Ugo Mulas
New York: The
New Art Scene. Photographs by Ugo Mulas. Text by Alan Solomon. Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, 1967. 341 pp. Small folio. First edition. Clothbound. Hardcover. Lacking the very scarce dust jacket. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Gravure reproductions. 341 pages illustrated with over 500 photographs including:
Marcel Duchamp, Barnett Newman, Lee Bontecou,
John Chamberlain, Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Kenneth
Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Larry Poons, Robert Rauschenberg, James
Rosenquist, George Segal, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann,
others. Good plus. Would be very good if the jacket was present.
"Inspired by the strong American presence at the 1964
Venice Biennale, the Italian photographer Ugo Mulas made three extended visits
to New York over the following
years. The result [is this] massive, handsomely designed volume [that] captures
the art world at one of its most volatile and vivid peaks...[Mulas] was ideally
suited to infiltrate that scene as a sympathetic and unobtrusive
observer...With more than 500 photos reproduced in heavily inked, knockout
black-and-white, the book has a marvelous scope. Its arresting cover image--a
pair of New York cops confronting a gaggle of bohemians at a party in Andy
Warhol's Factory--isn't typical, but it suggests something of the scene's
exhilaration and notoriety..."--Vince Aletti, in The Book of 101 Books
Light wear to board edges. Few small soil spots and stains. Tanning to the top and side edges. Internally, hinges sound. Binding tight. All pages present. Beautiful clean images. Occasional smudge mark from the ink. An excellent copy lacking the dust jacket.
Scarce.