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(BERMAN, Wallace). DUNCAN, Michael & McKENNA, Kristine (co-curators).

Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle.

NY: D.A.P./Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2005. First edition. 4to. Photo-illustrated boards. 384pp. Lavishly illustrated throughout.

Published to accompany the travelling exhibition which opened in Santa Monica in September 2005.

The first comprehensive survey of the artworks, publications, and documents of ‘Semina Culture’, including relevant works by most of the contributors to Berman’s hand-made journal and by other friends and collaborators who appeared in his photographs.

Contains the first published inventory of Semina’s individual components; biographies of Berman’s contemporaries (Bob Alexander; Charles Brittin; John Altoon; Dennis Hopper; Cameron; Bruce Conner; Russell Tamblyn; David Meltzer; Toni Basil; Michael McClure; George Herms; Patricia Jordan; Jess & Duncan; John Wieners; Jack Smith; John Reed et al); a chapter devoted to Berman’s photographs; a chronology; and more.

As new (still sealed in publisher’s shrinkwrap).

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