Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago (copyright American Art Association), 1889. First edition. Soft cover. 3 items: 80p with many ills., 14p, 35p. Second Appendix covers are soiled and sunned; owner's small ink stamp on two covers; small pin- or staple holes in most margins and sometimes in the text. The..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Advocate, 2008. Ashbery, John. First edition. Soft cover. 72p, many ills. and photos. Laid in: DVD with animation, claymation, and other films by 5 artists (6 tracks total). This issue of The Harvard Advocate was published in anticipation of Ashbery's reciving the Harvard Arts Medal in Spring..... More
Geneva: Christian Braillard (printer), 1983. First edition. Soft cover. [48]p, many color ills. Poetic text by Butor and an explanation of the series and its production by Pretre. One of 1500 trade copies. In French. Catalogue for two exhibitions of Jean-Claude Pretre's Offenbach series held in Basel, 1983 (including..... More
New York: Filmhaus, 1974. Caponigro, Paul. First edition. Hardcover. N.p., over 50 plates. Jacket is lightly shelf rubbed. Jacket flap text by Peter C. Bunnell. Short text by Caponigro; no captions or descriptions of the photos, which speak for themselves and "the beauty of the sunflower . . . its..... More
Paris: Maeght for Bibliotheque Aragon, Choisy-le-Roi, 1995. Cortot, Jean. First edition. Soft cover, self wrappers. [96]p, many color ills. Exhibition catalogue of dozens of books and manuscripts written and/or illustrated by poet-painter-printmaker Jean Cortot (1925-2018). Poems and statements by Cortot; also texts by Pierre Beres, Michel Butor, Jean Tardieu, and..... More
Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1998. Cratsley, Bruce. First edition. Hardcover. 170p, 143 duotone photos. Back of jacket rubbed, chipped; bottom of back of jacket torn. Definitive monograph of Cratsley's moving body of work, published in the same year that he died of HIV/AIDS. Sculpture and other objects, street scenes..... More
Munich: Edition Schellmann, 1985. Cucchi, Enzo. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 21 entries for individual prints, sets of prints, or bound-in etchings, all illustrated. Three color pls. tipped onto fold-out page. Text in German and English. Artist statement, double-page photo of artist. ** The entries give details of size, edition..... More
Amherst, MA: University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, 1984. Puryear, Martin. First edition. Soft cover. 44p, many large ills., many in color. Photo is cropped on the sides. The first major exhibition survey of Puryear's mixed-media sculpture, monuments, installations, and proposed works. Includes a conversation among the authors and Puryear... More
![Item #31343 The View from the Horizon [1 of 1000 copies]. Timothy Drever, constructions, texts...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31343.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683577093)
London: Coracle, 1997. Drever, Timothy. Limited edition. Soft cover. 60p, several tipped-in color photos, 2 maps. "The first attempt to link the work of the artist Timothy Drever with the writings of his alter ego Tim Robinson . . . dating from just before [Drever/Robinson] disappeared from the London art..... More
Westmoreland, NH: Bridge Press, 2016. Cohen, Brian D. Limited edition (200 signed copies). Soft cover. N.p., 25 pls. "Reproduces the first twenty-five etchings of the Emblem series," accompanying an exhibition in Brattleboro, VT. Inspired by Renaissance emblem books, Cohen depicts "mostly things I like, encounter, or dream of. They are..... More
Munich; Cologne: Galerie Klihm; Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, 1972. Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo. First edition. Soft cover. [24]p, 8 pls. of photograms. Checklist of 24 photograms that were part of an exhibition of Moholy-Nagy's photographic work, which was shown at the Galerie Klihm, the Bauhaus-Archiv, and another site. With a short excerpt from..... More
New York: Wittenborn, n.d. [ca. 1958]. Hiler, Hilaire. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many full-page plates, many in color. Additional texts by Hiler ("The Origin and Development of Structural Design") and Vincent Schmidt ("The Structuralism of Hilaire Hiler and Its Relation to Other Tendencies in Art"). Presentation of Hiler's paintings..... More
Boston: New England School of Art & Design, 2001. Andersen, Wayne. First edition. Soft cover. 16p, 14 ills. + cover, most in color. Invitation to opening and post-opening party laid in. Catalogue of 30 paintings, some with Andersen's comments. Also a one-page memoir, touching on his varied career as "public..... More
![Item #31219 Ten Things to Read and Remember [on spine]. Milton Glaser](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31219.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1670330103)
Zagreb, Croatia: Igepa [printed by Cerovski Print Boutique, Zagreb], N.d. [after 2001]. Privately printed, not for sale. Hardcover. N.p.,many ills., most in color; some folding. No jacket (as issued?). Various graphic artists interpret Milton Glaser's "Ten Things I Have Learned," from his 2001 AIGA talk. Inspired by Glaser though not..... More
Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum, 1983. Penck, A.R. First edition. Soft cover. [24]p, 16 plates (6 in color). Text in English and Hebrew. Exhibition catalogue of Penck's "Expedition to the Holy Land," a portfolio of 16 etchings, lithographs, screenprints, and aquatints (total edition size 84). One plate reproduces a screenprint..... 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
Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche: Le Centre des Livres d'Artistes (CDLA), 2008. Kuppel, Edmund. First edition. Stapled soft cover. [16]p, a few ills. Small exhibition catalogue of Kuppel's photographic and video installations. The text consists primarily of Kuppel's interviews with Mathieu Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate..... More
Athens: Institut Francais d'Athenes, 1981. de Stael, Nicolas. Limited edition. Soft cover. 32p, several ills. by Nicolas de Stael and others. Cover ill. from a collage by de Stael. No. 249 of 300 copies on papier d'Arches. Exhibition catalogue of 26 books, plus much documentation on Lecuire's career. Includes a...... More
Utrecht: A. Oosthoek's Uitgeversmaatschappij for the International Union of Crystallography, 1965. Escher, M.C. First edition. Hardcover. 84p, 41 pls., many in color. A few light stains to front cover, two tiny spots to one inside margin. No jacket. Description and analysis of Escher's patterns--how they use classical symmetry, black-and-white symmetry..... More
[Melbourne]: Lesley Kehoe Galleries, n.d. [2008]. Maio Motoko. First edition. Unbound sheet. One folded sheet of card stock, 6 color ills. Closed, ca. 8 x 11 inches. Presentation of two of the artist's vibrant folding screens made from washi, cloth, gold and silver foil, and acrylic paints. Statement by the..... More
Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche: Centre des Livres d'Artistes (CDLA), 2005. Herman de Vries. First edition. Stapled soft cover. [36]p, many ills. Short text by the artist. Exhibition catalogue of dozens of works, many on the theme of "chance and change." Held on the occasion of the publication of de Vries's catalogue raisonne. Can..... More
Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1968. Indiana, Robert. First edition. Soft cover. 63p, many ills., several in color. Catalogue for Indiana's first solo museum exhibition, which also traveled to San Antonio and Indianapolis. Very large and comprehensive, with much documentation. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972. Motherwell, Robert. First edition. Stapled soft cover. [28]p, many black-and-white ills. Step-by-step account of the creation of this iconic artist's book, which was printed in letterpress and aquatint by Universal Limited Art Editions. Can be sent outside the US for less than the..... More
San Diego: Museum of Photographic Arts, 1998. Morell, Abelardo. First edition. Soft cover (French folds). 60p, many large plates. Morell's felt-tip signature on the half-title page looks original to me, but it is possibly a very good reproduction. Short statement by Morell. Traveling exhibition catalogue showing the range of Morell's..... More
Milan: Giancarlo Politi, 1982. First edition. Soft cover. 320p, many ills., many in color. . A seminal publication on international neo-expressionist painting of the 1970s-80s, which embraced forms of earlier art (figuration, texture, emotion, etc.) in reaction to conceptual abstraction. Oliva dubbed the Italian version "La Transavanguardia." Contains "Transitional Art" by..... More
