“The major monograph, a comprehensive reconsideration of the brief life and career of Ana Mendieta (1948-85), contextualizes the artist’s work within its time and acknowledges her legacy on subsequent generations of artists. The Cuban-born American sculptor is celebrated for her earth-body works of the 1970s, sculptural interventions in the landscape that placed her body – or its haunting silhouette – in symbiotic relationship with nature. Showing extracts from her films, original slide documentation, photography, and other archival material, the catalog illustrates early performances from Mendieta’s student days, as well as her more well-known Silueta Series made in Iowa and Mexico from 1973 to 1980. Earth-body works excecuted in Canada, Cuba, and the United States in the early 1980s and select sculptures, drawings, and installations dating to the mid-eighties. Organized by Olga M. Viso, – The definitive study of the artist’s work”
Edited by Olga M. Viso et al. “Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance, 1972-1985”. Hatje Cantz for Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institutio, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, 2004. Very heavy hardcover with fine protected jacket. 288 pages, with text(s) by Olga M. Viso, Guy Brett, Julia P. Herzberg, Chrissie Iles, Laura Roulet in English. 334 illustrations. Fine clean attractive copy
First edition
Wesleyan University Press,1983 (1973). Squarish softcover. (12), 217 pages. Fine clean and attractive copy Includes the texts “Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)”, and “Mushroom Book”. These early printings are much better than the more recent new
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Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933 – 1957, on Anni & Josef Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, R. Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson a.m.o. Spector Books, 2019. 464 pages, with black-and-white reproductions throughout. New copy.
The piece 4’33” premiered on August 29, 1952; four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like? Cage’s questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume-the most comprehensive on the piece to date-brings together…
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Donald Judd monograph exhibition catalogue for Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988. This copy is SIGNED BY THE ARTIST / INSCRIBED in hand to free front endpaper BY DONALD JUDD to Danish architect Henning Larsen, dated 1992. “Für Henning Larsen / 13.1. 92 / Köln / Don Judd”.
