Lichtenstein

ref. B92766-1 — Oberlin Polemic Society of Western Reserve University 1959. 252 x 523 mm. 10 x 20 5/8 inches. The woodcut is the dust jacket for the issue printed in black on heavy uncut wove stock and continuing onto flaps under both covers; within the composition the title of the journal is printed in dark red. The issue itself is 134 2pp. with 10 original prints hors texte mostly in color or on colored stocks. 4to. Wraps. In her catalogue raisonné of Lichtenstein’s prints Mary Lee Corlett discusses the two woodcuts Lichtenstein made for “Polemic” in 1957 and 1959 hand-printed by a commercial printer on a letterpress. “For a brief time in the late 1950s Lichtenstein was a latecomer to the abstract expressionist style. This is visible in his last two prints of that decade. Both were made for ‘Polemic’ a literary-art journal published by the student council at Adelbert College Western Reserve University now part of Case Western Reserve in Cleveland Ohio.” No edition size is stated but it is known that 2000 copies were printed of the 1958 issue. Woodcut slightly darkened at the spine of the dust jacket with small clean tear at foot; a fine copy quite superior to that illustrated in Corlett. Oberlin (Polemic Society of Western Reserve University), 1959. paperback