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2014 · 54521 — Farnham Surrey UK: Lund Humphries 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine to fine condition. Small Folio. 225 520 528pp. Original blue cloth with color plate laid to covers and white lettering on covers and spines; housed in matching slipcase with color plates and pull lever with white lettering on spine. Blue endpapers. Frontispiece photographs. Vol. I: Essays and References. Vol. II: Catalogue Entries P1-P846 1901-1951. Vol. III: Catalogue Entries P847-PW89 1952-1965. With contributions by Juliana D. Kreinik Paul Moorhouse Peter Morrin Marcelle Polednik and Karen Wilkin. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs of Hofmann's works. Vol. I contains chronology notes exhibition history bibliography list of titles public collections general index and photography credits. Slipcase with very light wear. "We revere Hofmann as Pollock did and Rauschenberg does for proving that the straightforward manipulation of pigment can create exalted art. To put it simply Hofmann's ability to handle paint to fuse the action of painting and drawing into a single immediate gesture carried colored pigment into the viewer's presence with the force of a bomb. The power of this visual explosion catalyzed the bond of European and American art cementing the first half of twentieth-century art inseparably to the second half. Hofmann's paintings of the '50s and '60s. were magnificent. They were without precedent except in Hofmann's own work. More amazingly they were without equal when they were painted and are without equal in quality since they were painted." that's Frank Stella 1999. Lund Humphries hardcover