Art Exhibition

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 119 pages, mostly illustrated in color. Essays by Paul Schimmel and Lisa Phillips. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. 156 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Accompanied the exhibit of the same name shown at the Smithsonian, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney in 1968 and 1969. Essays by Martin Friedman, Bartlett Hayes and Charles Millard. Whitney Museum of American Art. Bibliography: p. 106-107. Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 - May 7, 1965) was an American painter and commercial photographer. He is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism, developing a "quasi-photographic" style of painting known as Precisionism and becoming one of the master photographers of the 20th century. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Softcover. Pawtuxet Cove, RI, Dale Chihuly, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 full page color reproductions. Beautiful catalog for exhibition traveling to Tucson Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art, and St. Louis Art Museum. Printed on Northwest Quintessence by Foremost Lithograph, Co. Slight wear on cover. All else in very good condition.

Softcover. Muncie, Ind., Ball State University, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light rubbing to wrappers, small tear to rear cover, else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black & white photographs throughout.

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Paperback with faded paper wrappers. Black and white and colored pictures throughout. Tight copy

Softcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to wrappers, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Essays by Trudy Wilner Stack and Allen Tullos was published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of the same name. Christenberry's paintings, photography, sculpture and instal lations address the Southern identity. They describe and examine the social and material culture of the deep South.

Hardcover. New York, National Gallery of Art/Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with mniior wear to edges. Color photos throughout. Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created some of the most visually breathtaking works of the twentieth century. From early wrapped objects to monumental outdoor projects such as The Umbrellas, Japan-U.S.A., 1984-91 and Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95, the artists have used fabric - wrapped, draped, and folded over, around, and through natural and constructed forms - to transcend the traditional bounds of painting, drawing, sculpture, and architecture.This volume spanning forty years of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's remarkable career accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art of sixty-one works from the collection of Dorothy and Herbert Voqel, whose relationship with the artists dates to 1971. The wonderful breadth of works presented in color and discussed here includes several early packages, models for large-scale public works, preparatory drawings and collages for projects in urban and rural sites, and photographs of the completed projects.

Softcover. Taschen, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial stiff wraps, approx. 150 pages, many color photos by Wolfgang Volz

Softcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Stiff glossy covers completely illustrated in color, folded flaps, perfect binding, essay by Ellen R. Goheen and photography by Wolfgang Volz, 150 illustrations with 70 in full color, with documents, plans and fabric from the exhibition. Mild rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1969, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Exhibition catalogue for Bulgarian artist Christo. Illustrated with 71 reproductions of his often large-scale work, 3 of which are in shown in full color. Cloth bound book and dust jacket are in near fine condition; dust jacket has very slight wear some corners, book is very clean and new-looking.

Paperback. New York, Prestel, Revised, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Oversize hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this book offers the first comprehensive critical examination of one of America's most celebrated living artists. Chuck Close reinvented portraiture almost four decades ago with a series of nine-foot-tall, black-and-white likenesses of himself and fellow artists, which astonished an art world dominated by minimalism and conceptualism. Close has since explored an array of mediums. This lavish, large-format volume is the first to deal with all aspects of Close's career and to place them in a biographical context. Christopher Finch's insight into CLose's achievement comes by way of hundreds of studio visits and thousands of hours of conversation since he met Close in 1968. Finch provides an engaging, in-depth analysis of Close's portraits on canvas, from the continuous-tone airbrushed heads of the 1960s and '70s to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past two decades. The more than 300 illustrations features in the book survey almost all of CLose's paintings, including his most recent work, together with a selection of his prints and multiples, and examples of his photographic oeuvre. This beautifully designed volume reveals not only the variety of pictorial strategies Close has devised, but the extrordinary personality of the artist behind the work.

Softcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 220 pages. This comprehensive catalogue traces the career of Cindy Sherman, examining her achievements as one of the leading American artists of our time. By exploring the myriad constructions of female identity and the body in our culture, Sherman imitates and confronts assorted representational stereotypes, becoming for many an icon of the contemporary concerns of feminism and postmodernism.Essayists Amada Cruz, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Amelia Jones offer keen insight and observations from several distinct vantage points, demonstrating that Sherman's work is a lens through which to view contemporary art and its ongoing concern with the profound issues of the structures of the self. More than 200 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centerfolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales, and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets, and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process.

Softcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages. 153 color illustrations and 102 duotone. Published to accompany the first major survey of Cindy Sherman's work in the United States in nearly 15 years, this publication presents a stunning range of work from the groundbreaking artist's 35-year career. Showcasing approximately 180 photographs from the mid-1970s to the present, including new works made for the exhibition and never before published, the volume is a vivid exploration of Sherman's sustained investigation into the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation. The book highlights major bodies of work including her seminal Untitled Film Stills (1977-80); centerfolds (1981); history portraits (1989-90); head shots (2000-2002); and two recent series on the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status. An essay by curator Eva Respini provides an overview of Sherman's career, weaving together art historical analysis and discussions of the artist's working methods, and a contribution by art historian Johanna Burton offers a critical re-examination of Sherman's work in light of her recent series. A conversation between Cindy Sherman and filmmaker John Waters provides an enlightening view into the creative process.

Softcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages. 153 color illustrations and 102 duotone. Published to accompany the first major survey of Cindy Sherman's work in the United States in nearly 15 years, this publication presents a stunning range of work from the groundbreaking artist's 35-year career. Showcasing approximately 180 photographs from the mid-1970s to the present, including new works made for the exhibition and never before published, the volume is a vivid exploration of Sherman's sustained investigation into the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation. The book highlights major bodies of work including her seminal Untitled Film Stills (1977-80); centerfolds (1981); history portraits (1989-90); head shots (2000-2002); and two recent series on the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status. An essay by curator Eva Respini provides an overview of Sherman's career, weaving together art historical analysis and discussions of the artist's working methods, and a contribution by art historian Johanna Burton offers a critical re-examination of Sherman's work in light of her recent series. A conversation between Cindy Sherman and filmmaker John Waters provides an enlightening view into the creative process.

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Padded vinyl covers, 221 pages illustrated in color and black and white. SIGNED BY OLDENBURG and dated '72 on the title page. Edges of vinyl with light soil, otherwise very good. This major retrospective exhibition was held 25 September to 23 November 1969. The catalogue designed by Chermayeff & Geismar Associates is a work of art in itself, from its innovative cover proudly highlighting the work of curator Barbara Rose, to the profusion of illustrations, both documentary of Oldenburg and his artistic peers and representative of his large body of work.

Softcover. Pasadena, CA, Pasadena Art Museum, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Exhibition catalog. Mostly black-and-white illustrations, with a few color illustrations. Light shelf-wear, scratching, and edge-wear on covers. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum. Features writings by the artist, including his proposals for monuments, as well as illustrations (mostly black/white, few color) of his sculptures and drawings. Also contains chronology of the artist's life and work.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Ward Ritchie Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum. Features writings by the artist, including his proposals for monuments, as well as illustrations (mostly black/white, few color) of his sculptures and drawings. Also contains chronology of the artist's life and work. Cloth bound book is in very good condition. Dust jacket has some scratches/wear.

Hardcover. New York, PaceWildenstein, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only edgewear. Full page color photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Softcover. Stockholm, Sweden, Moderna Museet, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 84 pages, text in Swedish and English. Illustrated white cover in excellent condition. Minor rubbing on back cover. Clean, crisp pages with beautiful illustrations throughout. Tight binding. Very minor wear on cover corners.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear to wrappers, mild damp stain to rear cover. Previous owner's writing, underlining to several pages.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art : distributed by H. N. Abrams, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 221 pages, illustrated throughout with 165 plates, including 89 in full color. Light edgewear, rubbing and soil to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art : distributed by H. N. Abrams, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 221 pages, illustrated throughout with 165 plates, including 89 in full color. Light edgewear, rubbing and soil to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Rizzoli, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 251 pages, illustrated in color. Accompanies a major touring exhibition on the history of ceramic art in the second half of the twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 color photographs, Color & Fire explores the roles of key artists and the major stylistic movements they developed during the decades of pioneering innovation. Based on the premise that the history of studio ceramics can be regarded as a series of breakthroughs or milestones, Color & Fire highlights the moments when talented artists came together to produce work in clay that challenged traditions and promoted aesthetic freedom. Small sticker on front thanking a museum member for their support.