Search Results: Authors starting with H from Arcana: Books on the Arts

(SQUAT THEATRE). Buchmuller Eva & Anna Koos. Introductions by Alisa Solomon & Andras Halasz. SQUAT THEATRE (WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY EVA BUCHMULLER ANNA KOOS BASED ON THEIR ARCHIVES OF THE SQUAT THEATRE). New York: Artists Space, 1996. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Fine. 232pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Eva Buchmuller and Anna Koos. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the informative catalogue of the 1996 exhibition held at New York's Artists Space documenting Squat Theatre - the dissident artist-run Hungarian experimental theater company founded in Budapest that subsequently moved to New York, where the members - Stephan Balint, Eszter Balint, Peter Berg, Eva Buchmuller, Marianne Kollar, Peter Halasz, Galus Halasz, Anna Koos, Boris Major, Rebecca Major - lived and worked from 1977 until 1984. The troupe staged performances based on works by Andy Warhol, Antonin Artaud, Anton Chekov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and others in their… Read More

(HAMMERSLEY, FREDERICK). Coke, Van Deren. FREDERICK HAMMERSLEY. Venice, CA: L.A. Louver Gallery, 1978. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. np (12pp), 1 color and 2 b&w illustrations + b&w back cover. With an exhibition checklist, biography and exhibition history. This is the slender twelve page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 gallery exhibition of twenty abstract paintings executed during the seventies by Frederick Hammersley - who along with John McLaughlin, Karl Benjamin, and Lorser Feitelson comprised the "Four Abstract Classicists" featured in the ground-breaking 1959 Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition of the same name. A bright white, most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 024459

(HARDING, THOMAS). Harding, Thomas & Cyrus Sutherland. ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSES OF ARKANSAS AS SEEN THROUGH A PINHOLE. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1993. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine. 112pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by John Coghlan. This is Thomas Harding's unusually thoughtful photographic essay on the aging, mostly archaic schoolhouses of rural Arkansas. Both interiors and exteriors are pictured (printed one to a page on the right, with a commentary on the facing page) with the pinhole camera used to capture these images giving them a hauntingly beautiful quality. A most handsome copy showing a minor indentation at the foredge of the rear cover 1-55728-272-2 Inventory Number: 010006

Hargraves, Michael. LITTLE PICTURES. Malibu, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1994. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Cardstock Wrappers. Exhibition Brochure. As New. One 8 ¾ x 32" cardstock sheet printed recto and verso, neatly folded in fourths as issued to make 8pp, 5 color illustrations. This is the slender eight page brochure produced to accompany "Little Pictures"; a 1994 exhibition of daguerreotype images and cases drawn from the J. Paul Getty Museum Department of Photography's vast holdings. The images reproduced here include those of Giorgio Sommer, Warren De La Rue, and an unknown portrait of Edgar Allen Poe. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 009186

(HARING, KEITH). Haring, Keith. KEITH HARING: 96 PIECE WOODEN JIGSAW PUZZLE BY VILAC. Moirans-en-Montagne, FRANCE & New York: Vilac & Keith Haring Foundation, 2009. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. Oblong 4to. Jigsaw Puzzle in Printed Box. Artist's Multiple. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. One 8 ½ x 13" printed cardboard box containing ninety-six loose puzzle pieces printed recto only on wood, 1 color illustration. This is a ninety-six piece wooden jigsaw puzzle reproducing a whimsical 1986 Keith Haring drawing (licensed from the artist's Foundation in 2009) by the venerable French puzzle and toy maker, Vilac. A most handsome example of this currently unavailable object in the manufacturer's "Radiant Child''-shaped box, perfect for these self-isolating times. 3-048-700093233 Inventory Number: 026789

(HARING, KEITH). Haring, Keith. © KEITH HARING 1985 (COLORING BOOK). NP (New York). ND (circa 1986).: NP, First Edition Thus. Large Square 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine. np (20pp), 20 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Distributed in small quantities by Keith Haring's Pop Shop in the mid-eighties, this charming untitled artist's book is commonly referred to as the "Coloring Book". It reproduces twenty whimsical full page drawings in thick black line against white backgrounds meant to be filled in with crayons by artsier members of the younger East Village set. A bright white, most handsome never-colored-in example of this exceedingly uncommon item - NOT to be confused with the Haring's earlier coloring book included in his 1982 Tony Shafrazi catalogue, or the more widely distributed "Keith Haring's Fun Book!!" from 1985. Inventory Number: 022479

(HARING, KEITH). Haring, Keith. KEITH HARING: "FROHE WEIHNACHTEN! / HAPPY NEW YEAR 1989!" SILKSCREEN PRINT FOR GALERIE HANS MAYER. Dusseldorf, GERMANY: Galerie Hans Mayer, 1988. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. Oblong 4to. Silkscreened Print. Artist's Multiple. Fine. One 16 ½ x 10 ¼" art paper sheet silkscreened in gold ink, recto only, machine-folded vertically in half, 1 color illustration. Designed by Keith Haring. This is Keith Haring's New Year's greeting in the form of a silkscreen print commissioned by the artist's longtime German representative, Galerie Hans Mayer little more than a year before his untimely passing. It intones in gold ink "FROHE WEIHNACHTEN! / HAPPY NEW YEAR 1989! / GALERIE HANS MAYER" in the artist's hand with a bold "© Keith Haring" signature in the screen. The image depicts seven of his familiar interlinked dancing figures with lines radiating ringing in the holiday. A brand new, most handsome… Read More

(HASSINK, JACQUELINE). Hassink, Jacqueline, Henri Peretz & Raoul Bunschoten. JACQUELINE HASSINK: THE TABLE OF POWER. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Menno van de Koppel, 1996. First Edition 1/1000. 12mo. Gilt-Stamped Cloth. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 22 b&w and 21 color illustrations. Text in English. Designed by Melle Hammer, Plus X. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "The Table of Power" is Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink's gem-like 1996 artist's book cum interior design typology that like much of her work explores the balance of power conferred in private, public and social settings. It details the meeting rooms of the boards of directors of forty European companies such as British Petroleum, Ciba-Geigy, and Daimler Benz - twenty-one of which she was able to photograph - revealing the rarely-if-ever seen enclaves where corporate decisions that affect the social sphere are made in secret. A brand new, pristine example of the exceedingly… Read More

(HAWKINS, RICHARD). Hawkins, Richard & Larry Johnson. RICHARD HAWKINS. Berlin, GERMANY. London, UK & Los Angeles, CA: Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Corvi-Mora & Richard Telles Fine Art, 2007. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New. np, profusely illustrated in color. Text in English and German. With an exhibition checklist and exhibition history. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a traveling 2007 gallery exhibition of Richard Hawkins. It features color reproductions galore along with a contribution by Larry Johnson. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item that is the first monographic publication on the noted Los Angeles-based artist. Inventory Number: 027251

(HAWKINSON, TIM). Harvey, Doug, Philip Monk & Laura Steward Heon. TIM HAWKINSON. Toronto, CANADA: The Power Plant, 2000. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. 80pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Hahn Smith Design. With an exhibition checklist, biography, bibliography and exhibition history. This is the comprehensive catalogue issued in conjunction with the 2000 survey exhibition of works by Los Angeles-based multi-media artist Tim Hawkinson that traveled from The Power Plant in Toronto to MASS MoCA. It is filled with sumptuous photographs of his wry sculptures and installations and contains essays by Doug Harvey, Philip Monk, and Laura Steward Heon. A handsome example of this uncommon item. 0-921047-94-0 Inventory Number: 022027

Haynes, Robert & Robert Burawoy. Foreword by Hanns-Ulrich Haedeke. FIRST EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON THE ARTS OF THE SAMURAI: 100 SELECTED TSUBA FROM EUROPEAN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS - THE LIMITED EDITION WITH A SIGNED PRESENTATION FROM ROBERT BURAWOY. Signed Presentation Copy from the Author. Paris: Robert Burawoy, 1984. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Art Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, 103 illustrations in color and b&w. Text in English, German and French. With a bibliography. This is the hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition of one hundred Tsuba shown during a 1984 symposium on "The Arts of the Samurai" held at The German Sword Museum in Solingen. Published by Parisian specialist in Asian and Tribal Art, Galerie Robert Burawoy, this survey illustrates each of the one hundred Japanese sword hilts selected from public collections in Hamburg, Copenhagen, Geneve, Paris, and London. A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon… Read More

(HEATH, DAVE). Heath, Dave. Foreword by Hugh Edwards. With Brief Texts by James Baldwin, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Wright Morris, Rainer Maria Rilke, Matthew Arnold, Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen Crane & Hermann Hesse. A DIALOGUE WITH SOLITUDE. Culpepper, VA & New York: A Community Press Publication Distributed By Horizon Press, 1965. First Edition. 4to. Cloth. Photography Monograph. Near Fine./No Jacket. np, 83 duotone illustrations. Designed by Dave Heath. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. From Hugh Edwards' foreword: "A Dialogue With Solitude is a self-portrait in which the artist himself never really appears, but is revealed and interpreted by every detail. From the beginning of the sequence to its end, the viewer accompanies his unseen guide, out of darkness and troubled sleep, on a pilgrimage through an unpredictable environment where contradiction seems to be the only law. It is a solitude crowded with human beings, all of whom he recognizes and understands, but with… Read More

Heiferman, Marvin, Carole Kismaric & Neil Frankel. MY DAY: A TALE OF FEAR, ALIENATION AND DESPAIR. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial Wrappers. As New. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. This is a stark, terrifying yet amusing visual narrative (compiled by the authors from stock photography archives) that takes the viewer on a trip through the turmoil and tension of daily life, from waking to sleep. "My Day tells us just what we always suspected: everything is in flux. Nothing is certain. Menace is around the next corner. So lighten up. Buy this book - it's not very expensive...It's funny, and if you don't like it, you can give it to someone else for Christmas". A pristine copy. 0-8118-0270-1 Inventory Number: 006447

(HEINECKEN, ROBERT). Heinecken, Robert. ROBERT HEINECKEN: 1984: A CASE STUDY IN FINDING AN APPROPRIATE TV NEWSWOMAN (A CBS DOCUDRAMA IN WORDS AND PICTURES). Los Angeles: NP (Self-Published), 1986. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine. np (16pp), 16 color illustrations. Designed by Robert Shaw. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "1984: A Case Study in Finding an Appropriate TV Newswoman (A CBS Docudrama in Words and Pictures)" is noted late photographer Robert Heinecken's self-published 1986 artist's book that presents screen captures of permutations of video composites of then-contemporary CBS male News anchors Tom Brokaw, Bryant Gumbel, David Hartman, Bill Kurtis, and Steve Baskerville with subordinate female broadcast journalists Diane Sawyer, Jane Pauley, Joan Lunden, Susan Spencer, Jane Wallace, Connie Chung, Maria Shriver, Meredith Viera, Vanessa Williams, Carol Martin, Pat Collins, and Phyllis George in a tart meditation on the… Read More

(HEINECKEN, ROBERT). Heinecken, Robert. ROBERT HEINECKEN: STUDIESNINETEENSEVENTY (NAZRAELI PRESS ONE PICTURE BOOK NO. 14) - SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. With a B&W Print Signed by the Photographer. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2002. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.. np (12pp), 12 b&w illustrations. Robert Heinecken's "StudiesNinteenSeventy" is the fourteenth installment in Nazraeli Press' estimable series of One Picture Books. Limited to five hundred SIGNED AND NUMBERED copies, it contains an original 5 1/8 x 4" black and white photographic print of a photogram collaged from multiple exposures of men's magazine nudes tipped in at the rear of the book, as issued. A brand new, pristine example (cited on page 80 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter" and page 152 of "From Fair to Fine 3") of this uncommon, lovely… Read More

(HEINECKEN, ROBERT). Pastor, Suzanne E., Susan E. Cohen & Robert Heinecken. ROBERT HEINECKEN: FOOD, SEX AND TV (FAST, EASY AND FUN). Kassel, GERMANY: Edition Fotoforum, 1983. First Edition 1/1200. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good -. np (24pp), profusely illustrat in color and b&w. Text in German and English. With a chronology and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the slender twenty-four page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1983 exhibition of photographic works by the late Los Angeles-based artist Robert Heinecken. An internally most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand, two hundred copies showing a bit of light wear to the wrappers along with a vertical crease through the rear cover. Inventory Number: 025648

(HENSON, BILL). Henson, Bill. BILL HENSON: LUX ET NOX. Zurich, SWITZERLAND, Berlin & New York: Scalo, 2002. First Edition. Oblong Small Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 176pp, profusely illustrated in color. "Lux et Nox" is noted Australian photographer Bill Henson's stunning 2002 collection of dark, and darkly erotic images of transgressive youth. A brand new, most handsome example (cited on page 273 of Alessandro Bertolotti's "Books of Nudes") of this engaging, perennial favorite. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-908247-55-1 Inventory Number: 026574

(HENSON, BILL). Henson, Bill. BILL HENSON: MNEMOSYNE. Zurich, SWITZERLAND, Berlin, New York & Sydney: Scalo & Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005. First Edition. Oblong Small Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 504pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Steidl Design, Claas Moller and Bernard Fischer. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. "Mnemosyne" is noted Australian photographer Bill Henson's massive hardbound, career-spanning monograph published in conjunction with a 2005 Art Gallery of New South Wales retrospective. It contains over four hundred beautiful reproductions, brief texts by Judy Annear, Jennie Boddington, Edmund Capon, Dennis Cooper, Peter Craven, Isobel Crombie, John Forbes, Michael Heyward, Alwynne Mackie, David Malouf, Bernice Murphy, and Peter Schjeldahl, and an interview with Bill Henson by Sebastian Smee. A brand new, most handsome example. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are… Read More

(HEPBURN, KATHARINE). Maddox, Carlton L. & Steve Campbell. "MY ESCAPE": A PRESENTATION OF THE ART OF KATHARINE HEPBURN 1907-2003 - AN INSCRIBED COPY FROM AUTHORS CARLTON MADDOX AND STEVE CAMPBELL. Signed by the Authors. Burbank, CA: Carlton L. Maddox & Steve Campbell, 2004. First Edition. 4to. Velobound Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. np (290pp), 134 color illustrations. Published as what seems to be a labor of love, "this tribute to Katharine Hepburn by a long-time fan is presented with the desire to record the artistic efforts of an important figure of the 20th Century." "My Escape" collects one hundred and twenty-eight full page color reproductions with details of Hepburn's paintings and drawings drawn substantially from the June 11th, 2004 Sotheby's auction of the renowned late actor's estate. A brand new, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon, unstated limited edition - this is copy # 22 - additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND INSCRIBED… Read More

(HEPWORTH, BARBARA). Bowness, Alan & Barbara Hepworth. THE SCULPTURE OF BARBARA HEPWORTH 1960-1969 - DELUXE SLIPCASED EDITION LIMITED TO ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED AND NUMBERED PRINT. With an Original Print Signed by the Artist. New York & London: Praeger Publishers & Lund Humphries Publishers, Ltd., 1971. First Edition #52/150 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Catalogue Raisonné. Near Fine/Near Fine. 224pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a biography, bibliography and exhibition history. This is the second and final catalogue raisonné of Barbara Hepworth's sculptural works produced during the pioneering British artist's Lifetime. Compiled and edited by Alan Bowness, it features a transcribed interview between Bowness and Hepworth along with a complete illustrated inventory of two hundred and twenty-six pieces executed between 1960 and 1970. A bright, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon deluxe… Read More