art monograph

Hardcover. US, Damiani, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 160 pages. Since its inception in the 1970s, hip hop music and the culture surrounding it has become a hugely influential and popular musical form in America and around the world. Its popularity extends beyond the urban centers where it was born, and pervades and influences youth culture around the globe. However, few artists have created serious and powerful photographs that explore the breadth of the phenomenon. With this volume, David Scheinbaum has done just that. His portraits of Erykah Badu, Chuck D., George Clinton, Common, Mos Def, Del-Tha Funkee Homosapien, Sage Francis, Professor Griff, KRS One, Mike Relm, Tajai, Wu-Tang Clan and Yelawolf (among others) approach hip hop as a positive cultural influence akin to the youth movement of the 1960s. Scheinbaum's photographs are accompanied by essays by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Michael Eric Dyson, an artist conversation with Frank H. Goodyear III and an introduction by Brian Hardgroove of Public Enemy.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs spanning over 30 years. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover (cloth) in near fine condition with dust jacket which is protected by clear plastic covering, also in near fine condition. 293 pages., including 226 illustrations with 65 color plates. A beautiful and large-format monograph focusing on Willem De Kooning's life and paintings.

Hardcover. New York, Balance House/Watson Guptill, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, 63 color plates, 236 b&w illustrations. Beautiful copy of this scarce volume. Preface by Norman Rockwell. The slightest bit of fade to the spine edge of the dust jacket otherwise near fine in a mylar protector.

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 200 pages. FunkyTown digs into British photographer Dean Freeman's archive--it goes way beyond Beckham--to gather published and unpublished portraiture, fashion and reportage spanning three decades of youth culture, from the 1980s to the present. His star portrait subjects include Liz Hurley, Sandra Bullock, Rachel Weisz, Dennis Hopper, Harold Pinter and Guy Ritchie. But beyond glamour and stardom, beyond Freeman's understanding of and comfort with the models, pop stars and writers for whom he has been a talent scout and icon-maker, he turns out to be a sensitive observer of people and landscapes in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. On his own time, he has chronicled a richly diverse world with great humanity and wit.

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 200 pages. FunkyTown digs into British photographer Dean Freeman's archive--it goes way beyond Beckham--to gather published and unpublished portraiture, fashion and reportage spanning three decades of youth culture, from the 1980s to the present. His star portrait subjects include Liz Hurley, Sandra Bullock, Rachel Weisz, Dennis Hopper, Harold Pinter and Guy Ritchie. But beyond glamour and stardom, beyond Freeman's understanding of and comfort with the models, pop stars and writers for whom he has been a talent scout and icon-maker, he turns out to be a sensitive observer of people and landscapes in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. On his own time, he has chronicled a richly diverse world with great humanity and wit.

Softcover. US, Yale University Press with Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. This beautiful book is the first full-length study of Degas`s Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, one of the most famous and beloved of all nineteenth-century sculptures. The book surveys the history, character, and significance of the sculpture, as well as its social context and the mixed reactions to it over the years.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 435 pages. Hardcover. 256 black & white illustrations and 12 tipped-in full color plates. Fading to spine and along cover edges. No dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York , George Braziller , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, illustrated throughout with 65 plates in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This volume gathers together all the extant pastels of Eugene Delacroix (1798-1862), the leader of the French Romantic movement in painting, the greatest colorist and the most versatile master of the first half of the nineteenth century. These beautiful pastels, housed in collections from London to Los Angeles to Cairo, are rarely exhibited due to their fragility.

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 190 pages. B&W and color illustrations. Essay by David Park Curry. Introduction by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Nice clean copy with tight binding and beautiful cover.

Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 119 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. France, Editions du ChIne, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black & white and color photographs throughout.

Hardcover. Seymour CT, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped with gilt letters, 144 pages. Deluxe limited edition. one of 110 copies. SIGNED by the artist. No slipcase, no enclosed print. Bright, clean copy of this realistic painter's work. Most depict the Apache natives of Arizona.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. A collection of Arbus's photographs from her formative years, 1956-62; 125 images in all, more than half published here for the first time. No dust jacket issued. This book is the definitive study of the artist's first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum's Diane Arbus Archive--a remarkable treasury of photographs, negatives, appointment books, notebooks, and correspondence--it is an essential contribution to our understanding of Arbus and her oeuvre.

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Over 100 of Diane Arbus' early photographs in black and white. Tight copy. Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time. This book is the definitive study of the artist's first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum's Diane Arbus Archive--a remarkable treasury of photographs, negatives, appointment books, notebooks, and correspondence--it is an essential contribution to our understanding of Arbus and her oeuvre.

Hardcover. Millerton NY, Aperture, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 b& plates by Arbus. True first with Two Girls in Identical Raincoats plate, later supressed. Very good in very good dust jacket that's unclipped. When Diane Arbus committed suicide in 1971, only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known. The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972--along with the concurrent retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art--offered the general public its first encounter with the breadth and power of her work. Now considered a classic of photographic literature, it is probably the best selling photography book of all time.

Softcover. New York , Viking Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Softcover. Black and white photographs. Light edge wear and rubbing to wrappers. Jacques Henri Lartigue's photography began in 1901 when he was seven years old. Illustrated with several hundred of Lartigue's fine b/w and sepia photographs. Numerous gravure reproductions.

Softcover. Greenville NC, Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages; 7 paintings studied 67+ color illustrations including the technical analysis. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Stuttgard GR, Cantz, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. Hardcover. Text in English and German. Illustrated with full color photographs. Exhibition catalog of Judd's work presented by the Stankowski Foundation. Slightest darkening to page edges. A clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Skira Rizzoli, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages, many illustrations, 72 in color. Bibliography, chronology. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, October 1, 2011 to January 8, 2012. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. gr, Editorial RM, 1st, 2009, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. With an all-black velvet cover and beautifully printed inside, Health and Efficiency is a sexy little book. The pieces are all derived from a pile of old nudist camp magazines he picked up in Brick Lane market in East London. In the original clippings nubile porcelain-white maidens pose puritanically next to ponds and lillies. But in Lakra's versions they have sailor tattoos and get skewered by monochrome skeletons and mugwumps.

Hardcover. GR, Editorial RM, 1st, 2009-07-31, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. With an all-black velvet cover and beautifully printed inside, Health and Efficiency is a sexy little book. The pieces are all derived from a pile of old nudist camp magazines he picked up in Brick Lane market in East London. In the original clippings nubile porcelain-white maidens pose puritanically next to ponds and lillies. But in Lakra's versions they have sailor tattoos and get skewered by monochrome skeletons and mugwumps.

Hardcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. Everyone who grew up entertained, provoked, and enlightened by Dr. Seuss books will love this big, color-saturated volume covering 70 years of published and private art by the master of smart, loopy fun. Here are examples of Theodor Geisel's clever, now ironic advertising work, including a rambunctious campaign for Flit, an insecticide containing DDT. Geisel's political cartoons and magazine illustrations are animated by his phenomenal gift for line and color, mischievous humor, and humanitarian values. It is thrilling, too, to see the original drawings for Green Eggs and Ham and other Seuss classics. But the big discoveries in this bountiful and redefining volume are his "Midnight Paintings," surreal watercolors, oils, and acrylics featuring tiny figures in a vast, labyrinthine world, and private versions of his expressive characters, especially the Cat, his alternate identity. Geisel's vibrant, trippy, hilarious, and poignant art plays on Hieronymus Bosch, M. C. Escher, and Persian miniatures. Every creature, plant, architectural marvel, object, and landscape is wriggling, leaping, flying, arcing, tilting, and rolling. When he dives into abstraction, he plunges into a deep chromatic sea, while his taxidermic sculptures prove just how real his sweet and goofy invented critters were to him. Spectacular reproductions and excellent, if episodic, commentary map Geisel's exuberant, world-altering artistic journey on what he would call "long wiggled roads" into "weirdish wild space."

Hardcover. NY, Pointed Leaf Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first monograph on the work of Kenneth Paul Block, one of the most influential fashion illustrators of the twentieth century. The oversize, lavishly illustrated book chronicles Block's lifetime of drawings, watercolors, and astute observations during the artist's over 30-year career at Women's Wear Daily, powerful fashion publication. A long awaited book of astonishingly vibrant fashion and portrait drawings of swan necked beauties by a much admired fashion-insider. Mr. Block studied at The Parsons school of Design and illustrated the work of the most influential fashion designers from about the mid 20th century to the nineties before unoriginal, mediocre photography (and unskilled illustrations) completely dominated how fashion was communicated to the celebrity obsessed, style challenged, uninformed masses. With seemingly effortless ease (the energy in the art looks like it could have been sketched yesterday!), Mr. Block drew the ever changing mood of fashion from London Mod to Italian Modern, Preppy Classic to Japanese Experimental, French couture to American casual and inspired many generations of fashion enthusiasts in the process. Mr. Block's portraits showcase a few of his favorite ladies. A rare and exquisite breed who set the standard for elegance and chic for most of the 20th century. Society beauties like Mrs. Guinness, Mrs. Paley, Mrs. Guest, Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Kennedy speak of a time when grace, poise and mystery mixed with a certain sense of knowing defined a chic, stylish lady. PLEASE NOTE: The book,while clean and bright, has a mild musty smell. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY due to size and weight.