Recent Arrivals, part 2 - Modern Art & Film
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MODERN ART, PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM
New Arrivals -- part 2
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(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.
(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.
(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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