Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Painterly Edge: A Conversation with Ralph Humphrey," by Amy Baker; "Patience, Observation, and Investigation: Learning from Audubon," by Mike Glier; "Abstract Beauty - Friend or Enemy?" by Wu Guan-zhong; "Marks: Cy Twomby," by John Bernard Myers; "Komar and Melamid from Behind the Ironical Curtain," by Jamey Gambrell; "Presenting the Unpresentable: The Sublime," by Jean-François Lyotard; "Fear of Clay," by John Perreault; "Books: Sarah Charlesworth on 'Camerca Lucida,'" by Sarah Charlesworth. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Robert Doisneau's 'Oblique Regard,'" by Max Kozloff; "A Project by Giuseppe Penone"; "'The Other,'" by John Bernard Myers; "'Jiri Georg Dokoupil: The Imprisoned Brain," by Rainer Crone; "A Project by Robert Graham"; "Diogenes of Sinope (ca. ... [details]
Issue edited by Ingrid Sischy. Essays "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: 'Primitivism' in 20th Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984," by Thomas McEvilley; "Sign on a Truck," by Jenny Holzer; "Campaign 1984," by Alison Gardner Pratt; "Terry Winters' Earthly Anecdotes," by Prudence Carlson; "Naming Pictures: Conversations between Lee Krasner and John Bernard Myers," by John Bernard Myers; "In the American Grain: Robert Helm," by James Ivory; "Tracking Some Angles: A Talk with Alain Resnais," by Frederic Tuten; "Poets and Art: John Ashbery, Tony Towle, Ann Lauterbach, and Barry Schwabsky interviewed by John Yau; with poems by Michael Brownstein, Ashbery, Towle, Lauterbach, Schwabsky, and Rene Ricard"; "Hilton Kramer: An Appreciation," by Thomas Lawson; "Books: Lionel Lambourne on 'The Collected Letters of William Morris,'" by Lionel Lambourne; "Forum: Philosophy and Art: Elective Affinities in and Arranged Marriage," by Donald Kuspit; "Bruce Springsteen: In Your Heart You Know He's Right," by Greil Marcus. ... [details]
Issue 10/11 of the quarterly arts and culture journal Nomad / New York. Includes contributions by John Ashbery, Michael Benedikt, Carol Bergé, Bill Berkson, Paul Blackburn, Gregory Corso, Diane Di Prima, George Economou, Kenward Elmslie, Seymour Faust, Allen Ginsberg, Barbara Guest, LeRoi Jones, Robert Kelly, Kenneth Koch, Denise Levertov, Jackson Mac Low, Barbara Moraff, John Bernard Myers, Robert Nichols, Frank O'Hara, Joel Oppenheimer, Rochelle Owens, John Perreault, Jerome Rothenberg, James Scuyler, Armand Schwerner, Gilbert Sorrentino, Diane Wakoski, James Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg. ... [details]
First edition reference text by John Bernard Myers discussing his forty years as a New York gallery owner. He introduced many now-famous artists to the art world, including Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Red Grooms, Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie, Robert Goodnough, Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter, and Kenneth Noland. ... [details]