Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sunfading to spine. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 255 duotone photographs throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Sunfading to spine. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 255 duotone photographs throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Oversize hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, like new copy still in publishers shrink wrap. Large black and white & color photographs throughout. Tight copy. Henri Cartier-Bresson was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1940. After two unsuccessful attempts, he managed to escape in 1943. During this period, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, assuming that the photographer had died in the war, started preparing what they thought would be a posthumous exhibition of his work. When he reappeared, Cartier-Bresson was delighted to learn of the exhibition and decided to review his entire oeuvre and curate it himself. In 1946 Cartier-Bresson traveled to New York with about 300 prints in his suitcase, bought a scrapbook, glued in the photos, and brought that album to MoMA's curators. His exhibition there, a celebration of his survival, opened on February 4, 1947.In the 1990s, Cartier-Bresson once again turned his attention to this scrapbook. Following his death in 2004, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, the present owner of the prints, finished the job of restoring them, making it possible to bring a large body of his extraordinary work to the public, images that have now become a memorial collection after all.
Softcover. Washington DC/NY, National Gallery of Art/Abrams, 1st, 1986, Softcover, large exhibition catalog, white wraps, 367 pages. Profusely illustrated with color and bw plates. A coherent group of major paintings representing that period when Matisse gave up his primary artistic residence in Paris to watch him settle in Nice. First as a temporary visitor and then as a permanent citizen, we watch him respond to the Mediterranean and the constancy of its light. Bookplate on inside fron cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy. Heavy volume. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Amsterdam, Ludion Ghent/Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages with 282 color plates, 53 in b&w. No dust jacket. Published to coincide with a major exhibition of the artist's work in Europe, this loving tribute to one of the greatest, and most bizarre, of the medieval painters introduces readers to the often grotesque vision expressed in his work.
Softcover. Amsterdam, Ludion Ghent/Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oversized softcover. Published with the the exhibition "Hieronymus Bosch" at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, September-November 2001. Minor wear to corners and edges of cover. Inside is bright and clean. Many color illustrations throughout. A nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller Incorporated, 1st, 1986, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color pictures throughout. landscapes. Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art. The series contains many of Hiroshige's best-loved and most extraordinary prints. Like Venice and Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries, or Paris in the age of the Impressionists, the city of Edo, with its superb landmarks and its festive display of elegant urban life, exerts a special and compelling fascination. Hiroshige revealed the panorama of his city's activities with subtle and vivid visual anecdotes: fireworks seen from the river, fashionable geishas on parade, the kabuki district at night, intimate moments in the gardens and teahouses. It is a tour de force of artistic vision and printmaking craftsmanship. This edition has been reproduced from an exceptionally fine, first-edition set in the Brooklyn Museum of Art to insure maximum fidelity to the original prints. Henry Smith ex-plains the world of Edo in its twilight before the Meiji Restoration and the beginnings of a modern urban society. Each plate is accompanied by a commentary that discusses its artistic and cultural interest in detail. For anyone interested in Japan, the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is perhaps the finest guide and one of the greatest legacies imaginable.
Softcover. Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalogue featuring the Hispanic art of the American Southwest. 118 pages, 21 black/white plates, 105 other black/white illustrations of pieces, and 36 black/white photographs of featured artists. Good condition, some soiling/light discoloration on the cover, top right corner bent.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in slipcase. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to slipcase edges. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Remainder mark to textblock. Hockney's Pictures is the first definitive "retrospective" to show the evolution and diversity of Hockney's prolific paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, and photography, including new and published works. The pieces, presented thematically, are selected and organized by David Hockney himself, and track Hockney's lifelong experiments in ways of looking and depicting. With 325 illustrations, accompanied by extensive quotes from the artist himself that illuminate the passionate thinking behind the work, Hockney's Pictures is destined to become a classic.
Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Remainder mark to textblock. Hockney's Pictures is the first definitive "retrospective" to show the evolution and diversity of Hockney's prolific paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, and photography, including new and published works. The pieces, presented thematically, are selected and organized by David Hockney himself, and track Hockney's lifelong experiments in ways of looking and depicting. With 325 illustrations, accompanied by extensive quotes from the artist himself that illuminate the passionate thinking behind the work, Hockney's Pictures is destined to become a classic.
Hardcover. US, Prestel Pub, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color prints throughout. Minor wear on corners. Hokusai was one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print. His exquisite compositions and dynamic use of colour set him apart from other printmakers, and his unequalled genius influenced both Japanese and a whole generation of Western artists. This book reproduces the artist's finest works in plates that convey the full variety of his invention, each of which is provided with an informative commentary. In his introduction, Hokusai expert Matthi Forrer traces the artist's career and defines his place in relation to his contemporaries and to the history of Japanese art. Examining all genres of the artist's prolific output - including images of city life, maritime scenes, landscapes, views of Mount Fuji, bird and flower illustrations, literary scenes, waterfalls and bridges - "Hokusai: Prints and Drawings" provides a detailed account of the artist's genius.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Volume to accompany the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 302 pp. Features 20 color plates in addition to 217 other black/white illustrations (mostly photographs). Covers beginnings of New England through the Early Days of the Republic. Development of Interior Architecture and House Decoration from craftsmen influenced by old world style and the evolution.Shows significant wear due to age and water damage. Discoloration throughout, though text still entirely legible and color still vivid in the plates. Edges show significant wear as well. Prior owner's name and date (1929) written in ink twice inside the cover.
Softcover. NY, Kouros Gallery, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in color with 12 of the artist's paintings. Essay by David Moos, poem by James McCorkle. Clean copy.
Softcover. Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art catalog of the first major retrospective exhibition of the works of Edward Ruscha. 10 pages, illustrated with Ruscha's artwork, and a photograph of the artist. A clean copy in publisher's stiff wrappers.
Softcover. Minneapolis, MN, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 90 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Black pictorial cover with slight wear to spine and both covers. Very slight spotting to top edge. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum Department of Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog, 120 pages. Color and B&W plates throughout. some B&W photos of artist throughout. Light soiling to wrapper and slight bending to bottom right corner. Some light edge wear. Otherwise a tight and clean copy.
Softcover. Gent, Netherlands, Museum Voor Schone Kunsten, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Dutch text. 160 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Frontispiece portrait, many plates & text-illustrations, essays, catalogue of 136 items depicted & described, bibliography, list of exhibitions. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Essay by Donald Kuspit, text in English, French and German. Mild crease to top corner of pages, clean copy.
Softcover. Minneapolis MN, Walker Art Center, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Textured paper covers. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Lewes, DE, GILES, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Like new still in publishers shrinkwrap. In addition to color plates of all works in the exhibition--nearly one hundred paintings, works on paper, and sculptures--this volume features essays by exhibition curators Douglas Dreishpoon and Tyler Cann, as well as poet and critic Raphael Rubinstein, and an illustrated chronology by academic and granddaughter of the artist Cary Cordova. From his early Abstract Expressionist-inspired paintings to his organic, anthropomorphic figure-ground compositions and later diagrammatical, hard-edged works, Imperfections by Chance charts the full range of Feeley's influential life and career.
Softcover. Greensboro NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Softcover exhibition catalog featuring the poet's collaboration with various artists like John Altoon, Donald Sultan, others. Includes a CD-ROM.
Softcover. Washington, DC, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibiton catalog.176 pages. Over 175 B&W illustrations throughout. Black pictorial cover with very slight wear. Price tag on bottom right corner of back cover. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press : Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 379 pages. Like new in publishers shrink wrap. Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has been tackling the challenge of self-portraiture throughout his prolific career. What began as an unorthodox investigation of the genre has become a masterful engagement spanning five decades. In this extraordinary compilation, which includes hundreds of previously unpublished pictures, we follow the famous photographer through the years as his personal and creative lives unfold and intertwine. Produced to the highest production standards and featuring over 400 duotone images--from his first self-portraits, taken with cable release in hand, to recent images of the photographer with his family and extended network of friends--In the Picture explores Friedlander's various guises throughout a rich and colorful life.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A tight copy. Inge Morath: On Style reveals the vital forms of fashion and self-expression that blossomed into existence in England, France, and the United States in the postwar decades. The book follows the photojournalist Inge Morath (1923-2002) through intimate sessions with Ingrid Bergman and Audrey Hepburn; scenes of window-shopping on Fifth Avenue; American girls discovering Paris; the frenetic splendor of society balls; and working women--from actresses to seamstresses to writers--everywhere taking their place in the world. The photographs in On Style focus on an extraordinary period of Morath's creativity, from the early 1950s to mid- 1960s, with a coda of work from later years. Here are the fundamental humanism, joy, and unerring eye for life's brilliant theatricality that characterized her work and made her one of the most celebrated photographers of her time.
Softcover. Memphis, TN, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 206 pages. With newspaper clipping slipped in. Illustrated in B&W and color. overall tight and clean copy. The narrative essays chart the routes taken by the American painters as they progressed from their experience at French communities to the re-establishment of their careers on native soil. Also included with the essays are the vivid artwork of these painters.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout with 112 color plates and 55 b&w reproductions. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A catalogue to accompany an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A beautiful publication examining Italian Maiolica. An essential reference work for historians, collectors, and anyone with an interest in ceramics.
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."
Softcover. Seattle WA, Seattle Art Museum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Red end papers. Marking on copyright page. Light edge wear to wrappers. Very light foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Liverpool UK , Tate Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations and photographs throughout. Includes extensive documentation and notes. Some edge wear to fore edge, Slight fray to raised bands, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Softcover. US, Stichting Kunstboak , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 135 pages.Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Norbet Hostyn, curator of the Museum of Fine Art in Ostend, has produced a fascinating and comprehensive account of the world and ideas of the by turns celebrated and vilified James Ensor (1860-1949). He offers an illuminating introduction to the artist's life and oeuvre, accompanied by a selection of fifty representative works, each comprising a large, color reproduction and an art-historical commentary. It is the story of a striking and controversial painter who was initially the focal point of a new school, but later became an eccentric with a finely tuned sense of image and business.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, St. Ann's Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Limited to 200 copies. Presented here are the many black and white photographs of American icons and imagery that are thematically connected by Fee's obsession with the decline and destruction of the America that he knew as a young man: we see his series of New York imagery, including the Chrysler building and the Brooklyn Bridge; pictures of the crumbling Penn State penitentiary; Beat inspired series of photographs of the American road; a distinctive and unique series of nude imagery; as well as his innovative collaborations with multimedia artist George Herms.
Softcover. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 2nd, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 331 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minimal wear to covers, else like new.
Hardcover. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Exhibition catalog. Hardcover, 331 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise like new.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This book includes a general discussion of Van der Heyden's work, entries on 40 of his paintings, illustrations of about 100 of his paintings, as well as supplemental drawings and prints. Focusing mainly on the bustling city of Amsterdam, he also recorded other Dutch, Flemish, and German cities with a brilliant palette and exceptionally detailed technique. Often innovative in his composition, he was the first artist to create imaginary scenes by rearranging existing city views and known buildings.
Softcover. New York, NY, National Academy of Design, 1st, 1985?, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 95 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Introduction By Annette Blaugrund. Red pictorial cover with wear to spine and slight soiling to covers. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, NY, National Academy of Design, 1st, 1985?, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 95 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. Introduction By Annette Blaugrund. Red pictorial cover with wear to spine and slight soiling to covers. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. Mostly b&w with some color. Catalogue of a traveling exhibition to be held at the Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University and other institutions, March 27, 1978 to November 18, 1979. 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/New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 347 pages, color and b&w plates. A clean, tight copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "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."
Softcover. Paris / London, Paul Holberton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 216 pages in color. Jean Helion (1904-1987) became a leading member of the international Abstraction-Creation group in the early 1930s. He then took abstraction to New York, where he advised the avant-garde collector A. E. Gallatin on purchases for his Gallery of Living Art, a crucial influence on the early phases of the developing New York School. In France after World War II, however, he evolved a unique language of painting, employing people and objects that are both contructivist and naturalistic--his own language of signs populated by shop-window dummies, newspaper readers, and startling nudes. In his return to figuration he may be compared to his close friends Balthus and Alberto Giacometti, even though his style is unique. This book is the first in English on the artist for some thirty years. Mild crease to front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oblong hardcover. 168 pages. Profusely illustrated with color plates including many gatefolds. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.