Dominique de Menil — Through the Porthole

Houston, Texas, Art Department of the University of St. Thomas, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of an exhibition catalog, "a sort of optical instrument focused on your inside vision," says de Menil. Unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the simple stiff wraps, illustration in port-hole cut-out. 48 pap. Interior clean, bright and unmarked. Plentiful black-and-white photographs, including a central gate-fold, documenting the exhibition at the University of St. Thomas, presented from July-October 1965 in Houston, Texas. 68 reproductions of 18th and 19th century painters and engravers.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine