May Stevens: Rosa / Alice, Ordinary Extraordinary. February 10 - March 18, 1988. Olin Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH. [Exhibition catalogue]. [Includes handwritten letter from May Stevens to Peter Selz].

Stevens, May (artist.); Dabakis, Melissa (text.); Bell, Janis (artist.); Olin Gallery at Kenyon College (Gambier).

ISBN 10: 0876637500 / ISBN 13: 9780876637500

Published by New York, NY: Universe Books., 1988

About this Item

[Exhibition catalogue]. 8vo. Oblong. 63 pp. Soft black and white wraps with white and green lettering. As new. Color plates, including frontis. Decorative black and white endpapers. Includes texts by Melissa Dabakis, Janis Bell and Reese Williams. Includes exhibition checklist, artist biography and selected bibliography as well as a list of exhibition vendors. Catalogue created to accompany the exhibition "May Stevens: Rosa / Alice, Ordinary Extraordinary", held from February 10 through March 18, 1988 at the Olin Gallery at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Also includes, laid-in as insert, a single page handwritten from the artist May Stevens to Peter Selz, dated May 8, 1990. First edition. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz.

Seller Inventory # 18-8649

Bibliographic Details

• Title: May Stevens: Rosa / Alice, Ordinary Extraordinary. February 10 - March 18, 1988. Olin Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH. [Exhibition catalogue]. [Includes handwritten letter from May Stevens to Peter Selz].
• Publisher: New York, NY: Universe Books.
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876637500
• ISBN 13: 9780876637500
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Shows and discusses paintings by May Stevens, describes her use of Rosa Luxemburg as a subject, and shares Stevens' thoughts on art

Reviews

By parts exhibition catalogue, biography and feminist treatise, this unusual monograph explores the innovative paintings of contemporary American artist May Stevens, portraying the socialist Rosa Luxemburg as a symbol and martyr of struggles against oppression. With her images, Stevens draws comparisons between Luxemburg's remarkable life and her own mother Alice Stevens's mundane existence. Dubakis, codirector with Bell of the companion exhibit at Kenyon College, Ohio, sheds light on Stevens's aims and accomplishments in her dark, enigmatic paintings, which, even in their reproductions here, possess powerful impact. Bell's in-depth interview with the artist and poet Reese Williams's "meditation" on his friend Stevens's oeuvre are enjoyable and also further the investigation the book makes into women's place in today's art world. One feels no more thorough or exciting analysis of May Stevens could be achieved than this astute synthesis of criticism and appreciation. Within its weave of literate text and illustrations, life and history, artistic craft and vision, the study successfully asserts the feminist credo that the personal is political.
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