Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
by William C. Seitz ; Marla Price
ISBN: 0874748682
ISBN-13: 9780874748680
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 1992
Size: 9.25 x 11.5 inches
Weight: 3.35 pounds
Pages: 250
Publisher's Notes
"A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric", stated artist Robert Rauschenberg at the beginning of the 1960s. A decade marked by extraordinary upheaval, the 1960s spurred an artistic climate at once ebullient, fragmented, and fascinating. Written by a leading art world figure who was instrumental in introducing the artists of this era to the public, Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970, both reexamines and pins down the many movements of the modern art explosion of the time: color field painting, assemblages, happenings, op and pop art, minimal art, big sculpture, earthworks, the disembodied idea, art as adversary politics, and photorealism. In a lively, thoroughly accessible style, critic William C. Seitz, in the last work begun before his death in 1974, traces the antecedents of sixties innovations and locates the chronological and theoretical turning point away from abstract expressionism and action painting that occurred in the mid-1950s. He then chronicles the rise of each new artistic innovation, clearly delineating the leading figures and placing their work in the context of the New York and international art scenes. Seitz profiles a number of the principal artists in the decade (among them Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Wayne Thiebaud, Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, Roy Lichtenstein, and Frank Stella) and represents these and more than two dozen others through their artworks. A timeline of the era reveals the whirlwind of forces - political, popular, and random - that affected the creation of sixties art. Capturing contradictory ideas, attitudes, and events of the "Now" decade, Seitz stresses that one of its fewconstants was change. Beautifully illustrated, Art in the Age of Aquarius presents a master's assessment of a decade still reverberating into the present.
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ART IN AGE OF AQUARIUS
SEITZ WILLIAM C
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ART IN AGE OF AQUARIUS
SEITZ WILLIAM C
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ART IN AGE OF AQUARIUS
C, SEITZ WILLIAM
Washington D. C.: Smithsonian. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. Clean and tight ex lib hard cover and DUSTJACKET with the usual library indications. ; Ex-Library; 0.98 x 11.33 x 9.05 Inches; 250 pages . ( more information)
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Art in the age of Aquarius 1955-1970
Seitz, William C
Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992 250 pp. with b/w and color plates throughout. Book is lightly sunned and worn at edges. DJ is edge worn with some tearing at lower rear fore corner. Internally very clean and tight.. Cloth. Very Good-/Very Good-. 4to. ( more information)
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Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
Seitz, William C.; Price, Marla
Washington & London: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1992. DW has a patch of scratching to front panel which has imprinted onto boards, lower corners bumped, internally fine.. Hardcover with dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. ( more information)
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS. 1992. HARDCOVER W/JACKET. GOOD CONDITION. Dj shows light wear with a few small tears, text clean & tight, 250pp. . ( more information)
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Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
Seitz, William C.; Price, Marla (editor)
Washington, DC, U.S.A.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992 250pp. Illustrated. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ( more information)
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ART IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS: 1955-1970
SEITZ, William
Washington: Smithsonian, 1992. 250 pages. 1st printing. Oversize Hardcover. Illustrated with many color or black & white photographs. Fine- in Near fine dustjacket. In protective glassine. ISBN: 0874748682 ( more information)
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ART IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS
Seitz, William
Washington: Smithsonian Institute, 1992 250pp -- surveys the art of the 'wonder years' of 1955-1970, before the world went glitchy again. Seitz covers the serious (color field painting) and the absurd (happenings), reactions (pop art, minimalism), and action (big sculptures, earthworks), and closes with glimpses of what comes next: adversarial art, confrontation politics, post-pop and photo-realism. Very well illustrated.. First Edition. CLOTH. Fine/Fine. ( more information)
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Seitz, William C
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, 1992 250 pp., 188 illus. 36 in color. Very small amount of dirt to the white dustjacket, otherwise fine. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine Condition/Fine Condition. ( more information)
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Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
Seitz, William C.; Price, Marla (Edited by)
Washington D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992 Cloth, xviii, 250 pp., illus. (some col.), bib. notes, index; 29 cm. Tight, clean copy. No DJ. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/No DJ. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ( more information)
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Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
Seitz, William C.; Price, Marla (Edited by)
Washington D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992 Cloth, xviii, 250 pp., illus. (some col.), bib. notes, index; 29 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectible. ( more information)
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Art in the age of Aquarius, 1955-1970 / William C. Seitz ; compiled and edited by Marla Price
Seitz, William Chapin
Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. 1st Edition. Description: xviii, 250 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Subjects: Art, American --20th century. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --United States --History --20th century. Art, Modern --20th century. Fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked (to lower spine end only) dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ( more information)
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