The Boardwalk Show
Washington, DC: Protetch - Rivkin, 1971. Original printed self-wrappers, unbound; [1], 19 pp., with numerous reproductions of artworks. Small closed tear to first page, not obstructing image or text, and toning commensurate with age. Otherwise near fine. Item #10442
Rare newsprint exhibition catalog, published in conjunction with the Spring Joint Computer Conference held at the Atlantic City Convention Hall form May 18-20, 1971.
"The two organizers, Max Protech and Harold Rivkin, were still newcomers to the art scene at the time. Only around two years earlier, the two political science students had founded their gallery in Washington out of boredom in order to show minimalist and conceptual art. Protetch-Rivkin was thus one of the first galleries in the city to represent these positions. The center of both art movements was undoubtedly New York. Protech quickly succeeded in making contacts there and in arousing interest in the Washington project. Andy Warhol, Sol LeWitt, Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth and Dan Flavin, for example, were soon exhibiting at Protetch-Rivkin. And Vito Acconci had his first solo exhibition at their gallery. (Jordan Kauffman, Architecture inthe Art Market: The Max Protetch Gallery, in: Journal of Architectural Education, vol. 70, No. 2,October 2016, pp. 257-268).
The artists and groups included in this catalogs are among others: Vito Acconci, Siah Armajani, Zbigniew Blazeje, Mel Bochner, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, James Lee Byers, Joanne Caring, Don Corrigan, Gene Davis, William Denner, Jan Dibbets, Walter Folger, Dan Graham, Craig Kaufman, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Ed McGowin, N.E.Thing Co., and Ian Wilson.
OCLC locates four examples as of April 2025.
Price: $750.00