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. All books shipped in boxes.

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Title: An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle
Publisher: Pomegranate, Portland, Oregon
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0764965824
ISBN 13: 9780764965821
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Written by Michael Duncan and Christopher Wagstaff, with additional essays by William Breazeale and James Maynard.

288 pages
Size: 8� x 10 in.

Over 200 full-color reproductions with over 60 color and black-and-white photographs. The book is smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket. Includes Exhibition Checklist, Index, and Appendixes.

The book includes essays on the artists and poets in Jess and Duncan's circle: Helen Adam, Virginia Admiral, Paul Alexander, Wallace Berman, Ronald Bladen, Jack Boyce, Lyn Brown Brockway, James Broughton, Edward Corbett, Ernesto Edwards, Norris Embry, Lilly Fenichel, Tom Field, Llyn Foulkes, Nemi Frost, Madeline Gleason, George Herms, Fran Herndon, Miriam Hoffman, Harry Jacobus, Lawrence Jordan, Patricia Jordan, Pauline Kael, R. B. Kitaj, William McNeill, Eloise Turner Mixon, Philip Roeber, and Robert Dean Stockwell.

About the Author

Michael Duncan, an independent curator and corresponding editor for Art in America, also edited Jess: O! Tricky Cad and Other Jessoterica (Los Angeles: Siglio Press, 2012), a survey of Jess's collages, poems, and other works.

Christopher Wagstaff has curated several exhibitions featuring the work of Robert Duncan. As a long-time friend of Jess and Robert Duncan, he offers a unique, intimate perspective on the artists' work and lives.

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