Search Results: Authors starting with B from modern-ISM

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Square 8vo. A crisp, clean Fine copy in a Near Fine mylar-protected dust jacket. 406 pp., profusely illustrated, appendices, notes, and index.

San Francisco: Duncan A. Scott, Home Publications, Inc., 1961. First Edition . Stapled Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. An idea-filled tour of architect-designed Western Homes" by much published and anthologized mid-century modern architects. 96 pp. Cover illustrates the Anderson House by Smith and Williams (cover photo by Marvin Rand along with 5 article photos). Photo illustrated articles on houses, gardens and interiors designed by Killingsworth Brady Smith (6 Marvin Rand photos); Joseph Esherick (5 Phil Fein photos); Clarence W. Mayhew (4 Morley Baer photos); Richard Dorman (6 Marvin Rand photos); Case Study House Program architect Knorr and Elliott (7 Ernest Braun photos); Donald Blair (6 Dearborn-Massar photos); Henry Hill (5 Roger Sturtevant photos); Case Study House Program architects Buff, Straub and Hensman (7 Julius Shulman photos); Frederic Benedict (6 Art Hupy photos); Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons ((6 Roger Sturtevant photos); Pierre… Read More

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First Paperback Edition . Stiff Cardboard Wraps. Very Good +. 4to. 136 pages; 56 full-color photo illustrations on plates, 23 b/w photo illustrations, 156 b/w line drawings, sketches, plans and elevations; notes; bibliography; resumes in French, German, Spanish and Italian. Freitag 6654. Published to coincide with the centenary of Le Corbusier's birth and an exhibition of his work at the Hayward Gallery, London. A crisp, clean copy with a tiny side bump and slight age-yellowing to the spine.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket protected by a mylar cover. 202 pp., endnotes, bibliography and index. Fold-out poster of murals in rear pocket. Riveras Detroit Industry murals are one of this countrys greatest treasures. In addition to providing full coverage and analysis of the murals, the book includes chapters on the murals planning and antecedents, Riveras working methods (which can be read as a primer on frescos), Diego and Fridas lives for their nine months in Detroit, and the publics dramatic response to the strong socialist/communist themes in the works.

Anthony Korner, 2001. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy. 189 pp., profusely illustrated. Julius Shulman cover photo of R. M. Schindler''s Harris House.

The MIT Press, 1990. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Fine/Very Good. A crisp Fine copy in a Very Good mylar-protected dust jacket. Inscribed by editor Barbara Goldstein on the title page. 48 pp., illustrations, chronology and anintroduction by Esther McCoy.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean Near Fine copy featuring a Julius Shulman cover photo of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House 22. 62 pp.

Dumont Buchverlag, 1998. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fiine/Near Fine. A slightly used crisp, clean copy in like dust jacket protected by a mylar cover. 365 pp., 11 essays, chronology, exhibition list, bibliography. Laid in is a 2002 Norton Simon Museum announcement card and Los Angeles Times review of same. 1924 Galka Scheyer brought the work of four fellow avant-garde artists-The Blue Four- from Germany to America. This beautiful book discusses Scheyer`s promotion of modern art in the United States, documents her friendships with the four artists, and reproduces hundreds of their works.

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.

Los Angeles: L'Italo-Americano, 1928. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. 9" x 12. 256 pp. Text in Italian. Introduzione "Questo primo volume di Gente Italiana in California indipendente da ogni interesse che non sia quello collettivo, vuole inqua-drarsi, coraggiosamente e seriamente nella opera di valorizzazione dell'anima gloriosissima dell'emigrato nostro, che non conosce nessun confine e nessuna sosta alla fatica insonne ed l passo accelerato da velite conquistatore che in lui romanamente si rinnova. Contro quest'opera, che non improvvisa ma costruisce con progressione saggia e cauta, stanno la scarse conoscenza che l'Italia e gli Italiani rimasti attaccati alle sponde patrie, hanno del popolo italiano d'oltre oceano che, in rivoluzione magnifica, ha cambiate le vesti del lavoratore manuale, di servo dello straniero, per divenire a sua volta padrone delle sue ricchezze e del suo destino. Per essi e per noi "Gente Itialiana in California" vuole… Read More

Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980. First Edition . Wraps. Fine. 4to. 288 pp., 465 item exhibition catalogue, richly illustrated, notes, bibliography, chronology. A major exhibit of the all of the major artists of the Russian Avant-Garde period, including Marc Chagall, Alexandra Exter, Naum Gabo, Natalia Goncharova, Vasilii Kandinsky, Mikhail Larionov, El Lissitzky, Konstantin Malevich, Liubov Popova, Alexandr Rodchenko, Vavara Stepanova, Vladimir Tatlin and many others.

Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. As New. 10" x10. 296 pp. Hundreds of b/w and color historical and contemporary photographs. Very comprehensive.

London, United Kingdom: Tate/MOCA, 2002. Revised Edition . Soft cover. As New. Large 4to. 319 pp. Over 300 black and white and color prints, essays, chronology, checklist of the 240 item exhibition, list of exhibitions, and bibliography. Excellent retrospective book from last the 2002 exhibit in Berlin and Los Angeles. Still in the publisher's shrink wrap. No int'l shipping due to weight.

Dresden, 1952. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 212 pp. 186 b/w illustrations. Sun toned at edges, spine fade, touch of soling to back cover, light edge and corner wear. Owner inscription on ffep, Small bookseller sticker at upper corner of rear paste down. Laid in page from publisher. Text in German.

Washington, D. C.: Middendorf Gallery, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to. A crisp, clean Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. [164] pp., 75 full-page B&W plates.

Fort Bragg, CA: Gull Press, 1977. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 76 pp., well illustrated, bibliography and genealogical chart. A crisp, clean copy with some suntoning.

Rizzoli, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A crisp, clean Fine copy inscribed by the architect, in a Fine mylar-protected dust jacket. Laid in are two Fisher exhibition announcement cards. 224 pp., profusely illustrated with Tim Street-Porter phots, project list, staff list, awards, exhibitions, bibliography and biography. Fisher has organized this first monograph of his work into three thematic sections, "Art Space," "Dwelling Space," and "Spiritual Space," each containing a short essay and descriptions of individual projects, illustrated with photographs, plans, and drawings. Among the thirty works in this volume are Fisher's clean, light-filled structures for the L.A. Louver Gallery in Venice, California; P.S.1, The Institute for Contemporary Art, in New York; houses in California, Idaho, and Pennsylvania, a Buddhist monastery in California; and experimental projects such as an Earthquake Bed and a solar crematory.

Charles H Kerr, 2000. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. A crisp Fine copy. 126 pp., illustrations, index. From the 1910s through the Depression 30s, when Chicago was the undisputed hobo capital of the United States, a small north side neighborhood know as Towertown was the vital center of an extraordinary cultural/political ferment. It was home to Bughouse Square (the nation's most renowned outdoor free-speech center), Ben Reitman's Hobo College, and the fabulous Dil Pickle club, a highly unorthodox institution of higher learning that doubled as the craziest nightclub in the world. It was something like New York's Greenwich Village, but - thanks to the prominence of the Chicago-based IWW - much more working class, and more openly revolutionary.

London: Fumehurst Ltd., 1979. First Edition . Pictorial Wrappers. Very Good. Oblong 4to. VG + corner creases, some age yellowing, paper clip mark to the first p. of the Gehry article (on his personal residence in Santa Monica which includes 15 Tim Street-Porter photos) and bump to top corner). 72 pp., featuring the work of Frank Gehry, O. Mathias Ungers, and Alvar Aalto. Early Gehry title. Super scarce. Int'l shipping extra due to size.

Saint Louis Art Museum, 1984. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 482 pp. Catalogue produced in conjunction with exhibit in St. Louis, Munich, Berlin and Los Angeles. Faint 1/2" red mark on fore edge, mild spine crease, slight rubbing on back cover. Overall very tight and clean.