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Hardcover. US, Prestel Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, This comprehensive monograph explores the conceptual complexity and diversity of Claes Oldenburg's early work to reveal this influential artist's extraordinary inventiveness. Accompanying an exhibition of Oldenburg's seminal early work, this publication examines the breadth of his artistic career from the late 1950s to 1970. It features works including the landmark installations The Street and The Store and their accompanying performances; the highly influential spectacular sculptures of everyday objects as well as drawings and preparatory collages for public projects from the 1960s. The book traces the development of Oldenburg's practice as it follows his work up to the Mouse Museum. Also included in the publication is an extensive chronology, alongside notes as well as a variety of installation views that showcase the careful consideration given to modes of presentation. In addition to imagery of his Pop icons, this richly illustrated book contains an extensive selection of drawings, collages, and magazine and newspaper clippings as well as a wealth of previously unpublished notebook pages, preparatory studies, and photographs taken by the artist. This volume probes diverse aspects of his work to offer fresh perspectives on Oldenburg's artistic development and unprecedented insights into the conceptual process of his artistic explorations.Gash through dust jacket on front cover.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear to wrappers, mild damp stain to rear cover. Previous owner's writing, underlining to several pages.

Hardcover. Seattle, Salisbury Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Book with original wrap around band on cover. A nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Funny Garbage Press, 1st, 2001, Hardcover, 212 pages. Legendary underground cartoonist Panter's comics are typically anarchic and fun, but they also delve deeper. First produced in 1983, Cola Madness is published here in book form for the first time. The work stars Jimbo, Panter's enduring punk everyman, sharing billing with a cast of idiosyncratic characters including Bob War; his calamitous brother, Uncle Garcia, a smart-talking dinosaur and beleaguered guardian in a bathrobe; and Kokomo, a native in an unspecified tropical land colonized by oil companies. Posited as the hallucinatory fever dream of Kokomo, Panter's farce follows Jimbo's misadventures as he tries to get a Moka Cola at the local Jack-in-the-McTacos, the whole zany affair culminating in an absurd, scatological climax at an automated fast food restaurant. Panter delivers a visionary response to contemporary American life viewed through the wrong end of some cosmic telescope. This delightfully inane story offers a selection of Panter's themes: humanity's troubled relationship with nature and technology; the tension between restraint and the uncontrollable urge; family relationships; and Jimbo's endearing, comical self-doubt. Panter's black and white "ratty line" drawing style offers great economy while suggesting a broad range of graphic style from art brut to bathroom graffiti, and calls to mind the works of legendary cartoonists Jack Kirby and Osamu Tezuka.

Hardcover. New York, W. Colston Leigh, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt titles on front and spine, unpaginated, b&w cartoons throughout, drawings from Judge, The Bystander, Life, New Yorker and College Humor. SIGNED BY BAIRNSFATHER on the front fly leaf. Mild crease to first four pages, tight and clean copy.

Softcover. Baltimore MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages, b/w illustrations, softcover. These 4 cartoonists worked at the New Yorker between 1925 and 1975, mocking the status quo without alienating that magazine's readers. For many aficionados of the New Yorker magazine, the drawings of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg epitomize its sophisticated wit and disarming humor. In The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg, the first full-scale scholarly study of the subject, Iain Topliss considers the work of each artist, traces the development of his art, and recalls the cultural and social context in which it was created.

Softcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages, color illustrations. Eighty-two comic artists are featured, varying greatly in age, experience, and style. Each artist is introduced with a few paragraphs including some biographical material and quotations regarding their style, influences, and approach to their work, followed by approximately four large pages per artist of previously unpublished doodle or draft drawings from their sketchbooks, totaling 700 individual illustrations.

Softcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages, color illustrations. Eighty-two comic artists are featured, varying greatly in age, experience, and style. Each artist is introduced with a few paragraphs including some biographical material and quotations regarding their style, influences, and approach to their work, followed by approximately four large pages per artist of previously unpublished doodle or draft drawings from their sketchbooks, totaling 700 individual illustrations.

Softcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 2012, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. 700 illustrations in black & white and color throughout.

Hardcover. Milwaukie, OR, Dark Horse Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 500 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Features 670 illustrations and photos. This lavish volume takes an in-depth look at the history of comics in a manner decidedly unlike the dry timelines and profiles of most reference-style titles.Containing countless stories gleaned from over 150 interviews of comics industry veterans, Comics Between the Panels is loaded with more than half a century of insider information on the talented and eccentric creators who forged the comics industry and art form.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Ohio, North Light Books, 1st, March 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 134 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. Explains the role of caricature, tells how to develop a personal style, and includes profiles and work by top caricaturists. No dj issued.

Hardcover. Los Angeles Times, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 208 pages. Profusely illustrated with the best work of one of the leading political cartoonists of the 20th century, Paul Conrad (1923-2010). This extraordinary retrospective collection, containing more than 300 cartoons, from 1963 to the present, displays the wit, strong opinion and skillful drawing that have won Conrad three Pulitzer prizes and numerous other awards for excellence in journalism. The cartoons, arranged by decade, represent the work of a man who has become a legend in cartooning and an institution in American journalism. The book is very good. The DJ has some light edge wear.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with still in publishers shrink wrap. Visions of an American Dreamland highlights more than 200 images from Coney Island's history, including paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, posters, film stills, architectural artifacts, and carousel animals.

Softcover. UK, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages. Mostly b&w, some color. Features essays and illustrations of Constable's drawings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 528 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. A very clean, tight copy in great condition. This book is the first comprehensive account of Gabo's life, career, and artistic theory and practice. Martin Hammer and Christina Lodder explore in detail the evolution of the artist's work and his aesthetic concerns, creative processes, assimilation of such new materials as plastic, and approach to public sculpture. Drawing on Gabo's extensive and largely unpublished archives of letters, diaries, notebooks, models, and sketchbooks, they discuss the sculptor's work in the context of his relations with other avant-garde artists, architects, and critics, including his brother Antoine Pevsner.

Hardcover. Leipzig, E.A. Seemann, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 132 pages of German text followed by 264 b&w plates. A catalog of nature studies by the artist, mostly botanical. Cclean copy.

Hardcover. Levine Querido, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. Color illustrations throughout. From the creator of The Arrival, a collection of essays illuminating his thoughts and advice for writers and artists, young and old. Shaun Tan is one of the world's most highly acclaimed narrative artists. His stories and images are loved by countless young and not-so-young readers around the world. Drawing upon 25 years as a picture book and comics creator, painter, and film-maker, Creature explores the central obsession of this visionary artist, from casual doodles to studied oil-paintings. Beyond sketches for acclaimed works such as The Arrival, The Lost Thing, and Tales From Outer Suburbia, this volume collects together for the first time unseen and stand-alone illustrations, each resonant with unwritten tales of their own. Detailed commentary by the artist offers an entertaining insight into the endless allure of imaginary, non-human beings and what they might tell us about our so-called "normal" human selves. Artists, writers, students, dreamers, and anyone interested in the deeper undercurrents of creativity, myth, and visual metaphor will find inspiration in these pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover,112 pages. Original color illustrated wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. Outline guide to the objects used in upper Sepik River rituals and the context in which they are employed. Based on author's field trips to the region in 1964, 1965, and mainly 1967. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings throughout.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Dust jacket art and b&w drawings by Marvin Friedman. A young girl's difficulties with her family and her religion result in a consciousness-raising trip to Israel. Joanne reads the Torah to escape from her nonreligious Jewish family,who prefer her younger sister's company. She decides to go to Israel for a year and is waylaid by a horrible terrorist incident, which helps her to see her life freshly. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Unicorn Press Ltd, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. Many color illustrations and photographs throughout. Artist David Shillinglaw is as comfortable in the street as in the studio, as likely to paint on found objects as on canvas, as interested in tiny hand-made artist's books as in large-scale public murals. His mural in the Olympic Park in East London is the longest mural ever commissioned in Great Britain, while his brilliantly inventive creations enliven construction hoardings throughout London's changing cityscape. The Dance of 1000 Faces is the first book to gather a significant number of Shillinglaw's works. It presents his art in full color in all its many forms: not only paintings and murals, but journals drawings, sketches, and more. It reveals Shillinglaw's particular genius for depictions--and distortions--of the human face, grimacing and grinning, shifting and shaping as it becomes no one and everyone at once.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Swiss artist Daniele Buetti is notorious for his defaced photographs of supermodels, which feature scars, tattoos and disenchanted fragments of text. Buetti has been questioning the socially determined constructs of beauty and the commodification of sexuality and glamour since the 1980s. His altered photographs--large-scale C-prints on aluminum or light-boxes--have messages like "How much is my body worth?" and "What shall I hope for?" scrawled across them in electric colors. Buetti also often energetically scratches out or draws over portions of the image in a manner that recalls the destructive doodling of a truculent adolescent. Maybe You Can Be One of Us focuses on Buetti's recent drawings, videos, sculptures and installations. In these newer pieces, the fashion models give way to enigmatic illustrative symbols, such as two disembodied hands conjuring a puff of smoke. This publication accompanies an exhibition of new work at the Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art in New York.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped in b&w on the front color, gilt lettering on the spine. Robinson (1833-1900) was a noted Quaker author from a well-respected and artistic Vermont family whose writings and art captured the dialect, culture and time of pre-Civil War Vermont, set in the imaginary town of Danvis, largely drawing from his the inhabitants and experiences of Ferrisburgh, VT. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Rome, Institut Suisse De Rome, 1st Edition, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 159 pages followed by 46 plates in black & white. Hardcover limited edition to 800 copies in German Text. White cloth boards with brick titles to spine. Previous owner's name to front flyleaf. Spotting, foxing to preliminary pages & edges. Dust jacket with light foxing, now protected with plastic cover. Plates detail fresco cycle of the Oratorio di San Giovanni Decollato in Rome commissioned by the Florentine confraternity of the Misericordia, related drawings & sculptures. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 256 pages, 163 color plates, roughly 150 figures, most in color. 4to, cloth. The full range of Hockney's portrait work in all media - painting, drawing, photographs, and prints - from the past 50 years is given a thorough overview in this well-illustrated exhibition catalogue. Featured subjects include members of Hockney's family and private circle, as well as portraits of artists and cultural figures.