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1) Frankenthaler: Lighthouse Series I-XIV

Frankenthaler: Lighthouse Series I-XIV
New York: Knoedler & Company, 2001 The fourteen paintings reproduced in full-page color. No text.. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. Oblong 8vo. Gallery exhibition catalogue. more information

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2) Master Lee Sun-Don: 2007 Autumn-Winter Exhibitions

Master Lee Sun-Don: 2007 Autumn-Winter Exhibitions
Taiwan: Sun Boy International Company, 2007 118 pages; essays; 69 color plates; text illustrations. Totemic art.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. more information

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3) Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn
New York: M. Knoedler & Company Five gallery catalogs: M. Knoedler 1985 (21 works in color), 1987 (30 works in color), 1991(17 works in color); Lawrence Rubin - Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art 1999 (Ocean Park Paintings, 16 works in color), 2000 (Early Abstractions 1949-1955, 17 works in color). Each catalog bears the previous owner's name, sometime on the front cover. Two catalogs have related material taped-in, not obstructing text or plates. All bindings are tight, plates are clean, no tears.. Very Good. Slim 4to. Gallery exhibition catalogue. more information

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4) Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views
Ashton, Dore

Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views
New York: The Viking Press, 1972 190 pages; B&w illustrations. Of the series, Documents of 20th-Century Art. Clean and tight.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 8vo. more information

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5) Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape
Beardsley, John

Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape
New York: Abbeville, 1989 176 pages; 158 illustrations, color and b&w. Artistic statements and public works.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. more information

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6) Jean-Marc Bustamante: Long Playing
Bustamante, Jean-Marc; Zdenek Felix (foreword0; Sophie Berrebi (other text)

Hamburg, Germany: Zdenek Felix, 2001 88 pages, more than 3-dozen full-page color illustrations, many double-page. An exhibition at Deichtorhallen Hamburg: Includes photographs, sculpture, silkscreens on plexiglas. A few lines underlined on page 72; one line on page 71; otherwise fine. Inserted loose at the back are seven prints of photographs; one transparency of a sculpture; two prints of silkscreens on plexiglas. All are high-quality gallery reproductions.. First Edition. Stiff Card Decorated Wrappers. Very Good. Folio. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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7) Louise Fishman
Deitcher, David (opening essay)

Louise Fishman
New York: Cheim & Read, 2006 21 full-page color plates, 2002-2005. Artist's photo-portrait frontispiece. Biographical infromation; Exhibitions. . First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. Tall 4to. Gallery exhibition catalogue. more information

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8) Judith Rothschild: An Artist's Search
Flam, Jack

Judith Rothschild: An Artist's Search
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1998 168 pages; 48 color plates; numerous b&w text illustrations. Chronology; Collections; Bibliography. The life of the artist and the development of her cultural loves: painting, music, writing. Clean throughout. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Tall 4to. Monograph. more information

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9) Dubuffet
Franzke, Andreas; Robert Erich Wolf (translated by)

Dubuffet
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981 282 pages; numerous color and b&w images, many delicious full-page and two 2-page foldouts in color; b&w photos of the artist in studio. A complete and readable examination of Dubeffet and his work leading to understanding it. One of the principle studies of the artist. Clean within; a tight binding; edges of the white cloth-covered boards are shelf-rubbed.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Large 4to. more information

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10) Comment New York Vola L'Idée D'Art Moderne: Expressionnisme Abstrait, Liberté et Guerre Froide
Guilbaut, Serge

Comment New York Vola L'Idée D'Art Moderne: Expressionnisme Abstrait, Liberté et Guerre Froide
Nîmes: Éditions Jacqueline Chambon, 1983 345 pages; b&w illustrations. French text. Front free endpaper (blank) removed.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 8vo. more information

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11) Cleve Gray
Heller, Ben

Cleve Gray
New York: Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, 2006 36 pages; more than a dozen, mostly full-page, color reproductions, including a self-portrait (not full-page). Paintings from the 1970s and the 2000s. Gray died after an accident in 2004.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. Oblong 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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12) Roy Lichtenstein - Brushstrokes: Four Decades
Hickey, Dave (Essay by)

Roy Lichtenstein - Brushstrokes: Four Decades
Zurich / New York: De Pury & Luxembourg / Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2002 88 pages; 33 color plates, one fold-out; paintings and sculpture, 1959-1996; text illustrations, Lichtenstein at work. The record of an exhibition at de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Oblong 4to. Gallery exhibition catalogue. more information

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13) The Huddled Masses / The Birth of Blindness
Iranna, G. R

The Huddled Masses / The Birth of Blindness
London: Aicon Gallery, 2008 not paginated but 46 pages; color illustrations, including one 4-panel foldout. Protest art, which is discussed in two essays, against conformity and state power.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Square 4to. Gallery exhibition catalogue. more information

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14) Pop Art
James, Jamie

Pop Art
London: Phaidon Press, 1996 50 pages; 77 illustrations, including 48 in color. "The author has been the New York arts correspondent for The Times and an art critic for The New Yorker."-publisher. Wrappers lightly rubbed; fine condition within.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. more information

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15) Ray Johnson, John Willenbecher
(Johnson, Ray and John Willenbecher)

Ray Johnson, John Willenbecher
New York: Between Books c. 1977. 20 pages. Modified photos, drawings, notes, commentary, Arts Magazine article. . Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. more information

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16) Naomie Kremer on Paper
Johnson, Robert Flynn; Jonathon Keats

Naomie Kremer on Paper
San Francisco: Modernism, 2007 52 pages; Color and b&w (charcoal, graphite, ink) Plates; Essays; List of Works; Biography. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, Polyglot.. Pictorial Paper Boards. Fine/No Jacket. Small 8vo. more information

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17) Grace Hartigan, a painter's world
Mattison, Robert Saltonstall

Grace Hartigan, a painter's world
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990 156 pages; 79 color plates; text illustrations. Hartigan's first monograph. She was the only woman selected for the 1956 MoMA exhibition, Twelve Americans. Biographical photos and text, including involvement with Frank O'Hara and friendships with Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, others. Chronology; Bibliography. Clean throughout, no tears, chips, marks.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong 4to. Monograph. more information

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18) Helmut Schober: Mozart-Zyklen
Riedl, Peter Anselm; Barbara Brahler; Thomas Elsen; Klaus Kropfinger

Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg, 2006 102 pages. Full-page color plates: W.A. Mozart-Schwetzinger Zyklus; Für Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Gemälde 1991-2005; W.A. Mozart - Luce assoluta; W.A. Mozart - Ton-Linie; W.A. Mozart - Postludium. German text.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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19) pop art redefined
Russell, John; Suzi Gablik

pop art redefined
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969 240 pages; more than 126 b&w illustrations; 8 color plates. Includes "Statements by artists", for example Oyvind Fahlstrom by Robert Rauschenberg; Jim Dine by Oyvind Fahlstrom; David hockney by Richard Smith; Claes Oldenburg, On the bedroom. Clean throughout; solid binding.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 8vo. more information

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20) Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers)
Schapiro, Meyer

Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers)
New York: George Braziller, 1996 277 pages; numerous b&w illustrations, 11 color plates. A most admired author: a collection of his essays into the form and meanings of modern art.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 8vo. more information

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21) Beyond the Mainstream: Essays on Modern Art and Contemporary Art
Selz, Peter

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 334 pages; 73 b&w illustrations. A collection of essays examining "art and artists of the 20th century who have operated outside the established art world.". Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. more information

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22) Sheela Gowda
Smith, Trevor; Abhishek Hazra; Ayisha Abraham (essay and interviews)

Sheela Gowda
Göttingen / New York: Steidl / Bose Pacia Gallery, 2007 150 pages followed by another 20 full-page plates of a work in progress. Numerous color and b&w reproductions throughout. One essay, two interviews, Q-and-A sessions, with the artist.. Pictorial Paper Boards. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 4to. Gallery exhibition catalogue. more information

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23) Crosscurrents: New Art from MoMA, New York
Storr, Robert (Curated by)

Crosscurrents: New Art from MoMA, New York
Tokyo: Foundation Arc-en-Ciel, 1999 An exhibition of 24 MoMA acquisitions at The Hara Museum, Tokyo. An unusual catalogue: ring-bound; rather small; each illustarted page a stiff card, some foldouts; catalogue entries on a half-page opposite the illustration. Text in Japanese and in English. . First Edition. Stiff Plastic Ring-bound. Fine. Square 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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24) Patrick Mimran: Recent works and old obsessions
Strinati, Claudio; Alessandra de Bigontina; Paul Ardenne; [et al]

Patrick Mimran: Recent works and old obsessions
Rome: Museo Nazionale Palazzo Venezia, 2007 172 pages; filled with color images, including 2- and 4-panel foldouts; many full-page images. "Patrick Mimram (Paris, 1956) est un artiste complet." Indeed: composer, painter, sculptor, photographer, video artist, digital imagery arranger. His Billboard Project presented names and "laconic" statements on urban sites around the world. The catalogue presents a range of his work. French, English, Italian text.. First Edition. Printed Paper Boards. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue. more information

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