Resultados de búsqueda: Genre & Subject / Figure & Nudes from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harry N. Abrams, 1984. 176 pages, illustrations (51 colour); 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 29 to May 13, 1984. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. A monograph on the Polish-French painter Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, 1908-2001), known principally for his unsettling, erotic paintings of young girls. Although his paintings are executed in a realist, even academic manner, there is a surrealist flavour in his work. His older brother was the author Pierre Klossowski. MoMA held a retrospective of his work in 1956.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956. 34 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, Vol. 24, no. 3 (1956-57). Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Assouline Publishing, 2001. 78 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. First published under title: Balthus propos recueillis par Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz. Translated from the French. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A conversation with Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

San Francisco and Berkeley, CA: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University of California Press, 1989. xviii, 231 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Catalogue for an exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 14 December 1989 to 4 February 1990; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 13 June to 9 September 1990; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 5 October to 30 December 1990. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed many of his nonobjective canvases and began a new style of consciously naive figuration. Soon Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn joined Park and other painters such as Nathan Oliveira,… Leer más

Hong Kong: Future Industries Limited, Ben Brown Fine Arts, 2015. Cloth, 91 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Catalogue issued in conjunction with an exhibition held March to April 2015 at Ben Brown Fine Arts Hong Kong. Firm binding, clean inside copy. British expat figurative artist, working in Hong Kong. . 1st.. Hardcover. Fine. 4to.

Cumberland, MD: Reverie Publishing Company, 2004. Cloth, 144 pages, colour illustrations, portraits; 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio.

New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2002. 124 pages, colour illustrations; 25 x 25 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition "Black romantic," at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, April 25 to June 23, 2002. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: To be real, by Thelma Golden; Black romanticism: the will toward imagistic sovereignty, by Lowery Stokes Sims; Who will speak for us? A Utopian romance novelette, by Valerie Cassel; Types and tales: reading Black romantic, by Kelefa Sanneh; We've got a Love Jones, by Franklin Sirmans; All good: interview with Alonzo Adams, by LeRonn Brooks; Another hero: interview with Dean Mitchell, by Regina L. Woods; Strong men keep comin': interview with Kadir Nelson, by Malik Gaines; Faux real: interview with Kehinde Wiley, by Christine Y. Kim.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York and Berkeley, CA: Whitney Museum of American Art; University of California Press, 1998. 200 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, September 25, 1998 to January 3, 1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Like many other artists and musicians of the 1950s, Bob Thompson (1937-1966) found his voice in the novel hybrid forms that emerged from postwar American culture: Abstract Expressionism and abstract figuration, and jazz and rhythm and blues. This catalogue, the first comprehensive book on Thompson's work, accompanies a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and provides an opportunity to celebrate the brief but intense career of an artist who managed to create over a thousand works in the short span of seven years./ Thelma Golden is curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and was the organizer… Leer más

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. Cloth, xxi, 587 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Body Criticism is a celebration of visual culture as well as a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the human body. At its core is a profound exploration of the innovative strategies developed in the eigtheenth century for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. In the process it uncovers and analyzes the persistence of a remarkable set of body metaphors deriving from both aesthetic and medical practices. For Barbara Stafford, all forms of representation are metaphors for cognitive processes in a society, and the historian's job is to reconstruct the metaphors in order to shed light on the society. Here she looks at the changing nature of images of the human body as a key to understanding the changing… Leer más

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1999. 144 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 26 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition, ModernStarts: people, places, things at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 7, 1999 to March 14, 2000. Tight, clean copy. Top right corner lightly bumped. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. The exhibition is part of three cycles of exhibitions known as MoMA2000. CONTENTS: Introduction, by John Elderfield; Faces, by Mary Chan; Gesture, by Starr Figura; Posture, by Sarah Ganz; Pairs, by Maria del Carmen Gonz lez; Groups, by M. Darsie Alexander.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1983. Cloth, [17] pages, [53] leaves of plates, chiefly illustrations (chiefly colour); 41 cm. English Edition. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Elephant Folio.

Paris: Hazan, 1992. 94 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Text in Spanish/Texto en espanol. MUY BIEN. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Waterville, MA and New York: Colby College Museum of Art; Prestel, 2015. Cloth, 207 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Brand-New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s, organized by Colby College Museum of Art, July 11n to October 18, 2015. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Coming of age as an artist in the 1950s, Alex Katz set out to reinvent representational painting by applying lessons learned from postwar abstraction. Initially, he struggled to find an audience, destroying hundreds of canvases. This book is the first survey of the artwork from this momentous decade, one in which Katz began to paint outdoors, innovated with collages, invented the cutout, and met Ada del Moro, his wife and muse. The authors consider how he and his peers borrowed from one another, leaning on photography and mining both… Leer más

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. 169 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. First published, 1951. Tight, clean copy. "More than 500 drawings and text teach you to abstract the body into its major masses. Also specific areas of anatomy." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Drawing the figure; Building the figure; Balance; Rhythm; Turning or twisting; Wedging, passing and locking; Distribution of the masses; Light and shade; Mouldings; Proportion: scientific and ideal; How to measure; Movable masses; Head and features; Torso--front; Abdominal arch; The shoulder girdle; Torso--back; The upper limbs; Lower limbs.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

London: Momentum, 1997. 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations; 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Palm Springs, CA: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1987. 62 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, January 30 through March 15, 1987. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's name/half-title page, otherwise unmarked.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Florence and New York: Scala; Riverside, 1984. 80 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 28 cm. Library of Great Masters, volume 11. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Los Angeles: Harry Carmean, 1974. Cloth, 143 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 29 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the artist Harry Carmean, with a personalized inscription. A very good copy, age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Geneva, Switzerland: Weber, 1976. 245 pages, illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's ink stamp/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

New York: Alfred van der Marck Editions; A Tenth Avenue Book, 1987. v, 136 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 26 cm. SIGNED by the artist J. Seward Johnson on the limitation page, with a gift inscription (in a different hand) on the same leaf. Stated First Printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. SIGNED. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.