Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 257 pages with 126 black and white illustrations. Biographical notes. List of printers. Index of Prints. Frontispiece is an original lithograph created especially for this volume. "The only catalogue of Soyer's prints. Contains 126 separate prints - from his first etched self-portrait to his most recent experiments in advanced lithographic technique. Each print is fully described, and each is illustrated - full size wherever possible - on a separate page." Very good in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Phaidon, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. This monograph explores the life and work of one of the most important artists in the history of the West, Raphael (1483-1520). Its scope covers Raphael's origins, his early influences, his important Urbino period and subsequently the extraordinary series of frescoes and portraits of his last phase in Rome. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 3rd Ed., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, still in publisher's shrink wrap. Iconoclastic, generous, inventive, impulsive, sensitive, gregarious, prodigious: these are just some of the words to describe Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and the art he made over his career. From the age of 38, when he received the grand prize at the Venice Biennale in 1964, Rauschenberg was a pivotal figure in the creative explosion of art following WWII. This revised edition of the classic biography of the artist adds a new chapter covering the significant moments in the final years of his life, and offers an in-depth look at his legacy and continued influence on the postmodern art world. It includes new photography and interviews with friends, colleagues, critics, and art historians.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated boards, 212 pages. Since the late 1970s, as a pioneer of Southern California underground culture, Raymond Pettibon has blurred the boundaries of "high" and "low," from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics and sexuality. Rich in detail, his obsessively worked drawings pull freely from myriad sources spanning the cultural spectrum. The resulting, highly poetic constructions function as acute reflections of contemporary society. Throughout the years, his subjects have included political figures and historical events, with particular intensity since the events of September 11, 2001. Seen here are images of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, J. Edgar Hoover, both Bush presidents, the Kennedys, Hitler, scenes from the Vietnam War and protest movements, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the prisoner abuse of Abu Ghraib, President Obama and Osama bin Laden. Raymond Pettibon (born 1957) studied economics at UCLA around the same time he joined his brother in the punk band Black Flag. He soon began to contribute artwork to album covers, flyers and t-shirts, for the band and its label, SST Records, and exhibited his work in group shows in galleries in the 1980s. Since the 1990s his work has been the subject of numerous major solo exhibitions.
Hardcover. US, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. First edition. A showcase of Groom's drawings, prints & inimitable urban sculpto-pictograms (in full-color).
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 682 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Features over 750 illustrations, including 300 in full color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovers, complete in two volumes, housed in a glossy illustrated slipcase with light fading to top edge. Volume I: Paintings: Problems and Issues, 149 pages, index. Color and B&W plates. Volume II: Paintings, Drawings and Prints: Art-Historical Perspectives, 262 pages, index. B&W and color reproductions. This set is a two-volume catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum's paintings by Rembrandt as well as pictures once thought to be by the master but now recognised as the efforts of his pupils, contemporary followers, and the occasional later imitator. Bookplate on inside front covers. A heavy set. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volume set. Hardcovers in very clean slipcase. Very clean, unmarked copies. Dertailed study of fifty-one paintings by Rembrandt. This is followed by sections for his pupils in which paintings once given to Rembrandt are reatributed to memebers of his workshop. This also serves as a catalogue of the exhibition organized by curators from Berlin, Amsterdam and London - galleries which have three of the finest collections of Rembrandts.
Hardcover. New York, Burt Franklin, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprint of the original 1898 edition. 15 b&w plates. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Oblong. Spine somewhat loose, not affecting binding. Small stains near spine, else a very nice copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, National Gallery London, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Slight soiling to dust jacket. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Flammarion, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Rene Herbst's enduring furniture designs provide fundamental lessons for today's interior designers. A staunch modernist, Herbst was a founding member and later president of the Union des artistes modernes (UAM) in France, which sought to make domestic comfort accessible to all, regardless of class. The diversity of his work is testament to his prolific and creative output, and his design is marked by its simplicity and functionality. The French architect turned designer was nicknamed the "man of steel" because he pioneered the use of the material for furniture years before mass production on a large scale was possible. In 1929 he created several versions of his celebrated Sandow Chair, which ignited his research into serial production and inaugurated the era of mass production. This book presents a selection of the best works from the Herbst Collection held by the library of the Musee des Arts decoratifs in Paris, and demonstrates how Herbst was the catalyst of a new style of living that spurred the birth of modernity.
Hardcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, color plates throughout. Exhibition catalog, five scholarly essays. In publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The prominent Genovese architect Renzo Piano--recipient of the 1998 Pritzker Award and architect of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Morgan Library renovations, as well as the new New York Times building--has just completed a new and unusual museum building--the Zentrum Paul Klee on the outskirts of Bern. The center, says Piano, is dedicated to the "poet of silence," and thus it was fitting to consider building a museum that would speak softly. The Zentrum Paul Klee rises upward in the form of three hills connected by a 150-meter-long thoroughfare, the "Museum Street" serving as a path within the complex. The three structures make up a harmonious yet prominent landscape sculpture whose roofs are supported by innovative steel construction. Includes photographs, design sketches, plans and models--a living image of a magnificent building.
Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The prominent Genovese architect Renzo Piano--recipient of the 1998 Pritzker Award and architect of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Morgan Library renovations, as well as the new New York Times building--has just completed a new and unusual museum building--the Zentrum Paul Klee on the outskirts of Bern. The center, says Piano, is dedicated to the "poet of silence," and thus it was fitting to consider building a museum that would speak softly. The Zentrum Paul Klee rises upward in the form of three hills connected by a 150-meter-long thoroughfare, the "Museum Street" serving as a path within the complex. The three structures make up a harmonious yet prominent landscape sculpture whose roofs are supported by innovative steel construction. Includes photographs, design sketches, plans and models--a living image of a magnificent building.
Hardcover. Roma, Paolo Buggiani, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Full color handpainted covers, with cutout window exposing image of Paolo Buggiani. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Brief text in English. Light wear to covers. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Fraenkel Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A tight copy. In the early 2000s, Richard Misrach (born 1949) began a series titled On the Beach, a body of work that traveled extensively and has been highly influential. These color photographs deal with the human figure seen at a distance, on an unspecified beach or in the water, observed from an unsettling and difficult-to-identify point of view located high above. Misrach has continued this work, while vast changes in photographic technology over the intervening decade have caused a shift in approach, both conceptually and technically. Untitled is an artist book based on two photographs: the one made by Misrach and the other made concurrently, at the time of exposure, by the subjects of his photograph. The extreme detail explored in this work concisely summates both the artist's concerns and the ubiquity of digital technology as we are portrayed and portray ourselves.
Hardcover. ejby, Samlerens Forlag, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Number 36 of only 75 copies SIGNED BY MORTENSEN on the color plate in front. Illustrated with full color examples of works by Richard Mortensen. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Large format. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 104 pages.Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. There are no smoking cowboys swinging their lassoes or bare-breasted blondes on heavy motorcycles in this droll collection of highly expressive drawings and watercolors. Au contraire, the inventive shapes and joyful colors recall children's drawings or paintings by the mentally ill. Half-figures of indeterminate gender with staring eyes, big ears and frizzy hair smirk challengingly at the viewer, offering an inventory of possibilities, many of which later find their way into Prince's joke paintings of the same period. This extraordinary little book presents these funny yet sinister works to a larger public for the first time, and allows readers to discover a new side of Richard Prince's oeuvre.
Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Nowhere is the breezy and urbane romance of Paris conjured as memorably as in the photography of Robert Doisneau (1912-1994). A gentle minstrel of visual anecdote, Doisneau interpreted the city's charms in an iconography that both natives and Francophiles instantly recognize: the young hip couple stealing a spontaneous kiss at a busy intersection, the gendarme chatting with a mother while her kid tiptoes along a riverbank bench, the sweetly melancholic abandoned merry-go-round in the rain and the entire pageant of Parisian life mingling at cafes, bus shelters and on the banks of the Seine. Doisneau was possessed of both lightness of touch and spontaneity, as a result of which he has been sometimes championed as a photographer of the "pure" moment. But his ocular touch is even lighter than that suggests-his images are not so much "seized" as "netted." Accompanying the Fondation Cartier-Bresson's exhibition of around 100 prints from the Doisneau estate, From Craft to Art presents these treasures alongside a new version of Jean-Francois Chevrier's classic 1983 essay on the photographer, which describes Doisneau's knack for capturing "the shining melancholy that separates an individual from the crowd.
Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 100 black and white photographs. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 100 black and white photographs. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Flammarion, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 360 pages. From high-society balls and fashion shoots to portraits of artists and scenes from urban life in France, this handsome volume--which features an open spine binding so that it lays flat to show off the photographs to their best advantage--showcases Doisneau's best photographs for Vogue Paris. Celebrated photographer Robert Doisneau worked for Vogue from 1949 until 1965, illustrating a postwar France filled with a renewed zest for life. His little-known images of haute couture featured models like Brigitte Bardot and Bettina, who he photographed in the studio and out on the streets. He chronicled the members of the cafe society in their stately homes and at glamorous costume galas, dancing the night away. Best known for his humanist approach, he masterfully captured scenes from everyday life--from the grace of a wedding procession over a footbridge to the petulance of a child impatient for cake. Doisneau's photographs captured the spirit of the era and featured celebrities like Karen Blixen, Picasso, Colette, and Jean Cocteau, as well as jazz musicians, movie stars, and humble craftsmen at work. Legendary Vogue editor in chief Edmonde Charles-Roux's personal homage to the photographer--who was her friend and colleague--offers intimate insight into the man behind the camera, as complex and beautiful as the people and places he immortalized.