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MODERN ART
Recent Acquistions - Part 2
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Part 2 - General Books:
(Art Journal #A6852)
Art Journal. Art Journal Vol. 47, No. 2 (Summer 1988). Special
issue ed. by Henry John Drewal: Interpretation of Meaning in
African Art. New scholarship on this topic. 4to, wrps. 1988.
Near-fine. $12.00.
(BATTCOCK #A9048)
BATTCOCK, GREGORY and ROBERT NICKAS, eds. The Art of
Performance: A Critical Anthology. xxiii, 344 pp., 120 b&w
illus. bibliog., index. Texts on the history and theory of
performance art; interviews with several practitioners. Stout
8vo, wrps. Second printing. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1984. Near-
fine crisp bright copy (light spine creasing). $40.00.
(BAX #A9571)
BAX, MARTY. Bauhaus Lecture Notes 1930-1933. 95 pp., 40 b&w
illus., 3 color plates, bibliog. An examination of the teaching
methods at the Bauhaus under Mies Van der Rohe based on the
lecture notes of J. J. van der Linden -- one of only two Dutch
architects educated at the Bauhaus. Small 4to, papered bds.
Standard ed. Amsterdam, Architectura & Natura Press, 1991. As
new. $27.50.
(CHAMPA #A9555)
CHAMPA, KERMIT SWILER. Masterpiece Studies": Manet, Zola, Van
Gogh & Monet. viii, 156 pp., in-text notes, selected bibliog.,
index. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. University Park, Penn State
Univ. Press, 1994. Underlining on one page, else crisp copy in
fine d.j. (Pub. at $28.50). $15.00.
(HERBERT #A8776)
HERBERT, ROBERT L., ed. Modern Artists on Art: Ten Unabridged
Essays. ix, 149 pp. Classic set of modernist artists' writings
from Boccioni and Kandinsky thru Beckmann and H. Moore. 8vo,
wrps. 10th printing. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1964.
Near-fine bright crisp copy (corner crease). $10.00.
(HERBERT #A9105)
HERBERT, ROBERT L., ed. Modern Artists on Art: Ten Unabridged
Essays. ix, 149 pp. Classic set of modernist artists' writings
from Boccioni and Kandinsky thru Beckmann and H. Moore. 8vo,
cloth. Second printing. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1964.
Ex Library with pocket on rear pastedown, else clean very nice
v.g.+ (no spine numbers or edge stamps). $15.00.
(HORAT #A4103)
HORAT, HEINZ, ed. 1000 Years of Swiss Art. 374 pp., 323 illus.,
96 in color. Includes: Vallet, Valloton, Amiet, Hodler,
Segantini, Lohse, Giacometti, Arp, Klee, Le Corbusier, et al. 21
scholarly texts. One-of-a-kind survey of Swiss art from the
Romanesque thru the 20th century. Stout 4to, cloth, d.j. First
ed. New York, Hudson Hills, 1992. Fine/Fine. $40.00.
(Image #A9393)
Rochester. George Eastman House. Image: Journal of Photography
and Motion Pictures. 11 issues: Vol. 19 nos. 1, 2, 4; Vol 20
nos. 1-4; Vol. 21 nos. 2, 3, 4; Vol. 23 nos. 1, 2 Small oblong
4to, wrps. 1976-1980. One has rear cover crease, others all
near-fine or fine. $125.00.
(ITKINA #A9040)
ITKINA, ELENA IGOREVNA. Loubok - Russian Popular Prints from the
late 18th-early 20th Centuries From the Collection of the State
Historical Museum, Moscow. 256 pp., full catalogue of 152 works,
all illus., plus 117 color plates, most full-page, bibliog. Text
in Russian with English summary. Wonderful little reference
work. 12mo, cloth, pictorial d.j. Moscow, Kniga, 1992.
Fine/Fine. $35.00.
(JAKOVSKY #A9103)
JAKOVSKY, ANATOLE. Naive Painting. 104 pp., 72 color plates.
Covers 60 different artists. Sq. 4to, laminated boards. Oxford,
Phaidon, 1979. Fine. $30.00.
(KALAMAZOO #A7117)
KALAMAZOO (MI). Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. Super Realism from
the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection. 48 pp. exhib. cat.
including 31 works by 28 artists, all full-page color illus.,
brief biogs., bibliog. Intro. Linda Chase, brief text by Ivan C.
Karp. 4to, stapled wrps. 1981. Near-fine. $15.00.
(KRONHAUSEN #A9180)
KRONHAUSEN, PHYLLIS and EBERHARD. The Complete Book of Erotic
Art: Vols. 1 and 2 combined. 81 colorplates, 781 b&w illus.
Stout 4to, cloth, d.j. Later printing. New York, Bell, 1978.
Near-fine/Near-fine. $30.00.
(LEVERKUSEN #A9486)
LEVERKUSEN. Stadtisches Museum. USA: Zeichnungen 3. 139 pp., 89
full-page b&w illus. of drawings by 43 contemporary artists,
biog., exhibs., bibliog. for each artist. Including: Mel
Bochner, Agnes Denes, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Nancy Graves,
Brice Marden, Robert Mangold, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Ed
Ruscha, Robert Smithson, et al. Text by Rolf Wedewer in German /
English. An important European show of American mimimalism. Sq.
4to, wrps. 1975. Near-fine crisp clean copy. $40.00.
(LIPPARD #A9546)
LIPPARD, LUCY R., ed. Dadas on Art. 178 pp. A fine collection of
the writings of 23 European dadaists from Tzara, Arp and Janco
through Hoch, Grosz and Heartfield to the 20's in Paris. 8vo,
wrps. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1971. V.G.+. (Corner
crease.) $30.00.
(MANCHESTER #A9572)
MANCHESTER (UK). Salford Museum and Art Gallery. Vienna:
Expressionist Tendencies Since 1945. 123 pp., 43 excellent full-
page color plates. Dual lang. texts in English / German by
Harald Sterk and Otto Breicha. A welcome exhibition of young
expressionist painters virtually unknown outside of Austria
(only one woman artist included: Maria Lassnig). 4to, pictorial
self-wrps., die-cut front cover. 1992. As new. $22.50.
(MATTHEWS #A9557)
MATTHEWS, J. H. Eight Painters: the Surrealist Context. 142 pp.,
24 illus., notes, index. Includes Ernst, Miro, Masson, Magritte,
Tanguy, Dali, Matta and Wilhelm Freddie. 8vo, wrps. First ed.
Syracuse Univ. Press, 1982. Fine. $22.00.
(MUNICH #A9398)
MUNICH. Munchener Stadtmuseum. Der Zwanziger Jahre in Munchen.
xxiii, 768 pp. massive exhib. cat. (1235 cat. entries), over
1000 b&w illus., approximately 25 color plates, 16 scholarly
texts, 180 biogs. of artists (fewer than 10 women included). An
abundantly documented and illustrated compendium, covering all
aspects of art production, dec. arts, architecture and culture
in Munich during the 1920's. Christoph Stolzl, ed. In German.
Small stout sq. 4to, wrps. 1979. Near-fine. (Touch of spine
creasing and one corner tip rubbed.) $95.00.
(NEW YORK #A9089)
NEW YORK. Habib Anavian Galleries. Habib Anavian Collection:
Iranian Art from the 5th Millenium B.C. to the 7th Century A.D.
Unpag. (approx. 200 pp.), 112 illus., 68 in color, descriptions
of each work, some entries are extensive, map, chronol. Intro.
by Joyce Geary Volk. Useful reference. 4to, wrps. 1977. Near-
fine (bit of rubbing to spine ends). $27.00.
(NEW YORK #A9559)
NEW YORK. Janie C. Lee Master Drawings and Kate Ganz, London.
Master Drawings 1520-1990. Unpag. lovely exhibition catalogue of
65 major works from Titian and Delacroix to Jasper Johns and
Terry Winters, all full-page illus., most in color, with
scholarly catalogue text about each work. Numerous charcoal,
pencil, and ink drawings, watercolors, gouaches. Stout small sq.
4to, wrps. 1991. Light sunning to covers, else bright crisp
copy. $25.00.
(SANTA BARBARA #A9081)
SANTA BARBARA. Museum of Art. Revealing the Holy Land: The
Photographic Exploration of Palestine. 176 pp., approx. 90
beautiful sepia illus. of photographs taken by 19th-century
British (and a few French) Victorian era explorers, military
ordnance surveyors, etc., notes, chronol. of Western
colonialism, bibliog. Texts by Nitza Rosovsky, Kathleen Stewart
Howe. Large sq. 4to, wrps. Berkeley, Univ. of California Press,
1997. As new. (Pub. at $29.95). $27.00.
(WASHINGTON #A9544)
WASHINGTON, D.C. National Gallery of Art. American Art at Mid-
Century: the Subjects of the Artist. 269 pp., hundreds of b&w
illus., 30 full-page color plates, color frontis., notes.
Outstanding scholarly texts by E.A. Carmean, Jr., Eliza
Rathbone, and Thomas B. Hess. Includes Gorky, Motherwell,
Pollock, De Kooning, Newman, D. Smith and Rothko. Still one of
the best collections of writing on Abstract Expressionism. Stout
4to, wrps. 1978. V.G.+ crisp clean copy (spine sunned). $40.00.
(YOE #A9124)
YOE, CRAIG and JANET MORRA-YOE. The Art of Mickey Mouse: Artists
Interpret the World's Favorite Mouse. Unpag. 121 illus., 110
full-page color plates. Intro. by John Updike. Work by a vast
range of artists from Pop to Punk, high to low: Warhol, Haring,
R. Crumb, W. Steig, Michael Jackson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Lane
Smith, Maurice Sendak, Milton Glaser, Eduardo Arroyo, et al. Sq.
4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. New York, Hyperion, 1991. As new.
$25.00.
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