Rare Sealed Hardcover JESS A GRAND COLLAGE 1993 Michael Auping Robert J Bertholf

Description: Offered here is the exhibition catalog that accompanied the 1993-1994 retrospective exhibition of the drawings and collages of Jess. Hardcover w/dj, 1 st edition. Only 600 clothbound hard cover copies were printed. It was compiled by Michael Auping and published by the Albright Knox Art Gallery. This is an unopened copy, wrapped in its original clear cellophane. The catalog is hard covered with dust jacket. 245 pages of extensive illustrations and reviews. The original cellophane wrap does show age related wear including scuffs and a few rips. Rare collectible book. With only 600 printed, sealed copies just dont show up. The only sealed sale I could find was a softcover (4500 copies printed) in 2014. Reclusive, visionary California artist Jess (who dropped his surname, Collins, in the 1950s) ransacks images from myth, folklore, the occult, children's books, Art Nouveau and Victorian engravings to create dreamy allegories and romantic landscapes. His collages, which owe a debt to Max Ernst's hallucinatory pastiches, create ironic, paradoxical alternate universes, often involving thousands of pasted-on images. Thickly impastoed, relief-like oils transform found images into fantastical mindscapes. Other pictures expand upon the symbolism of Tarot cards, Sufi and gnostic texts or the verse of Jess's longtime companion, poet Robert Duncan (who died in 1988). This catalogue of a touring exhibit that opened at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y., where Auping is chief curator, limns an individualist who, during the 1940s, worked as an engineer on the Manhattan Project making plutonium, only to later renounce physics for metaphysics. I ship once a week. CA residents must pay 8.25% sales tax I will ship using either USPS, FedEx or UPS. Most of the items we sell are sold "AS IS", unless it's marked as new.We sell a wide variety of used items. We try to describe them as best we can but we are not professionals, nor are we experts on any type of items we sell. When we sell a used item normal wear, scratches, & signs of use should be expected. Most items will need a quick cleaning. We do not offer warranties or refunds. Should a refund be granted for any reason it will be less all the shipping fees. All sales final. No returns. International bidders...items will be shipped to eBay's US hub to be shipped to you by their Global Shipping Program. Wait for invoice from ebay. INVENTORY-730A

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