Art Exhibition

Softcover. NY, The Drawing Centre, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 94 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Penone's sculptures, installations, and drawings are distinguished by his emphasis on process and his use of natural materials, such as clay, stone, metal, and wood. Exhibition catalog. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Dunlop Art Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 169 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and French. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, V&A Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Soiling and wear to dust jacket edges. Light yellowing to inside pages. Small tears to dust jacket rear. An otherwise tight copy. 97 color plates, 80 black and white illustrations. In 1947, Christian Dior?s ?New Look? was greeted with both shock and delight, making headlines around the world. Accompanying the exhibition opening at the Victoria and Albert Museum in September 2007, this lavish book focuses on Parisian and British couture between 1947 and 1957, the decade Dior hailed as fashion?s ?golden age.? The ?New Look? symbolized a new femininity. The full skirts and hourglass silhouettes were considered highly decadent, synonymous with luxury and prosperity, in marked contrast to the austerity of the WWII years. Nevertheless, the ?New Look? caught the public imagination and ushered in a period of remarkable creativity. The Golden Age of Couture features stunning gowns and exquisite tailoring from Dior as well as from such designers as Balenciaga, Balmain, and Givenchy, along with evocative photographs by the likes of Richard Avedon and Cecil Beaton.

Softcover. Pittsburgh PA, Museum of Art/Carnegie Institute, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages, 5 color plates, many b&w illustrations. A complete catalogue of his graphic prints selected by Gene Baro. SIGNED BY HOUSE in pencil on front cover. Exhibition catalog.

Softcover. New York, Associated American Artists, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with blue wraps. Unpaginated. Compiled and edited by Sylvan Cole, Jr., 2 b&w frontispieces, 66 b&w plates, errata slip laid in. A clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Brooklyn Museum, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Softcover published for the exhibition, May 13 - July 16, 1978. Cover image from Robert Rauschenberg, "Airport" series. Full color and black & white photographs throughout. Sections devoted to Philip Pearlstein, Charles Hinman, Mel Ramos, Ed Ruscha, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, more. Clean unmarked text.

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages. Illustrated profusely in b&w and 16 plates in color. An exhibition sponsored by the government of the Republic of Greece and the Musee du Louvre. Metalwork, bronze, clay, marble: all manner of objects 4th millennium B.C. to 4th century B.C.

Hardcover. Portland, OR, Nazraeli Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages. This printing limited to 1000 copies. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Creasing to a few pages. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. In the mid-1980s, Stu Levy began making 'grid-portraits' in order to overcome his his frustration with traditional portraiture's limited point of view. These constructs of photographs, consisting of twelve to twenty-five individual images, scan the architecture and flow of time in a subject's living or working environment. The resulting portraits, usually of artists, craftspeople and musicians, are made in the subjects' studios or living spaces and serve as a backstage tour of the artist s mind and creative process. Levy is fascinated by the artifacts that fill these spaces the possessions by which the subjects are themselves possessed. Rather than confining himself to a single 'decisive' moment, Levy explore its antithesis, a maze of scrambled time. These are made with a view camera using 4 x 5-inch negatives to allow for precision of detail. The sections are printed together to form the illusion of glancing through a window at a 'snapshot' of an event, which in reality might consist of fragmentary views made months apart and in totally separate rooms or environments. Among the subjects included in this important new monograph are Dr. Stanley Burns, Linda Connor, Barbara Crane, Jay Dusard, David Hockney, Graham Nash, and Jerry Uelsmann. Beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper and bound in black Japanese cloth, this first printing of Grid-Portraits is limited to 1,000 copies.

Softcover. NY, Brooklyn Museum : exclusively distributed by H. N. Abrams, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Previous owner's blind stamp on front end paper. Light edgewear, rubbing and creasing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Athens, Blurb Inc., Reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Softcover printed to accompany the exhibition by the same title, appearing in multiple venues, including, Ruby Green Gallery, Nashville TN May - June 2003 and Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens GA, August - September 2010. Bright, full page, full color photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This book features specially commissioned photographs of an extraordinary, newly formed collection of fashionable handbags that date from the 16th century to the present day. It has been acquired for exhibition in the first museum devoted to the handbag, in Seoul, South Korea. The project is a commission undertaken by experimental exhibition-maker Judith Clark, whose innovative practices are revealed in Handbags.

Softcover. New York, WMAA/Prestel, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Full color illustrations. Shallow crease at bottom right corner of front cover. Clean, unmarked copy. Goodman's book, with essays by Clement Greenberg and Irving Sandler and the artist's own statements, provides an excellent introduction to the life and work of the man frequently called the dean of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism.

Softcover. Belgium, Ludion , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages, color illustrations throughout. Clean copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Softcover, plastic comb binding, Soft white and color illustrated wraps with gray and black lettering. Color plates. Interior pages printed on thick, gray paper. Includes text by Stephen Wirtz. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST on the inside cover. Created to announce the exhibition "Harold Paris: The 26 Days of John Little", held from February 7 through March 8, 1978 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Old Lyme. CT, Florence Griswold Museum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 89 pages, b&w illustrations, 29 color plates, illustrated tissue guard. Light wear to wrapper corners. Else a very clean, tight copy. A book examining the life and work of an artist noted for his joie de vivre and for his versatility as an artist from winter views of New England to undersea paintings of the Bahamas. 89 pages, 29 color & 40 b/w illustrations with unique color frontispiece on vellum.

Hardcover. NY, Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Illustrated, laminated boards, no dust jacket issued. Clean, tight copy. This is a beutifully produced catalog of a NY retrospective for the Australian/British/American painter Hayley Lever (1876-1958). His painting also crossed boundaries including elements of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism & Tonalism. Perhaps it was this refusal to sit in one box that accounts for his being so nearly forgotten. There are many lovely pictures here, mostly of St Ives & the coasts of New England.

Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover published to accompany the exhibition, Church's Great Picture, The Heart of the Andes, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 5, 1993 - January 2, 1994. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages illustrated in b&w. Printed card wrappers, staple bound. Exhibition shown from March to May 1970. Architect Hector Guimard is the best-known representative of the French Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format. Includes 16 full page color illustrations printed on glossy card stock; black and white photograph of Frankenthaler on verso of title page. Catalog for exhibition held Nov. 30 - Dec. 31, 1983. Clean copy.

Softcover. Houston TX, Janie C. Lee Gallery, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in light tan wrappers. 10 color plates, 16 pages. For an exhibition November-December 1980. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages, 14 color plates, gives sizes and medium for each. Exhibition catalog for October 4 - November 3, 1984. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Munich, Prestel Verlag, 1st Edition, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Hardcover published to accompany the exhibition William Wegman - Hello Nature, at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, July 13 - October 21 2012. Features works by Wegman, Kevin Salatino, Padgett Powell, Diana Tuite. Full color, full page illustrations throughout. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean, unmarked copy.

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.