Search Results: Movements / Abstraction from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Munchen; Munich: Antiquitaten- und Auktionshaus J. Weiner, 1991. 162 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Auktion 62. Text in German/Text Deutsch. Katalog, Auktion, 15.5.1991. SEHR GUT+. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. One hundred years of Czechoslovakian art, 192 lots.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art;, 1964. Rebound in library boards, 95 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Exhibition held October 6 to November 15, 1964. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings. No writing in text. A cross-section of modernist painting in 1914, chiefly Cubism and Futurism.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. 225 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. First published, 1983. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "Mark Rothko (1903-1970) produced possibly the most lasting paintings of the New York School, monumental abstract expressionist canvasses that function as 'a passport to a more luminous world.' Drawing on Dore Ashton's countless conversations with Rothko himself, About Rothko is the best full-scale critical biography of this intellectually restless but deeply committed artist. / Dore Ashton's books include A Joseph Cornell Album, Picasso on Art, A Critical Study of Philip Guston, A Fable of Modern Art, The New York School, Noguchi East and West, and A Reading of Modern Art. She lives in New York City." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press; Distributed by Harper and Row, 1986. 48 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Exhibition held March 22 to April 27, 1986. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Includes Sam Gilliam, Emily Cheng, Sharon Gold, Jonathan Lasker, Kathleen Montgomery, Michael Mulhern, David Reed and Stephen Westfall.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. ..

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951. Pictorial boards, 159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 23 to March 25, 1951. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Crown of spine lightly chipped. 2 pages near the back are creased.. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 4to.

New Brunswick, NJ: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, 1989. 164 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. With contributions by Sam Hunter and Irving Sandler; and excerpts from writings by William Seitz and Matthew Lee Rohn. Exhibition held at Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, October 26 to December 3, 1989; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, January 23 to March 11, 1990; The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 25 to June 13, 1990. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Thames and Hudson; World of Art Ser., 1990. 240 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "Explains how abstract art originated and evolved, discusses major abstract artists and movements, and looks at the current revival of abstract painting." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Santa Barbara, CA and Seattle, WA: University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Distributed by University of Washington Press, 1989. 68 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 x 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, January 6 to February 26 1989; the Mary and Leigh Block Art Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, April 4 to June 18, 1989; the de Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, July 9 to September 3, 1989. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. CONTENTS: Abstractions at eighty: theory and experience of painting, by Francis Colpitt; The conditioning of our time, by Phyyllis Plous; Color plates; Catalogue of the exhibition.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Oblong. Collectible.

London: Saatchi Gallery; Jonathan Cape, 2008. Pictorial boards, 390 pages, colour illustrations; 30 x 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2010. 96 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center. Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 27 to May 23, 2010. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Lower right corner lightly bumped. "The exhibition considers the metaphor of 'resistance' as a complex political and compositional force defining art of the past half-century." - Publisher. CONTENTS: World of isolated lions, by Gedi Sibony; Contending with comfort: the possibility of abstract resistance, by Yasmil Raymond; Pay attention, by Cathy Wilkes; Nine thesis of art, by Marcus Steinweg; Subject matter, by Simon Baier; Aubervilliers, February 13, 2006, by Thomas Hirschhorn.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951. 159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 23 to March 25, 1951. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean text, stain on pp. 46-47. Browning.. Paperback. Good. 4to.

Oxford and New York: Phaidon; E. P. Dutton, 1976. Cloth, 16 pages + 48 colour plates; 31 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's name/front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket price-clipped on front flap, with short closed tears.. Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951. Pictorial boards, 159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 23 to March 25, 1951. Binding slightly shaken (weak front hinge). Boards, tips, spine ends worn. Clean inside copy. Another copy available.. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 4to.

Brookfield, CT: Roaring Brook Press, 2002. Pictorial boards, 32 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A kids' picture book introducing the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. Illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Illus. by Parker, Robert Andrew. 4to.

New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1977. [32] pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 23 cm. Exhibition held at Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, February 1977. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

London: Marlborough, 1971. 66 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held November 1971, at Marlborough, London; and February to March 1972, at Marlborough, Zurich. Firm binding, unmarked. Spine bumped at the heel. Age toning, edges lightly soiled.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Sao Paulo: Caixa Cultura Sao Paulo, 2008. 43 pages, colour illustrations; 25 cm. Text in Portuguese. Catalogue of an exhibition held June 3 to July 13, 2008 at Caixa Cultural Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1980. [7] leaves, [13] leaves of plates, colour illustrations; 23 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held April 1980. Near fine. Wraps fine, clean copy. Age toning. Richly illustrated with colour plates. In the late fifties, Held simplified his fussy, gestural paintings to create large, bolder compositions, building a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and the emerging Minimalism.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. ..

New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1991. 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations; 21 x 23 cm. Exhibition held at the Andre Emmerich Gallery, September 10 to October 12, 1991. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1990. 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Robert Miller Gallery, January 4 to February 3, 1990. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Before Al Held became a 'hard edge" painter in the sixties and beyond, he was an abstract expressionist. This exhibition, with an introduction by Ashton, focuses on his works of the mid-fifties, after a period spent in Paris influenced by tachiste painting and existentialism. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.