Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s; 2010, VG+ HC w/DJ

O'Hare, Mary Kate, et al. Petaluma: Pomegranate Communications Inc., 2010. 

English, Very Good+, HC, 8vo, 10 1/4" x 8 7/8", 196 pp. 

ISBN: 9780764952746

Hardcover in black cloth. Minor temperature waffling (not water damage). Near Fine pictorial dust jacket, light wear, now in Mylar. 196 pp. Includes black-and-white and full-color images of artwork by various artists, and reproduced photographs. From inside the dust jacket: "The first survey of Pan-American geometric abstraction between the 1920s and 1950s, Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s provides a fresh and innovative look at this dynamic and cosmopolitan period of modernism in the Americas...The sixty-eight featured artists include the renowned--Alexander Calder, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Jesús Rafael Soto, and Arshile Gorky, for example--as well as those who deserve much wider recognition, such as Charmion von Wiegand, Geraldo de Barros, Alfredo Hlito, and any others." Published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition of the same name starting at the Newark Museum in Newark from February 17 to May 23, 2010.