Movements / Abstract Expressionism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Museum of Modern Art; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1998. Cloth, Published on the occasion of the exhibition herld at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 1, 1998 to February 2, 1999, and the Tate Gallery, London, March 11 to June 6, 1999. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear, age toning. Dust jacket… Read more about this item

New York: Xavier Fourcade, Inc., 1976. [12] pages, all colour illustrations; 24 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, November 23 to December 31, 1976. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1978. Cloth, 296 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Based on the retrospective exhibition presented at the Guggenheim Museum in 1978. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Foreedge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated… Read more about this item

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New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company; Back Bay Books, 2019. xvi, 926 pages, [48] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated… Read more about this item

New York: Matthew Marks Gallery; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 1997. 54 pages, colour illustrations; 25 cm. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Matthew Marks Gallery, 25 January to 29 March 1997. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Museum of Modern Art; Simon and Schuster, 1956. Rebound in library boards, 95 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour), portraits; 24 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held May 29 through September 9, 1956. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings. No writing in text. Includes: Ernest Briggs, James Brooks, Sam Francis, Fritz Glarner, Philip Guston, Raoul Hague, Grace Hartigan,… Read more about this item

New York: George Braziller, 1990. 165 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Revised paperback edition. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Art chronicle; Jackson Pollock; Franz Kline; David Smith; Robert Motherwell; Reuben Nakian; How to proceed in the arts; Cavallon paints a picture; Larry Rivers: Why I paint as I do; Helen Frankenthaler; Introducing the sculpture of George… Read more about this item

New York: Horizon Press Inc., 1959. Half-cloth, 285 pages; 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. A collection of essays by art critic Harold Rosenberg, leading champion of the Abstract Expressionists (which he called "action painting"), especially Willem de Kooning (who designed the jacket for this book). His… Read more about this item

New York: Thames & Hudson; World of Art Series, 1990. 216 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: 1. Introduction ; 2. Background and Early Work; 3. The Question of a Heritage; 4. The Ideographic Picture; 5. The Process of Painting; 6. Being and Field; 7. The Later Work; 8. After Abstract Expressionism;… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Books, 1979. x, 246 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. This classic text on Abstract Expressionism considers the movement in relation to the cultural milieu of the thirties and forties (the influence of the Depression and World War Two) and intellectual history (thinkers such as Nietzsche, Dewey, Freud, Jung, Trotsky, Sartre, etc.). "With the… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1966. 254 pages, illustrations; 19 cm. D178. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Once upon a time, almost everyone interested in contemporary art owned a copy of this book. Now, it's relatively scarce. Still a great collection of essays by leading art critics. CONTENTS: The… Read more about this item

New York: Counterpoint, 2003. 165 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In the years following his controversial 1970 exhibition at the Marlborough Galleries, Philip Guston was generally viewed as yesterday's scandal, a maverick who had abandoned abstract expressionism and, with it, the adulation of the… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1998. Cloth, xvi, 576 pages, [28] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corners lightly bumped, age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "A powerfully revealing biography of Armenian-born Arshile Gorky -- the… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. xxi, 312 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Edited by Mary Venturini; photo editing by Jacob Burckhardt. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/top edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "A bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and… Read more about this item

New York: Museum of Modern Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society. Greenwich, Conn., 1968. 170 pages, illustrations (some colour), portrait; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.