{"title":"H.C. Westermann","description":"\u003cp\u003eH.C. Westermann (1922–1981) was an American artist whose sculptures, drawings, and prints combined craft traditions, dark humour, autobiographical narrative, and a deeply idiosyncratic visual language that resisted easy classification. Working in wood, metal, and mixed materials, Westermann produced objects that drew on his experiences as a Marine, his interest in popular culture and vernacular form, and a persistent engagement with mortality, absurdity, and the strangeness of American life. Associated at various points with Chicago Imagism and the broader American eccentric tradition, his work remained singular throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications collected here document Westermann's practice and its institutional reception, including exhibition catalogues and printed matter through which his work entered museum collections and private hands.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"doty-robert-extraordinary-realities-whitney-museum-1973","title":"Extraordinary Realities — Robert Doty, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973","description":"\u003cp\u003eCatalogue published for \u003cem\u003eExtraordinary Realities\u003c\/em\u003e, shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, before travelling to the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 1973–74. Preface by Edward Gorey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe exhibition included Jerry N. Uelsmann, Myron Helfgott, Tom Askman, Ivan Albright, Peter Milton, H.C. Westermann, Robert Hudson, William T. Wiley, and others working across fantasy, illusion, obsessive detail, staged space, and altered realism. It frames a specifically American afterlife of Surrealism: less manifesto, more eccentric image-making, private worlds, and museum classification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Whitney catalogue from the early 1970s, positioned between Surrealism's afterlife, countercultural image culture, and institutional naming. The object remains a printed support for realities that were already unstable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 20 × 20 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e Colour and black-and-white\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1973\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fair. Spine is worn; covers show rubbing, edge wear, creasing, and age toning. Pages in good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Whitney Museum of American Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616150905170,"sku":"DOTY-WHITNEY-CAT-1973","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Doty_-Robert.-Extraordinary-realities-Catalogue-to-the-exhibition-1973---1974.-cover.jpg?v=1780306731"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/hc-westermann.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}