Red Grooms – A Retrospective – Essays by Judith Stein, John Ashbery, Janet Cutler, 1985. In 1957, the 27-year-old Grooms emigrated from his native Nashville, Tennessee to New York and emerged as one of the generation of artists who “took the world too seriously not to be amused by it”. His work deals with the world’s clichés, comic sense and puns.
172 full page illustrations (mostly in color), 240 pages, soft cover.