Ed Paschke, Hudson Hills Press & Art Institute of Chicago, 1990, Very Good+ HC w/DJ

Benezra, Neal, et al. New York: Hudson Hills Press / The Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.

English, Very Good+, HC, 4to, 10 1/4" x 10 1/4", 155 pp. 

ISBN: 1555950388

Hardcover in green cloth. Minor cocking to spine. Very Good black pictorial dust jacket, light shelf wear, minor pressure scrape to back panel, now in Mylar. 155 pp. Includes 63 full-color and 30 black-and-white reproductions of Chicago Imagist movement artist Ed Paschke's work and related images. From inside the dust jacket: "Paschke's figurative works are peopled by such celebrities as Marilyn, Elvis, Murphy, and George Washington, as well as by strippers, pimps, and outcasts of every stripe...Ed Paschke also includes an essay by poet and critic John Yau about Paschke and the twentieth-century tradition of the representation of the Self, a tradition affected by both Freud and Picasso." A beautifully produced book that explores Paschke's life and career, supplemented by an interview by art historian Dennis Adrian.