Softcover. The Illustrated Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, color illustrations. In this issue: the brilliant work of Saul Tepper, illustrated profusely with original paintings and rare tear sheets. Next up the work of James Avati, and his paperback cover paintings for the novels of William Faulkner. The final feature Gum's Graphics concerns the packaging design and illustrations for chewing gum over the years. Book reviews, exhibitions and events, and more round out the issue.
Softcover. Minneapolis MN, Walker Art Center, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Textured paper covers. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco CA, California Academy of Sciences, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages, an exhibition catalog with 43 color plates. Essays by Donald Hagerty, Dan Dixon, Ansel Adams, others. INSCRIBED BY DAN DIXON (the artist's son) on front fly leaf. Embossed white cloth covers in a matching slipcase. 8 page exhibition brochure listing 118 works is laid in.
Hardcover. Lewes, DE, GILES, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Like new still in publishers shrinkwrap. In addition to color plates of all works in the exhibition--nearly one hundred paintings, works on paper, and sculptures--this volume features essays by exhibition curators Douglas Dreishpoon and Tyler Cann, as well as poet and critic Raphael Rubinstein, and an illustrated chronology by academic and granddaughter of the artist Cary Cordova. From his early Abstract Expressionist-inspired paintings to his organic, anthropomorphic figure-ground compositions and later diagrammatical, hard-edged works, Imperfections by Chance charts the full range of Feeley's influential life and career.
Hardcover. Washingtonb, DC, Philip Wilson, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A hardcover exhibition catalog. 75 color, 70 black & white illustrations, 240 pages. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Softcover. Greensboro NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Softcover exhibition catalog featuring the poet's collaboration with various artists like John Altoon, Donald Sultan, others. Includes a CD-ROM.
Softcover. Washington, DC, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibiton catalog.176 pages. Over 175 B&W illustrations throughout. Black pictorial cover with very slight wear. Price tag on bottom right corner of back cover. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press : Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 379 pages. Like new in publishers shrink wrap. Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has been tackling the challenge of self-portraiture throughout his prolific career. What began as an unorthodox investigation of the genre has become a masterful engagement spanning five decades. In this extraordinary compilation, which includes hundreds of previously unpublished pictures, we follow the famous photographer through the years as his personal and creative lives unfold and intertwine. Produced to the highest production standards and featuring over 400 duotone images--from his first self-portraits, taken with cable release in hand, to recent images of the photographer with his family and extended network of friends--In the Picture explores Friedlander's various guises throughout a rich and colorful life.
Softcover. Yonkers NY, Fordham University Press , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 175 pages illustrated in color. It was not until the first decade of the twentieth century, as artists like Robert Henri and John Sloan turned their attention to the urban scene, that American art shifted its focus from bucolic landscapes to the cities, the towns, the crowds, especially the raucous urban scene of Manhattan--by then the nation's most important metropolis. This movement away from painting the land to painting the life on the street is often seen as a clean break with the depiction of the landscape, and with landscape painting generally as a mainstay of American art in the face of European Modernism. However, artists continued to paint the Hudson River, as well as its tributaries, the Harlem and East rivers, and the great harbor of New York City into which they flowed. What was different was their approach. Having jettisoned the romantic ideals of their forebears, artists like Henri and Sloan, and later, Georgia O'Keeffe, George Ault, Edward Hopper, and Preston Dickinson, celebrated the changing way of life along the city's waterfront. As the century progressed, they did so with sharper focus and with ideals borrowed from the Machine Age. Instead of majestic mountain ranges, their subjects were the arching bridges, swinging cranes, and streamlined ocean liners resting in the harbor. These artists took the elements of the Sublime, combined them with Modernism's interest in structure and form, and applied them to the manmade industrial one--thereby creating a new visual vocabulary for the twentieth century: the Industrial Sublime. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A tight copy. Inge Morath: On Style reveals the vital forms of fashion and self-expression that blossomed into existence in England, France, and the United States in the postwar decades. The book follows the photojournalist Inge Morath (1923-2002) through intimate sessions with Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn; scenes of window-shopping on Fifth Avenue; American girls discovering Paris; the frenetic splendor of society balls; and working women--from actresses to seamstresses to writers--everywhere taking their place in the world. The photographs in On Style focus on an extraordinary period of Morath's creativity, from the early 1950s to mid- 1960s, with a coda of work from later years. Here are the fundamental humanism, joy, and unerring eye for life's brilliant theatricality that characterized her work and made her one of the most celebrated photographers of her time.
Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 334 pages. Spanning his renunciation of the Salon in 1834 until his large retrospective at the crucial 1855 Universal Exposition, this book examines the critical writing and journalistic reportage on Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres. It demonstrates how Ingres shaped his career in the rapidly evolving art world of mid-nineteenth century Paris. While enjoying the benefits of his affiliation with the Academy, the artist also pursued certain modes of presentation, most notably the single-artist exhibition and illustrated monograph, through which he distanced himself from the embattled world of artistic officialdom.
Softcover. Northampton MA, White Star Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 86 pages, exhibition catalog. Full of b&w plates. . Catalogue of works from the Charles Derby collection of African art. 136 pieces are pictured and described in brief. With an introduction by Derby, an exhibition checklist, and addendum.
Softcover. Memphis, TN, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 206 pages. With newspaper clipping slipped in. Illustrated in B&W and color. overall tight and clean copy. The narrative essays chart the routes taken by the American painters as they progressed from their experience at French communities to the re-establishment of their careers on native soil. Also included with the essays are the vivid artwork of these painters.
Hardcover. Canada, 5 Continents, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. light ding to bottom edge front board. 272 pages, many color and b&w photos. Josef Sudek (1896-1976) was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague. He was a bookbinder before turning to photography after losing his right arm in WWI. This book, published to accompany an exhibition, examines how Sudek's photographs reflect his relationship to the world around him, from intimate explorations of cherished objects and views through his window to his night walks through the streets of Prague and its periphery, as well as excursions into the surrounding countryside. With essays, reminiscences by two former assistants, and stunning illustrations, here is a compelling view of Sudek's photographs, and the art of his friends and fellow artists. Sudek's legacy includes some of the 20th century's most haunting images of nature, monuments, city streets, and objects--all transformed by his sensitivity to the power of light to reveal and the power of darkness to render all impenetrable.
Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The first major retrospective of the work of Irving Penn in more than twenty years will open at The Museum of Modern Art on September 13, 1984. The exhibition surveys Penn"s long career, spanning the past four decades, and features his work in portraiture, fashion, advertising, the nude, ethnographic subjects and still life, as well as a selection of Penn"s early, unpublished photographs.
Softcover. Gainesville FL, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 175 pages, about 40 b&w and color plates. Showcases pieces from the collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz. With opening remarks by Linda Wolk-Simon. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 38 specific drawings. Includes extensive bibliography. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout with 112 color plates and 55 b&w reproductions. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A beautiful publication examining Italian Maiolica. An essential reference work for historians, collectors, and anyone with an interest in ceramics.
Softcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, large format, 64 pages. A catalog for an exhibition at The Corcoran Gallery of Art showcasing works that blend mundane, found materials with sophisticated graphic design. The collection highlights, with text by Dore Ashton, how Chermayeff repurposed, for example, office scraps, envelopes, and paper, creating complex, often whimsical, portraiture. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Zurich, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Photographs, drawings, sculpture and installations by Jack Pierson. Essays by Yilmaz Dziewior, Gerard A. Goodrow and Peter Weiermair. Includes a chronology with exhibitions and publications.
Softcover. NY, Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog, 12 color plates. February 7 - March 9, 1991. Introduction by Elizabeth Frank. Plates, biography, bibliography. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 336 pages. 425 illustrations, 227 in color and 198 in duotone. Catalog of art exhibition put on by MOMA and the Tate Gallery. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Soft cover. French flaps. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Published to accompany exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Only slightly yellowed edges due to age. In good shape, clean inside. From front French flap: ",,,includes over 200 color reproductions of paintings, drawings, and prints, including life-sized details and foldouts of major paintings. An illustrated chronology tells the story of the artist's life."
Softcover. Seattle WA, Seattle Art Museum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Red end papers. Marking on copyright page. Light edge wear to wrappers. Very light foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.