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Softcover. Montevideo, Impresora Gordon, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Monograph on the Uruguayan artist who championed a modernist aesthetic in South American art. Color wrappers with light wear, interior clean. SPANISH TEXT.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Life and art of John Marin; editor Cleve Gray includes writings by Marin himself to accompany the biographical text and reproduced works. 176 pp. Features 20 color and 99 black/white illustrations. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, previous owner's name, date, and location written inside the cover in pencil. Dust jacket is in good condition, with tear and creasing on the back and light stain on the front.

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Life and art of John Marin; editor Cleve Gray includes writings by Marin himself to accompany the biographical text and reproduced works. 176 pp. Features 20 color and 99 black/white illustrations. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, previous owner's name, date, and location written inside the cover in pencil. Dust jacket is in good condition, with tear and creasing on the back and light stain on the front.

Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, 145 plates in b&w. Exhibition catalog, light sunning to bottom edge of front cover and spine. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 201 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to edges, slight wrinkle to lower front cover, else like new. This exhibition catalog explores the artist, his history, his views and his works in as comprehensive a fashion as any living artist could desire. Black and white and full-color plates on heavy coated paper. Essays by Mark Rosenthal and Richard Marshall. Exhibition travelled to Philadelphia, the Whitney in NY, Berkeley U. Art Museum, Walker Art Center and the Corcoran in Washington.

Hardcover. New York, American Federation of Arts, 1st, 1961, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Catalogue of the sculpture of Jose de Rivera, with a chronology and introductory essay. Approximately 50 pages, illustrated with 15 black/white plates in addition to several other illustrations. Small cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is slightly faded on the spine but in very good condition.

Hardcover. London , Royal Academy of Arts , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages, without dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) was one of the 20th century's leading exponents of collage and assemblage. A connoisseur of an astonishing array of subjects, Cornell's captivation with bygone imagery encompassed astronomical charts and geographical maps, Italian and Spanish Old Master paintings, historical ballet, early film, literature, poetry and ornithology. Most iconic among his works are his box constructions-microcosmic curiosity cabinets-filled with once-precious fragments that he collected in thrift shops in his native New York. Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust is a landmark publication examining this remarkable work. It brings together some of Cornell's most compelling assemblages and box constructions (including Medici slot machines, soap-bubble sets and animal habitats). The contributors raise questions about Cornell's artistic processes while drawing parallels with historical modes of inquiry such as connoisseurship, exploration and classification.

Softcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 296 pages, numerous b&w illustrations and 32 plates in full color. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor bump to lower edge, else like new.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 227 pages. One of the leading artists of his generation, the Spanish sculptor Juan Munoz (1953-2001) was known for his diverse and highly original body of work centering on the narrative possibilities of figures in environments. Juan Munoz illustrates in full color approximately sixty works, including sculptures, drawings, and several major installations, which were included in a major exhibition presented by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Art Institute of Chicago in October 2001.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages. Known for his cool, clean, comics-inspired pictorial language, Julian Opie has been one of the leading figures in contemporary British art since the early 1980s. Equally at home in museum settings--like Tate Modern, the ICA Boston and MCA Chicago, where he has mounted recent one-person exhibitions and projects--and in collaboration with mainstream rock bands like Blur and U2, his work crosses media and genres with quiet, computer-assisted abandon. In the early days, Opie transgressed the boundaries between painting and sculpture by applying paint to the everyday articles he used in his steel objects. More recently he has experimented with digital technologies in the applied arts. Now, he is probably best-known for his hypnotically low-tech moving images generated by LCD and LED technologies. This volume assembles a representative collection of portraits, half-length figures and new works that draw from the motifs of baroque portraiture.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Just Above Midtown, or JAM, was an art gallery and self-described laboratory for experimentation led by Linda Goode Bryant that foregrounded African American artists and artists of color. Open from 1974 to 1986, it was a place where an expansive idea of contemporary art flourished and debate was cultivated. The gallery offered early opportunities for artists recognized as pivotal figures in late-20th-century art-including David Hammons, Butch Morris, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady and Howardena Pindell-as well as a nonhierarchical approach to art that welcomed artists without stylistic proscription.Published in conjunction with the first museum exhibition to focus on this visionary gallery and its ongoing impact, Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces showcases rarely seen material from JAM's history-artworks, ephemera and photographs-that collectively document the gallery's communal and programmatic activities. This richly illustrated, jacketed paperback catalog includes essays that contextualize JAM and consider its legacy, a conversation between Goode Bryant and Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, a complete exhibition chronology written by MoMA and Studio Museum staff with nearly 50 annotated entries, and excerpts from oral histories with JAM staff and artists conducted especially for this project. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, die-cut dust jacket. 319 pages, 95 color plates and many additional images in color and black and white. Color plates and checklist of 95 works in the exhibition, six essays, a chronology and selected bibliography. This volume presents abstract Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). It reproduces scores of recently rediscovered paintings that had languished for decades in Soviet museums and in private collections. The author provides new details on Kandinsky's life and art, discussing his little-known experimental stage plays which strove for a synthesis of all the arts, and his friendships with Paul Klee, Arnold Schonberg and composer Thomas de Hartmann. Clean, like new.

Softcover. London, Merrell Holberton, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages, illustrated throughout. Very clean and tight copy. Capturing the intricacy, symbolism, and irony of the work of contemprary artist Kathy Prendergast, this is the first comprehensive look at her critically acclaimed, multi-faceted artistic vision. A highlight of the art covered is City Drawings, a series of intircated drawings ot the capital cities of the world in which even the alrgest and most powerful communites are reduced to an equalizing frail network of lines, from Washington D.C., to Suva, Fiji; Tokyo to Dakar, Senegal.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated boards, 528 pages. Closely based on Haring's own concept for the monograph he wanted to publish before his untimely death, this volume represents more than a decade of research and contains a wealth of unpublished photographic and written material including drawings, studio photographs, and journal entries. From chalk drawings deep in the New York City subways to murals in Pisa and Berlin; collaborations with William Burroughs and the famous body painting of Grace Jones, this book follows the incredible trajectory of Keith Haring's artistic career: how a young man from a small town in rural Pennsylvania came to revolutionize the art world--and the course of art history--within little more than a decade. An incredibly prolific artist, Keith Haring created countless bold, provocative, endearing, and unforgettable images that continue to inspire artists--and delight children--worldwide. Tracing the arc from his early subway "tags" to his poignant work on social issues as diverse as AIDS, illiteracy and apartheid, this visually stunning book is the definitive work on Keith Haring.

Softcover. Chicago, Haase-Mumm Publishing, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black card covers with silver lettering, 9 X 12", 40 pages, 22 works reproduced in color, 4 b/w photographic reproductions. First edition. Love's text, "Kenneth Noland, Master of Modern Color" accompanies the reproductions.

Softcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams , reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, softcover with French flaps. A major contribution to the social and art history of Paris in the early 20th century. Heavily illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Minor rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli , 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 258 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Initials on front fly leaf, otherwise tight and clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Calif., Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a dust jacket. This copy is still shrink-wrapped in plastic. Many b&w and color illustrations throughout. Accompanied an exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2001. Examines more than seventy-five paintings and other artworks, representing the Purist movement in twentieth-century modernist art, featuring the works of Le Corbusier, AmTdTe Ozenfant, and Fernand LTger as well as a complete translation of the classic work AprFs le cubisme.

Hardcover. US, Foggy Notion Books/Pasadena Museum of California Art, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Until recently, the figurative artists who dominated the Los Angeles art scene of the 1940s and 50s had largely been written out of art history. L.A. Raw is an attempt to right that wrong. Bringing together works by 41 artists in a variety of media, it traces a lineage that connects postwar figurative expressionism to the 1960s and 70s investigations of politics, gender and ethnicity in art. The featured artists include John Altoon, Wallace Berman, William Brice, Hans Burckhardt, Chris Burden, Cameron, Judy Chicago, Connor Everts, Llyn Foulkes, Charles Garabedian, David Hammonds, Robert Heinecken, John Paul Jones, Kim Jones, Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Rico Lebrun, Paul McCarthy, Arnold Mesches, Betye Saar, Ben Sakoguchi, Barbara Smith, James Strombotne, Jan Stussy, Edward Teske, Joyce Treiman, Howard Warshaw, June Wayne, Charles White and Jack Zajac.

Hardcover. 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Until recently, the figurative artists who dominated the Los Angeles art scene of the 1940s and 50s had largely been written out of art history. L.A. Raw is an attempt to right that wrong. Bringing together works by 41 artists in a variety of media, it traces a lineage that connects postwar figurative expressionism to the 1960s and 70s investigations of politics, gender and ethnicity in art. The featured artists include John Altoon, Wallace Berman, William Brice, Hans Burckhardt, Chris Burden, Cameron, Judy Chicago, Connor Everts, Llyn Foulkes, Charles Garabedian, David Hammonds, Robert Heinecken, John Paul Jones, Kim Jones, Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Rico Lebrun, Paul McCarthy, Arnold Mesches, Betye Saar, Ben Sakoguchi, Barbara Smith, James Strombotne, Jan Stussy, Edward Teske, Joyce Treiman, Howard Warshaw, June Wayne, Charles White and Jack Zajac. No dj issued, clean copy.

Softcover. Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musee Maillol, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 207 pages, FRENCH TEXT, profusely illustrated exhibition catalog.

Hardcover. Boston NY, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, 83 color plates, 53 duotone plates. Foreword by David Levy. Rivers, one of the original Pop artists on the 1950s art scene, is known for his bold and eclectic style. Inspired by sources as diverse as the impressionists, Napoleon, and Hollywood movies, Rivers' work shows a keen sense of history and an adventurous spirit.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth titled in silver on the spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. 183 & 1 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white throughout, including many full-page illustrations. Near fine. First edition. Produced in association with The Corcoran Gallery of Art with a foreword by David C. Levy and essays by Barbara Rose and Jacquelyn Days Serwer. Never opened, still in original shrink wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, unpaginated, illustrated in color. Introduction by John Yau. Clean, bright copy of this exhibition catalog.