Search Results: Movements / Art Informel from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Basel: Galerie Beyeler, 1978. [26] pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Text in German. Ausstellung Februar-Marz 1978/Exhibition February to March 1978. SEHR GUT. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Munich: Prestel, 1991. 164 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. English Edition. Translated from the German by John Ormrod. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. . Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Saint-Etienne: Centre de Documentation et d'Etudes d'Histoire de l'Art Contemporain, 1972. 47 pages; 27 cm. Texte en francais. TRES BON ETAT. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Browning. A special section is devoted to the Polish-born artist, Piotr Kowalski, who represented France at the 34th Venice Biennial. Also includes articles, book and exhibition reviews. First number. Rare.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Serial.

Paris: Galerie Charpentier, 1963. [80] pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Text in French/Texte en francais. BON+ ETAT. Legerement use. Wraps lightly soiled. Clean inside copy. Bumped/upper right corner. Presents a rare cross-section of artists working in Paris in the early sixties. Notable artists of various schools, from Dunoyer de Segonzac to Bissiere, and younger artists like Lapoujade and Corneille, were each invited to select 8 artists representative of the School of Paris in 1963. The jurors have contributed short texts explaining their selections (L'art informel, tachistes, members of CoBrA, Nouveaux Realistes, others) and there are numerous black-and-white plates. Includes: Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Avigdor Arikha, Enrico Baj, Roger Bissiere, Guillaume Corneille, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Hundertwasser, Asger Jorn, Sebastian Matta, Edouard Pignon, Herve Telemaque, others. There is also a special section on "Peintres Israeliens" (Israeli Painters), accompanied with a text by Haim Gamzou.… Read More

Tokyo: Nihonbashi Gallery [c. 1961] Card stock (1 fold, 4 pages), 2 plates (1 colour); 23 x 26 cm. Text in English and Japanese. A very good copy, with light edgewear, age toning. Price list and invitation card laid in.Teiichi Hijikata's short essay (in English) is entitled "The Magnificent Assemblage of Jean Cortot." Rare.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.

Madrid: Galeria Juana Mordo, 1972. [18] pages, illustrations, plates; 23 cm. Exhibition held at the Galeria Juana Mordo, Madrid, from 25 April to 20 May 1972. Withdrawn from non-circulating library.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, 1977. Cloth, 357 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Text in English. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: A boy who wanted to be an astronomer; Hartung before Hartung; Detours and research; The discovery on the island; Invisible Paris; Interruption and fresh start; The conquest of isolation; The harvests of a lifetime; Illustrations; Drawings and ceramics; Biography. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Milan: 5 Continents, 2006. 223 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour); 25 cm. Some articles translated from French or German. Firm binding, clean inside copy. CONTENTS: Hans Hartung, Abcedarium: reading between the lines, by John C. Welchman; A case study on the caducity of categories in art criticism, by Franz-W. Kaiser; Hans Hartung, Clandestine artist. 1937-1942: the decisive years, by Annie Claustres; Hans Hartung, mid-century modern, by Christine Mehring; Hans Hartung and printmaking, by Rainer Michael Mason; Selected works, by Christopher Wool; 1975, Hartung at the Metropolitan Museum: chronicle of a failure, by Anne Pontegnie; Hans Hartung in Germany, by Chantal Eschenfelder; Germany and France: two parts in one, by Laurence Bertrand Dorleac; The very late style of Hans Hartung: a problem?, by Jennifer Mundy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1978. 204 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. English Edition. Exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, September 7 to October 15, 1978. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1962. [56] pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Text in German. Exhibition held 11 December, 1962 to 27 January, 1963. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps. Age toning. Jean Bazaine (1904-2001) was one of the leading abstract painters in France after World War Two, sometimes identified with l'art informel. Bazaine began showing in the early 1930s and served in the war. Demobilised in 1941, he curated a controversial exhibition, Vingt Jeunes Peintres de Tradition Francais at the Galerie Braun, in Paris, 1941. Considered a "French abstract expressionist" this side of the pond, he was represented by Galerie Maeght, in Paris, from 1949 on. He became famous, apart from painting, in the field of stained glass. SEHR GUT. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. / TRES BON ETAT. Legerement use.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1983. Leather, gilt, 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Collector's Edition. Raised bands on spine, all edges gilt. Silk ribbon book mark. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1983. Leather, gilt, 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Collector's Edition. Raised bands on spine, all edges gilt. Silk ribbon book mark. Firm binding, unmarked. Title page lightly soiled, age toning. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio.

Paris: La Difference, 1987. Cloth, 243 pages, illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. The French abstract painter Jean Miotte (1926-2016) is associated with L'Art Informel (the French equivalent of Abstract Expressionism),. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Folio. Collectible.

New York: Golden Griffin Books, Arts, Inc.; Pocket Museum, 1958. 47 pages, colour illustrations (tipped in); 19 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small stain/front panel.. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. 12mo.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. Cloth, x, 207 pages, [24] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Through an exploration of the reception of modernist painting, Yule Heibel discusses how West German artists, intellectuals, and audiences attempted to fashion a secure 'image of man' in the wake of the most serious and radical crisis in modern history: Nazism and the Holocaust. In the period from 1945 to about 1950, expressive and 'unbeautiful' elements in abstract painting were discursively and practically purged, mainly because expression was a reminder of dangerous and traumatized subjectivity. This purging resulted in a hegemony of 'harmonious' abstract art, which critics to date have viewed primarily as a decorative art and thus an avoidance of Germany's twentieth-century history. Until now, no one has analyzed the discursive maneuvers of… Read More

Montreal and Paris: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Connaissance des Arts, 2002. 125 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A monograph on the French-Canadian abstract expressionist, with essays by leading Canadian scholars, including Serge Guilbaut. Although this doubles as an issue of Connaissance des Arts, there is no advertising matter.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1965. [24] pages, illustrations, portrait; 26 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Pierre Matisse Gallery, November 30 to December 24, 1965. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Invitation card laid in.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1985. Leather, gilt, 95 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Collector's Edition. Raised bands on spine, all edges gilt. Silk ribbon book mark. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio.

Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educaci n y Ciencia, 1971. 80 pages, illustrations (some colour); 17 cm. Artistas espanoles contemporaneos, 24. Text in Spanish/Texto en espanol. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. 1st. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 16mo. Collectible.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1979. 278 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. A good reading copy, with underlining on a dozen pages. "The Spanish artist Antoni Tapies first received worldwide recognition in the 1950s for his "matter" paintings: relief-like works composed of dry pigments, sand, marble-dust and paint, which he scraped, incised and pierced. His early paintings have been likened to walls, their graffiti-like scrawls denoting the only means of free expression available under the Franco regime. The artist's later works express less tangible symbols and themes. This volume is the catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in collaboration with the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris. It presents the essentials of Tapies's art - an original use of texture and materials, coupled with an expression of intense intellectual, political and artistic feeling. The book provides an overview of the artist's life and… Read More