| In my pursuit to give shape to this book, I came upon friendly and genuinely interested students, artists and friends in whose company I developed these discussions. With their tireless cooperation, I gathered the needed material to enrich each essay in the book. I should like to express my deepest gratitude to them. I especially wanted to single out my students who have contributed to my work and generously helped me at every stage of the book: Susan Fateh, Martha Korduba, Jan Petersen, Marianne Sollosy, Andrea Zinn. In particular, my warm thanks go to Eric Edelman who aided me greatly in the preparation of the manuscript, and Prof. Paul Owen, Gerry Katzban and Michel Smith who helped me with the illustrations. |
| I would like to thank David Ecker, Director of Doctoral Program, Department of Art and Art Education, New York University; Gabor Peterdi, former Professor, Yale University; Una Johnson, Curator Emeritus, The Brooklyn Museum; Janet Siskind, Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University; Percival Goodman, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University; Dale McConathy, Chairman, Department of Art and Art Education, New York University, for reading and commenting on the manuscript and for their generous advice; and I thank especially the late Stanley William Hayter, Founder-Director of Atelier 17, Paris, who guided me towards a more meaningful effort at every stage of the book. |
| Grateful thanks are also extended to the many museums and galleries for granting me permission to reproduce prints in their collections. Most of the black and white prints are the works of my students and my sincere appreciation is extended to them for their cooperation. |
| I also wish to acknowledge the assistance of Luis R. Cancel, Director, The Bronx Museum of the Arts. The museum is establishing a collection of works on paper of artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America and organized a retrospective exhibition of my work in 1982. Mr. Cancel read and commented on the work in progress and arranged for the loan of an IBM PC by the Bronx Museum which facilitated the creation of the manuscript for this book. |
| I also gratefully acknowledge the kindness and cooperation of Dr. Rustum Roy, Director of Materials Research Lab at Penn State University, and Dr. Dennis Kunkel, Department Of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, two great scientists who freely gave invaluable help in providing me with microscopic photographs of an assortment of crystals and other materials. |
| Special thanks to William Eastman, Director of SUNY Press for his initiative, and to Carola Sautter, Acquisitions Editor with SUNY Press, and Sushila Blackman, Graphic Designer, for their deep involvement in helping to give this book its present form. |
| And finally, I wish to express my deep appreciation to my wife Judy Blum and to my daughter Apu, for their invaluable help and advice in the conversion of the manuscript to an actual book. |
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