Hardcover
1996 · New York
by Heaney, Seamus and Peter Selz et al.
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996. Hardcover. VG/VG. Olive cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, white illus. dust jacket. 175 pp., many BW and color illus. INSCRIBED by the artist to Will Barnet. Showcases the work of American abstract sculptor Dimitri Hadzi (1921-2006). With an introduction by Seamus Heaney, and essays by Albert Elsen, Peter Selz, Joseph Masheck and Debra Bricker Balken. "Dimitri Hadzi is among the most distinguished modernist sculptors, creator of works in bronze and stone that are pwoerfully abstract and expressionist in character. Yet his belief in the past as both a literary and an aesthetic source, as well as his use of such traditional materials as bronze, shape a career that stands out from those of mainstream modernists." (dj) Includes many illustrations of his artwork.
(Inventory #: 153453)