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PUBLISHER
Totah

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 152 pgs / 58 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Forthcoming

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: MID WINTER 2024 p. 19   

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ISBN 9781734304565 TRADE
List Price: $65.00 CAD $97.50 GBP £55.00

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WORLD

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TOTAH

Wallace Berman: Off the Grid

Edited with text by Sophia McKinnon. Text by Tosh Berman, Andrew Lampert, Saul Ostrow, David Totah, Anne Waldman.

Over 45 works from the California art legend Wallace Berman, including selections from his rare short film Aleph

Wallace Berman (1926–76) was a notorious guru of the 1960s art pantheon. Often cited as a West Coast Beat Generation artist who rubbed elbows with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Dennis Hopper and the Rolling Stones, his contributions transcend the comparisons of his aesthetic and the associations that he kept. A self-taught artist, Berman was influenced by Surrealism, Dadaism and the Kabbalah, as well as jazz music and the mystical symbols and popular imagery of his time.
Berman is best known for his signature motif, which comes from a reappropriated Sony advertisement picturing a hand holding a transistor radio, which he found in 1964. By removing the speaker grill and inserting random appropriated images, the hand shuffles up messages that appear to spring out of the ether. His early use of the gridding technique creates a visual cacophony that barrages the senses.
Off the Grid follows the eponymous 2021 show at Totah, a rare East Coast exhibition of Berman’s work, which included a screening of his rare short film Aleph (1956-66), followed by a discussion between Tosh Berman (Wallace Berman’s son) and Andrew Lampert, moderated by poet Anne Waldman. A partial transcript of this conversation is included in the publication.


Wallace Berman: Off the Grid

STATUS: Forthcoming | 10/15/2024

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WALLACE BERMAN MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Wallace Berman: Off the Grid

WALLACE BERMAN: OFF THE GRID

Totah

ISBN: 9781734304565
USD $65.00
| CAD $97.5 UK £ 55

Pub Date: 10/15/2024
Forthcoming


Wallace Berman: American Aleph

WALLACE BERMAN: AMERICAN ALEPH

Michael Kohn Gallery

ISBN: 9781880086216
USD $59.95
| CAD $79 UK £ 52.99

Pub Date: 7/26/2016
Active | In stock


Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle

SEMINA CULTURE: WALLACE BERMAN & HIS CIRCLE

D.A.P./Santa Monica Museum of Art

ISBN: 9781938922725
USD $24.95
| CAD $33.95 UK £ 22

Pub Date: 2/24/2015
Active | In stock