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 | CORK, RICHARD VORTICISM AND ABSTRACT ART IN THE FIRST MACHINE AGE - COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA, University of California Press., 1976, First American Editions. Cloth in Illustrated Jackets, 4to, xxiv + 322, xxiv + 272pp, 555 illustrations in color and b&w. With a chronology, illustration index and artists' biographies. Published in 1976, Richard Cork's massive "Vorticism and Abstract Art in the First Machine Age" remains the most comprehensive scholarly document on this short-lived yet important modernist art movement. Divided between "Origins and Development" (0-520-03154-7) and "Synthesis and Decline" (0-520-03269-1), the two volumes contain over six hundred pages and nearly as many illustrations on the Wyndham Lewis led British school that gave birth to "Blast", and included Malcolm Arbuthnot, Lawrence Atkinson, David Bomberg, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Jessica Dismorr, Jacob Epstein, Frederick Etchells, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Cuthbert Hamilton, Christopher Nevinson, William Roberts, Helen Saunders, Dorothy Shakespear, and Edward Wadsworth, as well as literary associates T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. A bright, most handsome set of the first American editions issued by the University of California Press. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase.. Fine/Fine. USD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 300.25 | £UK 270.5 | JP¥ 39716] Book number: 016083 Click here to order or inquire at Arcana: Books on the Arts. | |
 | (DOIG, PETER). SEARLE, ADRIAN PETER DOIG: WORKS ON PAPER New York, Michael Werner Gallery., 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 1-885013-32-9) Illustrated Wrappers, 4to, np (52pp), 44 color illustrations. Designed by Kuhle und Mozer. With an exhibition checklist. This is the beautifully designed catalogue issued in conjunction with a 2002 New York gallery show that illustrates each of the forty-four exhibited works on paper by Peter Doig. A pristine copy.. Fine. USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 | £UK 42.25 | JP¥ 6178] Book number: 016860 Click here to order or inquire at Arcana: Books on the Arts. | |
 | (FERUS GALLERY). MCKENNA, KRISTINE THE FERUS GALLERY: A PLACE TO BEGIN - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR Gottingen, GERMANY, Steidl., 2009, First Edition. (ISBN: 3-86521-610-2) Pictorial Boards, 4to, 320pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild with Lauren Harden, Annessa Braymer and Xiaoqing Wang, Green Dragon Office. With artists' biographies and a bibliography. This is Kristine McKenna's extraordinary new history of Ed Kienholz, Walter Hopps, and Irving Blum's visionary Ferus Gallery. Between 1957 and 1966 the gallery was home to such influential California artists as Robert Alexander, John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, Wallace Berman, Streeter Blair, Bruce Conner, Jay De Feo, Richard Diebenkorn, Llyn Foulkes, Sonia Gechtoff, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, James Kelly, Edward Kienholz, Frank Lobdell, John Mason, Edward Moses, Richard Pettibon, Kenneth Price, Philip Rich, Arthur Richer, Richards Ruben, Edward Ruscha, Paul Sarkisian, Hassel Smith, and Julius Wasserstein. It was also the site of the first Los Angeles exhibitions by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, and Kurt Schwitters. "The Ferus Gallery: A Place to Begin" recounts the gallery's history chronologically in transcribed interviews with the Ferus artists, wives and girlfriends, collectors, and other well-placed Los Angeles denizens; featuring hundreds of vintage images of the artists and friends, artworks, installation photographs, posters, and much more - including many published here for the first time. A pristine example of the 2009 first Steidl edition of this incredibly vital document BOLDLY SIGNED in ink by author Kristine McKenna. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase.. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. USD 59.95 [Appr.: EURO 40 | £UK 36.25 | JP¥ 5291] Book number: 017262 Click here to order or inquire at Arcana: Books on the Arts. | |
 | (MICHELANGELO). POESCHKE, JOACHIM MICHELANGELO AND HIS WORLD: SCULPTURE OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996, First American Edition. (ISBN: 0-8109-4276-3) Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket, Large 4to, 272pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With a bibliography and artist biographies. "By the time Michelangelo died in 1564, his powerful narrative realism and secular treatment of the idealized human body had liberated a generation of Italian sculptors. Among those featured in this book are adventurer-poet Benvenuto Cellini, Florentine master Giovanni Rustici, ordained priest Giovanni Montorsoli and the underrated Pierino da Vinci (nephew of Leonardo). A new humanism animated works such as Jacopo Sansovino's bronze statue of Peace torching a helmet and suit of armor and Tullio Lombardo's serene marble Adam. This erudite, fresh overview of Italian sculpture of the late Renaissance by University of Dusseldorf art historian Poeschke features fifty-two full-page color plates and three hundred and forty-seven halftones newly photographed by Albert Hirmer and Irmgard Ernstmeier-Hirmer with commentaries, plus an introductory essay and biographical profiles of twenty sculptors". A pristine copy. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase.. Fine/Fine. USD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 267 | £UK 240.5 | JP¥ 35303] Book number: 014088 Click here to order or inquire at Arcana: Books on the Arts. | |
 | SOLNIT, REBECCA. FOREWORD BY BILL BERKSON SECRET EXHIBITION: SIX CALIFORNIA ARTISTS OF THE COLD WAR ERA San Francisco, City Lights Books., 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-87286-254-2) Illustrated Wrappers, 4to, 146pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a bibliography. Focusing on Wallace Berman, George Herms, Jess (Collins), Wally Hedrick, Jay DeFeo, and Bruce Conner, this well researched and illustrated book by noted scholar Rebecca Solnit examines six post-war California artists that "broke new ground with provocative work, especially in assemblage and mixed-media projects, and who were free to create art that was as subversive as it was uncommercial". A most handsome copy of this uncommon document.. Near Fine. USD 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.25 | £UK 54.25 | JP¥ 7943] Book number: 017031 Click here to order or inquire at Arcana: Books on the Arts. |
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