New York: Viking Penguin, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 216p, many ills. + 8 color pls. Pioneering survey of prominent women artists and designers in many fields, "ranging over the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, the Glasgow School of Art, the Russian Constructivists, the Bauhaus, the Wiener Werkstatte, the great..... More
Yeovil, UK: Marston House, 2005. Coper, Hans. New edition (1st pub. 1983). Soft cover. 224p, over 100 large ills., many in color. Definitive, profusely illustrated study of "the most important studio-potter of the twentieth century." With much on his long association with fellow ceramist Lucy Rie. More
Beauchamp, UK: Richard Dennis, 2003. Leach, David. First edition. Soft cover. 120p, many ills., dozens in color. Cooper's detailed biography is followed by Nibelett's summary of the pots made at Dartington Hall, the Leach Pottery, and Lowerdown Pottery; the techniques used; pots and potters who inspired Leach (especially his father..... More
Syracuse: Design Center, Syracuse University, n.d. [1962]. First edition. Soft cover. [72]p, many black-and-white ills. Short texts by Laurence Schmeckebier, Director of the Syracuse School of Art. Catalogue of the "collection of ceramics organized by Professor Ruth Randall and exhibited for the first time as a part of the University's..... More
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Tokyo: Musee National d'Art Occidental, 1967. Dufy. First edition. Soft cover. N.p. (199 works), over 200 ills. In Japanese. Jacket is original glassine. Catalogue of a large, wide-ranging exhibition, including many works on paper and ceramics. It was also shown in Kyoto. The illustrations, though all in black and white..... More
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1979. Karina, Elena. First edition. Soft cover. 8p, 5 large ills. (vessels only). Exhibition catalogue, including artist information and checklist of the 21 vessels and 8 drawings exhibited. Also selections from a conversation between Karina and David Schaff. Can be sent outside the US..... More
New York: Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 1994. Frey, Viola. First edition. Soft cover. 40p, 69 color ills. including cover. Photo here is cropped on the sides. Traveling exhibition catalogue of 69 of Frey's expressionistic plates, which Kuspit describes as both funk and hallucinatory. Large; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this..... More
Caligari: Paolo Pisano, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 174p, many photos and line ills., several in color. Monograph on the pre-Christian grotto-crypt of the church of Santa Restituta in Caligari, Sardinia, and its excavation. Chapters on its history, some reproductions and transcriptions of documents relating to the later church, inscriptions found..... More
New York: Otto Gerson Gallery / Fine Arts Associates, 1956-1963. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. Texts by various contributors. Further details on request. 1956: Rodin to Lipchitz Part II. 1957: Picasso Sculpture Part I, Lipchitz, David Smith. 1958: Paintings Watercolors Sculpture. 1959: R. Delaunay, Summer Fall, Paintings..... More
Frankfurt / New York: Museum fur Angewandte Kunst / Museum of Arts & Design, 2003. First edition. Soft cover. 344p, many large ills., most in color. All text in English and German. Catalogue of the 9th Triennial for Form and Content, with a variety of chiefly three-dimensional works in many..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1991. First edition. Soft cover. 144p, many color photos on ca. 80 pages. Foreword by Sottsass, "Tempest in a Teapot: The Social History of Peter Shire's Ceramics" by Klein, "The Playground of Modern Design" by Drohojowska. "Shire's teapots were an important element in the development of the..... More
