Mongrelism: The Mighty Mongrel Mob Nation of Aotearoa New Zealand depicted in 153 large format colour plates by Jono Rotman together with 16 Barks, two Hakas, and Awaita conveyed by members of the Mighty Mongrel Mob Nation of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Red buckram over boards with Maori figure design in gilt and brown ink to front, brown and gilt to spine. Dark tan endpapers, red silk ribbon bookmark, SIGNED and INSCRIBED, “To Whitney + Bob, with great neighborly regard, Jono”. Full-color large format photographs, offset lithoprint on coated and uncoated paper, features tipped in street art, and two photocollages on twice-folded tissue, one with crease. Includes transcribed conversations and interviews, heavily redacted in red ink, with members of the notorious biker gang. Published on the occasion of traveling exhibition in 2014-2017,winner of the Prix de Livre, Vevey, Switzerland in 2017. Rare in the trade. Acquired from the private library of Robert Bechtle and Whitney Chadwick.
Whitney Chadwick, (1943- ) Author and Art Historian who wrote, Women, Art, and Society, and Women Artists of the Surrealist Movement, as well as one of the authors behind Confessions of a Guerilla Girl, Chadwick made seismic waves in both art history and gender studies academic circles, forcing reexamination of women and queer artists that had been systematically excluded from the record.
Robert Bechtle (1932-2020) was an American Photorealist painter, printmaker, and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. His insistence on realism at a time when abstract-informed figuration was en vogue brought wide criticism in the U.S. while he was widely celebrated in Europe. Gradually, his attention to reporting in everyday American domestic life influenced a generation of American artists. He is considered to be among the most accomplished realist artists of his time.