Chiaroscuro: Art in Prints, Number Three

New York, Kennedy Galleries, 1969. Spring 1969. Softcover. Butterscotch illustrated wraps, stapled, with black lettering; 64 pp. with 50 duotone illustrations. With an essay, The Chiaroscuro Print: A Brief History, and a catalogue of 193 works, followed by the illustrations. Good and tight with slight rubbing to covers .

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Book no.: 113480

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Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: World Art ; Italian Prints ; ; Commercial Exhibitions - World Art

Magic in Art: Paintings by Alan Davie; Primitive Sculpture

London, Gimpel Fils, 1968. Softcover. White pictorial wraps; 24 pp. with several bw images. Includes a list of 20 paintings by Davie as well as primitive sculpture, masks, etc. from Africa, Anatolia, the Cyclades, Western Asia, Oceania, and also Pre-Columbian and Eskimo works. Good and tight but with some sunning.

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Book no.: 116998

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Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: World Art ; Gimpel Fils ; ; Commercial Exhibitions - World Art

Adrian, P. G.

Essentialisme Et Pop Dans L'Art Actuel

Paris, ArtEd, 1971. Softcover. Pale wraps with black text on the spine. 79 pages; illustrated in black-and-white. Signed by the author on the front free end page. Addressed to artist Judith Rothschild. G+: Stains to the wraps. Stains to the textblocks. Clean body pages and solid binding.

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Book no.: 209424

USD 50,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 43.5 | £UK 38.25 | JP¥ 7710]

Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: World Art ; Philosophy ; ;

Alberro, Alexander

Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology

Cambridge, MIT Press, 1999. Hardcover. A white fabric casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in black down a white spine. Pages: (14), xv-lii, (3), 3-569. Contains several black-and-white images. Contents are as follows: Reconsidering conceptual art, 1966-1977 / Alexander Alberro -- The promise of conceptual art / Blake Stimson -- I. 1966-1967. A media art (manifesto) / Eduardo Costa, Raul Escari, Roberto Jacoby -- Compositions for audio structures / Christine Kozlov -- Position and program / Helio Oiticica -- Paragraphs on conceptual art / Sol LeWitt -- Excerpt from Placement as Language (1928) / Sigmund Bode -- The serial attitude / Mel Bochner -- Statement / Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, Niele Toroni -- Buren, Mosset, Toroni or Anybody / Michel Claura -- Remarks on air-conditioning: an extravaganza of blandness / Michael Baldwin -- A defense of the "conceptual" process in art / Adrian Piper -- General Scheme of the new objectivity / Helio Oiticica -- II. 1968. The dematerialization of art / Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler -- Concerning the article The dematerialization of art / Terry Atkinson -- Statement / Yvonne Rainer -- Statement to Lucy Lippard / Hanne Darboven -- Interview with Daniel Buren: art is no longer justifiable or setting the record straight / Georges Boudaille -- Tucuman Burns / Maria Teresa Gramuglio and Nicolas Rosa -- III. 1969. Paris commentary / Michel Claura -- Painting is obsolete / Gregory Battcock -- Art Workers' Coalition open hearing presentation / Dan Graham -- Introduction / Editors of Art-Language -- Sentences on conceptual art / Sol LeWitt -- Dialogue / Ian Burn -- Dialogue piece / Lee Lozano -- Maintenance art manifesto, proposal for an exhibition, "CARE" / Mierle Laderman Ukeles -- Patron's statement for "When attitudes become form" / John Murphy -- Politics and the avant-garde / Piero Gilardi -- Art tamed and wild / Jean Clay -- Introduction to konzeption/conception / Rolf Wedewer -- Beware / Daniel Buren -- Art after philosophy / Joseph Kosuth -- Introduction to 557,087 / Lucy R. Lippard -- IV. 1970. Conceptual art as art / Ian Burn -- Excerpts from Speculation (1967-1970) / Mel Bochner -- On exhibitions and the world at large / Charles Harrison and Seth Siegelaub -- Notes towards art work / Charles Harrison -- Introduction to Art in the mind / Athena Tacha Spear -- Introduction to Information / Kynaston McShine -- Alice's head: reflections on conceptual art / Jack Burnham -- De-aestheticization / Harold Rosenberg -- Contemporary Colonial art / Luis Camnitzer -- Insertions in ideological circuits / Cildo Meireles -- V. 1971-1974. Interview with Lawrence Weiner / Michel Claura -- An interview with Han Haacke / Jeanne Siegel -- Rules of thumb / Victor Burgin -- Propositions / Terry Smith -- Interview with Art-Language / Catherine Millet -- The trouble with art-as-idea / Max Kozloff -- Cultural Confinement / Robert Smithson -- Production for production's sake / Robert Smithson -- L'art conceptual / Michel Claura and Seth Siegelaub -- Postface, in Six years: the dematerialization of the art object, 1966 to 1972 / Lucy R. Lippard -- In support of meta-art / Adrian Piper -- All the "art" that's fit to show / Han Haacke -- VI. 1975-1977. A declaration of dependence / Sarah Charlesworth -- The art market: Affluence and degradation / Ian Burn -- 1975 / Joseph Kosuth -- Having-your-heart-in-the-right-place-is-not-making-history / Art & Language, UK -- The timeless lumpenness of radical cultural life / Art & Language, UK -- To be bien pensant .. or not to be. To be blind / Marcel Broodthaers -- Documentary and corporate violence / Allan Sekula -- To argue for a video of representation. To argue for a video against the mythology of everyday life / Martha Rosler -- Notes on reading the Post-Partum Document / Mary Kelly -- Moments in history in the works of Dan Graham / Benjamin H.D. Buchloch -- VII. Memoirs of conceptual art. The sixties: crisis and aftermath (or the memoirs of an ex-conceptual artist) / Ian Burn -- Statements / Cildo Meireles -- Conceptual art / Ian Wilson -- My works for magazine pages: a history of conceptual art / Dan Graham -- On conceptual art / Adrian Piper -- Statement / Robert Barry -- Yes, difference again: what history plays the first time around as tragedy, it repeats as farce / Victor Burgin -- Working with shadows, working with words / Deke Dusinberre, Seth Siegelaub, Daniel Buren, Michel Claura -- We aimed to be amateurs / Art & Language -- A conversation about conceptual art, subjectivity and the Post-Partum Document / Mary Kelly and Terry Smith -- Intention(s) / Joseph Kosuth -- Inside a New York art gang: selected documents of Art & Language, New York / Michael Corris -- Statement / Martha Rosler -- "Dada -- situations / tupamaros -- conceptualism": an interview with Luis Camnitzer / Blake Stimson -- VIII. Critical histories of conceptual art. Dan Graham's Kammerspiel / Jeff Wall -- Conceptual art 1962-1969: from aesthetic of administration to the critique of institutions / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- Conceptual art and critical judgement / Charles Harrison -- The logic of modernism / Adrian Piper -- Blueprint circuits: conceptual art and politics in Latin America / Mari Carmen Ramirez -- Unwritten histories of conceptual art / Thomas Crow. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker at the base of the spine on the dust jacket. Stamp on half-title page. Stamp on last page. Due date card on back free end page.

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Book no.: 203663

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Keywords: World Art ; Conceptual Art Anthology ; ;

Anderson, Jaynie

Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, and Convergence-- Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress of the History of Art

Carlton, Miegunyah Press, 2009. Hardcover. A thick black casebound book with the title in bronze downt the spine and across the cover. Pages: (6), vii-xvii, (1), 2-1108. Profusely illustrated with a majority color images. VG+ .

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Book no.: 203314

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Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: World Art ; 32nd International Congress of the History of Art ; ;

Arikha, Avigdor

On Depiction: Selected Writings on Art 1965-94

London, Bellew Publishing, 1995. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in green cloth with red jacket that has yellow titles. 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. VG. Some sunning to the top edge of the jacket and spine. Otherwise clean and unmarked.

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Book no.: 207245

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Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: World Art ; Arikha, Avigdor ; ;

Art & Design

Aspects of Modern Art

London, Academy Editions, 1900. Softcover. A white matte softcover book featuring a full-color illustration on the front cover. The title is printed in red text across the front cover and down the spine. The back cover also features a full-color illustration. The inside front cover has a full-color illustration, and the first page is a tear-out with a full-color graphic. The inside back cover is also illustrated in color. Pages: (7), 6-96. Profusely illustrated with both full-color and black-and-white illustrations. VG+: A book in excellent condition, with clean pages and tight binding.

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Book no.: 202125

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Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: World Art ; Art & Design ; ;

Aujoulat, Norbert

Lascaux: Movement, Space, and Time

New York, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2005. Hardcover. Color pictorial paper over boards; Matching dj.; 274 pp.; 226 color photos and illustrations. "Prehistorian and geologist Norbert Aujoulat spent ten years researching the Lascaux cave, painstakingly carrying out his research despite the limited access allowed to the site. His unprecedented skill and patience, combined with his scrupulously scientific approach, has opened up new paths of research. Taking into consideration the entire context of the cave, examining both the geology and archaeology of the area, Aujoulat gives a detailed analysis of the cave\'s architecture and takes us on a fascinating journey from the surface to the most hidden parts of the cave, offering us his stunning interpretation of these great wall paintings of horses, deer, and bison, which trace the birth of ancient mythologies - and of the beginning of modern art."--Jacket. Contents as follows: 1. The geological context -- 2. The underground environment -- 3. The cave of Lascaux -- 4. The archaeological context -- 5. The art of Lascaux -- 6. The construction of the images -- 7. Gesture, space and time. VG, immaculate exlibrary copy with labels on spine of dustjacket, mylar protected jacket, faint stamp at top of text block, top right corner of title-page, check-out slip inside rear cover.

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Book no.: 121620

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Keywords: World Art ; Lascaux Cave / Cave Art ; ;

Bag, Alex; Escobar, Dese; Schifferle, Klaudia

Girl and Doll: Alex Bag, Dese Escobar, Klaudia Schifferle: Works from the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation

Zurich, Switzerland, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, 2022. Softcover. Square Quarto. Softcover. B&w photo illustrated photo covers. 29 pages (some folded) : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm. curated by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen ; editor: Georg Frei : text editor: Catherine Schelbert. New. In shrinkwrap .

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Book no.: 204253

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Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: World Art ; Ammann Collection ; ; Commercial Exhibitions - World Art

Barnes, Leo

Critical Voices: Selections from the Hall Collection

Rochester, MI, Oakland University Art Gallery, 2022. Staplebound. A matte staplebound book. Pages: 1-32. Profusely illustrated with color images. VG+ .

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Book no.: 204593

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Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: World Art ; Oakland University Art Gallery ; ; Museum Exhibitions - American Art

Biebuyck, Daniel P; Nelly van den Abbeele

The Power of Headdresses : A Cross-Cultural Study of Forms and Functions

Ghent, Belgium, Snoeck Ducaju & Zoon, 1984. Hardcover. Illustrated dustjacket, black cloth-bound boards with silver embossed title on cover and spine. (6) 7-293 pp. including 260 color and b+w plates. The book presents a cross-cultural study of headdresses drawn for ethnic groups in Black Africa, North Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and the Americas. In the introduction the authors make a detailed examination of such features as the place of headdresses in the total system of body modifications, their special significance, their multiple functions and meanings, the modes of ownership, and the contexts in which these objects occur. In the second part of the book, headdresses of different formal and functional types are illustrated in 260 color and black and white plates, accompanied by drawings and contextural photographs. All objects are explained in elaborate descriptions providing identifications of regions, ethnic groups and forms and interpretations of functions, meanings and contexts. An extensive bibliography is appended to the book. VG .

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Book no.: 201859

USD 80,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 69.5 | £UK 61 | JP¥ 12336]

Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: American Decorative Arts ; Costume and Dress, Decorative Arts ; ; Costume / Dress - American

Birnbaum, Martin

Introductions: Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists

New York, Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1919. 500 copies printed in December 1919. Hardcover. Grayish boards with gilt title block and lettering. blue half-spine. Removable glassine cover. 137 deckle-edged pp. 24 BW plates. Very nice, bright copy of this edition..A series of essays describing the lives of careers of various artists, including Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Condor, Charles H. Shannon and Charles Ricketts, Leon Bakst, Maurice Sterne, Paul Manship, Elie Nadelman, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Albert Sterner, Robert Blum, Jules Pascin, Alfred Stevens, and John Flaxman. VG+. old publisher stock, never read, glassine remnants, some pages unopened .

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Book no.: 163128

USD 20,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 17.5 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 3084]

Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: World Art; American Artists; European Artists ; American and European Artists ; ; General Art - American

Brown, Claire [ed]

Rupert Wace Ancient Art 18

London, Rupert Wace Ancient Art, 2018. Paperback. Black and blue-illustrated oblong wraps; black spine with white lettering. [96] pp. A plethora of color plates. Catalogue price list and addendum inserted. A beautiful catalogue of ancient artifacts, including vases, amulets, weapons, statues, etc. from regions such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Arabia. VG. Minimal wear, clean and tight contents.

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Book no.: 168235

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Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: World Art; Ancient Art; Archaeology; Egypt; Mesopotamia; Arabia ; Ancient Art ; ;

Cate, Phillip Dennis; Sharp, Jane Ashton

Zimmerli Journal. No. 1, Fall 2003. Part 1: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union and Russian Art. Part 2: American and European Art

New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2003. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Matte illustrated paper boards in matte illustrated jacket. 154 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm. Nonconformist art from the Soviet Union and Russian art : scholarship and programs related to the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of nonconformist art from the Soviet Union and the George Riabov collection of Russian art / edited by Jane A. Sharp -- Identity and resistance: late Soviet abstract painting in the dodge collection / Jane A. Sharp -- Russian abstract painting after the thaw (thoughts on two recent exhibitions in Russia) / Andrei Erofeev -- Fantasy and figuration: selected works on paper from the Dodge Collection / Amy Byrzgel -- Photography as a sign of modernity in Soviet illustrated children's books, 1920s-1930s / Alla Rosenfeld -- Facing Stalin: conflicted memory and The origin of socialist realism / Daniel Belasco -- The A-Ya archive -- Memoirs of the Manezh exhibition, 1962 / Vladimir Yankilevsky -- American and European art : scholarship and programs related to American and European art at the Zimmerli / edited by Phillip Dennis Cate -- American sculpture from the Zimmerli Collection: new dimensions / Joan Marter [and others] -- The Henderson Collection of American stained glass and related design material / Francis Fletcher. VG+. One small bump at the head of jacket. Otherwise close to new.

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Book no.: 208504

USD 275,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 238.5 | £UK 209.25 | JP¥ 42405]

Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: World Art ; Zimmerli Collection ; ;

Charles E. Slatkin Gallery

Renoir, Degas: A Loan Exhibition of Drawings, Pastels, and Sculptures

New York, Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, 1958. Softbound. Illustrated wraps, 57pp, 59 plates in BW. Foreward by Vincent Price, gallery exhibition catalog containing 59 plates in black and white of drawings, pastels and sculpture by Degas and Renoir. VG- (moderate shelf wear to edges of covers) .

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Book no.: 125297

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Catalogue: World Art

Keywords: World Art ; Renoir / Degas ; ; Commercial Exhibitions - European Art