Action Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955-60 (Signed)
SCHIMMEL, Paul (curator), Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, et al.
Sold by Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Sold by Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member:
AbeBooks Seller since May 22, 1997
First Edition. Oblong quarto. SIGNED in pencil to the title page by five of the six exhibited artists, in the year of publication: Alfred Leslie, Grace Hartigan, Norman Bluhm, Al Held, and Michael Goldberg. A seminal catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition curated by Paul Schimmel at the New Port Harbor Museum in Newport Beach (Jun. 28 - Sep. 9, 1984); the exhibition then traveled to five additional museums through 1985. Schimmel here helped re-contextualize the second generation of Abstract Expressionists; a group that had previously been derided as derivative. Near fine copy in cloth boards, in illustrated jacket with minor creasing at corners, else also near fine.
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