Softcover. NY, Wonder Books, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Joe Oriolo. Illustrated cardboard covers with minor edgewear, otherwise very good, clean.
Softcover. Pittsfield MA, The Berkshire Museum, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 70 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.
Softcover. Canada, Vancover Art Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Light musty odor. Clean, tight copy otherwise. Black and white and color pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 279 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The work of Paul Klee (1879-1940) was deeply influenced by his passion for the theater. Throughout his life, the artist fervently attended theatrical performances, from the opera to puppet shows. Characters from plays or operas Hamlet, Falstaff, or Don Giovanni, for example populate his cryptic visual world. Various types of characters or theatrical elements, such as the clown or the mask, were firmly established themes in his pictorial repertoire. However, Klee primarily forged links between the theater and life, and in so doing, he took up the traditional theme of the world as a stage: people became actors or marionettes; theatrical events converged with scenes from everyday life. This publication sheds light on all of these aspects of Klee's captivation with the stage. A chronology reconstructs a panoramic view of his multifaceted experience with the theater. Selected works by contemporary artists make it clear that not only Klee was fascinated by the sharp-eyed perception of theatrical situations it is a topic that continues to engage artists even today. 394 plates, 212 in color. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Louis Stettner is one of the last living members of the avant-garde New York School of photography of the 1950s, which challenged many of the long-accepted foundations of art form. His Penn Station series of the late 1950s represents some of his most important work, gathered here in a single form for the first time. The series is less a portrait of the building than a study of people at once in transit and in suspension.
Hardcover. Middlebury VT, PhotoPlace Gallery, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of 75 portraits in color and b&w chosen by Frank Goodyear, Associate Curator at the National Portrait Gallery. Clean copy.
Softcover. Buffalo NY, Albright-Knox Gallery, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 132 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 29 through March 12, 2005. Text by Douglas Dreishpoon, Nancy Princenthal, and Eleanor Heartney. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Universe, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated (approx. 110 pages), illustrated in color throughout. A catalog for an exhibition organized by Peter T. Tunney which first ran in Milan in 1997. One-page Introduction by Beard, essay by Owen Edwards. Extremely scarce. Color illustrated wraps, like new condition.
Softcover. Scranton, PA, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Approx. 115 pages. 91 B&W and color prints. Red pictorial cover with slight wear around edges and spine. Black marks on front endpaper and flyleaf, binding glue also visible. Previous owner marking (Evergood) on spine. Overall, a clean, nice copy.
Softcover. Montclair NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 98 pages, 41 color plates. Issued in connection with an exhibition held October 19, 2008 to February 1, 2009, Montclair Art Museum.
Softcover. Montclair NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 98 pages, 41 color plates. Issued in connection with an exhibition held October 19, 2008 to February 1, 2009, Montclair Art Museum.
Softcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Museum of Art, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated, 80 b&w images. Light edge wear to wrappers. Light foxing on rear cover. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London, Phillips de Pury & Company, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Phillips de Pury & Company of London - auction catalog (May 17, 2008 - Lots 201-341) featuring modern photography. Auction Lots include photographs by: Peter Beard, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, LaChapelle, Sally Mann, Irving Penn, M. Tichy, and more. Shallow creases on front cover. Light wear. Clean, tight.
Softcover. NY, Swann Auction Galleries, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pictorial covers, unpaginated. 453 lots, many black and white illustrations. Among the photographers represented: Yousef Karsh, A. Kertesz, R. Doisneau, Mathew Brady, E. Ruscha, and others. All pages are clean, crisp and tight.
Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 293 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sunfading to spine. Price sticker to rear jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. The photographer Edouard Baldus, a central figure in the early development of French photography and acknowledged in his day as a pioneer in the still-experimental field, was widely acclaimed both for his aesthetic sensitivity and for his technical prowess. Establishing a new mode of representing architecture and describing the emerging modern landscape with magnificent authority, he enjoyed high patronage in the 1850s and 1860s....This book, the first to chronicle the life and career of this important artist, brings his work once more before the public. The superb quality of the reproductions captures the subtle tones and soft matte surfaces of the original prints, many of which are published here for the first time.
Softcover. New York, Sotheby's , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages with 488 lots, illustrated throughout. Dozens of famous photographers from Arbus to Kertesz, Brett Weston, Lange, Cindy Sherman, many others. Light pencil notes on 3 lots. Covers with light wear, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. Boston, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Featuring eighty-seven photographs, all drawn from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, that span nearly 150 years of image making.
Hardcover. Boston, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Photography as Fiction includes seventy-six color plates illustrating works from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection that embrace theatricality and are unconcerned with documenting the world as it exists.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Generously illustrated account [435 b/w photo reproductions] of the photogrphy produced by various well-known Bauhaus associates such as Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, T. Lux Feininger, Florence Henri, Herbert Bayer, and others during the mid-1920s and early 1930s. An invaluable compilation of images and information about the work of this dynamic group of artists, designers, photographers and their students who had such an important impact on Western aesthetics and culture throughout the subsequent decades of the 20th century.
Hardcover. New York, Flammarion, 1st English, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Catalog of a traveling exhibition first held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, subsequently held at various European museums. Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre. Minor rubbing and fading to dust jacket, mostly to top edge. Slight bumping to corners. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, PaceWildenstein, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 187 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sun fading to dust jacket spine and front cover. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color works throughout as well as black & white and color film stills. A tight copy.
Softcover. Paris, Berggruen & Cie, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages, 23 color and b&w illustrations. The cover, which wraps around, is an original four-color lithograph made by Picasso for this exhibition booklet. French text, essay by Maurice Jardot. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institute, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 95 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally conceived to accompany the exhibition, Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery. Presents the development of photography accompanied by portraits illustrating various photographic techniques. Includes suggestions for organizing and maintaining a collection of prints. Clean copy.
Softcover. Australia, National Gallery of Australia, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 88 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Picture Paradise chronicles the transmission and adoption of new developments in photography from Europe to the Asia-Pacific region. It is the first survey of the early photography from this diverse region covering India and Sri Lanka, Southeast and East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, to the West Coast of North America. It includes pioneer local photographers as well as European photographers working in the region and reveals the rich heritage and the many outstanding achievements of the first century of photography in the Asia-Pacific region.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 183 pages. This beautiful book examines the art of Pieter de Hooch, one of the most famous and innovative painters of Holland's Golden Age. It discusses de Hooch's position in Dutch genre painting, his favorite themes and their cultural context, his artistic development, and his approach to narration. The book was the catalogue for an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford. A 75-page text covering the artist's life and techniques and themes of his work is followed by nearly 100 pages presenting plates of works in the show; eight entries bring the catalog raisonne up to date. Sutton has achieved the rare feat of creating a work that is both a significant addition to scholarship and a reader-friendly introduction for those not already familiar with the artist. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Exhibition catalog with 180 illustrations, 158 in full color. Measures 12x14.5 inches. Introduction by Nancy J. Troy and contributions by Mary E. Davis, Caroline Evans, Jared Goss, Heather Hess, Caroline Rennolds Milbank, and Kenneth E. Silver. Paul Poiret (French, 1879-1944) dominated haute couture in the first decade of the twentieth century. The catalogue features photographs of a number of garments by Paul Poiret, as well as pochoir prints by graphic artists, who created deluxe albums of Poiret's designs for his elite clients.
Hardcover. London, Tate, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy like new in publishers 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."
Hardcover. Germany, Steidi Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 295 pages. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Minor yellowing to text block edges. Black and white photographs throughout.
Hardcover. Germany, Steidl Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 295 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Minor yellowing to textblock edges. Black and white photographs throughout. Richard Avedon, America's preeminent portraitist and fashion photographer, photographed the many faces of politics throughout his career. Portraits of Power brings together Avedon's political portraits for the first time. Juxtaposing images of elite government, media and labor officials with counter-cultural activists, writers and artists, as well as ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it offers a five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of America's best-known artists. The book features several of Avedon's extended projects addressing these themes, including coverage of the civil rights debate in the early 1960s (published in 1964 in Nothing Personal); the American anti-war movement and the war in Vietnam from 1969-1971; portraits of the American power elite in 1976, produced for his groundbreaking Rolling Stone portfolio "The Family;" "Exiles: The Kennedy Court at the End of the American Century," a retrospective homage to the Camelot generation published in the New Yorker in 1993; and his final photo-essay, "Democracy," surveying the national mood during the politically fractious period prior to the 2004 presidential elections (published posthumously in the New Yorker in 2004).
Hardcover. NY, Posters Auctions International, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 551 posters illustrated in color. Catalog for May 3 2009, sale no. xlviii. no dj issued.
Hardcover. NY, Posters Please, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, this catalog profiles: American show posters; (Buffalo Bill, circus, sideshow banners & minstrel posters); New Yoprk Central Railway, Mistinguett; international posters; books & periodicals. Color illustrated.
Softcover. New York, Phillips, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Black & white Illustrations of posters for sale by Phillips Auction House - Sale No. 366 - April 11, 1981. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Lund Humphries, Reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. Tight copy. Power to the People presents the Israel Museum's major collection of propaganda posters from the early years of the Soviet Union, documenting one of the most interesting chapters in twentieth-century graphic design. Inspired by the traditional vernacular of political cartoons, by the lubok wood-cut technique of Russian folk art, and by the ideas of Futurism, the poster artists employed a new visual language to explain the results of the Revolution to the Soviet people. The Israel Museum's collection of Soviet propaganda posters is the largest museum collection of its kind outside Russia. This book illustrates the entire collection for the first time.
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.
Hardcover. The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial boards with black title to spine. Tan dust jacket, with light wear to edges and small closed tears to front cover, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Comprehensive catalogue of Reginald Marsh's prints. Illustrated with black/white reproductions of all known prints by Marsh. Also includes biographical text on the artist. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is in very good condition with small closed tear on the back. Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Comprehensive catalogue of Reginald Marsh's prints. Illustrated with black/white reproductions of all known prints by Marsh. Also includes biographical text on the artist. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket is in very good condition with small closed tear on the back. Marsh was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Crowded Coney Island beach scenes, popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque, women, and jobless men on the Bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work.
Hardcover. US, Prestel USA, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover in slipcase. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This elegant volume is the first comprehensive published study in English of the finely carved wooden covers designed to protect fragile Tibetan Buddhist texts. From the 11th through 14th centuries, Tibetan monks worked tirelessly to transcribe the life and teachings of the Buddha onto paper. Highly skilled craftsmen then covered these pages with wooden boards that had been elaborately and painstakingly carved, gilded, and painted. The MacLean Collection, based in Chicago, has significant holdings of these extremely rare and ornately decorated objects. The first and most comprehensive of its kind, this lavishly produced, oversize volume features numerous illustrations of magnificent book covers from Tibet as well as several examples from other cultures. The volume tells the fascinating history of these objects, examines the materials from which they were carved, and traces stylistic influences from Kashmir, India, Nepal, and China.
Hardcover. New York, Universal Budget Systems, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations by Erika throughout. Decorated cover boards. Boards have a touch of agewear (see images). Pages are slighted tanned from age. Previous owner's inscription on title page.
Hardcover. New York, Michael di Capua Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR FRED MARCELLINO ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Bright, clean copy. 1991 Caldecott Honor Book.Long regarded as the preeminent designer of book jackets in America, Fred Marcellino provides an unstinting visual feast in his first full-color picture book. The adventures of that rascal, Puss, and his master, the miller's son, are portrayed in a lavish series of illustrations that range from sumptuous grandeur to comedy both boisterous and sly.
NY, Golden Press, Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards. Color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Corners of laminated board edges and top spine edge with light wear.
Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. 160 pages, 150 illustrations (50 in color), bibliography/exhibition list. A very colorful, well documented catalogue of this twentieth-century painter, best known for his "Overseas Highway" and his stark, solid colored industrial images from the 1930s.
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.
Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in very good condition. Catalog of exhibition at the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., Aug. 5-Oct. 3, 1982. 87 pages., illustrations., bibliography, index. Tight, clean copy.