Best Selling Books by John Ashbery

Celebrates and reassesses the reinvention of portraiture in post-World War 2 American art.

Artist''s book consisting of objects and 3 folders in a wooden box. The objects, by David Ireland, are a cement ball, a section of copper sheeting in a slide mount, a piece of wire shaped like an ear, and a shaped piece of house paint. The folders contain the text by Ashbery, photos and Kodaliths by Abe Frajndlich, and two painted pieces of wooden wallboard. The box handle was fabricated in cast iron by Shahin of Albany.

Letters contain humorous literary references, several poems, a chapter of a murder mystery, a few drawings, references to mutual friends, and various events.

Letters among and a group composition by members of the New York school of art. Includes a typescript of a play, "The Coronation Murder Mystery by John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Frank O''Hara (for James Schuyler)"; and letters between Frank O''Hara and Joe LeSueur, as well as to Hurley.