Skyscraper Primitives

Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1975. First edition (stated). Quarto in white-brown DJ, b&w illus to front DJ, xiii, 283 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates, b&w illustrations, 26 cm. Extremely gentle rubbing to corners, pale sunning to spine and DJ spine, light soiling to fore-edges, tight binding, bright pages, very mild rubbing to DJ edges, two less than quarter inch closed tears to front DJ edges, light soiling and fading to DJ (mostly to rear DJ), else near fine(-) in very good(+) DJ. in very good + dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 0819540811

Contents: Camera work and the anti-art of photography -- 291 and Francis Picabia -- Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray -- The soil and Contact -- William Carlos Williams -- Broom and Secession -- Hart Crane and the machine -- E.E. Cummings and Dada formalism -- The art of assemblage -- Painting the machine. Arts, American -- 20th century.