New Arrivals in Modern Art & Film, part 2
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(ANIKST #A5602)
ANIKST, MIKHAIL and ELENA CHERNEVICH. Russian Graphic Design
1880-1917. 160 pp., hundreds of color illus., notes, index.
Includes many unusual items by anonymous designers as well as
known artists. 4to, cloth, d.j. London, Studio Vista, 1990.
Fine/About Fine. $20.00.
(BISHOP #A7120)
BISHOP, ROBERT. American Folk Sculpture. 392 pp., 726 illus.,
100 in color, notes, bibliog., index. Organized by type and
image, a compendium of information on this topic and on numerous
individual artists. Important reference work. Stout 4to, wrps.
First printing. New York, Dutton, 1974. About fine. (Touch of
lower corner rubbing). $40.00.
(BOBRICK #A8790)
BOBRICK, BENSON. Labyrinths of Iron: Subways in History, Myth,
Art, Technology, & War. 352 pp., b&w illus., notes, bibliog.,
index. 8vo, wrps. First Owl Books ed. New York, Henry Holt,
1994. Fine. $16.95.
(CAMILLE #A8896)
CAMILLE, MICHAEL. Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval
Art. 176 pp., 86 illus. (12 in color), notes, extensive
bibliog., list of illus. A comlex consideration of the functions
of marginalia in art, architecture, manuscripts, music and
culture. 8vo, wrps. Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1992. Crisp
near-fine (price marked upper corner of last page). $15.00.
(CAYROL #A8659)
CAYROL, JEAN and CLAUDE DURAND. Le Droit de Regard. 189 pp., 52
b&w stills. Important early French film theory text. 8vo, wrps.
Paris, Seuil, 1963. Owner name on flyleaf, else v.g.+. $25.00.
(COOPER #A7872)
COOPER, MARTHA and JOSEPH SCIORRA. R. I. P. Memorial Wall Art.
96 pp., over 100 color photographs by COOPER documenting the
public memorial murals that have sprung up in Harlem, the Lower
East Side, and Brooklyn, painted for the victims of shootings,
drug wars, police killings and other tragic deaths.
Graffiti/neo-realism commissioned by the family and friends of
the victims. Also includes the stories of the individuals. Large
oblong 8vo, wrps. First ed. New York, Henry Holt and Co./Owl
Book, 1994. Rem. mark top edge, else as new. $22.00.
(DAYAN #A8903)
DAYAN, DANIEL and ELIHU KATZ. Media Events: The Live
Broadcasting of History. 306 pp., extensive bibliog., index.
Analysis of television coverage of events such as the Olympic
Games, moon landing, Kennedy's funeral, Pope John Paul II's
visit to Poland. 12mo, wrps. 2nd printing. Cambridge, Harvard
Univ. Press, 1994. About fine. $10.00.
(DOUGLAS #A8963)
DOUGLAS, ROY. The World War 1939-1943: The cartoonists' vision.
xii, 300, hundreds of b&w illus. Analysis of the radically
different perceptions of WWII and the issues it raised for
different countries as expressed through caricatures and
cartoons from 1939-45. 8vo, orange wrps. Uncorrected page
proofs. New York, Routledge, 1990. Near-fine. $10.50.
(GOLDWATER #A8901)
GOLDWATER, ROBERT. Primitivism in Modern Art. 339 pp., b&w
illus., appendix with chronol. of ethnographical museums and
their exhibitions, bibliog. of Goldwater's writings, index. A
classic study with chapters on romanticism, Gauguin, the Fauves,
Brucke and Blaue Reiter, Henri Rousseau, children's art,
Picasso, Modigliani, the comparative methodology of art history
and anthropology, and other topics. Stout 8vo, wrps. Enlarged
1986 ed., 4th printing. Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1986.
About fine (price marked upper corner last page). $15.00.
(GOOSEN #A8937)
GOOSEN, E.C., R. Goldwater and I. Sandler. FERBER, HARE, LASSAW,
Three American Sculptors. 75 pp., 30 b&w, 9 tipped-in color
plates. Three critical essays. 4to, wrps. First edition. New
York, Grove Press, 1959. V.G.+. $30.00.
(JOHNSON #A8658)
JOHNSON, MICHAEL L. New Westers: The West in Contemporary
American Culture. xiii, 408 pp., notes, bibliog., index. An
examination of the current cultural myths of the West in
literature, film, art, music and other contemporary social
pratices. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. Lawrence, Univ. Press of
Kansas, 1996. As new. $26.00.
(KAHNWEILER #A8324)
KAHNWEILER, DANIEL-HENRY with Francis Cremieux. My Galleries and
Painters. 160 pp., 26 b&w illus., index. Intro. by John Russell.
Includes extensive bibliog. by Bernard Karpel. 8vo, wrps. First
printing of this ed. New York, Viking (The Documents of 20th-
Century Art), 1971. V.G.+. (spine creased). $22.50.
(KAHNWEILER #A8915)
KAHNWEILER, DANIEL-HENRY with Francis Cremieux. My Galleries and
Painters. 160 pp., 26 b&w illus., index. Intro. by John Russell.
Includes extensive bibliog. by Bernard Karpel. 8vo, cloth, d.j.
First Eng. lang. ed. New York, Viking (The Documents of 20th-
Century Art), 1971. Fine, in near-fine d.j. (a few small
abrasions to surface of rear panel; price-clipped). $40.00.
(KROEBER #A8332)
KROEBER, A. L. and CLYDE KLUCKHOHN. Culture: a critical review
of concepts and definitions. x, 436 pp., references, appendices
containing two essays by Alfred B. Meyer, index of persons.
Still a useful work. 8vo, wrps. Orig. pub. in scholarly journal
form in 1952. New York, n.d. (1960s). Near-fine. $12.00.
(LUCIE-SMITH #A7922)
LUCIE-SMITH, EDWARD. Impressionist Women. 160 pp., 126 b&w and
color illus. Includes: Cezanne, Manet, Cassatt, Monet, Degas,
Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, and others. Analysis of French
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists' depictions of
women. 4to, cloth, d.j. Reprint ed. Artabras, 1993. Fine/Fine.
$20.00.
(MAUROIS #A8331)
MAUROIS, ANDRE and NICO JESSE (photos). Vrouwen van Parijs. 125
full-page b&w photos plus cover photos plus 48 pp. text (in
Dutch), list of illus. A few well-known figures, but mostly
documentary photos of unknowns, children, workers, etc. 12mo,
wrps. Utrecht, A. W. Bruna & Zoon, 1954. V.G. (Short inscrip.
back of frontis photo, spine creased, short corner crease front
cover and prelims.) $5.00.
(MULLINS #A8914)
MULLINS, EDWIN. The Painted Witch. x, 230 pp., 23 color plates,
120 b&w illus., list of illus., index. Analysis of the terrors
that have produced the many visual images of women as penitent
virgins, hags, witches, martyrs, and whores, and victims of
torture, rape, etc. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. New York, Carroll
& Graf, 1985. About fine bright copy, in v.g.+ d.j. with mild
edgewear and 1/4 inch closed tear head of spine. $30.00.
(NEW YORK #A8435)
NEW YORK. Kenkeleba Gallery. The Search for Freedom: African
American Abstract Painting 1945-1975. 139 pp., 62 mostly full-
page color plates, 3 b&w illus., extensive footnotes. 80 works
by 37 artists with short bios. and exhibs. for each. 8 women
artists included: Betty Blayton-Taylor, Vivian Browne, Mary
Lovelace O'Neal, Rose Piper, Howardena Pindell, Thelma Johnson
Streat, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson.Texts by Ann Gibson, Steve
Cannon, Frank Bowling and Thomas McEvilley. An important book.
4to, wrps. 1991. Fine. $22.00.
(NORWOOD #A8832)
NORWOOD, EDWIN P. The Other Side of the Circus. 276 pp.,
wonderful b&w photos throughout. Stout 12mo, yellow cloth, red
lettering. First ed. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926.
Owner name on flyleaf, else very nice bright v.g.+ (light bump
upper corner, spine extrems. wrinkled). $27.50.
(STOWE #A8905)
STOWE, DAVID W. Swing Changes: Big Band Jazz in New Deal
America. 299 pp., 20 illus., extensive notes, index. 8vo, wrps.
Second printing. Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1994. About
fine. $15.00.
(UDINE #A8718)
UDINE. Galleria d'arte moderna. DINO, MIRKO, AFRO BASALDELLA.
323 pp., 40 full-page color plates, hundreds of b&w illus., bio-
bibliographical notes illus. with photos of artists. A very
substantial set of texts on Italy's three major post-war
abstractionists in painting and sculpture -- the Basaldella
brothers. Sq. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. Milan, Mazzotta, 1987.
Fine/Fine. $45.00.
(WAUGH #A8920)
WAUGH, THOMAS. Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in
Photography and Film from their Beginnings to Stonewall. xvi,
470 pp., bibliog., index. Covers artistic, commercial, illicit
and politico-scientific aspects of a vast eclectic tradition of
image-making. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First printing. New York,
Columbia Univ. Press, 1996. Light corner bump, else as new.
(Pub. at $60.00). $48.00.
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