AN EPHEMERAL DIARY OF THE YEAR EIGHTEEN FORTY-ONE
(Easthampton, MA): Castalia Press, (1970). Moser,Barry. First Edition. 8vo, pp. [65 unnumbered pages]. Bound in light tan cloth. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait plate by Barry Moser. One of an edition of just 150 copies. Item #58122 From the library of artist Alfonso Ossorio with his elaborate signature filling the flyleaf. Ossorio [1916-1990] was an abstract expressionist artist born in Manila, Philippines. At the age of fourteen, he moved to the United States, becoming a citizen in 1933. His work was influenced by his friend Jackson Pollock, whose work he admired and collected, and by the "art brut" of Jean Dubuffet whom he met in Paris in 1950.
The Castalia Press was started in 1969 by Barry Moser as part of the Art Department at Williston Academy, Easthampton, Mass. This book was edited by Eric Anderson and printed by John W. Coons as part of an Independent Study Project. Moser's portrait is of Samuel Williston, founder of the Academy, and some of the contents are drawn from the Williston archive.
Price: $225.00