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Hardcover. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Hardcover,324 pages. Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art, providing a new understanding of where art was presented, who saw it, and how the images incorporated and conveyed Soviet values. More than 350 works are grouped into areas of critical importance for the production, reception, and circulation of early Soviet art: battlegrounds, schools, the press, theaters, homes and storefronts, factories, festivals, and exhibitions. Paintings by El Lissitzky and Liubov Popova are joined by sculptures, costumes and textiles, decorative arts, architectural models, books, magazines, films, and more. Also included are rare and important artifacts, among them a selection of illustrated children's notes by Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Allilueva, as well as reproductions of key exhibition spaces such as the legendary Obmokhu (Constructivist) exhibition in 1921; Aleksandr Rodchenko's 'Workers' Club in 1925; and a Radio-Orator kiosk for live, projected, and printed propaganda designed by Gustav Klutsis in 1922. Bountifully illustrated, this book offers an unprecedented, cross-disciplinary analysis of two momentous decades of Soviet visual culture.

Hardcover. Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Hardcover,324 pages. Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art, providing a new understanding of where art was presented, who saw it, and how the images incorporated and conveyed Soviet values. More than 350 works are grouped into areas of critical importance for the production, reception, and circulation of early Soviet art: battlegrounds, schools, the press, theaters, homes and storefronts, factories, festivals, and exhibitions. Paintings by El Lissitzky and Liubov Popova are joined by sculptures, costumes and textiles, decorative arts, architectural models, books, magazines, films, and more. Also included are rare and important artifacts, among them a selection of illustrated children's notes by Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Allilueva, as well as reproductions of key exhibition spaces such as the legendary Obmokhu (Constructivist) exhibition in 1921; Aleksandr Rodchenko's 'Workers' Club in 1925; and a Radio-Orator kiosk for live, projected, and printed propaganda designed by Gustav Klutsis in 1922. Bountifully illustrated, this book offers an unprecedented, cross-disciplinary analysis of two momentous decades of Soviet visual culture.

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Fraenkel Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A tight copy. In the early 2000s, Richard Misrach (born 1949) began a series titled On the Beach, a body of work that traveled extensively and has been highly influential. These color photographs deal with the human figure seen at a distance, on an unspecified beach or in the water, observed from an unsettling and difficult-to-identify point of view located high above. Misrach has continued this work, while vast changes in photographic technology over the intervening decade have caused a shift in approach, both conceptually and technically. Untitled is an artist book based on two photographs: the one made by Misrach and the other made concurrently, at the time of exposure, by the subjects of his photograph. The extreme detail explored in this work concisely summates both the artist's concerns and the ubiquity of digital technology as we are portrayed and portray ourselves.

Softcover. NY, Allan Stone Gallery, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, illustrated with b&w photos. Essay by Suzi Gablik. Clean copy.

Softcover. Racine/Lannoo, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 239 pages, b&w and color plates. Text in English and French. Featuring the most well-known photos from Robert Doisneau since the beginning of his career. This retrospective also gives an insight in the lives of famous artists such as Picasso and Niki de Saint Phalle. The book is themed by three subjects: the main characteristics of his work and his importance for 20th century photography, the notion of the poetry of realism and 164 photos, which are also themed: daily beauty, Palm Springs, artists' studios. Published to accompany an exhibition in Musee Ixelles (Brussels) from 19 October 2017 until 4 February 2018. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Nowhere is the breezy and urbane romance of Paris conjured as memorably as in the photography of Robert Doisneau (1912-1994). A gentle minstrel of visual anecdote, Doisneau interpreted the city's charms in an iconography that both natives and Francophiles instantly recognize: the young hip couple stealing a spontaneous kiss at a busy intersection, the gendarme chatting with a mother while her kid tiptoes along a riverbank bench, the sweetly melancholic abandoned merry-go-round in the rain and the entire pageant of Parisian life mingling at cafes, bus shelters and on the banks of the Seine. Doisneau was possessed of both lightness of touch and spontaneity, as a result of which he has been sometimes championed as a photographer of the "pure" moment. But his ocular touch is even lighter than that suggests-his images are not so much "seized" as "netted." Accompanying the Fondation Cartier-Bresson's exhibition of around 100 prints from the Doisneau estate, From Craft to Art presents these treasures alongside a new version of Jean-Francois Chevrier's classic 1983 essay on the photographer, which describes Doisneau's knack for capturing "the shining melancholy that separates an individual from the crowd.

Softcover. London, Tauris Parke Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages. 107 b&w plates. A retrospective for exhibition at Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 200 pages. Hardcover with translucent dust jacket. This retrospective study of the work and life of Robert Frank demonstrates the artistry, innovations, and magnificent images of the distinguished photographer in more than 350 photographs. The book was originally published by Yugensha in Tokyo in 1972. Remainder mark to top edge, dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. No marking, clean.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Chipping and age toning to dust jacket edges. Foxing to textblock fore edge. Inside clean and unmarked. This retrospective study of the work and life of Robert Frank demonstrates the artistry, innovations, and magnificent images of the distinguished photographer in more than 350 photographs.

Hardcover. Scalo, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. The catalogue to Robert Frank's (born 1924) 2001 exhibition at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. Though the artist is best known for his seminal photobook The Americans (1959) and his experimental film Pull My Daisy (1959), until this publication, little scholarship existed on the intersection between Frank's work in the disciplines of photography and film. Hold Still, Keep Going fills that void, exploring the influence of film on Frank's photographic work, and the interaction between the still and moving image that has engaged the photographer and experimental filmmaker since the late 1950s. The book adopts a nonchronological approach, including photographs, film stills, 35mm filmstrips, as well as photomontages that present Frank's most famous series alongside less known work; from these varied contents, the volume offers revealing juxtapositions, rendering the seemingly disjointed arc of Frank's art more cohesive. Text, from handwritten phrases on photographs (of which "HOLD STILL-keep going" is but one example) to the dialogue in his films, emerges as a crucial tool, one that is also central to Frank's photo-diaries. Including a new essay from Tobia Bezzola, director of the Museum Folkwang, this edition highlights some of the more obscure work by perhaps the world's best-known living photographer, and is an essential addition to all photography and film collections.

Hardcover. New York, Scalo Publishers, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w, some color. A hardcover exhibition catalog for a show that opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. This comprehensive volume presents the works of the Swedish photographer, and includes five essays which analyze different aspects of Frank's photographs, films and videos. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Scalo Publishers, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w, some color. A hardcover exhibition catalog for a show that opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. This comprehensive volume presents the works of the Swedish photographer, and includes five essays which analyze different aspects of Frank's photographs, films and videos.

Hardcover. Scalo, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 104 pages. Selected as the United States representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale, the sculptor and installation artist Robert Gober has, thanks to several major museum exhibitions in recent years, established himself as perhaps the most important artist of his generation, thanks to his symbolically charged re-creations of everyday objects that he makes into installations that question the ideals and values of childhood, family, home, and religion. This catalogue presents his work for the United States pavilion at the Biennale.

Softcover. Delaware, Delaware Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial green wrappers, full-cover color painting on front cover. 174 pages, profusely illustrated in b/w, some color. Back cover slightly scratched and spine slightly worn, otherwise, tight, clean copy. Essay by Helen Farr Sloan, catalogue and prologue by Bennard B. Perlman. Chronology, bibliography, list of exhibitions. Catalogue lists 100 works.

Hardcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Catalogue for an exhibition in Berlin in 2004, which explored the relationship between Mapplethorpe's photography and classical art, particularly the Flemish mannerist engravings and sculpture. 232 pages includes 120 plates and 30 text illustrations, with extended essays by Blessing and Celant.

Hardcover. Palm Springs CA, Palm Springs Art Museum, 1st, 2009, Hardcover, white boards with b&w photograph and black lettering. 263 pages with b&w photos throughout. No dust jacket, as issued. Catalogue from the exhibition held January to April 2009 in Palm Springs, June to September in Tucson, and Fall 2010 in San Jose. With an essay by Daniell Cornell.

Hardcover. New York, Skira, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 199 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Twenty-five years after Mapplethorpe"s death, an overview on his nudes, portraits, self-portraits, floral still lifes, and other works compiled by the art critic Germano Celant. Robert Mapplethorpe"s wide, provocative, and powerful body of work has established him as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. Since 1977, Germano Celant has studied the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe, participating in interviews and writing essays for several publications and exhibitions. For the first time, this volume gathers the complete anthology of Celant"s writings on the artist.

Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog of Robert Mapplethorpe's photography. 216 pages; 130 photographs, 45 in color. Text by Richard Marshall, Associate Curator, Exhibitions, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; essays by Richard Howard and Ingrid Sischy. In very good condition; small rubbing mark on back cover; no marks on front cover.

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog. Introduction by John J. McKendry and texts by Robert Motherwell and Diane Kelder. Slim small quarto. Illustrated in black and white. Spine a bit tanned and wrappers with minor soil. The exhibition was held October 24 - December 3, 1972 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Softcover. Zurich, Galerie Andre Emmerich, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, small format, 24 pages, 9 color plates and b&w photo of Motherwell. Mild crease to rear cover, otherwise clean, very good.

Softcover. Buffalo / NY, Albright-Knox / Abbeville Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 156 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Shows nearly a hundred of the American artist's paintings, includes an interview with Motherwell, and discusses the development of his career. Red pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wrinkle to back cover and minimal wear to edges, else like new.

Softcover. New York, New York, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd., 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Stiff covers with full-color illustration to front, perfect binding, gray textured endpapers, 29 full-page, full-color illustrations, essay by artist entitled "Why Hitchcock?", chronology, list of museum collections and solo-exhibitions. Mild rubbing to covers, right edge of catalog slightly bent; overall a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 629 pages. B&w and color images throughout. Slight shelf wear to covers. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Softcover. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog, 216 pages. Color and B&W plates and photographs throughout. Some light soiling to wrapper. Otherwise a clean and tight copy.