Ornamentalism: the New Decorativeness in Architecture & Design by JENSEN, Robert, and Patricia Conway

London and Ostfildern, Germany: Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art and Hatje Cantz Publishers, 1999. First edition / First printing. Illustrated boards. Very fine in fine mylar dust jacket, with extremely light rubbing.

Glued binding. Audience General/trade. 300 p
2nd edition

Paintings in the Uffizi & Pitti Galleries - Mina Gregori (Italian Museums 1994 Hardcover w/ DJ) 1st English Edition
ISBN: 0821220845
Copyright 1994, published by Bulfinch Press (NY); printed in Italy. Stated "First English-language Edition." 648 pages. Approximately 12-inches tall, 10-inches wide, and 3-inches think. Dust jacket has a small tear at the spine tail, scratches, nicks, impressions, and tanning along the edges. Blue hardcovers have spine lean and a slight wave to the textblock likely from the weight of the volume. No writing or markings. Overall, it is in Very Good Minus (VG-) condition.

Los Angeles: Jazz Press, 1980. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 104pp, printed wrappers. This 1980 Los Angeles "Magazine of Literature + Visual Arts" includes 10 pages of work by and tributes to Wallace Berman (by Jerome Rothenberg and Clayton Eshleman). Clean, unmarked copy.

Livingston, Mont: Clark City Press, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. The Missouri Headwaters was issued with a series of 12 lithographs, which are reproduced in the book, along with entertaining comments from the author/artist. The white cover may be just starting to yellow and has light rubbing. Contents of the book are clean and tight.

Paris: Centre Culturel Canadien, 2002 First printing in tall paper covers with French flaps. Inscribed by Mr. Lum on the front endpaper. Exhibition catalogue. 100 pp. Colour illustrtions. Very minor rubbing to covers otherwise Fine.

San Francisco / New York: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / Thames and Hudson, 2007. First edition / First printing. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Very fine. Issued without dust jacket, a clear archival jacket is supplied. A large, heavy Art book, extra shipping charges will apply.

Seattle: William Traver Gallery, 1998. Signed on the title page by Lino Tagliapietra. First edition / First printing. White perfect bound wrappers. Fine without dust jacket. Beautifully produced exhibition catalogue. Archival clear mylar jacket is supplied.

Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 1992. First edition / First printing. Gilt stamped black cloth. Very fine without dust jacket as issued. Archival clear mylar jacket is supplied. One of five thousand casebound copies.

Yale University Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW in publisher's shrink-wrap. hardcover, Yale University Press, 2014, 272 pages. Ships from Hawaii. This compelling examination of the work and lives of Expressionist artists Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter and Dadaists Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber illuminates the roles of gender and the applied arts in abstraction's early days. Both couples, like Expressionism and Dada more generally, strived to transcend the fragmented individualism promoted by capitalism. Through abstraction and by unsettling the boundaries between the decorative and fine arts, they negotiated tensions between the philosophical and commercial aspects of their production. Both pairs were feminist―the women ambitious and the men supportive of their work―but theirs was a feminism that embraced differences between the sexes. This innovative look at the personal relationships of two influential artist couples shows how everyday life―mundane concerns along with… Read More