Softcover. Los Angeles, CA, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc., 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages. Softcover. Very clean, LIKE NEW in publishers shrinkwrap. Estranged for more than 50 years, Brooklyn-born identical twin brothers-the celebrated artists Joel-Peter Witkin and Jerome Witkin-are brought together for the first time in this publication recreating an exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles. Each of the artists' works from the critically acclaimed exhibition is fully illustrated in this volume, which also includes an audio CD of the historic first interview of the brothers together, as well as a selection of the initial reviews and interviews published through the mid-point of the exhibition's extended run.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 104 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Published in Italian in 1955, and now available for the first time in the English language, Un Paese captures in photographs and in spoken testimony the essential experience of daily life in Luzzara. It presents a series of intense portraits, graceful landscapes, and images of everyday objects. Paul Strand's photographs are carefully distilled, deeply powerful; they contain the flavors and the rhythms of an entire culture crystallized in a single village. Zavattini successfully synthesizes text and image, aligning with the new cinematic trend of the day, a movement known as Italian neorealism. Their Luzzara is an ordinary village, neither overly picturesque nor greatly unusual, yet it is a town sustained by a grounded humanity and a profound love for the land by its people.
Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, color plates. With translucent dust wrapper. Mild ripple to pages. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Neuberger Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages. Numerous color plates. Essay by Patricia Philips, lavish illustrations. Published to accompany the exhibition at Neuberger Museum of Art from January 27 - May 5, 2002. Mild fade to spine edge on cover. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Hanover NH, Hood Museum of Art, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 86 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 25 through June 25, 1989 at the Hood Museum of Art and then September 9 through October 15, 1989 at the Currier Gallery of Art. Features a preface by Timothy Rub, an introduction by Robert M. Doty and the poem "Chariot" by Stanley Kunitz. Includes color and black and white numerous illustrations, a checklist, biographical information, and a selected bibliography. Boghosian, (1926-2020), constructed his works from found objects. "Building upon the traditions of Surrealism and Dada Boghosian's assemblages and collages playfully contemplate the boundaries between dream and reality. In creating his art, Boghosian draws heavily on his extensive personal archive of found objects, gathered together in his home and studio. A one inch tear at the top of the jacket has been repaired with tape on the reverse side. Name on first blank page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. This catalogue accompanies a major exhibition devoted to Vasily Kandinsky, held at the Neue Galerie from 3 October, 2013 until 10 February, 2014. It explores the evolution of his work from the Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus years. During this period, Kandinsky developed his revolutionary abstract style and began to move beyond conventional easel painting.
Hardcover. London, National Gallery , 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small scratch on front cover. Clean, tight copy. With over 150 illustrations and an in-depth chronology, this beautifully produced and comprehensive book surveys Velazquez's entire career and explores his universal popularity. Fascinating essays by world-class Velazquez scholars address the artist's life and technique, examining his studies in Seville and Italy to his final great works at the court of Philip IV.
Softcover. London, Art/Books Hastings Contemporary, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 128 pages illustrated in color. The husband of Paula Rego and a visionary artist in his own right, Victor Willing (1928-1988) creates work that is characterized by dreamlike and hallucinatory imagery. Published to accompany the first major retrospective of his career, this volume traces his life decade by decade, charting his history of creative block and ill health, and analysing his paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Softcover. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor foxing to textblock edges. Color photographs throughout.
Softcover. Omaha, Nebraska, Center for Western Studies, Joslyn Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalogue featuring art by Karl Bodmer dedicated to the American Western frontier and its exploration by the German Prince Maximilian of Wied. 103 pages with 69 illustrations, 34 of which are color plates. Very good condition, light rubbing on the covers, otherwise a very bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volume set. Hardcovers with dust jackets. Both in beautifully illustrated slipcase. Minor fraying to slipcase edges. Hardcovers both clean and unmarked. Color illustrations throughout.
Softcover. Vancouver, Marion Scott Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Worcester MA, Worcester Art Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 285 pages. 148 plates including 9 in color. Includes notes, bibliography, and catalogue. Minor edgewear to wrappers, clean copy.
Softcover. Middlebury VT, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition held from September 3-December 8, 2013. Clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. Brooklyn, NY, PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 123 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout.
Hardcover. Smithsonian Institution / Victoria and Albert Museum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Eighty-two watercolors and drawings selected from the extensive Searight Collection in London present a variety of 19th-century artists' encounters with the diverse cultures and dramatic lands of the fabled Ottoman Empire. Complementing the artworks are essays by experts in Middle Eastern studies elucidating the exchange of ideas and influences between East and West. Artists include Edward Lear, Luigi Meyer, David Roberts etc. 128 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 458 pages, b&w illustrations. Sam Wagstaff, the legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, emerges as a cultural visionary in this groundbreaking biography. Even today remembered primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, the once infamous photographer, Wagstaff, in fact, had an incalculable-and largely overlooked-influence on the world of contemporary art and photography, and on the evolution of gay identity in the latter part of the twentieth century. Born in New York City in 1921 into a notable family, Wagstaff followed an arc that was typical of a young man of his class. He attended both Hotchkiss and Yale, served in the navy, and would follow in step with his Ivy League classmates to the "gentleman's profession," as an ad executive on Madison Avenue. With his unmistakably good looks, he projected an aura of glamour and was cited by newspapers as one of the most eligible bachelors of the late 1940s. Such accounts proved deceiving, for Wagstaff was forced to live in the closet, his homosexuality only revealed to a small circle of friends. Increasingly uncomfortable with his career and this double life, he abandoned advertising, turned to the formal study of art history, and embarked on a radical personal transformation that was in perfect harmony with the tumultuous social, cultural, and sexual upheavals of the 1960s.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Walt Disney Family Museum, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, illustrated in color and b&w throughout. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Montgomery, Ala., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 69 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Small mark on rear cover, else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 117 pages, b&w illustrations. Very light edge wear; else a very clean, tight copy. 10 color, 99 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1980 exhibition featuring works of American artist Walter Gay (1856-1937). With a substantial illustrated essay by Gary A. Reynolds, a brief chronology and selected bibliography. The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses 90 pieces.
Softcover. Providence, RI, Rhode Island School of Design, 2nd, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Softcover with slight edgewear to wrappers. Minor shelf wear to back wrapper with some discoloration to top edge. Black and white images throughout. Edition limited to 2, 200 copies designed by Malcolm Grear.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press/Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, 148 color plates. A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by Warhol and Mapplethorpe, presented side by side and in depth for the first time.
Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Best known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones, American artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsman since he began his career in the 1940s as an illustrator and cartoonist. This book of 116 drawings-compiled with the full cooperation of the artist to accompany a major new exhibition at the Morgan Library Museum-explores the wide range of Thiebaud's production on paper, including early sketches, luminous pastels, and watercolors, and charcoal drawings made in connection with his teaching. In subjects ranging from deli counters and isolated figures to dramatic views of San Francisco's plunging streets, Thiebaud's drawings endow the most banal, everyday scenes with a sense of poetry and nostalgia.
Softcover. San Francisco, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated thick wraps. appx. 44 pages, 12 color plates, half-tone frontispiece and color wraps. This exhibition was also held at the Alan Stone Gallery and Faggionato Fine Arts. The exhibition listed 6 works. Several short introductory essays by the various gallery owners.