Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, profusely illustrated in both color and black and white. 300 pages. 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers. Extensive monograph of artist's life and work. Published to accompany the exhibition held in NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, February 29 to June 2, 1996; two additional venues. Two exhibition mailings laid in, one addressed to film director Bob Rafelson. Clean copy.
Softcover. Williamstown MA, Williams College Museum of Art , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Softcover, Catalogue of the exhibition, based on Marguerite Yorcenar's essay "Antigone, or the Choice from Fires". Contains an interview with Smith, exhibition list, and select bibliography. 88 pages, b&w, some color illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Written by two members of archaeological expeditions which have excavated at Caesarea, the ancient city on the coast of Israel built by Herod the Great, this book tells the story of the great city, from its beginnings to its destruction in the 13th century. Readers discover this past through archaeologists' eyes, as the text considers not only artifacts and written sources but the processes by which archaeologists reconstruct the past. A companion volume to a traveling exhibition of Caesarean artifacts, this is very highly recommended for both its clarity and creativity. 244 pages illustrated in color plus index. Clean.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 274 pages, color illustrations, very good paperback & cover (exhibition catalog) The essays are: the art of visual culture: comics; graphic novels; animated cartoons; computer & video games: anime; manga; visual art.
Softcover. Paris, Beaux Arts Magazine, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 65 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text in French. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, staple-bound, 24 pages; in English and Japanese. Illustrated in b&w. Crease to top corner/pages of catalog, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Until recently, the figurative artists who dominated the Los Angeles art scene of the 1940s and 50s had largely been written out of art history. L.A. Raw is an attempt to right that wrong. Bringing together works by 41 artists in a variety of media, it traces a lineage that connects postwar figurative expressionism to the 1960s and 70s investigations of politics, gender and ethnicity in art. The featured artists include John Altoon, Wallace Berman, William Brice, Hans Burckhardt, Chris Burden, Cameron, Judy Chicago, Connor Everts, Llyn Foulkes, Charles Garabedian, David Hammonds, Robert Heinecken, John Paul Jones, Kim Jones, Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Rico Lebrun, Paul McCarthy, Arnold Mesches, Betye Saar, Ben Sakoguchi, Barbara Smith, James Strombotne, Jan Stussy, Edward Teske, Joyce Treiman, Howard Warshaw, June Wayne, Charles White and Jack Zajac. No dj issued, clean copy.
Softcover. Milano, Edizioni di Vanni Scheiwiller, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog, unpaginated (122 pages). Text in Italian, English, Spanish. Many b&w photos of the sculptor's work. Clean copy.
Softcover. Hong Kong, unknown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Chinese text. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Black and white portraits of citizens of Indiana, taken over 4 decades.
Hardcover. NY, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, unpaginated, illustrated in color. Introduction by John Yau. Clean, bright copy of this exhibition catalog.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy. How Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States shaped his critique of the country and affected both his work and the diffusion of his ideas. Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States in 1935 is generally considered a failure because it produced no commissions. The experience nevertheless had a profound effect on him, both personally and professionally. Sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Le Corbusier promoted his ideas through a lecture tour, exhibition, and press conferences, as well as in meetings with industrialists, housing reformers, New Deal technocrats, and editors. His lectures were watershed events that advanced the cause of European modernism. Yet he returned to France empty-handed and published a bittersweet account, Quand les Cathedrales etaient blanches: Voyage au Pays des Timid Personnes (When the Cathedrals Were White: Journey to the Country of Timid People), which faulted America for lacking the courage to adopt his ideas.
Hardcover. Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. Artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) became widely known in the 1960s and 1970s for her welded steel sculptures and plastic and epoxy molded assemblages, powerful constructions that evoked natural phenomena and organic biological life as well as machines and instruments of war. This critically acclaimed book re-evaluates the career of this highly influential artist and focuses not only upon the impact of her early work but also on the import she has exerted on a generation of younger artists. Featuring some 50 sculptures and more than 100 drawings from the late 1950s to 2003, the book presents four essays that reposition Bontecou's work within the history of recent art, examine its shifting critical reception, discuss the artistic context in which her work was made, and analyze how science underpinned some of her earliest explorations. Related ephemera laid in. Clean copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.
Softcover. London, Reaktion Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages illustrated in color. Leon Golub was a leading exponent of history painting - painting as a narrative, symbolic expression of global, social and political relations and of the realities of power. In this book, published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition traveling to Ireland, England and the United States, Jon Bird examines the artist's work from the classically influenced early paintings through depictions of conflict and masculine aggression to compelling images of his recent work. Crease to rear cover, otherwise clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Monteal, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages plus 8 pages in rear. Large, hardcover exhibition catalog profusely illustrated with DaVinci's drawings. Some color fade to the dust jacket spine otherwise very good.
Softcover. Milan, Olivetti, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages. Numerous illustrations and color photos. This is a catalogue for an exhibition of the preparatory drawings made by Leonardo for The Last Supper. Professor Carlo Bertelli describes the history of the painting (and of the many copies made over the centuries, which form an important documentary record).
Softcover. San Francisco, Franklin Bowles Galleries, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 128 pages illustrated in color. Features over 150 works of art on paper by the famous Playboy illustrator.
Softcover. St. Paul MN, Minnesota Museum of Art, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages. Paintings; Drawings; Watercolors; Prints 1949 - 1975. 50 color and b&w illustrations.
Softcover. Paris, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beau, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes in a plain cardboard slipcase. 239, 105 pages, illustrated in color. FRENCH TEXT. An exhibition of sketches held at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; These works were winners of the one-day sketching competitions held there beginning in 1816; Contains works by Felix-Henry Auvray, Francois-Xavier Dupre, Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, Andre Giroux, Theodore-Pierre-Nicolas Maillot, Horace Vernet, Henri Lehmann, and many others. Clean set.
Softcover. Collection du Musee Reattu , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 110 pages, 4to in French wraps. Color and b&w reproductions. Clean, bright copy. FRENCH TEXT.
Softcover. San Francisco , Chronicle Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A history of American typography and graphic design throughout the industrial age. 200 color illustrations throughout.