The eccentric visionary artist Forrest Bess (1911–1977) spent most of his life on the Texas coast working as a commercial fisherman. In his spare time, however, he painted prolifically, creating an extraordinary body of work rich with enigmatic symbolism. Bess experienced hallucinations that both frightened and intrigued him, and he incorporated images from these visions into small-scale abstract paintings starting in the mid-1940s.
His canvases attracted an underground following, and between 1949 and 1967, Betty Parsons organized six solo exhibitions of Bess’s work at her prominent New York City gallery. Since then, the art world has periodically rediscovered his work, most recently through a 2012 Whitney Biennial installation by American sculptor Robert Gober, which further exposed Bess’s psychological, medical, and religious theories. Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible is the artist’s first museum retrospective with catalogue in the United States and offers a fresh look at Bess’s work and a better understanding of this curious and complicated artist.
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Clare Elliott is assistant curator at The Menil Collection. Robert Gober is an artist working in New York City.
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Anbieter: Marcus Campbell Art Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
25 x 27cm. Hardcover (no jacket, as issued), 111pp. Heavily annotated in ink throughout, with excited commentary, critique, and underlining by art historian David Anfam. The critic's own working copy. Published to coincide with the Bess exhibition at the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, from April 18th to August 19th 2013. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 31806
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Anbieter: Exquisite Corpse Booksellers, Houston, TX, USA
Cloth. Zustand: Fine Condition. 112 pages color illustrations throughout. Illustrated boards. Still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, so the binding is tight, and interior presumably clean and free of markings. Contribution by Robert Gober. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas April 18-August 19, 2013. Biography. Book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 029286
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Anbieter: Brancamp Books, Batesville, IN, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: New. BRAND NEW. Still Sealed in Publishers Shrinkwrap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 210816001
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