Softcover. Utica NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages. Very good condition with thick card covers, printed with graphic design by Ivan Chermayeff. Contents includes information about the exhibit and The Henry Street Settlement Creative Arts Center, color reproductions of American and European works, and articles and memorabilia about the artists and the Armory shows. Related ephemera laid in. Owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
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. Berkeley/Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 270 pages in color and b&w. The first major book to consider the life and work of Robert Arneson, A Troublesome Subject tells the fascinating story of how a high school art teacher transformed himself into an artist of international stature and ambition. Representing the full scope of Arneson's career in a rich survey of color reproductions, this book is at once a study of the trajectory of contemporary culture, the work of Robert Arneson, and the relationship between the two. It shows how Arneson's work articulated the crisis of narcissism that has defined American culture since 1970. Jonathan Fineberg develops his ongoing work toward a psychosocial history of art as he proceeds through Arneson's career-chronicling his early life, the formation of a personal style, and finding a unique subject matter in his famous post-1970 turn to self-portraiture. Clean, bright copy.
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.
Softcover. Newport, California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. Exhibition catalog featuring the work of Norman Bluhm, Michael Goldberg, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Alfred Leslie and Joan MItchell. Color illustrated covers with white titles, foreword by Kevin E. Consey, acknowledgments by Paul Schimmel, essays by Paul Schimmel, B.H. Friedman, John Bernard Myers, and Robert Rosenblum, b&w frontispiece, 36 full page color plates, numerous b&w figures throughout, biographical notes. Light rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
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,
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. 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.
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.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 243 pages, 150 b&w plates. Illustrated covers, perfect binding, divided into seven sections organized by historical period, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Mild rubbing to covers, very minor markings to bottom of page block, front top right corner creased; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.
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.
Softcover. Houston, Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 56 pages. Exhibition catalog. Gray covers with color graphic illustration, perfect binding, foreword by Linda L. Cathcart, essay by Marti Mayo, published interview with artist by Ted Castle included, catalogue of the exhibition, 8 color and 14 b&w plates, chronology and biographical notes. Very light wear to catalog edges; a clean, tight copy in great condition.
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.
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.
 "1913 Armory Show; 50th Anniversary Exhibition, 1963 by: Edward H. Dwight (Foreword)")
 "A is for Archive: Warhol")
 "A Troublesome Subject: The Art Of Robert Arneson by: Jonathan Fineberg")
 "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 by: Norman L. Kleeblatt , Maurice Berger , et al.")
 "Action/Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955-60 by: Schimmel, Paul et al.")
 "After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959 (Guggenheim Museum Publications) by: Brown, Julia")
 "After the Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch by: Prelinger, Elizabeth")
 "Alice Aycock Projects 1979-1981 by: Aycock, Alice & Edward Fry")
 "Alice Neel: Paintings from the Thirties by: Koestenbaum, Wayne (Editor)")
 "Alice Neel: Paintings from the Thirties by: Koestenbaum, Wayne (Editor)")
 "American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression by: Brown, Milton W.")
 "Andy Warhol : A Retrospective by: McShine, Kynaston ( editor)")
 "Andy Warhol: \"Giant Size\" by: Hickey (Ed.), David and Steven Bluttal")
 "Andy Warhol: Cosmos: Drawings & Collages by: Warhol, Andy")
 "Andy Warhol: Cosmos: Drawings & Collages by: Warhol, Andy")
 "Andy Warhol: Duty Free by: Warhol, Andy and Vincent Fremont")
 "Andy Warhol: Duty Free by: Warhol, Andy and Vincent Fremont")
 "Andy Warhol: Modern Madonna by: Warhol, Andy and Michael Luthy")
 "Andy Warhol: Modern Madonna by: Warhol, Andy and Michael Luthy")
 "Andy Warhol by: Ratcliff, Carter")
 "Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper by: Rowell, Margit")
 "Arbitrary Order: Paintings by Pat Steir by: Pat Steir")
 "Architecture of Philip Johnson, The. by: Payne, Richard (Photographer) Philip Johnson, Hilary Lewis")
 "Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective by: Waldman, Diane")