Semina 1955-1964 Art Is Love Is God (2013)
New York City: Boo-Hooray (book w/ insert chapbook, 1st), 2013.
10" x 8" x 0.5" [main volume], 174 pages, softcover, trade edition of 700 copies (1000 copies for full edition).
8.5" x 5.5" [chapbook], 10 pages, staple-bound.
Created for an exhibition of Wallace Berman's Semina between December 5, 2013 and January 9, 2014. A volume of full-scale reproductions of all of the contents of all nine issues of Semina, with the Burroughs contribution in Semina #4 on page 82.
The inserted chapbook contains an essay by Johan Kugelberg of Boo-Hooray, an interview between Shirley and Tosh Berman [Wallace's wife and son], an essay from Adam Davis at Division Leap, en excerpt from In Numbers – Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 by Andrew Roth and Phil Aarons, and details on the nine issues of Semina.
The pictured copy was formerly Soheyl Dahi's (Sore Dove Press), and is signed by Tosh Berman, son of Wallace Berman, by poet Jack Hirschman, and by poet Joanna McClure. Acquired through PBA Galleries auction.
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