Resultados de búsqueda: Movements / Post-Modernism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Harper & Row; Icon Editions Ser., 1989. xiv, 258 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. First published, 1988. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Stated First Edition. Essays from the Village Voice (where Levin was a regular critic), Art News, Arts Magazine, and other publications. Post-modernist trends in art. CONTENTS: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. Farewell to Modernism; II. Absence: The '70s; Afterlife: The '80s; Index of Artists.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1976. xiii, 434 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Avant-garde (Aesthetics).. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1976. xiii, 434 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Subtle corner fold on first few leaves. Another copy available. Avant-garde (Aesthetics).. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. ix, 643 pages, illustrations; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and best-informed art critics in Britain today. Richard Cork is now senior art critic at The Times (London). He is the author of numerous works, including Art Beyond the Gallery in Early Twentieth-Century England (winner of the Bannister Fletcher Award for best art book of the year), David Bomberg, and A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War, all published by Yale University Press." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Whitney Library of Design for the Architectural League of New York and the American Federation of Arts, 1980. Cloth, 127 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. CONTENTS: On the road to the palace of wisdom; Bonham House; Hubbard House; Moore House, Orinda; Sea Ranch Condominium; Sea Ranch Club I; Johnson House; Budge House; Moore House, New Haven; Santa Barbara Faculty Club; Moore House, Centerbrook; Koizim House; Xanadune; Burns House; A house near New York; Kingsmill Housing; Swan House; Piazza d'Italia; Kuhio Shores Mauka; Best Products Showroom.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 210 pages; 21 cm. Translation of: Zitadellenkultur. Tight, clean copy. First U.S. Edition. Fine DJ. "'Citadel' evokes a rich mixture of associations--from images of urban centers of commerce and culture to war and the need to defend what is fortified within. Preserving its layered meanings, O. K. Werckmeister plucks the word from its usual moorings and employs it as a compelling metaphor in a brilliant retrospective of contemporary Western culture." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

London and New York: Architectural Design; St. Martin's Press, 1982. 128 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 28 cm. Architectural design; 5-6, 1982. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "The narrative of recent architecture tells how Post-Modernism, was born to disreputable Modernist parents, left home and took to the road, how he went to Shingle-style and Neo-Corbusian American, how he served in the household of Late-Modernism, and how, after more adventures - such as the short-lived affairs he had with Queen-Anne Revival and Collegiate Gothic - he returned to a Classicism that was to be qualified as Free-style." - Introduction. Contributions by: Leon Krier; Jose-Ignacio Linazasoro; Dimitris Fatouros; Manuel Iniguez; Alberto Ustarroz; Demetri Porphyrios; Miguel Garay; Edward Jones; Aldo Rossi; Alexander and Charis Calligas; and Giorgio Grassi.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Smithsonian Institution Press,, 1984. 184 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Exhibition held October 4, 1984 to January 6, 1985. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. An important exhibition focusing on Conceptual and post-Minimalist art.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. ..

Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Smithsonian Institution Press,, 1990. 196 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, February 8 to May 6, 1990. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Lenders to the Exhibition; Acknowledgements, by Kathy Halbreich; Foreword by James T. Demetrion; Culture and Commentary: An Eighties Perspective, by Kathy Halbreich; Checklist of the Exhibition; The Prince and the Teenager, by Maurice Culot; The Human Spirit in the Era of Genetic Engineering, by Vijak Mahdavi and Bernardo Nadal-Ginard; The Money Game, by Michael M. Thomas; Minds and Screens: Mirrors for the Postmodern, by Sherry Turkle; Representation and Sexual Identity, by Simon Watson; Exhibitions and Bibliographies, by Anna Brooke. Includes: Laurie Anderson, Francesco Clemente, James Coleman, Tony Cragg, Katharina Frisch, Robert Gober, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine,… Leer más

Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery, 1987. 34 pages, [2] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), portrait; 30 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 8 August to 20 September 1987. Near-fine. Tight, clean copy. Faint sticker shadow/front cover. A major exhibition on the American Neo-Expressionist, or post-modernist, painter known for layering and superimposing irreconcilable images, and often criticised for misogynist representations of women.. 1st.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

East Hampton, NY: Guild Hall Museum, 1994. [16] pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Exhibition held August 13 to October 10, 1994. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1986. 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., October 9 to November 30, 1986, and at other North American locations through 1988. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "This volume is a collection of works by American painter David Salle (b. 1952), who helped define the post-modern sensibility by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial language. The works in this book are derived from the catalog of an exhibition held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., October 9 to November 30, 1986, and at other North American locations through 1988. Salle's paintings comprise what appear to be randomly juxtaposed images, or images painted on top of each other with deliberately primitive paint… Leer más

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1989. 264 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Constructivist origins; Theory and philosophy; Deconstruction and art; Deconstruction and architecture.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York and Boston: Museum of Modern Art; New York Graphic Society, 1988. 104 pages, illustrations; 31 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition, "Deconstructivist Architecture," June 23 to August 30, 1988, directed by Philip Johnson, guest curator, and Mark Wigley, associate curator, assisted by Frederieke Taylor. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, with a small corner crease/back cover. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

New York and New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2017. Pictorial boards, 235 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Published in conjunction with "Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 13, 2017 through January 14, 2018. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the rapid expansion of industrial capitalism in the 1950s. Skepticism of science and technology--along with fear of its capability to promote mass destruction--developed into a distrust of rationalism, which in the arts had the paradoxical result of extracting irrational effects… Leer más

New York and London: Writers & Readers, 1997. Ilv, 186 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Illustrated by Van Howell. Tight, clean copy.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Cloth, 348 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. "Is architecture in a state of crisis? Or are the critics simply in a state of confusion? Either way, the problems of architecture today are rooted in the history of architectural ideas. Those ideas--from the Picturesque to the Modern Movement; from the Neo-Classicism and the Gothic Revival to New Brutalism and Post-Modernism--form the basis of this original and highly readable book. Ranging widely over English architecture during the last two hundred years--Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Modern--The Dilemma of Style explores the way in which generations of architects and theorists have searched for a key to the conundrum of style. Richly illustrated and densely argued, with scores of quotations and hundreds of references, this is not another history of English architecture: it is almost an encyclopaedia of… Leer más

Orleans: Editions ZYX, 1994. 164 pages; illustrations; 28 x 23 cm. Inaugural issue. COMME NEUF. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Contains a collection of critical essays on "the proper name.". 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Serial.

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2003. ix, 134 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Includes: Chip Kidd, Stefan Sagmeister, Chase Design Group, CreamO1 Federation, and others. "FOUNDation: Transforming Found Objects into Digital Assemblage showcases the work of more than thirty internationally recognized designers who have used found objects to inspire their digitally generated designs. Featured designers include Chip Kidd, Stefan Sagmeister, Chase Design Group, Cream01 Federation, and more. Each innovative design - ranging from posters to Web sites, fonts, skateboards, and t-shirts - is paired with text from the designer elaborating on how the piece was made, special effects used, and the creative process behind it all." - Publisher. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Holly Solomon Gallery, 1991. [23] pages, colour illustrations; 16 x 16 cm. Exhibition Catalogue. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Cibachrome photography by Frank Majore (b. 1948) affiliated with the post-modernist movement of the 1980s.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 12mo. Collectible.