art exhibition

Softcover. Sarasota FL, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 151 pages. Catalogue of an exhibition held May 14-July 18, 1982 at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. 151 pages: illustrations, some color.

Softcover. NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 194 pages. 32 plates, 32 B&W figures. Pictorial stiff wrapper with very slight wear and soiling to back cover. Frontispiece. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) has long been renowned for his Social Realist paintings of Depression-era America. Equally striking, however, are Shahn's extraordinary later works, which reveal a more introspective style as well as the evolution of a new allegorical and mythical pictorial language. This book combines beautiful reproductions of Shahn's art with essays by leading experts on his life and career to present a groundbreaking survey of his powerful and engaging mature style. The volume is published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition organized by The Jewish Museum, New York, to commemorate the centenary of Shahn's birth. The book contains more than one hundred illustrations, including thirty-two in color.

Softcover. Santa Monica, CA, Smart Art Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 34 items. Published for an exhibition of Burroughs' paintings from 1987 to 1996. Text and art by Burroughs, with color and B/W reproductions. Additional texts by Timothy Leary and Benjamin Weissman. No hardback issued. A scarce Burroughs title, in mint condition. 52 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor to wrappers.

Hardcover. London, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 160 pages, color illustrations. Published to coincide with the first ever exhibition dedicated to Constable's portraits, this book will present new scholarship and argue that many of these unexplored paintings are worthy of close attention, both for their contribution to the history of portraiture and for the insights they bring to a painter of international acclaim. Constable's sitters make up a 'Jane Austen' world, belonging to the middle and upper ranks of early nineteenth century provincial society: clergymen and their wives, landed gentry and families wealthy from trade. Clean copy.

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. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. Create and Be Recognized is the first survey of a compelling, always surprising art form -- outsider photography. Presented here is the work of seventeen largely self-taught artists who have used photography or photographic elements in their creations, including such luminaries as Adolf Wolfli, Howard Finster, and Henry Darger, as well as discoveries from little known, equally dramatic artists. As with most outsider art, the work here is fuelled by singular passions, marginalized mindsets, and extreme circumstances, falling outside mainstream picture-making. Employing collage (affixing photos or reproductions to a background), photocollage (photographs cut and pasted together to form a new whole), and tableaux (works based on manipulation and staging), the artists here present work that is, by turns, lyrical and frightening, and always fascinating. Published to coincide with a major touring exhibition of the same name originating at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Create and Be Recognized documents an emerging and important facet of contemporary photography.

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a nice dust jacket. Since 1970, Mizuno's work has evolved from functional dinnerware to abstract sculptural forms, from playful and humorous trompe l'oeil plates to richly layered sculpture informed by his evocative personal history, paralleling the development of the ceramics field itself in the late 20th century as it evolved from functional forms to a medium of full artistic expression. The exhibition is the first major museum exhibition to survey the work of this artist whose superbly crafted works, while firmly grounded in the traditions of the ceramic arts, extend to new forms in clay that defy traditional categories. This exhibition catalogue designed by Takaaki Matsumoto includes a forward, interview with the artist, a biography and exhibition history, and the exhibition checklist of 48 artworks. The exhibition and publication trace the work of this Japanese-born, Los Angeles-based ceramist from 1971 through 2003. Interview of the artist by Deborah McLeod, foreword by Museum Director Harold Nelson Format: hardcover Dimensions: 8-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches, 96 pages plus cover / 51 color plates. in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at the Long Beach Museum of Art November 18, 2005 through January 15, 2006.

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages, illustrated with 45 color plates. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Since 1970, Mizuno's work has evolved from functional dinnerware to abstract sculptural forms, from playful and humorous trompe l'oeil plates to richly layered sculpture informed by his evocative personal history, paralleling the development of the ceramics field itself in the late 20th century as it evolved from functional forms to a medium of full artistic expression. The exhibition is the first major museum exhibition to survey the work of this artist whose superbly crafted works, while firmly grounded in the traditions of the ceramic arts, extend to new forms in clay that defy traditional categories. This exhibition catalogue designed by Takaaki Matsumoto includes a forward, interview with the artist, a biography and exhibition history, and the exhibition checklist of 48 artworks. The exhibition and publication trace the work of this Japanese-born, Los Angeles-based ceramist from 1971 through 2003. ISBN 0-97127772-3-0 Published by the Long Beach Museum of Art Interview of the artist by Deborah McLeod, foreword by Museum Director Harold Nelson Format: hardcover Dimensions: 8-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches 96 page plus cover / 51 color plates.

Softcover. US, Prestel, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 424 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. No dust jacket, as issued. From the exhibition produced by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in partnership with the Museo Nacional de Belias Artes and the Fototeca de Cuba in Havana. A comprehensive history of Cuban art and design.

Hardcover. New York, D.A.P./The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Covered here are works by some 40 artists made in the period from circa 1916, when the Cabaret Voltaire was founded in Zurich, to 1926, by which time most of the Dada groups had dispersed or significantly transformed. The city sections bring together painting, sculpture, photography, collage, photomontage, prints and graphic work.Relying on dynamic design and vivid documentary images, Dada takes us through these six cities via topical essays and extensive plate sections; an illustrated chronology of the movement; witty chronicles of events in each city center; a selected bibliography; and biographies of each artist--accompanied by Dada-era photographs.

Softcover. Lewiston ME, Bates College, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 40 pages illustrated in color. A twenty year retrospective, May 20-August 26, 1990, Museum of Art, Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 238 pages, 150 color and b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. New Exhibition also at the Tate Modern, London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL.

Softcover. Spain, Fundacion La Caixa, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 284 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Beautiful color illustrations and photographs throughout.

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.

Softcover. London, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Essays by Marco Livingstone, Mark Glazebrook, Sarah Howgate, Edmund White and Barbara Stern Shapiro are followed by the section of 163 color plates, Notes on the sitters for the portraits, and an illustrated Chronology. A selected bibliography and index are also included.

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.

Softcover. Eugene, OR, University of Oregon Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Newport Beach CA, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, softcover exhibition catalog, illustrated in color and b&w. Essay by Betty Turnbull. Clean, tight copy. David Park, an artist who fused representational figuration with abstract expressionism and was one of the creators of the Bay Area Figurative style is featured here in a career retrospective exhibition containing work from throughout his life.

Softcover. MA, Harvard College, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 107 pages. 21 B&W plates, 61 B&W figures. B&w pictorial wrapper with soiling to both covers and some edgewear. Bottom edge slightly soiled. Previous owner name and date on front flyleaf. Overall, a nice, tight copy.

Softcover. London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated (46 pages), catalogue of 64 works all illustrated in b/w, 15 full-page color plates and essay 'After Image' by Will Ameringer. Interesting catalog of rarely seen works on paper by Smith, lent by the artist's daughters for this exhibition. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition Catalog, 128 pages. Color and B&W plates throughout. Light edge wear and light soiling to wrapper. Some small amount of wrinkling to rear bottom left corner. Otherwise a tight and clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Knoedler & Co./Rizzoli, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated (68 pages), 55 illustrations (53 color). Published in conjunction with exhibition shown at Knoedler & Company, April 29 to May 20, 1995, and at Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, September 1 to September 30, 1995, with checklist of 53 sculptures, paintings and drawings exhibited. Introductory essay, "David Smith's Embrace" by Michael Brenson. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 225 pages. 8 plates, B&W photographs throughout. pictorial cover with slight bending of back bottom corner and slight wear to spine. Frontispiece. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Washington D.C, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 225 pages, illustrated throughout with photos in b&w and color. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.