(NASH A3916)
NASH, STEVEN A., et al. Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area. 216 pp., approx. 200 illus., over 130 in color, brief biogs., index. Exhib. cat. checklist of 175 works by 133 artists, primarily painting, photos, conceptual and earthworks; many women artists included. Excellent historical survey with seven fine critical texts. 4to, cloth, d.j. Berkeley, Univ. of California, 1995. As new.
$55.00 [Order]
(NEW BRUNSWICK A19766)
NEW BRUNSWICK. Rutgers University Art Gallery. Contemporary American Illustrators of Children's Books. 72 pp. exhib. cat., 32 full-page b&w illus., color cover illus., 32 illustrators with biog., artist's statement and bibliog. of illustrated books for each artist; checklist of 150 works exhibited. Intro. by A. Hyatt Mayor. Includes: Adrienne Adams, Erik Blegvad, Marcia Brown, Jean Charlot, Tony Chen, Barbara Cooney, James Daugherty, Harry Devlin, William Pene du Bois, Roger Duvoisin, Fritz Eichenberg, Antonio Frasconi, Don Freeman, Edward Gorey, Lorenzo Homar, Blair Lent, Ezra Jack Keats, Leo Lionni, Joseph Low, Robert McCloskey, Evaline Ness, Peter Parnall, Leona Pierce, Ellen Raskin, Maurice Sendak, Marc Simont, Lynn Ward, Garth Williams, Taro Yashima, Margo Zemach. 4to, pictorial wraps. First ed. October 6-November 17, 1974. Fine.
$15.00 [Order]
(NEW ORLEANS A14574)
NEW ORLEANS. Hanson Gallery. Southern Exposure: Women Artists in the South. 28 pp., 59 b&w illus., checklist of 236 works. Juried by Dorothy Gillespie; text by Donald B. Kuspit. The inaugural exhibition of the Southeastern Women's Caucus for Art. Oblong 4to, stapled wraps. First ed. N.d. Fine.
$15.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A10225)
NEW YORK. A.I.R. Gallery. Combative Acts, Profiles and Voices: An Exhibition of Women Artists from Paris. 10 full-page b&w illus. Works by Baur, Hessie, Janicot, Maglione and a collective work by Aballea, Blum, Croiset, Mimi, and Yalter. Catalogue of an important feminist international art exchange show. Curated with text by the leading French feminist art critic of the 70s Aline Dallier. ORIGINAL COVER DESIGN by NANCY SPERO. Sq. slender 8vo, stapled wraps. 1976. Fine.
$30.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A10226)
NEW YORK. A.I.R. Gallery. Overview 1972-1977: An Exhibition in Two Parts. 45 pp., 44 b&w illus. A catalogue of works exhibited in the members' first shows during this critical five-year period of feminist art-making, biogs. of participants and important bibliography of feminist exhibitions held at A.I.R. from 1972-78. Text by Corinne Robins. Sq. 8vo, stapled wraps. 1978. Fine.
$40.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A3994)
NEW YORK. Alena Adlung Gallery. Contemporary German Art. 31 pp. exhib. cat., 23 full-page color plates, 4 b&w illus. 10 young contemporary artists including Eliska Bartek, Camilla Bischoff, Wolfgang Ehehart, Richard Hess, Paso, Olga Schrufer-Kozlova, et al. Sq. 8vo, wraps. 1989. Fine.
$12.50 [Order]
(NEW YORK A8505)
NEW YORK. Alternative Museum. Disinformation: The Manufacture of Consent. 64 pp., 33 illus., biogs., recent exhibs. Texts by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman. Curated by Geno Rodriguez. 32 avant-garde political artists (8 women) included: Margia Kramer, Margo McClean, Martha Rosler, Erika Rothenberg, Carolee Schneeman, Nancy Spero, Mimi Smith, May Stevens, Antonio Muntadas, Leon Golub, Jos Sances, Tim Rollins, et al. 4to, wraps., d.j. 1985. As new.
$35.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A19309)
NEW YORK. Anina Nosei. 7 Latin American Artists. 9 color plates, mostly full-page, biogs., exhibs., awards. Text by Meyer Raphael Rubinstein. A selection of artists from Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, many of whom live and work in New York. Includes: Arturo Duclos, Julio Galan, Guillermo Kuitca, Miguel Rios, Teresa Serrano, Jorge Tacla, Meyer Vaisman. Sq. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed. May-June, 1993. About fine.
$15.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A8755)
NEW YORK. Austrian Cultural Institute. Kindred Spirits in Contrast. 40 pp., 8 full-page color plates, brief biogs. Text in German and English by Anselm Wagner. A four-person show of work by contemporary Austrian artists (two women): Gabriele Hain, Manfred Makra, Vera Paluch, Alois Reiter. Sq. 8vo, stiff self-wraps. 1991. Fine.
$16.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A17825)
NEW YORK. Blum Helman Warehouse. Plastic Fantastic Lover (object a). 46 pp. exhib. cat. b&w illus. Curated by Catherine Liu. Includes: Polly Apfelbaum, Angela Bulloch, Cathy de Monchaux, Gail Fitzgerald, Sylvie Fleury, Aki Fujiyoshi, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Asta Groting, Paula Hayes, Rebecca Horn, Karen Lilimnick, Rachel Lachowicz, Patty Martori, Annette Messager, Rona Pondick, Beverly Semmes, Jessica Stockholder, Rosemarie Trockel, Mary Weatherford, Andrea Zittel. Small sq. 4to, stiff card covers, spiral metal binding. 1991. About fine (slight rubbing to one corner tip.).
$10.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A19759)
NEW YORK. Dorsky Gallery. Drawing a Conclusion / Drawing the Question. Exhibition catalogue with texts for TWO exhibitions, bound dos-a-dos, as issued, 9 b&w, 8 color illus. Drawing a Conclusion, curated by Jennifer R. Gross and Susan Harris, included Heidi Fasnacht, Tom Friedman, Roni Horn, Ellsworth Kelly, Howard Schwartzburg and Myron Stout. Drawing the Question, curated by Susan Harris and Jennifer R. Gross, included: Dan Asher, Eva Hesse, Ree Morton, Sol Lewitt, Sheila Pepe, and Richard Tuttle. March 1-April 25, 1998 and April 29-June 20, 1998, respectively. Sq 8vo, stapled wraps. First ed. 1998. Fine.
$17.50 [Order]
(NEW YORK A14557)
NEW YORK. Franklin Furnace. The Flue Vol. 2, No. 3 (Summer 1982) (Double issue) Sex, Performance, and the 80's. 57 pp., b&w illus. throughout. Scarce and important record of feminist performance work. Intro. Martha Wilson; interviews with Susan Hiller, Suzanne Lacy, Carolee Schneeman, Charles Ludlam; articles and reviews of performance works by Micki McGee, Melvyn Freilicher, Barbara Baracks, Rose English, Sonia Knox, Tina Keane, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Hannah O'Shea, Sally Potter, Feminist Art Workers, Sheri Gaulke, Linda Montano, Linda Nishio, Martha Rosler, Nina Sobel, Nancy Buchanan, Barbara Smith, photos by Benita Abrams; artists' pages by Cecilia Vicuna, Sandy Sando, Richard Zigun, and Leslie Labowitz. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed. 1982. About fine.
$30.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A13251)
NEW YORK. Grey Art Gallery, NYU. Awards in the Visual Arts 6. 128 pp., 6-8 full-page color plates for each artist, biogs. Text by Barry Schwabsky. Includes: Ross Bleckner, Christopher Brown, Jill Giegerich, Peter Huttinger, James Michaels, Archie Rand, Bill Seaman, Hollis Sigler, Michael Tracy, and William Willis. Large 4to, wraps. May 4-June 7, 1987. Near fine clean bright copy.
$15.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A7368)
NEW YORK. Hirschl & Adler Galleries. Six American Modernists. 51 pp. exhib. cat. (107 works), 58 illus., most in color. Marsden Hartley (9 illus.), Gaston Lachaise (8 illus.), Elie Nadelman (9 illus.), Georgia O'Keeffe (10 illus.), Charles Sheeler (10 illus.), John Storrs (12 illus.)Two additional original photographs of a Nadelman sculpture laid in. A beautiful catalogue printed on fine heavy paper. Small sq. 4to, stapled wraps. 1991. As new.
$14.50 [Order]
(NEW YORK A10233)
NEW YORK. Hirschl & Adler Modern. Therese Oulton, Norbert Prangenberg, Joan Snyder. 36 pp. exhib. cat., 13 full-page illus. in b&w and color, biogs, exhibs., bibliogs. 4to, stiff card wraps. 1987. Fine.
$20.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A19755)
NEW YORK. Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts. Accrochage Surrealiste: cent queues ni tetes. 32 pp. exhib. cat., 30 full-page b&w illus. Includes: Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Jorge Camacho, Leonora Carrington, Joseph Cornell, Dado, Oscar Dominguez, Enrico Donati, Max Ernst, Valentine Hugo, Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam, Rene Magritte, Roberto Matta, Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Pierre Roy, Wilhelm Freddie, Richard Oelze, Mimi Parent, Francis Picabia, Kurt Seligmann, Dorothea Tanning, Remedios Varo, et al. 4to, wraps. First ed. January-April, 1991. Fine.
$15.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A15908)
NEW YORK. Kenkeleba House. Unbroken Circle: Exhibition of African American Artists of the 1930's and 1940's. 36 pp., 55 b&w illus., checklist of work by 56 artists (including 10 women artists). Intro. Corinne Jennings; text by David C. Driskell, and beautiful memoir by curator / artist Vincent D. Smith. Well-chosen examples of each artist's work. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed. 1986. Fine.
$45.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A18428)
NEW YORK. Marlborough Gallery. Sculpture by Abakanowicz, Botero, Bruskin, Davies, Grooms, Mason. 36 pp., 25 color plates (1 triple fold-out). Approximately 3 works for each artist, 15 by Bruskin. 4to, wraps. First ed. 1989. Fine.
$10.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A19763)
NEW YORK. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. Fiber and Form: The Woman's Legacy. 20 pp. exhib. cat., b&w photo and 3-4 color plates with brief text, for each artist, checklist of 55 works. Includes: Hannelore Baron, Lee Bontecou, Nancy Grossman, Eve Peri, Anne Ryan, Betye Saar, Lenore Tawney. Nicely printed on heavy cardstock. 8vo, spiral metal binding, card covers. First ed. June 13-September 3, 1996. Fine.
$22.50 [Order]
(NEW YORK A15723)
NEW YORK. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. The First Decade. 96 pp., 83 full-page color plates, plus additional color photos of exhibition installations. A celebration of the exhibitions mounted by the Rosenfeld Gallery during its first decade. Includes approximately a dozen African American artists including Romare Bearden, Betye Saar, Hale Woodruff and others. 4to, gilt-lettered cloth, pictorial endpapers. No d.j. (as issued). First ed. May 11-August 10, 2000. As new.
$20.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A4413)
NEW YORK. Museum of Modern Art. Americans 1963. Ed. by Dorothy C. Miller. 112 pp., profusely illus., statements by the artists and photos of each, brief biogs. and bibliogs. Primarily a pop art show: Lindner, Rosenquist, Oldenburg, Anuszkiewicz, Reinhardt, et al. Includes numerous women artists: Bontecou, Chryssa, Marisol, Sally Drummond. Small sq. 4to, stiff card wraps. 1963. About fine.
$20.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A18181)
NEW YORK. Museum of Modern Art. Dislocations. 80 pp., 7 double-page color plates, approx. 65 b&w photos, checklist. Text by Robert Storr. The comprehensive record of seven installation works by Louise Bourgeois, Chris Burden, Sophie Calle, David Hammons, Ilya Kabakov, Bruce Nauman, Adrian Piper. Tall 4to, wraps. October 20, 1991-January 7, 1992. As new.
$17.50 [Order]
(NEW YORK A14909)
NEW YORK. Museum of Modern Art. New Work on Paper. 56 pp., 23 illus. (5 in color), bibliog., exhib. checklist of over 100 works. Artists include: Jake Berthot, Dan Christensen, Alan Cote, Tom Holland, Yvonne Jacquette, Ken Kiff, Joan Snyder, William Tucker. Text by John Elderfield. Sq 8vo, wraps. First ed. 1981. Fine.
$5.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A16303)
NEW YORK. Museum of Modern Art. Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties. 64 pp., 36 illus., 8 in color. Text by Lynn Zelevansky. Includes: Polly Apfelbaum, Mona Hatoum, Rachel Lachowicz, Jac Leirner, Claudia Matzko, Rachel Whiteread and Andrea Zittel, 8vo, wraps. First ed. 1995. Fine (but with rem mark lower edge).
$9.50 [Order]
(NEW YORK A13357)
NEW YORK. National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. Constitution and By-Laws, Membership List, 1923. 58 (1) pp. Includes 19 pp. By-Laws; the rest consisting of list of officers, committee members, and names and addresses of several hundred national members. Includes many well-known artists of that period such as Marion B. Allen, Clara T. MacChesney, Alice Ball, Marion Bullard, Harriet Frishmuth, Maude S. Jewett, Elsie Dodge Pattee, Agnes Pelton, Margaret Sargent, Janet Scudder, Elizabeth Spencer, Irene Weir, Gertrude V. Whitney, et al. A valuable record of a major organization. Scarce. 16mo, side stapled with printed gray paper wraps. New York, Friebele Press, 1923. Near fine (tiny closed tear along lower front spinefold).
$125.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A14313)
NEW YORK. Neuhoff Gallery. Sterligov Group: Paintings from Russia. 47 pp. exhib. cat., 12 color plates, illus., biogs. Contemporary Russian group of nine painters. The artists represented are: Larissa Astrein, Alexander Baturin, Yuri Gobanov, Alexei Gostintsev, Elena Gritsenko, Alexander Kozhin, Alexander Nosov, Mikhail Tserush, and Ganadi Zubkov. Small 4to, wraps. First ed. April 26-June 10, 1995. V.G.+.
$20.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A7622)
NEW YORK. Queens Museum of Art. Classical Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art. 48 pp., 54 b&w illus., color cover plate, exhib. checklist of painting, sculpture and installation work. An original and interesting exhibition. Substantial text by Barbara C. Matilsky. Artists include: Edward Allington, Adrienne Anderson, Arman, Adolf Benca, Robert Colescott, Jim Dine, Mary Beth Edelson, Janet Fish, Audrey Flack, Viola Frey, Barbara Friedman, Paul Georges, Leon Golub, Sidney Goodman, Robert Jessup, Betsy Kaufman, Komar & Melamid, Alexander Kosolapov, Carlo Mariani, Jody Pinto, Anne and Patrick Poirier, Shirley Scheier, George Segal, Nancy Spero, Mark Tansey, Chihung Yang, and others. Uncommon. 4to, wraps. First ed. April 15-June 12, 1988. About fine clean bright copy (speck of rubbing top edge.)
$70.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A9020)
NEW YORK. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the GEORGE COSTAKIS Collection. 320 pp. exhib. catalogue listing 269 works by 39 artists, all illus., approx. 30 color plates, biographical notes. Includes numerous women artists. Excellent reference. Stout 4to, wraps. Second printing of 3000. (1981) 1983. About fine.
$27.50 [Order]
(NEW YORK A19025)
NEW YORK. Studio Museum. Black Belt. 120 pp., 70 illus. (67 in color), over 50 works in many media by younger contemporary avant-garde artists, addressing Afro-Asian transculturalism, Blaxploitation and the appropriation of kung fu cinema in American pop culture. Artists include: Sanford Biggers, Iona Rozeal Brown, Sean Duffy, Ellen Gallagher, Rico Gatson, Luis Gispert, David Hammons, David Huffman, Arthur Jaffa, Michael Joo, Glenn-Kaino, Clarence Lin, Kori Newkirk, Paul Pfeiffer, Cynthia Wiggins, Roy Williams. Text by Christine Y. Kim. 4to, self-wraps. First ed. 2003. New.
$85.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A13641)
NEW YORK. The Union League Club. A Special Exhibition of Selected Paintings and Small Sculpture by Members of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors of New York City. SIGNED by painter / exhibitor Clara Louise Bell. Covers plus 9 pp. checklist of 44 works. No illustrations. Exhibitors include the likes of Cecilia Beaux, Margaret Fish, Eulabee Dix, Harriet Frishmuth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Malvina Hoffman. 16mo, stapled wraps. April 10-14, 1930. Fine copy of this rare catalogue with cover SIGNED by painter / exhibitor Clara Louise Bell.
$85.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A19275)
NEW YORK. Thread Waxing Space. Don't Look Now. 24 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Exhibition created from slides submitted by 68 participants who were asked to consider the idea of identity as a visual and symbolic "projection". Participants included Jimmie Durham, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dan Graham, Renee Green, Peter Halley, David Hammons, Ilya Kabakov, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Glenn Ligon, Raymond Pettibon, Sonic Youth, Haim Steinbach, Rosemarie Trockel, and others. 4to, wraps. First ed. 1994. As new.
$15.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A19132)
NEW YORK. Thread Waxing Space. Scratch: The Exhibition. 64 pp. exhib. cat., 170 thumbnail color plates of work by 170 artists, several African American artists included in this hip downtown show: Brett Cook-Dizney, Leonardo Drew, Jesse Lott, Whitfield Lovell, Kara Walker. 4to (9 x 6.5 in.), wraps. First ed. May 1996. About fine.
$30.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A19616)
New York. Tibor de Nagy. Americans in Paris: Abstract Painting in the Fifties. Unpag. (28 pp.) exhib. cat., 16 full page color plates, exhib. Checklist. Text by Isabelle Dervaux. Includes: Biala, Norman Bluhm, Seymour Boardman, Beauford Delaney, Sam Francis, Shirley Goldfarb, Al Held, Shirley Jaffe, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell, Kimber Smith. 4to, pictorial stapled card wraps. First ed. July 16-September 29, 2007. Fine.
$15.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A17175)
NEW YORK. Whitney Museum. 1981 Whitney Biennial. 159, (1) pp., 114 b&w illus., artists' biogs. Foreword by Tom Armstrong; preface by the curators. Artists included: Rackstraw Downes, Duane Hanson, Neil Jenney, James Rosenquist, Richard Shaw, Hollis Sigler, Jennifer Bartlett, Scott Burton, Larry Clark, Al Held, Neil Jenney, Robert Kushner and Kim MacConnel, Robert Moskowitz, Elizabeth Murray, Dennis Oppenheim, Ed Paschke, Judy Pfaff, Robert Zakanitch, William Wegman, et al. 4to, wraps 1981. V.G.
$15.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A17169)
NEW YORK. Whitney Museum. 1989 Whitney Biennial. Catalogue for the Whiney Museum 1989 Biennial Exhibition organized by Richard Armstrong, Richard Marshall and Lisa Phillips with film and video selections by John G. Hanhardt. Features work from: Donald Bechler, Cindy Bernard, Ashley Bickerton, Ross Bleckner, Chris Burden, Michael Byron, Saint Clair Cemin, Martha Diamond, Kate Ericsona and Mel Ziegler, Robert Gober, April Gornik, Mary Heilmann, Mark Innerst, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Liz Larner, Erik Levine, Sherrie Levine, Christopher Macdonald, Brice Marden, Allan McCollum, Matt Mullican, Joan Nelson, Deborah Oropalo, Hirsch Perlman, Martin Puryear, Charles Ray, David Reed, Julia Scher, Joel Schapiro, Cary Smith, Ray Smith, Andrew Spence, Francesc Torres, Joan Wallace and Geralyn Donohuye, Meg Webster, William Wegman, Christopher Wool, Tom Wudl, Michele Zalopany. Small stout 4to, wraps 1989. V.G. clean tight copy.
$15.00 [Order]
(NEW YORK A6809)
NEW YORK. Whitney Museum at Equitable Center. Sculpture Since the Sixties from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. 24 pp. exhib. cat., 20 illus. Texts by Patterson Sims and Susan Lubowsky. 20 artists including 3 women: Butterfield, Pfaff, and Winsor. Slender 4to, self-wraps. 1989. Near-fine.
$7.50 [Order]
(NEW YORK A15166)
NEW YORK. Whitney Museum of American Art. Four American Expressionists: Doris Caesar, Chaim Gross, Karl Knaths, Abraham Rattner. This copy INSCRIBED with full signature by Doris Caesar. 72 pp. exhib. cat., 52 illus., 10 in color. 133 works listed, 30 by Caesar. Text by Lloyd Goodrich and John I. H. Baur. 4to, wraps. 1959. V.G.+ (spine lightly rubbed).
$45.00 [Order]
(NIELSEN A9442)
NIELSEN, ALDON LYNN. Black Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism. 288 pp. examination of African American poetry after WWII, including among others: the Howard/Dasein poets, the Umbra Group, Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Elouise Loftin. 8vo, cloth. No d.j. (as issued.) Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. Fine new copy.
$40.00 [Order]
(NOEVER A13888)
NOEVER, PETER, ed. Alexander Rodchenko / Varvara Stepanova: The Future is our only Goal. 259 pp., 452 illus., over 30 duotone photos, including approx. 81 fine full-page color plates, checklist of work in all media including posters, theater designs, photography, and more, chronol., bibliog. Texts by Irina Antonova, Peter Noever, Alexander Lavrentiev, et al. In Russian. 4to, stiff wraps. RUSSIAN lang. ed. Prestel, 1991. Short corner crease last leaf, else new.
$50.00 [Order]
(NORTH DARTMOUTH A5079)
NORTH DARTMOUTH. Southeastern Massachusetts University Art Gallery. Nomadic Visions: Recent Work by Six New York Sculptors. Unpag. (16 pp.) exhib. cat. of 19 works, 7 b&w illus. statements by artists. Text by Lasse Antonsen. Mixed media sculpture in the tradition of Hesse and Bourgeois. Includes: MAUREEN CONNOR, PETAH COYNE, ELLEN DRISCOLL, CAROL HEPPER, CREIGHTON MICHAEL, ELISE SIEGEL. An interesting catalogue. Oblong 4to, stapled wraps. 1988. Near-fine.
$10.00 [Order]
(NORTHAMPTON A16212)
NORTHAMPTON. Smith College Museum of Art. Orchids and Artists: Five Centuries of Botanical Illustration from Peter Schoeffer to Blanche Ames. 20 pp. exhibition cat., 10 b&w illus., color cover plate, checklist of 35 works. Includes three articles, On Illustrating Orchards by C. John Burk, Catalog Of Illustrated Botanical Books by Ruth Mortimer, and Blanche Ames: Artist And Botanical Illustrator by Nancy Rich. Small 4to, wraps. First ed. 1991. Fine.
$22.00 [Order]
(NUNN A3032)
NUNN, PAMELA GERRISH. Victorian Women Artists. 241 pp., 40 b&w illus. Important survey by the leading art historian in this subject. 8vo, wraps. First ed. London, The Women's Press, 1987. As new. (Pub. at $30.00)
$8.50 [Order]
(OAKVILLE A17564)
OAKVILLE (Ontario). Oakville Galleries. A Sense of Place: MARY BROGGER and SUSAN SCHELLE. 20 pp., 5 color plates, 7 b&w illus. Text and curated by Carolyn Bell Farrell. Multi-media feminist work involving appropriation of forms from the decorative arts traditionally associated with women and the domestic environment. Sq. 8vo, stapled wraps. 1993. V.G.+ (lower corner of rear cover creased).
$10.00 [Order]
(PARIS A11241)
PARIS. Bibiotheque Nationale. La Nebuleuse Nabie: Les Nabis et l'art graphique. 304 pp. (3 foldout), 153 illus. (68 in color.), bibliog., index. Text by Francois Fossier. Massive exhibition catalogue and reference to the graphic work by Nabi artists Denis, Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel, Valloton, Maillol, Ranson, Ibels, Rippl-Ronai, Pitcairn-Knowles. Includes chapters on La revue blanche, and on the Nabi book. In French. Stout 4to, stiff pictorial self-wraps. 1993. Fine.
$70.00 [Order]
(PARIS A6704)
PARIS. Centre Georges Pompidou. Feminimasculin: Le sexe de l'art. 399 pp., more than 500 color and b&w illus. of work in all media from Brancusi, Arp, Bellmer, Man Ray, Picabia, Picasso, Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp to Dubuffet, Fellini, Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, etc. with photos of contemporary drag queens, biogs. of artists, important bibliog., index. A lavish production with important texts on gender representation by Marie Laure Bernadec, Bernard Marcade, et al. Important reference. In French. Stout 4to, cloth spine, papered bds. with gilt and black lettering. 1995. As new.
$155.00 [Order]
(PARIS A19690)
PARIS. Institut du monde arabe. Intensites nomades. Unpag. (150 pp.) exhib. cat., approx. 30 color plates (several double-page). illus, biog., exhibs. and text for each of the ten contemporary Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian artists. Text by Christine Buci Glucksmann, Marc Auge, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Abdelwahab Meddeb. All texts in French, English and Arabic. Included: Jean-Michel Alberola, Arezki Aoun, Fouad Bellamine, Khaled Benfredj, Hans Birkemeyer, Michael Buthe, Touhami Ennadre, Nadjia Mehadji, Kacem Noua, Gerard Pascual. Traveling exhibition shown at Montpellier, Rabat, Tunis and Paris. Stout 4to (27 x 22 cm.), wraps. First ed. December 15, 1987-January 15, 1988. As new.
$55.00 [Order]
(PARIS A19480)
Paris. Musee d Art Moderne. Cinq siecles d'art espagnol: Espagne 87: Dynamiques et interrogations. 149 pp. exhib. cat., mostly color illus., photos of artists, checklists, critical texts. Important exhibition of contemporary Spanish painting and sculpture. Artists include: Rafael Agredano, Txomin Badiola, Pepe Espaliu, Cristina Iglesias, Juan Muñoz, Pello Irazu, Guillermo Paneque, Jose M. Sicilia, Susana Solano, et al. In French. 4to, wraps. October 10-November 22, 1987. About fine. (New copy with shallow dent lower rear corner.)
$20.00 [Order]
(PARIS A11820)
PARIS. Musee des Arts decoratifs. L'Art Brut. Selection des collections de la compagnie de l'art brut. Text by Jean Dubuffet. 126 pp., checklist of 680 works by approx. 85 artists (children, naive artists and the art of the mentally ill) with brief biographical information and one illus. for each, some in color. Important reference to the visual sources of the art brut movement. Numerous women artists included. In French. 8vo, white card wraps. Paris, Compagnie de l'Art Brut, 1967. V.G.+ (several short partial creases near upper edge of front cover).
$65.00 [Order]
(PARKER A17798)
PARKER, ROSZIKA and GRISELDA POLLOCK. Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology. 185 pp., 97 illus., bibliog., index. Groundbreaking feminist study and reevaluation of the work of numerous women artists since the fourteenth century, drawing on diaries, letters, self-portraits. 8vo, wraps. First American ed. New York, Pantheon Books, 1981. Near fine (touch of rubbing at upper spine edge.)
$25.00 [Order]
(PARKETT A14426)
Zurich. Parkett. PARKETT 58 (2000) Special focus: Sylvie Fleury, Jason Rhoades, James Rosenquist. 224 pp. plus ads. Insert: Henry Bond. Multiple texts on Fleury, Rhoades, and Rosenquist. In German and English. Large 8vo, pictorial self-wraps. 2000. Fine.
$45.00 [Order]
(PASADENA A15333)
PASADENA. Flintridge Foundation. Visual Artists' Awards. The First biennial Visual Artists Awards. 44 pp., 41 color plates, biogs., exhibs., awards, colls., bibliogs. and photo for each of the 12 prize recipients. The inaugural year included three women and two Black artists including Betye Saar and Noah Purifoy; Chris Burden, Lynn Hershman, Ron Nagle, etc. Tall 4to, wraps. Ed. of 3000. 1997-98. Fine.
$15.00 [Order]
(PASSADORE A4599)
PASSADORE, WANDA. The Needlework Book. 208 pp., 315 color photos. A very complete how-to book with many examples of different kinds of work, stiches, info. on materials, etc. Also useful to the art historian attempting to describe needlework processes. 4to, cloth, d.j. First U.S. ed. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1971. Near-fine, in about fine d.j.
$8.00 [Order]
(PAZ, MARIE JOSE A17007)
PAZ, OCTAVIO and MARIE JOSE PAZ. Figuras y Figuraciones. 39 (6) pp., 12 full-page color plates. Poems and prose text by Octavio Paz, collage and montage work by Marie Jose Paz. 8vo, wraps. Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 1999. About fine.
$30.00 [Order]
(PETERSEN A9956)
PETERSEN, KAREN and J. J. WILSON. Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. 212 pp., 330 illus., some in color, extensive bibliog., index. An important reference. Small sq. 4to, cloth, d.j. Fifth printing. New York, NYU Press, 1976. NF/NF (Small attractive owner bookplate on pastedown; short tear head of dustjacket spine).
$35.00 [Order]
(PETERSEN A5690)
PETERSEN, KAREN and J. J. WILSON. Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal From the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. 212 pp., 330 illus., some in color, extensive bibliog., index. An important reference. Small sq. 4to, wraps. 9th printing. New York, Harper & Row, 1976. Touch of shelf soiling lower edge, else fine.
$15.00 [Order]
(PETTEYS, CHRIS A10454)
PETTEYS, CHRIS. Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists born before 1900. xviii, 851 pp., over 20,000 artist entries with brief bibliographic references for each, bibliography. An essential reference work. [Very heavy book - some additional shipping cost may be required.] Large stout 4to, cloth. (As issued.) Boston, G. K. Hall & Co., 1985. Fine.
$80.00 [Order]
(PHILADELPHIA A15515)
PHILADELPHIA. Museum of Art. American Graphics, 1860-1940 Selected from the Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. xiv, 122 pp., catalogue of 115 works, all illus. (5 in color), bibliog., index of artists. Intro. overview text by Alan Fern; catalogue by Ellen Jacobowitz and George H. Marcus. Multiple works by: Bellows, Benton, Bishop, Cassatt, Curry, Davies, Davis, Feininger, Hassam, Hopper, Kent, Lewis, Lozowick, Marin, Marsh, Nordfeldt, Pennell, Riggs, Sheeler, Sloan, R. Soyer, M. Weber, Whistler, Wood, W. Zorach. Excellent reference work. 4to, wraps. First ed. 1982. About fine (whisper of rubbing lower cornertip front cover).
$6.00 [Order]
(PHILADELPHIA A7940)
PHILADELPHIA. Port of History Museum. =con=struct=ures=. 38 pp., 23 full-page illus., 4 in color, biogs. An exhibition of six Dutch avant-garde women artists currently residing in the U.S. Interesting work in all media. Includes: Nicole Carstens, Gam Klutier. Lika Mutal, Gerd Verschoor, Yon Verwer, Margot de Wit. 4to, wraps., printed paper cover, bound with brass brads. 1992. Near-fine.
$22.00 [Order]
(PILLON A13928)
PILON, EDMOND & FREDERIC SAISSET. Les Fetes en Europe au XVIIIe Siecle. 196 pp., approx. 200 illus. (mostly b&w, several in color tint), index of illus., plus 2 hors texte original colored pochoir prints by EDITH FOLLET, created for this publication. In French. 4to, wraps. Editions du Soleil, n.d. (c. 1920s-30s). V.G. (Mild edge tanning to paper covers, title written in pen on spine, else clean attractive copy).
$65.00 [Order]
(Ploughshares A12690)
Walcott, Derek, ed. Ploughshares Vol. 13, no. 1 (1987) Poetry issue. 141 pp. Special issue edited by Derek Walcott. Work by Joseph Brodsky, Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Michael S. Harper, Seamus Heaney, Colette Inez, George Kalogeris, Gary Keenan, Dan Masterson, Askold Melnyczuk, Sue Owen, Lawrence Pitkethly, Jennifer Rose, Mary Ruefle, Robert B. Shaw, Gerald Stern, Terese Svoboda, James Tate, Rosanna Warren, Nancy White, and another dozen. 8vo, wraps. 1987. V.G. (Crisp copy but with a few pen annotations).
$12.00 [Order]
(PORTLAND A17793)
PORTLAND. Portland Art Museum. Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic. 58 pp., b&w illus., exhib. checklist, artist biogs., exhibs., resource list of videos of dissent compiled by Simon Watkins; texts by John S. Weber and Simon Watkins. Thirteen artists included: Lutz Bacher, Nayland Blake, Jimmie Durham, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Michael Jenkins, Zoe Leonard, Barbara Kruger, Marlene McCarty, Donald Moffett, Catherine Saalfield, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith. Sq. 4to, wraps. First ed. 1993. Fine.
$25.00 [Order]
(PRICE A12182)
PRICE, SALLY and RICHARD. Maroon Arts: Cultural Vitality in the African Diaspora. 384 pp., over 330 b&w illus. and photos, many of works and images in the authors' collection, notes, references, info. on illus. Groundbreaking study of the arts of the Maroons of Suriname and French Guiana, the descendents of rebel slaves of diverse African origins who wrested their freedom from the Dutch plantation owners during the 18th century. This study includes the work of individual contemporary artists and the use of the arts in daily life. Textile arts, wood carving, musical instruments, and the elaborate carving of calabash gourds which is mostly the work of women artists. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. Boston, Beacon Press, 1990. Fine/Fine. (Pub. at $37.50).
$25.00 [Order]
(PRINZ A7552)
PRINZ, JESSICA. Art Discourse / Discourse in Art. xvi, 226 pp., 55 illus., notes, bibliog., index. Focuses on the work of Laurie Anderson, Jasper Johns, Robert Smithson, and Joseph Kosuth; last chapter on Holzer, Borofsky, Wellman, Josurun, et al. 8vo, wraps. New Brunswick, Rutgers Univ. Press, 1991. Fine.
$14.50 [Order]
(RAMAZANI A17231)
RAMAZANI, JAHAN. The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English. 214 pp., scholarly notes. High quality literary analysis of five selected writers from the perspective of the current discourse on postcoloniality. Chapters on Yeats, Derek Walcott, Ramanujan, Louise Bennett, Okot p'Bitek. 8vo, wraps. Uncorrected Page Proof. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001. As new.
$16.00 [Order]
(RESSLER, SUSAN R., ed A12718)
RESSLER, SUSAN R., ed. Women Artists of the American West. viii, 357 pp., approx. 300 illus. (50 in color), bibliog., index. Covers the work of over 150 women artists who lived west of the Mississippi. The first part consists of fifteen interpretive essays examining the work of 19th and 20th century artists working in a broad range of media, including photography, quiltmaking, painting, printmaking, clay, sculpture, digital art, and more. Part II is an alphabetical directory of the artists, biogs., exhibs., colls., artists' statements. Excellent reference. Stout 4to, cloth, d.j. Jefferson, McFarland & Co., 2002. Fine/About fine clean bright copy..
$70.00 [Order]
(RIGGS, THOMAS A19444)
RIGGS, THOMAS, ed. St. James Guide to Black Artists. xxiv, 625 pp., b&w illus., biogs. and image, sometimes also a photo, for each artist, exhibitions and colls. for many artists, nationality index, medium index, index to illus. Preface by Howard Dodson. Published in association with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Approximately 280 U.S. artists, 10 Haitian artists, 18 Nigerian artists, 16 Jamaicans; very weak listings for any other country. Stout 4to, papered boards. (As issued.) Detroit, Michigan: St. James Press, 1997. New.
$300.00 [Order]
(ROBINSON A11689)
ROBINSON, CHARLOTTE, ed. The Artist and the Quilt. 144 pp., mostly color illus. (many full-page), artist photos, biogs., index. The record of a unique collaborative seven-year project between prominent women artists and quiltmakers. Alice Baber, Lynda Benglis, Isabel Bishop, Elaine L. Cohen, Edelson, Gillespie, Harmony Hammond, Marcia King, Joyce Kozloff, Lanfear, Lanyon, Alice Neel, Parsons, Ringgold, Robinson, Betye Saar, Miriam Schapiro, Rosemary Wright. Texts by Robinson, Schapiro, Lucy Lippard, Eleanor Munro. Sq. 4to, wraps. New York, Knopf, 1983. Near fine clean copy.
$11.50 [Order]
(ROBINSON A5815)
ROBINSON, JONTYLE THERESA. Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African-American Women Artists. 176 pp., 80 colorplates, 14 b&w illus., chronol., extensive bibliog., index. Foreword by Maya Angelou, six essays, chronol., bibliog., index. At long last: a beautiful book with fine scholarly texts by African American women art historians covering the accomplishments of 25 important artists whose work has been absent from many other surveys. Includes: Amalia Amaki, Emma Amos, Beverly Buchanan, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Maren Hassinger, Howardena Pindell, R. Puryear, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Carrie Mae Weems, Philemona Williamson, et al. 4to, wraps. (Pub. at $27.50). New York, Spelman College and Rizzoli, 1996. Mint.
$17.50 [Order]
(RODITTI A3896)
RODITI, EDOUARD. Dialogues: Conversations with European Artists at Mid-Century. 156 pp. Interviews with sixteen major twentieth century artists. Includes: Brauner, Marc Chagall, Barbara Hepworth, Hannah Hoch, Kokoschka, Joan Miro, Morandi, Henry Moore, Pavel Tchelitchev, Ossip Zadkine, et al. 8vo, wraps. London: Lund Humphries, 1990. As new. (Pub. at 19.95).
$7.75 [Order]
(ROSE A19807)
ROSE, BARBARA and SUSIE KALIL. Fresh Paint: The Houston School. 256 pp., 16 full-page color plates, dozens of b&w illus., one for each artist with photo of artist, biog., exhibs., bibliog. and artist's statement, historical photos. In addition to the texts by Barbara Rose and Susie Kalil, this book constitutes a survey/reference to 44 Texas painters of the mid-80s. Includes: John Alexander, Kelly Alison, Malinda Beeman, James Bettison, John T. Biggers, Derek Boshier, Jack Boynton, Joanne Brigham, Margarita Rivera Cantu, Patrick Cronin, Atanacio P. Davila, Jeffrey Earl Delude, Chuck Dugan, Ibsen Espada, Luis Fernando Garza, Joseph Glasco, Dorothy Hood, Ron Hoover, Perry House, Lucas Johnson, Sharon Kopriva, Bert Long, Bert Luna, Melissa Miller, Kermit Oliver, Basilios Poulos, Bert Samples, Gael Stack, Earl Staley, Richard Gordon Stout, and others. Sq 8vo, pictorial wraps. First ed. Austin, Texas Monthly Press, 1985. Near fine crisp clean copy (brief lower corner dent.)
$20.00 [Order]
(ROSEN A4450)
ROSEN, RANDY and CATHERINE C. BRAWER. Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream, 1970-1985. 300 pp. exhib. cat., hundreds of illus. 8 excellent critical texts, 86 artists' biogs., exhibs., colls., bibliog. Sq. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. New York, Abbeville, 1995. Fine/Fine. (Pub. at $60.00).
$37.50 [Order]
(ROSES A7008)
ROSES, LORRAINE ELENA and RUTH E. RANDOLPH, eds. Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950. xiii, 538 pp., illus. Anthology of 120 selections, biographical notes, photos of writers. Fine survey. 8vo, 1/4 cloth, d.j. First ed. Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1996. Fine/Fine.
$27.00 [Order]
(ROSLYN HARBOR A12384)
ROSLYN HARBOR. Nassau County Museum of Modern Art. Surrealism. 96 pp. exhib. cat., 104 illus., approx. 35 color plates, checklist of 124 works by 34 artists. Important inclusive exhibition curated by Constance Schwarz and Franklin Hill Perrell. Three substantial scholarly texts by Schwarz, Perrell and Barbara Lekatsass. Includes: Arp, Lucienne Bloch, Brauner, Leonora Carrington, Cornell, De Chirico, Dali, Delvaux. Donati, Dominguez, Ernst, Gerzso, Hugnet, Kahlo, Lam , Jacqueline Lamba, Dora Maar, Magritte, Masson, Man Ray, Manuel, Matta, Miro, Paalen, Sage, Tanguy, Tanning, Toyen, and others. 4to, pictorial card wraps. First ed. January 15-April 16, 1995. Near fine (faint short crease upper corner front cover, else crisp fine copy.)
$55.00 [Order]
(ROTTERDAM A18782)
ROTTERDAM and AMSTERDAM: Cokkie Snoei. Double-Trouble: Carolee Schneeman and Sands Murray-Wassink. An exhibition in two locations 37 pp., 53 illus. (most in color), checklist, extensive bibliog. Text in English by Kathleen Wentrack. 8vo, stapled wraps. 18 November-22 December, 2001. About fine.
$37.50 [Order]
(SAINT-AMAND A5877)
DE SAINT-AMAND, IMBERT. Famous Women of the French Court: The Court of Louis XV. 285 pp., b&w illus., frontis., index. Eng. trans. 8vo, cloth, no d.j. New York, Scribner's 1901. Tight clean V.G. with spine extremities and corners lightly rubbed, frontis. and its tissue guard have faint coffee stain on upper margin.
$7.00 [Order]
(SAN FRANCISCO A16778)
SAN FRANCISCO. Art Museum Association. Afro-American Abstraction. Unpag. (40 pp.) exhib. cat., 22 illus., mostly full-page, 4 in color, checklist of work by 19 artists, biog. and text on each artist by April Kingsley. Includes Ellsworth Ausby, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Edward Clark, Houston Conwill, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Richard Hunt, Jamillah Jennings, James Little, Al Loving, Tyrone Mitchell, Senga Nengudi, Howardena Pindell, Martin Puryear, Charles Searles, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed. Art Museum Organization Traveling Exhibition, 1982. Near fine clean tight copy (brief light dent at spine edge and slight spine rubbing).
$65.00 [Order]
(SAN FRANCISCO A14638)
SAN FRANCISCO. Craft & Folk Art Museum. Who'd a Thought it: Improvisation in African-American Quiltmaking. 88 pp., 94 illus., including 48 mostly full-page color plates, plus 30 reference illus. including photos of the quiltmakers, biogs., notes, bibliog. Texts by Robert Farris Thompson and Eli Leon. A major contribution to the consideration of traditional heritage vs personal innovation in the black contribution to the American quiltmaking tradition. 4to, wraps. First ed. 1987. Fine.
$50.00 [Order]
(SAN FRANCISCO A13260)
SAN FRANCISCO. John Berggruen Gallery. American Modernism - Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of William and Glenn Janss. 36 pp., 15 full-page (excellent quality) color plates, several b&w illus., exhib. checklist of 51 works by 24 artists. Brief text by Barbara Haskell. Artists include: Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Blanche Lazzell, John Marin, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Helen Torr, Milton Avery, William Baziotes. 4to, wraps. First ed. September 12-October 12, 1996. Fine.
$22.50 [Order]
(SAN FRANCISCO A16692)
SAN FRANCISCO. Mexican Museum. Lo del Corazon: Heartbeat of a Culture. 24 pp. exhib. cat., 19 colorplates, 2 b&w illus., checklist of 59 works Texts by Amalia Mesa-Bains and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto. Mostly contemporary Chicano /a art including Celia Rodriguez, Carolina G. Flores, David Avalos, Al Souza, Jose Antonio Burciaga, Irene Perez, Carmen Lomas Garza, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, et al. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed. 1986. Fine.
$22.50 [Order]
(SANTA FE A14908)
SANTA FE. Western States Arts Federation. Withinsight: Visual Territories of Thirty Artists. 94 pp., 30 color plates, 30 b&w illus. Text by Chris Bruce; essays on each artist with chronols. by Kathleen Shields. Includes 15 women artists and several artists of color: Maura Bendett, Cristina Cardenas, Susan Kelk Cervantes, Dorothy A. Faison, Cinthea Fiss, Kay French, Diane Andrews Hall, Deborah F. Lawrence, Susan Magnus, Kenna Moser, Jean Rasenberger, Sara Roberts, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Gregory Schulte, Pat Waring Sherwood, Ev Thomas, Trimpin, Fan Warren, et al. Small sq. 4to, self-wraps. First ed. 1994. Fine.
$12.00 [Order]
(SCATES A2714)
SCATES, RAELENE FRANCES and BRUCE SCATES. Women at Work in Australia, From the Gold Rushes to World War II. 146 pp., over 100 b&w illus., personal writing, historical documents. Topics covered include: domestic service, manufacturing, Aboriginal women, prostitution, commerce and public administration, the arts, teaching, nursing, journalism, medicine, law and other professions. 4to, wraps. First printing. Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993. Near-fine. (Pub. at $22.95).
$7.50 [Order]
(SCHULZ A11849)
SCHULZ, ISABEL. Kunstlerinnen: Leben Werk Rezeption. 205 pp., 85 illus., approx 30 in color, notes, bibliog., index. Excellent survey from Hildegard von Bingen to Valie Export, including many lesser known artists such as Rachel Ruysch, Maria Sybilla Merian, Anna Therbusch-Lisiewska, Anne Whitney, Clara Wilke-Westhoff, Anita Ree, Maria Lassnig, Nuria Quevedo, Ursula Querner, Eun Nim Ro, Gisela Breitling, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Ulrike Rosenbach. In German. 8vo, laminated pictorial papered boards. (Hardcover.) Hamburg, Michael Kellner, 1991. About fine clean tight copy with tiny bit of rubbing to covers..
$35.00 [Order]
(SEATTLE A2989)
SEATTLE. Center on Contemporary Art (COCA). Gender, fucked. 32 pp. exhib. cat., 23 b&w illus., checklist of 66 works. Texts by curators Harmony Hammond and Catherine Lord. Artists include: Amy Adler, Deborah Bright, Kaucilya Brooke, Patricia Cronin, Elyse Dodeles, Dyke Action Machine, Nicole Eisenman, Donna Evans, fierce pussy, Claire Garoutte, Cheri Gaulke & Sue Mayberry, Maria Elena Gonzalez, Deborah Kass, Mary Klein, Julia Kunin, Lesbian Avengers, Lorri Millan and Shawna Dempsey, Carrie Moyer, Catherine Opie, Hanh Thi Pham, Jocelyn Taylor, Nicola Tyson, Linn Underhill; video artists: Hima B. and Eliza Barrios, Tammy Rae Carland, Cecilia Dougherty and Leslie Singer, Mary Patten, Claire Garoutte, Joyan Saunders and Beverly Seckinger, Susie Silver, Tran T. Kim Trang. Scarce. Sq. 8vo, wraps. June 28-August 23, 1996. Near fine (brief cover corner crease, else fine).
$40.00 [Order]
(SEATTLE A17429)
SEATTLE. Frye Art Museum. Representing LA: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art. 74 pp., approx. 75 artists, all illus. in color. Text by Gordon L. Fuglie. Includes Alison Saar and many more Los Angeles artists. 4to, wraps. First ed. 2000. Fine.
$12.50 [Order]
(SEATTLE A11274)
SEATTLE. University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery. No! Contemporary American Dada. 2 Vols. 56 pp. and 50 pp. respectively, profusely illus. (including 26 color plates). Text by Ileana B. Leavens. Artists include: Chris Burden, Llyn Foulkes, Hans Haacke, Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz. Tall 4to, paper wraps., in slipcase. As issued. 1986. As new.
$35.00 [Order]
(SENECA FALLS A12705)
SENECA FALLS. National Women's Hall of Fame. Home Work: The Domestic Environment Reflected in Work by Contemporary Women Artists. 36 pp., 27 b&w illus. Curated with intro. by Harmony Hammond. Feminist exhibition on the reclamation of the home environment and women's lives as a source for art-making. 27 artists including: Ida Applebroog, Linda Bastian, Cynthia Carlson, Donna Dennis, Sarah Draney, Lenore Goldberg, Ruth Gray, Joyce Kozloff, Pat Lasch, Patsy Norvell, M. Schapiro, Dee Shapiro, Harriet Shorr, Mimi Weisbord, Melanie Wygonik, et al. Small sq. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed. 1981. V.G.+.
$40.00 [Order]
(Sexton, Martin and Paul Hitchman A19115)
Sexton, Martin and Paul Hitchman (The Ambassadors). We Love You. 112 pp. book with color illus. plus 18 track cd. Sonic art work collaborations between musicians and British visual artists. Artists include: Chris Ofili, Sam Taylor-Wood, Barry Flanagan, Ashley Bickerton, Gilbert & George, Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk, Georgina Starr, Rufus Knightwebb, Angela Bulloch, Jake Chapman, and others. All works previously unreleased. 4to, book and cd housed in matching box, die-cut papered boards, pictorial snake wrap-around band, c.d. (As issued.) Booth-Clibborn, 2000. New.
$27.50 [Order]
(SOLTES A17581)
SOLTES, ORI Z. Fixing the World: Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century. 163 pp., 90 color plates, notes, index. Quite a number of lesser-known artists along with the luminaries; numerous women artists included: Alexenberg, Leonard Baskin, Ben-Zion, Blume, Ilya Bolotowsky, Bruskin, Cahana, Chagall, Marilyn Cohen, David Einstein, Adra Ellis, Epstein, Ezekial, Rose-Lynn Fisher, Geraldine Fiskus, Ruth Gikow, Michael Goldman, Leon Golub, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Lipchitz, Ruth Mordecai, Larry Rivers, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Susan Rothenberg, Rothko, Diane Samuels, Susan Schwalb, and dozens more. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. Hannover and London, University Press of New England, 2003. Fine, in near fine dustjacket with a bit of crinkling and tiny closed tear at upper edge, else new book.
$37.50 [Order]
(SOUSSLOFF A18023)
SOUSSLOFF, CATHERINE, ed. Jewish Identity in Modern Art History. x, 239 pp., 36 b&w illus., notes, index. Scholarly texts on Anselm Kiefer, Adorno, the effect of the Enlightenment, the rise of the nation state, Nazi policies on art history; the criticism of Meyer Schapiro, Clement Greenberg and Aby Warburg; the art of Judy Chicago, Eleanor Antin, Morris Gottlieb; the Jewish patronage of German Expressionist art. 8vo, wraps. Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1999. About fine
$12.00 [Order]
(SOUTH HADLEY A16821)
SOUTH HADLEY. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. The Shadow of the Bomb. Unpag. (15 pp.) exhib. cat., 28 illus. Artist's speculating on the nuclear age include: Ida Applebroog, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Chris Burden, Erika Rothenberg, Nancy Spero, Francesc Torres, Robert Fichter, Vernon Fisher. Text by Sally Yard, intro by Helaine Posner. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed. 1984. V.G.+ (clean nice copy with mild spine corner dents).
$10.00 [Order]
(SPARKILL A16648)
Sparkill (NY). Thorpe Intermedia Gallery. New York Realists 1980. 76 pp. exhib. cat., 33 b&w illus. (one by each artist). Intro. by Roger Howrigan; text by Linda Nochlin. Each artist gets a text by different critics or an artist's statement, biog., exhibs., exhibition checklist. Useful little reference. Artists include: Richard Crozier, Rackstraw Downs, Alan Feltus, Janet Fish, Gregory Gillespie, Richard Haas, Yvonne Jacquette, Robert Kitchin, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Forrest Moses, Donald Perlis, Altoon Sultan, et al. Oblong 8vo, wraps. March 30-April 27, 1980. Fine.
$10.00 [Order]
(SPARROW A5290)
SPARROW, WALTER SHAW, ed. Women Painters of the World, from the Time of Caterina Vigri to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day. 332 pp., more than 200 illus. in monochrome and photogravure, 7 in color. Approx. 200 women artists from the 15th-19th century discussed and illus. Over 100 other artists mentioned in passing. A volume written while the 19th century was still contemporary art before its thousands of professional women artists were forgotten. 4to, decorative cloth, inset illus. front cover, top edge gilt. First U.S. ed. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1905. V.G.-. Reading copy. Ex libris. Some loose pages.
$65.00 [Order]
(ST. PAUL A7180)
ST. PAUL (MN). Concourse Gallery. Women in Print: Prints from 3M by Contemporary Women Printmakers. Travelling exhibition catalogue. 39 full-page color plates. Text by Charles Helsell. Includes: Chase, Gornik, Kohlmeyer, Nevelson, and many others. Small sq. 4to, wraps. 1995. About fine.
$15.00 [Order]
(STATEN ISLAND A11244)
STATEN ISLAND. Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art. In Three Dimensions: Women Sculptors of the '90s. 120 pp. exhib. cat., 304 illus. Text by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, et al. Important supplement to Rubenstein's 1990 publication. 4to, wraps. 1990. As new.
$45.00 [Order]
(STOCKER A16652)
STOCKER, MARGARITA. Judith, Sexual Warrior: Women and Power in Western Culture. viii, 278 pp., 9 color plates, notes, index. Investigation of the European fascination with the Biblical story of Judith from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Chapter topics include: Contents include; Christian Allegory and the Selling of Sex, Medieval Queenship, Power and Gender in the Renaissance, Romantic Criminals and Oriental Others, Sexology in the Fin de Siecle, and others. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1998. As new. (Pub. at $35.00).
$6.00 [Order]
(STUTTGART A9793)
STUTTGART. Staatsgalerie. Leiblicher Logos: 14 Kunstlerinnen aus Deutschland (The Word Made Flesh: 14 Women Artists from Germany). 176 pp. exhib. cat., 104 lavish illus., 102 in color, biogs., exhibs. Text by Gudrun Imboden. 80 works by 14 artists: a virtual who's who of avant-garde German women artists. Includes: Dagmar Demming, Elka Denda, Maria Eichhorn, Katarina Fritsch, Isa Genzken, Asta Groting, Rebecca Horn, Katarina Karrenberg, Karin Sander, Wiebke Siem, Pia Stadtbaumer, Rosemarie Trockel, Ute Weiss-Leder, Qin Yufen. In German. Folio, stiff wraps., d.j. First ed. 1995. Fine crisp copy (tiny nick to glassine d.j. at lower spine edge.)
$60.00 [Order]
(SWAN A7350)
SWAN, SUSAN BURROWS. Plain & Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850. 240 pp., 123 b&w illus., 42 color plates, notes, plus text diagrams, glossary, annotated bibliog., index. A comprehensive survey and a social history, illustrated with examples from the special needlework collection at the Winterthur Museum. Nicely printed in Italy by Mondadori. Sq. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977. Fine, in near-fine (price-clipped) d.j. with light wrinkling rear flap.
$10.00 [Order]
(SYRACUSE A1287)
SYRACUSE. Everson Museum of Art. New Works in Clay III. 80 pp., 29 b&w illus., 17 colorplates. Includes 11 women artists. Square 4to, wraps. 1981. Top corner bumped, else v.g.+.
$12.50 [Order]
(The Survey A14782)
New York. The Survey. The Survey Vol. LX , No. 11 (September 1, 1928) - Graphic Number. Approx. 60 pp. The September graphics issue of a New York liberal bi-monthly periodical of the 1920's. Cover woodcut illus. by Eliza D. Gardiner. Articles include: American Negroes as Artists (a review of the first Harmon Foundation exhibition at International House, with 3 b&w illus.); Mural Paintings by George Lawrence Nelson (2 illus. of works in N.Y. Public Schools); Adventures of a Woman Voter by Olive A. Colton, with several political cartoons, Paintings of Modern Industry by Benito Quinquela Martin (Argentine artist) with 3 b&w illus., illus. of a Scissors Picture by Martha Bensley Bruere; and other articles. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed. 1928. Near fine bright copy of an uncommon publication.
$45.00 [Order]
(TIPPETT A5586)
TIPPETT, MARIA. By a Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women. 226 pp., more than 130 color and b&w illus., notes. Fine survey. The best work to date on this subject. Stout 4to, wraps. Penguin, 1993. As new.
$16.00 [Order]
(TOKYO A17831)
TOKYO. Wacoal Art Center and City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya. Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century. 92 pp., approx. 45 color plates plus numerous b&w text illus., exhib. checklist. 33 artists including major international artists such as Christian Boltanski, Bill Viola, Matthew Barney, Llyn Foulkes, Gilbert & George, Ed & Nancy Kienholz, Alan Rath, alongside a strong contingent of contemporary Japanese artists. Very important texts by Susan Sontag, Fumio Nanjo, Alvin Toffler, Peter Schwartz, Hideto Fuse, Dana Friis-Hansen. Dual lang. English and Japanese. Uncommon. Sq. 4to, wraps. First ed. 1994. Fine.
$100.00 [Order]
(TORGOVNICK A5900)
TORGOVNICK, MARIANNA. Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives. 328 pp., approx. 30 illus., 1 color frontis., notes, bibliog., index. Provocative account of the ways in which race, gender, and a romance with the "primitive" has structured Western culture. 8vo, wraps. 2nd printing. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990. About fine.
$10.00 [Order]
(TORGOVNICK A7018)
TORGOVNICK, MARIANNA. Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy. 170 pp., notes, index. Includes a chapter on Georgia O'KEEFFE. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Scratch along spine panel of d.j., else new.
$23.00 [Order]
(TORONTO A15758)
TORONTO. Art Gallery of Ontario. Prints: Bochner, Lewitt, Mangold, Marden, Martin, Renouf, Rockburne, Ryman. 59 (1) pp., full descriptive catalogue of 22 prints or print series, b&w illus. of most, color coverplate (Mangold). Pref. William J. Withrow; intro. Nancy Tousley; text by each artist; additional text by printer Kathan Brown. Minimalist print reference. Includes three women artists: Edda Renouf, Agnes Martin, Dorothea Rockburne. Small sq. 4to, wraps. First ed. 1975. About fine.
$36.00 [Order]
(TRACY, G. M. A11345)
TRACY, G. M. Dentelles et dentellieres de France. 64 pp., 55 sepia illus. History of French lace-making with examples of fine lacework, mostly 18th century, and also illustrations of painted period portraits in which the lace is worn in various ways. In French. 8vo, pictorial stamped boards., d.j. Paris, Didier, 1946. Fine, in v.g. + d.j. (light rubbing to corners and spine extremities).
$25.00 [Order]
(TUCSON A13216)
TUCSON. Univ. of Arizona Art Museum. Homage to Seurat: Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings by the followers of Seurat (The Holliday Collection). Foreword by Victor Hammer, 156 pp., 73 works, all illus. in full-page color plates, with full catalogue entry and text about each work. Excellent resource work and extraordinary for its inclusion of 8 women artists. 4to, two-tone cloth, d.j. First ed. 1968. About fine, in near-fine d.j. with two tiny closed tears upper edge and wrinkle at foot of spine.
$20.00 [Order]
(TUFTS A5014)
TUFTS, ELEANOR. Our Hidden Heritage: Five Centuries of Women Artists. 256 pp., 136 b&w illus., notes, bibliog., index. A selection of twenty-two artists of the 16th-20th century. Anguissola, Fontana, Teerling, Van Hemessen, Gentileschi, Sirani, et al. Modern artists include: R. Bonheur, Sarah Peale, Edmonia Lewis, Valadon, Gwen John, Kollwitz, Goncharova, Richier, Modersohn-Becker, I. Rice Pereira. 4to, stiff wraps. New York and London, Paddington Press, 1974. V.G. Covers scuffed, upper spine edge worn.
$15.00 [Order]
(TUFTS A17094)
TUFTS, ELEANOR, ed. American Women Artists 1830-1930. 256 pp., 124 color plates, with 13 additional photos and b&w text illus., bibliog., index. Includes 79 artists organized by subject matter and medium: portraiture, genre and history, landscape, still life, and sculpture. Texts by Gail Levin, Alessandra Comini, and Wanda M. Corn. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. Washington, DC, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1987. Near fine, in near fine d.j.
$20.00 [Order]
(TYTELL A3024)
TYTELL, JOHN. The Living Theatre: Art, Exile, and Outrage. 434 pp., 36 photos, index. A well-researched cultural biography of the collaborative creation of Judith Malina and Julian Beck, one of the great radical theaters of the 20th century whose influence on later performance art is considerable. Stout 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. New York, Grove Press, 1995. As new.
$18.00 [Order]
(VANCOUVER A8258)
VANCOUVER. Canadian Craft Museum. A Treasury of Canadian Craft / Richesse des metiers d'art canadiens. 158 pp., 98 color plates of contemporary work, 69 b&w illus. include older historical pieces. Outstanding survey with ten excellent critical texts. In French and English. Dozens of women artists working in all media. Small oblong 4to, wraps. 1992. As new.
$17.00 [Order]
(WAGNER A7111)
WAGNER, ANNE MIDDLETON. Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of HESSE, KRASNER, and O'KEEFFE. 390 pp., 131 illus., 30 in color. Excellent recent scholarly study. Small 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1996. Fine/Fine.
$35.00 [Order]
(WALKER, MELISSA A17271)
WALKER, MELISSA. Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement. viii, 226 pp., notes, primary bibliog., index. Chapters on works by Margaret Walker, Sherley Ann Williams, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Louise Meriwether, Alice Childress, Rosa Guy, Kristin Hunter, Ntozake Shange, Toni Cade Bambara. 8vo, wraps. New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1991. Fine. (New)
$5.00 [Order]
(WALTER A15479)
WALTER, KATHRYN and KYO MACLEAR. Private Investigators: Undercover in Public Space. 84 pp., b&w illus., author biogs., index. A McLuhan-like investigation by 8 artists in a variety of tourist destinations in Banff, Alberta. 8vo, wraps. Banff, Banff Centre Press, 1999. Fine.
$10.00 [Order]
(WALTHAM A3338)
WALTHAM. Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Brandeis University. American Art Since 1950. 83 pp. exhib. cat. of 114 works by 87 artists, numerous b&w illus., 3 in color. Curated and text by Sam Hunter. Includes 9 women artists. Cover design by Carl Zahn. 8vo, wraps, d.j. 1962. V.G.+.
$9.50 [Order]
(WALTHAM A4367)
WALTHAM. Rose Art Museum. Tangible Choices. Exhib. of five contemporary sculptors: Michael Beresford, Judy Haberl, Christopher Osgood, Civia Rosenberg, Debra Weisberg. Each of the brochures contains biog., 1 color plate, checklist of works. 8vo, pocket folder containing 5 brochures and title page. 1988. A few pencilled remarks, else near-fine.
$10.00 [Order]
(WASHINGTON A19546)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Smithsonian Institution. Jamaican Art 1922-1982. 12 pp. exhib. cat., 17 b&w illus., illus., checklist of 76 works by 40 artists. Included: Carl Abrahams, Albert Artwell, Clinton Brown, Everald Brown, Alexander Cooper, John Dunkley, Gloria Escoffery, Colin Garland, Albert Huie, Sidney McLaren, Edna Manley, Alvin Marriott, David Miller, Jr., Kapo, Kofi Kayiga, Ronald Moody, Namba Roy, Barrington Watson, and Osmond Watson, and many more. 4to, wraps. 1983. As new.
$40.00 [Order]
(WASHINGTON A16344)
WASHINGTON, D.C. Evans-Tibbs Collection. Aesthetics and Spirituality: Collages and Assemblages by Liani Foster and Barbara Tyson-Mosley. 12 pp. exhib. cat., 7 color plates, including cover plate, biog., exhibs., and brief statement by each artist, checklist of 20 works. Curated by Phyllis Cunningham. Nicely printed on stiff card throughout. 4to, stapled pictorial card wraps. First ed. 1987. Mint.
$22.50 [Order]
(WASHINGTON A16332)
WASHINGTON, D.C. Evans-Tibbs Collection. The Art of Collage. 12 pp., 9 color plates, list of works, bibliog. Texts by Thurlow E. Tibbs, Jr. Artists include: Romare Bearden, David Driskell, Kenneth Falana, Sam Gilliiam, Uysses Marshall, Barbara Mosley, Betye Saar, Sharon Sutton. 8vo, stapled pictorial wraps. Ed. of 1000. 1985. Mint.
$35.00 [Order]
(WASHINGTON A7815)
WASHINGTON, D.C. National Gallery of Art. Eva / Ave: Women in Renaissance and Baroque Prints. 238 pp. exhib. cat., 205 illus., 6 in color. Text by H. Diane Russell, Bernadine Barnes. On the representation of women by male artists of the 15th-17th century. 4to, wraps. New York, Feminist Press, 1991. About fine.
$15.00 [Order]
(WASHINGTON A17432)
WASHINGTON, D.C. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Forces of Change: Artists of the Arab World. 147 pp., approx. 56 color plates, brief biogs. Text by Nashashibi, Salwa Mikdadi. The most substantial exhibition of Arab women artists mounted to date, including 70 artists from 15 countries. The essays cover Arab woman artists, Western orientalized images of Arab women; and contemporary art trends in the Arab world. The uncommon hardcover edition. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. 1993. Fine, in fine dustjacket.
$75.00 [Order]
(WASHINGTON, DC A18677)
WASHINGTON, DC. Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture. Resonant Forms: Contemporary African American Women Sculptors. 16 pp. exhib. cat., 9 color plates, biogs., artists' statements, checklist of exhibited work by each. Intro. by curator Deborah Willis. Artists include: Carole Byard, Beverly Buchanan, Denise Ward-Brown, Rashida Ferdinand, Kira Lynn Harris, Valerie Maynard, Renee Stout, Eve Sandler. Uncommon. Sq 8vo, stapled pictorial wraps. First ed. April 13-September 30, 1998. Near fine.
$60.00 [Order]
(WELLS, IDA B A18008)
Royster, Jacqueline Jones, ed and intro. Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of IDA B. WELLS, 1892-1900. ix, 228 pp., Wells chronology, bibliog., index. Born into slavery in 1862, Wells went on to earn a place among the most renowned international women journalists. Important republication of 3 primary texts by Wells in addition to several shorter pieces: Southern Horrors, A Red Record, and A Mob Rule in New Orleans. 8vo, wraps. Boston, Bedford / St. Martin's, 1997. About fine.
$10.00 [Order]
(WELTGE A12388)
WELTGE, SIGRID. Bauhaus-Textilien Kunst und Kunstlerinnen der Webwerkstatt. 208 pp., 120 color plates, 96 b&w illus., chronol., bibliog., index. Important scholarly study of the textile art created at the Bauhaus, in the only one of the workshops predominantly associated with women artists. In German. ISBN: 3905514095 4to, cloth, d.j. 1993. Fine/Fine. (New.)
$90.00 [Order]
(WESCHER A4311)
WESCHER, HERTA. Collage. 417 pp., 396 illus. with 40 tipped-in color plates. Still the best survey on this subject. Includes numerous women artists: S. Delaunay, Rozanova, M. Donas, Ella Bergmann-Michel, Laurencin, N. Walden, Gabriele Munter, Hannah Hoch, X. Bogoslavskaya, Exter, Stepanova, Gontcharova, Popova, S. Duchamp, A. Halicka, G. Eluard, Eileen Agar, L. Hildebrandt, T. Zarnower, S. Freylinghausen, and others. Stout 4to, cloth, pictorial endpapers, d.j. New York, Abrams, 1968. Near-fine bright copy, in near-fine d.j.
$70.00 [Order]
(WESTPORT A12065)
WESTPORT. Famous Artists Course. Art as a Career for Women. Irresistible pre-Lib item. Unpag. (12 pp. including text on inside of covers), numerous small illus. Obviously designed to entice women into signing up for the Famous Artists Course, this pamphlet features numerous examples of commercially successful women artists and their work: Martha Sawyers, Ruth Grafstrom, Dorothy Monet, Adelaide Stevens, Priscilla Pointer, Barbara Schwinn, Jane Turner, Betty Betz, and Frances Hook. Photos of each artist, brief bios. and examples of their work. Prospective women students are assured that "the girl who goes in for an art career doesn't run up against the problem that, say, lady executives do -- of many men not liking women in business." Students are promised the opportunity to study with America's top 12 artists who are listed on the back: Norman Rockwell, Al Parker, etc... (who just happen to all be men); text includes testimonials from the art directors of Saks Fifth Avenue and Good Housekeeping (yes, both men.) 12mo, stapled pamphlet, printed in black and orange on white paper. Westport, Institute for Commercial Art, 1950. Near fine clean bright condition.
$50.00 [Order]
(WIESBADEN A9792)
WIESBADEN. Wiesbaden Museum. Kunstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. 400 pp., 212 illus., 474 in color, biogs., bibliog. In German. An international selection: Abakanowicz, Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, Diane Arbus, Jo Baer, Bergmann-Michel, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, M. Brandmeier, Marcelle Cahn, Miriam Cahn, Chryssa, Hanne Darboven, Sonia Delaunay, Valie Export, Alexandra Exter, Frankenthaler, M. Frisch, Isa Genzken, N. Gontcharova, Florence Henri, E. Hesse, Hannah Hoch, Jenny Holzer, N. Hoover, Roni Horn, Concha Jerez, Joan Jonas, K. Kobro, C. van Koolwijk, L. Krasner, Modersohn-Becker, Babrielle Munter, Georgia O'Keeffe, Riley, Rosenbach, Shiraishi, Sieverding, Sophie Tauber-Arp, Rosemarie Trockel, Vieira da Silva, von Windheim, Winteler. Stout 4to, stiff self-wraps. Kassel, 1990. Fine.
$50.00 [Order]
(WINSTON-SALEM A17872)
WINSTON-SALEM. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic. 164 pp., 91 illus. (including 73 in color), bibliog., artist biogs. Texts by Lowery S. Sims and Adrian Piper; texts of two panel discussions with Kinshasha Conwill, Coco Fusco, A. King-Hammond, Adrian Piper, et al. Important reference work. Includes 21 artists: Terry Adkins, Tarleton Blackwell, Hawkins Bolden, Beverly Buchanan, Arlene Burke-Morgan, Allen D. Carter, Gregory A. Henry, Lonnie Holley, Michael Jones, Ron Lee, Jessie Lott, Ed Love, Tom Millier, Clarence Morgan, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Winnie R. Owens-Hart, John T. Scott, Onajide Shabaka, Joyce J. Scott, Denise Ward-Brown, Pat Ward Williams. Small sq. 4to, wraps. First ed. 1990. Fine.
$25.00 [Order]
(WITT A5089)
WITT, DAVID L. Taos Moderns: Art of the New. 120 pp., 52 illus., 48 in color, appendices, notes, bibliog., index. Forword by Gerald Nordland. Includes among others: Andrew Dasburg, Cady Wells, Thomas Benrimo, Louis Ribak, Beatrice Mandelman, Earl Stroh, Agnes Martin, Oli Sihvonen, Ted Egri, Louise Ganthiers, Clay Spohn, Edward Corbett, John Depuy and Robert D. Ray. Stresses the importance of Taos as a crossroads of early modernist abstsraction. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. Santa Fe, Red Crane Books, 1992. As new. (Pub. at $37.50).
$22.00 [Order]
(WITZLING A15317)
WITZLING, MARA R., ed. Voicing Our Visions. 390 pp. text, some b&w illus. Excerpts from the writings of 20 women artists, including Rosa Bonheur, Berthe Morisot, Marianne Werefkin, Kathe Kollwitz, Carreira, Freida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Elizabeth Catlett, Faith Ringgold, Judy Chicago, et al. 8vo, wraps. New York, Universe, 1991. V.G. (covers lightly rubbed; internally fine crisp copy).
$7.00 [Order]
(Women & Performance A16274)
Women & Performance. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory Vol 11:2 (No. 22) Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform. 416 pp. Texts by Sabina Berman, Roslyn Costantino, Leslie Damasceno, Griselda Gambaro, Astrid Hadad, Jose Munoz, Marlene Ramirez-Cancio, Diana Raznovich, et al. Excellent book-length coverage of wide range of aspects on this topic. 8vo, wraps. First ed. 2000. Near fine.
$20.00 [Order]
(World of Art A19174)
SAYRE, HENRY M. and JOHN LINDSAY [Prod.]. A World of Art: Works in Progress. Complete set of 3 video tapes containing the full series of 10 30-minute programs on the craft of ten contemporary artists: Lorna Simpson, Guillermo Gómez-Pena, Bill Viola, Hung Liu, Beverly Buchanan, June Wayne, Milton Resnick, Judy Baca, Goat Island's Lin Hixson and Goat Island, Mierle Ukeles. The emphasis is on the various artists' techniques, effective visual communication, problem solving, and critical thinking. The series includes painting, photography, sculpture, video, and performance art. NTSC-VHS, in plain card covers. Produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting in association with Oregon State University, 1997. As new with one cover mildly soiled. [Issued at $225.]
$170.00 [Order]
(XXe Siecle A11155)
San Lazzaro, G. di, ed (SONIA DELAUNAY and ESTEVE lithographs). XXe Siecle: Panorama 72 NS XXXIV, No. 39 (December 1972). This issue contains two original lithographs, specially created for XXe Siecle by SONIA DELAUNAY and MAURICE ESTEVE. Articles on Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Marini, Kandinsky, De Stael, Miro, Soulages, Fontana, Balla, Seuphor, Segal, Burri, Esteve, Alechinsky, et al. In French. 4to, laminated pictorial papered bds. 1972. Fine crisp copy.
$95.00 [Order]
(Yale French Studies A8519)
Yale French Studies. Yale French Studies No. 19-20 (1958). Special Issue on Contemporary French Art. 128 pp., 75 b&w illus. (including covers).Texts by B. Dorival, Michal Ragon (on sculpture from Giacometti to Alicia PENALBA), R. Herbert, Guy Habasque, T.B. Hess, Henri Peyre (92 brief biogs. of contemp. artists), Etiemble (on REY-MILLET), Paul Guth (interview with Germaine RICHIER), Pierre Schneider (on RIOPELLE), K. Cornell, P. Francastel, Vincent P. Scully Jr. 8vo, wraps. 1958. V.G. (tail of spine and lower corner lightly scuffed, short black underline at margin of front cover).
$12.50 [Order]
(ZALDIVAR A4353)
ZALDIVAR, IGNACIO GUTIERREZ. 23 Argentine Artists Now. 107 pp., 69 full-page color plates. Info. on each artist. Women artists include: Esther Barugel, Adriana Zoefferer. Small sq. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. Buenos Aires, Zurbaran, 1993. Fine/V.G.+ (slight scuffing front panel of d.j., two short closed tears.)
$9.00 [Order]
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