Icons and Images of the Sixties

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1971. Cloth, 347 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Boards in excellent condition, clean edges. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear/rubbing to extremities, protected in a mylar book cover. CONTENTS: U.S.A. 1960-1970; Art of assemblage. Joseph Cornell; Nevelson's shadows and reflections; George Segal's earthbound ghosts; Edward Kienholz : the assembler as preacher; Alfonso Ossorio's eccentric congregations; Abstract-expressionist sculpture (Stankiewicz through Sugarman); Larry Rivers, one-eyed face maker; Robert Rauschenberg at the controls; Jasper Johns: and/or; Pop art. Claes Oldenburg's contented objects; Jim Dine; Marisol's law of frontality; Roy Lichtenstein: insight through irony; Andy Warhol's one-dimensional mind; James Rosenquist's angular vista; Tom Wesselmann's nudes; Allan D'Arcangelo: highway to tension; Lettrism. Robert Indiana and his injunctions; Arakawa's unexpected moves; Artificial realism (Pearlstein, Katz, Estes, Morley, Sleigh, Keller); Spatial abstraction: Leon Polk Smith, the pioneer; Illusionism revisited (Albers, Vasarely, Held); Field painting. Barnett Newman's sense of space; The theatrical Morris Louis; Kenneth Noland the beauty of order; Frank Stella, the theologian; Ellsworth Kelly: dialogue between painter and sculptor; Jo Baer; Jules Olitski: atmospheric effects; Larry Poons and his puzzles; The problem of invisibility (Ad Reinhardt, Paul Brach, Agnes Martin); Art and Strategy; 3D structures. David Smith: the painter's sculptor; Tony Smith's spaces, solid and empty; Grosvenor's illusionist sculpture; Ronald Bladen's dramatic expressionism; Liberman's many faces of the cylinder; David von Schlegell's projections in motion; Kenneth Snelson's stress sculptures; The phenomenological approach; An impressionist approach to geometric forms (Morris and Judd); Systems elementary and complex (LeWitt, De Maria, Andre, Vollmer, Robert Mallary); Kinetics (Gabo and Moholy-Nagy, Calder, Rickey, Lye, Takis, Wen Ting Tsai, Bury, Breer, Castro-Cid, Haacke); Light-sculpture : Dan Flavin, Chryssa; Recent developments in Tek Art; Games; Documenta; The Sphinx.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Collectible.