american art

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Hardcover. Scalo, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. The catalogue to Robert Frank's (born 1924) 2001 exhibition at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. Though the artist is best known for his seminal photobook The Americans (1959) and his experimental film Pull My Daisy (1959), until this publication, little scholarship existed on the intersection between Frank's work in the disciplines of photography and film. Hold Still, Keep Going fills that void, exploring the influence of film on Frank's photographic work, and the interaction between the still and moving image that has engaged the photographer and experimental filmmaker since the late 1950s. The book adopts a nonchronological approach, including photographs, film stills, 35mm filmstrips, as well as photomontages that present Frank's most famous series alongside less known work; from these varied contents, the volume offers revealing juxtapositions, rendering the seemingly disjointed arc of Frank's art more cohesive. Text, from handwritten phrases on photographs (of which "HOLD STILL-keep going" is but one example) to the dialogue in his films, emerges as a crucial tool, one that is also central to Frank's photo-diaries. Including a new essay from Tobia Bezzola, director of the Museum Folkwang, this edition highlights some of the more obscure work by perhaps the world's best-known living photographer, and is an essential addition to all photography and film collections.

Hardcover. Scalo, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 104 pages. Selected as the United States representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale, the sculptor and installation artist Robert Gober has, thanks to several major museum exhibitions in recent years, established himself as perhaps the most important artist of his generation, thanks to his symbolically charged re-creations of everyday objects that he makes into installations that question the ideals and values of childhood, family, home, and religion. This catalogue presents his work for the United States pavilion at the Biennale.

Softcover. Delaware, Delaware Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial green wrappers, full-cover color painting on front cover. 174 pages, profusely illustrated in b/w, some color. Back cover slightly scratched and spine slightly worn, otherwise, tight, clean copy. Essay by Helen Farr Sloan, catalogue and prologue by Bennard B. Perlman. Chronology, bibliography, list of exhibitions. Catalogue lists 100 works.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, May 11, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages, illustrated throughout. Very clean and tight copy. Although lumped together with Pop artists such as Roy Liechtenstein and Andy Warhol, and often the movement's spokesperson, Indiana and his paintings actually have an uneasy fit in Pop company, mostly because his work isn't grounded in the commodity-oriented (Campbell Soup) realism of most Pop Art. Instead, his work engages with literature and poetry and with the popular rhetoric of the American dream-all permeated by the particularities of his upbringing and life. Ryan's dual accomplishments are in articulating the dynamics of Indiana's art-especially the connections between the artworks and the sources of imagery and themes in his own biography-and in rendering a sophisticated and judicious roundup of the Pop Art movement.

Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog of Robert Mapplethorpe's photography. 216 pages; 130 photographs, 45 in color. Text by Richard Marshall, Associate Curator, Exhibitions, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; essays by Richard Howard and Ingrid Sischy. In very good condition; small rubbing mark on back cover; no marks on front cover.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Scarce Motherwell catalogue, for the show at Princeton University Art Museum, January 5 - February 17 1973; introduction by Sam Hunter, texts by Harry B. Titus, Peter S. Rohowsky, and Deborah P. Strom; b&w plate illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Buffalo / NY, Albright-Knox / Abbeville Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 156 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Shows nearly a hundred of the American artist's paintings, includes an interview with Motherwell, and discusses the development of his career. Red pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wrinkle to back cover and minimal wear to edges, else like new.

Hardcover. US, D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Offers a look at selected photographs of American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008). "Gathers and surveys for the first time Rauschenberg's numerous uses of photography. This publication includes portraits of friends such as Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham and John Cage, studio shots, photographs used in the Combines and Silkscreen paintings, photographs of lost artworks and works in process.

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Autobiography, bibliography. Book designed by Rauschenberg. Acetate dust jacket with chip to top of spine, small tear to rear panel at bottom. Otherwise crisp, clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Prestel Publishing, unknown, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in color. Text in German and English. Essay by Veit Loers and photography by Lesley Leslie-Spinks. Pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear to edges and spine. Wrinkle and light rubbing to front cover. Overall a nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 178 pages, with illustrations by the author and photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Rocky Neck Art Colony, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages illustrated throughout with over 130 plates in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, 143 pages, color frontis., b&w plates. A pioneering exhibition, with essay and catalogue by James Thrall Soby and Dorothy C. Miller. The exhibition checklist cites 213 works by 121 artists, and nearly all are names you would recognize. More than 100 pieces are pictured here. One of 7500 copies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st US, October 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oversized. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges and corners. Inside is bright and clean, many b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, revised, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 107 pages. B&W and color plates. Illustrates beautifully the contemporary Southwest on canvas with vibrancy and refreshing perspective. Light blue pictorial cloth, silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket with minor wrinkles and smudges. Dust jacket folded off-center, otherwise a nice, clean and tight copy. "This comprehensive, expanded volume on Stefan and his work contains forty full-color reproductions of oils along with numerous black-and-white drawings, a panorama of the Southwest and a tribute to a fine painter."

Softcover. Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 90 pages, color and b&w illustrations. An exhibition catalog, not published in hardcover.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 197 pages + index, illustrated throughout in b&w. Maroon cloth spine, black boards. Pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine, slight scratch to front cover, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages, 102 b&w and 22 color plates. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color, black & white illustrations by Will Crawford. Dust jacket with some heavy chipping.

Hardcover. Madison, WI, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume dedicated to the rural art originating in Wisconsin. Discusses 30 different artists and contains illustrations (color and black/white) of their pieces. Good condition; cloth bound book shows some wear on the edges of the covers. No dust jacket. Commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the University of Wisconsin by means of the work of rural Wisconsin artists such as Ambrose G. Ammel, Joan Arend, John M. Black, WIlliam H. Boose, Frances Burt, Frank H. Engebretson, Francis D. Grady, Louis Grebetz, Rachel Gertrude Grimm, Lois Ireland, Arthur Johnson, and many more.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. Before there was Martha Stewart, there was Russel Wright (1904-1976), the great mid-century modern American designer who pioneered the concept of "easier living" for the middle class, a uniquely American lifestyle that was gracious but contemporary and informal. Yet despite Wright's enormous influence, there has been no major survey of his work until now. This handsome volume-which accompanies an exhibition at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City-showcases more than 125 of Wright's best designs for inexpensive, mass-produced dinnerware, textiles, and furniture. As the flurry of Wright auction activity on Ebay shows, there is a thriving collectors' market for his designs. 125 illustrations, 65 in full color, 176 pages, 71/2 x 10".

Hardcover. NY, Arcade, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Red gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Follows the rise and fall of Iraqi-born Jewish brothers from London, Charles and Maurice Saatchi, who created some of the most memorable ad campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s, and then in 1994 were ousted from their firm by an American shareholder revolt.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 419 pages. Saint-Gaudens was one of the major artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; his outstanding craftsmanship remains a tremendous influence on American sculpture to this day. Fifty-five b/w illustrations throughout.