Studies for Warhols' Marilyns, Beuys' Actions and Objects, Duchamps' Etc. Including Film (Inscribed)

Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1973. Save for bump to lower margin, a near fine copy; remarkably bright.. First Edition. Quarto. A brilliant artist's catalogue from Sturtevant (i.e. Elaine Frances Horan), published on the occasion of her first museum show in the United States (Everson Museum of Art, Nov. 16 - Dec. 12, 1973). Sturtevant's conceit for the catalogue, realized by Judson Rosebush, was to simulate poor xerographic copies of her exhibited appropriations of Warhol, Beuys, and Duchamp. According to the Everson's Director James Harithas, "the works in the show were not copies; the works in the catalogue were." This copy of the catalogue later INSCRIBED by Sturtevant—using her given name—to one of the curators she worked with following her retreat from the artworld in the 1970s; a remarkable inscription given that she famously avoided references to her real-life persona.