Bob Thompson

New York and Berkeley, CA: Whitney Museum of American Art; University of California Press, 1998. 200 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, September 25, 1998 to January 3, 1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Like many other artists and musicians of the 1950s, Bob Thompson (1937-1966) found his voice in the novel hybrid forms that emerged from postwar American culture: Abstract Expressionism and abstract figuration, and jazz and rhythm and blues. This catalogue, the first comprehensive book on Thompson's work, accompanies a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and provides an opportunity to celebrate the brief but intense career of an artist who managed to create over a thousand works in the short span of seven years./ Thelma Golden is curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and was the organizer of the exhibition Bob Thompson. Judith Wilson is Assistant Professor of History of Art at Yale University and was also an advisor to the Thompson exhibition." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.