Making It New: Essays, Interviews, and Talks

New York: Turtle Point Press, 1994. 368 pages, facsimile; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. Essays written over a period of thirty years. "For the past 35 years, Henry Geldzahler, controversial first curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Twentieth Century Art, has been at the center of America's lively and vital art scene. Making It New is the first collection of his essays, interviews and talks, and includes work that has never been published. His style is disarmingly intimate, insightful and amusing. In this generous selection of writings Henry Geldzahler is always an enchanting guide to a world of innovative artistic activity. He is master of a particularly informal interview style which allows artists as diverse as Frank Stella, Alice Neel and Louise Bourgeois to reveal fresh insights to their methods and intentions. His essays on photography, on 'The Sixties' and his commencement address remind us of Calvin Tompkins' comment in 'The Scene' that Henry Geldzahler's effect (as teacher) was phenomenal." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Foreword, by David Hockney; An interview with Henry Geldzahler, by Ingrid Sischy; 1960s. The art audience and the critic; Happenings: theater by painters; Some notes on Sleep; Twelve stories for John Cage; Andy Warhol; Andy Warhol: a memoir; Robert Rauschenberg; An interview with Frank Stella; George Segal; An interview with Larry Poons; An interview with Ellsworth Kelly; Suite of twenty-seven color lithographs, 1964-1965; 1970s. Creating a new department; New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970; David Hockney; A commencement address; 1980s. Approaching Clemente; Sandro Chia; An interview with Georg Baselitz; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Good-bye, Dali´; Isamu Noguchi: what is sculpture?; Willem de Kooning: abstract landscapes, 1955-1963; Alice Neel; Lichtenstein's Picassos: 1962-1964; Andy Warhol prints: catalogue raisonne´; Hockney: young and older; Pop art 1955-1970; 1990s. Louise Bourgeois; Myron Stout: pathways and epiphanies; An interview with John Chamberlain; Keith Haring; Dale Chihuly as of 1993; What I know about photography; The sixties: as they were; Andy Warhol: virginal voyeur. art audience and the critic; Happenings: theater by painters; Some notes on Sleep; Twelve stories for John Cage; Andy Warhol; Andy Warhol: a memoir; Robert Rauschenberg; An interview with Frank Stella; George Segal; An interview with Larry Poons; An interview with Ellsworth Kelly; Suite of twenty-seven color lithographs, 1964-1965; Creating a new department; New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970; David Hockney; A commencement address; Approaching Clemente; Sandro Chia; An interview with Georg Baselitz; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Good-bye, Dali´; Isamu Noguchi: what is sculpture?; Willem de Kooning: abstract landscapes; Alice Neel; Lichtenstein's Picassos: 1962-1964; Andy Warhol prints: catalogue raisonne´; Hockney: young and older; Pop art 1955-1970; Louise Bourgeois; Myron Stout: pathways and epiphanies; An interview with John Chamberlain; Keith Haring; Dale Chihuly as of 1993; What I know about photography; The sixties: as they were; Andy Warhol: virginal voyeur.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.