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Noah Purifoy<br />
High Desert<br />
“A Note to the Viewer<br />
This book is divided into three separate parts: The photographs, the photographic chronology and<br />
the text. The advantages of this format is to give you, the viewer, at least three options. You can<br />
proceed chronologically from the beginning of the book to the end, thereby grasping the artist’s<br />
full intent to inform, entertain and intrigue. Or you may casually thumb through the book spotting<br />
only those details that give meaning to each piece. Or you may flip the pages rapidly just to get a<br />
bird’s eye view of the content. Or perhaps, you may discover some aspects of the book that we<br />
overlooked altogether.<br />
Nevertheless no matter what option a viewer chooses to take, it is our desire that each of you get<br />
so close to the piece that you see the smoke from its breath as it comes alive.”<br />
Noah Purifoy, April 1997<br />
Born in Snow Hill, Alabama, in 1917, sculptor Noah Purifoy lived and worked most of his life in Los Angeles and Joshua<br />
Tree, California, where he died in 2004. First director of the Watts Towers Art Center in the 1960s, Purifoy dedicated<br />
himself to the found object—creating artwork made entirely from junked materials—and to using art as a tool for social<br />
change. In 1989, Purifoy moved his practice to the Mojave Desert, creating a ten-acre Outdoor Desert Art Museum of<br />
Assemblage Sculpture on the desert floor. The Noah Purifoy Foundation maintains and preserves Purifoy’s museum and<br />
legacy. Recent group exhibitions include Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in Painting and Sculpture: 1950–1970,<br />
J. Paul Getty Museum; Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and<br />
MoMA PS1, New York; and Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers<br />
Arts Center, Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles. In Spring 2015, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)<br />
will present a traveling Noah Purifoy Retrospective.<br />
Sleeve Book 1 Book 2<br />
Book 3<br />
Noah Purifoy<br />
High Desert<br />
Text by Noah Purifoy<br />
Book concept and text by Noah Purifoy<br />
Book 1: 160 pages<br />
Book 2: 16 pages<br />
Book 3: 24 pages<br />
8.5 × 11 in. / 21,6 × 27,9 cm<br />
Four-color process<br />
3 softcover books housed in a sleeve<br />
€ 48.00 / £ 42.00 / US$ 58.00<br />
ISBN 978-3-86930-595-0<br />
135
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