Sculpture

London: A. Tiranti, 1945. Contemporary Arts Series; xvi plus 40pp b&w plates; 12mo; X-library w/usual markings; Paperback bound in stiff cardboard covers; o/w VG (Note: interior pages are very clean & unmarked) . Frank Dobson; Sculpture; Art;. more information

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Phila: J.B. Lippincott, 1930. Hardcover/No DJ; X-Library w/usual markings, edgewear, o/w Good+ (Note: interior pgs clean & unmarked); Probable 1st Ed; xii,(2),107pp,(64); 4to; "The importance of Tait McKenzie's sculpture lies in its being the first considerable oeuvre since the time of the Greeks to take as its subject and purpose the athletic ideal...(and) McKenzie is the first man of our civilization to translate athletic actions into plastic beauty"; illustrated with over 90 B&W photo plates & sketches by McKenzie; Chronological List of Works; Bibliog.. Tait McKenzie; Sculpture; Scottish Artists; Scottish Sculptors; Athletic Sculptures; Sculptures of Youth;. more information

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Helsinki: The Otava Publishing Co., 1976. Hardcover (cloth)/DJ; VG+/Good (edgewear, chipping, small tears); Presumed 1st Edition; 95 pgs; 4to; translation from Swedish by Fred A. Fewster; profusely illustrated in color & B&W of the artist's works, including sculptures, bronze plaques & a variety of medals; 2 pg Personal Information on the Artist including awards, exhibitions, works in Museums & collections, etc. . Eila Hiltunen; Finnish Artists; Finnish Sculptors; Sculpture;. more information

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Wash DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, Hardcover/No DJ, as issued; VG+ (minor edgewear); 1929. 1st Edition, 90 pgs; photo frontis of the statue. Proceedings in the Congress and in Statuary Hall concerning the Statue of Senator Robert Marion La Follette, unveiled in Washington, April 25, 1929. The statue, by American sculptor Jo Davidson, was presented by the State of Wisconsin in honor of its long term Senator. 

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NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1966. Art Exhibition Catalogue; Probable 1st Ed; 56pp; square 8vo; Held at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, June 20 -Sept. 5,1966; "This exhibition surveys Rueben Nakian's work of the last twenty years, commencing with sculptures of the mid-forties...", ending with Nakian's drawings; profusely photo illustrated; Biographical Outline; Catalogue of the Exhibition; Bibliog; Addenda & Errata slip laid in; stiff pictorial stapled wraps (soft-cover); VG+. Art; Museum of Modern Art; Reuben Nakian; Sculptors; Sculpture; Modern Sculpture; Art Exhibition Catalogs;. more information

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NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1976. Hardcover/DJ; Near Fine/VG+ (light edgewear); 1st U.S. Ed; 232pp; oblong 4to; definitive monograph on artist's contemporary sculpture; "When he was unable to afford conventional materials, he focused his attention on society's discarded industrial products--scrap-iron, wire, old automobiles, and household appliances--and learned to forge a totally unexpected beauty out of the most mundane objects"; 201 illustrations, inc 40 in full color; Exhibitions; Bibliog.. ISBN: 0-8109-0358-X. Cesar; Artists; Sculpture; Sculptors; Contemporary Art; Junk Art;. more information

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Spain: Ediciones Poligrafa, 1979. Hardcover/DJ; Fine (prev owner stamp & small inscription)/DJ-VG+ (light edgewear; some written indentations front cover); Probable 1st Ed; 95pp text, approx 100pp illustrations; square 8vo; biography of the Spanish sculptor with 138 of his works illustrated in color & B&W; text in English, French & Spanish.. ISBN: 84-343-0295-0. Sculptors; Sculpture; Spanish Artists;. more information

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2nd Printing; 84 pgs; oblong 8vo; the Denmark artist who became artist-in-residence at Iowa State University in 1937; his work is best known in the midwest, & "enhances the campus and many of its buildings (Iowa State)"; profusely illustrated with photographs by Louis A. Facto, including large sculptures, medals, portraits, religious figures & symbols, silver work, etc.

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