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New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1990. 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Robert Miller Gallery, January 4 to February 3, 1990. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Before Al Held became a 'hard edge" painter in the sixties and beyond, he was an abstract expressionist. This exhibition, with an introduction by Ashton, focuses on his works of the mid-fifties, after a period spent in Paris influenced by tachiste painting and existentialism. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., 1983. [44] pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, November 2 to December 30, 1983. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Pavilion of Spain, New York World's Fair, 1964. 1 volume (chiefly illustrations); 24 cm. Text in English and Spanish. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards, age toning.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.

Los Angeles: A.R.T. Press, 1992. 46 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Los Angeles: Honor Fraser, 2011. 63 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held May 21 to July 9, 2011 at Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine lightly bumped at the heel. . 1st.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Hato Rey, Puerto Rico; Panama City, Panama: La Casa del Arte; Arteconsult, 2004. 12 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Text in Spanish/Texto en espanol. MUY BIEN. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Title page clipped/top right corner. Argentine artist.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc., 1967. 60 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Marlborough Gerson Gallery, New York, April 1967. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Oakland, CA: Mills College Art Gallery, 1966. [16] pages, illustrations; 16 x 23 cm. Exhibition held February 20 to March 16, 1955. Wraps fine, clean copy. Berkeley, CA-based painter of biomorphic abstractions.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Oblong.

Los Angeles, CA: Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc., 2004. 95 pages, colour illustrations; 23 x 24 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, Calif., November 5, 2004 to January 15, 2005. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1951. 50 pages, illustrations (some colour), portrait; 26 cm. Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 5 to February 18, 1951; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 4 to April 22, 1951; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, May 9 to July 9, 1951. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Seattle: Seattle World's Fair; Century 21 Expo, Inc., 1962. 160 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Exhibition held April 21 to October 21, 1962. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. 1st.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. ..

New York: Quill; William Morrow, 1993. 480 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. "Art interprets the visible world, physics charts its unseen workings--making the two realms seem completely opposed. But in Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions. From the classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from Aristotle to Einstein, aritsts have foreshadowed the discoveries of scientists, such as when Money and Cezanne intuited the coming upheaval in physics that Einstein would initiate. In this lively and colorful narrative, Leonard Shlain explores how artistic breakthroughs could have prefigured the visionary insights of physicists on so many occasions throughtout history. Provocative and original, Art & Physics is a seamless integration of the romance of art and the drama of science.and exhilarating history of… Leer más

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers; Icon Editions, 1976. xv, 265 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Originated as 7 lectures delivered at Cooper Union in March and April of 1974. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear, age toning. CONTENTS: I: Introduction: dimensions of cause; 1. On overdetermination; 2. Minds in history; 3. From id to ego; II: Manet: the primacy of culture; 1. An obsession with sincerity; 2. The cutting edge of wit; 3. A stroller in Paris; III: Gropius: the imperatives of craft; 1. The cathedral of the present; 2. On individuality and collaboration; 3. The informed intuition; IV: Mondrian: the claims of privacy; 1. In solitary company; 2. The assault on nature; 3. Shapes of reticence.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo Publishers, 2016. Pictorial boards, 493 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, 24 June to 25 September 2016; ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 21 October 2016 to 29 January 2017; Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 6 March to 28 May 2017. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The Second World War also shattered the art world. "'Facing the Future: Art in Europe 1945-1968' shows how such artists as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Ossip Zadkine, Henry Moore, Renato Guttuso, Fernand Le ger, Yves Klein, Gerhard Richter and Lucian Freud worked through the trauma of 1940-1945 and the Cold War and started to explore new directions in art. This reference work includes some 400 works by 150 artists and for the first time brings together post-war art from both Western and Eastern… Leer más

New York and Berkeley, CA: Whitney Museum of American Art; University of California Press, 1997. 276 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Richard Diebenkorn" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, October 9, 1997 to January 11, 1998. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Front cover slightly sunned/top edge. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Recognized as a major figure in postwar American painting, Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was an artist strongly identified with California but whose work is beloved throughout the United States and the rest of the world. This catalog is the most comprehensive volume on the artist now available. Jane Livingston's extensively researched biographical essay covers Diebenkorn's entire career and concentrates on the artist's inner life and purposes as revealed in his paintings. Ruth Fine deals primarily with the figurative… Leer más

San Francisco: Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2014. Pictorial boards, 1 volume (unpaged), illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "A collection of over 50 mandala paintings by Henry Sultan. Colorful and varied, these mandalas range in style from abstract geometric forms to visual narratives. In his work, Sultan explores color and shape, presenting square, circular, and diamond mandalas in every conceivable hue. The detailed paintings allow the viewer to meditate and marvel at the universal geometry that makes the mandala an important spiritual art form. Three sections of work are covered in this volume: geometric mandalas, figurative mandalas, and 'landscape of the mind' mandalas. At times the paintings are extremely personal, as Sultan uses the format to unlock inner feelings and emotions. The mandalas presented in this book represent a… Leer más

New York: Museum of Modern Art: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1991. Cloth, 160 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Art of the forties.[held at] the Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 24 to April 30, 1991. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with red titles on spine faded, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Richard E. Oldenburg; Introduction, by Riva Castleman; Civilization and its opposite in the nineteen-forties, by Guy Davenport; Plates; Chronology.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2009. Cloth, 207 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "With more than 170 sculptures, drawings, and paintings, this is the first comprehensive view of the art of Renaissance man Arthur Carter. Successful in journalism and business, and trained as a classical pianist, Carter is an accomplished artist in the modernist tradition. His abstract sculptures allude to human gestures and interactions. Though firmly grounded, they appear on the verge of flight. Though silent, they suggest song. His lyrical drawings and rigorous paintings, often studies for sculptures, are informed by a deep familiarity with the artists he admires most: Mondrian, Kandinsky, Arp, Bracque, and Picasso. Art historian and journalist… Leer más

Andover, Cambridge, and Washington, D.C.: Addison Gallery of American Art; MIT Press in association with the Phillips Collection, 1997. 200 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover and The Philips Collection, Washington, D.C. and held at The Philips Collection, Washington, D.C., 20 September 1997 to 4 January 1998; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 15 January to 12 April 1998; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 25 April to 12 July 1998; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2 August to 4 October 1998. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/top edge. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the firstartist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied acentral place in writings on early American modernism. This bookaccompanies the… Leer más

Andover, Cambridge, and Washington, D.C.: Addison Gallery of American Art; MIT Press in association with the Phillips Collection, 1997. Cloth, 200 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover and The Philips Collection, Washington, D.C. and held at The Philips Collection, Washington, D.C., 20 September 1997 to 4 January 1998; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 15 January to 12 April 1998; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 25 April to 12 July 1998; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2 August to 4 October 1998. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the firstartist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied acentral place in writings on early American modernism. This bookaccompanies the first… Leer más