art Sculpture

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1at, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 253 pages, b&w and color illustrations, illustrated end paper. Bottom front left corner slightly bumped. Light marks to bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy. The book includes essays by five noted authorities: Linda Norden discusses Hesse's early career in New York following her years as a student of Josef Albers; Maria Kreutzer writes on Hesse's work in Germany in the mid-sixties, when she moved from two to three dimensions; Robert Storr places Hesse in relation to the central American artistic concerns of the 1960s, focusing on her links to such artists as Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, and Claes Oldenburg; Anna Chave analyzes Hesse's mature work in light of contemporary feminist theory on authorship and subjectivity; and Maurice Berger examines Hesse's radical and personal approach to the sculptural object following her rejection of painting. In addition, Helen Cooper draws on the artist's extensive diaries, notebooks, and correspondence for a chronology detailed as much as possible in Hesse's own words.

Hardcover. NY, Jewish Museum / Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Eva Hesse: Sculpture focuses on the artist's large-scale sculptures in latex and fiberglass and provides a rare opportunity to look at Hesse's artistic achievement within the historical context of her life in never-before-seen family diaries and photographs. Essays consider Hesse's art from a variety of angles: Elisabeth Sussman discusses the sculptures shown in the 1968 solo exhibition; Fred Wasserman delves into the Hesse family's life in Nazi Germany and in the German Jewish community in New York in the 1940s; Yve-Alain Bois examines Hesse's works within the context of the art and aesthetic theories of the 1960s; and Mark Godfrey analyzes the importance of Hesse's celebrated hanging sculptures of 1969-70. In addition to color reproductions of the artist's sculpture, the book features a copiously illustrated chronology of the artist's life.

Softcover. Venice, Danish Pavilion, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 32 pages illustrated in b&w. An exhibition catalog for The Venice Biennale 1982, essay by Oystein Hjort. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Black & white photographs by Hyman Edelstein. Preface by Archibald Macleish. Clean, tight copy. Price sticker on rear dust jacket.

Hardcover. US, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST on half title page. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Essay by Paul J. Karlstrom. With 365 illustrations including 260 plates in full color.

Softcover. Hanover NH, Hood Museum of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, French flaps, 75 pages with 36 figures and 12 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 2005 exhibition / installation by American artist Fred Wilson (b. 1954). With essays by Barbara Thompson, Mary K. Coffey, and Jessica Hagedorn, and many fine views of the artist's creativity. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Louisville KY, Butler Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with wraparound title band. The book measures 13.25x10 inches and has 327 glossy, color and black and white pages. Frederick Hart (1943-1999) was surely among the most profoundly talented sculptors to live in our times. For his work on the Vietnam Memorial, the National Cathedral, and for his careful crafting of scores of more intimate pieces, Hart touched the human soul even as he dazzled the human mind. Art gallery sticker on front fly leaf otherwise clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Hacker Art Books, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. 98 pages of text followed by 90 b&w plates with captions on opposite page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, Hamlyn, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, black cloth with silver lettering, 96 pages, Illustrated profusely with 59 black-and-white and 40 color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Cory, Adams & Mackay, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 84 pages. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy wear and rubbing, laminate is coming off the paper of the dust jacket. Moderately soiled. Cover boards are clean, internally clean and tight. There are 4 color plates tipped in; Black and white illustrations throughout.

Softcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume of the definitive work of George Segal. Softcover, 128 pages, 118 b&w and color illustrations. In very good condition, shows some rubbing on cover. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. Discusses the full range of Segal's work. Includes photographs of the artist at work. Topics include early cast sculpture, fragments and painted plasters, public commissions, and more. George Segal (1924-2000) was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement.

Hardcover. NY, Konecky and Konecky, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. 54 color and 146 b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small crumbled tear to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Weybright and Talley, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 370 black & white plates and a color frontispiece. Introduction by Henry Moore. Photographs by Ilario Bessi in collaboration with Henry Moore. Brown canvas, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover blocked in gilt with publishers' device, Dust jacket with light surface wear to back cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Orion Press/ Trianon Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 180 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. 112 pages of photos, 3 fold-outs. The definitive study of the 12th-century French sculptor, responsible for almost all the sculpture and reliefs in the medieval cathedral in Burgundy. Spine cracked at preliminary spread before title page. No markings, clean copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering, 326 pages, b&w plates. The story of the sculptor who carved the faces of America's heroic dead on granite mountains, most prominently, Mount Rushmore. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Mild shelf-wear.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages. 357 illustrations, including 93 plates in full color. Catalogue Raisonne of Galle's work including list of exhibitions of his glass. Gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Gray dust jacket in mylar cover, color slightly sunfaded around edges. Cosmetic paper-split between front board and endpaper, not affecting binding, Very nice clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st English, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 527 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name and brief inscription on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Barre VT, Barre Ethnic Heritage Studies Project, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong 16-page brochure, stapled, 9 X 8". B&w photos throughout. Mild tanning to paper otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. Barcelona, Spain, Syzygy, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Hardcover with padded covers. Color pictures throughout of Fran Bull sculptures. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 196 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Andy Goldsworthy is one of the leading British sculptors working with nature in the landscape. He has made remarkable sculptures from natural materials around the world, and enjoys an international reputation. This beautifully produced, highly praised and readable book combines superlative illustrations with specially commissioned essays by leading writers familiar with the artist and his work.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 308 pages. 397 illustrations, including 104 plates in full color. This beautiful volume is in very good shape with tight binding. Tanned cloth, front cover illustration; Stampede(1969). Looks as good as new.

Softcover. Prestel, 1st, 2009, Flexible card covers, 200 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w.Henry Moore is most celebrated for his monumental outdoor sculptures in many major cities around the world. Lesser known are the sculptor's plaster pieces, which represent an important stage in the development of his work leading up to the final bronze sculptures. Moore's sculptures are presented alongside a generous selection of his drawings and carvings made during the last decades of his life. Commentary by leading scholars from the Henry Moore Foundation offers Moore's audience a deeper understanding of the artist's approach to his work and the evolution of his world view.