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Gertrude Abercrombie
KARMA, NEW YORK

Hbk, 7.25 x 9 in. / 488 pgs / 223 color / 29 bw. | 10/23/2018 | Not available
$50.00



Gertrude AbercrombieGertrude Abercrombie

Published by Karma, New York.
Edited by Dan Nadel. Text by Robert Storr, Susan Weininger, Robert Cozzolino, Dinah Livingston. Interview with Studs Terkel.

This is the most comprehensive book ever published on the Chicago surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–77), a key figure in midcentury American surrealism. From the late 1930s until her death, Abercrombie made paintings populated by objects of personal significance—moons, towers, cats, pennants, Victorian furniture, shells, snails and doors—to create allegories for her own often precarious psychological states. Often presiding over these symbols was Abercrombie herself, who appears in numerous pictures as proud observer or witchy caricature.

Abercrombie exhibited in Chicago and New York in the 1940s and ‘50s, and her salon became a center of Midwestern culture, hosting jazz musicians (such as her close friend Dizzy Gillespie), writers and artists. This book includes new scholarship by Robert Cozzolino; a memoir of Abercrombie by Robert Storr; the artist's own writing; a definitive text by art historian Susan Weininger; and a memoir by the artist's daughter, Dinah Livingston.



PUBLISHER
Karma, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7.25 x 9 in. / 488 pgs / 223 color / 29 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 19   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781949172027 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CDN $69.95 GBP £44.00

AVAILABILITY
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STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

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