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Stephen Kaltenbach

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Stephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and The End
JAN SHREM AND MARIA MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM OF ART

The first comprehensive monograph on a lost veteran of American conceptualism

Hbk, 10.5 x 10.5 in. / 150 pgs / 50 color / 25 bw. | 9/22/2020 | In stock
$50.00



Stephen Kaltenbach: Portrait of My Father
J&L BOOKS

Kaltenbach's staggering, psychedelic portrait of his dying father is a transcendent meditation on life, afterlife and symbiosis with the universe

Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 75 color / 15 bw. | 10/14/2025 | Awaiting stock
$30.00



Stephen Kaltenbach: Portrait of My FatherStephen Kaltenbach: Portrait of My Father

Published by J&L Books.
Text by Jordan Stein.

For much of the 1970s, the artist Stephen Kaltenbach (born 1940) developed a monumental painting called Portrait of My Father inside a rented Northern California barn where he lived without plumbing or insulation. Sustained by a formidable love for his father, experience with psychedelics and a blooming spiritual life, it took him nearly seven years to finish. Since 2001, the work has held pride of place at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. This book-length study is the definitive history of a painting that is mind-boggling from across the room—as a larger-than-life depiction of a man on death's door—and from up close, as each trippy beard whisker explodes a window onto eternity. It consists of an epic interview with the artist conducted and annotated with context, corrections, images and observations by curator and writer Jordan Stein, who also offers an introduction, alongside a trove of newly discovered archival material.



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J&L Books

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 75 color / 15 bw.

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Pub Date
Forthcoming

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Catalog: FALL 2025 p. 93   

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ISBN 9780999365588 TRADE
List Price: $30.00 CAD $42.00 GBP £25.00

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STATUS: Forthcoming | 10/14/2025

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Stephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and The EndStephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and The End

Published by Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Introduction by Constance M. Lewallen, Ted Mann. Foreword by Rachel Teagle. Text by Constance M. Lewallen, Ted Mann, Gwen L. Allen, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer and Lawrence Rinder.

A pioneering figure in the history of conceptual art, Sacramento-based artist and author Stephen Kaltenbach (born 1940) is long overdue for scholarly treatment; in the past decade and a half there has been a resurgence of interest in his work, but this is the first major publication dedicated to him and his unique contribution to art post-1960.

Alongside reproductions of works, essays by the principle authors, exhibition co-curators Constance Lewallen and Ted Mann, explore, respectively, Kaltenbach’s dialectic of concealment and exposure, and his enduring interest in the nature of artistic influence and authorship. Contributing essays by Gwen Allen, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer and Lawrence Rinder focus on more specific works or bodies of work: Kaltenbach’s seminal Artforum Ads of 1968-69; his series of Life-Dramas; and his monumental painting Portrait of My Father (1972-79). The book also includes an exhibition history and bibliography.



PUBLISHER
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10.5 x 10.5 in. / 150 pgs / 50 color / 25 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2020 p. 124   

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ISBN 9780578635705 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CAD $70.00 GBP £45.00

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In stock

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