• Original 1973 Robert Doty, Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Square softcover divided horizontally into two equal bands — upper half in warm amber-orange, lower half in deep cobalt blue — with 'EXTRAORDINARY' in white outlined rounded sans-serif type on the orange field and 'REALITIES' in the same type on the blue field. Spine wear, edge rubbing, and corner creasing consistent with period."
  • nterior title page from 1973 Robert Doty, Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art. Cream page with 'EXTRAORDINARY REALITIES' in large black outlined rounded sans-serif type at top, followed by 'by Robert Doty / with a preface by Edward Gorey / Whitney Museum of American Art, New York' in smaller serif type below.
  • Interior plate from 1973 Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art, page 19. Jerry N. Uelsmann, Untitled — black-and-white composite photograph showing a 3×4 grid of photographic panels viewed from below, combining images of seagulls in flight, a circular form against sky, a coastal scene with two figures on a pier, and a cluster of organic rounded forms at the base, creating a disorienting spatial montage.
  • Interior plate from 1973 Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art. Myron Helfgott, Marvin Makes a Last Stand in the Winner's Circle — black-and-white photograph of a three-dimensional diorama or relief construction showing a snowy landscape with small figurines of animals and mechanical elements arranged across a painted and sculpted surface with rounded corners.
  • Interior plate from 1973 Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art. Myron Helfgott, Marvin Makes a Last Stand in the Winner's Circle — black-and-white photograph of a three-dimensional diorama or relief construction showing a snowy landscape with small figurines of animals and mechanical elements arranged across a painted and sculpted surface with rounded corners.
  • arm cream/yellow back cover, entirely unprinted, showing age toning, light surface marks, and handling wear consistent with period.
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Whitney Museum of American Art

Extraordinary Realities — Robert Doty, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973

Extraordinary Realities — Robert Doty, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973

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Catalogue published for Extraordinary Realities, 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.

The 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.

A 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.

Format: Softcover
Dimensions: 20 × 20 cm
Pages: 67
Illustrations: Colour and black-and-white
Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1973
Condition: Fair. Spine is worn; covers show rubbing, edge wear, creasing, and age toning. Pages in good condition.

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