Search Results: Genre & Subject / Death & Disaster from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. 133 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. October files, 2. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: Andy Warhol's one-dimensional art: 1956-1966, by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh (1989); Saturday disasters: trace and reference in early Warhol, by Thomas Crow (1996); Death in America, by Hal Foster (1996); "Where is your rupture?" Mass culture and the Gesamtkunstwerk, by Annette Michelson (1991); Carnal knowledge, by Rosalind E. Krauss (1996); An interview with Andy Warhol, by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh (1985).. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Abbeville Press, 1983. Cloth, 136 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Edges lightly soiled. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

New York: Villard Books; Random House, 1994. 258 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Death is where this story begins; disaster is what follows. In 1987, Andy Warhol overcame his deep fear of hospitalization to seek treatment for a gallbladder ailment he'd neglected for fourteen years. "I'm not gonna make it," he said to his personal physician, who assured him that the surgery he faced was routine. The operation was both routine and successful, but less than twenty-four hours later, Warhol was dead. The shocking news set off a blizzard of activity: Warhol's East Side townhouse was sealed, his executor took charge, lawyers were called in, canvases were moved to secret warehouse (some never to be seen again), security guards were posted at the Factory. The world that Andy Warhol had carefully constructed over three decades was about to go… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1999. 72 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., May 8 to July 18, 1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

Barrytown, NY: Station Hill of Barrytown, 2017. Cloth, 267 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards. Variant cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "The art of the human image arose millennia ago as a way beyond impermanence and, especially, to keep the dead among us. The pictorial object the icon often carried a charge as ritual or ceremonial artifact and, indeed, as a thing with a certain power. The artist Heide Hatry has extended this tradition by creating realistic portraits made out of the actual ashes of the departed person portrayed. Are the results reminiscent of ancient sacred and secular traditions and their complex, even mysterious function to, say, calm, enrich or transform our experience? Icons in Ash includes twenty of Hatry's portraits and twenty-seven contemporary writers who explore this phenomenon in original and engaging meditations on death, the dead body, art, relics, psychology,… Read More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. Cloth, 271 pages, illustrations; 31 cm. First published under title: Images de l'homme devant la mort. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 2000. 275 pages, illustrations; 30 cm. Text in German and Japanese. Eine Ausstellung ausgewahlter Werke der Graphiksammlung "Mensch und Tod" der Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf; vom 11. Oktober bis 3.Dezember 2000 im National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. WIE NEU. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. The Dance of Death from the Late Middle Ages to the Present. An exhibition of selected works from the graphics collection "Man and Death" of the Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, held from 11 October to December 3, 2000 at the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015. 3 volumes; 25 cm. BRAND NEW. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "This work explores the science behind some of the worst global disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries, including structural and engineering failures, natural disasters, nuclear and industrial accidents, train derailments, and plane crashes. Entries cover physics, engineering, aerodynamics, chemical reactions, computer science, geology, materials science, and more." - Publisher.. Hardcover. NEW. 8vo.