The Pressure to Paint (Exhibition Catalogue)

New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1982. Bright yellow wrappers with minor edge-wear and blind impression to front panel, else near fine.. First Edition. Slim quarto. Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of New Painting curated by Diego Cortez at Marlborough Gallery, New York (Jun. 4 - Jul. 9, 1982). "The politics of the New Painting is direct. People want image and color; after the quasi-cybernetic hardware-software Network hook-ups of the 70s (gadgets as concepts), artists are again working with their hands. A new manual culture. An eighties lunch-break from the seventies appropriation of art-labor." With poetic curatorial statement from Cortez—punctuated with excerpts from Zola—followed by color reproductions of a select work from each of the exhibited artists, including Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Keith Haring, Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, Per Kirkeby, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, David Salle, and Julian Schnabel.