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4 unusual facts about John Yau


John Yau

Artists' books include projects with Squeak Carnwath, Richard Tuttle, Norbert Prangenberg, Hanns Schimannsky, Archie Rand, Norman Bluhm, Pat Steir, Suzanne McClelland, Robert Therrien, Leiko Ikemura, and Jürgen Partenheimer (a.o.), his books of art criticism include The United States of Jasper Johns (1996) and In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993).

Jon Cone

The first show was devoted to Poem Prints by painter Norman Bluhm and poet John Yau, a series of eight large-scale prints drawn from life with a nude-model at the Cone Editions print studio.

Oskar Pastior

Translated by Harry Mathews, Christopher Middleton, Rosmarie Waldrop, and John Yau.

Peter Saul

Art critic John Yau wrote of Saul's work in The Brooklyn Rail:

His orchestration of the intertwining, overlapping, cartoony figures could only have been done by someone who absorbed the all-over compositions of the Abstract Expressionists.


Clark Coolidge

(with Michael Gizzi and John Yau) Lowell Connector: Lines & Shots from Kerouac's Town.


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