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.
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.
Softcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs Smith, 2nd pr, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 87 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a clean, tight 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. Sarasota FL, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Non-Paginated. About 40 pages with 23 black & white illustrations. Some light spotting along top edge of front cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a white cardboard slipcase, 352 pages. One of the best-known Japanese artists of the international scene, Mariko Mori, born in 1967 in Tokyo, envisions fantastical worlds and beings in spectacular photographs and videos--frequently casting herself amid these scenarios as a Bjork-esque avatar in biomorphic and technological symbiosis. Mori studied fashion design in Tokyo, worked briefly as a model and later studied fine art in England, and this early education is visible in her elaborately produced photographs, videos and sculpture that are as reminiscent of Hollywood as they are of contemporary art. Her recent work involves exotic landscapes, computer-generated images and choreographed performances for which the artist designs her own costumes and plays the central characters.This extraordinary and substantial publication offers a retrospective of Mori's entire oeuvre, and is the first to present the complete Beginning of the End: Past, Present, Future, a photographic cycle produced over a period of 11 years, in which Mori presents herself as a time traveler in a plexiglass capsule at significant symbolic locations, from Giza to New York to Shanghai.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 287 pages. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket issued. This beautifully illustrated book-the definitive volume on American sculptor Mark di Suvero-features more than two hundred images of his most important works, interspersed with short texts by the artist and by other writers who have inspired his art-making practice, plus a contribution by Francois Barre. Humanist in approach and populist in sensibility, di Suvero's sculpture is accessible, inviting, and inclusive. Praised in particular for his monumental assemblages incorporating steel and wood, di Suvero emerged as a superstar in the 1960s. He was the first living artist to show his sculpture at the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, and the first honored with three major exhibitions at Storm King Art Center. His distinctive, bold pieces can be found in museums and public collections all over the world, and he continues to be the subject of numerous exhibitions both in the United States and in Europe. Mark di Suvero: Dreambook is a celebration of his artistic oeuvre and of his long, distinguished career.
Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 92 pages. B&W and color illustrations throughout. White pictorial front cover with slight wear to spine an soiling to covers. Frontispiece. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State Univ Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets. Professor Armi posits that the great third abbey at Cluny is the building where regional masons of different traditions first combined their talents to develop a new design, and that the artisans responsible for the masonry also created its sculpture. Volume I Text, 204 pages; Volume II contains 238 b/w Illustrations.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 228 pages. Long perceived as a side pursuit to his celebrated painting career, Henri Matisse's sculpture receives an overdue critical examination in this book. Beginning in 1906, soon after the artist acquired his first African sculpture, Matisse found inspiration in erotic and ethnographic photography, which had become inexpensively mass-produced thanks to advances in halftone technology. Working with these two radically different depictions of the body--one hand carved, the other mechanically made--was a foundational method for Matisse and crucial to the development of his pre-World War I abstraction. Far from a simple narrative of the artist "discovering" Africa, the highly original readings of Matisse's Sculpture plot new coordinates of study for early 20th-century primitivism. It examines the larger constructs of thought at the time, with a penetrating analysis of anthropology, popular erotica, and the visual culture of French colonialism. In addition, the book repositions Matisse's sculptural practice, particularly in regard to its investigations of race and sexuality, as a cornerstone of his prolific career.
Softcover. NY, Paula Cooper Gallery, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, wire binding, 50 pages. Color illustrations. Scarce. Meg Webster is an American artist from San Francisco working primarily in sculpture and installation art. While her works span multiple media, she is most well known for her artworks that feature natural elements.
Hardcover. Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz's (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a sequence of installations drawing on architecture, cultural artifacts and cuisine to tell stories of social ritual, conflict and loss. It encompasses work considering the citizen visionaries of post Soviet Hungary, Middle Eastern Beatles fans and the stonecarvers of Afghanistan, with Rakowitz's casts of players and objects revealing the legacy of colonization, modernism and globalism. The artist's life-size replica of the gigantic lamassu, one of two monumental winged bulls that once guarded the gates of Nineveh in Iraq, currently features on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. This recreation of an ancient mythological creature is made from everyday date syrup cans and is part of an epic endeavour to recreate all 7,000 objects looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, as well as those destroyed more recently at archaeological sites like Nimrud, also presented here. Text in English and Italian. Short closed tear to dj corner. otherwise like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. No artist looms so large in Western consciousness and culture as Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most celebrated sculptor of all time. And no place on earth provides a stone so capable of simulating the warmth and vitality of human flesh and incarnating the genius of a Michelangelo as the statuario of Carrara, the storied marble mecca at Tuscany's northwest corner. It was there, where shadowy Etruscans and Roman slaves once toiled, that Michelangelo risked his life in dozens of harrowing expeditions to secure the precious stone for his Pieta, Moses, and other masterpieces. Many books have recounted Michelangelo's achievements in Florence and Rome. Michelangelo's Mountain goes beyond all of them, revealing his escapades and ordeals in the spectacular landscape that was the third pole of his tumultuous career and the third wellspring of his art. Eric Scigliano brings this haunting place and eternally fascinating artist to life in a sweeping tale peopled by popes and poets, mad dukes and mythic monsters, scheming courtiers and rough-hewn quarrymen. In showing how the artist, land, and stone transformed one another, Scigliano brings fresh insight to Michelangelo's most cherished works and illuminates his struggles with the princes and potentates of Carrara, Rome, and Medici Florence, who raised intrigue to a high art.
Hardcover. London, Royal Academy Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 314 pages, color plates. From Jacob Epstein to Sarah Lucas, this magnificent book explores sculpture in Britain over the last 130 years. Including works by varied artists such as Frederic Lord Leighton, Alfred Gilbert, Eric Gill, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Anthony Caro, Richard Long, and Damien Hirst, the book highlights the dialogues between British and international sculpture, examines the importance of the country's landscape as a location and medium, and looks at the perennial choice faced by the sculptor between figuration and abstraction. Sculpture has changed dramatically in the last century. This compelling book documents these seismic shifts. Remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise a clean copy.
Softcover. Chicago, Illinois, Mongerson Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 page catalog from October 1981 exhibition at The Mongerson Gallery. Numerous black and white prints and photographs. Brief artist biographies. Textured cover features color artwork and exhibits some wear, particularly along binding edge. Interior in near fine condition.
Hardcover. Germany, Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The animated films of Nathalie Djurberg (born 1978) won the artist a Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Her films animate figurines made of cloth and plasticine in a puppet/marionette theater of macabre sexual intrigue. Here, Djurberg's films are accompanied by Hans Berg's musical compositions.
Softcover. NY, PaceWildenstein, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages illustrated in color. Catalogue from the exhibit, Naum Gabo Pioneer of Abstract Sculpture November 4 - December 11, 1999. Essay by Graham Williams. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Pace Gallery/Wilderstein, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog that is actually two catalogs published back to back (unusual format). One side is Maquettes for Monumental Sculpture and the other Wood Sculpture and Collages. Approx. 60 pages all together. B&W and color photography throughout. Sewn bindings with slight wear. Overall, a nice, clean copy.
Softcover. Rockland, Maine, William A. Farnsworth Library, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Exhibition catalog. Perfect binding, covers completely illustrated in full-color, foreword by Marius B. Peladeau. introduction by Dorothy C. Miller, profuse full-page color and b&w plates, biographical summary. Very mild rubbing to covers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Acatos Editions, 1st, 2002-01-01BBI, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 330 pages. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST to Dick Clark and his wife Betty. Clark was Bentons art instructor in the late 50s. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. NY, The Pace Gallery, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalogue with textured tissue paper, front and rear end papers, 24 pages of color plates. Has a 'Manifesto' written by Noguchi in which he describes his way of being thus: ' I am challenged by the unknown, by accidents, from which to extricate something beyond preconception. My effort has been to expand this area of challenge'. Mild wear, thin spine area with sun fade. No markings.
Softcover. Minneapolis, MN, Walker Art Center, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog, 100 pages. Color and B&W plates throughout. . Deep bend on wrapper and first several pages. Light edgewear to wrapper and tearing on spine. soiling on last couple of pages. Overall a nice, tight copy.
1967, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon by Saxon of couple placing a sculpture outdoors from their glass house, 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 512 pages plus index, b&w photographs, map end papers. Previous price sticker on back cover. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy. A unique reference for those interested in American heritage sculpture and architecture. This book was published in both paperback and clothbound editions. Photography by David Blume.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 255 color plates. Built for Federico II Gonzaga Duke of Mantua between 1525 and 1536, Palazzo Te is the masterpiece of Renaissance artist, designer, and architect Giulio Romano, the most accomplished and favored of Raphael's pupils.The palace's interiors are replete with frescoes depicting imaginative scenes and trompe l'oeil fantasies of gods and heroes, fictive marble statues, and portraits of the Duke's favorite thoroughbreds. From the erotic scenes of the Sala di Psiche to the famous Sala di Giganti, based on the mythological defeat of the Titans by the gods of Olympus, the High Renaissance ideal of classical harmony and balance is overtaken by breathtaking illusionist techniques and images of giants, falling masonry, and the thunderbolts from the gods.
Rome, Contrasto, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 136 pages, 53 b&w plates. A collection of 53 photographs of Pompeii, never published before, shot by the master photographer Mimmo Jodice. Unique images, visions conjuring up a long-lost past tradition, coupled with texts by Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet and Jay Parini. No dj issued.
Hardcover. London, Tate, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Provocative and entertaining, Pop Life examines how artists since the 1980s have cultivated their public persona as a product, and conjured a dazzling mix of media, commerce, and glamour to build their own "brands." Beginning with the grandfather of Pop, Andy Warhol, who manufactured mass-produced wares in The Factory in the 1960s, the book explores Jeff Koons' infamous Made in Heaven series-showcasing his marriage and sexual relations with Italian porn-star and latter-day politician Illona Staller (aka La Cicciolina)-and his stainless steel Rabbit sculpture; an iconic array of golden spot and butterfly paintings from Damien Hirst's recordbreaking 2008 auction; and a reconstruction of Keith Haring's Pop Shop in New York. Takashi Murakami's designs for Louis Vuitton are also included, along with works by Richard Prince, Martin Kippenberger, Tracey Emin, and many more.
Softcover. Milano, Arte Contemporanea, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog of the Italian sculptor's work. Limited to 777 copies. Text in English and Italian with an essay by Enrico Gariboldi and a poem by Pier Carlo Bontempi. Includes numerous color illustrations. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, N.Y., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light rubbing to edges of spine, minor sun-fade to rear cover. Clean, tight copy. This is the catalog for an unusual exhibition of rare original plasters, most of which were used by foundries to cast in bronze, held at Hirschl & Adler Galleries in New York from March 3 through April 14, 1990. Plasters "frequently represent the last stage of the artist's involvement in the fabrication of a work. . . . plasters have singular qualities: they have a warmth, a beauty, and an approachability, even vulnerability, not often found in the harder media of stone and bronze."
Hardcover. New York , Hudson Hills Press , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 453 pages, cloth binding, dj, new copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 381 color & 107 b/w illustrations, 453 pages, 9x12. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Claes Oldenburg: Printed Stuff, held at the Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, Apr. 27-July 27, 1997, and at other places.
Softcover. Bogota COL, Galeria Alfred Wild, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages with color photos of the Colombian artist's wood sculptures. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Walker & Company , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 141 pages, BW illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition held at M. Knoedler and Company from October 10 through November 4, 1967. Notes by William C. Agee. Clean.
Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 104 pages. In 1999, acclaimed German multimedia artist Rebecca Horn created Concert for Buchenwald, a large-scale, two-part installation in Weimar/Germany commemorating the horrors of genocide and emigration. This darkly intense work evokes both the shoah and the mass murders in former Yugoslavia. The first part of the installation is set in an abandoned train depot. Its walls are lined with glass panes behind whose shiny surfaces you can make out layer upon layer of ashes. Running alongside one of the walls, railroad tracks are blocked up by densely entangled heaps of various stringed instruments, reminiscent of the piles of corpses that were discovered in Buchenwald. The second part of Concert for Buchenwald is installed in Schloss Ettersburg, an 18th century palatial residence. Here, the humming sound of panicked bees is audible from hives suspended from the ceiling of an opulent ballroom, and suggests memories of expulsion and escape. This book includes several essays that explore various aspects and interpretations of Horn's installation, as well as her own notes tracing the origins of the installation's prominent metaphors. Essays by Doris von Drahten, Boris Groys, Rebecca Horn, Bernd Kauffmann, and Martin Mosebach. Clean copy.
Softcover. South Hadley MA, Mount Holyoke College, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 56 pages. Many black and white photos, exhibition checklist, glossary, index, notes, bibliography. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of copper jewelry, sculptures, vessels, musical instruments, stools and other African decorative arts. Mild rubbing to wrappers, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, July 16, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, color illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket; small tear on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy. A showcase of Groom's drawings, prints & inimitable urban sculpto-pictograms (in full-color).
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. Scalo, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 104 pages. Selected as the United States representative to the 2001 Venice Biennale, the sculptor and installation artist Robert Gober has, thanks to several major museum exhibitions in recent years, established himself as perhaps the most important artist of his generation, thanks to his symbolically charged re-creations of everyday objects that he makes into installations that question the ideals and values of childhood, family, home, and religion. This catalogue presents his work for the United States pavilion at the Biennale.
Softcover. Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog, 216 pages. Color and B&W plates and photographs throughout. Some light soiling to wrapper. Otherwise a clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, 9 color plates plus 80 b&w illustrations. Small remainder stamp to top edge otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press/Dia Art Foundation, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages, b&w and color plates. Essays and interview with the artist, bibliography, pictorial boards. In publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli/Gagosian Gallery , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 156 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Dan Miller Design. With a biography and exhibition history. This is the elegantly produced, copiously illustrated hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with Los Angeles-based sculptor Robert Therrien's elaborate 2008 Gagosian Gallery New York installation.