In Memory of My Feelings by Russell Ferguson First Printing

  

Featuring over 80 works by twenty-three artists, the book focuses on works closely tied to specific poems by Frank O'Hara, notably Jasper Johns'sIn Memory of My Feelings--Frank O'Haraand Grace Hartigan'sOranges. Included are direct collaborations between O'Hara and various artists such as Joe Brainard, Norman Bluhm, and Larry Rivers, as well as portraits of the poet by Elaine de Kooning and Alex Katz.

Franz Kline, Alice Neel, and Joan Mitchell are some of the other artists highlighted. The book is a timely re-examination of the relationship between art and poetry at this crucial moment in American art. It also offers new insights into the charismatic figure of Frank O'Hara and his world. The exhibition, In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art, will be at TheMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, from July 11 to November 14, 1999; at TheWexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, January 28 to April 16, 2000; and theParrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, in May, 2000.