Softcover. New York, The Arts Publisher, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 174 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Black pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear and sun to covers. Light waviness due to moisture to upper edge of front cover, but not to pages. Overall a very nice, tight, clean copy. Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) was one of the leaders of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. This beautiful volume is the only one that covers the full scope of Gottlieb's acheivement, including 124 of his finest paintings, sculptures, and works on paper.
Hardcover. New York , The Museum of Modern Art, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. 109 illustrations (64 tritones, 45 duotones). Oversized red cloth cover with light wear to edges. Dust jacket has minor bumping to some edges, otherwise clean. Inside is bright and neat. A nice copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Bound in black fabric with gilt title on spine and front cover. Other than a bit of foxing on top edge, clean inside. In very good condition. Published to accompany exhibit at art Institute of Chicago, October 10, 1992-January 3, 1993.
Softcover. New York, Katonah Museum of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 39 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy with color throughout. Light bend to top right corner.
Softcover. New York, Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Lightly faded on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front inside wrapper.
Softcover. Russia, Contemporary Art Museum, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages. Only 2000 copies printed. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.
Softcover. London, The Trustees of the British Museum / British Museum Press Ltd., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 brilliant pages, laden with illustrations of Assyrian art and artifacts from The British Museum collection. 215 color and 33 black and white illustrations in addition to one map. Beautiful full-color cover with minor wear at corners only. Illustrated title page and half-title page. Crisp text pairs nicely with this rich visual collection. In very good condition overall.
Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 172 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Covers slightly sunned and lightly worn around the edges. Writings in ink on front cover. Nice, tight copy.
Softcover. Stockholm, Sweden, Moderna Museet, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 84 pages, text in Swedish and English. Illustrated white cover in excellent condition. Minor rubbing on back cover. Clean, crisp pages with beautiful illustrations throughout. Tight binding. Very minor wear on cover corners.
Softcover. Eugene, OR, University of Oregon Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. United Kingdom, Norton Simon Distribution, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume 2. 596 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Large heavy coffee table book. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes. V.1; 164 pages with text, V.2; 227 plates in color and b&w. Gray cloth, gilt title spine. Lacking slipcase and dust jacket, but in excellent shape. A very nice, tight, clean set.
Hardcover. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Very light yellow fading to textblock edges. Otherwise a tight copy. 250 illustrations, 207 in color, 43 black & white.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. Explores O'Keeffe's unmatched accomplishments in still-life painting in two essays accompanied by reproductions of her work and photographs of her studios.
Softcover. Albuquerque, NM, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. x, 102 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear to edges, else like new.
Softcover. London, P&D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd, University of Clasgow Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Just a little age wear to the wrapper, otherwise very good. A touch of age-yellowing to edges and pages, doesn't affect text or illustrations.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This book features specially commissioned photographs of an extraordinary, newly formed collection of fashionable handbags that date from the 16th century to the present day. It has been acquired for exhibition in the first museum devoted to the handbag, in Seoul, South Korea. The project is a commission undertaken by experimental exhibition-maker Judith Clark, whose innovative practices are revealed in Handbags.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller Incorporated, 1st, 1986, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color pictures throughout. landscapes. Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art. The series contains many of Hiroshige's best-loved and most extraordinary prints. Like Venice and Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries, or Paris in the age of the Impressionists, the city of Edo, with its superb landmarks and its festive display of elegant urban life, exerts a special and compelling fascination. Hiroshige revealed the panorama of his city's activities with subtle and vivid visual anecdotes: fireworks seen from the river, fashionable geishas on parade, the kabuki district at night, intimate moments in the gardens and teahouses. It is a tour de force of artistic vision and printmaking craftsmanship. This edition has been reproduced from an exceptionally fine, first-edition set in the Brooklyn Museum of Art to insure maximum fidelity to the original prints. Henry Smith ex-plains the world of Edo in its twilight before the Meiji Restoration and the beginnings of a modern urban society. Each plate is accompanied by a commentary that discusses its artistic and cultural interest in detail. For anyone interested in Japan, the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is perhaps the finest guide and one of the greatest legacies imaginable.
Hardcover. US, Prestel Pub, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color prints throughout. Minor wear on corners. Hokusai was one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print. His exquisite compositions and dynamic use of colour set him apart from other printmakers, and his unequalled genius influenced both Japanese and a whole generation of Western artists. This book reproduces the artist's finest works in plates that convey the full variety of his invention, each of which is provided with an informative commentary. In his introduction, Hokusai expert Matthi Forrer traces the artist's career and defines his place in relation to his contemporaries and to the history of Japanese art. Examining all genres of the artist's prolific output - including images of city life, maritime scenes, landscapes, views of Mount Fuji, bird and flower illustrations, literary scenes, waterfalls and bridges - "Hokusai: Prints and Drawings" provides a detailed account of the artist's genius.
Hardcover. Swindon, English Heritage, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 434 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The Iveagh Bequest at Kenwood House in Hampstead, London, is one of the world's great private art collections assembled by an individual. In quality it challenges the Frick collection in New York, with whose eponymous collector Iveagh was in competition for acquisitions during the great age of the industrial barons on both sides of the Atlantic, and the Wallace collection in London. They all saw collecting great art - much as the oligarchs of today - as ultimate status symbols.
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 144 pages, b&w illustrations. Cream cloth with gilt title to spine. Black pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new.
Softcover. Washington DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 108 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Gray pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to edges and spine, else like new.
Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Blue cloth cover with small gilt illustration embossed to front, gilt lettering embossed to front and spine, 270 b&w plates, appendix of supplemental b&w plates of art pieces described in collection. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper, 2 small squares of tape residue to opposite endpaper, light foxing evident of front and rear endpapers, light wear to cover. This extensive catalog is one of the finest for the study of colonial and early American furniture, painting, and the decorative of arts of the period of 1720-1820.This beautifully printed volume, set in Monotype Bembo and with full-tone collotype illustrations, established a high visual standard for furniture catalogs.
Softcover. Munich, Germany, Saint Louis Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 482 pages, many illustrations, over 100 in color. Extensive survey of paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints. Includes biography, bibliography and the index of names and paintings. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Haus der Kunst, Munich February 25-April 23, 1984 which moved on to St. Louis and Los Angeles. Clean. bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art/Steidl, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible boards, 264 pages. B/w and color illustrations throughout. Published to accompany exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Super clean. By repeatedly re-photographing her images, transferring them from video to film and back again, and manipulating them digitally, Michal Rovner creates photographic and video imagery that abstract familiar subjects like houses, animals, and people into ambiguous and iconic forms. Working with representation but against the traditions of narrative and documentary purpose, her artworks imply a tentative universe, one that is paradoxically peaceful and unsettled, vivid and shrouded, and completely counter-factual. If the changing nature of art has resulted in a general blurring of boundaries--between painting and photography, reality and memory, presence and absence--Rovner mines this haziness, refuses to respect borders, and exists completely in The Space Between.
Hardcover. Brussels, Aschehoug, 1st Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover published on the occasion of the exhibition, Munch - Drawings, in collaboration with the Musee d'Ixelles, Brussels and Munch Museum, Oslo - February 19 - May 16, 2004. Full page, full color plates throughout. Dust jacket with light toning. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Middlebury, VT, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 116 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.
Softcover. Escondido, CA, California Center for the Arts, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. Only 1000 copies made. 62 plates, 36 in color & 53 illustrations. The first comprehensive monograph on the seven-decade career of the "passionate humanist" Harry Sternberg. His work runs the gamut from closely observed glimpses of life in New York in the 1920s and 1930s , through the WPA era, to metaphorical images of terror and hope and lyrical landscapes. Judaica is the strongest influence. "Exhibition checklist" (pp. 102-107); "Public collections and murals" (pp. 108-109); "Chronology" (p. 110-21) includes 39 illustrations; "Exhibition history" (pp. 122-33); "Bibliography" (pp. 134-47)
Softcover. Escondido, CA, California Center for the Arts, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 148 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. Only 1000 copies made. 62 plates, 36 in color & 53 illustrations. The first comprehensive monograph on the seven-decade career of the "passionate humanist" Harry Sternberg. His work runs the gamut from closely observed glimpses of life in New York in the 1920s and 1930s , through the WPA era, to metaphorical images of terror and hope and lyrical landscapes. Judaica is the strongest influence. "Exhibition checklist" (pp. 102-107); "Public collections and murals" (pp. 108-109); "Chronology" (p. 110-21) includes 39 illustrations; "Exhibition history" (pp. 122-33); "Bibliography" (pp. 134-47)
Softcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, First Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Softcover published on occasion of the exhibition by the same title, touring various locations including the Museum of Modern Art, February 12 - May 5, 1987. Full page, full color and bw illustrations throughout. Frontis illustration, Twittering Machine, 1922. Light toning to spine. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles to spine and front cover. Red fabric covered. Some age wear to dust jacket, otherwise very clean copy, bright pages. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf. Published to accompany an exhibition. From the front flap: "The photographs are presented to the greatest advantage in full-color plates and stunning tritone and duotone black-and-white reproductions. The 22 essays by leading historians, novelists, journalists, and environmentalists trace the shifting perceptions of the arid lands of the American West from a wide range of literary and scholarly perspectives.
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. 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. Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The prominent Genovese architect Renzo Piano--recipient of the 1998 Pritzker Award and architect of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Morgan Library renovations, as well as the new New York Times building--has just completed a new and unusual museum building--the Zentrum Paul Klee on the outskirts of Bern. The center, says Piano, is dedicated to the "poet of silence," and thus it was fitting to consider building a museum that would speak softly. The Zentrum Paul Klee rises upward in the form of three hills connected by a 150-meter-long thoroughfare, the "Museum Street" serving as a path within the complex. The three structures make up a harmonious yet prominent landscape sculpture whose roofs are supported by innovative steel construction. Includes photographs, design sketches, plans and models--a living image of a magnificent building.
Hardcover. Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The prominent Genovese architect Renzo Piano--recipient of the 1998 Pritzker Award and architect of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Morgan Library renovations, as well as the new New York Times building--has just completed a new and unusual museum building--the Zentrum Paul Klee on the outskirts of Bern. The center, says Piano, is dedicated to the "poet of silence," and thus it was fitting to consider building a museum that would speak softly. The Zentrum Paul Klee rises upward in the form of three hills connected by a 150-meter-long thoroughfare, the "Museum Street" serving as a path within the complex. The three structures make up a harmonious yet prominent landscape sculpture whose roofs are supported by innovative steel construction. Includes photographs, design sketches, plans and models--a living image of a magnificent building.
Softcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Softcover. Vibrant color and b/w illustrations throughout. Foxing on top edge, clean inside, binding tight. In very good condition.
Softcover. Wooster, College of Wooster Art Museum, The, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 55 pages. Softcover. Minor wear to cover edges. Full page black & white photographs throughout. Clean unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Binding strong. Dust jacket unmarked. Clean tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln Children's Bks, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Color and Black and white pictures throughout by Blake.
Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages, b&w illustrations. Title on spine: "The American Art Museum". Blue cloth, gilt title, no dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine, slight foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Prestel Publishing, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 452 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color pictures throughout. Black covers with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's signature and bookplate on front flyleaf. Light wear and rubbing to dust jacket. This excellent catalog of the 1990-1991 exhibition in Venice and Washington is a work of permanent value. Featuring essays by 16 authorities, primarily Italian and American, on every aspect of the art of Titian (Tiziano Vecelli, c. 1490-1576), the quintessential Venetian artist of the high Renaissance, the work transcends the limits of spatial and temporal exhibition to summarize and extend current scholarship. At the same time, the text is accessible, well translated, and aimed at a broad audience. Many of the works in the exhibit were conserved or cleaned, so the book features fresh illustrations and a hefty amount of technical discussion of specialist interest.
Hardcover. Montreal, QC, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. This book is the catalogue to an exhibition organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Nouveau Muse National de Monaco. It is the first major retrospective of the art of Kees van Dongen in North America and brings together some 200 works including 100+ paintings, 40 rare drawings, prints and photographs; and, for the first time, a dozen Fauvist ceramics.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. 84 color prints. A tight copy. Willem de Kooning is a masterful painter whose huge canvases are charged with enormous energy. The publication of this beautiful book, which presents eighty of de Kooning's finest paintings and painted works on paper from the early 1940s to the 1980s. Organized thematically and chronologically, the book focuses on de Kooning's most noteworthy and original painted achievements.
Hardcover. Chicago, Museum of Science and Industry, 1st Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover. Bright dust jacket with minor edge & shelf wear. More than 100 ull color and b/w photographs throughout. Photographs by Barbara Karant. Clean, unmarked & tight copy.
Softcover. Switzerland, Musee historique et des porcelaines de Nyon, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. 202 BW and color illustrations. FRENCH TEXT