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).
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.
Softcover. Annadale-on-Hudson NY, Art Institute Bard College Center, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 125 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Limited to 1.500 copies. Artists: Donald Kuspit, Jennifer Bartlett, Louise Bourgeois, Sue Coe, Leion Golub, Alex Katz, Robert Longo, Mimmo Paladino. Includes for each artist a full color reproduction/photograph and many black and white photographs. Clean, bright copy.
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. Bogota COL, Galeria Alfred Wild, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages with color photos of the Colombian artist's wood sculptures. Clean copy.
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.
Softcover. Williamstown MA, Clark Art Institute, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. Raw Color addresses the relationships between landscape, industry, and the works David Smith (1906-1965) realized between 1961 and 1963. The Circle series was his most ambitious attempt to pair painting and sculpture. Painted in raw, inorganic colors but constructed to stand in concert with the dramatic Adirondack landscape in which he lived, Smith's sculptures confront viewers with a conflict. How are we to be modern, responsive to the materials and the technologies of our time, and yet also remain conscious of our respective locales and nature? To demonstrate the importance of place in Smith's practice, historical photographs of Smith's Circle series at his Bolton Landing, New York, home and studio are complemented by new photographs of the sculptures installed at the Clark's Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Noted artist Charles Ray contributes an essay that explores how time, memory, and landscape are embedded in Smith's sculpture.
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. Berkeley CA, University of California Worth Ryder Art Gallery, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w pictorial wraps. exhibition catalog, April-May 1964 23 pages, B&W frontispiece photo of artist in his studio, and 5 full color reproductions of artworks: "Fantasia," "Effervescence," "Le Gilotin," "The Lark," and "Heraldic Call."
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.
Softcover. South Hadley MA, Mount Holyoke College, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 56 pages. Many black and white photos, exhibition checklist, glossary, index, notes, bibliography. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of copper jewelry, sculptures, vessels, musical instruments, stools and other African decorative arts. Mild rubbing to wrappers, clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Marlborough Callery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages. Catalog for an exhibit held April 6-May 1, 1984. Color and b&w plates. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. At least since the Renaissance, artists have created wonderful images of themselves. Some self-portraits are the equivalent of a painter's "signature," while others were inspired by the need to establish social status or gain a commission. In the twentieth century, however, self-representation turned inward, becoming a means by which artists sought to navigate passageways of the mind. In Reflections/Refractions, some of the greatest modern artists--including Andy Warhol, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jacob Lawrence, Louise Bourgeois, David Hockney, Alexander Calder, and Alex Katz--use sinuous line and gorgeous color to trace the intricacies of their personalities, whether dark and gloomy or bright and fanciful. The book is at once a catalog of twentieth-century self-portraits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and an exploration of how modern artists view themselves and the world. Eighty color illustrations--drawings and paintings--are accompanied by lively and informative captions, making this volume an endlessly fascinating book. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards with an acetate dust wrapper, 304 pages. Warhol brought to the art world a unique awareness of the relationship that art might have with popular consumer culture and tabloid news, with celebrity, and with sexuality. Each of these themes is explored through visual dialogues between warhol and some sixty artists, among them John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Gilbert & George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Alfredo Jaar, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Elizabeth Peyton, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman and Luc Tuymans. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
 "Portraits of Power by: Richard Avedon")
 "Preghiere: Sculture di Giordano Montorsi by: Montorsi, Giordano, Enrico Gariboldi, and Pier Carlo Bontempi")
 "Prendergast in Italy by: Mathews, Nancy Mowll")
 "Primary models: American plasters, 1880-1945 by: Menconi, Susan E")
 "Princeton Alumni Collections: Works on Paper by: Art Museum Of Princeton University")
 "Private View, A: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection by: Neill, Mary Gardner and Samuel Sachs Ii")
 "Process and Product: The Making of Eight Contemporary Masterworks by: Kuspit, Donald B; Linda Weintraub")
 "Protecting Wisdom: Tibetan Book Covers from the MacLean Collection by: Brown, Kathryn H. Selig")
 "Ralston Crawford by: Haskell, Barbara")
 "Ramon Carreno by: Ramon Carreno")
 "Raphael Soyer: Sixty-five Years of Printmaking by: Gettings, Frank")
 "Rarities Of The Musee Guimet by: Jeannine Auboyer")
 "Rauschenberg Sculpture by: Rauschenberg, Robert")
 "Rauschenberg Sculpture by: Rauschenberg, Robert")
 "Raw Color: The Circles of David Smith by: Breslin, David")
 "Raymond Duchamp-Villon: 1876-1918 by: Hamilton, George Heard")
 "Realism and Invention in the Prints of Albrecht Durer by: David R Smith, Liz Guenther")
 "Rebecca Horn: The Glance of Infinity by: Horn, Rebecca")
 "Recent Gifts and Loans of Paintings by Hans Hofmann by: Hofmann, Hans; Herschel B Chipp, and Erle Loran")
 "Recognition: Percy Leason's Aboriginal Portraits by: Galimany, Michael D. (Curator)")
 "Red Gold: Copper Arts of Africa by: Herbert, Eugenia W.")
 "RED GROOMS: Recent Works by: Red Grooms/Marlborough Gallery")
 "Reflections/Refractions: Self-Portraits in the Twentieth Century by: Reaves, Wendy Wick / Anne Collins Goodyear")
 "Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists Fifty Years by: Rosenthal, Mark/ Prather, Marla/Alteveer, Ian /Lowery, Rebecca")