David Armstrong : watercolors and drawings : 11 October 1980 - October 26 by David Armstrong - 1980

Scalo, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 144 pages, 85 color images. Beauty was never a dirty word for David Armstrong. Untroubled by others' puritan fears of sensuality or by the follies of this or that zeitgeist, Armstrong has long pursued his twin vision of urban romance and bucolic serenity. All Day Every Day presents the artist's landscapes, interiors, and cityscapes, wistful and evocative images that discreetly suggest stories of love and loss, that bespeak the solitary pleasures of a flaneur adrift on urban streets and rural roads. A street corner, the facade of a skyscraper, blossoming trees, a chair in a room on a late afternoon: these are the elusive quotidian promises of happiness that Armstrong so elegantly captures, generously inviting viewers to interweave their own desires and reveries with his intricately languid images. Underlying Armstrong's radical aesthetic, we sense the utopian fervor of a revolt against utilitarianism, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and the… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Hammer Galleries, 1985. Hardcover. VG in curled dustjacket with tears. Brown cloth. 108 pp. 2 bw, 74 color plates. *Signed by the artist on the half-title page*. Introduction by Donelson Hoopes. Lists and illustrates 74 works by this artist, many of which the artist has annotated.

New York: Hammer Galleries, 1985. Hardcover. VG without dj. Brown cloth. 108 pp. 2 bw, 74 color plates. Introduction by Donelson Hoopes. Lists and illustrates 74 works by this artist, many of which the artist has annotated.

Roma: Galleria Ugo Ferranti, , 1998. Cartoncino. Molto buono (Very Good). Cartoncino di invito della mostra alla galleria Ugo Ferranti, Roma, 25 marzo 1998. Una illustrazione in bianco e nero. Cm 16,5x14. . Molto buono (Very Good). .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

New.

New York: Scalo Publishers, 2002. Fine in a Fine jacket.. First edition with 99 four-color plates and a conversation with the artist by Martin Jaeggi. Designed by Wyndham Boulter, Zurich. Printed by Steidl, Göttingen, from separations made in the Steidl digital darkroom. An exceptional production from this up-and-coming photographer. Hardcover. Elephant folio. With list of plates. 144pp.: 99 four-color plates (5 2pp. spreads; 31 full-bleed plates). Red cloth with photographic DJ. Fine in like jacket. Tiny bump to one corner. Else very fine, unread. Bright, tight, clean and sharp.