Balk, Dennis - Colin De Land: American Fine Arts (Signed by Dennis Balk to Christian Phillip Müller)

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Dennis Balk (Editor).
Colin De Land: American Fine Arts.

Brooklyn: PowerHouse Books, 2008.
Hardcover.
256 pages.
325 four-color photographs.

Very good. 
Minor edgewear and bumping. 
Slanted though sturdy spine. 

Tribute to Colin De Land and his gallery American Fine Arts inscribed by Editor Dennis Balk to American Fine Arts artist Christian Phillip Müller. 

Chiefly composed of photographs from the Colin De Land Photo Archive documenting art, installations, and activities at the gallery.

Text contributions by Dennis Balk, Mitchell Algus, John Armleder, Massimo Audiello, Jan Avgikos, Judith Barry, Patterson Beckwith, Francesco Bonami, Gavin Brown, Tom Burr, Merlin Carpenter, Moyra Davey, Joshua Decter, Stephan Dillemuth, Mark Dion, Seth Edenbaum, Peter Fend, Andrea Fraser, Carol Greene, Rachel Harrison, Marie Hearn, Mary Heilmann, Dave Karlin, John Knight, Rosalie Knox, Silvia Kolbowski, Jackie McAllister, Marlene McCarty, Carlo McCormick, Daniel McDonald, James Meyer, Mariko Mori, Paul Morris, Barbara and Howard Morse, Christian Philipp Müller, Christian Nagel, Barry Neuman, Nils Norman, Todd Parkin, Jack Pierson, Sam Samore, Peter Santino, Pieter Schoolwerth, Christopher Sperandio, Jean Stein, Jessica Stockholder, Christine Tsvetanov, Craig Wadlin, John Waters, and Christopher Williams.

"Within the international art world, American Fine Arts, Co., Colin de Land Fine Art was a gallery known equally for its anti-commercial, risk-taking practices and for its charismatic owner, who championed a perennially marginalized discourse that critiqued the status quo of gallery practice. Culled from de Land's extensive archive, Colin de Land, American Fine Arts provides an incomparable look at the activities and personalities that frequented the gallery during its heyday. The photographs and snapshots are accompanied by remembrances from more than 50 international artists and writers associated with the gallery. Part personal history, part expose, Colin de Land, American Fine Arts takes us back to the essence of south SoHo during the late 1980s and 90s, serving as a testament to de Land and his loving wife, gallerist Pat Hearn, both of whom died of cancer but left a legacy of personal style in their respective gallery practices, which have since been sorely missed." -- publisher's statement.

Within the international art world, American Fine Arts, Co., Colin de Land Fine Art was a gallery known equally for its anti-commercial, risk-taking practices and for its charismatic owner, who championed a perennially marginalized discourse that critiqued the status quo of gallery practice. Culled from de Land’s extensive archive, Colin de Land, American Fine Arts provides an incomparable look at the activities and personalities that frequented the gallery during its heyday. The photographs and snapshots are accompanied by remembrances from more than 50 international artists and writers associated with the gallery. Part personal history, part exposé, Colin de Land, American Fine Arts takes us back to the essence of south SoHo during the late 1980s and 90s, serving as a testament to de Land and his loving wife, gallerist Pat Hearn, both of whom died of cancer but left a legacy of personal style in their respective gallery practices, which have since been sorely missed.

Dennis Balk is an artist who worked with American Fine Arts and Colin de Land for more than a decade. Asked by Mr. de Land to care for the archive, Balk now presents this book as the first effort to bring the photographs into the public sphere. Balk exhibits work internationally and is the author of Particles + Waves with Plausibility (powerHouse Books, 2005). He has two other titles forthcoming: a sci-fi paperback, coauthored with Gean Moreno, and an artist book composed primarily of work generated in the Middle East and the Arabian Gulf. Balk lives and works in Bahrain.