Search Results: Movements / Expressionism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1952. Decorative cloth, 167 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Gift inscription/verso of front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. The cover is an original lithograph by Jean Charlot.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Charlot, Jean (Cover Design by). 4to.

New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1969. 47 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held April 2 to 28, 1969. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1969. 47 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held April 2 to 28, 1969. Firm binding, clean text. Small stain/foreedge. Age toning. Another copy available.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Woollahra, NSW: Rex Irwin Art Dealer, 2011. 28 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Exhibited at Rex Irwin Art Dealer gallery from July 26 to August 27, 2011. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Price list (44 works) inserted.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Dusseldorf: Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, 1986. 87 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Exhibition held at Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Dusseldorf, September to October 1986. SEHR GUT. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Corner crease/back cover.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1994. 292 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Text in Dutch and English. Exhibition held September 25 to November 27, 1994. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Washington D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1973. 167 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Exhibition held February 23 to May 13, 1973. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Moscow, 1979. Pictorial boards, np., illustrations (chiefly colour); 30 cm. Text in Russian. Cover title: Ahtahac. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. A rare monograph on the Lithuanian artist Antanas Gudaitis (1904-1989) who studied in Paris in the early thirties and painted in an Expressionist manner. Co-founder of the Union of Lithuanian Artists in 1935, he was an influential teacher at the State Art Institute of LSSR for nearly half a century.. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Ithaca and Oxford: Cornell University Press; Phaidon, 1981. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear, age toning. . Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Berlii: Grisebach, 2018. 34 pages, colour illustrations, portraits; 21 cm. Text in German and English. Beckmanns 'Agypterin' wird gezeigt in = Beckmann's 'Egyptian' will be shown in Hamburg, Dortmund, Zurich, Dusseldorf, Munchen, Berlin. Sale held in Berlin, May 31, 2018. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Includes: Text by Eugen Blume: "Barbara und Erhard Gopel - Ein Leben fur und mit Max Beckmann" = "Barbara and Erhard Gopel - Living for and with Max Beckmann"; and a text by Florian Illies: "Die Schone kommt: Zum Geheimnis von Beckmanns 'Agypterin'" = "The beautiful one: On the mystery of Beckmann's 'Egyptian'".. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Chicago and New Haven, CT: Art Institute of Chicago; Yale University Press, 2009. 231 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map; 32 cm. Issued in connection with an exhibition held February 14 to April 26, 2009 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Droplet stain/top edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Two potent myths have traditionally defined our understanding of the artist Edvard Munch (1862-1944): he was mentally unstable, as his iconic work The Scream (1893) suggests, and he was radically independent, following his own singular vision. Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth persuasively challenges these entrenched perceptions. In this book, Jay A. Clarke demonstrates that Munch was thoroughly in control of his artistic identity, a savvy businessman skilled in responding to the market and shaping popular opinion. Moreover, the author… Read More

New Haven, CT and Pasadena, CA: Yale University Press in association with the Norton Simon Art Foundation, 2002. Cloth, 496 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Gently browsed, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "A famous art collector, dealer, and indomitable champion of modern art, Emmy (Galka) Scheyer (1889-1945) is best known as the founder of the Blue Four artists' group, whose members were Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Alexei Jawlensky, and Vasily Kandinsky. Through her contacts with the art world in Europe and America, Scheyer acquired a remarkable collection of paintings, works on paper, and sculpture, now owned by the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. This book presents almost five hundred items from the collection, reproducing most in full color. It features numerous works by the Blue Four, as well as those by such European artists as Pablo Picasso,… Read More

Munich, London, and New York: Prestel, 2000. Cloth, 328 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Simultaneously published in German under title: Der Blaue Reiter im Lenbachhaus Munchen. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "A collection of work by the artist's group, The Blue Rider, which became a symbol of revolution in modern art in the early 20th century and have since become avant-garde icons." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Heinrich Campendonk; Robert Delaunay; Alexei Jawlensky; Wassily Kandinsky; Paul Klee; Alfred Kubin; August Macke; Franz Marc; Gabriele Munter; Marianne von Werefkin.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York: Viking; Penguin, 1992. xvi, 346 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "This volume is biography of Viennese-born socialite Alma Mahler (1879-1964). Mahler became well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. She became the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, as well as the consort of several other prominent men. Born in Austria, Alma saw her native Vienna decline from the peak of its glory, weathered World War I and the Weimar years, survived three children, and made a hairbreadth escape from the Nazis by fleeing to America, where she died at the age of eighty-five. The author further paints the portrait of Alma -- a gifted musician who sublimated her own talent, and an anti-Semite who married two Jews and became a refugee from Hitler." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Munich, London, New York: Prestel; Prestel Museum Guides, 2001. 96 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 22 cm. English Edition. Tight, clean copy. A museum devoted to the German Expressionist group Die Brucke (The Bridge).. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Washington D.C.: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1968. Cloth, [75] pages, illustrations (some colour), portrait; 19 cm. English translation by David H. Wilson. A loan exhibition organized by the Museum Folkwang Essen; circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation 1968-1969. Firm binding, clean text. Small previous owner's signature blacked out/front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Publisher's mylar jacket with light shelfwear.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo.

Munchen; Munich: Galerie Gunther Franke, 1969. 1 folded sheet [4] pages; 21 cm. Text in German/Text in Deutsch. Catalogue of an exhibition held January to February, 1969. SEHR GUT. A very good copy with light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Includes a checklist of 66 works, some illustrated, laid in. Price list inserted.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977. xxi, 57 pages, [7] leaves of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. Translation of Über das Geistige in der Kunst. "Unabridged republication of the English translation first published by Constable and Company Limited, London, in 1914 under the title The art of spiritual harmony. Tight, clean copy. "Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. Kandinskys provocative thoughts on color theory, nature of art. Analysis of Picasso, Matisse, earlier masters. 12 illustrations." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977. xxi, 57 pages, [7] leaves of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. Translation of Über das Geistige in der Kunst. "Unabridged republication of the English translation first published by Constable and Company Limited, London, in 1914 under the title The art of spiritual harmony. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Another copy available. "Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. Kandinskys provocative thoughts on color theory, nature of art. Analysis of Picasso, Matisse, earlier masters. 12 illustrations." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1981. Cloth, xxvi, 229 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Texas Pan American series. Based on the author's thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977 published under the title: Nueva Presencia, the human image in contemporary Mexican art. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with light edgewear & a slightly sunned spine (bold & legible titles), protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.