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(BERMAN, WALLACE) (SEMINA). Kugelberg, Johan & Wallace Berman. New York: Boo-Hooray Gallery, 2014. First Edition 1/700. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 174 + 12pp, profusely illustrated in color. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Wallace Berman was the quintessential artist of the Californian counterculture - connecting the disparate artistic, literary, music, and film scenes of Los Angeles and San Francisco with his pioneering mail-art magazine Semina. Hand-printed on a tabletop at Berman's house in editions ranging from 150 to 350 copies, it was sent through the mail to his friends, its contributors, and to those he admired. Its nine issues between 1955 and 1964 contain original works by the likes of John Altoon, Charles Brittin, William Burroughs, Cameron, Jean Cocteau, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Robert Duncan, Llyn Foulkes, Ralph Gibson, Allen Ginsberg, George Herms, Dennis Hopper, Walter Hopps, Jess, Michael McClure, Taylor Mead, Henry Miller, Jack Smith, Dean Stockwell, Russell Tamblyn, Edmund Teske, John Wieners, Berman himself, and many, many more. With its loose-leaf poetry, collages, and photography, Semina has become a defining document of its period. Published in collaboration with the Berman family and the artist's gallerist Michael Kohn, "Art is Love is God" reproduces in full color every component of every issue of the magazine along with a twelve page booklet of annotations and texts by Johan Kugelberg, Adam Davis, Tosh Berman, Shirley Berman, and Philip Aarons." A brand new, most handsome example of the unavailable first trade edition of this elegant publication limited to seven hundred unnumbered copies with the publisher's errata slip additionally laid in. 1-938265-18-1 Inventory Number: 027032