Edwin Dickinson: Dreams and Realities

New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2002. Hardcover. VG/VG (ex-library with stamps and labels on block, dj spine, front and rear end pages. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear. Binding tight.). Royal blue cloth, black spine lettering; dark & illustrated dust jacket with white lettering, mylar cover;, 285 pp. 97 color and 57 bw plates. An exhibition organized by Douglas Dreishpoon ; with essays by Douglas Dreishpoon, Francis V. O'Connor, Mary Ellen Abell ; recollections and appreciations by Elaine de Kooning [and others] ; chronology by Helen Dickinson Baldwin. Contents include: Foreword / Douglas G. Schultz -- Preface / Douglas Dreishpoon -- Acknowledgments / Douglas Dreishpoon -- Striking Memory / Douglas Dreishpoon -- Allegories of Pathos and Perspective in the Symbolical Paintings and Self-Portraits of Edwin Dickinson: An Interpretive Essay / Francis V. O'Connor -- "Seeing Everything for the First Time": The Teaching and Aesthetic Philosophy of Edwin Dickinson / Mary Ellen Abell -- The Teaching of Edwin Dickinson: An Overview and Glossary / Mary Ellen Abell -- A Recollection / Elaine de Kooning -- Edwin Dickinson / John Ashbery -- Edwin Dickinson: A Self-Sustained Ego / Norman A. Geske -- Coaxing a Palpable Mystery: An Appreciation / Michael Mazur -- Catalogue of the Exhibition -- Chronology / Helen Dickinson Baldwin.