Wallace Berman. Retrospective
Los Angeles: Fellows of Contemporary Art/Otis Art Institute Gallery, 1978. 1st Edition. Quarto, publisher's stiff illustrated wraps.
Exhibition catalog for a retrospective of experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist Wallace Berman, initially held at the Otis Art Institute Gallery in Los Angeles before moving to The Fort Worth Art Museum, University Art Museum at UC Berkeley, and the Seattle Art Museum. Berman began his career making sculptures from wooden scraps he found in the furniture factory where he worked and went on to become an influential member of the Beat movement. Notably, between 1955 and 1964 he produced a mail art publication, Semina, which paired his collages with poems from the likes of Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jean Cocteau, among others. This volume stands as the first official catalog of Berman’s oeuvre, and gathers a comprehensive selection of major and minor works from his short career. Includes a foreword by exhibition curator Hal Glicksman, essays by poets Robert Duncan and David Meltzer, and an interview with gonzo museum curator Walter Hopps; with a chronology, exhibition checklist, and bibliography. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. Minor edgewear to wraps, else fine. Item #9752
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