art modern

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 336 pages. 425 illustrations, 227 in color and 198 in duotone. Catalog of art exhibition put on by MOMA and the Tate Gallery. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Soft cover. French flaps. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Published to accompany exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Only slightly yellowed edges due to age. In good shape, clean inside. From front French flap: ",,,includes over 200 color reproductions of paintings, drawings, and prints, including life-sized details and foldouts of major paintings. An illustrated chronology tells the story of the artist's life."

Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 480 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket with slip case. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color/ Black and white pictures throughout. Coinciding with renewed interest in James Ensor, this catalogue raisonne comes as an essential and definitive volume for Ensor buffs and all serious libraries of modern art. A legend in his own lifetime, Ensor (1860-1949) was--alongside Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch--a fearless independent whose work led directly to the development of German Expressionism and French Surrealism. Ensor achieved fame as the "painter of masks," and for his bizarre still lifes and grotesque carnival scenes, in harsh, contrasting, brilliant colors, evolving out of the traditional Flemish dance of death. Now, the reader can explore the Belgian painter's oeuvre thoroughly, in this opulently illustrated, full-color, slipcased catalogue raisonne. A comprehensive illustrated chronology offers additional details about the artist's life and work, and forms an integral part of this splendid, highly valuable contribution to art historical research, ensuring the legacy of a great artist who continues to inspire contemporary art.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 232 pages. James Rosenquist's paintings, with their billboard-sized images of commercial subjects, are utterly emblematic of 1960s Pop Art. Their provocative imagery also touches on some of the major political and historical events of that turbulent decade--from the Kennedy assassination to the war in Vietnam. In the first full-length scholarly examination of Rosenquist's art from that period, Michael Lobel weaves together close visual analysis, a wealth of archival research, and a consideration of the social and historical contexts in which these paintings were produced to offer bold new readings of a body of work that helped redefine art in the 1960s. Bringing together a range of approaches, James Rosenquist provides a compelling perspective on the artist and on the burgeoning consumer culture of postwar America.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1980 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. 121 illustrations in full color. The first comprehensive publication of Jamie Wyeth's work. Contains many of his well known portraits of such subjects as John F. Kennedy, Lincoln Kirstein and Andy Warhol. Blue cloth. Minor tear to front cover of dust jacket, otherwise a very clean, tight and crisp copy.

Softcover. Bew Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 pages. Richly illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold's little-known private collection of design ephemera, this important book explores a legendary figure in the history of modern graphic design through the artists, ideas, and texts from the Bauhaus that most influenced him. Tschichold (1902-1974), a prolific designer, writer, and theorist, stood at the forefront of a revolution in visual culture that made printed material more elemental and dynamic. His designs were applied to everyday graphics, from billboard advertisements and business cards to book jackets and invoices. This handsome volume offers a new understanding of Tschichold's work, and of the underlying theories of the artistic movement he helped to form, by analyzing his collections. Clean copy. The book is still in the original publisher shrink wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 416 pages, illustrated throughout with 445 illustrations including 200 plates in full color. Previous owner's initials on half title page. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Huge survey of Japanese prints, with many tipped-in and folding plates. 257 plates including 55 tipped-in full color plates, acetate protected color dust jacket, cloth bound cover with gilt lettering on spine, pattern of oriental woman on fabric sewn into cover. Price-clipped, slight chipping to top of dust jacket spine; a tight, attractive copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Published to accompany an exhibition celebrating the prints of Jasper Johns. Includes 106 reproductions (43 color, many full-page) of pieces by Johns. Also contains many statements by the artist within the essay by Riva Castleman. Near fine condition, only slight wrinkling on the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Wahington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover,. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Gallery in Washington (and later at the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland) and concentrating on the pivotal decade 1955-1965 when Johns produced his most famous works, this catalogue is filled with well-produced reproductions. Jasper Johns (born 1930) is an important American painter who is variously said to belong to the Minimalist, Pop Art or Neo-Dadaist schools. This catalogue presents paintings from the first decade of his creative output.

Hardcover. Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 349 pages., profusely illustrated. In the first section, the six sketchbooks that relate to the scholarly essays are reproduced in full and in sequence, exactly as Picasso created them. The images in the second section have been taken from thirty of the finest sketchbooks. The final section is a CATALOGUE RAISONNE, which fully describes all 175 extant sketchbooks and features one image from each. A landmark volume, revealing for the first time the full glory of Picasso's hidden sketchbook masterpieces in over 700 color, duotone, and black-and-white reproductions, representing Picasso's astounding range and diversity. A clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. A photographer once remarked to Andre Maurois, "If I were to take a picture of a village wedding, Jean Cocteau would appear between the bride and groom." And he was right; Cocteau was photographed everywhere, by everyone, in all guises and poses. Cecil Beaton posed him smoking an opium pipe, Lucien Clergue caught him in the romantic ruins of Arles where Cocteau was shooting Orphee, Arnold Newman shot him in Paris, and Philippe Halsman in New York. Cocteau possessed, of course, a modern genius for self-promotion, but he also cared deeply about his own art and the art of a technique he embraced with passion throughout his lifetime - photography. Essay by Francis Steegmuller.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. A rare and poignant compilation of photography and written anecdotes by American photographer and artist Lee Jaffe that captures his close friendship, collaboration, and travels with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat as they traversed Japan, Thailand, and Switzerland in 1983. Lee Jaffe, a cross-disciplinary visual artist, musician, and poet, took photos of his friend, Jean-Michel Basquiat, when they traveled abroad in 1983. As a photographer, Jaffe had a connection to Basquiat, and their time spent together resulted in an archive of imagery that captured one of the art world's true legends through an unfiltered and authentic lens. Basquiat and Jaffe connected over reggae music at a mutual friend's art show. It was the early 1980s in New York, when the art scene was raw, complicated, and thriving, and Jaffe cultivated strong connections with cultural figures such as Basquiat, Bob Marley, and Peter Tosh. "For me, watching him [ Jean] paint reminded me of the times I would sit and play harmonica while Bob Marley, with his acoustic guitar, would be writing songs that were eventually to become classics," Jaffe says. "With Jean and Bob, it seemed like they were channeling inspiration coming from an otherworldly place." This beautiful volume presents snapshots of Basquiat: from the artist smiling on a bullet train to Kyoto and behind-the-scenes documentation of Basquiat creating artwork in St. Moritz, to poignant portraits that mirror his undeniable magnetism. These rare depictions of Basquiat come to life with Jaffe's unforgettable experiences of their friendship, collaborations, and travels detailed in private written memories and anecdotes. This insightful and moving illustrated volume captures the soul of the unedited, ambitious, young artist during the height of his short yet unprecedented artistic career.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli International, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in white. 192 pages, illustrated throughout in color. This Brant Foundation exhibition partially restages three of the artist's critical early shows, including an exhibition of the artist's paintings and drawings of heads at Robert Miller Gallery; his most important canvases from Gagosian Gallery's 1982 show in Los Angeles; and Basquiat's solo show at Fun Gallery in the East Village. Buchhart also considers in-depth the artist's so-called stretcher bar paintings, in which the normally hidden wooden supports for stretched canvases are exposed, works that have yet to be explored at length by scholars.

Softcover. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in illustrated wrappers, 304 pages. Illustrated with B&W engravings. Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes-a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese draws on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects to present a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "native" landscapes.

Hardcover. New York, New Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 198 pages, b&w illustrations. Readers have long cherished the work of comic masters such as Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, and Art Spiegelman, all of whom happen to be Jewish. Few, however, are probably aware that the Jewish role in creating the American comic art form is no less significant than the Jewish influence on Hollywood filmmaking. Filled with the most stunning examples of this vital artistic tradition, Jews and American Comics tells us how the "people of the book" became the people of the comic book.With three brief essays by Paul Buhle, the well-known historian of American Jewish life, Jews and American Comics offers readers a pictorial backstory tracing Jewish involvement in comic art from several little-known strips in Yiddish newspapers of the early twentieth century through the mid-century origins of the modern comic book and finally to contemporary comic art, which has at last found its place in museums, in private collections, and on the bookshelves of both critics and millions of avid readers.

Hardcover. Chicago , Art Institute of Chicago ; New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The story of Jindrich Heislter--a Jewish surrealist who remained in Czechoslovakia and continued to produce art during the Nazi occupation is fascinating. It's particularly worth comparing to many of the European surrealists, who fled to the safety of the United States for the duration. Heisler's art has moments of greatness, particularly his unique cliche-verres, but the vast majority of it is third-rate (if that) surrealist photo-tableaux, art school poetry, object assemblages, and horror vacui typography.

Hardcover. Boston/ New York , Bulfinch Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 533 pages, 431 works reproduced in color. Small remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise a bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket. The most comprehensive look at Miro's art available in book form. In honor of Miro's 100th birthday, 1993 has been designated Miro Year, which is being celebrated with great fanfare in Europe and the U.S. This book features full-color reproductions of the artist's work on canvas and paper, from his earliest sketch to his mature works of the 1980s.

Hardcover. Suffolk UK, Antique Collectors' Club, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 103 pages. A monograph prepared by Carrington's husband to accompany the memorial exhibition of her work in 2005 at the Thackeray Gallery. Clean copy with a mild musty odor.

Softcover. Montevideo, Impresora Gordon, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Monograph on the Uruguayan artist who championed a modernist aesthetic in South American art. Color wrappers with light wear, interior clean. SPANISH TEXT.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Life and art of John Marin; editor Cleve Gray includes writings by Marin himself to accompany the biographical text and reproduced works. 176 pp. Features 20 color and 99 black/white illustrations. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, previous owner's name, date, and location written inside the cover in pencil. Dust jacket is in good condition, with tear and creasing on the back and light stain on the front.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Life and art of John Marin; editor Cleve Gray includes writings by Marin himself to accompany the biographical text and reproduced works. 176 pp. Features 20 color and 99 black/white illustrations. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, previous owner's name, date, and location written inside the cover in pencil. Dust jacket is in good condition, with tear and creasing on the back and light stain on the front.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A tight copy. The American realist artist John Sloan is best known for his portrayals of daily life in early 20th-century New York and as a member of The Eight and the Ashcan School, alongside peers like Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, and George Luks. Sloan's artistic approach was shaped by his experience as a commercial illustrator, a type of work that inaugurated his professional career-at newspapers like the Philadelphia Press and later for mass-market magazines-and which he pursued even after he turned his focus to painting. In John Sloan: Drawing on Illustration, Michael Lobel explores the impact of Sloan's illustrating on his wider output, including his paintings, his drawings for the radical journal The Masses, and his response to the watershed 1913 Armory Show. Illuminating the interaction between art and popular culture, this book provides an important new framework for understanding the modern genre of illustration, and in so doing touches on major 20th-century currents, including the rise and expansion of the mass media and the visual legacy of European modernism.