Czech Modernism, 1900-1945 Tapa dura - 1989

Boston: Bulfinch Press / The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1990. Black cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dust-jacket. (12 x 9 inches). First Edition stated on copyright page. 263 pages, with Chronologies, Checklist of the Exhibition, Artist Biographies, Bibliography and Index; 31 color, 56 duotone, and 56 halftone illustrations. An important and the first scholarly documentation of Czech Modernism in painting, sculpture, photography, cinema and graphic art. Inscribed by one of the contributing authors. An exceptionally clean, tight copy. Size: Quarto. Inscribed. First Edition.. Cloth. Fine/Fine.

Boston: Little Brown/ Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1989. 1st printing of 1st edition. Remainder mark on top edge otherwise a clean fine hard cover exhibition catalog in fine dust jacket. Oversize. 263 pages, illustrated.

Bulfinch Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 264 pages illustrated 4to. Hardback. A fine copy in a crisp complete dust jacket.

Houston and Boston: Museum of Fine Arts; Bulfinch Press, 1989. Cloth, 263 pages, illustrations, photographs (some colour); 30 cm, Published on the occasion of the exhibition Czech Modernism, 1900-1945, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. An indispensable publication on Czech modernism. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Director's Statement; Foreword; The Czechoslovak Film Archive; In Search of Redemption: Visions of Beginning and End; Czech Modernism: 1900-1920; Czech Cubism: Points of Departure and Resolution; From Lyrical Metaphors to Symbols of Fate: Czech Surrealism of the 1930s; Modernism, the Avant-Garde, and Photography; Situation of Czech Modem Photography; Imaginative Photography; Art/Commerce and the Avant-Garde; Artists as Filmmakers; The Theater and Films of Jifi Voskovec and Jan Werich; On the Sunny Side… Leer más

Boston, MA and Houston, TX: Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Company and The Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Text by Hvezdoslav Stefan, Jaroslav Andel, Alison De Lima Greene, Miroslav Lamac, Frantisek Smejkal, Zdenek Kirschner, Antonin Dufek, Willis Hartshorn, Michal Schonberg, and Pavel Taussig. Includes 31 color, 56 duotone, and 56 halftone illustrtions along with a chronologies, checklists, artist biographies, and bibliography. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. An important reference book.

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Museum. New. 1989. Hardcover. 0821217631 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- - Corresponds to ISBN: 0890900485. 263 pages, many illustrations, lg. 4to. -- with a bonus offer-- .