Resultados de búsqueda: Movements / Social Realism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1988. 120 pages, illustrations; 23 x 25 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Committed to Print, January 31 to April 19, 1988 held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.

London: Allan Wingate, 1963. Cloth, 93 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Joint edition with the Publishing House of Czechoslovak Artists. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corner bumped. Age toning. Dust jacket worn & chipped at the crown/spine. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Foreword; The Beginnings of Tapestry-Making in Czechoslovakia; The Work of Frantisek Kysela; The Tapestries of Antonin Kybal; Students and Graduates of Kybal's School; The Problem of Tapestry Style; Alois Fisarek and His School; Tapestries by Painters and Graphic Artists; Conclusion; List of Artists and Their Works. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1981. Cloth, xxvi, 229 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Texas Pan American series. Based on the author's thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977 published under the title: Nueva Presencia, the human image in contemporary Mexican art. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with light edgewear & a slightly sunned spine (bold & legible titles), protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1989. Cloth, 127 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Russian artistic heritage; Socialist realism today; Tradition of monumental art; Figurative painting and the rejection of socialist realism; Social themes in the Gorbachev era; Russian artists' spiritual search; Text and image; Art and ideology; Russian artists and international culture; Performance art.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Critics Group [1937] A good reading copy with moderate shelfwear to wraps & light marginalia. Includes Milton W. Brown's essay "The Marxist Approach to Art.". 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo. Serial.

Cologne: Taschen, 2005. 95 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour); 23 cm. Translated from the German. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "It was as a revolutionary and troublemaker that Picasso, Dal and Andre Breton described the husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, but he was also responsible for creating a public art that was both highly advanced and profoundly accessible. This study presents the work of this extraordinary artist." - Publisher. CONTENTS: An artist is born; Apprentice years in Europe; The mural: a post-revolutionary ideal; Communist ideology for capitalist clients; From recognition to renown; Dream of peace and unity: the last journey; Diego Rivera, 1886-1957: a chronology.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Direccion General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1987. 385 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Text in Spanish/Texto en espanol. BIEN. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Laminate wrinkling on wraps. Clean inside copy, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Paperback. Good. 4to.

Detroit and New York: Detroit Institute of Arts in association with W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1986. Cloth, 372 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 28 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at Detroit Institute of Arts, February 10 to April 27, 1986; and 4 other locations around the world. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Errata slip inserted. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Detroit and New York: Founders Society Detroit Institute of Arts in association with W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1986. 372 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 28 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at Detroit Institute of Arts, Feb. 10-April 27, 1986; and 4 other locations around the world. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Drawing Society, 1957. 64 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps lightly soiled, age toning. Inaugural issue. Illustrated with drawings by contemporary American artists, chiefly in a Social Realist style.. 1st.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Serial.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1998. 350 pages, [52] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "This engrossing biography of Diego Rivera, the brilliant Mexican artist and revolutionary, captures the explosively passionate nature that made Rivera one of the twentieth-century's most gifted and controversial painters. / Patrick Marnham's books include Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Africa; The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon, which won the Marsh Biography Award and was nominated for a 1994 Edgar Allen Poe Award; and So Far from God: A Journey to Central America, which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 350 pages, [44] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "This engrossing biography of Diego Rivera, the brilliant Mexican artist and revolutionary, captures the explosively passionate nature that made Rivera one of the twentieth-century's most gifted and controversial painters. / Patrick Marnham's books include Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Africa; The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon, which won the Marsh Biography Award and was nominated for a 1994 Edgar Allen Poe Award; and So Far from God: A Journey to Central America, which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc. Publisher; Elephant Paperbacks, 1989. 303 pages, illustrations; 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. First edition thus. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "A memorable collection of fiction, art, poetry and protest from the radical underground magazine that shocked American manners and morals." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1985. 120 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Edition of 3000 copies. Exhibition held at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California and other institutions, June 29, 1985 through May 18, 1986. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate edgewear to wraps, age toning. Known for his expressionist paintings and book illustrations, Rockwell Kent was also a lifelong Communist. CONTENTS: Lenders to the Exhibition; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Rockwell Kent, The Restless, by Fridolf Johnson; Rockwell Kent: Accents on the Positive, by Richard V. West; "An Enkindled Eye": The Paintings of Rockwell Kent, by Richard V. West; Select Bibliography; List of Color Plates; Catalogue Entries.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Mexico City; Mexico D. F.: Secretaria de Gobernacion: SEP, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1980. 88 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Text in Spanish/Texto en espanol. Exhibition held November 15, 1980 to February 21, 1981. MUY BIEN. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. National Tribute Exhibition to Emiliano Zapata in the Centenary of His Birth (1879-1979).. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Lanham MD: Scarborough House, 1990. xxi, 457 pages, [96] pages of plates, illustrations; 23 cm. Originally published: New York: Stein and Day, 1963. Good+. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. x, 394 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "'A true poem,' Walt Whitman proclaimed in 1852, 'is the daily newspaper'--and American culture was never the same again. Like a blast of cold air in a stuffy drawing room, Whitman's campaign to give artistic representation to gritty reality shocked the genteel artistic elite of the 1850s; but the brassy poet's efforts helped generate a revolution in American life and thought. Four decades later, Willa Cather could declare that the 'public demands realism, and they will have it.' In Facing Facts, David Shi provides the most comprehensive history to date of the rise of realism in American culture. He vividly captures the character and sweep of this all-encompassing movement--ranging from Winslow Homer to the rise of the Ash Can school, from Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Dreiser. / David Shi is President of Furman… Leer más

Washington, D. C.: Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. xxi, 232 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. A great resource, indispensable to anyone working on Rockwell Kent.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Munich, London, and New York: Prestel Publishing; Pegasus Library, 2001. 118 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. "This best-selling book, now available in an attractive flexi format, reveals the story of two creative geniuses whose important contributions to twentieth-century art were equaled by the public's fascination with their tumultuous romance. This captivating book delves into the forces that shaped Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's lives and art, and made them important painters in their own right. Elegant reproductions of their best-known works and historical photographs illustrate the thoughtful text, which explores the political, social, and cultural upheaval that was at the center of their relationship. What emerges is a portrait of the artists, the tension between their love for each other and their commitment to their work, and the indelible legacy of paintings, murals, and words left behind." - Publisher..… Leer más

Munich, London, and New York: Prestel Publishing; Pegasus Library, 1999. Cloth, 118 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "This best-selling book, now available in an attractive flexi format, reveals the story of two creative geniuses whose important contributions to twentieth-century art were equaled by the public's fascination with their tumultuous romance. This captivating book delves into the forces that shaped Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's lives and art, and made them important painters in their own right. Elegant reproductions of their best-known works and historical photographs illustrate the thoughtful text, which explores the political, social, and cultural upheaval that was at the center of their relationship. What emerges is a portrait of the artists, the tension between their love for each other and their commitment to their work, and the indelible legacy of paintings, murals, and words left behind." -… Leer más