Superrealist Painting & Sculpture

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980. Cloth, 160 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Roots. Abstract Expressionism; Pop Art; Minimal Art; New Realism; Other contemporary movements; Pioneers. Malcolm Morley; Audrey Flack; Robert Bechtle; Chuck Close; Richard Estes; John Salt; Photo-vision as subject. The Pictorial Conventions of Photography; Richard McLean; Hilo Chen and Noel Mahaffey; Joseph Raffael; Douglas Bond and Paul Staiger; Guy Johnson and Gerard Gasiarowski; David Kessler and John Clem Clarke; Photographic ways of seeing; Ben Schonzeit; Charles Bell and David Parrish; Ron Kleeman; The Camera as Tool. The Camera as Impartial Eye; Tom Blackwell; Ralph Goings; Idelle Weber, Jean Olivier Hucleux and Arne Besser; Franz Gertsch, Jack Mendenhall and John Baeder; Where Formal Concerns Overshadow Photographic Vision; Brendan Neiland and Sylvia Plimack Mangold; Robert Cottingham; Don Eddy and Michael Leonard; The Sculptors. Duane Hanson; John de Andrea; Marilyn Levine; Fumio Yoshimura; Nanvy Graves.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.