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Softcover. New York, N.Y., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light rubbing to edges of spine, minor sun-fade to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. This is the catalog for an unusual exhibition of rare original plasters, most of which were used by foundries to cast in bronze, held at Hirschl & Adler Galleries in New York from March 3 through April 14, 1990. Plasters "frequently represent the last stage of the artist's involvement in the fabrication of a work. . . . plasters have singular qualities: they have a warmth, a beauty, and an approachability, even vulnerability, not often found in the harder media of stone and bronze."

Hardcover. The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial boards with black title to spine. Tan dust jacket, with light wear to edges and small closed tears to front cover, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Hudson Hills Press , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 453 pages, cloth binding, dj, new copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 381 color & 107 b/w illustrations, 453 pages, 9x12. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Claes Oldenburg: Printed Stuff, held at the Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, Apr. 27-July 27, 1997, and at other places.

Hardcover. Detroit MI, Detroit Institute of Arts , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. In coordination with an exhibition held at Yale, Detroit Institute of Arts and The High Museum in Atlanta during 1993-1994, similar to an earlier exhibition but focuses on the art the Manoogian's had in their home.

Hardcover. US, Prestel USA, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover in slipcase. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This elegant volume is the first comprehensive published study in English of the finely carved wooden covers designed to protect fragile Tibetan Buddhist texts. From the 11th through 14th centuries, Tibetan monks worked tirelessly to transcribe the life and teachings of the Buddha onto paper. Highly skilled craftsmen then covered these pages with wooden boards that had been elaborately and painstakingly carved, gilded, and painted. The MacLean Collection, based in Chicago, has significant holdings of these extremely rare and ornately decorated objects. The first and most comprehensive of its kind, this lavishly produced, oversize volume features numerous illustrations of magnificent book covers from Tibet as well as several examples from other cultures. The volume tells the fascinating history of these objects, examines the materials from which they were carved, and traces stylistic influences from Kashmir, India, Nepal, and China.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. 160 pages, 150 illustrations (50 in color), bibliography/exhibition list. A very colorful, well documented catalogue of this twentieth-century painter, best known for his "Overseas Highway" and his stark, solid colored industrial images from the 1930s.

Softcover. Bogota COL, Galeria Alfred Wild, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages with color photos of the Colombian artist's wood sculptures. Clean copy.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in very good condition. Catalog of exhibition at the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., Aug. 5-Oct. 3, 1982. 87 pages., illustrations., bibliography, index. Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Asia Society, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 121 pages, illustrated in b&w, some color. Dust with light edgewear, minor fade to spine. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front fly leaf. Errata pamphlet laid in.

Hardcover. Fort Worth TX , Fort Worth Art Museum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Fort Worth TX , Fort Worth Art Museum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Walker & Company , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 141 pages, BW illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition held at M. Knoedler and Company from October 10 through November 4, 1967. Notes by William C. Agee. Clean.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated boards, 212 pages. Since the late 1970s, as a pioneer of Southern California underground culture, Raymond Pettibon has blurred the boundaries of "high" and "low," from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics and sexuality. Rich in detail, his obsessively worked drawings pull freely from myriad sources spanning the cultural spectrum. The resulting, highly poetic constructions function as acute reflections of contemporary society. Throughout the years, his subjects have included political figures and historical events, with particular intensity since the events of September 11, 2001. Seen here are images of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, J. Edgar Hoover, both Bush presidents, the Kennedys, Hitler, scenes from the Vietnam War and protest movements, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the prisoner abuse of Abu Ghraib, President Obama and Osama bin Laden. Raymond Pettibon (born 1957) studied economics at UCLA around the same time he joined his brother in the punk band Black Flag. He soon began to contribute artwork to album covers, flyers and t-shirts, for the band and its label, SST Records, and exhibited his work in group shows in galleries in the 1980s. Since the 1990s his work has been the subject of numerous major solo exhibitions.

Softcover. Durham NH, University of New Hampshire, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, square format, 78 pages, 13 text-illustrations, catalogue of 72 items depicted and described, credits.

Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Over sized book, 12 inches in height, 391 pages, heavily illustrated with approximately 200 full color photographs, many from her movies, Contributions by Carsten Ahrens, Lynne Cooke, Doris von Drathen, Bruce W. Ferguson, Carl Haenlein and Katharina Schmidt. Includes a list of illustrations, biography, exhibition history, filmography and a bibliography. Rebecca Horn is a multi-talented artist whose kinetic sculptures, films and installations have contributed to her unique international reputation. Her surreal installations and objects work as metaphors; often playfully erotic, they arouse curiousity and childlike amazement, yet also subconsciously evoke fear and uncertainty Glance of Infinity is a comprehensive survey of Rebecca Horn's work from 1970 up to the present day, This full scale monograph includes an interview with the artist, and essays by Brace W. Ferguson, Lynne Cooke, Doris von Drahten and Rebecca Horn, as well as a comprehensive index. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Worth Ryder Art Gallery, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w pictorial wraps. exhibition catalog, April-May 1964 23 pages, B&W frontispiece photo of artist in his studio, and 5 full color reproductions of artworks: "Fantasia," "Effervescence," "Le Gilotin," "The Lark," and "Heraldic Call."

Softcover. Canberra AU, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color plates. Percy Leason was one of Max Meldrum's followers who painted over 30 'full blood' aborigines for 'The Last of the Victorian Aborigines' exhibition which he held at the Athenaeum Gallery (Melb) as part of Victoria's centennary celebrations (1934). This book documents these portraits and the politics that produced them. Clean copy.

Softcover. South Hadley MA, Mount Holyoke College, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 56 pages. Many black and white photos, exhibition checklist, glossary, index, notes, bibliography. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of copper jewelry, sculptures, vessels, musical instruments, stools and other African decorative arts. Mild rubbing to wrappers, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Marlborough Callery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages. Catalog for an exhibit held April 6-May 1, 1984. Color and b&w plates. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. At least since the Renaissance, artists have created wonderful images of themselves. Some self-portraits are the equivalent of a painter's "signature," while others were inspired by the need to establish social status or gain a commission. In the twentieth century, however, self-representation turned inward, becoming a means by which artists sought to navigate passageways of the mind. In Reflections/Refractions, some of the greatest modern artists--including Andy Warhol, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jacob Lawrence, Louise Bourgeois, David Hockney, Alexander Calder, and Alex Katz--use sinuous line and gorgeous color to trace the intricacies of their personalities, whether dark and gloomy or bright and fanciful. The book is at once a catalog of twentieth-century self-portraits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and an exploration of how modern artists view themselves and the world. Eighty color illustrations--drawings and paintings--are accompanied by lively and informative captions, making this volume an endlessly fascinating book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards with an acetate dust wrapper, 304 pages. Warhol brought to the art world a unique awareness of the relationship that art might have with popular consumer culture and tabloid news, with celebrity, and with sexuality. Each of these themes is explored through visual dialogues between warhol and some sixty artists, among them John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Gilbert & George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Alfredo Jaar, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Elizabeth Peyton, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman and Luc Tuymans. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 304 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Includes interviews, conducted by Marla Prather, with Polly Apfelbaum, John baldessari, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, Robert Gober, Hans Haacke, Alfredo Jaar, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Julian Schnabel, Ryan Trecartin, and Luc Tuymans. Beginning essay, Dialogues with Warhol, by Mark Rosenthal. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volume set. Hardcovers in very clean slipcase. Very clean, unmarked copies. Dertailed study of fifty-one paintings by Rembrandt. This is followed by sections for his pupils in which paintings once given to Rembrandt are reatributed to memebers of his workshop. This also serves as a catalogue of the exhibition organized by curators from Berlin, Amsterdam and London - galleries which have three of the finest collections of Rembrandts.

Hardcover. London, National Gallery London, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Slight soiling to dust jacket. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.