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Title: Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible.
Authors: Clare Elliott; contribution by Robert Gober; foreword and acknowledgments by Josef Helfenstein.
Publisher: Menil Foundation, Inc., Houston; distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
Publication year: 2013 exhibition catalog for The Menil Collection.
ISBN: 978-0-300-18973-5.
Format: Illustrated hardcover art monograph and museum exhibition catalog with red abstract pictorial front cover and gray cloth spine.
Genre/Subject: Art and culture, American painting, modern and contemporary art, Forrest Bess, exhibition studies.
Narrative type and audience: Nonfiction essays and catalog entries written for adult readers, art historians, students, curators, and museum visitors.
Language: English; original language English.
Physical description: Large square volume printed on smooth coated stock, featuring full-page color plates, text pages with generous margins, and reproductions of Forrest Bess paintings such as Thunderbird, Mandala, Symbol of Flowers, Dedication to Van Gogh, and untitled works.
Contents overview: Includes a foreword and acknowledgments by Josef Helfenstein, the essay "Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible" by Clare Elliott, a substantial artworks section with catalog entries, Robert Gober's essay "The Man That Got Away," a primer of basic primordial symbolism, exhibition history, bibliography, and index of artworks illustrated.
Exhibition history: Published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible organized by The Menil Collection, with venues including The Menil Collection, Houston; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York.
Illustrations and features: Profusely illustrated in color with reproductions of more than fifty paintings, many shown with Bess's hand-built frames, accompanied by captions giving titles, dates, media, dimensions, and collection information.
Country of origin: Printed and bound in China for The Menil Collection.
Intended use: Suitable for collectors and researchers of Forrest Bess, American modernism, and twentieth-century art, as well as museum libraries and readers interested in visionary, symbolically charged painting.
Condition details: see condition field for full description of boards and interior pages.
Condition: Color pictorial hardcover boards with red abstract design and gray cloth spine show light shelf and handling wear with a few small surface marks on the rear panel. Corners and edges remain sharp with minimal rubbing. Interior pages are clean and bright with crisp images and text, no writing or highlighting, and the binding is tight and square with no loose or missing pages. No dust jacket present with this copy.