Search Results: Titles starting with K from modern-ISM

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1972. 13th Printing . Original Wraps. Very Good +. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Softbound reprint w/ slightly sun darkened spine, rubbed spine ends and mild crease to bottom corner.

Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafia, 1987. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine/Fine. 9" x 12. 128 pp., 125 color illustrations. A co-founder of the Blaue Reiter movement and instructor at the Bauhaus for eleven years, the Russian-born Kandinsky was an unprecedented innovator. This is a substantial selection of his paintings, drawings and designs. Extra shipping for int'l due to size.

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: MIT Press, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine +/Fine +. Square 4to. A crisp, clean Fine copy in a Fine mylar-protected dust jacket dust jacket. 420 pp., profusely illustrated, notes, chronological overview and index. Introduction by Kenneth Frampton. Teige, a leading figure of the European avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, participated in every important argument and controversy of those turbulent years. He edited the most influential avant-garde journals on Czech and international cultural developments and wrote profoundly original essays and books on the theory and criticism of art and architecture. Laid in are a bookmark from the Getty Museum's "Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe 1890-1937" exhibit and a press release for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's "Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930" exhibit. As New/As New.

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: University of Chicago Press, 1991. First Edition . Original Cloth. Fine/Fine. Large 4to. A crisp, clean Fine copy with a trace of foxing to the top edges in a Fine mylar-protected dust jacket (front slightly rubbed and back has some rubbing and light scratches). A crisp, unread copy. 230 pp., profusely illustrated in color and B&W, extensive bibliography and index. The authors define the influences that shaped the dramatic shift in Malevich's oeuvre- from his early examination of Cezanne and his involvement in Futurist circles to his rejection of mimesis and to the final wprks following 1927.

Los Angeles: Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, 1991. First Edition . Original Cloth. As New/As New. Large 4to. As New in an As New dust jacket. 230 pp., 125 full color and 130 B&W illustrations, catalogue of the exhibition which travelled to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Armand Hammer in L.A., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, notes, bibliography and index. A beautifully produced book of the Russian Avant-Garde and Suprematist's work.

University of California Santa Barbara, 1969. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. A crisp Good copy in somewhat rubbed wraps with a crease to the top of the front cover and small piece missing from the bottom forecorner of the last 16 pages. 108 pp., illustrations. Scarce in any condition.

Tokyo: Shokokusha Publishing Co., Ltd., 1999. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. A crisp, clean Near Fine copy. 158 pp., featuring a Julius Shulman cover photo of an interior of Schindler's Kings Road House. Featuring 13 works by Schindler and an interview with architectural photographer Julius Shulman.

Tokyo: Shokusha Publishing Co., 1999. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp, clean copy. 122 pp., profusely illustrated with the work of Frank Gehry (Der Neue Zollhof, cover photo by Thomas Mayer), Zaha Hadid (Centre of Contemporary Arts in Rome), Jean Nouvel (Office and Collective Housing in Bregenz), Steven Holl (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City), Matthieu Poitevin & Pascal Reynaud and more. Text in Japanese and English.

Tokyo: Shokusha Publishing Co., 1999. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp, clean, Fine slightly rubbed copy with a trace of edge wear. 150 pp., profusely illustrated with the work of Frank Gehry (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, cover photo by Philip Ruault), Rem Koolhaas (Educatorium), and Renzo Piano (Beyeler Foundation Museum.Text in Japanese and English.

Tokyo: Shokusha Publishing Co., 1999. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp, clean Fine copy. 122 pp., profusely illustrated with the work of Frank Gehry (Der Neue Zollhof, cover photo by Thomas Mayer), Zaha Hadid (Centre of Contemporary Arts in Rome), Jean Nouvel (Office and Collective Housing in Bregenz), Steven Holl (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City), Matthieu Poitevin & Pascal Reynaud and more. Text in Japanese and English.

New York: Whittlesey House, 1938. First Edition . Pictorial Boards. Very Good/Very Good. A crisp, clean Very Good copy in a Very Good mylar-protected dust jacket. 127 pp., profusely illustrated.

Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 1998. First U.S. Edition . Cloth. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. Oblong 8vo. A crisp, clean copy with a small remainder dot on bottom edges near spine without DJ as issued. 96 pp., introduction by Tuula Arkio, essays by Pekka Suhonen and Vesa Honkonen, statement by Steven Holl, profusely illustrated with photos by Jussi Tiainen.

New York: McKay, 1974. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First ediiton with all proper idndications. Near Fine (tiny, unobtrusive damp stain on top edges) in a Near Fine DJ (a couple mild wrinkles on the spine). No spine slant. Overall, a very nice copy indeed of this rarity. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Scarab Fraternity Press, 1934. First Edition . Cloth-Backed Boards. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good copy in a Very Good mylar-protected dust jacket. and copyright pages. Owner's name and gift inscription on front pastedown and ffep. Edited and introduction by Claude Bragdon. 256p. 6 plates including frontis, all present. In original dustjacket showing $2.50 price on back; book in cream cloth with blue stamping. Dustjacket spine-faded and somewht soiled, with light chipping to spine crown. Previous owner's info on front pastedown, obscured by flap....

Wittenborn, 1947. First Thus . Illustrated Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Paul Rand. Very Good. First thus 1947, matching dates on title and copyright pages. Softcover in pictorial wraps without DJ as issued. Cover design by Paul Rand. Condition very good with more wear apparent on the spine. some darkening to the wraps. 4to, 252 pages. (The Documents of Modern Art Series). Previous owner's name in ink inside front cover.

New York: Abrams, 1967. First Edition . Linen. Fine/Fine -. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A crisp, clean copy with an owner's inscription on the front free endpaper. DJ is lightly rubbed, a minor wrinkle at the top corner of the back cover. 167 pp., 138 reproductions with 48 tipped in icolor plates, biographical outline and bibliography. A beautiful copy. Int'l shipping extra due to size.

Knoll International, 1987. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. A crisp, clean, unrubbed bright orange and white wraps. 24 pp., elephant folio, richly illustrated in black and white and in color with the work of Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Warren Platner, Tobia Scarpa, Marcel Breuer, Harry Bertoia, Gae Aulenti, Charles Pollock, Otto Zapf, and others.

Stockholm: Galleriet Kulturhuset, 1975. Wraps. Near Fine. 28 pp. Text in Swedish. Slight rubbing to white wraps with black/red lettering.. b/w illustrations.Constructivism in Poland 1923-1936. Exhibition catalogue held at Galleriet Kulturhuset in Stockholm 31 Oct. 1975 - 6 Jan. 1976. Features Henryk Berlewi, Karol Hiller, Katarzyna Kobro, Henryk Stazewski, Wladyslaw Strzeminski. Scarce

Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1995. First Edition . Photographic Boards. Fine/Fine. A crisp Fine copy in a Fine mylar-protected dust jacket. 284 pp., illustrations, notes, index.