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New Arrivals - part 4:
(AMENGUAL #A7957)
AMENGUAL, BARTHELEMY. Le Cinema. 225 pp., dictionary of terms.
Useful reference when reading French film criticism. In French.
8vo, wrps. Epanded 1984 ed. Paris, Seghers, (1971) 1984. About
fine. $10.00.
(ANDOVER #A10006)
ANDOVER. Addison Gallery of American Art. Tradition, Transition,
New Vision. An exhibition of painting, sculpture, drawing, film,
photography and video by 38 artists who are alumni/ae of Abbot
and Phillips Academy. 82 pp., 74 illus. A surprisingly large
number of famous artists included: Roswell Angier, Les Blank,
Carroll Dunham, Hollis Frampton, Wade Saunders, Jessica Straus,
Tillie Woodward, et al. Sq. 8vo, wrps. 1983. Fine. $12.50.
(Aperture #A10171)
Aperture. Aperture 130 (Winter 1993) Explorations: 10
Portfolios. 80 pp. Photographers include: Rocky Schenk, Lu Nan,
Christian Walker, Mary Kocol, Teun Hocks, Thomas Tulis, Anne
Turyn, Annette Messager, Michiko Kon, Dore Gardner. 4to, stiff
wrps. 1993. Fine. $18.00.
(ARDERY #A10046)
ARDERY, JULIA S. The Temptation: EDGAR TOLSON and the Genesis of
Twentieth-Century Folk Art. 353 pp., b&w illus., extensive
bibliography, index. Kentucky woodcarver Edgar Tolson is used as
an example for a much wider examination of the ascendency of
folk art to 'high art' status during the 1960s-80s, based on new
documentary research and interviews with curators, collectors,
artists and dealers. Stout 8vo, cloth, d.j. Chapel Hill, Univ.
of North Carolina Press, 1998. As new. $40.00.
(BARNETT #A10045)
BARNETT, ALAN W. Community Murals: The People's Art. 516 pp.,
color and b&w illus., index of artists and titles. Numerous
Chicano, Latino and African-American artists included. Excellent
survey and important record of those murals that have been
destroyed. Stout 4to, cloth, d.j. Philadelphia, Art Alliance
Press, 1984. Near-fine, in V.G.+ d.j. $65.00.
(BELGRAD #A9853)
BELGRAD, DANIEL. The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and
the Arts in Postwar America. xi, 355 pp., 8 color plates, 30 b&w
illus., notes, bibliog., index. Major cross-disciplinary study
of post-WWII culture including bebop jazz, abstract
expressionism, Black Mountain College, experimental dance, Beat
writing, the influence of existentialism, Zen Buddhism, Gestalt
theory. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago
Press, 1998. As new. $22.00.
(BEZUCHA #A9855)
BEZUCHA, ROBERT J., et al. The Art of the July Monarchy: France
1830 to 1848. xiv, 313 pp., 225 b&w illus., 40 colorplates,
bibliog., index. Important new study published to accompany an
exhibition. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. Columbia, Univ. of
Missouri, 1990. As new. $35.00.
(BOSTON #A10102)
BOSTON. Museum of Fine Arts. Private Realities: Recent American
Photography. 240 pp. exhib. cat., 40 full-page plates, some in
sepia, some colored, biogs., exhibs., bibliogs., colls. for each
of the 10 photographers, checklist of 123 works. Text by
Clifford S. Ackley. Included: Linda Connor, Judy Dater, Emmet
Gowin, Leslie Krims, Jerry Uelsmann, Cary Wasserman, Kelly Wise,
David Batchelder, Benno Friedman, John Benson. A strange show of
fantasy photographs. Small folio, wrps. 1974. Near-fine (small
bump upper edge, near spine, else crisp clean copy). $20.00.
(BROWN, E #A9940)
BROWN, EFFA. Designs for Living: Color in Home Decoration. 128
pp. over 500 small b&w illus. plus 32 color plates, index.
Everything you need to know to replicate the interiors of post-
WWII home from how to remove all those terrible original wood
moldings to how to paint your fireplace bricks black. The real
'50s. 4to, cloth. Second printing. New York, Wilcox and Follett,
1951. Near-fine. $15.00.
(CARMEL #A10084)
CARMEL. Friends of Photography Gallery. The Visual Dialogue
Foundation. Unpag. (32 pp.) exhib. cat., 28 b&w plates. Text by
Jack Welpott. Photographers include: Michael Bishop, Linda S.
Connor, Judy Dater, Edward Douglas, Oliver Gagliani, Michael
Harris, Harvey Himelfarb, Timo Pajunen, Leland Rice, John Spence
Weir, Jack Welpott, Don Worth. Squarish 8vo, stapled wrps. 1972.
About fine. $17.50.
(CARROLL #A10165)
CARROLL, NOEL. The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the
Heart. xi, 256 pp., extensive notes, index. Consideration of the
conditions necessary to, the narrative structure and character
of horror in historic and recent examples of the genre. 8vo,
wrps. New York and London, Routledge, 1990. As new. $17.00.
(CLOUZOT, C #A10019)
CLOUZOT, CLAIRE. Le Cinema Francais depuis la nouvelle vague.
206 pp., approx. 55 b&w photos. Includes: Jean Rouch, Bresson,
Tati, Melville, Rohmer, Franju, Rivette, Baratier, Etaix, Demy,
Mocky, et al. 8vo, wrps. Fernand Nathan, 1972. Near-fine.
$28.00.
(DAVIDSON, C #A10029)
DAVIDSON, CYNTHIA C., ed. Anyone. 272 pp., illus. Postmodern
conference papers on the future of architecture from a multi-
disciplinary conference held in Los Angeles / Santa Monica. The
first in the series of volumes. Contributors include: Jacques
Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Jeffrey
Kipnis, Rem Koolhaas, Rosalind Krauss, Maria Nordman, David
Salle, Mark C. Taylor, et al. Sq. 4to, self-wrps. New York,
Rizzoli, 1991. Fine. $40.00.
(DAVIDSON, C #A10028)
DAVIDSON, CYNTHIA C., ed. Anyway. 208 pp., illus. Postmodern
conference papers on the future of architecture from a multi-
disciplinary conference held in Barcelona. The third in the
series of volumes. Contributors include: Fredric Jameson, Rem
Koolhaas, Josep Ramoneda, Akira Asada, Jacques Herzog, Pierluigi
Nicolin, Mark C. Taylor, Peter Eisenman, Elizabeth Diller,
Giulia Sissa, Daniel Libeskind, Silvia Kolbowski, et al. Sq.
4to, wrps. New York, Rizzoli, 1994. Fine. $35.00.
(Dial #A10106)
The Dial. The Dial LXXIII, No. 1 and No. 2 (July and August
1922). Two issues: No. 1: Drawings by Chagall, Boardman
Robinson, Preston Dickinson; article by Hans Purrmann on
Matisse, texts by Schnitzler, Santayana, Mina Loy, Wallace
Stevens, T.S. Eliot, et al. No. 2: Drawings by E.E. Cummings,
Stuart Davis, costume designs by Larionov and Gontcharova. Texts
by Yeats, Richard Aldington, Hesse, D.H. Lawrence, et al. 8vo,
wrps. 1922. No. 1 Rear cover separated, covers lightly chipped;
No. 2 VG- covers separating. $32.00.
(Du #A10099)
Du. Du No. 373 (March 1972). Includes: Portraits by Henri
Cartier-Bresson; Abstrakte Kunst; Markus Raetz, et al. In
German. Folio, wrps. 1972. V.G.+ $44.00.
(DUBIN #A6355)
DUBIN, STEVEN C. Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil
Actions. 374 pp., 27 illus., 2 in color, index. Essays on
cultural, political and social issues in contemporary art.
Extensive coverage of censorship, racism, homophobia, and neo-
McCarthyism in America. 8vo, cloth, d.j. New York, Routledge,
1992. Spine sunned, else fine, in near-fine d.j. $24.00.
(DUSSELDORF #A9567)
DUSSELDORF. Kunstmuseum. Die Gemalde des 19. Jahrhunderts mit
Ausnahme der Dusseldorfer Schule. 296 pp., 222 b&w illus., 32
color plates. Catalogue of the outstanding collection of 19th-
century painting in the Kunstmuseum, with a scholarly reference
catalogue to the artists of the Dusseldorf School. Text in
German. Large 8vo, pictorial papered bds. 1981. About fine crisp
copy (one corner tip rubbed). $35.00.
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(EADIE #A8504)
EADIE, WILLIAM. Movements of Modernity: The Case of Glasgow and
Art Nouveau. viii, 292 pp., notes, bibliog., index. Examination
of Scottish modernism in relation to Belgian avant-gardism and
the Vienna Seccessionists. Considerable attention to MacKintosh.
8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. London and New York, Routledge, 1990.
Fine/Fine. $42.00.
(ESTRIN #A10025)
ESTRIN, MICHAEL. 2000 Designs, Forms and Ornaments. 128 pp.,
title page and 7 pp. in color, plates of historic patterns
intended for designers, artists, craftsmen. Organized both
historically and by category of use: borders, frame patterns,
floral ornaments, wreaths, crests, furniture, costumes,
ornamental letters and typefaces, etc. 4to, wrps. New York,
William Penn, 1947. Fine. $15.00.
(FORGACS #A10038)
FORGACS, EVA. The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics. ix, 237
pp., 10 b&w illus., notes, bibliog., index. In English. 8vo,
wrps. Budapest, Central European Univ. Press, 1991. About fine
(a few tiny soil specks on side edge). $24.00.
(GIEDION-WELCKER #A9989)
GIEDION-WELCKER, C. Contemporary Sculpture: An Evolution in
Volume and Space. 327 pp., b&w illus., biogs., bibliog. by
Bernard Karpel, index. An excellent general reference work.
Large 8vo, cloth. No d.j. First ed. New York, Wittenborn, 1955.
Near-fine. $35.00.
(HARTMANN #A10022)
HARTMANN, SADAKICHI. Japanese Art. viii, 288 pp., 30 illus.,
including 6 color plates with tissue guards, bibliog., index.
Small 8vo, pictorial spine and cover stamped in gilt, black and
two shades of green over blue cloth, t.e.g. First ed. Boston,
L.C. Page, 1904 (Sept. 1903 on copyright page). V.G. (tiny spot
of fraying at head of spine, lightly rubbed at extrems., spot of
abrasion on pastedown over small owner name stamp). Overall an
attractive tight copy. $47.50.
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(HNIKOVA #A9770)
HNIKOVA, DAGMAR. Russische Avantgarde, 1907-1922. 88 pp., 23
plates, most in color. Includes Larionov, Gontcharova, Malevich,
Lissitzsky, Tatlin, Gabo, Popova, Puni, Mansurov, Kandinsky,
Chagall. Text in German. 12mo, papered boards. Bern and
Stuttgart, Hallwag (Orbis Pictus 62), 1975. About fine (tiny
spot of rubbing at head of spine). $15.00.
(HUNT #A10051)
HUNT, DARNELL M. Screening the Los Angeles "riots": race,
seeing, and resistance. xv, 313 pp., appendices, notes,
references, index. Analysis of audience response to media
coverage of the L.A. "riots" of 1992, a close analysis of the
race issues at the center of cultural texts and the practices of
the news media. 8vo, self-wrps. First printing. Cambridge Univ.
Press, 1997. Fine. $18.00.
(Image #A10076)
Rochester. George Eastman House. Image: Journal of Photography
and Motion Pictures Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sept. 1975). This issue
features: articles on fashion photography, the Jones & Laughlin
picture collection, Smouldering Fires (1924 silent film), etc.
Sq. 8vo, wrps. 1975. V.G. $15.00.
(KOZLOFF #A7649)
KOZLOFF, MAX. The Privileged Eye: Essays on Photography. 307
pp., 53 illus., 9 color plates. Wide-ranging essays on the
changes in photographic imagery and the social consciousness of
viewers. 8vo, wrps. Second printing. Albuquerque, Univ. of New
Mexico Press, 1987. Fine. $16.00.
(LAHUE #A10017)
LAHUE, KALTON C. and TERRY BREWER. Kops and Custards: The Legend
of Keystone Films. Foreword by Kent D. Eastin. 213 pp., illus.,
filmog. appendix, bibliog., index. History of Mack Sennett and
Keystone Films. 12mo, wrps. Second printing. Norman, Univ. of
Oklahoma Press, 1972. Near-fine. $14.00.
(LYONS #A10105)
LYONS, NATHAN, ed. The Persistence of Vision: Contemporary
Photographers. 67 pp., approx. 60 illus., most full-page, biogs.
Intro. by Nathan Lyons. Generous selection of work by six
photographers: Donald Blumberg, Charles Gill, Robet Heinecken,
Ray Metzker, Jerry Uelsmann and John Wood. Sq. 8vo, oictorial
stiff wrps. New York, Horizon Press in assoc. with George
Eastman House, 1967. About fine crisp copy. $20.00.
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