Homage to Yaacov Agam by Agam, Yaacov; Messer, Thomas M. (Introduction by) - 1980

Paris: Leon Amiel Publisher, Inc., 1980. Cloth, 158 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 32 cm. Special issue of the XXe Siecle Review. Text in English and French. Translations by Joan Marie Weiss Davidson. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Includes 2 colour lithographs. CONTENTS: Preface, by Frank Popper; Yaacov Agam the artist and his credo; Introduction, by Thomas M. Messer; Introduction to Agam's visual kinetism, by Giulio Carlo Argan; Densities of the immaterial: presences of the invisible: prologomena to the work of Agam, by Arturo Schwarz; On Agam, by Abraham A. Moles; Yaacov Agam and instrumental painting, by Alain Jouffroy; Agam's movement, by Serge Lemoine; The shifting sands of time, by Jean-Claude Meyer; Time and space in the work of Yaacov Agam, by Haim Gamzu; Agam: the perceptible absence of the 'image', by Frank Popper; Agam's tele-art, by Frank Popper; Agam or the other space, by Alain Bosquet; The fountains of La Defense, by Barbara Silvergold; Agam's polyphony, by Michel Ragon; Agam, by Marc Saporta; The painter and the prophet; Agam and language; The era of Agam; The eye attacks; Marks and remarks, by Jacques Lassaigne; Agam's theater, by Eugene Ionesco; Speech at a reception honoring Agam, by Alain Poher; The shared dream, by Luis Alberto Machado.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio. Collectible.