[Rarebooks] FS: New York Review of Art, issues 1-4 (1994)

[Robin Bledsoe]

For your consideration, offered here first:

/The New York Review of Art./Vol. 1, numbers 1-4 (1994).Edited by James 
Gardner; published by W. Noel Suter.Only 4 further issues were published 
(1 in 1994, 3 in 1995).WorldCat cites 2 locations, both with incomplete 
holdings: Indiana University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.$85.00 
(trade discount)

“Our goal is nothing less than to alter the way you read about art, to 
disrupt the habits that three decades of inert prose have inspired in an 
ill-served public….You will not find jargon in these pages.”Long and 
short exhibition reviews, book reviews, and “Art Media Watch” by 
“Charles Haas.”On “Ryman the Great White Hope,” Lucien Freud, the 
Gorilla Girls, “Outsider Art: A Dissent,” Clement Greenberg, “Avedon’s 
Doctored Evidence,” “Artists Confront the Holocaust,” etc.Also reviews 
of older art: Petrus Christus, Egyptian art, “Denmark’s Gilded Age,” 
“Ludovico Carracci, Postmodernist,” etc.Issue one sets forth the 
journal’s goals in “Why We Exist.”“We do not yet have enough money to 
bring out a bad publication” (i.e. , a glossy market-driven publication 
“meant to be seen rather than read”).

Each, 24p, with a few decorative ills. Self wrappers (price bar code on 
front of two issues).Fair: some handling wear, and two issues are partly 
stained with linseed oil(?).They come from the estate of a painter.

Not yet listed on our online sites.

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