JOAN MITCHELL: Survey of works on Paper, 1956 - 1992 ***OUT-OF-PRINT***

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JOAN MITCHELL (1925-1992), JOAN MITCHELL: A Survey of Works on Paper, 1956 - 1992 Beautiful OUT-OF-PRINT Oversized MonographPubl. by Steidl, Gerhard Druckerei und Verlag, Gottingham, Germany, in cooperation with Cheim & Read Gallery, New York and The Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, 2007. Already OoP and impossible to find! Introduction by John Yau. Edited and designed by John Cheim. Printed in Germany. Hardbound, 160 pages, 86 colour plates. Dimensions: 13" x 10-1/4" x 3/4" (26.6 cm x 33 cm). Limited edition of 2500 books published on the occasion of the exhibition, Joan Mitchell: Works on Paper 1956 - 1992 ', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, 5/10 - 6/16/2007. Buyer pays $8 U.S. shipping via USPS Media Mail. This is the first comprehensive survey of Joan Mitchell’s works on paper. Mitchell called herself a “ visual ” painter, to distinguish her work from that survey of the Pop, Minimal and Conceptual painters of her own and younger generations. Drawing on remembered images of landscape that she “ carried with her ,” Mitchell was not content to make “ pretty ” abstractions but challenged herself and the viewer with paintings that sometimes could seem deliberately provocative, pushing the limits of her own sense of beauty. As a non-ironic, dyed-in-the-wool abstractexpressionist, she worked in an idiom that was well established read more