10 Plus 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1989. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Replete with fine reproductions of these best works, and printed on high-gloss paper. Published by Harry N. Abrams and in both Russian and English. Full color reproductions throughout. Tall quarto format, at 170 pp., and including and index. Foreword and Acknowledgments by Gordon D. Smith, E.A. Carmean, Jr., and Marla Price, a Curator's statement by Marla Price, and then "10 x 10," by John E. Bowlt, and a final essay by Victor Missiano. Laid in is a note of errata.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 346818

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: art exhibition catalog|painters|gallery exhibition|painting|sculpture|Gordon D. Smith|E.A. Carmean, Jr.|Marla Price|John E. Bowlt|Victor Missiano

100 Years of California Sculpture

Oakland, California, The Oakland Museum, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. An unusually fine looking softcover copy, staple-bound, in square quarto format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated wraps. Price-sticker dot to front cover else virtually pristine. The Oakland Museum sponsored a show of California artists and California sculptors in 1982, with a Preface by Christina-Orr Cahill and then essays by Paul Tomidy, Harvey L. Jones, Terry St. John, and Christopher Knight, about California sculptors such as Robert Aitken, Jeremy Anderson, Alexander Archipenko, Robert Arneson, Larry Bell, Fletcher Benton, Wallace Berman, Alexander Calder, Christo, Claire Falkenstein, Viola Frey, Edward Kienholz, Tom Marioni, Bruce Nauman, Manuel Neri, Roland Reiss, Zygmund Sazevich, Douglas Tilden, William T. Wiley and Wilfrid Zogbaum. 48 pp. and replete with fine black-and-white reproductions of fine sculpture, printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 349333

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: The Oakland Museum|California artists|California sculptors|Christina-Orr Cahill|Paul Tomidy|Harvey L. Jones|Terry St. John|Christopher Knight|Robert Aitken|Jeremy Anderson|Alexander Archipenko|Robert Arneson|Larry Bell|Fletcher Benton|Wallace Berman|Alexa

11 Los Angeles Artists: Altoon Bell Diebenkorn Harrison Hendler Irwin Mclaughlin Nauman Price Ruscha Wegman

London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, illustrated and pictorial, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Comprised of the exhibition of the 11 L.A. artists sponsored by the Hayward Gallery, 30 September-7 November 1971. Black-and-white and duotone and full-color, full-page reproductions. Unpaginated, but with captioned reproductions and artist biographies. Unpaginate, but roughly 45 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 345552

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Altoon|Bell|Diebenkorn|Harrison|Hendler|Irwin|McLaughlin|Nauman|Price|Ruscha |Wegman

Abstrakte Malerei Aus Amerika Und Europa - Abstract Painting of America and Europe

Klagenfurt / Wien, Galerie nächst (St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder) / Ritter Verlag, 1988. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bilingual documentary history in English and German, showcasing the work of Brice Marden, Gerhard Richter, Helmut Federle, Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman and others. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the simple printed wraps, in gate-fold. Foreword by Rosemarie Schwarzwalder. Extensive documentation, interviews with and/or about the artists including with Donald Kuspit, Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter and others. [9], 10-230 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 351875

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: German language Brice Marden Gerhard Richter Helmut Federle Robert Mangold Robert Ryman

An American Sampler: Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1987. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A particularly broad survey of folk art, art brut, self-taught artists and naive art from the The Shelburne Museum, a nice-looking museum exhibit catalog with a Foreword by J. Carter Brown, and then contributions by Benjamin Mason, David Park Curry, Jane C. Nylander, Celia Oliver, Robert Shaw and others, with a heavy focus on trade signs, carvings, decoys, scrimshaw, trade figures, carousel animals, weather vanes, whirligigs, quilts and counterpaners. Very slight creasing to the front of the glossy pictorial wraps, else virtually pristine of interior. Hundreds of fine images in black-and-white and full color. [5], 6-211 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 349642

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: folk art|art brut|naive art|The Shelburne Museum|J. Carter Brown|Benjamin Mason|David Park Curry|Jane C. Nylander|Celia Oliver |Robert Shaw|trade signs|carvings|decoys|scrimshaw|trade figures|carousel animals|weather vanes|whirligigs|quilts|counterpaners

The Antagonistic Link: Joaquin Torres-Garcia Theo Van Doesburg

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Inst. of Contemporary Art, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. . A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in rich black cloth, with sharp and distinct white lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers depicting real correspondence between the two artists Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond rear panel sunning near spine, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Texts by Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Theo Van Doesburg themselves, translated by Donald Gardner, Nicoline Gatehouse, Ann Lacroix and Wendy Shaffer. Foreword by Eduardo Lipschutz-Villa (translated by David Macey). Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [5], 6-195 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Like New

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Book number: 345863

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Joaquin Torres-Garcia|Theo van Doesburg|letters|art history|artist monographs

Les Aquarelles Du Prince de Joinville 1861 . 1862

Paris, Tallandier, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. Published in Paris by Jules Tallandier, 1964, in First Edition state and in an oblong format quarto format. Double-column French language text by André Maurois and General James Gavin. Illustrated with 20 color reproductions printed on high-gloss paper and with commentary opposite. Handsomely produced in a blue silk linen over boards, ruled along borders, gorgeous gilt lettering to front cover, to spine, spine being sunned to a purple, and then housed in a simple, structurally sound slip-case, also sunned to purple along the edges. François d'Orléans, a.k.a. Prince de Joinville, was born in 1818 and died in 1900, having been the third son of King Louis, famous for having conveyed the corpse of Napoleon and for painting at least 35 watercolors.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 345640

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Prince de Joinville|General McClellan|Andre Maurois|James Gavin|watercolors

Autriche Suede Et Finlande: Les Nouvelles Frontieres Du Verre European / Osterreich, Schweden, Finnland: Die Neuen Grenzen Der Europaischen Glaskunst / Austria, Sweden, Finland: The New Frontiers of European Glass Art

Milano, Italy, Albert Skira, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Glossy, pictorial covers, in gate-fold, and with many score full color reproductions of glassware. Tri-lingual text, being English, German and French languages. Contributions to Elisabetta Margiotta Nervi, Gabriele Fuhr-Becker, Gunnel Holmer, Kaisa Koivisto, Uta Lauren, Harald Bath, Borje Akerblom. [8], 9-173 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 347264

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: French language|German language|design|art history|Elisabetta Margiotta Nervi|Gabriele Fuhr-Becker|Gunnel Holmer|Kaisa Koivisto|Uta Lauren|Harald Bath|Borje Akerblom

7 Brasileiros E Seu Universo

Brasilia, Brazil, Departamento de Documentacao e Divulgacao, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 12mo 7" - 7. Portuguese language art exhibit catalog, quite scarce in the trade, bound in simple stiff card stock, black-and-white, with minor wear thereto, light foxing and soiling to first free endpaper, else quite fine of interior. Contributions by Clarival do Prado Valladares, Lelia Coelho Frota, Luis da Camara Cascudo, Luiz Felipe Baeta Neves, Luis Saia, Marcio Sampaio, Napoleao Figueiredo, Verissimo de Melo, Benedito and others. Black and white glossy wraps a bit abraded, beginning split to front top joint, a few dog-eared pages, else a clean and unmarked interior. 215 pp. including full index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Good

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Book number: 350462

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Clarival do Prado Valladares|Lelia Coelho Frota|Luis da Camara Cascudo|Luiz Felipe Baeta Neves|Luis Saia|Marcio Sampaio|Napoleao Figueiredo|Verissimo de Melo|Benedito

Brunelleschi: 36 Slides / Diapositive / Text / Testo / Masterpieces of Art / Chefs D'Oeuvre de L'Art / Capolavori Dell'Arte / Meisterwerke Der Kunst

Chiantigiana, Antella, Firenze, Scala Istituto Fotografico Editoriale, . First Edition. . Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition copy of a tres useful teaching tool, formatted in German, Italian, French and English, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Laminated stiff, flexible softcovers, double-column text, and then 36 slide negatives, each housed properly in plastic sleeves. Flawless of interior, apparently unread, unused. Each slide is explained in context, numbered, titled, registered in the paginated, stapled pamphlet that is laid in to the plastic sleeve, thus protecting the photographic slide negatives.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 347037

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: SCALA|Brunelleschi|art history|slide negatives|masterworks|Italian language|French language|German language|European art history

The Charged Image: French Lithographic Caricature, 1816-1848

Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Big, tall quarto format, with printed, illustrated wrappers, stiff endpapers. Profusely illustrated with eight color plates and 210 black-and-white illustrations. Comprises an exhibition catalogue published to accompany the 1989 showing at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art of French a very large number of lithographic caricatures produced in France between 1816 and 1848 by over a dozen artists, including Boilly, Daumier, Pigal, and Vernet. [5], 6-188 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 351210

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Beatrice Farwell|art history|French art history|French lithographs|French lithographic caricature|Boilly|Daumier|Pigal|Vernet

The Chromolithograph; a Journal of Art, Decoration, and the Accomplishments with Which Is Incorporated, October 3, 1868-March 20, 1869

London, Zorn, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A gorgeously bound copy, three-quarter leather, with marbled paper over boards, some loss thereof to rear panel, scuffing to smooth over edges, else a most attractive, sturdy, stolid copy indeed. Decorative motif in gilt to spine, raised bands, gilt lettering over burgundy label on spine. Volume covers October 1868 through 1869. Many, many score tipped-in chromolithographs, beginning with Gilbert Stuart Newton's "The Grisette," through Theodore Gronland's "Strawberries and Cherries" (tissue-protected) to "Horses," by Henry Parks. Double-column text. Some mild soiling to, wear of endpapers, else clean, tightly bound and unmarked. It looks most handsome on the shelf.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345374

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: art|artists|lithography|chromolithography

Contemporary American Sculpture

San Francisco, California, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine looking, structurally sound copy published by, sponsored by The California Palace of the Legion of Honor to augment the exhibition held by the national Sculpture Society. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering and device to front cover, lettering to spine is rubbed, just a bit of dust soiling along spine, else with a remarkably bright interior. Preface by A.A. Weinman, President of the Society, rough-cut page edges, and high-gloss paper, featuring a an update of the Society's mission, membership of the society, and biographical sketches and illustrations, followed by an index, alphabetical, of the American sculptors featured here, Paolo Abbate to William Zorach, complete with full-on biographical sketches of each artist. 345 pp. Replete with gorgeous black-and-white plates, quite nice.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 348666

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: American sculptors|American art history|American artists|sculptors|sculpture

Le Courrier Graphique: Revue Des Arts Graphiques Et Des Industries Qui S'y Rattachent, No. 30, Mars-Avril, 1947

Paris, Printed by A. Marchand, 1947. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. 27 x 21 cm, XII-95 pp, brooch (very good condition). Illust. Nice-looking, structurally sound copy bound in tan printed wraps of the 30th issue of this influential arts periodical. Less than moderate wear and tear to the covers. Translated into English, here are the titles of the pieces in this issue: "The artists of the book: Pierre Bonnard," by Pierre Mornand. "Théophraste Renaudot, doctor and gazetier," by Georges Dangon. "Illustrated history of the letter in the architecture of the book (III)," by Roger Devigne. "Art and artists in deportation camps," by Dr C.J. Odic. "Posters and placards of the First French Army," by C. Marcel-Robillard. "The drawings of Geoges Romney (II)," by R.R.M Sée. "Indian arts in Brazil," by Géo-charles. "The illustration in the works of sorcery, magic and alchemy (II)," by J.R. Thomé. Jam-packed with many, many score black-and-white illustrations and period advertisements.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345775

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Pierre Bonnard|Pierre Mornand|Théophraste enaudot|Georges Dangon|Roger Devigne|C.J. Odic|C. Marcel-Robillard|Georges Romney (II)|R.R.M Sée|Géo-charles|J.R. Thomé

Crossed Purposes: Joyce & Max Kozloff

Youngstown, Ohio, Butler Institute of American Art, 1999. First Edition. . Size: Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of a gallery exhibit catalog, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Show held from June 20 to Aug. 18, 1999, with 60 pp., glossy illustrated wraps. Joyce Kozloff was an early participant in the feminist art movement of the 1970s.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 350030

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Joyce Kozloff|Max Kozloff|artist exhibit catalog|women artists