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It Is : A Magazine for Abstract Art
  • periodical
  • illustrated wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • other special feature[s]
  • black-and-white & color
  • 28.8 x 22.9 cm.
  • 64 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

It Is : A Magazine for Abstract Art

No. 1 (Spring 1958)

Sabastian Gallo, Landis Lewitin, Michael Lakakis, Reubin Nakian, Philip Guston, William de Kooning, Ad Reinholt, Ernie Briggs, Enrico Donati, John Ferren, Robert Goodnough, Raoul Hague, David Hare, Carl Holty, Angelo Ippolito, Franz Kline, Elaine de Kooning, Al Kotin, Ibram Lassaw, Mercedes Matter, Constantino Nivola, Ray Parker, Milton Resnick, James Rosati, Ludwig Sander, David Slivka, George Spaventa, Estaban Vincente, Alfred Duhrssen, Ray Parker, Jack Tworkov, Wilfred Zogbaum, Hubert Crehan, Michael Goldberg, Nicholas Marsicano, E.A. Navaretta, Ad Reinhardt, Ruthven Todd, P.G. Pavia

First issue of six issues published of "It Is: A Magazine for Abstract Art." Director and collator: Sebastian Gallo. Contents include: "Recent Attacks on Abstract Art," by Hubert Crehan; "The Canvas Plane, or Onwards and Upwards," by Michael Goldberg; "Drawing the Figure," by Nicholas Marsicano; "Ambiance and Abstract Sculpture," by E. ... [details]

$300.00
Condition:  Fair / Good. Repaired and moisture damaged copy. 12.2 cm. area of yellow soiling to top edge and right side edge of recto. Removed cloth binding tape along spine edge and recto and verso at spine. Two 2 cm. tears to top edge of spine. Intact cloth binding tape to interior along inside front cover and title page and last page and inside back cover. 6 cm. of water staining to top corner of pages. 9 cm. business card from previous owners adhered to inside of back cover. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Sold "as-is."
[Object # 39826]
It Is : A Magazine for Abstract Art
  • periodical
  • illustrated wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 29 x 22.9 cm.
  • 80 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

It Is : A Magazine for Abstract Art

No. 2 (Autumn 1958)

Sabastian Gallo, P.G. Pavia, John Asher, Morton Feldman, John Ferren, Aristodimos Kaldis, Piet Mondrian, E.A. Navaretta, Ray Parker, Fairfield Porter, George Cavallon, Franz Kline, Jack Tworkov, Peter Agostini, James Brooks, Norman Bluhm, Peter Busa, Herman Cherry, Edward Dugmore, John Ferren, Perle Fine, Michael Goldberg, Sidney Gordin, Philip Guston, Paul Jenkins, Gabriel Kohn, William de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Israel Levitan, Linda Lindeberg, Michael Loew, alfred Leslie, Joan Mitchell, Corrado Marca-Relli, Alfonso Ossario, Charlotte Park, Ray Parker, Patricia Passloff, Robert Rauschenberg, Raymond Rocklin, Ludwig Sander, Richard Stankiewicz, Jack Tworkov, Estaban Vincente, Wilfred Zogbaum, Dore Ashton, Stanley Breul, Alfred Duhrssen, Thomas B. Hess, Harold Rosenberg, Bob Richtenberg, Friedel Dzubas, Al Held, Harry Holzman, Martin James, John Koenig, Elaine de Kooning, Nicholas Marsicano, Ad Reinhardt, Irving Sandler

Issue number two out (of six issues published) of the periodical It is. published from 1958 - 1965. Collated by P.G. Pavlia, directed by Sebastian Gallo. Contents include: "Dialogue Found in Brooklyn Cellar," by John Asher; "Sound, Noise, Varese and Boulez," by Morton Feldman; "On Innocence in Abstract Painting," by John Ferren; "Glossary," by Aristodimos Kaldis; "4 Excerpts," by Piet Mondrian; "Artaud: Review/Essay," by E. ... [details]

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