Author: Bernstein, Fred (and) Martin Hartung (and) Irene Hofmann (and) Stuart Krimko (and) James Wines
Title: Max Protetch Gallery: 1969–2009
Description: Sante Fe, Radius Books, 2023. Hardcover. A white casebound book. The title is in black lettering down the spine. Pages: (8), 9-301, (2). Profusely illustrated with a majority black-and-white images. "From 1969 until 2009, Max Protetch's gallery, first in Washington, DC, and then later in New York City was a vibrant gathering place for art, architecture, politics and ideas. Richly illustrated with previously unpublished materials from the gallery's archive, this volume provides insight into the early careers of some of contemporary art's most enduring figures. Protetch was an advocate for Minimalism and Conceptual and Pop art in the 1970s; architecture in the late '70s and 1980s; and beginning in the 1990s, a broad range of contemporary art, including from China. Protetch advocated for artists such as Vito Acconci, Jo Baer, Robert Barry, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, On Kawara, Robert Mangold, Sol LeWitt, Dan Graham and Lawrence Weiner; and architects such as Michael Graves, Tadao Ando, Peter Eisenmann, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Samuel Mockbee, Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi." Contents are as follows: Introduction -- Chronology / text by Irene Hofmann; with recollections by Max Protectch -- Exhibition history -- Max Protectch : on the cutting edge / James Wines -- If these walls could talk / Fred Bernstein -- Politics, social justice, and Max Protectch Gallery / Irene Hofmann -- The timelessness of timeliness / Stuart Krimko -- Max Protetch Gallery staff. VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker at the base of the spine. Thee stickers on back end page.

Keywords: American Art ; Protetch, Max ; ; General Art - American


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