Search Results: american denim a new folk art by beagle peter

Brand: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 0000-00-00. hardcover. Used: Good.

New York, Abrams, 1975, 4to brossura con copertina illustrata a colori, pp. 157. Lievi tracce d'uso e d'umidità, buone condizioni.

Harry N. Abrams, 1975. softcover. Good. . Cover and edges shows minor shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

New York: Harry N. Abrams,, 1975. Paperback . Very Good. Slight wear and fading and bumping, a few minor university library stamps, otherwise very good. English text.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Harry N Abrams, 1975. Hardcover. VG+/VG (light rubbing to lower board edges, corners & spine edge. light foxing to pastedowns & endpapers. dustjacket has edge scuffing & light toning; scratches; price sticker to flap). blue & white denim color boards w/ stamped silver printing. 157 pgs w/ color illustrations. white, glossy illustrated dustjacket. A charming, historically-important, and well-produced book from 1975 that highlights the work of about 50 denim artists. The concept is simple: these men and women took denim garments and changed them. There's a wide range of techniques here: applique, embroidery and other needlepoint techniques, distressing, integration of other fabrics, painting, studding. The intentions of the artists here are varied. Some of them are coming straight out of the hippie. Interspersed are black and white photos of famous people looking famous in denim (the usual suspects like Peter Fonda and Olivia Newton-John are here as well as Marlene Dietrich and Frank Sinatra… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harry N. Abrams, 1975-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Henry N. Abrams. hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: Harry N. Abrams / Warner Books, 1975. First printing. 156 pp. 4to. Illustrated wrappers with some surface chipping at top of front cover, slight bump to bottom corner else a very good copy. Baron Wolman [photos]. First printing. 156 pp. 4to.

Harry N. Abrams, 1975-01-01. Paperback. Good. . Inscribed by Peter S. Beagle on the half title page. Moderate wear and creases to the cover. Pages are clean and intact.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1975. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of this document of '60s and '70s denim embellishment, a collaboration between Rolling Stone's first chief photographer, the editor of RAGS, and the author of THE LAST UNICORN. AMERICAN DENIM is a social history in photobook form, captured not only by Wolman but by many of the artists who painted, embroidered, appliquéd, fringed, collaged, sequined and studded their own jeans and jean jackets. Beagle's accompanying text presents the individualism and free-spirited nonconformity of the '60s and after as a corrective to and psychic respite from the "passive horror" of the 1950s and before, holding up the proud and personal craftsmanship of denim art as one instance of the true and lasting legacy of the hippie movement: they were honest artisans, he says. "And they did wear such pretty clothes." 11'' x 8.5''. Original silver-stamped blue denim. In original dust jacket. 156 pages. 157 illustrations,… Read More