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Metropolis Magazine, December 1999 has a great article on futuristic speed trains !

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Metropolis Magazine, June 2000 cover with articles on furniture designer Tucker Robbins, A tribute to Tibor Kalman, ...

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Jane et le Boxeur Offensé par Marie-Elizabeth Alacoque (1959-2009), 383 pages, Edition du Zénith 2010.

This is the book on thérapies for intellectually chalenged persons written by my late sister who died of cancer on May 20th, 2009 when she was just 50 years old. We promised her that her book would be published regardless of her sickness outcome. She worked for 10 years as a therapist with theses very interesting people. The book is an analytic recollection of some 4000 individual session. It is an amazing read.

It is written in her native French language, and we are looking forward to work on translations !

So here it is fresh from the presses !

JANE ET LE BOXEUR OFFENSE
par Marie-Elizabeth Alacoque (1959-2009)
Préface de Jean Vanier
Annexe, Bibliographie
383 pages, couverture souple
Imprimé sur papier MIXTE issu de sources responsable
ISBN: 978-2-923837-00-0

112 workshop / 112 greene street
Edited by Robyn Brentano with Mark Savitt
New York University Press 1981
385 pages
B000K1F8OM

Book designed by Barbara DuPree Knowles

(from my online review elsewhere)

IMPORTANT and unique art historical record on the 1970's New York.

This volume is an important art historical record telling the stories and aesthetic adventures, in pictures and in words, of a loose group of artists and other assorted creative types who gathered at a downtown New York City storefront located at 112 Greene Street in Soho.

The loft building at 112 Greene Street was owned by Jeffrey Lew, an energetic artist who was passionately involved in the emerging Soho avant-garde art scene. From October 1970 until June 1978, he let the storefront and basement levels to be used as an alternative art gallery space by a bunch of young, unknown and non-affiliated creative artists who exhibited their innovative artworks in solo or/and group shows.

It is at 112 Greene Street that Sculptor Jene Highstein did a marvelous minimalist installation with giant sewer pipes in February 1974. Other artists whose highly innovative artworks found temporary shelter and the benefits of an enthusiastic critical audience at the storefront space included Richard Nonas, Suzanne Harris, Georges Trakas, Tina Girouard, Richard Serra, Gordon Matta-Clark, Alice Aycock, Richard Van Buren, Louise Bourgeois, William Wegman, Francesco Torres, Jonathan Santlofer, Charles Simons, Willoughby Sharp, Laurie Anderson, Dennis Oppenheim, Carolee Schneeman, Chris Burden and many, many others...

After July 1978, exhibitions were held in a New York City owned space on West Spring Street. Re-christened "White Columns", that non-profit gallery showcased young artists artworks well through the 1990's....

Thanks to the vigorous editorial work and the accurate research efforts of Ms. Brentano and Mr. Savitt, this invaluable cultural legacy is well documented and carefully recorded in this magnificent book for future generations of 20th Century art history buffs, research scholars and historians.

This volume is very nicely produced and is illustrated with numerous photographs...

Page 1 to 128: History (Chronological / Alphabetical)
Page 129 to 371: Artists and Artworks (Alphabetical with each artist statement)
Page 372 to 385: Appendix: Notes, Artworks Specifications, Historical Index

A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans - front jacket

Stated FIRST Edition / FIRST Printing (full number-line) and Boldly SIGNED and INSCRIBED by AUTHOR Justin Evans on the title page. (Ho-oH ! I got lucky there.)

The Magnificent Dust-Jacket is in top conservation shape.
The Jacket design is by Erin Schell and the Jacket Illustration by the painter JOSE GUADALUPE POSADA (1852-1913) was chosen by the author.

Published by Shaye Areheart Books in May of 2007.
Shaye Areheart Books is an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, itself now a division of Random House, Inc., New York . ISBN: 0307351289

Printed in the United States of America - Book Design by Lynne Amft

I like this Artsy style book design: it is a nice production.