Hardcover. The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Lynn Davis records the natural and architectural monuments of the world. In this collection of 100 duotone photographs she presents a series of architectural images throughout the United States, ranging from icons of modern and contemporary architecture to the Hoover Dam, a series of lighthouses, the Very Large Array in New Mexico, and the Epcot Center at Disney World. Davis possesses a unique sense of composition and cool aesthetic that brings out purity and form. The exquisite duotone photography and often quirky definition of architecture are timeless.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 243 pages, 150 b&w plates. Illustrated covers, perfect binding, divided into seven sections organized by historical period, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Mild rubbing to covers, very minor markings to bottom of page block, front top right corner creased; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Color photos throughout. A collection of photographs chosen from Eggleston's earliest photographs taken in the American South and through to his most recent work in England. William Eggleston (born 1939) was a pioneer in exploring the artistic potential of color photography. Eggleston made a name for himself with his eccentric, unexpected compositions of everyday life that were nonetheless rife with implied narrative, elevating the commonplace to art. William Eggleston, born in 1939 in Memphis, is one of the most important contemporary American photographers. From the 1970s onwards, his work has significantly contributed to the recognition of color photography as an artistic medium.
Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages, hardcover. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Andy Warhol: A Retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 6 - May 2, 1989. Features 460 plates, including 277 in color. With essays by Kynaston McShine, Robert Rosenblum, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, and Marco Livingstone.
Hardcover. London, Goodman Books, 1st, 20091st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, 300 color/b&w photographs plus over 20 pieces of memorabilia. One of the world's best-known artists, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) still exerts influence on contemporary art and culture. Packed with information about Warhol's prolific creativity, as well as his other cultural interests, the project follows the arc of his life. This beautifully illustrated publication reveals Warhol's rags-to-riches life from his early years in Depression-era Pittsburgh to his success as an illustrator in New York City in the 1950s and his transformation into a notorious Pop Artist, underground filmmaker, author, publisher, collector, recorder and iconic celebrity. With 21 beautifully produced removable facsimile documents help give an unprecedented insight into Warhol's life and work in this unique and authoritative guide to this celebrated modern artist.
Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 624 pages. Hardcover. 2000 illustrations, 1400 in color. Sixteen pound monster elephant folio, a huge volume. Laminated covers, clean, very good. Andy Warhol "Giant" Size is the definitive document of this remarkable creative force, and a telling look at late twentieth-century pop culture. A must-have for Warhol fans and pop culture enthusiasts, this in-depth and comprehensive overview of Warhol's extraordinary career is packed with more than 2,000 illustrations culled from rarely seen archival material, documentary photography, and artwork. Dave Hickey's compelling essay on Warhol's geek-to-guru evolution combines with chapter openers by Warhol friends and insiders to give special insight into the way the enigmatic artist led his life and made his art. It also provides a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the New York art world of the 1950s to the 1980s. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Koln GR, Jablonka Galerie, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, photographs and drawings in b&w by Warhol. Small format book for an exhibition held in Germany in the late 1990s. Dust jacket and book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Koln GR, Jablonka Galerie, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, photographs and drawings in b&w by Warhol. Small format book for an exhibition held in Germany in the late 1990s. Dust jacket and book in excellent condition.
Softcover. New York, Abbeville, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w and color illustrations, photo end papers. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Smart Art Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 90 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. ''Anthony Hernandez's "Pictures for Rome" (1998-99), made while he was a fellow at the American Academy, make no reference to any iconic images of that historic city and its famous edifices. Instead, these elegantly disturbing color photographs examine what could be considered a series of unofficial urban monuments composed from the distressed architectural elements and detritus found inside abandoned buildings..."Pictures for Rome" are pictures of haunted places. Whether they chronicle the bones and viscera of an aborted commercial structure or never-finished hospital, a vacant housing complex or long-deserted schoolhouse, these images engage the ghostly relic of urban renewal, the failed construction projects and real estate disasters that conjure modernism's less glamorous side. And they remind us that even in Rome, the mother city, everything is disposable... "Pictures for Rome" are not, in other words, the same thing as pictures "of" Rome. These images do not describe a specific city at all; instead, they chart concealed landscapes that exist in a world apart from the vitality and velocity of today's consumerist metropolis...A deep undersea silence seems to engulf the modern ruins that Hernandez photographs... Blurring the line dividing past and present, they leave our temporal compass spinning wildly.''--Ralph Rugoff
Hardcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 167 pages, square 4to. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. 68 full-page reproductions of works by Artaud, many in color, plus many other illustrations, including documentary photographs. Essays by the editor, Ronald Hayman, Marthe Robert, Agnes de la Beaumelle, and Sylvere Lotringer, with artistic responses by Nancy Spero, Patti Smith, and Kiki Smith, and a catalogue of the exhibition, chronology, exhibition history, and select bibliography. Gray boards with black cloth spine. Issued without jacket. Minor dust soil to edges of boards otherwise very good, clean.
Softcover. Houston, Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 56 pages. Exhibition catalog. Gray covers with color graphic illustration, perfect binding, foreword by Linda L. Cathcart, essay by Marti Mayo, published interview with artist by Ted Castle included, catalogue of the exhibition, 8 color and 14 b&w plates, chronology and biographical notes. Very light wear to catalog edges; a clean, tight copy in great condition.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Print Mint, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 44 pages. An anthology comic. Cover art by R. Crumb. Sawney Beane bio. Let's Talk Sense About This Here Modern America, script and art by Robert Crumb; Crumb rants about America. Gilbert Shelton's Advanced Motoring Tips. Where Are They Now?, script and art by Kim Deitch; A reporter learns about a practical joker. A Couch in the Sun, script and art by Bill Griffith; biography of Henri Rousseau. Who Killed Lenny Bruce? article, art by Crumb. Goethe's Faust, script and art by Justin Green.
Softcover. Berkeley, Print Mint, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover comic, 8.25 x 10.75", with 52 pages, including semi-glossy color wraps and b/w interior. An anthology comic. Cover art by Jay Lynch. Crybaby's Blues, script and art by Robert Crumb; the harshness of life. Comedia Dell' Zippy starring Zippy The Pinhead, script and art by Bill Griffith; Outlawed clowns put on a show. The Great Ajeeb, Chess Playing Automaton, script and art by Kim Deitch; fake chess playing machine. The Corpse Gobblin' Ogre of Columbite Mountain, script and art by S. Clay Wilson. A Modern Mystery starring Arnold Peck, script and art by Willy Murphy. Some Boxes for the Salvation Army, script and art by Art Spiegelman. The Calvin Coolidge Story, script by Jim Hoberman, art by Kim Deitch. Gotterdammerung, script and art by Spain Rodriguez.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages. Oversized. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Some light wear on dust jacket corners. Color photographs throughout. A bright, clean copy. A foreword by Johnson himself, an essay by his biographer Hilary Lewis, and nearly 400 vivid color and b/w photos accompanied by detailed building descriptions presented in chronological order.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A volume of the life and work of Arnold Friberg, includes 50 full-color plates and numerous b&w illustrations. 175 pages. Red cloth bound, some white dots on front and back covers. Well-bound, clean copy. Dust jacket shows signs of rubbing along edges and small tear along the back bottom left corner.
Hardcover. GR, Steidl, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages. When celebrated photographer Arnold Newman began his career in 1938 in chain portrait studios in Philadelphia, Baltimore and West Palm Beach, he also immediately began to make abstract and documentary photography on his own, studying people and places impoverished by the Depression. In June of 1941, Beaumont Newhall of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Alfred Stieglitz "discovered" him, and he was given an exhibit with Ben Rose at the A.D. Gallery that September. There Newman began to combine his independent work with the portraiture that had been his bread-and-butter, developing the approach for which he is best known, which came to be called "environmental portraiture," and which is so widely influential today that it might be the new standard practice. This style made Newman a distinctive contributor to publications like Life, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times Magazine, brought him into the collections of museums around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography in New York, and led to his recognition in photography histories and with awards including France's Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. The photographs collected here were made before Newman achieved recognition as a pioneering portraitist, during the formative years from 1938 to 1942. They highlight the early stirrings of a great photographic master.
Softcover. New York , Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 285 pages, b&w and color plates. Art checklist laid in. Half-inch tear at top of spine. Light marking to bottom edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Albright-Knox Gallery, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, This solid, authoritative presentation of Gorky's pivotal art of the 1940s accompanies an exhibit of paintings and drawings showing this year at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., as well as Buffalo and Fort Worth. Biographical and art-historical essays by Auping, a Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth curator, as well as Dore Ashton and Matthew Spender summarize the critical consensus of Gorky, placing him between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism in the development of 20th-century art. Excellent reproductions of the paintings and drawings in the show are supplemented by close-ups from several paintings, photographs of Gorky, and selections from Gorky's letters. While not a comprehensive or groundbreaking work, this volume is an excellent summary of or introduction to Gorky for both general and informed lay readers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Art in America, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 136 pages. Hardcover magazine format. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Features articles on: 'What Should a Museum Be?, 'A Day with John Marin', 'Antiques for the Avant-Garde', 'Notes Toward an Ideal School of Fine Art', 'American Art International', 'Paris Letter: Nouveux Realistes', and more. Cover by Saul Steinberg. Clean, tight copy.
 "American Monument by: Lynn Davis and Witold Rybczynski")
 "American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression by: Brown, Milton W.")
 "Ancient and Modern by: Eggleston and Mark Holborn, William")
 "Andy Warhol : A Retrospective by: McShine, Kynaston ( editor)")
 "Andy Warhol Treasures by: Huxley, Geralyn")
 "Andy Warhol: \"Giant Size\" by: Hickey (Ed.), David and Steven Bluttal")
 "Andy Warhol: Cosmos: Drawings & Collages by: Warhol, Andy")
 "Andy Warhol: Cosmos: Drawings & Collages by: Warhol, Andy")
 "Andy Warhol: Duty Free by: Warhol, Andy and Vincent Fremont")
 "Andy Warhol: Duty Free by: Warhol, Andy and Vincent Fremont")
 "Andy Warhol: Modern Madonna by: Warhol, Andy and Michael Luthy")
 "Andy Warhol: Modern Madonna by: Warhol, Andy and Michael Luthy")
 "Andy Warhol by: Ratcliff, Carter")
 "Anthony Hernandez: Pictures for Rome by: Rugoff, Ralph")
 "Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper by: Rowell, Margit")
 "Arbitrary Order: Paintings by Pat Steir by: Pat Steir")
 "ARCADE: The Comics Revue Vol. 1, No. 2/Summer 1975 by: Spiegelman, Art/Griffith Bill R. Crumb Lenny Bruce")
 "ARCADE: The Comics Revue Vol.1 No. 5 Spring 1976 by: R.Crumb; Art Spiegelman et al")
 "Architecture of Philip Johnson, The. by: Payne, Richard (Photographer) Philip Johnson, Hilary Lewis")
 "Arnold Friberg: The Passion of A Modern Master by: Schwarz, Ted")
 "Arnold Newman: The Early Work by: Philip Brookman , Arnold Newman")
 "Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective by: Waldman, Diane")
 "Arshile Gorky: The Breakthrough Years by: Spender, Matthew,Auping, Michael,Ashton, Dore")
 "Art in America - Volume 49 - Number Two - 1961 by: Lipman, Jean (editor)")