Action Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955-60 (Signed) SCHIMMEL, Paul (curator), Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, et al. Art

First Edition. Oblong quarto. SIGNED in pencil to the title page by five of the six exhibited artists, in the year of publication: Alfred Leslie, Grace Hartigan, Norman Bluhm, Al Held, and Michael Goldberg. A seminal catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition curated by Paul Schimmel at the New Port Harbor Museum in Newport Beach (Jun. 28 - Sep. 9, 1984); the exhibition then traveled to five additional museums through 1985. Schimmel here helped re-contextualize the second generation of Abstract Expressionists; a group that had previously been derided as derivative. Near fine copy in cloth boards, in illustrated jacket with minor creasing at corners, else also near fine.