Search Results: Art from modern-ISM

New York: Sotheby & Co., 1979. First Edition . Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. Very Good copy with light general wear. Sales Results laid in. 343 items, list of artists including Dr. Atl, Covarrubias, Orozco, Siqueiros, Kahlo, Tamayo, Merida, Montenegro, Rivera, O'Higgins and others

Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, S. A., 1992. First Edition . Original Cloth. Fine. Large 4to. Fine in a Fine DJ. 247 pp., 242 illustrations, 209 in color. First English language monograph on the Spanish artist Nagel, best known in America for his large scale sculptures. No int'l shipping extra due to weight.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Hacker Art Books, 1978. First Edition . Original Cloth. Fine. Oblong 8vo. 159 pp., 97 illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. This is the first book to explore in depth the developments in Japanese art from the Meiji Restoration to the present day. Fine in a VG+ to Near Fine DJ (slight spine fade and a couple tiny edge nicks). DJ in protective mylar cover.

Los Angeles: John D. Entenza, 1960. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good bound copy of all 12 issues including ads and covers. Bound in library buckram with soiled and rubbed covers.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Personal Opinions and recollections of 48 former Bauhaus members and their contemporaries who intimately knew and loved the Bauhaus. A must for Bauhaus scholars, collectors and aficianados. A Fine copy. Chipping to spine ends of Near Fine mylar-protected dust jacket w/one small piece missing from top and a bookstore sticker to rear panel, else fine.

Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2012. First Edition . Flexibind. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. A crisp, clean Fine copy. 144 pp., foreword by Elsa Longhauser, essays by Jenni Sorkin, Garth Clark and Kathleen Pyne, diary excerpts, chronology and exhibition checklist. Laid in is an exhibition announcement brochure for the subject exhibition catalog. A stage actress with the Parisian Comédie-Française; a Dadaist and New York bohemian who edited The Blind Man with Marcel Duchamp; a devoted follower of spiritual guru Jiddu Krishnamurti at Ojai; and a model for the character Rose in Titanic: throughout her many incarnations, Beatrice Wood (18931998) continued to produce important work right up until her death at the age of 105. After her New York years as the Mama of Dada, Wood moved to Los Angeles, where she took up ceramics and was soon receiving international attention for her eccentric figural sculptures, vessels and goblets, glazed with her signature iridescent hues. Beatrice… Read More

Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2008. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy. 64 pp., profusely illustrated, exhibition checklist.

Brno, 1947. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The complete volume II (all 10 issues) printed in Czech and bound with the annual index in the front and the 10 front covers and foreign language (including English, French and Russian) summaries in the back. This post World War II avante garde revival is a complete review of the Czech arts scene including poetry, photograhy, film, theater, dance, painting, sculpture, musical composition, architecture, urban planning, etc. Covers a two year period, 1947-48. Highlights include work by and articles on: Picasso, Jorn, Klee, Karl Teige, Max Bill, Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, Chagall, Picabia, Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Patchen, Langston Hughes, Bertrolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, Prochazka, Apollinaire, Walker Evans, Weegee, Cartier-Bresson, El Lissitzky, Pasternak, Rilke, Henry Moore, Michaux, Leger, Calder, Frank Lloyd Wright, Czeslaw Milosz, Sudek, Capek, a fold-out drawing by Matisse, an entire issue devoted to… Read More

Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fiine/Near Fine. A crisp, clean near Fine copy in like dust jacket now protected with a mylar cover. 496 pp., selected exhibition list, bibliography, acknowledments and index. Through her contacts with the art world in Europe and America, Galka Scheyer acquired a remarkable collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculpture. This book presents almost five hundred items from the collection, reproducing most in full color. It features numerous works by the Blue Four, as well as those by eminent European artists and artists Scheyer knew in California.

Czechoslovakia: Krajske Nakladatelstvi v Brne, 1960. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. VG (upper corners bumped, some soiling to bottom edges) in a Good- DJ (edge wear, chipping, closed tears). Unpaginated, annotated list of 70 stunning folio watercolors and drawings of Brno suitable for framing. Laid in text in French, German, Russian, and English. No int'l shipping due to size.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1936. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good bound copy of all 12 issues including ads and covers. Bound in library buckram with soiled and rubbed covers.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1931. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy. 68 pp., profusely illustrated with period art, architecture and ads.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1931. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy. 76 pp., profusely illustrated with period art, architecture and ads.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1935. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good bound copy of all 12 issues including ads and covers. Bound in library buckram with soiled and rubbed covers.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1938. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good bound copy of all 12 issues including ads and covers. Bound in library buckram with soiled and rubbed covers.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1931. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy. 28 pp., profusely illustrated with period art, architecture and ads.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good bound copy of all 12 issues including ads and covers. Bound in library buckram with soiled and rubbed covers.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1939. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good bound copy of all 12 issues including ads and covers. Bound in library buckram with soiled and rubbed covers.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1931. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. A crisp, clean Good copy witth some cover separation from top of spine. 36 pp., profusely illustrated with period art, architecture and ads. Includes a Brett Weston frontispiece portrait of father Edward Weston.

Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good bound copy of all 12 issues including ads and covers. Bound in library buckram with soiled and rubbed covers.