New Arrivals, part 2 - Modern Art & Film

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MODERN ART, PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM
New Arrivals -- part 2
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Part 2 -General Books:
(Artforum #A7629)
Artforum. Artforum XXII, No. 9 (May 1984). Articles
include: M. Schwartzman on Romare Bearden; 6 pp. portfolio by
Chuck Close; J. Fisher on Alfred Hitchcock and Victor Burgin;
Annelie Pohlen on New German Art (Klaus vom Bruch, Felix Droese,
Astrid Klein, et al; Frederic Tuten's memorial to Georges Remi
(aka Herge), the creator of Tintin; D. Davis on The Death of
Semiotics in architecture and theory. Sq. 4to, wrps. 1984. Near-
fine. $15.00.

(BAUDRILLARD #A9755)
BAUDRILLARD, JEAN. Xerox and Infinity. 32 pp.,
translucent pictorial flyleaves. Slender 8vo, stapled card wrps.
Np., Touchepas, n.d. About fine. (Small price sticker
discoloration rear cover.) $22.00.

(BERKELEY #A9725)
BERKELEY. University Art Gallery. Jugendstil &
Expressionism in German Posters. 48 pp. exhib. cat. listing
102 works by sixty artists, 63 illus., 11 in color. Text by
Herschel B. Chipp; chronol. and catalogue by Brenda Richardson.
Useful reference which includes Dutch, Belgian, Austrian, Swiss,
Norwegian and Russian artists active in Germany. 8vo, wrps.
1965. V.G. (covers scuffed). $27.00.

(CHICAGO #A6393)
CHICAGO. Kovler Gallery. Forgotten Printmakers of the 19th
Century. 160 pp., b&w illus. Exhib. cat. listing 843
prints by 30 lesser-known artists such as Beaufrere, Boldini,
Buhot, Calame, Chahine, Daubigny, Decamps, Deveria, Gavarni,
Haden, Helleu, Huet, Jacque, Legrand, Legros, Meissonier,
Raffet, Steinlen, Tissot, and more. Useful reference. 8vo, wrps.
1968. V.G.+ crisp copy. $18.00.

(CLARKE #A9652)
CLARKE, BEVERLEY. Graphic Design in Educational
Television. 96 pp., 132 illus. (172 in color), glossary,
index. Sq. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First U.S. ed. New York, Watson-
Guptill, 1974. Fine, in v.g.+ dustjacket with short closed tear
lower edge. $12.50.

(DAVIDSON, C #A9824)
DAVIDSON, CYNTHIA C., ed. Anywhere. 284 pp., 136 illus.
Conference papers from a multi-disciplinary conference on the
condition of architecture at the end of the millenium. Dozens of
participants including Rosalind Krauss, Peter Eisenmann, Frank
Gehry, Arakawa, Gins, Daniel Libeskind, et al. Sq. 4to, wrps.
New York, Rizzoli, 1992. Near-fine. $35.00.

(DEEDS #A9739)
DEEDS, DAPHNE ANDERSON. Of Time and the City: American
Modernism from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. 79 pp.
exhib. cat., 41 color plates, 11 b&w illus., full catalogue,
bibliog., index of artists. Includes 36 artists from Archipenko
to Zorach, mostly early 20th-century American modernists:
Demuth, Hartley, O'Keeffe, Marin, Matulka, Maurer, Ray, Storrs,
etc. Nicely printed on heavy paper. 4to, wrps. First wrps. ed.
American Federation of the Arts, 1990. As new. $19.50.

(DETROIT #A5179)
DETROIT. Institute of Arts. COBRA and Contrasts: The Lydia
and Harry Lewis Winston Collection. 184 pp. exhib. cat.
listing 140 works by 70 artists, all illus. (10 color plates),
with extensive entries, bibliog., index of artists. Texts by
Ellen Sharp, Willem Sandberg, May Davis Hill. Outstanding survey
of post-World War II European art, including Constructivism,
Geometric Abstraction, Surrealism, Dada alongside the Cobra
endeavor. Small 4to, wrps. Ed. of 1500. 1974. Near-fine.
$35.00.

(FOSTER #A9738)
FOSTER, ALASDAIR. Behold the Man: The Male Nude in
Photography. 64 pp., 102 illus., long checklist of works,
constituting a reference in its own right; additional text by
Roberta McGrath. International selection of well-known
photographers ranging from the first decades of photography to
contemporary work by Eikoh Hosoe, Judy Dater, Mapplethorpe, Jo
Spence, John Coplans, Pierre Molinier, Larry Clark, Helmut
Rottgen, et al, including a considerable number of works by
women photographers. 4to, stiff wrps. Second printing.
Edinburgh: Stills Gallery, 1988. Tiny dent rear cover, else
crisp fine copy. $47.50.

(FUCHS #A9252)
FUCHS, RUDI, HILTON KRAMER and PETER SCHJELDAHL. Art of Our
Time: The Saatchi Collection 3. Baselitz, Guston, Kiefer,
Morley, Polke, Schnabel. List of illus., 28 pp. text, 108 mostly
full-page color plates. Large sq. 4to, wrps. New York, Rizzoli,
1984. Near-fine. $35.00.

(GOODMAN #A6426)
GOODMAN, SUSAN TUMARKIN, ed. Russian Jewish Artists in a
Century of Change: 1890-1990. 267 pp., 311 b&w illus.,
46 color plates, bibliog., index. Excellent new study. In
English. 4to, cloth, d.j. Munich, Prestel, 1995. As new.
$60.00.

(HEIDER #A9678)
HEIDER, KARL G., ed. Images of the South: Constructing a
Regional Culture on Film and Video. vi, 207 pp., 27 b&w
stills, index. Wide-ranging articles on many topics including
the representation of religion, the Florida Seminole, Black
entertainers, the southern Appalachians, and more. 8vo, wrps.
Athens, Univ. of Georgia Press, 1997. As new. $16.00.

(HENDERSON #A9702)
HENDERSON, PETER. Gardening for Pleasure A Guide to the
Amateur in the Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Garden, with full
directions for the Greenhouse, Conservatory and Window
Garden. 404 pp., index, 12 pp. ads for other books in the
Orange Judd series. Good how-to advice book covering ground
preparation, propagation by seed, grafting, cuttings, water lily
ponds and much more; over 200 illus. 12mo, cloth. Second
enlarged ed. New York, Orange Judd, 1918. V.G.- (Extremities
rubbed, endpapers foxed, several leaves corner creased, a few
have paperclip stain). $12.00.

(HORAK #A9681)
HORAK, JAN-CHRISTOPHER and CHARLES MUSSER. Making Images
Move: Photographers and Avant-Garde Cinema. 320 pp., illus.,
filmography with over 130 filmmaking photographers. Important
new work on the evolution of experimental film. 8vo, 1/4 cloth,
d.j. First ed. Washington, Smithsonian, 1997. Fine/Fine. (Pub.
at $34.95). $28.50.

(HOUSE #A9611)
HOUSE, HOMER. Wildflowers of New York. 2 vols. 264 color
plates. Standard reference work. 4to, green cloth. First ed.
Albany, 1918. V.G.+. Nice tight clean set. $130.00.

(LHAMON #A9820)
LHAMON, W. T., Jr. Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a
Cultural Style in the American 1950s. xv, 286 pp., index.
Cross-disciplinary cultural history from Little Richard and
motorcycle gangs to Jack Kerouac's beat vision. 8vo, cloth, d.j.
First ed. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1990. As new.
$25.00.

(LOMAS #A9705)
LOMAS, CHARLOTTE RIDER. Garden Whimseys. vii, 171 pp.,
illus., index. 12mo, cloth. New York, MacMillan, 1923. V.G.
(Endpapers, half-title and title page foxed.) $12.00.

(LONDON #A9743)
LONDON. Ackermann & Son. First Past the Post: Exhibition
of Original Racing Prints. Sales catalogue. 55 illus., 4 in
color. Price list laid in. All works are 19th-century British
racing prints including the series The Great St. Leger Stakes
1815-1842 and The Derby 1827-1842. Nice reference catalogue.
Small 4to, wrps. 1986. As new. $15.00.

(LONDON #A6178)
LONDON. Arts Council of Great Britain. Dada and Surrealism
Reviewed. 475 pp., 32 color plates, hundreds of b&w text
illus. A key reference work containing essential information on
Dada publications. Intro. David Sylvester; text by Dawn Ades.
Stout 4to, wrps., d.j. 1978. Fine. $235.00.

(MALRAUX #A4734)
MALRAUX, ANDRE. Museum Without Walls. 252 pp., 172 illus.
Sq. 12mo, wrps. London, Secker & Warburg, 1967. Near-fine.
Bright crisp copy. $13.50.

(MCCAULEY #A9701)
McCAULEY, LENA MAY. The Joy of Gardens. xi, 246 pp., 48
illus. (1 in color) and 7 garden plans, list of illus.,
appendix. 12mo, pictorial cloth. New York, Rand McNally, 1911.
V.G.-. $12.00.

(NELSON #A6442)
NELSON, HAROLD B. Sounding the Depths: 150 Years of American
Seascape. 111 pp., 70 color plates, biogs. Includes work by
Alfred Bricher, Hartley, Henri, Homer, Fitz Hugh Lane, Fairfield
Porter, Maurice Prendergast, et al. 4to, wrps. As issued. San
Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1989. As new. $15.00.

(NEW HAVEN #A9816)
NEW HAVEN. Yale University Art Gallery. South of the Border:
Mexico in the American Imagination 1914-1947 / Mexico en la
Imaginacion Norteamerican 1914-1947. xix, 296 pp., well
illus. throughout in b&w and color, checklist, biogs. of
artists, index. Text by James Oles, with an essay by Susan
Cordero Reiman. Major new research with outstanding visual
material ranging from tourist-artist production to long-term
American expatriates working in the Mexican political art-making
tradition, including numerous women artists and artists of
color. In English / Spanish. Oblong 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1993. As new. $65.00.

(NEW YORK #A9674)
NEW YORK. (Multiple galleries). Statements New York 82:
Leading Contemporary Artists from France. 106 pp., 73
illus., including numerous full-page color plates, biogs.,
exhibs., and interview or text on each of 24 artists.Text by
Otto Hahn. The catalogue is the record of over 20 one-person
shows of contemporary French art held simultaneously in
different galleries throughout New York. Includes Boltanski,
Garouste, Messager, Anne and Patrick Poirier, Raysse, Titus-
Carmel, Viallat, et al. Tall 4to, stiff-wrps. English lang. ed.
1982. Near-fine (faint scuffing at spine ends). $20.00.

(NEW YORK #A7203)
NEW YORK. Artist's Space. Cinquo Artistas Espagnoles / 5
Spanish Artists: Miguel BARCELO, Miguel Angel CAMPANO, Ferran
Garcia SEVILLA, Menchu LAMAS, Jose Maria SICILIA. 102 pp.,
25 full-page color plates, b&w photos of each artist,
biogs., exhibs. Five critical texts. Dual language Spanish /
English. Small 4to, wrps. 1985. About fine. $36.00.

(NEW YORK #A9729)
NEW YORK. Baruch College. The Mishkin Collection. 36 pp.
exhib. cat., 10 color plates, plus b&w text illus., notes,
brief biogs. of artists, bibliog. Text by Sandra Kraskin.
Premier showing of new acquisitions received from the Mishkin
Collection. Includes: Calder, Dominguez, Ernst, Hartley,
Hepworth, Man Ray, Masson, Mathieu, Matta, Saura. Sq. 8vo,
stapled wrps. 1993. As new. $12.50.

(NEW YORK #A9645)
NEW YORK. Christie's. 19th and 20th Century Latin American
Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. Sales catalogue of 103
items, all illus., 33 color plates. Numerous works by Cuevas,
Merida, Orozco, Rivera, Tamayo. Large 8vo, wrps. May 5, 1981.
Near-fine. $20.00.

(NEW YORK #A9806)
NEW YORK. Franklin Furnace. FLUXUS: A Conceptual Country.
248 pp., illus. throughout. Contributors include Roy Allen,
Stephen Foster, Dick Higgins, Jonas Mekas, Estera Milman, Craig
Saper, John G. Hanhardt, Hollis Melton, Ellsworth Snyder, et al.
8vo, wrps. Visible Language Vol. 26, Nos. 1/2, 1992. Fine.
$15.00.

(NEW YORK #A6892)
NEW YORK. Museum of Modern Art. The New American Painting, as
shown in eight European countries 1958-59. 96 pp., illus.,
biographies of 17 artists. The exhibition of 81 paintings that
introduced abstract expressionism to Europe. Includes: Baziotes,
Brooks, Francis, Gorky, Gottlieb, Guston, Hartigan, Kline, De
Kooning, Motherwell, Newman, Pollock, Rothko, Stamos, Still,
Tomlin, Tworkov. Small 4to, wrps. 1959. Upper corner bumped,
else near-fine. $15.00.

(NEW YORK #A9742)
NEW YORK. Sotheby's. Property from the Andrew Crispo
Collection. Sales catalogue, 65 color plates. Important
works by mostly early American modernists: Avery, Benton, Davis,
Demuth, Dove, Ferren, Gay, Hicks, Kuhn, Marin, O'Keeffe, Pippin,
Joseph Stella, Weber, Zorach, and others. Small 4to, wrps.
December 3, 1997. As new. $16.00.

(PLAGENS #A9713)
PLAGENS, PETER. Moonlight Blues: An Artist's Art
Criticism. xvi, 339 pp., index. A welcome collection of
Plagens' critical writings from Artforum, Aperture, Art in
America and Journal. Covers abstract expressionism, minimalism,
and West Coast art, architecture and art criticism. 8vo, cloth,
d.j. First ed. Ann Arbor, UMI, 1986. As new. (Pub. at $30.00).
$24.00.

(PYRON #A9866)
PYRON, DARDON ASBURY, ed. Recasting: Gone with the Wind in
American Culture. x, 232, bibliographical essay, index. 13
critical texts on history and cultural representation in GWTW,
including discussion of different aspects of southern history
and literary traditions, racial representation, sex, gender, and
the reception of Margaret Mitchell's novel. 8vo, wrps. First ed.
Miami, University Presses of Florida, 1983. V.G. Covers lightly
scuffed, else crisp bright copy. $18.00.

(SPARKS #A9817)
SPARKS, ESTHER. Universal Limited Art Editions: A History and
Catalogue: The First Twenty-Five Years. 552 pp., 163
colorplates, 731 b&w illus., glossary, bibliog., index.
Includes most American Pop artists and several Abstract
Expressionists. Essential reference to one of the great presses
of fine art prints of the 1960s-80s. Stout 4to, cloth, d.j. New
York, Abrams, 1989. As new. $75.00.

(SZARKOWSKI #A9823)
SZARKOWSKI, JOHN and SHOJI YAMAGISHI. New Japanese
Photography. 112 pp. exhib. catalogue, 116 illus., biog.
notes. Includes a selection of 15 Japanese photographers born in
the 1930s-1940s: Shomei Tomatsu, Daidoh Moriyama, Eikoh Hosoe,
and others. Small sq. 4to, wrps. First ed. New York, MOMA, 1974.
Near-fine (light corner crease rear cover). $16.00.

(THAYER #A9700)
THAYER, EMMA HOMAN. Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast. 64
pp., 24 fine color lithographs incl. frontis. illus.
Magnificently decorated pictorial front cover. Large 4to, gilt,
red, green, white and gilt stamped pictorial mustard cloth; aeg.
First ed. New York, Cassell, 1887. V.G.+. An unusually nice
bright copy with mild scuffing to spine extrems., light corner
bumping. $325.00.

(VAN RENSSELAER #A9703)
VAN RENSSELAER, MRS. SCHUYLER. Art Out-of-Doors. First
pub. in 1893, a fundamental piece in the history of American
landscape architecture written by a noted feminist and organizer
of major exhibitions of work by women artists. 12mo, cloth.
Reprint ed. Philadelphia, National Council, 1959. Near-fine
crisp copy. $12.00.

(VENEZIA #A9834)
VENEZIA. La Biennale di Venezia. XLI Esposizione
Internazionale d'Arte: Visual Arts General Catalogue 1984.
264 pp., 302 illus., 38 color plates. Text in English. Stout
4to, wrps. Milan, Electa, 1984. Near-fine (light rubbing to
spine extrems., else crisp copy). $35.00.

(VERZOCCHI #A9672)
VERZOCCHI, GIUSEPPE. Il Lavoro nella Pittura Italiana
d'Oggi. 465 pp., 72 artists included, each represented by a
full-page color plate, a small b&w lithographic self-
portrait, and artist's statement. Attractive publication on
Italian post-war art. Text in Italian / French / English /
German. Stout 4to, cloth. First ed. Milano, Raccolte Verzocchi,
1950. V.G.-. Sound tight clean copy, but cloth covers are worn
at corners, gutters, head & foot of spine. $24.00.

(WALTHAM #A9860)
WALTHAM. Rose Art Museum. Sculptural Objects and
Installations. Unpag. (16 pp.) exhib. cat., 9 illus., 3 in
color, biogs., exhibs. and brief text on each artist. Curator
Susan L. Stoops. Includes: Howard Ben Tre, Jim Coates, George
Creamer, Mags Harries, Eric Lintala, Jeffrey Schiff. 8vo,
stapled wrps. 1986. Fine. $10.00.

(WILLIAMSON #A9706)
WILLIAMSON, JOHN. Perennial Gardens: A Practical Guide to
Home Landscaping. 328 pp., illus., detailed plans for many
kinds of gardens (prairie, wildflower, seaside, fragrant,
medieval, medicinal, witch's, etc., encyclopedia of plants, list
of vendors, bibliog., index. Packed with detailed information
and ideas. 8vo, wrps. First Pequot Press ed. Chester, Globe
Pequot Press, 1992. As new. $17.50.

(WOOD #A9840)
WOOD, JOHN. The Scenic Daguerrotype: Romanticism and Early
Photography. xiv, 222 pp., over 100 images, many full-page,
bibliog. Important compendium of images from Gros' studies of
the Seine and the Acropolis to Joseph Wilhelm Pero's images of
Lubeck. 4to, cloth, d.j. Iowa City, Univ. of Iowa Press, 1995.
Fine, in near-fine d.j. with small tear at head of spine. (Pub.
at $55.). $37.00.

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