Wallace Berman
Subtitle: American aleph
By: edited by Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon ; with contributions by Ken D. Allan, Tosh Berman, Claudia Bohn-Spector, Sam Mellon
Contributors: Bohn-Spector, Claudia; Mellon, Sam; Allan, Ken D.; Berman, Tosh, 1954-; Michael Kohn Gallery
Publisher: Kohn Gallery
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9781880086216
Subjects: American Art; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Artistic Photography; Exhibitions; History
Other titles: American aleph
Description: On the 40th anniversary of the artist's death at age 50, this retrospective volume surveys the entire oeuvre of Wallace Berman (1926-76) from the late 1940s until 1976.  Berman intersected with several intriguing cultural moments, starting with his first Los Angeles solo show in 1957 at Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps' Ferus Gallery. He also participated in an important 1966 group exhibition in London at the legendary Robert Fraser Gallery, whose other artists included Richard Hamilton, Bruce Conner and Peter Blake--who put Berman's face among the notable crowd in his cover for the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition at the Kohn Gallery from May 6 to June 25, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Wallace Berman: forms of things unknown / Claudia Bohn-Spector; title: Cosmic homesteaders : Wallace Berman and Woody Guthrie / Sam Mellon; title: Radio; title: Mastery of the Ether : Wallace Berman, mysticism, and meaning in the 1960s / Ken D. Allan.