art Sculpture

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. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Terrific monograph on this important American artist. Includes 275 illustrations, most in color and with 4 double gatefolds. Dust jacket with light soiling on back cover.

Softcover. NY, Modern Art Foundry, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Stapled softcover exhibition catalog, 16 pages illustrated in color. Clean copy.

Softcover. Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, staple-bound, 24 pages; in English and Japanese. Illustrated in b&w. Crease to top corner/pages of catalog, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Charles Massin & Cie, 1st French, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Illustrated with primarily black & white photographs. Darkening to endpapers. Black calf leather with raised bands on spine. Title in gilt on spine. Clean, tight copy. 16 color plates out of 131 total illustrations. Includes bw map. Text in French, translated from the original German by Maurice Muller-Strauss. The art of the central-latitude countries of the African continent. Includes (as named at the time of publication) Angola, Cameroun, Belgian Congo, Lower Congo, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Dahomey, Gabon, French Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, French Sudan, Togo, and Tanganyika. Map at back shows/lists these countries/territories, regional rivers, and local tribes.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. 330 illustrations, including 150 plates in full color. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful pictorial dust jacket. A very clean, tight and crisp copy. Like New.

Softcover. Hong Kong, unknown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Chinese text. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. Artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) became widely known in the 1960s and 1970s for her welded steel sculptures and plastic and epoxy molded assemblages, powerful constructions that evoked natural phenomena and organic biological life as well as machines and instruments of war. This critically acclaimed book re-evaluates the career of this highly influential artist and focuses not only upon the impact of her early work but also on the import she has exerted on a generation of younger artists. Featuring some 50 sculptures and more than 100 drawings from the late 1950s to 2003, the book presents four essays that reposition Bontecou's work within the history of recent art, examine its shifting critical reception, discuss the artistic context in which her work was made, and analyze how science underpinned some of her earliest explorations. Related ephemera laid in. Clean copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Softcover. NY, McKee Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in color. Essay by Randy Rosen.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Softcover. NY, Nohra Haime Gallery, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, color cover, b&w photos of his sculpture inside. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Nohra Haime Gallery, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, color and b&w photos of the sculptor's work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Skira Rizzoli, 1st, 2011, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 264 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Known for her life-size sculptures made entirely of beads, Liza Lou has had audiences and critics spellbound since her debut exhibition fifteen years ago. In this comprehensive volume devoted to her work, illustrated with two hundred photographs, writers, critics, and scholars explore her work in depth.

Hardcover. Prestel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 167 pages. Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells is both a catalog of works by and a biography of the famous Parisian artist. Born in 1911, the now-octogenarian Bourgeois has shown widely throughout the world and to great critical acclaim, especially within the last decade. Bourgeois's personal history is vastly important in the content of her work, and this book takes readers on a journey from her affluent childhood in France, including family photographs, to her schooling under painter Fernand Leger to her eventual marriage and move to the United States, where she continued her long and varied career working primarily as a sculptor and installation artist. Bourgeois's abstract figurative sculptures range in materials from plaster, marble, and bronze to the more nontraditional latex, glass, thread, etc. Regardless of the medium, the work is imbued with a strong physicality that echoes the forms of the human body. Included in the book are discussions of Bourgeois's work in relation to other artists and movements such as Rodin, Brancusi, and primitivism. Bourgeois has been an inspiration to an entire generation of artists, not just because of her long and illustrious career but because her work has pushed so many boundaries. Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells is an informative and beautiful book with 77 color and 176 black-and-white images.

Softcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. White glossy covers with b&w photographic plate of Louise Nevelson, perfect binding, introduction by John Canaday, profusely illustrated throughout with large b&w plates. Light rubbing to covers; otherwise a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Softcover. Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog, 71 pages. 47 B&W full page plates & smaller plates throughout. Very slight fading to edges of wrapper. Otherwise a very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, profusely illustrated with nearly 200 color and b&w plates of Nevelson's work. Dark blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Slight edgewear and rubbing to jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Softcover. Hamilton NJ, Grounds for Sculpture, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, profusely illustrated in color. Essay by Michael Brenson. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages, 148 illustrations, (47 in color) many in full page photographs. Text in English by Barbara Rose based on numerous interviews with the artist. An extensive biography that deals with all the important works of the artist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Walker and Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color and B/w gar 12/8illustrations throughout. cover boards bound in red cloth with gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover. Some age wear to dust jacket, very good condition. Clean and unmarked inside, binding tight. In great shape for its age.

Softcover. Montreal, Galerie Amrad African Arts, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 64 pages, 183 b&w photo illustrations, 2 maps, 148 objects catalogued, bibliography. Parallel texts in English and French. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Arts, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover. Interesting binding; soft cover with heavy boards attached to front and back on paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to said heavy boards.