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Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Still wrapped in plastic. Accompanied the exhibition "Expressionist Utopias" at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1993. In great condition. Color illustrations throughout. A nice, tight copy.The notion of utopia exists in every culture, capturing shared dreams and common goals. This book--prepared to accompany the exhibition Expressionist Utopias mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum in 1993--explores how the optimistic themes of utopia and fantasy sustained faith among artists and architects in the power of art to shape a better world during the tumultuous World War I era in Germany. The exhibition's curator, Timothy O. Benson along with David Frisby, Reinhold Heller, Anton Kaes, Wolf Prix, and Iain Boyd White present the diverse manifestations of the utopia metaphor in its progression throughout Expressionism from Arcadian to manmade utopias.

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 225 pages. 56 b&w illustrations and 73 plates in full color. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Weatherhill, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 239 pages. 266 illustrations including 163 in full color. The batik designs of Java's North Coast are particularly varied in both design and color. With their fanciful, highly imaginative motifs and luminous tints, they are more immediately appealing than the sombre blue and brown batik of Central Java. It was a chance encounter in a Hong Kong antique shop that inspired photojournalist Inger McCabe Elliot to devote over three decades to assembling one of the world's finest collections, which she presented to the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art in 1991. This volume, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum, celebrates Elliott's gift and presents her collection. Essays by authorities on the subject examine the 82 featured batik textiles from historical, cultural and aesthetic perspectives. The essays are followed by biographies of some of the most distinguished batik designers and entrepreneurs and a descriptive catalogue of the batiks. Appendices document design formats and motifs, as well as the complete production process of North Coast batiks. Clean copy,

Hardcover. 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in near fine condition (some discoloration to black laminated covers). 112 pages, b/w and color illustrations of fashion from 1907 to 1967. Annotated catalogue of an exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York held at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Softcover. Mineola, NY, Dover Publications, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. This original compilation features more than 80 color plates selected from two of Phillips' early collections, A Gallery of Girls and A Young Man's Fancy, in addition to images from other sources. An Introduction by illustrator and graphic designer Scott M. Fischer provides a modern appraisal and speaks to Phillips' lasting influence. Students of illustration, graphic design, and advertising as well as fans of 1920s fashion will appreciate this collection of striking works by a Golden Age designer-illustrator.

Hardcover. NY, MOMA, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, color photos throughout. This groundbreaking book, and the exhibition it accompanies, includes lavish illustrations of the work by photographers such as Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Cedric Buchet, Glen Luchford, Tina Barney, Juergen Teller, Nan Goldin and Larry Sultan, among others. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. Rome, Leonardo-De Luca, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Italian text. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. Milano, Skira, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated in full color. Clean, tight copy. This catalog of over three hundred artworks related to the Saisons Russes between 1909 and 1929 is the official companion to an exhibition in Monte Carlo. The legendary productions are brought to life through stage designs, costumes, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and programs. The artwork comes from a wide variety of public and private collections, including the Fokine collection in the St. Petersburg Theatre Museum.

Softcover. NY, Carus Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Text by Lewis Kachur. 1982 staple-bound softcover published by the Carus Gallery, New York. 19 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions. Mild fade to red covers at spine edge. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Yellowing to dust jacket edges and spine. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with wear to dust jacket edges. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy. Explores Leger's writings and works in a variety of media including painting, film, theatre, decor, ceramic sculpture, and mosaic.

Softcover. Provincetown MA, Provincetown Art Association, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled, 12 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Biography by Kathryn Lee Smith, the artist's granddaughter. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. International Exhibitions Foundation;, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages. Color & B&W illustrations. Bibliography. Uncommon exhibition catalog as it toured smaller US museums. 2 page "Homage to Babar" by Maurice Sendak.

Hardcover. Fresno, CA, Linden Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with some wear to dust jacket. Minor soiling to dust jacket front. Color photographs throughout. A collection of twentieth-century handmade woodwork including furniture, sculpture, toys, and musical instruments.

Firenze IT, Sillabe, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 269 pages in color and b&w. ITALIAN TEXT. Light bump to top outer corner, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 203 pages. 10 color plates and B&W illustrations. Dust jacket price-clipped, with edge wear. Blue covers with gilt titles. Slight soiling to top edge. Otherwise, a nice, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 110 pages, illustrated throughout color and b&w. Gray pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear and rubbing to covers and spine, else a very nice. tight,. clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1988, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. Exhibition catalog. 128 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor stain to back flap, else like new.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Focusing on Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating or sorrowful world"), the colourful woodblock prints that are the most popular form of Japanese art, this book introduces the little-seen collection held by the Library of Congress. This collection of prints, drawings and books, one of the largest outside Japan, has never been exhibited and has rarely been handled. The art form of Ukiyo-e first flourished in 17th-century Edo (now Tokyo), depicting landscapes, portraits of courtesans and actors. This book includes known masterpieces by such names as Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kunisada, as well as rare and unusual prints that have not been explored before, and thus serves as a survey of its subject.

Softcover. Toronto, Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, 201 plates in color and b&w. Softcover exhibition catalog in clean, bright condition. Photos with brief descriptions of folk art & artifacts representing many ethnic groups including Pennsylvania German work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with light foxing to edges, preliminary pages and dust jacket interior. Published on occasion of the exhibition, Louisiana State University Union Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, August 20, 1990 - September 22, 1990 among other locations. Black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with minor edgewear. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy.

hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. 194 color plates and 13 black and white illustrations. Tight copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 79 pages, 56 illustrations 50 in color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from January 17-March 28, 1999. A previously unpublished interview with Francis Bacon by the author from August 13, 1973. Includes acknowledgments, checklist, and chronology.

Softcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 79 pages. Illustrated in b/w and color. One of 3000 copies, published in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago, of the exhibition catalogue for Bacon's first American retrospective. Mild rubbing to wrappers, clean copy.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 196 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers and slight crease to spine, else a clean, tight copy. A study of an important painter of the mid eighteenth century, who was the teacher of Gainsborough and whose work included conversation pieces, history painting, book illustration and theatrical painting. Also includes the catalogue of the exhibition in 1987.