Hardcover. NY, Pace Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Square quarto, in gray card stock covers stamped in silver and black, 87 pages, color illustrations. Issued in conjunction with several 2013 exhibitions of unique map-based art created by American artist Maya Lin. With essays by Robert Storr and William Fox. Clean copy.
Softcover. Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 87 pages, color illustrations. Completely clean. Text in English and Italian. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition 'Natura Naturans Meg Webster opere works 1982-2015' in Varese, Italy at the Villa Panza from June 12, 2015 to February 28, 2016. Introduction by Anna Bernardini. Essay by Angela Vettere. Interview between Giuseppe Panza and Meg Webster conducted by Bernardini. This is the first monograph devoted to Meg Webster, principally a sculptor and creator of installations and documents some of the most important works produced by the artist between 1982 and 2015. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Paula Cooper Gallery, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, wire binding, 50 pages. Color illustrations. Scarce. Meg Webster is an American artist from San Francisco working primarily in sculpture and installation art. While her works span multiple media, she is most well known for her artworks that feature natural elements.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard Art Museums, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is considered a pioneer of the Post-Minimal and Conceptual art movements. Perhaps best known for his paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Bochner became deeply involved with photography in the mid- to late 1960s, although most of these works have only recently been exhibited. This significant book provides the first critical look at a virtually unknown body of Bochner's extremely varied photographs dating from 1966-1969. Some 75 of his photographs are presented, many in color and most published for the first time. Also included are a number of Bochner's drawings that directly informed his photographic works. Scott Rothkopf explores the crucial role of photography in Bochner's artistic development as well as key issues in the relation of photography to Minimal and Conceptual art.
Softcover. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 181 pages, b&w illustrations. Rubbing, chipping to wrappers and edges. Wrinkling on spine. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz's (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a sequence of installations drawing on architecture, cultural artifacts and cuisine to tell stories of social ritual, conflict and loss. It encompasses work considering the citizen visionaries of post Soviet Hungary, Middle Eastern Beatles fans and the stonecarvers of Afghanistan, with Rakowitz's casts of players and objects revealing the legacy of colonization, modernism and globalism. The artist's life-size replica of the gigantic lamassu, one of two monumental winged bulls that once guarded the gates of Nineveh in Iraq, currently features on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. This recreation of an ancient mythological creature is made from everyday date syrup cans and is part of an epic endeavour to recreate all 7,000 objects looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, as well as those destroyed more recently at archaeological sites like Nimrud, also presented here. Text in English and Italian. Short closed tear to dj corner. otherwise like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art/Steidl, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible boards, 264 pages. B/w and color illustrations throughout. Published to accompany exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Super clean. By repeatedly re-photographing her images, transferring them from video to film and back again, and manipulating them digitally, Michal Rovner creates photographic and video imagery that abstract familiar subjects like houses, animals, and people into ambiguous and iconic forms. Working with representation but against the traditions of narrative and documentary purpose, her artworks imply a tentative universe, one that is paradoxically peaceful and unsettled, vivid and shrouded, and completely counter-factual. If the changing nature of art has resulted in a general blurring of boundaries--between painting and photography, reality and memory, presence and absence--Rovner mines this haziness, refuses to respect borders, and exists completely in The Space Between.
Softcover. Hanover NH, Dartmouth College, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages illustrated with color and b&w photos. An overview of recent projects, both small scale and large architectural commissions. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Taos NM, Michael McCormick Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, color and b&w plates. Essay by Frank Waters. Clean copy.
Softcover. Chicago, Illinois, Mongerson Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 page catalog from October 1981 exhibition at The Mongerson Gallery. Numerous black and white prints and photographs. Brief artist biographies. Textured cover features color artwork and exhibits some wear, particularly along binding edge. Interior in near fine condition.
Softcover. New York, David & Long , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light rubbing, soiling to wrappers. Spine slightly cocked. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, David & Long , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light rubbing, soiling to wrappers. Previous price sticker on back cover. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Museum Of Modern Art , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Illustrated in color and black and white. 191 pages. Oblong 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 228 pages. During the late 1960s and 70s, a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices. In particular, these mediums were used to record ephemeral or performative events and to render visible conceptual systems or to question the supposed objectivity of representation itself. This volume focuses primarily on artworks from the last decade and proposes that the extensive use of reproducible mediums in today's art has its roots in an earlier formative period. By the end of the 70s, many artists turned to photography as a vehicle through which to critique photographic representation and to subvert an art system premised on the notion of the original. While this practice came to define much of the 80s postmodern art, its legacy for the 90s was essentially the license to indulge in photographic fantasy, image construction, and cinematic narrative. Artists working today freely manipulate their representations of the empirical world or invent entirely new cosmologies. They process their subject matter through conceptual systems or use digital processes to alter their images. Some directly intervene in the environment, subtly shifting components of the found world and establishing their quiet presence in it; others fabricate entire architectural environments for the camera lens. This current state of the arts and its recent history are represented via more than 150 works by 55 artists, including Nam June Paik, Kara Walker, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Fischli & Weiss, Ann Hamilton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Cindy Sherman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Elger Esser, others.
Hardcover. Brussels, Aschehoug, 1st Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover published on the occasion of the exhibition, Munch - Drawings, in collaboration with the Musee d'Ixelles, Brussels and Munch Museum, Oslo - February 19 - May 16, 2004. Full page, full color plates throughout. Dust jacket with light toning. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", twenty-four page exhibition catalog is bound in stapled wrappers and is in VG+ condition. B&W reproductions and photographs. Foreword by William S. Lieberman, Curator of Prints for MOMA.
Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Color pictures throughout. In 1899 Gustav Klimt's painting Nuda Veritas shook up the Austrian public with what many deem to be the painter's most political exploration of the nude female body. Klimt's provocative allegory challenged viewers to consider their own beliefs about the relationship between the nude (female) body and contemporary morality; this "naked truth" was shocking. Transcending accusations of pornography, Klimt's work paved the way for artistic examinations of the nude body as the site through which questions of freedom, desire, beauty, nature, culture, power, and their antonyms could be represented and negotiated. Taking these ideas as one critical point of departure, this volume and the accompanying exhibition feature selected prints, drawings, and watercolors by Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann and Kathe Kollwitz, among others. It explores the conceptions of the human body and the manner of its visualization in the period leading up to and following the First World War, which changed the world's notions of flesh and blood forever.
Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 116 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.
Softcover. NY, Air Gallery, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Essay by Flavia Rando. Clean copy.
Softcover. Malmo, Sweden, Malmo Konsthall, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages, color illustrations. Text in English and Swedish. Essay by Susan Harris. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition in Sweden at the Malmo Konsthall from September 3 to October 16, 1994. In this exhibition Nancy Spero printed her drawings directly on the walls to create the work.
Softcover. NY, PaceWildenstein, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages illustrated in color. Catalogue from the exhibit, Naum Gabo Pioneer of Abstract Sculpture November 4 - December 11, 1999. Essay by Graham Williams. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. 60 pages, 15 color and 1 b&w illustration. Text in German and English. With a chronology. This is the hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with noted Leipzig-based artist Neo Rauch's 2004 exhibition of recent large scale works on paper held at Vienna's Albertina. Essay by Harald Kunde.
Softcover. Milan, Stanza del Borgo, limited, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Number 966 of 1000 copies. 142 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Edge wear, rubbing to wrappers; spine slightly yellowed. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light smudges on top edge. Internally a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Pace Gallery/Wilderstein, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog that is actually two catalogs published back to back (unusual format). One side is Maquettes for Monumental Sculpture and the other Wood Sculpture and Collages. Approx. 60 pages all together. B&W and color photography throughout. Sewn bindings with slight wear. Overall, a nice, clean copy.
Softcover. Rockland, Maine, William A. Farnsworth Library, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Exhibition catalog. Perfect binding, covers completely illustrated in full-color, foreword by Marius B. Peladeau. introduction by Dorothy C. Miller, profuse full-page color and b&w plates, biographical summary. Very mild rubbing to covers, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This is the second in a series of exhibitions organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, that shows a small number of artists' recent work on paper. Artists featured: Jonathan Borofsky, Francesco Clemente, Mario Merz, A.R. Penck, and Giuseppe Penone. Introduction by Bernice Rose. Clean copy.
Softcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 116 pages. Exhibition catalog. Letter from editor laid in. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light sun-fade to covers. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. A little mark from paper clip on title page. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, The Pace Gallery, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalogue with textured tissue paper, front and rear end papers, 24 pages of color plates. Has a 'Manifesto' written by Noguchi in which he describes his way of being thus: ' I am challenged by the unknown, by accidents, from which to extricate something beyond preconception. My effort has been to expand this area of challenge'. Mild wear, thin spine area with sun fade. No markings.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Tan cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. A light smudge to foreedge. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. Issued in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2002-January 5, 2003.
Softcover. NY, Denise Bibro Fine Art, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 32 pages, 11 color plates. SIGNED BY SPEYER on the front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. US, JRP|Ringier, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 192 pages, no dust jacket issued. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The artistic persona Norma Jeane (her birth, says the artist, coincided with Marilyn Monroe's death) presents a series of mind-bending but nevertheless elegantly simple projects in this volume. Gatefold images separate substantial essays and explanations of works, one of which involves a riderless motorcycle that starts and revs when approached, and another a couch that releases pheromones when sat on.
Hardcover. New York, JRP|Ringier, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 192 pages, no dust jacket issued. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The artistic persona Norma Jeane (her birth, says the artist, coincided with Marilyn Monroe's death) presents a series of mind-bending but nevertheless elegantly simple projects in this volume. Gatefold images separate substantial essays and explanations of works, one of which involves a riderless motorcycle that starts and revs when approached, and another a couch that releases pheromones when sat on.
Softcover. NY, Bill Hodges Gallery, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Profusely illustrated with color plates and figures. Accompanied a 2009 gallery exhibition; Includes an artist chronology and list of exhibitions; One of 2000 copies in this edition. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 209 pages, fine fold over card covers. Color throughout. This volume exhibits a remarkable collection of select original works spanning six decades, providing a comprehensive look at his career and including all of his vintage Saturday Evening Post covers. This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition by the same title, on view at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, England. SIGNED LETTER FROM EDITORS laid in as well as related ephemera, articles.
Softcover. NY, Bill Hodges Gallery, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages with color and b&w plates throughout. Includes the work of Norman Lewis, Charles Alston, Milton Avery, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthe, Edward Clark, Sam Gilliam, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles White, Kehinde Wiley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and more.
Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectral Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with some minor wear to dust jacket edges. Otherwise tight copy. A collection of black and white, and color photographs from the Maresca collection housed at the Newark Musuem, featuring images from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Hardcover. New York , Scala Publishers, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The history of New York's ties to the Spanish-speaking world is as old as New Amsterdam itself, and is largely unknown. Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the New York Historical Society and El Museo del Barrio, this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary publication will for the first time make visible these connections and the myriad ways in which they have shaped the city for more than four centuries. Hardcover, 286 pages, b&w, some color illustrations.
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.
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. Boston, Pucker Gallery, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages illustrated in color. A selection of the Nova Scotia artist's ceramic work, mostly beautifully designed vases. Clean copy.
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.