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BRAND NEW IN ORIGINAL WRAPPER.
The most comprehensive monograph dedicated to the seminal artist Paul Thek, this highly sought after, well-researched and impeccably illustrated tome is a rich resource documenting the work of the late American artist, most of whose oeuvre was ephemeral in nature and has been destroyed or lost. Well known for his "technological reliquaries" and other sculptures in wax which were initially inspired by his visit to the catacombs of Palermo in 1963, and documented by his then boyfriend, Peter Hujar, Thek's output spanned disciplines from drawing and painting to installation, or "processions," as he called them. Italy proved to be fertile territory for Thek. He made his first sculptural work in Rome, where he also staged his first solo European exhibition, and would visit Ponza many times throughout his life where he drew and painted the small fishing island and popular Roman escape.

SIGNED BY ED CLARK.
The original "Quiet as It's Kept." A beautifully small, quiet catalogue for a 2002 exhibition curated by David Hammons exploring black abstraction through the paintings of Ed Clark, Denyse Thomasos and Stanley Whitney. Geoffrey Jacques' titular essay is a tremendous resource, questioning reductive visions of what "Black" art can be, touching on Clark's improvisation, Whitney's elaboration of the modernist grid -- which was prefigured by African American quilting traditions -- and Thomasos' gesture, liberating black tropes from a strict narrative approach. Ever prophetic, Hammons' exhibition anticipated the rise of artists such as Julie Mehretu and Mark Bradford whose careers were still young at the time, as well as this year's Whitney Biennial, which shares the same title and includes work by Thomasos. This is a brand new copy of an exceedingly rare catalogue. David Hammons "Quiet as It's Kept: pictoribus atque poetis / quidlibet audendi semper fuit aequa potestas," 2002 Christine… Read More