| It is. A Magazine for Abstract Art (1958-1965) was an influential limited edition fine arts magazine that only published six issues in seven years. Founded by the abstract expressionist sculptor Philip Pavia, the magazine's contributors included a who's who of some of the 20th century's most important artists. Although it primarily focused on painters and sculptors like Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock and Isamu Noguchi, it also published artists of other kinds, like musician John Cage and poet Allen Ginsberg. Collectively, the magazines served to catalyze, and catalogue, the contemporaneous life cycle of abstract expressionist thought, from creation to mature expression. Reference to the magazine appears in the archives of Picasso, Motherwell and André Breton, as well as collector Peggy Guggenheim, critic Clement Greenberg and many others important art figures of the generation. | |
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VOLUME 1 (SPRINGS 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 CLICK HERE TO BUY |
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VOLUME 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 |
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VOLUME 3 (WINTER, SPRING 1959)Issue number three of six issues published between 1958 and 1965. Edited by P.G. Pavia. Essays "A Little Room for Feeling," by Hubert Crehan; "Face Front," by Sidney Geist; "Abstraction in Poetry," by Allen Ginsberg; "Editor of a Hearsay Panel," by Elaine de Kooning; "Thoughts on the Dance," by Merle Marsicano; "Drawing," by Mercedes Matter; "Spontaneity," by George McNeil; "Manifesto-In-Progress III," by P.G. Pavia; "Book Review," by John Stephan; "Book Review," by May Natalie Tabak. Artists statements by Paul Brach, Kenneth Campbell, Enrico Donati, John Grillo, Hans Hoffman, Landis Lewitin, Robert Motherwell, Theodoros Stamos, and George Sugarman. Cahier leafs by Fritz Bultman, Alfred Duhrssen, Ibram Lassaw, Kyle Morris, Georgine Oeri. Artists reproductions by Stefan Achilles, Peter Agostini, Alice Baber, Paul Brach, Fritz Bultman, Kenneth Campbell, Herbert Crehan, Nasso Daphnis, Enrico Donati, Helen Frankenthaler, John Ferren, Sam Francis, Jane Freilichter, Sidney Geist, Michael Goldberg, Adolph Gottlieb, John Grillo, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Hans Hoffmann, Paul Jenkins, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Fredrick Kiesler, William de Kooning, Landis Lewitin, William Littlefield, Michael Loew, Corrado Marca-Relli, Nicholas Marsicano, Mercedes Matter, George McNeil, Robert Motherwell, Kyle Morris, Felix Pasilis, Ad Reinhardt, Milton Resnick, Ludwig Sander, Abram Schlamowitz, David Smith, Raymond Spillinger, Theodoros Stamos, Joseph Stephanelli, John Stephan, and George Sugarman. Cover: Robert Motherwell.
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VOLUME 4 (AUTUMN 1959) P.G. Pavia, Peter Agostini, Mary Bonnell, Peter Busa, Emil Hess, Alfred Jensen, Elaine de Kooning, Albert Kotin, John Little, Adja Yunkers, William Baziotes, Robert Goldwater, Jack Tworkov, Andre Breton, John Cage, Sari Dienes, Thomas B. Hess, Hans Hofmann, Harry Holtzman, Allan Kaprow, Frederick J. Kiesler, Kermit Lansner, Nicholas Marsicano, Ad Reinhardt, Jeanne Reynal, John Stephan, James J. Sweeney, Mary Abbott, Peter Agostini, Williams Baziotes, Janice Biala, Mary Bonnell, Peter Busa, Nicholas Carone, Francesco di Cocco, Edward Corbett, Sari Dienes, Enrico Donati, John Ferren, Sam Francis, Ilse Getz, Sidney Gordon, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Emil Hess, Hans Hofmann, Harry Holtzman, Alfred Jensen, Aristodimos Kaldis, Allan Kaprow, Frederick J. Kiesler, Franz Kline, Elaine de Kooning, Albert Kotkin, Nicholas Krushnick, Ibram Lassaw, John Little, Carrado Marca-Relli, Nicholas Mariscano, Knox Martin, Alice Mason, Constantino Nivola, Stephen Pace, Raymond Parker, Domenico Paulon, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Richenburg, Jeanne Reynal, Mark Rothko, John Saccaro, Thomas Sills, John Stephan, Sal Sirugo, Jack Tworkov, Adja Yunkers, Wilfrid Zogbaum. |
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VOLUME 5 (SPRING 1960) P.G. Pavia, Norman Bluhm, Stanley Breul, Barbara Bulter, Alfred Duhrssen, Mathias Goeritz, David Hare, Thomas B. Hess, Hoseki Shin'ichi, Hisamatsu, Hans Hofmann, Paul Jenkins, Lester Johnson, William Littlefield, E. Matta, Harlod Rosenberg, Alfred Russell, Jon Schueler, Jack Tworkov, Robert Vaughan, David Young
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VOLUME 5 (AUTUMN 1965) Kadish, Ibram Lassaw, Phillip Pavia, James Rosati, Bernard Rosenthal, David Slivka, Isamu Noguchi, Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, George Sugarman, James Wines, Peter Agostini, Calvin Albert, Mary Bonnell, Louise Bourgeois, Fritz Bultman, Kenneth Campbell, Nicolas Carone, Herbert Ferber, John Ferren, Peter Grippe, John Grillo, Raoul Hague, David Hare, Elaine de Kooning, Stanley Kearl, Michael Lekakis, Ibram Lassaw, Robert Mallary, Enzio Martinelli, Louise Nevelson, Canstantino Nivola, Savatore Scarpitta, Jason Seley, George Segal, David Slivka, Sahl Swarz, Gene Vass, William Zogbaum, Natalie Edgar, Isobel Grossman, John McMahon |
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