Softcover. Koln GR, Walther Koenig Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Softcover, 80 pages, reproductions of black and white figurative line drawings, executed in a childlike hand.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Andy Warhol (1928-1987) remains an icon of the 20th century and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. He also was an obsessive collector of things large and small, ordinary and quirky. Since 1994, The Andy Warhol Museum has studied and safeguarded the artist's archive encompassing hundreds of thousands of these objects, at turns strange, amusing, and poignant. From this array, many of these items have been researched and described in this book for the first time. For the myriad fans of Warhol and his quixotic world, as well as those who never understood the artist before, this volume is essential and unforgettable. Written by Matt Wrbican, the foremost authority on Warhol's personal collection, A is for Archive features curated selections from this collection, shedding light on the artist's work and motivations, as well as on his personality and private life. The volume is organized alphabetically, honoring Warhol's own use of a whimsical alphabetical structure: "A is for Autograph" (a selection of signed objects, many of which influenced his most popular works), "F is for Fashion" (featuring his collections of cowboy boots, neckties, and jackets), "S is for Stamp" (works of art by Warhol and others relating to stamps and mailed items), and "Z is for Zombie" (a grouping of photographs and ephemera of Warhol in various disguises: drag, robot, zombie, clown). The book also features an insightful essay by renowned art critic and Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 344 pages. The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler, and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire passionate arguments to this day. What were these artists trying to achieve? Who were the critical voices of the time that rallied public interest in Abstract Expressionism and sparked rancorous debate? Drawing on recent critical, historical and biographical work, this lavishly illustrated book offers a sharp new focus on a pivotal art movement.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. In 1952, at the age of 23, Helen Frankenthaler created her legendary painting Mountains and Sea. She poured thinned-down pigment directly onto unprimed canvas to be absorbed into its fibers. This large painting, the first in which Frankenthaler used her soak-stain technique, synthesized the influences that had informed her work to that point and announces her arrival as a mature artist. Published to accompany a 1998 exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, this book focuses on Mountains and Sea and other groundbreaking paintings of Frankenthaler's early career. In this period, Frankenthaler drew upon Cubism, the abstractions of Arshile Gorky and, especially, those of Jackson Pollock, whose radical technique inspired her to reject easel painting. Frankenthaler herself became associated with the second generation of the New York School and her unique method and experimental use of materials influenced her contemporaries and subsequent generations of artists.
Hardcover. New Haven/Atlanta, Yale/High Museum of Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, color illustrated. Like new copy in a bright dust jacket. Expressing the anxieties of the late nineteenth century and the uncertainties of the modern world, Edvard Munch (1862-1944) often depicted in his works dangerously seductive fin de siecle women, sickly figures, and isolated characters in barren landscapes. These powerful, haunting paintings are widely recognized and revered, especially his iconic work The Scream (1893). Yet few admirers of Munch's early works realize that the artist lived well into the twentieth century and was enormously productive almost to the time of his death. This compelling book, focusing on more than sixty of Munch's later paintings, reveals the surprising, vibrant work of a fascinating man who never ceased to grow as an artist. Following decades of restless wandering among the capitals of Europe, Munch suffered a breakdown in Copenhagen in 1908 and retreated to his native Norway. In 1916 he purchased an estate near present-day Oslo where he lived and worked, mostly in his outdoor studio, for the next twenty years. Although Munch never abandoned a deeply introspective approach to image-making,
Hardcover. New Havn CT, Yale University Press, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 333 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color, B&W. Clean, tight copy. Few painters lived the intellectual adventures of the early twentieth century as intensely as Albert Gleizes. At the centre of the public scandal over Cubism that broke out in Paris in 1911, he was with Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia in New York during the war and was one of the first European avant-garde artists to respond to the scale and vigour of New York life. Gleizes was also one of the few French painters of the 1920s to recognise nonrepresentational painting as the logical development of Cubism. His work as a painter is accompanied by an immense body of theoretical work, addressing the question posed so starkly by Duchamp and Picabia: why should we paint? What is the justification for the work of art? Over his life he touches on many spheres of human activity - religious, political and cultural history, physics and the philosophy of work. This book follows Gleizes' argument as it evolves, drawing on painting, and both published and unpublished writings. It reveals Gleizes, not just as a significant historical personality, but as a man whose work and thinking remains surprisingly fresh and relevant to the needs of our own time.
Hardcover. NY, Jewish Museum/Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 116 pages, text by Robert Storr with essays by Lawrence Alloway and James Schuyler. A study of the New York School painter's collection of paintings of his wife Ada over the years.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press/Addison Gallery of American Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages with over 200 color and b&w plates. American painter Alfred Maurer (1868-1932) worked within an international circle of avant-garde artists, and his friendships with key figures, including the collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein as well as Dr. Albert Barnes, positioned him at the nexus of new and changing ideas about art at the turn of the century. First recognized for his elegant fin-de-siecle figure paintings, Maurer brought his painterly skills to increasingly adventurous masterworks of modernism, championing Fauvism and the French avant-garde in America. Toward the end of his life, he created radical and daring imagery that forecast innovations in abstraction. In this important reevaluation of his work, Stacey B. Epstein shows that Maurer's trajectory is not one of disjointed periods of distinct or contradictory styles, but rather a deliberately developed, unbroken progression of integrity and skill, with each phase further engaging color, composition, and design in innovative directions. This impressive volume, with more than 200 color and black-and-white plates, illustrates Maurer's invaluable contributions to the trajectory of American art history, while underscoring his role in shaping the development of modernism in America.
Softcover. Tampa, FL, University of South Florida, Unknown, N. D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 54 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Green pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to covers and spine, front cover slightly sunned, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. ACC Art Books, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 160 pages. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris exploring the life and work of renowned feminist artist Alice Neel, 1900-1984. Essays and an extensive anthology provide an academic insight into Neel's work. "I have always believed that women should resent and refuse to accept all the gratuitous insults that men impose upon them." - Alice Neel, 1971 One of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century, Alice Neel's vibrant, expressionistic paintings revealed a breath-taking depth of emotion within her subjects. From works exploring loss and grief, to communist political art, Neel's work pushed boundaries of social justice throughout the 1900s. Her dedication to capturing the truth of humanity is evident: she painted those rejected by society, the victims of social or gendered oppression. Latin American and Puerto Rican immigrants, African-American writers excluded from the intellectual elite, single mothers struggling to raise their children, homosexual couples - all were presented with equal candidness by Neel's brush.
Hardcover. New York , Robert Miller Gallery, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages, with roughly 60 color and 5 b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. This catalogue from the first and only exhibition of Alice Neel's Depression-era paintings places these early surrealist and expressionist influenced works in the context of quotations from the artist and an essay by Wayne Koestenbaum. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. NY, Robert Miller Gallery, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages, with roughly 60 color and 5 b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. This catalogue from the first and only exhibition of Alice Neel's Depression-era paintings places these early surrealist and expressionist influenced works in the context of quotations from the artist and an essay by Wayne Koestenbaum. No dust jacket issued.
Softcover. U.S.A., Peterson Publishing Company, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 115 pages. Text includes biography and critique. 74 color plates. Numerous black and white prints and photographs. Color cover features "Summer Afternoon" (detail). Back cover features artist stamp signature. Slight wear on cover, particularly along binding edge. Else in fine condition.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The enigmatic and charismatic John Graham (1886-1961) was an important influence on his fellow New York artists in the 1920s through 1940s. Graham and his circle, which included Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, and Willem de Kooning, helped redefine ideas of what painting and sculpture could be. They, along with others in Graham's orbit, such as Jackson Pollock and David Smith, played a critical role in developing and defining American modernism. American Vanguards showcases about eighty-seven works of art from this vital period that demonstrate the interconnections, common sources, and shared stimuli among the members of Graham's circle. Three essays by notable scholars investigate the complex relationships among Graham and his New York artist-colleagues during this formative period. William C. Agee positions Graham and his circle within the movement of New Classicism, which drew upon classical and Renaissance examples in an attempt to overcome the devastation of World War I. Irving Sandler focuses on the social, political, and intellectual dynamics among Davis, Gorky, Graham, and de Kooning in the mid-1930s. Karen Wilkin discusses the circumstances that brought these artists together, their common commitment to modernism, and the fascinating artistic cross-fertilization evident in their work. This critical reconsideration sheds new light on the New York School, Abstract Expressionism, and the vitality of American modernism between the two world wars.
Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages, hardcover. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Andy Warhol: A Retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 6 - May 2, 1989. Features 460 plates, including 277 in color. With essays by Kynaston McShine, Robert Rosenblum, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, and Marco Livingstone.
Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 624 pages. Hardcover. 2000 illustrations, 1400 in color. Sixteen pound monster elephant folio, a huge volume. Laminated covers, clean, very good. Andy Warhol "Giant" Size is the definitive document of this remarkable creative force, and a telling look at late twentieth-century pop culture. A must-have for Warhol fans and pop culture enthusiasts, this in-depth and comprehensive overview of Warhol's extraordinary career is packed with more than 2,000 illustrations culled from rarely seen archival material, documentary photography, and artwork. Dave Hickey's compelling essay on Warhol's geek-to-guru evolution combines with chapter openers by Warhol friends and insiders to give special insight into the way the enigmatic artist led his life and made his art. It also provides a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the New York art world of the 1950s to the 1980s. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Koln GR, Jablonka Galerie, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, photographs and drawings in b&w by Warhol. Small format book for an exhibition held in Germany in the late 1990s. Dust jacket and book in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Koln GR, Jablonka Galerie, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages, photographs and drawings in b&w by Warhol. Small format book for an exhibition held in Germany in the late 1990s. Dust jacket and book in excellent condition.
Softcover. New York, Abbeville, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w and color illustrations, photo end papers. A very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 167 pages, square 4to. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. 68 full-page reproductions of works by Artaud, many in color, plus many other illustrations, including documentary photographs. Essays by the editor, Ronald Hayman, Marthe Robert, Agnes de la Beaumelle, and Sylvere Lotringer, with artistic responses by Nancy Spero, Patti Smith, and Kiki Smith, and a catalogue of the exhibition, chronology, exhibition history, and select bibliography. Gray boards with black cloth spine. Issued without jacket. Minor dust soil to edges of boards otherwise very good, clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages. Oversized. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Some light wear on dust jacket corners. Color photographs throughout. A bright, clean copy. A foreword by Johnson himself, an essay by his biographer Hilary Lewis, and nearly 400 vivid color and b/w photos accompanied by detailed building descriptions presented in chronological order.
Hardcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 270 pages, 171 color illustrations, 22 in b/w.; contains two essays, catalogue, reference material. generously illustrated, many are full-page, most all in color. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
Softcover. New York , Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 285 pages, b&w and color plates. Art checklist laid in. Half-inch tear at top of spine. Light marking to bottom edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Albright-Knox Gallery, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, This solid, authoritative presentation of Gorky's pivotal art of the 1940s accompanies an exhibit of paintings and drawings showing this year at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., as well as Buffalo and Fort Worth. Biographical and art-historical essays by Auping, a Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth curator, as well as Dore Ashton and Matthew Spender summarize the critical consensus of Gorky, placing him between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism in the development of 20th-century art. Excellent reproductions of the paintings and drawings in the show are supplemented by close-ups from several paintings, photographs of Gorky, and selections from Gorky's letters. While not a comprehensive or groundbreaking work, this volume is an excellent summary of or introduction to Gorky for both general and informed lay readers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Milano IT, Jaca Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 315 pages, color illustrations. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The Panza Collection has gathered together a critical assembly of the art of the 50s, 60s and 70s. This book traces the history of Giuseppe Panza''s life as an art collector and includes an illustrated section of works by various artists like Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, Louis Cane and many others. Color and black and white illustrations. Bound in original gray boards. Housed in white pictorial dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, illustrated throughout with 213 plates in color and b&w. Maroon cloth with white title to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. The rich artistic and social history of the Arts and Crafts movement in California, as well as the highly collectible objects it produced. In a brief but intensely prolific period between about 1895 and 1930. Essays by Leslie Greene Bowman, Bruce Kamerling, Cheryl Robertson, Joseph A. Taylor, David C. Streatfield, Karen J. Weitze and Richard Guy Wilson.
Hardcover. London, Merrell, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Orange cloth with black lettering on the spine; 176 pages; 125+ color and bw plates and figures. Includes essays on the artist and his work by Donald Kuspit, James Wechsler, Susan Power, Michael Betancourt, Helen A. Harrison, David Craven, and Rachel Garfield; Artist biography also included.
Hardcover. New York, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A beautifully produced monograph devoted to the paintings and drawings of John Altoon, a central figure in the Los Angeles art scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Haunting and erotic, Altoon's colorful paintings and intimate drawings capture the magical moment in postwar California between the Beat Generation and the sexual and psychedelic revolution of the late '60s.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, unknown, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 116 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red cloth. pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy in shrinkwrap. In this landmark volume we see the photo-realist painter at work and the works themselves in progress, together with many superb reproductions of her completed paintings.
Softcover. New York, Multiples Inc & Lois and Michael K. Torf , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages, paperback. Hundreds of b&w photographs documenting the personal belongings in LeWitt's living and working space in New York City in 1980. Fascinating look into the private life of one of the pioneers of minimal and conceptual art. Age toning to spine. Light rubbing, slight soiling, and mild age toning to wraps. Unmarked. Very scarce. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Prestel, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 294 pages, 259 color and 53 b&w illustrations. Focuses on Jean-Michel Basquiat's extraordinary breadth of influences, from graffiti to bebop jazz to Hollywood cinema, this exciting new survey charts his ground-breaking career. This work accompanied a major exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery.
Hardcover. US, The British Library, 1st, 2004-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Explores the influence of the Bauhaus and modernism on typography and book design. 159 pages Size: 9 x 9 1/2 "
Hardcover. Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 288 pages. profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This book assembles key works by leading artists such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, and Alfred Kubin, and artists less familiar to audiences in the United States including Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Albert Paris GA 1/4 tersloh, Karl Hubbuch, Richard Oelze, Franz Sedlacek, Josef Scharl, and Rudolf Wacker, who will each be represented by small groups of significant works. Clean copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Accompanied traveling exhibition. Essays by Jane Livingston, Karen Tsujimoto, Henry T. Hopkins and Maurice Tuchman. Beautiful color plates, including a foldout and photos of the artist. Checklist for the exhibition. Chronology. Bibliography. Clean copy.
New Heven, Dumont/Yale Univ. Press, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color, black & white illustrations. 365 pages. Scholarly essays on the four artists.
Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated paper over boards. Pages clean and colorful. Using the Pop paintings of the artist, Hendra conjures the Adventures of Brad, shy young man from New Jersey, A wannabe Artist who Yearns to Be Famous, To be Loved, to move to NYC. Clean, bright copy. Issued without a dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages, color plates. Celebrating an experimental decade in the career of Alex Katz, this book introduces audiences to a relatively unknown body of his work. Coming of age as an artist in the 1950s, Alex Katz set out to reinvent representational painting in the wake of Abstract Expressionism. At first, Katz struggled to find an audience, destroying hundreds of canvases. This book surveys the artwork that survived from this momentous decade, one in which he first painted outdoors, innovated with collages, and met Ada del Moro, his wife and muse. The essays in this book contextualize Katz's painting, consider how he and his peers looked at one another, mined 19th-century portraiture, and borrowed from television, advertising, and cinema. The result is a fascinating study of a young artist laying the groundwork for an astonishingly successful career. Fans of Katz will be inspired by the radicality of his early work, and those being introduced to the artist will be struck by its freshness and relevance.
Hardcover. New York/London, Alpine Fine Arts, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Some edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Internally very good. Catalogue raisonne. Translated by Robert Bononno and Pamela Barr.
Hardcover. US, Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Small 4to, boards. This work looks at parallels between Conner's works as an artist and filmmaker. It depicts and discusses his drawings, oil and acrylic paintings, lithographs, prints, photograms and photographs, alongside three of Conner's best-known films: Breakaway (1966), Crossroads (1976), and Marilyn Times Five (1968-1973). Text in English. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.
Hardcover. US, Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 1st, 2011, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Small 4to, boards. This work looks at parallels between Conner's works as an artist and filmmaker. It depicts and discusses his drawings, oil and acrylic paintings, lithographs, prints, photograms and photographs, alongside three of Conner's best-known films: Breakaway (1966), Crossroads (1976), and Marilyn Times Five (1968-1973). Text in English. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.
Softcover. NY, Jaap Rietman, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Essay by David Bourdon, with additional text by Barbara Rose. Designed by Richard S. Haymes. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the substantial catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 circulating American Museum retrospective exhibition of sixteen sculptures and sculptural installations executed between 1959 and 1977 by minimal pioneer Carl Andre. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Darmstadt GR, Mathildenhohe, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages, illustrated in color, bright red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Exhibition catalog for a show that traveled to Los Angeles the next year. Text in German and English. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 119 pages, mostly illustrated in color. Essays by Paul Schimmel and Lisa Phillips. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1969, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Exhibition catalogue for Bulgarian artist Christo. Illustrated with 71 reproductions of his often large-scale work, 3 of which are in shown in full color. Cloth bound book and dust jacket are in near fine condition; dust jacket has very slight wear some corners, book is very clean and new-looking.
Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 152 pages. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Boards, bibliography, color and B&W reproductions and photos of Close's amazing self-portraits.
