Flick, Robbert. Robbert Flick: Selected Works, 1971-1981.

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1982. Interview of the artist by Susan Larsen. Essay by Mark Johnstone. Exhibit catalog, 47 pages, includes checklist and portrait of the artist, bibliography, collections, and chronology. Illustrated wraps, first edition of 500 copies. Near fine with minor rubbing on cover and gallery courtesy card affixed to front free end paper.  Summary:

Robbert Flick: Selected Works, 1971–1981 (published in 1982 by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery) is a 47-page exhibition catalogue documenting a decade of pivotal conceptual landscape photography by Dutch-born American artist Robbert Flick.

Key Details & Summary

• Scope & Concept: Published to accompany Flick's major retrospective at the Barnsdall Park gallery (February–March 1982), the volume surveys his decade-long transition from minimalist regional documentary to complex, structural urban studies.

• Core Series & Work Included:

  • Midwest Diary (1971–1976): Minimalist black-and-white images depicting the vast, rural landscapes and spatial relationships of the American Midwest.

  • Arena (1977–1979): An intensive, two-year study of a single parking structure, translating an ordinary utilitarian space into formal compositions of light, geometric shadows, and perspective.

  • Sequential Views (1980–1981): Early examples of his signature contact-sheet grids, where dozens of systematically shot frames (such as streetscapes across Southern California) are organized into large visual matrices that resemble filmstrips or architectural blueprints.

• Contributors & Critical Content: Features an essay by art critic and author Mark Johnstone, an in-depth interview with the artist conducted by Susan Larsen, and a detailed checklist of works alongside a biographical timeline.

• Robbert Flick (born 1939) is a Dutch-born American conceptual artist and photographer renowned for his systematic, grid-based visual explorations of urban and natural landscapes. Born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, Flick emigrated to North America, earning his B.A. from the University of British Columbia and his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Over a distinguished career spanning several decades—during which he also served as a long-time professor of fine arts at the University of Southern California—Flick developed a distinctive methodology that challenged traditional single-frame landscape photography. He is best known for his "Sequential Views" and grid-matrix contact sheets, created by taking photos at precise, sequential intervals while moving through an area to capture a rhythmic, multi-perspective sense of space and time. Flick's work has been featured in major retrospectives, including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and is held in prominent public collections worldwide, earning him honors such as a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple National Endowment for the Arts grants.