Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages, paperback. Cultural criticism regarding the Weimar Republic. With many color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Examines intellectual life in the Weimar Republic, looks at paintings, caricatures, dance, architecture, and films, and discusses the Nazi rise to power.
Hardcover. New Haven/Atlanta, Yale/High Museum of Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, color illustrated. Like new copy in a bright dust jacket. Expressing the anxieties of the late nineteenth century and the uncertainties of the modern world, Edvard Munch (1862-1944) often depicted in his works dangerously seductive fin de siecle women, sickly figures, and isolated characters in barren landscapes. These powerful, haunting paintings are widely recognized and revered, especially his iconic work The Scream (1893). Yet few admirers of Munch's early works realize that the artist lived well into the twentieth century and was enormously productive almost to the time of his death. This compelling book, focusing on more than sixty of Munch's later paintings, reveals the surprising, vibrant work of a fascinating man who never ceased to grow as an artist. Following decades of restless wandering among the capitals of Europe, Munch suffered a breakdown in Copenhagen in 1908 and retreated to his native Norway. In 1916 he purchased an estate near present-day Oslo where he lived and worked, mostly in his outdoor studio, for the next twenty years. Although Munch never abandoned a deeply introspective approach to image-making,
Hardcover. Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 288 pages. profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This book assembles key works by leading artists such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, and Alfred Kubin, and artists less familiar to audiences in the United States including Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Albert Paris GA 1/4 tersloh, Karl Hubbuch, Richard Oelze, Franz Sedlacek, Josef Scharl, and Rudolf Wacker, who will each be represented by small groups of significant works. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Koln GR, Walther Konig, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Text in German and English. 96 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. US, Block Museum/Northwestern Univ., 1st, 1988-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 321 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Contains works by Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Light edgewear to wrappers, faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 299 pages, 193 illustrations, 150 in color. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket with a mild crease to the dust jacket. Werner Hofmann vividly demonstrates Caspar David Friedrich's extraordinary ability to reproduce the natural world in faithful detail, while at the same time imbuing it with spiritual and religious significance. Caught between the near and the distant, the finite and the infinite, his human figures find a space in which to engage in the thoughtful contemplation of nature and the divine. Carefully placing the artist in a wider context, Hofmann examines contemporary judgments and influences on Friedrich's work. The beautiful illustrations include many of Friedrich's drawings and watercolors as well as over ninety of his works in oils.
Softcover. Hirmer Verlag Gmbh, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 174 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text in German. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Leipzig, E.A. Seemann, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 132 pages of German text followed by 264 b&w plates. A catalog of nature studies by the artist, mostly botanical. Cclean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket, 278 pages. An important pioneer of the artform that became known as photomontage. Hoch (November 1, 1889 to May 31, 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Hoch was the lone woman among the Berlin Dada group, however she was dismayed to the Dadaists lip service to women's emancipation and her work echos her feelings that there were difference between women in media and reality. Marriage did not escape her criticism. She depicted brides as mannequins and children, reflecting the idea that women are not seen as complete people and have little control over their lives. A long-time German resident, her work fell out of favor after WWII although she continued to produce her photomontages and exhibit them internationally until her death in 1978.
Hardcover. Amsterdam, Schetern & Giltay, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, 190 pages. A collection of b&w (a few 2-color) political cartoons preceding WW I. Dutch text. Scarce.
Hardcover. New York , Arts, Inc., 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 164 pages, 128 illustrations, 57 in color, including many tipped-in. Bright dust jacket with price-clipped flap. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, Prestel, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 10 x 13", 207 pages. Color and b&w images. Widely considered one of the major works of Expressionist printmaking, this series of spectacular woodcuts by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is presented for the first time in a comprehensive study, specifically designed to allow readers a full understanding of the artist's achievement. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Munich / New York, Prestel / Neue Galerie, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 207 pages. profusely illustrated in color and black & white throughout, including several full-page illustrations. Includes a preface by Ronald S. Lauder, a foreword by Renee Price and essays by Vivian Endicott Barnett, Erich Franz, Ursula Heiderich, Annegret Hoberg, Isabelle Jansen, and Olaf Peters. This generously illustrated volume focuses on the poignant friendship of Franz Marc and August Macke, two innovative members of the Blue Rider group. During the five years Franz Marc and August Macke knew each other, the two men carried on an artistic and personal friendship that had an immense impact of each of their careers. This book traces their relationship and features meticulously reproduced images that bring their paintings, and the bond they shared, to life. In addition to paintings, watercolors, and drawings from both artists, this book includes objects and documents that show their connection to one another. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Milan, Artvera's, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover without dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This one-of-a-kind book brings the work of German Expressionist artist Friedrich Karl Gotsch (1900-1984) to a larger, well-deserved audience. Gotsch, whose paintings are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, trained at the Dresden School of Fine Arts in the early 1920s and was inspired by the works of Oskar Kokoschka and Edvard Munch. While his early paintings follow a straightforward Expressionist style, he truly came into his own after World War II, when his work became distinct and easily recognizable: The energy, contrasting primary colors, vivid outlines, and free brushwork combine to produce powerful, spellbinding images. In addition to stunning color reproductions of his work, this book includes essays on Gotsch's art and life, illuminating the artist's creative development and the cultural milieu and influences that inspired him.
Hardcover. NY, Neue Galerie, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Foreword by Ronald S. Lauder. More than 160 works illustrated in color. 123 pages. Short closed tear to dust jacket in rear. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Neue Galerie, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Foreword by Ronald S. Lauder. More than 160 works illustrated in color. 123 pages. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Berlin GR, Walther Konig/Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Collection of new works on paper by the German neo-Expressionist Georg Baselitz is beautifully printed on deluxe paper and includes a tipped in centerfold on glossy paper. Here Baselitz revisits and remixes early works in fresh new ways. Bright, clean copy. English and German text.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing, 1st , 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages, illustrated throughout with drawings in b&w. Black blind-stamped boards, brown cloth spine with gilt title. White pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Galerie Raeber, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. GERMAN TEXT. 190 pages plus a photo gallery showing 572 works in b&w in rear. The main section has a generous selection of paintings reproduced in color. Georges Einbeck was born in 1871 in the West Prussian town Golluschutz (Goluszyce). After several trips to Paris, Einbeck begins self-taught with painting in 1897, followed by studies at the Academy of Arts in Munich and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts as well as the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris. He also studied with Henri Matisse. In the 1920s, he lived in Switzerland for some time. His early works still show influences of Art Nouveau style, the later works, however, are influenced by Expressionism especially the Fauvism painting. He died in 1951. Book is clean and tight.
Hardcover. Kunsthalle Bremen & Verlag Fred Jahn, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cloth with dust jacket. Text in German by numerous contributors. illustrated checklist to the exhibition. 170 pages with 69 four-color plates and numerous b/w reference illustrations. GERMAN LANGUAGE.
Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 3rd pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 illustrations 138 in color. Essay by Robert Storr and with an interview of Richter by Storr as well. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations, artist chronology, list of previous exhibitions, and a selected bibliography. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY February 14-May 21, 2002. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 255 pages. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Second paperback printing. Bright and clean. Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543), one of the most versatile and admired painters of the Northern Renaissance, trained under his father in Augsburg and then worked for leading patrons in Switzerland before settling in England as Court Painter to Henry VIII. To commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of the artist's birth, Oskar Batschmann and Pascal Griener offer this richly illustrated book the first comprehensive monograph on the artist to appear in more than forty years which is a major advance in our understanding of Holbein's contribution to European art.
Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 133 pages illustrated in color. This lavishly illustrated volume offers a unique survey of Italian commercial graphic design during a period of both creative artistic vitality and extreme political turmoil. The first English-language book to showcase the bold typography and streamlined imagery of modern Italian design motifs on commercial products of the day, this fascinating and important resource for designers, history buffs, and collectors includes a discussion of the Futurist influence on the Italian Art Deco style and the success of such individualized expression despite a ruthless Fascist regime. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers. Slight tanning and foxing to pages, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Old Westbury NY, The Feminist Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 237 pages, b&w illustrations. A generation after her death, German artist Kathe Kollwitz won a reputation as one of the great graphic artists of the 20th Century. Concentrating on the more 'democratic' media--especially etchings, lithographs, posters, and woodcuts, as well as sculpture and bronze reliefs--Kollwitz always created for the people, rather than for the upper class collector. This original paperback is generously illustrated with many striking, seldom-seen reproductions from private collections, assembled in one volume for the first time. Name on front fly leaf, inscription on title page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, The Cresset Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 297 pages + 26 b&w plates. English language edition. Translated from the German and with an introduction by Innes and and Gustav Herdan. Contains very clever and funny remarks on Hogarth's engravings by an 18th century German professor of physics. Small owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Munich, Germany, Saint Louis Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 482 pages, many illustrations, over 100 in color. Extensive survey of paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints. Includes biography, bibliography and the index of names and paintings. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Haus der Kunst, Munich February 25-April 23, 1984 which moved on to St. Louis and Los Angeles. Clean. bright copy.
Hardcover. London/NY, Prestel/DelMonico Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 272 pages. Richly illustrated and filled with detailed information about one of the leading artists of the 20th century, this is the first book to explore in depth the Saint Louis Art Museum's outstanding holdings of paintings by Max Beckmann-the largest collection of its kind in the world. One of the greatest German painters of the 20th century, Max Beckmann came to America in the mid-1940s and settled in St. Louis. There he met the retailer and collector Morton D. May. By the time May died, in 1983, he had amassed a comprehensive collection of Beckmann's oeuvre, most of which he bequeathed to the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM). The stunning breadth and power of Beckmann's work are explored in this volume, which examines all thirty-nine paintings in SLAM's collection. Featuring some of Beckmann's most celebrated images, this book offers fascinating insights into Beckmann's life and art-in particular his underappreciated early work and previously unexplored aspects of his final years in the United States.
Hardcover. Munch/London/NY, Prestel, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 656 pages. Published on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Neue Galerie New York, this stunning volume celebrates the varied achievements of modern art history in the German-speaking world by examining historical developments in Austria and Germany from 1890 to 1940. Illustrated throughout with exquisite reproductions of the museum's holdings, this book considers the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche and his writings on the fine arts and examines the founding of the Secessionist artists' organizations in Germany and Austria. Insightful essays trace the emergence of Expressionism and abstraction, as well as the development of such movements as Dada and New Objectivity. Evolutions in architecture and design are appraised through the legacy of the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as the establishment of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony and the Wiener Werkstatte. The book also examines the role of the German Werkbund and the founding of the Bauhaus school. Finally, the book briefly addresses the horrific impact of the National Socialists' degenerate art campaign, which resulted in incalculable damage and led to the exile and death of artists and designers of the era. From well-known artists such as Otto Dix, Josef Hoffmann, Vasily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, and Egon Schiele, to lesser recognized but equally important figures, including Albert Birkle, Alfred Kubin, Felix Nussbaum, and Dagobert Peche, this book offers an authoritative and kaleidoscopic look at a crucial moment in history and a portrait of radical thought that changed forever the way we experience art in our lives. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
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.
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.
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.
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. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket,110 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Exhibition catalog bound in black cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Clean.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title stamped on spine and decoration on front cover. Black endpapers. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age, but still in excellent condition. Pages' outer edges are very slightly tanned, but otherwise clean. This is a beautiful volume that examines an artist's technique, while also telling a story through word and paint brush, about the German immigrants with whom he was living.