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Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard Art Museums, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is considered a pioneer of the Post-Minimal and Conceptual art movements. Perhaps best known for his paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Bochner became deeply involved with photography in the mid- to late 1960s, although most of these works have only recently been exhibited. This significant book provides the first critical look at a virtually unknown body of Bochner's extremely varied photographs dating from 1966-1969. Some 75 of his photographs are presented, many in color and most published for the first time. Also included are a number of Bochner's drawings that directly informed his photographic works. Scott Rothkopf explores the crucial role of photography in Bochner's artistic development as well as key issues in the relation of photography to Minimal and Conceptual art.

Softcover. Hartford CT, Trinity College, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 12 pages with color, b&w plates. Essay by Kate Linker. Clean copy.

Softcover. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 181 pages, b&w illustrations. Rubbing, chipping to wrappers and edges. Wrinkling on spine. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz's (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a sequence of installations drawing on architecture, cultural artifacts and cuisine to tell stories of social ritual, conflict and loss. It encompasses work considering the citizen visionaries of post Soviet Hungary, Middle Eastern Beatles fans and the stonecarvers of Afghanistan, with Rakowitz's casts of players and objects revealing the legacy of colonization, modernism and globalism. The artist's life-size replica of the gigantic lamassu, one of two monumental winged bulls that once guarded the gates of Nineveh in Iraq, currently features on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. This recreation of an ancient mythological creature is made from everyday date syrup cans and is part of an epic endeavour to recreate all 7,000 objects looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, as well as those destroyed more recently at archaeological sites like Nimrud, also presented here. Text in English and Italian. Short closed tear to dj corner. otherwise like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art/Steidl, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible boards, 264 pages. B/w and color illustrations throughout. Published to accompany exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Super clean. By repeatedly re-photographing her images, transferring them from video to film and back again, and manipulating them digitally, Michal Rovner creates photographic and video imagery that abstract familiar subjects like houses, animals, and people into ambiguous and iconic forms. Working with representation but against the traditions of narrative and documentary purpose, her artworks imply a tentative universe, one that is paradoxically peaceful and unsettled, vivid and shrouded, and completely counter-factual. If the changing nature of art has resulted in a general blurring of boundaries--between painting and photography, reality and memory, presence and absence--Rovner mines this haziness, refuses to respect borders, and exists completely in The Space Between.

Softcover. Hanover NH, Dartmouth College, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages illustrated with color and b&w photos. An overview of recent projects, both small scale and large architectural commissions. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Taos NM, Michael McCormick Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, color and b&w plates. Essay by Frank Waters. Clean copy.

Softcover. Seattle WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A biography of the celebrated documentary photographer, Milton Rogovin, and catalogue that accompanied an exhibition at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, in 2006. Rogovin (1909-2011) was an optometrist in Buffalo, NY, who turned to photography as a means of expression when he was discredited -- and thereafter lost his business -- by the HUAC committee in 1952. For the rest of his life he documented the lives of the working class around the world. Photographs by Milton Rogovin; text by Melanie Anne Herzog; foreword by Douglas R. Nickel; afterword by Catherine Linder Spencer. 176 pages; 126 duo-toned b&w plates + 21 text illustrations; 9 x 11 inches. Bibliography.

Softcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 140 pages. 64 illustations, 22 in color. Tribute to Miro on his eightieth birthday, compiled with his cooperation. Presents paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages and objects in the MOMA -- fully catalogued with notes on each work. Includes a list of MOMA exhibitions of Miro's work and a list of publications on him. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY/Boston, MOMA/New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages. Text by the brilliant curator John Szarkowski accompanies a wide ranging collection of B&W and Colour photographs by the articts such as Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Paul Caponegro, Danny Lyon, Bruce Davidson and numerous others. A tight, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, The Bronx Museum of the Arts , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong softcover. 66 pages with 21 illustrations, commentary on 56 works. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran July 30 through September 25, 1983. Essays by Philip Verre and Julie Saul. Includes numerous illustrations. A very good copy in lightly worn wrappers.

Softcover. Site Santa Fe, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 75 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. Mona Hatoum is recognized as one of the most significant figures in contemporary art. Her work addresses political conflict, the physical body, and feminist issues in a surrealistic style and with a minimalist aesthetic. This thought-provoking artist uses diverse methods and works in various media, including installation, video, sculpture, and performance art. Clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago, Illinois, Mongerson Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 page catalog from October 1981 exhibition at The Mongerson Gallery. Numerous black and white prints and photographs. Brief artist biographies. Textured cover features color artwork and exhibits some wear, particularly along binding edge. Interior in near fine condition.

Hardcover. Geneve, Musee Barbier-Mueller, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 215 pages illustrated in color. FRENCH TEXT. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Musee Barbier-Muller, Geneva, February 11-October 30, 2016. Includes bibliographical references. The study conducted by Anne Vanderstraete on currencies and exchange objects selected from the collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum explains not only the practices linked to the use of these items in their original context but also explores the aesthetic richness of this collection. Many works are revealed to the public for the first time. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, David & Long , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light rubbing, soiling to wrappers. Spine slightly cocked. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, David & Long , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light rubbing, soiling to wrappers. Previous price sticker on back cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Edinburgh, Luath Press Ltd, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. In 1923 Charles and Margaret Mackintosh escaped Britain for France.Monsieur Mackintosh is the only book available on Mackintosh's years in France. With reproductions of 40 of his French paintings alongside photographs of the actual locations today, and images from the period 1923-1927, this is a comprehensive and pictorial account. Written in close collaboration with experts from Glasgow University, the National Gallery of Modern Art and the Glasgow School of Art, and edited by Professor Pamela Robertson, author and leading expert on Mackintosh, Monsieur Mackintosh includes new research and is written with the French and English translations side-by-side. Published to coincide with and accompany a major exhibition of Mackintosh's work in France Monsieur Mackintosh contains more than 250 images reproduced in full colour throughout.

Softcover. NY, Museum Of Modern Art , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Illustrated in color and black and white. 191 pages. Oblong 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 228 pages. During the late 1960s and 70s, a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices. In particular, these mediums were used to record ephemeral or performative events and to render visible conceptual systems or to question the supposed objectivity of representation itself. This volume focuses primarily on artworks from the last decade and proposes that the extensive use of reproducible mediums in today's art has its roots in an earlier formative period. By the end of the 70s, many artists turned to photography as a vehicle through which to critique photographic representation and to subvert an art system premised on the notion of the original. While this practice came to define much of the 80s postmodern art, its legacy for the 90s was essentially the license to indulge in photographic fantasy, image construction, and cinematic narrative. Artists working today freely manipulate their representations of the empirical world or invent entirely new cosmologies. They process their subject matter through conceptual systems or use digital processes to alter their images. Some directly intervene in the environment, subtly shifting components of the found world and establishing their quiet presence in it; others fabricate entire architectural environments for the camera lens. This current state of the arts and its recent history are represented via more than 150 works by 55 artists, including Nam June Paik, Kara Walker, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Fischli & Weiss, Ann Hamilton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Cindy Sherman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Elger Esser, others.

Hardcover. Brussels, Aschehoug, 1st Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover published on the occasion of the exhibition, Munch - Drawings, in collaboration with the Musee d'Ixelles, Brussels and Munch Museum, Oslo - February 19 - May 16, 2004. Full page, full color plates throughout. Dust jacket with light toning. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", twenty-four page exhibition catalog is bound in stapled wrappers and is in VG+ condition. B&W reproductions and photographs. Foreword by William S. Lieberman, Curator of Prints for MOMA.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, many b&w illustrations, some in color. Issued in conjunction with a 1980 exhibition featuring geometric artwork by American artist Myron Stout (1908-1987). Catalogue lists 54 works. Selected bibliography. Includes selections from his journals, and an essay by Sanford Schwartz. Light tanning to top edge of wrappers, clean copy.

Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Color pictures throughout. In 1899 Gustav Klimt's painting Nuda Veritas shook up the Austrian public with what many deem to be the painter's most political exploration of the nude female body. Klimt's provocative allegory challenged viewers to consider their own beliefs about the relationship between the nude (female) body and contemporary morality; this "naked truth" was shocking. Transcending accusations of pornography, Klimt's work paved the way for artistic examinations of the nude body as the site through which questions of freedom, desire, beauty, nature, culture, power, and their antonyms could be represented and negotiated. Taking these ideas as one critical point of departure, this volume and the accompanying exhibition feature selected prints, drawings, and watercolors by Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann and Kathe Kollwitz, among others. It explores the conceptions of the human body and the manner of its visualization in the period leading up to and following the First World War, which changed the world's notions of flesh and blood forever.

Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 116 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.