Hardcover. GR, Museum Folkwang Essen, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that started in Essen and ran May 13 through July 15, 2001 and then went on to Milan, Rotterdam, and two other cities for additional dates. Text in English and German. Preface by Ute Eskildsen. Essay by Jurgen Muller. Includes a look at Irving Penn's various editorial work in magazines with numerous color images. An excellent copy in a bright dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Jordan Volpe Gallery, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 89 pages, b&w and color photographs. Very light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers, else a very clean, tight copy.The catalogue of an exhibition at the Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, April 15 - June 30, 1980. Illustrated with 18 color plates and 11 figures in the text.
Softcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 114 pages illustrated in color and b&w, catalog of an exhibition held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, January 24-April 1, 2001. Clean copy.
Softcover. Minneapolis, MN, Walker Art Center, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog, 100 pages. Color and B&W plates throughout. . Deep bend on wrapper and first several pages. Light edgewear to wrapper and tearing on spine. soiling on last couple of pages. Overall a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Munich, Hirmer Publishers, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 288 pages. Oscar Munoz: Invisibilia is Colombian artist Oscar Munoz's first retrospective in the United States. Addressing the entire span of Munoz's career--from the 1970s to 2020--this exhibition catalog is the most substantive book on Oscar Munoz's work in English to date. Invisibilia includes artworks ranging from Munoz's early charcoal drawings to his later conceptual photographic, video, and installation works. The bilingual catalog includes essays in both Spanish and English from a diverse cadre of scholars who offer fresh takes on Munoz's best-known works and illuminate his more obscure experiments. It also features interviews with the artist as well as a recent text he has written on his practice. A comprehensive chronology charts Munoz's artistic evolution alongside the development of the artistic scene in Cali, Colombia, where he began his career and continues to live and work, rooting the artist's works in their cultural and historical context. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Washington DC /London, Smithsonian/Giles, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 366 pages including index. E. Carmen Ramos addresses the whole issue of the definition of "Latino art" and how this emerged within the context of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s as American artists of Latino descent (Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and, more recently, Dominican) began to give a tangible face to their culture and history. Highlights include an installation altar by Amalia Mesa-Bains, the "recycled" films of Raphael Montanez Ortiz, and a 1960 geometric painting by Carmen Herrera. Other notable artists include Olga Albizu, Melesio "Mel" Casas, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Margarita Cabrera, Enrique Chagoya, Teresita Fernandez, Ken Gonzales-Day, Luis Jimenez, Ana Mendieta, Pepon Osorio, Sophie Rivera, Freddy Rodriguez, and John M. Valadez, among many others. Color illustrations explore how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Painters of Reality, titled after an exhibition held in Milan more than fifty years ago, is the first study in English of this major aspect of Italian art. It builds on the work of the art historian Roberto Longhi. Reexamining the subject in light of copious subsequent scholarship, the authors of this volume contribute major essays that define and discuss naturalism as it appeared in both Lombard paintings and drawings. There is also a fresh consideration of the North Italian predecessors whose influence is apparent either directly or indirectly, in the paintings of Caravaggio. More detailed discussions of the subject center on the precise elements that constituted Leonardo's "hypernaturalism": the important schools of paintings that arose in Brescia, Bergamo, Cremona, and Milan; and Caravaggio's most notable successors in northern Italy, who kept Lombard realism alive into the eighteenth century.Among the 136 paintings and drawings, many never before seen outside of Italy, are influential drawings by Leonardo and major paintings by Caravaggio. Other acknowledged masters in the history of European art are represented, including Lorenzo Lotto, Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, Giovanni Battista Moroni, and Giacomo Ceruti. Works also appear from significant but less widely known artists such as Sofonisba, Anguissola, Vincenzo Campi, Moretto da Brescia, and Fra' Galgario.
Softcover. New York, American Art Association, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 150 pages. Reprint of 1926 auction catalog. Orange wrappers with black titles, perfect binding, profusely illustrated with b&w plates, foreword by Dana H. Carroll. Slight rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Merrell Holberton, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 224 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Punk is most commonly associated with music, fashion and graphics, but its rebellious and iconoclastic spirit also found expression in the visual arts. Panic Attack! reveals the vibrant art scene that exploded in Britain and the United States between 1974 and 1984, when visual artists shared some of the radical attitudes and aesthetics of punk and post-punk musicians and designers.Featuring essays by both British and American commentators, a detailed chronology of the art and music scenes of the time and stunning reproductions of works by over thirty leading artists, Panic Attack! is an account of one of the most exciting periods in modern art.
Hardcover. Canada, Art Gallery of Windsor, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Light smudging to top page block (may be remainder mark), otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to corners. French text AND English text.
Softcover. Pittsfield MA, The Berkshire Museum, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.
Softcover. Canada, Vancover Art Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Light musty odor. Clean, tight copy otherwise. Black and white and color pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 279 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The work of Paul Klee (1879-1940) was deeply influenced by his passion for the theater. Throughout his life, the artist fervently attended theatrical performances, from the opera to puppet shows. Characters from plays or operas Hamlet, Falstaff, or Don Giovanni, for example populate his cryptic visual world. Various types of characters or theatrical elements, such as the clown or the mask, were firmly established themes in his pictorial repertoire. However, Klee primarily forged links between the theater and life, and in so doing, he took up the traditional theme of the world as a stage: people became actors or marionettes; theatrical events converged with scenes from everyday life. This publication sheds light on all of these aspects of Klee's captivation with the stage. A chronology reconstructs a panoramic view of his multifaceted experience with the theater. Selected works by contemporary artists make it clear that not only Klee was fascinated by the sharp-eyed perception of theatrical situations it is a topic that continues to engage artists even today. 394 plates, 212 in color. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, First Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Softcover published on occasion of the exhibition by the same title, touring various locations including the Museum of Modern Art, February 12 - May 5, 1987. Full page, full color and bw illustrations throughout. Frontis illustration, Twittering Machine, 1922. Light toning to spine. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Louis Stettner is one of the last living members of the avant-garde New York School of photography of the 1950s, which challenged many of the long-accepted foundations of art form. His Penn Station series of the late 1950s represents some of his most important work, gathered here in a single form for the first time. The series is less a portrait of the building than a study of people at once in transit and in suspension.
Hardcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles to spine and front cover. Red fabric covered. Some age wear to dust jacket, otherwise very clean copy, bright pages. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf. Published to accompany an exhibition. From the front flap: "The photographs are presented to the greatest advantage in full-color plates and stunning tritone and duotone black-and-white reproductions. The 22 essays by leading historians, novelists, journalists, and environmentalists trace the shifting perceptions of the arid lands of the American West from a wide range of literary and scholarly perspectives.
Softcover. NY, Universe, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated (approx. 110 pages), illustrated in color throughout. A catalog for an exhibition organized by Peter T. Tunney which first ran in Milan in 1997. One-page Introduction by Beard, essay by Owen Edwards. Extremely scarce. Color illustrated wraps, like new condition.
Softcover. Scranton, PA, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Approx. 115 pages. 91 B&W and color prints. Red pictorial cover with slight wear around edges and spine. Black marks on front endpaper and flyleaf, binding glue also visible. Previous owner marking (Evergood) on spine. Overall, a clean, nice copy.
Softcover. Montclair NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 98 pages, 41 color plates. Issued in connection with an exhibition held October 19, 2008 to February 1, 2009, Montclair Art Museum.
Softcover. Montclair NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 98 pages, 41 color plates. Issued in connection with an exhibition held October 19, 2008 to February 1, 2009, Montclair Art Museum.
Softcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Museum of Art, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated, 80 b&w images. Light edge wear to wrappers. Light foxing on rear cover. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sunfading to spine. Price sticker to rear jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. The photographer Edouard Baldus, a central figure in the early development of French photography and acknowledged in his day as a pioneer in the still-experimental field, was widely acclaimed both for his aesthetic sensitivity and for his technical prowess. Establishing a new mode of representing architecture and describing the emerging modern landscape with magnificent authority, he enjoyed high patronage in the 1850s and 1860s....This book, the first to chronicle the life and career of this important artist, brings his work once more before the public. The superb quality of the reproductions captures the subtle tones and soft matte surfaces of the original prints, many of which are published here for the first time.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Generously illustrated account [435 b/w photo reproductions] of the photogrphy produced by various well-known Bauhaus associates such as Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, T. Lux Feininger, Florence Henri, Herbert Bayer, and others during the mid-1920s and early 1930s. An invaluable compilation of images and information about the work of this dynamic group of artists, designers, photographers and their students who had such an important impact on Western aesthetics and culture throughout the subsequent decades of the 20th century.
Hardcover. New York, Flammarion, 1st English, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Catalog of a traveling exhibition first held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, subsequently held at various European museums. Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre. Minor rubbing and fading to dust jacket, mostly to top edge. Slight bumping to corners. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Pace Wildenstein, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, PaceWildenstein, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sun fading to dust jacket spine and front cover. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color works throughout as well as black & white and color film stills. A tight copy.
Softcover. Paris, Berggruen & Cie, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages, 23 color and b&w illustrations. The cover, which wraps around, is an original four-color lithograph made by Picasso for this exhibition booklet. French text, essay by Maurice Jardot. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 183 pages. This beautiful book examines the art of Pieter de Hooch, one of the most famous and innovative painters of Holland's Golden Age. It discusses de Hooch's position in Dutch genre painting, his favorite themes and their cultural context, his artistic development, and his approach to narration. The book was the catalogue for an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. A 75-page text covering the artist's life and techniques and themes of his work is followed by nearly 100 pages presenting plates of works in the show; eight entries bring the catalog raisonne up to date. Sutton has achieved the rare feat of creating a work that is both a significant addition to scholarship and a reader-friendly introduction for those not already familiar with the artist. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Exhibition catalog with 180 illustrations, 158 in full color. Measures 12x14.5 inches. Introduction by Nancy J. Troy and contributions by Mary E. Davis, Caroline Evans, Jared Goss, Heather Hess, Caroline Rennolds Milbank, and Kenneth E. Silver. Paul Poiret (French, 1879-1944) dominated haute couture in the first decade of the twentieth century. The catalogue features photographs of a number of garments by Paul Poiret, as well as pochoir prints by graphic artists, who created deluxe albums of Poiret's designs for his elite clients.
Hardcover. London, Tate, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Provocative and entertaining, Pop Life examines how artists since the 1980s have cultivated their public persona as a product, and conjured a dazzling mix of media, commerce, and glamour to build their own "brands."
Hardcover. Germany, Steidl Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Minor yellowing to textblock edges. Black and white photographs throughout. Richard Avedon, America's preeminent portraitist and fashion photographer, photographed the many faces of politics throughout his career. Portraits of Power brings together Avedon's political portraits for the first time. Juxtaposing images of elite government, media and labor officials with counter-cultural activists, writers and artists, as well as ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it offers a five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of America's best-known artists. The book features several of Avedon's extended projects addressing these themes, including coverage of the civil rights debate in the early 1960s (published in 1964 in Nothing Personal); the American anti-war movement and the war in Vietnam from 1969-1971; portraits of the American power elite in 1976, produced for his groundbreaking Rolling Stone portfolio "The Family;" "Exiles: The Kennedy Court at the End of the American Century," a retrospective homage to the Camelot generation published in the New Yorker in 1993; and his final photo-essay, "Democracy," surveying the national mood during the politically fractious period prior to the 2004 presidential elections (published posthumously in the New Yorker in 2004).
Hardcover. Germany, Steidi Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Minor yellowing to text block edges. Black and white photographs throughout.
Softcover. Milano, Arte Contemporanea, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog of the Italian sculptor's work. Limited to 777 copies. Text in English and Italian with an essay by Enrico Gariboldi and a poem by Pier Carlo Bontempi. Includes numerous color illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Merrell Holberton, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, color illustrated. Exhibition catalog. Forewords by Lisa G. Corrin and Elizabeth Glassman. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Wiliamstown College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA July 5-September 10, 2009. Checklist of Italian Works. Chronology and Index. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.
Softcover. New York, N.Y., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light rubbing to edges of spine, minor sun-fade to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. This is the catalog for an unusual exhibition of rare original plasters, most of which were used by foundries to cast in bronze, held at Hirschl & Adler Galleries in New York from March 3 through April 14, 1990. Plasters "frequently represent the last stage of the artist's involvement in the fabrication of a work. . . . plasters have singular qualities: they have a warmth, a beauty, and an approachability, even vulnerability, not often found in the harder media of stone and bronze."
Hardcover. The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial boards with black title to spine. Tan dust jacket, with light wear to edges and small closed tears to front cover, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Detroit MI, Detroit Institute of Arts , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. In coordination with an exhibition held at Yale, Detroit Institute of Arts and The High Museum in Atlanta during 1993-1994, similar to an earlier exhibition but focuses on the art the Manoogian's had in their home.
Hardcover. US, Prestel USA, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover in slipcase. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This elegant volume is the first comprehensive published study in English of the finely carved wooden covers designed to protect fragile Tibetan Buddhist texts. From the 11th through 14th centuries, Tibetan monks worked tirelessly to transcribe the life and teachings of the Buddha onto paper. Highly skilled craftsmen then covered these pages with wooden boards that had been elaborately and painstakingly carved, gilded, and painted. The MacLean Collection, based in Chicago, has significant holdings of these extremely rare and ornately decorated objects. The first and most comprehensive of its kind, this lavishly produced, oversize volume features numerous illustrations of magnificent book covers from Tibet as well as several examples from other cultures. The volume tells the fascinating history of these objects, examines the materials from which they were carved, and traces stylistic influences from Kashmir, India, Nepal, and China.
Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. 160 pages, 150 illustrations (50 in color), bibliography/exhibition list. A very colorful, well documented catalogue of this twentieth-century painter, best known for his "Overseas Highway" and his stark, solid colored industrial images from the 1930s.
Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in very good condition. Catalog of exhibition at the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., Aug. 5-Oct. 3, 1982. 87 pages., illustrations., bibliography, index. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Asia Society, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 121 pages, illustrated in b&w, some color. Dust with light edgewear, minor fade to spine. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front fly leaf. Errata pamphlet laid in.
Hardcover. NY, Walker & Company , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 141 pages, BW illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition held at M. Knoedler and Company from October 10 through November 4, 1967. Notes by William C. Agee. Clean.
Softcover. Durham NH, University of New Hampshire, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, square format, 78 pages, 13 text-illustrations, catalogue of 72 items depicted and described, credits.
Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Over sized book, 12 inches in height, 391 pages, heavily illustrated with approximately 200 full color photographs, many from her movies, Contributions by Carsten Ahrens, Lynne Cooke, Doris von Drathen, Bruce W. Ferguson, Carl Haenlein and Katharina Schmidt. Includes a list of illustrations, biography, exhibition history, filmography and a bibliography. Rebecca Horn is a multi-talented artist whose kinetic sculptures, films and installations have contributed to her unique international reputation. Her surreal installations and objects work as metaphors; often playfully erotic, they arouse curiousity and childlike amazement, yet also subconsciously evoke fear and uncertainty Glance of Infinity is a comprehensive survey of Rebecca Horn's work from 1970 up to the present day, This full scale monograph includes an interview with the artist, and essays by Brace W. Ferguson, Lynne Cooke, Doris von Drahten and Rebecca Horn, as well as a comprehensive index. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Canberra AU, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color plates. Percy Leason was one of Max Meldrum's followers who painted over 30 'full blood' aborigines for 'The Last of the Victorian Aborigines' exhibition which he held at the Athenaeum Gallery (Melb) as part of Victoria's centennary celebrations (1934). This book documents these portraits and the politics that produced them. Clean copy.