The New Avant-Garde. Issues for the Art of the Seventies
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972. 1st Edition. Quarto, publisher's black cloth, spine stamped in white, original photo-illustrated dust jacket.
First edition of Swiss painter and writer Grégoire Müller’s critical survey of the 1970s art scene. Müller worked as an assistant to Richard Serra and later editor of Artsmagazine. This landmark guide explores his "art-in-the-real" concept while tracing major shifts in the art world in the late 60s and early 70s, with profiles on Serra, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Robert Smithson, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Beuys, and others. Illustrated with black-and-white photos by Italian photographer Gianfranco Gorgoni; with an index. Light foxing to endpapers; unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear and approximately one-inch closed tear to bottom edge of upper panel. Very good. Item #12564
$65.00