New Arrivals -- Art & Film, part 2
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MODERN ART, PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM
New Arrivals -- part 2
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(Aperture #A9037)
Aperture. Aperture 113 (Winter 1988). This issue features:
British Photography: Towards a Bigger Picture. Eds. Charles
Hagen and Nan Richardson. 4to, wrps. 1988. Fine. $17.50.
(BARTHES #A9025)
BARTHES, ROLAND. Camera Lucida. 119 pp., 24 b&w, 1 color plate.
A readable classic of postmodern theory on photography. 8vo, 1/4
cloth, d.j. First U.S. ed. New York, Hill and Wang, 1982. Fine,
in about fine d.j. $18.50.
(BERGER #A6191)
BERGER, JOHN. The Moment of Cubism and Other Essays. 139 pp.
8vo, cloth, d.j. First U.S. ed. New York, Pantheon, 1969.
Fine/Fine. $22.00.
(BLESH #A9108)
BLESH, RUDI. Modern Art USA: Men, Rebellion, Conquest 1900-1956.
295 pp., 47 b&w illus., index. Dustjacket design by Paul Rand.
From Steiglitz, Duchamp and Dreier through the era of Abstract
Expressionism. 8vo, cloth, d.j., tec. First ed. New York, Alfred
A. Knopf, 1956. V.G./V.G. (d.j. light foxing, spine tanned,
small chips). $20.00.
(BLOOMINGTON #A9021)
BLOOMINGTON. Indiana University Art Museum. German and Austrian
Expressionism 1900-1920. 166 pp. exhib. catalogue, 104 works by
22 artists, all illus. (including 17 color plates), discussion
of each work, bibliog. Small 4to, wrps. 1977. About fine crisp
bright copy. $28.00.
(BRUXELLES #A9003)
BRUXELLES. Galerie Patrick Derom. L'Avant-Garde des Annees 20 en
Belgique. 95 pp., 27 color plates, 13 b&w illus. 23 artists with
brief text on each. Intro. by Serge Goyens de Heusch. Useful
reference. 8vo, wrps. 1992. Near-fine. $22.00.
(CASTLEMAN #A8948)
CASTLEMAN, RIVA. Technics and Creativity: A Catalogue Raisonne.
108 pp., illus., bibliog, checklist. Catalogue Raisonne of
Gemini GEL prints. Small 4to, wrps. New York, MOMA, 1971. V.G.
(Covers scuffed.) $25.00.
(CLAYSON #A8995)
CLAYSON, HOLLIS. Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the
Impressionist Era. 202 pp., 93 plates, bibliog., index. Solid
study of this omnipresent theme in Impressionist painting. 4to,
cloth, d.j. First ed. New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1992. As new.
(Pub. at $55.00) $40.00.
(DAVIS #A9013)
DAVIS, DOUGLAS. Artculture: Essays on the Post-Modern. xii, 176
pp., 16 pp. addit. illus., notes, index. Intro. by Irving
Sandler. Essays on popular culture, photography, Pop Art, et al.
8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. New York, Harper & Row, 1977. Rem.
star lower edge, else about fine, in near-fine d.j. Addenda
clipped to endpaper. $20.00.
(DORMENT #A4565)
DORMENT, RICHARD. British Painting at the Philadelphia Museum of
Art: From the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Century. 468
pp., 42 color plates, 286 b&w illus., essays on each artist,
full catalogue entries and text on works, bibliog., index. Stout
4to, cloth, d.j. 1986. Fine/Fine. (Pub. at $70.00) $45.00.
(HINZ #A9044)
HINZ, BERTHOLD. Art in the Third Reich. 268 pp., hundreds of b&w
illus., 17 color plates, bibliog., index. Large 8vo, wrps. First
U.S. ed. (Substantially revised version of orig. German text of
1974). New York, Pantheon, 1979. Crisp clean V.G.+ (corners a
bit scuffed) $25.00.
(JACOBS #A4574)
JACOBS, FLORA GILL. Dolls' Houses in America: Historic
Preservation in Miniature. 395 pp., profusely illus., bibliog.,
appendices, index. Stout 4to, wrps. Third printing. New York,
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. Near-fine (light spine creasing,
cornertips scuffed). $20.00.
(KUSPIT #A4542)
KUSPIT, DONALD. The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist. 175 pp.,
notes, index. Discussion of Picasso, Malevich, Warhol, Beuys,
Duchamp, appropriation art, expressionism and surrealism. 8vo,
cloth, d.j. 2nd printing. Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press,
1993. Fine/Fine. $27.50.
(MCCAFFREY #A9140)
MCCAFFREY, DONALD W. 4 Great Comedians: Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton,
Langdon. 175 pp., approx. 48 illus., bibliog. 12mo, wrps., sewn.
London, A. Zwemmer and A.S. Barnes, New York, 1968. Near-fine
(light spine creasing and tiny lamination chip head of spine.)
Uncommon in nice condition. $20.00.
(PINCUS-WITTEN #A4368)
PINCUS-WITTEN, ROBERT. Postminimalism. 198 pp. and 45 addit. b&w
illus. Writings on Serra, Sonnier, Hesse, Nauman, Samaras,
Bochner, LeWitt, Benglis, et al. 8vo, wrps. First printing. New
York, Out of London Press, 1977. V.G.+. Rear corners rubbed,
faint owner name inside front cover. $14.50.
(RUBIN #A9012)
RUBIN, CYNTHIA ELYCE and MORGAN WILLIAMS. Larger than Life: The
American Tall-Tale Postcard 1905-1915. 132 pp., b&w illus.
Interesting commentary on the photographers and the audience for
which these images were intended. Small sq. 4to, cloth, d.j.
First ed. New York, Abbeville, 1990. As new. (Pub. at $45.00).
$24.00.
(SENIE #A4529)
SENIE, HARRIET F. Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition,
Transformation, and Controversy. 275 pp., 111 b&w illus.
Excellent coverage of this topic. Large 8vo, cloth, d.j. First
ed. New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1992. Fine/Fine. (Pub. at
$35.00) $25.00.
(SJOMAN #A6557)
SJOMAN, VILGOT. I am Curious (yellow). 254 pp., 266 stills,
cast, credits.The complete scenario of the film. Also includes
66 pp. excerpts from the testimony by the director and numerous
film critics at the 1968 trial in the U.S. District Court of New
York where the jury upheld the government's seizure of the film
as obscene material. 12mo, wrps. 4th printing. New York, Grove,
1968. Faint spine crease, else tight clean copy. $9.00.
(WASHINGTON #A4499)
WASHINGTON, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. The Australian
Painters: 1964-1966. Contemporary Australian Painting from the
Mertz Collection. 141 works by 84 artists, all illus., 24 in
color. Text by Ross Luck. Nice overview. Small 4to, stiff wrps.
Nd (1966). V.G. Covers lightly scuffed, light foxing top and
side edges. $12.00.
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