Ugo Mulas (Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Wesselmann) - New York: New Art Scene (FIRST AMERICAN PRINTING, ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET) - 1967

RARE, IMPORTANT PHOTOBOOK CLASSIC from 1959 (!) -
SUPER FRESH ORIGINAL BOOK + SUPER RARE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, page 186 and 187.

TERRIFIC INTIMATE PHOTOS OF THE NEW YORK ART SCENE in New York City in the 1960's by Ugo Mulas (1928-1973), the well-known Italian photographer, noted for his portraits of artists and his street photography.

Portraits of (among others): Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann, Andy Warhol.

TRUE FIRST, ORIGINAL AMERICAN PRINTING.
Profusely illustrated and beautifully printed in gravure.

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Holt Rinehart Winston, New York. 1967.
First American edition, first printing (there was also an Italian and a Spanisch edition same year).

Original hardcover in beige linen with original dustjacket . 240 x 335 mm. 337 pages. Photos by: Ugo Mulas. Photos of: Marcel Duchamp, Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Larry Poons, Kenneth Noland, John Chamberlain, Jim Dine, Frank Stella, Lee Bontecou, George Segal, Jim Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol. Design: Provinciali Michele. Text by Alan Solomon. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside (protected by the jacket) super fresh and flawless with no previous owner marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket highly impressive and almost complete with only neat missing part at the bottom of the spine, some trace of use; several tears (acid-free taped from behind), rubbed along the spine, creases at the top and at the bottom of the spine, spine sunned. Overall fine, much better than usual condition.

Rare, sought-after photobook by Ugo Mulas, here in the true first American printing -
with the extrem rare (very sensitive) original dustjacket in still highly impressive condition.

"Ugo Mulas was born on August 28, 1928, in Pozzolengo, province of Brescia. He began his studies in law in 1948 in Milan, but left to take art courses at the Brera Fine Arts Academy. Soon, he started shooting reports on life of Milan's suburbs. Upon joining the regulars at the legendary "Jamaica" bar, he became part of the art and fashion community. In 1954 he was asked to cover the Venice Biennale, his first professional assignment. He went on to photograph every Venice Biennale through 1972 and to document his work in an art book. Mulas worked for such Italian publications as Settimo Giorno, Rivista Pirelli, Domus, Vogue.
Mulas also did commercial work for advertising campaigns including clients such as Pirelli and Olivetti. In 1959 in Florence, he discovered Veruschka who later became a well-known model and artist. While covering the Spoleto Festival in 1962, he befriended sculptor Alexander Calder, who later became a major subject of Mulas' photography and writings.
While photographing the 1964 Venice Biennale, Mulas met several American artists, art critics, and the art dealer Leo Castelli. This meeting led to his travel to New York City and his documentation of the Pop art scene. This trip to New York and Mulas' resulting book and exhibits, New York, the New Art Scene became his best known work. The exhibit included enlargements of Mulas' contact sheets and environmental portraits of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Barnett Newman and Roy Lichtenstein. In the 1960s, he also worked in graphic design and wrote art books.
In the late 1960s, Mulas became interested in theater and worked on many productions at Milan's Piccola Scala Theater and Teatro Comunale di Bologna. His photography of that period was full of experiments, in the shootings of that time he "played" with the composition, plot, framing, looking for a new artistic language. Mulas was described by his contemporaries as a man who, through photography, tried to understand the depths of human souls.
In 1970, Mulas started working on the series La Verifiche that turned out to be his last — he was diagnosed with cancer in the same year. In early 1973, Mulas released his last book La Photographie, where he collected and summed up all his ideas and thoughts on art and photography. Aged 45, Mulas died in Milan on March 2, 1973.
The American indie rock band Spoon chose Mulas' 1963 portrait of American sculptor Lee Bontecou for their 2007 studio album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga."
(Wikipedia)