The Art of the Real: USA 1948-1968
New York and Greenwich: Museum of Modern Art and New York Graphic Society, 1968. Very Good. Item #11552
New York and Greenwich: Museum of Modern Art and New York Graphic Society, 1968. First Edition. Quarto (23x23x0.5cm); 64pp, including bibliography. Full-page images in color and B&W throughout. Original erratum sheet and invitation to the gala Members' Preview laid in.
Schoolbus-yellow coated card covers over sewn gatherings of coated stock; front cover cut-out reveals title. Volume shows virtually no signs of wear apart from two notations in light blue ink, in the bibliography, from the hand of the previous and sole owner, Brenda Richardson, former Chief Curator of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Some very faint textblock yellowing, typical of coated papers of the era.
This is the catalog of the historically important exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art from 3 July to 8 September 1968, and traveling afterward to Paris, Zurich, and London. Artists shown are Carl Andre, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Morris Louis, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Tony Smith, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still, and 14 others.
This show served as a sequel to and renewal of the earlier international MOMA traveling exhibition, "The New American Painting"—the exhibition now notorious for being part of the CIA's purported plan for world cultural domination—which traveled to Basel, Milan, Madrid, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and London in 1958-1959.
Price: $45.00