Hardcover. Chicago, Volland Company, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards with brown cloth spine, unpaginated, but roughly 60 pages of 2-color cartoons from the noted artist and satirist. Each drawing is aptly accompanied by a short verse by Nesbit. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York , George Braziller , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, illustrated throughout with 65 plates in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This volume gathers together all the extant pastels of Eugene Delacroix (1798-1862), the leader of the French Romantic movement in painting, the greatest colorist and the most versatile master of the first half of the nineteenth century. These beautiful pastels, housed in collections from London to Los Angeles to Cairo, are rarely exhibited due to their fragility.
Hardcover. NY, Marvel, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 248 pages. Collects Marvel Westerns from the 1960s: Marvel Comics has a long history of producing comics in the western genre, going back as far as the 1940s, before the company was even called Marvel. Some of their most popular gunfighters, like the Rawhide Kid, Two-Gun Kid, and Kid Colt, even hung on well after the superhero explosion of the 1960s, but it's been a long time since Marvel put any effort into its western universe. In this volume they attempt to harken back to their cowboy glory days by publishing a four-issue series called Marvel Westerns, which combines classic 1960s stories by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby with 21st-century interpretations of Marvel's classic western heroes. This hardcover contains the four issues of that series, along with some supplemental material. The Two-Gun Kid, Marvel Westerns: Western Legends, Marvel Westerns: Kid Colt and the Arizona Girl, Marvel Westerns: Strange Westerns Starring the Black Rider. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Art of the Defeat provides an unflinching look at the art scene in France during the German occupation. Black and white photographs throughout.
Hardcover. Rome , Compagnia Edizioni Internazionali, Reprint , 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages. Hardcover. Numerous full color illustrations. Illustrated flyleaves and endpapers. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on frontispiece. Gray and white dust jacket with full color illustration on the front. Light edgewear and foxing on top edge.
Hardcover. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Illustrated with black & white portraits and paintings. When Peter Paul Rubens died in 1640 he left an indestructible reputation as one of the world's great painters. In every sense Baroque, his paintings have a wonderful fluidity, a powerful sensuality, a beauty and richness of color and texture. His prolific output included some 1,300 paintings (compare this with Leonardo's twenty and Vermeer's thirty-six) as well as books of engravings, architectural drawings, and sketches. He also left a beautiful young wife, a vast personal fortune, a palatial house in Antwerp, and collections of old masters, antiquities, precious stones, and silver work. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperOne, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 208 pages. B&w art throughout by Krans. Visionary artist and New York Times bestselling author of The Wild Unknown Kim Krans returns with a decadently illustrated and incredibly raw graphic memoir that chronicles her multi-layered search for truth and recovery from an eating disorder and infertility in the throes of a health and wellness-obsessed culture, touching on the healing potentials of creativity and spirituality. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. Koln GR, Jablonka Galerie, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, photographs and drawings in b&w by Warhol. Small format book for an exhibition held in Germany in the late 1990s. Dust jacket and book in excellent condition.
Softcover. Rochester NY, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages, paperback. Fictions and the fictions of theory from acclaimed theorist of film. With a foreword by Annette Michelson. Mild rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Light bumping to spine. Previous owner's signature to front endpapers. Scarce. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Underwood Books, 1st, 2008, Hardcover in a pictorial slipcase. Fantasy art's most popular painter was also one of the most popular comic book illustrators during the industry's golden age. Telling Stories: The Classic Comic Art of Frank Frazetta celebrates the rare and largely forgotten stories created five decades ago by this iconic artist. These jungle adventures, true-life tales of heroism, and dreamy love stories not only exhibit the skill of a master craftsman but also provide tantalizing glimpses of where the young artist's career would ultimately take him. This collection includes his complete Thunda tales and best romance works like "Untamed Love," "Empty Heart," "A Love of My Own," "The Wrong Road," and "Too Late for Love." These romance stories, often overlooked, feature some of Frazetta's finest works with shapely women, nude statues, and implied sensuality. Also featured are his heroic works such as Heroic Comics, White Indian, and the long-running series ME, alongside Squeeze Play, his one and only solo-drawn story for EC. Additionally, there are rare SF stories such as Captain Comet and Judy of the Jungle, along with his best and most obscure late 1940s works. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout. In the 1960s, fashion changed dramatically. At the end of the 1950s, Yves Saint Laurent was starting to look for new ways to define the female form; by the 1970s, styles, markets, materials, demographics, inspirations, and the very definition of fashion had been utterly transformed. Richly illustrated with contemporary imagery, including fashion shots, advertising, and magazine features, this is an essential sourcebook. The story begins with the new internationalism that changed the fashion landscape as New York, San Francisco, Florence, London, Madrid, Rome, and Hong Kong challenged the dominance of Paris haute couture. 306 illustrations, 176 in color.
Softcover. England, UK, FAB Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgwear to wrappers. Graphic Thrills Volume Two proudly assembles another stunning selection of debauched and innuendo-packed theatrical film posters, with glorious unabashed sexuality dripping from every page. These joyous and colourful odes to sultry sin were designed to hang in the lobbies and front windows of the porno theaters and grindhouses of yesteryear.
Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press/Phaidon, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Some agewear to dust jacket, but no rips and still shiny. Previous owner inscription on title page. A touch of foxing to back pages, but doesn't affect text. In very good condition.
Softcover. Portland OR, Timber Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages, illustrated mostly in b&w, some color. The author gives detailed advice on working in pencil, pen, scraper board, watercolor and gouache, and acrylics; on building up a drawing or painting by stages; on taking measurements and understanding plant structure; on collecting, handling and preserving plant material; and on the use of the hand lens and dissecting microscope. The accurate observation and the techniques that he advocates are equally applicable to the disciplined requirements of providing plates for the scientific press and to illustrations for more popular work or to drawing for pleasure. Essential botanical terms and information are fully explained and illustrated, and there is a glossary. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. A rare and poignant compilation of photography and written anecdotes by American photographer and artist Lee Jaffe that captures his close friendship, collaboration, and travels with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat as they traversed Japan, Thailand, and Switzerland in 1983. Lee Jaffe, a cross-disciplinary visual artist, musician, and poet, took photos of his friend, Jean-Michel Basquiat, when they traveled abroad in 1983. As a photographer, Jaffe had a connection to Basquiat, and their time spent together resulted in an archive of imagery that captured one of the art world's true legends through an unfiltered and authentic lens. Basquiat and Jaffe connected over reggae music at a mutual friend's art show. It was the early 1980s in New York, when the art scene was raw, complicated, and thriving, and Jaffe cultivated strong connections with cultural figures such as Basquiat, Bob Marley, and Peter Tosh. "For me, watching him [ Jean] paint reminded me of the times I would sit and play harmonica while Bob Marley, with his acoustic guitar, would be writing songs that were eventually to become classics," Jaffe says. "With Jean and Bob, it seemed like they were channeling inspiration coming from an otherworldly place." This beautiful volume presents snapshots of Basquiat: from the artist smiling on a bullet train to Kyoto and behind-the-scenes documentation of Basquiat creating artwork in St. Moritz, to poignant portraits that mirror his undeniable magnetism. These rare depictions of Basquiat come to life with Jaffe's unforgettable experiences of their friendship, collaborations, and travels detailed in private written memories and anecdotes. This insightful and moving illustrated volume captures the soul of the unedited, ambitious, young artist during the height of his short yet unprecedented artistic career.
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, 120 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy. The third volume of the popular "Arf" series, Arf Forum, runs the gamut from Krazy Kat's kartoonist George Herriman to heartbreak rocker Elvis Presley, Spider-Man's Stan Lee to New Yorker cartoonist Otto Soglow, Little Nemo's Winsor McCay to silent-film star Charlie Chaplin, Nancy's Ernie Bushmiller to Surrealist Max Ernst.
Hardcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a translucent dust jacket with 5 cut-outs enclosed (as called for), jacket with the usual darkening to edges and spine; The catalog for the 1972 major exhibition at MOMA, providing an excellent survey of modern Italian design and associated radical architectural movements. With articles on the history of modern Italian design by Portoghesi, Benevolo, and Gregotti, and articles on architecture by Celant and Tafuri. 430 pages with 520 photographic images and illustrations of which 124 are in color offering a kaleidescopic yet comprehensive vision of Italian design, objects and environments. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. 60 pages, 15 color and 1 b&w illustration. Text in German and English. With a chronology. This is the hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with noted Leipzig-based artist Neo Rauch's 2004 exhibition of recent large scale works on paper held at Vienna's Albertina. Essay by Harald Kunde.
Hardcover. New York, Scalo Verlag , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Thisbook contains a never-before published series of work from the early 1980s: Mikhailov photographed ''The Dancers'' in his hometown in the Ukraine during a period when the former Soviet Union was a reality, before the appearance of Gorbachov and "perestroika". We observe the open-air dancing scene with great astonishment; seeing older and younger people enjoy themselves in a way that might be contradictory to the images we might have about everyday life in the old Soviet Union. These cheerful images remind us how little women and men need to have a good time. An essay by Russian art critic Boris Groys and an exhaustive interview make this volume a must have for readers and libraries interested in contemporary art and photography. 65 duotone illustrations.
Softcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 113 pages illustrated in color. Fading to spine. Letter from artist laid-in SIGNED BY FRANKENTHALER with a handwritten p.s. at bottom. On Frankenthaler's letterhead stationary. Also related ephemera, reviews also laid in. Invitation to exhibition taped to inside front cover.
Hardcover. London/NY, The Studio Ltd., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with white stamping. 192 pages, 150 beautiful b&w woodcuts from the era. Review slip laid in, former copy of American illustrator Aldren Watson with his stamp on half-title page. Minor fraying to top of cloth spine.Otherwise a tight, clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Disney Editions, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. One Joe was in his ninety-seventh year when he died in 2005; the other Joe died the same year at age forty-five. Both died before their time. This book explores the interplay between personal creativity and the craft of animation storytelling, as seen through the lives and art of two of its greatest practitioners: Joe Grant and Joe Ranft.Grant and Ranft were unique influences on storytelling at two major studios during important periods in the history of animation. Joe Grant, in fact, straddled two eras. A gifted newspaper caricaturist, he contributed ideas for Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony shorts as well as classic masterworks like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Pinocchio; Fantasia; and Dumbo. As Walt Disney's confidant, Grant played a leading role in defining Disney's pioneering animation legacy. He returned to the studio at eighty-one after a fortyyear hiatus, his creative spirit and abilities undiminished, and made significant contributions to Beauty and the Beast; Aladdin; Mulan; and The Lion King, among others.Joe Ranft built on the traditions of the past forged by Grant and others to become the top animation storyboard artist of his generation, working on Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas; The Brave Little Toaster; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; James and the Giant Peach; The Little Mermaid; and Beauty and the Beast, among other films. As one of Pixar's creative founders and a close friend of John Lasseter's, Ranft had a major influence on the studio's signature originality, warmth, and irreverent humor, through his contributions to Toy Story; Toy Story 2; A Bug's Life; Monsters, Inc.; and Cars.
Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket, 230 pages illustrated with b&w photos. A series of articles by Francoise Choay, Herbert Read, Marcel Breuer, and others, on the role of man-made objects in 20th-Century society. Small owner's sticker on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Phaidon, 1st pbk, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 9 x 10". 448 pages. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was one of the most innovative painters of his time, and one of the most momentous artists of any era. Rescued from neglect, he has become a cultural icon in the late twentieth century, not only for his art but also because of his violent and tragic life. Catherine Puglisi's highly praised monograph, supersedes all previous studies of the artist by far. Making full use of the latest research and a series of dramatic recent discoveries, she has produced a concise, clear-headed and comprehensive work of scholarship that also provides a moving biography of the artist and an incisive deconstruction of the genius with which he absorbed and transformed the artistic tradition of his time. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 367 pages, a graphic novel illustrated in color by Igort. Color illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued. After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia, collecting the stories of the survivors and witnesses to Soviet rule, masterful Italian graphic novelist Igort was compelled to illuminate two shadowy moments in recent history: the Ukraine famine and the assassination of a Russian journalist. Now he brings those stories to new life with in-depth reporting and deep compassion. In The Russian Notebooks, Igort investigates the murder of award-winning journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkoyskaya. Anna spoke out frequently against the Second Chechen War, criticizing Vladimir Putin. For her work, she was detained, poisoned, and ultimately murdered. Igort follows in her tracks, detailing Anna's assassination and the stories of abuse, murder, abduction, and torture that Russia was so desperate to censor. In The Ukrainian Notebooks, Igort reaches further back in history and illustrates the events of the 1932 Holodomor. Little known outside of the Ukraine, the Holodomor was a government-sanctioned famine, a peacetime atrocity during Stalin's rule that killed anywhere from 1.8 to twelve million ethnic Ukrainians. Told through interviews with the people who lived through it, Igort paints a harrowing picture of hunger and cruelty under Soviet rule.
Hardcover. NY, William Helburn, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver stamping. Folio, 9 1/4 X 13 1/2". 80 plates printed on one side only, most in color. No date given but appears to be late 20s/1930. With architect Albert Kahn's ownership signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Covers with edgewear but interior is clean and bright. Bookplate on inside front cover. Scarce. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Name and date on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean and bright copy. Published in conjunction with the first solo museum exhibition of the work of Sanja Ivekovic in the United States, this volume is the most comprehensive survey on the artist available in English. A feminist, activist and video and performance pioneer, Ivekovic came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian Spring, when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings. This catalogue presents an overview of the artist's projects from the early 1970s to 2011 in all mediums, offering a fascinating view of gender roles, the official politics of power and the paradoxes inherent in a society's collective memory. Featured works include Ivekovic's historic single-channel videos, performances and sculptural installations as well as a selection from Double Life (1975-76), her celebrated series of 64 photocollages. Weaving together art-historical analysis and political theory, the publication offers a critical examination of the neo-avant-garde in former Yugoslavia and investigates the theme of violence in art.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 458 pages, b&w illustrations. Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography. Even today remembered primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, the once infamous photographer, Wagstaff, in fact, had an incalculable-and largely overlooked-influence on the world of contemporary art and photography, and on the evolution of gay identity in the latter part of the twentieth century. Born in New York City in 1921 into a notable family, Wagstaff followed an arc that was typical of a young man of his class. He attended both Hotchkiss and Yale, served in the navy, and would follow in step with his Ivy League classmates to the "gentleman's profession," as an ad executive on Madison Avenue. With his unmistakably good looks, he projected an aura of glamour and was cited by newspapers as one of the most eligible bachelors of the late 1940s. Such accounts proved deceiving, for Wagstaff was forced to live in the closet, his homosexuality only revealed to a small circle of friends. Increasingly uncomfortable with his career and this double life, he abandoned advertising, turned to the formal study of art history, and embarked on a radical personal transformation that was in perfect harmony with the tumultuous social, cultural, and sexual upheavals of the 1960s.
Softcover. NY, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, digest size. Articles on Norman Rockwell (The People's Painter) and Milton Caniff (Secrets of a Comic Strip Artist). Nice copy. Wrap-around cover illustrations by Stan Eckman.
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white illustrations throughout. At the age of 21, Gene Deitch discovered The Record Changer, a jazz fan magazine. Every jazz swinger in the '40s was called a "cat," so Gene Deitch created a cartoon feature titled "The Cat," which quickly became a fixture of the magazine. He also started drawing the covers, which graced almost every issue from 1945 to 1951. Deitch's stylistically virtuoso images exquisitely embodied the essence of the 1950s hipster, and was a visual paean to the joy of collecting records and appreciating jazz. The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove collects all of Deitch's Record Changer work in one gorgeous, coffee-table art book, with commentary and reminiscences by Deitch himself.
Hardcover. Merrell, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers with silver lettering. 191 pages, color plates. The first representative overview of Tooker's work for thirty years, provides a much-deserved and comprehensive examination of the scope of his art. In essays comprising new research and offering fresh insights, it explores his passion for composition, his spirituality and his exploration of identity. Featuring superb reproductions of more than eighty of the artist's timeless images, the book also enables readers to see the unexpected ways in which Tooker's work echoes what has been considered avant-garde in American art and to appreciate the depth of his resonant, prescient imagery. A major new study of one of America's most influential modern painters. Clean copy.
Philadelphia, Saturday Evening Post, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, His date bowling a strike as he looks amazed. Painting by George Hughes. Approx 9 X 12". No label.PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 2nd Printing, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. 125 full color plates. A rare insight into the mind of the greatest painter of our time. Usually reluctant to speak about his work, Freud has agreed to enter into a conversation on painting with writer Sebastian Smee. Photographs taken by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson.
Softcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 160 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Trailer Travel showcases the rich visual history of America's enduring fascination with life on the road. Beautifully reproduced color and black-and-white images culled from public archives and the private collections of passionate trailerites vividly document the travel trailer?s storied past. This engaging volume offers a look at motor-camping trips in the early 1900s, the unparalleled innovations in trailer design during the thirties, rare and unique trailer models and interiors, and an extensive array of bold and graphic promotional material, literature, and postcards that illustrate the undeniable attraction of living on wheels.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. 163 color illustrations throughout.
Softcover. NY, Peacock Press/Bantam Book, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 92 pages, 40 color plates, 5 text illustrations. Introduction by Rowland Elzea. A collection of vibrantly colorful reproductions of the paintings which preceded Surrealism by Victorian dream artists who combined illusion with reality. Each facing page shows a painting, with the following being its title, artist, date, and location. Includes such well-known paintings as "The Lady of Shallot", "The Escape of the Heretic", "Ophelia", and similar works. Mild wrinkle to top edge of last 8 pages. Clean copy.
Softcover. Cambridge, Komatik Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format. In 1917, while still in art school, Edward Shenton joined Company B, 103rd Engineers of the Pennsylvania National Guard. He stocked up on art materials, including many canvas-bound sketchbooks and a watercolor set, and went off to train and fight. Much of the war he witnessed made their way into his sketchbooks. When Ed returned home, no one wanted to hear about the war, much less see images of the horrors of battle. He went back to art school and his sketches were put away and forgotten. He had a brilliant career as an illustrator. His drawings graced the cover of Scribner's Magazine for ten years and embellished books by, among others, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolf.Edward Shenton had a long career as an outstanding illustrator, author, and teacher and, after a very full life, died at the age of eighty-two. Nine decades after they were put away, his son came across Ed's sketchbooks and he and I decided that they, along with his father's wartime story, had to be shared with the world.
Hardcover. New York, PaceWildenstein, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sun fading to dust jacket spine and front cover. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color works throughout as well as black & white and color film stills. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2nd Pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 251 pages, with her photo-illustrated dust jacket. Who speaks? Who is silent? Who is seen? Who is absent? These questions focus on how cultures are constructed through pictures and words, how we are seduced into a world of appearances: into a pose of who we are and aren't. On both an emotional and an economic level, images and texts have the power to make us rich or poor. In these essays and reviews, written over the last decade, Barbara Kruger addresses that power with intelligence and wit, in the hope of engaging both our criticality and our dreams of affirmation.Barbara Kruger is an artist whose pictures and words engage issues of power, sex, money, difference, and death. Her work has appeared throughout America, Europe, and Japan in galleries, newspapers, magazines, and museums and on billboards, matchbooks, TV programs, t-shirts, postcards, and shopping bags. She has written about television, film, and cultures for Artforum, Esquire, the New York Times, and the Village Voice.
Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages. Tan cloth covers, black stamped titles, laminate dust jacket with color illustration, 32 full-page color plates, chronology. Light rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, clean covers, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price clipped dust jacket with a short closed tear to rear panel. Writer and cartoonist Ted Geisel was a successful illustrator for humor magazines before he became children's book author Dr. Seuss. In 1925, he had graduated from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, then developed comic masterpieces for a dozen years. The contents herein were drawn from those collections. Collected are essays of surrealism and literary nonsense including confessions on spying on General Grant during the Civil War; Cartoon essays supported by art creatures: Piscozooavistical Studies of Boids and Beasties; 17 full-page cartoon fantasies; Cartoon advertisements for Flit insecticide.
Hardcover. New York, Greystone Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages, 56 b&w illustrations by Gard. Introduction by Walter Terry. Collection of 56 full page caricatures of prominent ballet figures including dancers, choreographers, composers and producers. Illustrated boards with faded color, light soil. Interior clean, with bright plates.
Softcover. Philadelphia, Pa. , Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 211 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial gray stiff wrappers. Light wear and rubbing to edges and spine, lower front corner dog-eared, else a very nice, tight copy.
1949, Book: Very Good, Color art of cleaning woman eyeing clock ticking down to midnight by Constantine Alajalov. 10 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. Pennsylvania, Hermes Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Featuring artwork by the legendary Jerry Iger Studio and Brenda Starr Creator Gale Messick, this volume presents the remaining four Brenda Starr Pre-Code books, issues #9-12, and the very mod and 1960's version of Brenda drawn and scripted by Dale Messick. In addition to presenting Brenda Starr stories, this reprint also boasts all of the scintillating back-up features.