Room to Dream

Kristine McKenna

David Lynch

Random House]

The quintessential visual artist of the Beat era, Wallace Berman (1926-1976) remains one of the best kept secrets of the late twentieth century. A crucial figure in California's postwar underground, Berman was a catalyst who traveled through many different worlds, transferring ideas and dreams from one circle to the next. His larger community is the subject of Semina Culture: Wallace Berman &amp; His Circle, a catalogue to the exhibition organized by the Santa Monica Muesum of Art including previously unexhibited works by 52 artists. Anchoring this publication is Semina, a loose-leaf art and poetry journal that Berman published in nine issues between 1955 and 1964. Although privately made and distributed to a mere handful of friends and sympathizers, Semina is a brilliant compendium of the most interesting artists and poets of its time. Showcasing the individuals who came to define a still potent strand of post-war beat counterculture, Semina Culture subtly outlines the energies, values, and foibles of this fascinating circle. Also reprduced here are works by various artists and writers who appear in Berman's own photographs--approximately 100 of which were recently developed from vintage negatives, and will be seen here for the first time.

Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle

Arts & Photography

Michael, Duncan

History & Criticism

D.A.P./Santa Monica Museum of Art

123pp + 36pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Japanese (with translation pamphlet in English Laid in). This is an intricately produced and appropriately disconcerting catalogue published to accompany an exhibition of David Lynch's artwork at the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art. Cinema's Master of the Weird displays his skewed genius in a different medium here, to an equally fascinating and unnerving end.

David Lynch: Paintings & Drawings

Takashi Nibuya

Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art

Room to Dream (Chinese Edition)

Guangxi Normal University Press

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