Manuel Neri
Subtitle: artists' books, the collaborative process
By: Bruce Nixon ; introduction by Robert Flynn Johnson.
Contributors: Neri, Manuel, 1930-; Johnson, Robert Flynn.; Klimenko, Mary Julia.; Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; In association with Hudson Hills Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [San Francisco, Calif.]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Neri, Manuel, -- 1930- -- Exhibitions; Artists' books -- California -- Exhibitions; Artistic collaboration -- California -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Artists' books, the collaborative process.
Description: "The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are pleased to present this exhibition of artists' books by Manuel Neri in the Reva and David Logan Gallery of Illustrated Books. This catalogue offers an Introduction by Robert Flynn Johnson, Curator-in-Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, and a comprehensive essay by Bruce Nixon on Manuel Neri's artists' book collaborations, with color illustrations of the complete book projects and related sculptures and drawings by Neri." "Manuel Neri's work with the artists' book is almost certainly his least known. The number of these projects has been few, four so far, all produced in very limited numbers. Until now, these books have been scarcely documented, at least in comparison to Neri's voluminous production as a sculptor. Consistent with the substantial tradition of the livre d'artiste, Neri's artists' books represent a lengthy, sometimes difficult, sometimes intense collaborative process between artist and author, one that may consume years or, for that matter, decades."--Jacket.
Notes: Issued in slipcase.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in the Reva and David Logan Gallery of Illustrated Books at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, June 28-November 27, 2005.

CD contents: v. 1. Commentary and readings from She said: I tell you it doesn't hurt me and Territory / Mary Julia Klimenko -- v. 2. Commentary and readings from Crossings/Chassé-croisé and her introduction for the Neruda project / Mary Julia Klimenko.