It Is : A Magazine for Abstract Art
  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 27 x 23 cm.
  • 80 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

It Is : A Magazine for Abstract Art

No. 4 (Autumn 1959)

P.G. Pavia, Peter Agostini, Mary Bonnell, Peter Busa, Emil Hess, Alfred Jensen, Elaine de Kooning, Albert Kotin, John Little, Adja Yunkers, William Baziotes, Robert Goldwater, Jack Tworkov, Andre Breton, John Cage, Sari Dienes, Thomas B. Hess, Hans Hofmann, Harry Holtzman, Allan Kaprow, Frederick J. Kiesler, Kermit Lansner, Nicholas Marsicano, Ad Reinhardt, Jeanne Reynal, John Stephan, James J. Sweeney, Mary Abbott, Peter Agostini, Williams Baziotes, Janice Biala, Mary Bonnell, Peter Busa, Nicholas Carone, Francesco di Cocco, Edward Corbett, Sari Dienes, Enrico Donati, John Ferren, Sam Francis, Ilse Getz, Sidney Gordon, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Emil Hess, Hans Hofmann, Harry Holtzman, Alfred Jensen, Aristodimos Kaldis, Allan Kaprow, Frederick J. Kiesler, Franz Kline, Elaine de Kooning, Albert Kotkin, Nicholas Krushnick, Ibram Lassaw, John Little, Carrado Marca-Relli, Nicholas Mariscano, Knox Martin, Alice Mason, Constantino Nivola, Stephen Pace, Raymond Parker, Domenico Paulon, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Richenburg, Jeanne Reynal, Mark Rothko, John Saccaro, Thomas Sills, John Stephan, Sal Sirugo, Jack Tworkov, Adja Yunkers, Wilfrid Zogbaum

It Is : A Magazine for Abstract Art

description

Issue number four out of six issues, published from 1958 - 1965. Edited by P.G. Pavia. Artists statements by Peter Agostini, Mary Bonnell, Peter Busa, Emil Hess, Alfred Jensen, Elaine de Kooning, Albert Kotin, John Little, and Adja Yunkers. Cahier's by William Baziotes, Robert Goldwater, and Jack Tworkov. Essays "A Catalogue Foreword," by Andre Breton; "A Lecture on Something," by John Cage; "Notes on Japan," by Sari Dienes; "Notes on a Sky," by Thomas B. Hess; "Space and Pictorial Life," by Hans Hofmann; "The Sickness... the Hero," by Harry Holtzman; "A Chapter Excerpt," by Allan Kaprow; "Frank Lloyd Wright," by Frederick J. Kiesler; "Book Review," by Kermit Lansner; "The Non-Human Figure," by Nicholas Marsicano; "Manifesto IV," by P.G. Pavia; "Seven Quotes," by Ad Reinhardt; "Mosaic is Light," by Jeanne Reynal; "Concerning...Ghosts," by John Stephan; "A Catalogue Preface," by James J. Sweeney. Artists reproductions by Mary Abbott, Peter Agostini, Williams Baziotes, Janice Biala, Mary Bonnell, Peter Busa, Nicholas Carone, Francesco di Cocco, Edward Corbett, Sari Dienes, Enrico Donati, John Ferren, Sam Francis, Ilse Getz, Sidney Gordon, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Emil Hess, Hans Hofmann, Harry Holtzman, Alfred Jensen, Aristodimos Kaldis, Allan Kaprow, Frederick J. Kiesler, Franz Kline, Elaine de Kooning, Albert Kotkin, Nicholas Krushnick, Ibram Lassaw, John Little, Carrado Marca-Relli, Nicholas Mariscano, Knox Martin, Alice Mason, Constantino Nivola, Stephen Pace, Raymond Parker, Domenico Paulon, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Richenburg, Jeanne Reynal, Mark Rothko, John Saccaro, Thomas Sills, John Stephan, Sal Sirugo, Jack Tworkov, Adja Yunkers, and Wilfrid Zogbaum. Cover: William Baziotes.

references

"Artists' Magazines : An Alternative Space for Art" by Gwen Allen. Cambridge / London, MA / United Kingdom : The MIT Press, 2011, pp. 269.

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