FORMAT: Slip, 2 vols, pbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 144 pgs / 16 color / 18 b&w.
LIST PRICE: U.S. $35.00
LIST PRICE: CANADA $39.95
GBP £34.00
ISBN: 9780578446929
PUBLISHER: Verge Center for the Arts
AVAILABLE: 8/20/2019
DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P.
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PUBLISHING STATUS: Active
AVAILABILITY: In stock
TERRITORY: WORLD

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Slant Step Book
The Mysterious Object and the Artworks It Inspired

Published by Verge Center for the Arts.
Edited by Phil Weidman, Francesca Wilmott. Preface by Phil Weidman. Introduction by Francesca Wilmott. Foreword by Liv Moe.

A two-volume publication on the mysterious object that inspired poetry, art and unlikely artistic collaborations

For nearly five decades a peculiar wooden object called the “Slant Step” was exchanged between artists from coast to coast, developing a cultlike following and inspiring poetry, art and unlikely collaborations. Artist William T. Wiley first came upon the original object at a salvage store in Northern California in 1965. Covered in worn green linoleum, it looked like a footstool; however, its sharp slanted riser mystified Wiley and Bruce Nauman, his student at the University of California, Davis. Wiley purchased the found object and gifted it to Nauman, who maintained possession over it until Richard Serra absconded with it from San Francisco to New York. In 1969, Sacramento artist Phil Weidman surveyed the first years of the “Slant Step” in an artist’s book that featured contributions by Nauman, Wiley, William Allan, Richard C., Jack Edwards, Jack Fulton, Ray Johnson, Steve Jongeward, Stephen Kaltenbach, Robert Leach, Jack Ogden, Frank Owen, Ron Peetz, Lawrence Dean Phillips, Peter Saul, Dorothy Wiley and William Witherup.



On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Weidman’s influential Slant Step Book is again available in a two-volume set. This long-overdue republication features a facsimile of the 1969 artist’s book and a companion catalog with new essays and visual responses by contemporary writers and artists such as Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Dan Nadel, Jacob Stewart-Halevy, Terry Berlier, Gordon Hall, Corin Hewitt, Aay Preston-Myint, Jessi Reaves, Mungo Thomson and Angela Willetts.

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