| | PUBLISHER Verge Center for the ArtsBOOK FORMAT Slip, 2 vols, pbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 144 pgs / 16 color / 18 bw. PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 8/20/2019 Active DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 137 PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9780578446929 FLAT40 List Price: $35.00 CAD $39.95 GBP £34.00 AVAILABILITY In stock | TERRITORY WORLD | EXHIBITION SCHEDULESacramento, CA Verge Center for the Arts, 09/12/19–10/27/19 | | THE FALL 2024 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG ![Artbook | D.A.P. Catalog Cover Link](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/thomas-mailaender-the-night-climbers-of-cambridge-171.jpg) | Preview our FALL 2024 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
|
|   |   | VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTSSlant Step BookThe Mysterious Object and the Artworks It InspiredEdited by Phil Weidman, Francesca Wilmott. Preface by Phil Weidman. Introduction by Francesca Wilmott. Foreword by Liv Moe.
![Slant Step Book](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/slant-step-book-95.jpg) A two-volume publication on the mysterious object that inspired poetry, art and unlikely artistic collaborationsFor 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.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Slant Step Book.' |
| ![Slant Step Book](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/slant-step-book-96.jpg) | Free Shipping UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S. FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS | |
| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/9/2019![Artist book lovers, rejoice! 'Slant Step Book' facsimile is a new release this week!](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/artist-book-lovers-rejoice-slant-step-book-facsimile-is-a-new-release-this-week-9.jpg) “I first saw the Slant Step in Bruce Nauman’s studio on the University of California, Davis campus, in 1965,” Phil Weidman wrote in his 1969 artist’s book Slant Step Book, a 36-page booklet documenting this mysterious, homely riser’s trajectory from artist to artist, studio to studio, and into mythology. “Didn’t know what it was. Nauman wasn’t there, so I asked Pete Gadberry, who shared the studio, about it. He said it was just a slanted step. I asked him what it was for. He didn’t know. I was mystified. Couldn’t get it out of my head.” Neither could anybody else, and so generations of slant-step-inspired artworks, films and poems have been created, inspired by the original—which was, in fact, gifted from a salvage shop to Nauman by the artist William T. Wiley. Ray Johnson’s “Duck Slant Step Pets” (1969) is one such work, reproduced from the second volume in this new edition, which pairs a facsimile of Weidman’s book with a selection of artworks that this mysterious object inspired. continue to blog | FORTHCOMING AND NEW: ART | ![How Evil Is Pop Art?](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/how-evil-is-pop-art-261.jpg) | Mousse PublishingISBN: 9788867493418 USD $33.00 | CAD $45Pub Date: 2/19/2019 Active | Out of stock
|
| ![Revolutionary Romances?](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/revolutionary-romances-27.jpg) | Spector BooksISBN: 9783959057820 USD $35.00 | CAD $52Pub Date: 10/15/2024 Forthcoming
|
| ![Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/particles-and-waves-southern-california-abstraction-and-science-1945-1990-21.jpg) | DelMonico Books/Palm Springs Art MuseumISBN: 9781636811383 USD $60.00 | CAD $87.5 UK £ 52Pub Date: 9/3/2024 Forthcoming
|
| ![Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art Since 1968](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/ordinary-people-photorealism-and-the-art-of-work-since-1968-41.jpg) | DelMonico Books/The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesISBN: 9781636811000 USD $69.95 | CAD $99.95 UK £ 59.99Pub Date: 11/5/2024 Forthcoming
|
| ![Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/painted-our-bodies-hearts-and-village-27.jpg) | DelMonico Books/Colby College Museum of ArtISBN: 9781636811468 USD $34.95 | CAD $49.95 UK £ 29.99Pub Date: 10/15/2024 Forthcoming
|
| ![Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/harmony-and-dissonance-orphism-in-paris-1910-1930-46.jpg) | Guggenheim Museum PublicationsISBN: 9780892075645 USD $65.00 | CAD $95 UK £ 52Pub Date: 12/3/2024 Forthcoming
|
| ![Resurgent Nahda](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/resurgent-nahda-46.jpg) | Kaph BooksISBN: 9786148035654 USD $35.00 | CAD $52Pub Date: 10/22/2024 Forthcoming
|
| ![Skank Bloc Bologna: Alternative Art Spaces since 1977](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/skank-bloc-bologna-alternative-art-spaces-since-1977-43.jpg) | Mousse PublishingISBN: 9788867496242 USD $35.00 | CAD $52Pub Date: 8/13/2024 Active | In stock
|
| ![Pop/Beat](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/pop-beat-37.jpg) | Silvana EditorialeISBN: 9788836657445 USD $40.00 | CAD $58Pub Date: 10/15/2024 Forthcoming
|
| ![Glory of the World: Color Field Painting](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/glory-of-the-world-color-field-painting-27.jpg) | SKIRAISBN: 9788857252216 USD $50.00 | CAD $71Pub Date: 10/22/2024 Forthcoming
|
| ![Archive of Dreams: A Surrealist Impulse](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/archive-of-dreams-surrealist-impulses-networks-and-visions-21.jpg) | Spector BooksISBN: 9783959058247 USD $45.00 | CAD $65Pub Date: 10/15/2024 Forthcoming
|
| ![Rendez-Vous: Picasso, Chagall, Klein and Their Times](https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/artbook/rendez-vous-picasso-chagall-klein-and-their-times-32.jpg) | Verlag für moderne KunstISBN: 9783991530121 USD $49.95 | CAD $73Pub Date: 10/15/2024 Forthcoming
|
|
|
| |