In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art

Ferguson, Russell

Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1999. Hardcover. Cream and illus. paper boards with cream cloth spine, illus. flyleaves, 160 pp., BW and color illus. VG (light scratches, wear to boards. back board at cream paper/illustration overlay has soft, rectangular protrusion; appears to be publishing glue issue. light creasing to corners. from false title pg to pg seven, there is a deep diagonal crease to pg edges/area.). Item #159707
ISBN: 9780520222434

Remains a nice, bright and sharp copy; appears to be lightly read and handled. "Not only was Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) one of the most important American poets of his generation, he was also intimately involved with the art world of the 1950s and 1960s, a time when New York had become the cultural capital of the world. As an associate curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara organized a series of important exhibitions, notably the work of Franz Kline and of Robert Motherwell. In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art explores this key period in modern art by presenting artists who were associated with O'Hara and whose seminal works are reflected in his poetry." "Featuring over 80 works by twenty-three artists, the book focuses on works closely tied to specific poems by Frank O'Hara, notably Jasper Johns's In Memory of My Feelings - Frank O'Hara and Grace Hartigan's Oranges. Included here are direct collaborations between O'Hara and various artists such as Joe Brainard, Norman Bluhm, and Larry Rivers, as well as portraits of the poet by Elaine de Kooning and Alex Katz. Franz Kline, Alice Neel, and Joan Mitchell are some of the other artists highlighted." "The book is a re-examination of the relationship between art and poetry at this crucial moment in American art. It also offers new insights into the charismatic figure of Frank O'Hara and his world."--WorldCat.