Kunst der sechziger Jahre Sammlung Ludwig im Wallraf-Richartz Museum Köln 1969. Art of the Sixties. 3rd expanded and revised edition
Köln: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 1969. Third expanded and revised edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. 40 leaves of text, including title page, printed to three variant papers, preceding the catalog with plates numbered through 160, and five additional unnumbered plates of printed graphic art. Both parts contain additional imagery printed to interleaved plastic sheets throughout. Housed in blind-embossed stiff plastic wrappers screw bolted to the hard acrylic spine over Roy Lichtenstein wrappers with plastic overlay featuring a montage printed in purple; red and black lettering printed to additional paper slip at bottom of cover. Text in German and English.
Extraordinary catalog and one of the most representative and innovative art publications featuring the art of the 1960s. It contains tipped-in and mounted reproductions of artwork, mostly with illustrated plastic sheet overlays throughout. The list of contributors reads like the Who is Who of contemporary art in the 1960s: Joseph Albers, Joseph Beuys, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Louise Nevelson, Claes Oldenburg, Gerhard Richter, Pierre Soulage, Antoni Tapies, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol. Plastic cover and block bent with rippling at bottom quarter, else no blemishes. Very good+ condition. Item #55136
Price: $350.00