FS: ARTEXT New Listings-Abstract Expressionism
Jerry Sobel
MONOGRAPHS:
(BROOKS #A2054)
Hunter, Sam. JAMES BROOKS. 55 pp. exhib. cat., 45 illus., 4 in color.
Chronol., exhibs., bibliog. Small square 4to, wrps. Waltham, Rose Art
Museum, Brandeis University and Whitney Museum, New York, 1963. Covers
slightly scuffed, else v.g.+. $25.00.
(DE KOONING, E #A1067)
DE KOONING, ELAINE. The Spirit of Abstract Expressionism. Selected
Writings. 238 pp., 28 b&w illus & photos. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First
edition. New York, Braziller, 1994. Fine. $20.00.
(GUSTON #A2048)
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio, A Memoir of PHILIP GUSTON. 256 pp.,
numerous photos and illus. 4to, cloth, d.j. First edition. Inscribed
by author. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Very slight rubbing to
lower edge of d.j., price-clipped, else near-fine. $40.00.
(GUSTON #A1113)
San Francisco. Museum of Modern Art. PHILIP GUSTON. 150 pp., 86
plates, most in color. Major text by Ross Feld, chronol., bibliog.,
statements by artist. 4to, wrps. 1980. Fine. $65.00.
(HOFMANN #A1130)
HOFMANN, HANS. Search for the Real & Other Essays. 83 pp., biog.,
exhibs. Intro by Bartlett Hayes, Jr. 4to, wrps. Revised edition.
Cambridge, MIT Press, 1973. Cover slightly scuffed, else near-fine.
$20.00.
(KRASNER #A1147)
Rose, Barbara. LEE KRASNER: A Retrospective. 184 pp., 150 pp. text,
well illus., 139 b&w, 33 color plates, chronol., bibliog. Square 4to,
wrps. New York, MOMA, 1983. Fine. $35.00.
(NEWMAN #A1187)
Baltimore. Museum of Art. BARNETT NEWMAN, The Complete Drawings,
1945-1969. 220 pp. exhib. cat., well illus, many plates in color.
Catalogue Raisonne. 4to, wrps, d.j. 1979. Small chip upper edge back
panel of d.j., else fine. $200.00.
(POLLOCK #A1229)
Paris. Centre Georges Pompidou. JACKSON POLLOCK. 420 pp., many illus.,
66 color plates. 20 essays by art historians, 10 accounts by artists,
exhibs, bibliog. All texts in French. Large oblong 4to, wrps. 1982.
Very slight scuffing to covers, else fine. $200.00.
(POLLOCK #A1233)
Rose, Barbara, ed. POLLOCK Painting, Photographs by Hans Namuth. [118]
pp., many photographs. Intro. Barbara Rose, memoir by Hans Namuth &
essays by Rosalind Krauss, Francis V. O'Connor, Paul Falkenberg,
interviews with Pollock and Krasner, bibliog. 4to, wrps. New York,
Agrinde Publications, 1980. Minor edge rubbing, else near-fine.
$25.00.
(POLLOCK #A1236)
Solomon, Deborah. JACKSON POLLOCK, A Biography. 287 pp. text with 25
b&w illus. The best of the Pollock biographies. 4to, boards, d.j.
First edition. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1987. Fine. $32.00.
(POUSETTE-DART #A1477)
Hobbs, Robert and Joanne Kuebler. RICHARD POUSETTE-DART. 195 pp., 108
color plates. Texts by Hobbs, Kuebler, Donald Kuspit, David Miller.
Chronol., exhibs., bibliog. Folio, cloth, d.j. Indianapolis, Museum of
Art, 1990. Fine. $40.00.
GENERAL BOOKS:
(ABSTRACT EXP #A1001)
Art Journal. Vol. 47, No. 3, Fall 1988. Special Issue: New Myths for
Old, Redefining Abstract Expressionism (Guest editors: Ann Gibson and
Stephen Polcari.) 4to, wrps. Collge Art Assoc. V.g.+. $16.00.
(GELDZAHLER #A2065)
GELDZAHLER, HENRY. American Painting in the 20th Century. 236 pp.,
richly illus. in b&w. Biogs., biliog., index. Broad survey from The
Eight thru the Fifties, including many lesser-known figures. 4to,
cloth, d.j. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965. Spine
cocked, upper edge of d.j. slightly worn, price clipped, else v.g.+.
$35.00.
(MESSINGER #A1011)
MESSINGER, LISA MINTZ. Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper,
Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 170 pp. text, 62 color
plates. Artists include: Gorky, Gottlieb, Pollock, Newman, Kline,
Ryan, E. & W. De Kooning, Tobey, Smith, Motherwell, Pousette-Dart.
4to, cloth, d.j. 1992. Fine. $45.00.
(MEXICO #A1939)
NEW YORK. MOMA. Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art. 199 pp., 175 illus.,
20 in color. Biogs. and bibliog. Maps, charts. Dual lang. text in
English/Spanish. An extremely influential show for the emerging
Abstract Expressionists. Small 4to, cloth, d.j. Corrections sheet
bound in opposite half title page. MOMA in collaboration with the
Mexican Government, 1940. Several small chips and closed tears to
edges of d.j., else v.g. $30.00.
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