The Book Art of
Richard Minsky
ISBN 10: 0807616060 ISBN 13: 9780807616062 $34.95 US/ $38.00 CAN 10½” x 8¼” full color hardcover • 136 pages Available November 3, 2011 [Foreword by Betty Bright]
The Book Art of Richard Minsky provides an unprecedented opportunity to study Minsky’s fantastical bookish voyageurs. In addition, this book explores his other passion as an experimental printer. Betty Bright Author, No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980
Selecting the most influential pieces that changed the way artists make books, and some of the least known masterworks from private collections, this volume presents the first comprehensive examination of a half century of Minsky’s works. A foreword by curator and historian Betty Bright complements a first person narrative by Richard. He discusses the influences that shaped his life in art from early childhood onward. He also reveals key elements of his theoretical methodology that shaped the “material meets metaphor” works for which he is best known, as well as the principles of decorative art that inspired his integration of Constructivist and Art Deco strategies with Abstract Expressionist principles.
Richard Minsky is widely acclaimed as a pioneering book artist whose work is collected internationally by major museums and libraries. In 2010 Yale University, the repository of The Richard Minsky Archive, mounted an exhibition of fifty years of Minsky’s work. Richard is the Founder of the Center for Book Arts (1974), which has mounted over 200 exhibitions during the past 37 years, and currently offers 100 classes and workshops. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and the prestigious US/UK Bicentennial Fellowship, awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts and The British Council. He is the author of The Art of American Book Covers 1875-1930, published by George Braziller in 2010.
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The Book Art of
Richard Minsky
Information: George Braziller (212) 737-9842 georgebraziller@earthlink.net
Orders: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. (800) 233-4830