Resultados de búsqueda: Patronage / State & Government from LEFT COAST BOOKS

1988. Postcard in near-fine condition, a little age-toned. Unmailed. Painted aluminum, 1987. Cards are sent in stiff mailers.. Very Good.

Los Angeles: Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, 2008. [86] pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Exhibition held at the Municipal Art Gallery of Los Angeles, May 16 to July 13, 2008, and performances held at Grand Performances, June 13 to 14, 2008. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "This catalog accompanies an exhibition and performance series sponsored by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs featuring its C.O.L.A. 2008 Individual Artist Fellowship recipients in the visual arts, literary arts, and performing arts." Includes: Judie Bamber, Erin Cosgrove, Joyce Dallal, Lewis Klahr, Suzanne Lacy, Timothy Nolan, Stas Orlovski, Louise Sandhaus, and Alex Slade.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Silton, Susan (Designed by). 4to.

Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1985. 88 pages, illustrations; 21 x 23 cm. Exhibition held at the Clark Art Institute, October 12, 1985 to January 5, 1986. Withdrawn from non-circulating museum library, with fewer than usual markings, otherwise very good. First Edition.. 1st. Paperback. Good. Oblong.

Austin, TX: Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, the University of Texas at Austin; Distributed by the University of Texas Press, 1989. xiii, 185 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, June 16 to August 13, 1989, and at 3 other Texas locations through March 1990. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's blind stamp, otherwise unmarked. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Cologne: Taschen, 2003. 319 pages, illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly colour); 38 cm. Text in English, French and German. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Combining fact and fiction in a way typical of propaganda art, posters of Mao Zedong exuded positive vibes and seemed to suggest that Mao was an omnipresent force that would accompany China to happiness and greatness. This book brings together a selection of colorful propaganda artworks and cultural artifacts from photographer Michael Wolf's vast collection of Chinese propaganda posters, many of which are now extremely rare." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The girl in the poster, by Anchee Min; Looking at the propaganda posters, by Duo Duo; The rise and fall of the Chinese propaganda poster, by Stefan R. Landsberger.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

Baden, Switzerland: Lars Muller Publishers, 2008. Cloth, 423 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author Jack [Masey], with a personalized inscription. A near-fine copy of the first printing, spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: A warm welcome to the Cold War: Marshall Plan traveling caravans, Western Europe, 1948-1951; Atoms for India: "Atomics" Exhibition, United States Pavilion, Indian Industries Fair, New Delhi, India, 1955; A splendid pleasure dome: United States Pavilion, Jeshyn International Fair, Kabul, Afghanistan, 1956; Walls in Berlin: United States Exhibitions, George C. Marshall House, West Berlin, 1957-1959; Atomic Europe: United States Pavilion, Universal and International Exposition, Brussels, Belgium, 1958; High noon at Sokolniki Park: American National Exhibition, Moscow, USSR, 1959; Traveling hopefully: American… Leer más

New York: Da Capo Press, 2001. xiii, 335 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Wraps rubbed. Stated First Da Capo Press Edition. Remainder mark/tail edge. Actress Jane Alexander headed the NEA during the Clinton years. "Jane Alexander had never been involved in mainstream politics and was happily engaged in her acting career when she was asked to consider becoming head of the embattled National Endowment for the Arts in the early 1990s. When, during her first visit to the Hill, Senator Strom Thurmond barked at her, 'You gonna fund pornography?' she knew it would be a rough ride. Nothing had quite prepared her for the role of madame chairman. Her tenure coincided with the ascent of the infamous 104th Congress, presided over by Speaker Newt Gingrich, and its campaign to eliminate the Endowment completely. In Command Performance, Alexander brings a Washington outsider's perspective and an actor's eye for the telling human detail to an anecdote-filled… Leer más

Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1965. Cloth, 427 pages, illustrations, diagrams, maps. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. This is full of high-quality black and white photos of statues, engravings, and other artwork in the Capitol.. Hardcover. Fine. 4to.

New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2000. Pictorial boards, xiii, 148 pages, colour illustrations; 21 x 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First printing, July 2000." Catalogue of "CowParade New York 2000," an installation of more than 500 works of art exhibited in public and private venues in five boroughs of New York City. Possibly the dumbest public art project ever conceived; Giuliani era in NYC. "COW PARADE - the Phenomenon that swept Chicago last summer is coming to New York. Imagine it - more than 500 life-size fiberglass cows, decorated by renowned artists and local school children alike, on display in parks, plazas, and other public spaces throughout New York City. Following the 1999 CowParade in Chicago, the most successful public art program in that city's history with an estimated 10 million views, CowParade New York begins June 15 and continues for 10 weeks. And at the end of it the cows are auctioned for charity. Chicago's cows raised more than $3.4… Leer más

New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2000. xiii, 148 pages, colour illustrations; 21 x 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Corner crease/front cover, otherwise as new. Catalogue of "CowParade New York 2000," an installation of more than 500 works of art exhibited in public and private venues in five boroughs of New York City. One of the worst examples of public sculpture.. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

New York: New Press, 2000. ix, 509 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. First printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. An excellent, eye-operning book. "During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession--but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA--whether they knew it or not. Called 'the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA's] activities between 1947 and 1967' by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA's undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA's astonishing… Leer más

Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1966. 458 pages, 16 leaves with 64 illustrations; 19 cm. Text in German/Text Deutsch. GUT. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Bräunung. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, expected browning. Die Bildenden Kunste im Dritten Reich: Eine Dokumentation = The Fine Arts in the Third Reich: A Documentation.. Paperback. Good. 12mo.

Washington D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1992. ix, 84 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. CONTENTS: The first capitol dome; The new dome; "Honor, name, family": the Megis-Walter troubles; The dome's redesign of 1859; Contract and war clouds; "That magnificent dome".. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Washington D.C. and Chapel Hill, NC: National Gallery of Art; University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Cloth, 253 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, December 2, 2002 to March 2, 2003. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "This beautifully illustrated book commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the National Gallery of Art's acquisition of the Index of American Design. Widely regarded as one of the New Deal's most important art projects, the Index began in 1935 as a unit of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Its aim was to compile and eventually publish a visual archive of American folk, popular, and decorative art from the time of settlement to about 1900. The approximately 1,000 artists involved in the project created more than 18,000 meticulous watercolor portraits of Americana.… Leer más

Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. xiii, 297 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely "Using the iconography of New Deal murals and plays to interpret the cultural history of the 1930s, this work demonstrates that the visual and dramatic images of each form contain an underlying vocabulary of gender a stock of commonly used poses, subjects, settings, and dramatic roles that encode characteristics of manhood and womanhood." - Publisher. CONTENTS: It can't happen here: failed men and spirited women; The domesticated frontier: the comradely ideal as pioneer democracy; The farm family: the comradely ideal as Idyll and expose; Manly work; Masculine expertise: science and technology; "The women shall save us": antiwar art and drama; Youth: emergent manhood and womanhood; Sex and shopping: critiques of… Leer más

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000. 237 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Front board lightly soiled. Dust jacket with a creased front flap. Another copy available. "From 'Piss Christ' to elephant dung, a decade of art wars has agitated public opinion and incited art world fury but has yielded little conventional wisdom about what ails our art institutions. In this sharp-eyed and authoritative investigation, Lynne Munson identifies an intolerance that overtook the art world in the postmodern era. By exploring the personalities and workings of such major institutions as the National Endowment for the Arts and Harvard University's Department of Fine Arts, she shows how a new dogmatism established itself in museums, academia, and even the artist's studio, where postmodernism favored experimental art at the expense of the traditional, and placed limits on what might be funded, exhibited, studied, and created. Drawing on original… Leer más

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000. 237 pages, [8] pp. of plates, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Right-wing claptrap. "From 'Piss Christ' to elephant dung, a decade of art wars has agitated public opinion and incited art world fury but has yielded little conventional wisdom about what ails our art institutions. In this sharp-eyed and authoritative investigation, Lynne Munson identifies an intolerance that overtook the art world in the postmodern era. By exploring the personalities and workings of such major institutions as the National Endowment for the Arts and Harvard University's Department of Fine Arts, she shows how a new dogmatism established itself in museums, academia, and even the artist's studio, where postmodernism favored experimental art at the expense of the traditional, and placed limits on what might be funded, exhibited, studied, and created. Drawing on original research, including more than a hundred… Leer más

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. 135 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Halfway between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, on axis with the Washington Monument, the stone walls of the stunning new FDR Memorial rise behind the cherry trees. The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, written by the world-renowned architect who designed the structure, is the only book to tell the complete story of this remarkable memorial, twenty years in the making. At once a unique visual biography of FDR and a guided walk-through of the memorial, this exclusive illustrated history -- complete with archival photographs, original drawings, sketches, landscape plans, and more -- gives an insider's view of a new national treasure. A tribute to FDR and his era, this volume will be an inspiration to architects and designers, a must have for all interested in FDR, and the perfect… Leer más

Jackson, MS: Mississippi Commission for International Cultural Exchange, 2004. Cloth, 299 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Mississippi Arts Pavilion, March 1 to September 6, 2004. Ppresented by the Mississippi Commission for International Cultural Exchange, Inc. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with age-toned flaps, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Old Masters Picture Gallery; Collection of Drawings, Prints, and Photographs; Sculpture Collection; Green Vault; Porcelain Collection; Museum of Decorative Arts; Armory; Hunting Castle Moritzburg; Coin Cabinet.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2009. 159 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Guidebook.