Search Results: Titles starting with D from modern-ISM

010 Publishers, 2000. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. A crisp Fine copy. 277 pp., illustrations, bibliography.

London: Park Lane, 1993. First Thus . Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Near Fine. Large 4to. 60 pp., opening essay, annotated list of plates, 45 full-page color plates illustrating the Dada movement. Tiny edge delamination.

London, United Kingdom: Academy Editions Limited, 1995. First Edition . Wraps. Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp, clean copy which appears unread. 80 pp., 160 illustrations of drawings, photos, and maps, mostly in color, bibliography, and index. A beautifully produced book.

Springfield, IL: Dana-Thomas House Foundation, 1989. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good +. 4to. A crisp, clean copy with price sticker on the back cover.. 19 pp., 28 color & b&w illustrations, vellum ffeps.

Phiiladelphia: Henry Altemus, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. 9 1/2" x 12. Gustave Dore. 328 pp. Altemus Edition. Translated from the original of Dante Alighieri. Silver, gold and black embossing on dark greeen boards. Embossed back cover. Beautiful b/w illustrations. Laid in is original flier with publisher's pricing. Faded owner inscription on ffep with date 1890. Cover separating. Some edge wear. Very scarce. No international shipping due to weight and fragility of item.

San Diego Historical Society, 1987. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. A crisp Near Fine copy. 118 pp., illustrations, appendix, bibliography and index.

First American Edition . Soft cover. Fine. A crisp, clean copy featuring a reproduction of El Lissitsky's 1925 "The Isms of Art" on the cover and a feature article on the work of Russian Constructivists with photos of work by Michael Larionov, Nathalie Gontscharowa, Vladimir Zabotin, Sonia Delaunay, Vladimir Tatlin and others. Also includes work by Fernand Leger, Alberto Giacometti, Arshie Gorky, Julio Gonzalez, Alberto burri, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, Jean Dubuffet, Isamu Noguchi, Ben Nicholson, Sam Francis, George GroszKurt Lehman and many others. Text in German.

First Edition . Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Near Fine copy (slight crease to front cover). 136 pp., plus ads, richly illustrated with b&w photos. A great snapshot of the New York contemporary art and gallery scene in the mid-60s featuring photos of artists at work in their studios and work on display. Featured artists include: Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Al Held, Helen Frankenthaler, George Segal, Willem DeKooning, Claes Oldenburg, Donald Judd, Richard Lindner, Ellsworth Kelly, Man Ray, Vasarely, and many others. Text in German.

Leipzig: Hesse & Becker Verlag, 1928. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A crisp, Very Good copy with light edge wear and rubbing. Co-author Walter Dexel was one of the outstanding personalities of Constructivism in the 1920s. As a painter Dexel was an autodidact. He studied art history in Munich under Heinrich Wölfflin and Fritz Burger from 1910 to 1914. During this period he also attended H. Gröber's drawing classes. Dexel graduated from university with a PhD under Botho Gräf in 1916. He painted his first works in 1912/13 during a trip to Italy. His early works are influenced by Cézanne's landscapes and later by Cubism and Expressionism. Dexel had his first one-man exhibition - with works painted in a Cubist manner - as early as 1914 at the Gallery Dietzel in Munich. After the First World War, in 1918, Dexel became the head of the exhibition department in Jena where he organised exhibitions with Campendonk and… Read More

New York: Aperture, 1973. Reprint . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. A crisp, clean highly collectible Fine set with Near Fine dust wrappers protected by mylar covers. Volume 1, Mexico, 214 pp. plates, index. Volume 2, California, 290 pp., plates, index. For more than 15 years, Edward Weston kept a diary in which he recorded his struggle to understand himself, his society and his art. His journal has become a classic of photographic literature. Weston was a towering figure in twentieth-century photography, whose restless quest for beauty and the mystical presence behind it resulted in a body of work unrivaled in the medium. John Szarkowski observes that "It was as though the things of everyday experience had been transformed... into organic sculptures, the forms of which were both the expression and the justification of the life within. He had freed his eyes of conventional expectation, and had taught them to see the statement of intent that resides in natural form.

Phaidon Press Ltd, 1971. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy lightly used ex-library in Very Good dust jacket proteded by a mylar cover. White hardcover with title in black on spine. 254 pp. Many color and b/w illustrations.

Oxford: Phaidon, 1982., 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. NF/NF. DJ in protective mylar cover. 255 pp. Saturday Review Feb.1982 exhibition article laid in.

Abbeville Press, 1982. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy.255 pp.

Netherlands: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean, Near Fine copy with a bump to the bottom fore corner. Signed by Wolf Prix of Coop Himmelblau on the half title page. 80 pp., essays, notes, profusely illustrated with the work of Zaha Hadid (Kurfurstendamm in Berlin (also on the cover) and the Peak Club in Hong Kong), Bernard Tschumi ( Parc de la Villette, Paris), Peter Eisenman (House 11), Morphosis / Thom Mayne (Kate Mantalini, Crawford House, Sixth Street Project, Los Angeles), Frank Gehry (Winston Guest House), Emilio Ambasz (San Antonio Botanic Conservatory), Coop Himmelblau (Hamburg Media Skyline), OMA / Rem Koolhaas (Checkpoint Charlie Housing), and more.

London: Academy Editions, 1989. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. A crisp, clean, Fine copy. 96 pp., profusely illustrated with work by Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, Hiromi Fujii, Gunter Behnisch, Bernard Tschumi, Morphosis (Thom Mayne), Christopher Norris, Stanley Tigerman and others. Projects include: New National Theatre of Japan; New County Hall, Strasbourg; Guardiola House, Santa Maria del Mar; Eisenman and the Housing of Tradition; Dispersed, Multi-Layered Space; Hysolar Institute, University of Stuttgart; Berlin 'City Edge' Competition; Carnegie-Mellon Research Institute; Kate Mantilini Restaurant; and others. Extremely scarce in this 1989 First Edition.

London: Academy Editions, 1996. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Square 8vo. A crisp, clean Fine copy. 96 pp., foreword by Jorge Glusberg, interviews with Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Bernard Tschumi, and Coop Himmelblau, also features work by Daniel Libeskind, Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, and Thom Mayne (Morphosis), and bibliography.

Netherlands: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean, Near Fine copy. 80 pp., essays, notes, profusely illustrated with the work of Zaha Hadid (Kurfurstendamm in Berlin (also on the cover) and the Peak Club in Hong Kong), Bernard Tschumi ( Parc de la Villette, Paris), Peter Eisenman (House 11), Morphosis / Thom Mayne (Kate Mantalini, Crawford House, Sixth Street Project, Los Angeles), Frank Gehry (Winston Guest House), Emilio Ambasz (San Antonio Botanic Conservatory), Coop Himmelblau (Hamburg Media Skyline), OMA / Rem Koolhaas (Checkpoint Charlie Housing), and more.

The Studio, Ltd.: London Architectural Design. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean Very Good copy. Slight spine fade and some light damp stains to the boards not affecting the interior. 140 pp., profusely illustrated with the worrk of Richard Neutra ("Minimum House"), Franco Albini, Peter Behrens, Pierre Chareau, Serge Chermayeff, Le Corbusier (Villa at Poissy), Cyril Day, Donald Deskey, Henry Dreyfuss, Raoul Dufy, Paul Frankl, Norman Bel Geddes, Fritz Hansen, Oliver Hill, Howe & Lescaze, Ely Jacques Kahn, Kosta Glass Works, Andre Lurcat, Erich Mendelsohn, Orrefors Glass Works, Ozenfant, Gerritt Rietveld, Gilbert Rohde, E. J. Ruhlmann, Walter Dorwin Teague, Joeseph Urban, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wiener Werkstatte, Lilly Reich, Kem Weber, and many others.

London: The Studio Publications, 1948. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. A crisp, clean Near Fine copy with tope edges dyed maroon, in cream cloth with maroon lettering on the spine and front, in a Very Good mylar-protected dust wrapper with some chipping along the edges and a piece missing from the spine crown and top of back cover.128 pages plus ads and index.; xvi., Illustrated with photographs in color and monochrome of work by Richard Neutra, Paul Frankl, Dunbar, Alexander Girard, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Dorothy Liebes, William Lescaze, Herman Miller, George Nelson, Edward Durrell Stone, Russell Wright, Eva Zeisel and many others.

Jena: Verlegt Bei Eugen Diederichs, 1914. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean, Fine copy, edges dyed brown, tan boards and spine with black lettering. The extremely scarce, bright and clean, light green Dust Jacket is present with light edge wear and an abrasion and small hole in the back panel. 104 pp. of text by Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, Bruno Paul, Max Schmid, Josef Hoffmann, Peter Jessen, Fritz Hoeber, August Endell, John B. Hambrook, Karl Ernst Osthaus, Karl Scheffler, Ernst Neumann, Albert Scheibe, Rudolf Bosselt, Wilhelm Ostwald, Ernst Jackh, and others. 122 pp. of b&w plates of architecture and industrial design by Paul Wolf, Georg Metzendorf, Louis Eilers, Jacob Hilgers Rheinbrohl, Lossow & Kuhne, Eliel Saarinen, Paul Bonatz and F. E. Scholer, Heinrich Kathrein, Rudolf Grimm, Cremer & Wolffenstein, Bruno Mohring, A. F. Grenander, Solf & Wichards, E. Schaudt, Raabe & Wohlecke, Peter Behrens, Karl… Read More