Movements / Dada from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: George Wittenborn, 1951. Cloth, xxxxii, 388 pages, illustrations, portraits; 27 cm. The Documents of Modern Art, volume 8. Texts by Arp and others. Illustrations after Arp and others. And documents, objects, journals, reviews, manifestoes, photographs, catalogues, invitations, etc. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Reprint 1967. Dust jacket, with chipping, protected in a mylar cover. . Hardcover.… Read more about this item

New York: Di Donna, 2019. Pictorial boards, 202 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Di Donna, New York, from October 25 to December 13, 2019. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Collectible.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1961. 63 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, March 1 to May 7, 1961; Art Institute of Chicago, June 16 to July 23, 1961. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Vintage MoMA catalogue. Landmark retrospective of the German dadaist-surrealist, who worked in the U.S. during… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press; An Evergreen Book, 1969. 148 pages; 20 cm. E-496. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978. 46 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., September 13, 1978 to January 14, 1979. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996. Cloth, 304 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Catalogue for an exhibition that opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, November 1996. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Making… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. Pictorial boards, xviii, 686 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. CONTENTS: La jeune fille americaine and the Dadaist impulse, by Elizabeth Hutton Turner; The constructed self: gender and portraiture in machine-age America, by Barbara Zabel; A box, a pipe,… Read more about this item

Feltham: Zenith, 1983. x, 246 pages, illustrations, portraits; 20 cm. Translation of: Ein kleines Ja und ein grosses Nein. An acceptable reading copy, marked on several pages, mostly towards the end. Browning.. Paperback. Fair. 8vo.

New York: Da Capo Press, 2000. xvi, 449 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Man Ray is the quintessential modernist figure - painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, poet, and philosopher. One of the most fascinating of the Surrealists who transformed the Paris art world during the 1920s, Man Ray was an enigma - a Dadaist who revered the Old Masters,… Read more about this item

New York and London: Pegasus Books, 2022. xii, 241 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Pegasus Books cloth edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In 1915, a group of French artists fled war-torn Europe for New York. In the few months between… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. Cloth, xx, 259 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Errata slip inserted. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Surrealism in its late phase often abandoned neutral exhibition spaces in favor of environments that embodied subjective ideologies. These exhibitions offered startled viewers an early version of… Read more about this item

Cologne: Taschen, 2000. 95 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., Publishers, 1988. xii, 449 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, worn at extremities, protected in a mylar cover. Another copy available. "The definitive biography of one of the most influential surrealists and a quintessential modernist. Figure-painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker,… Read more about this item

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. Cloth, xviii, 328 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Revision of the author's thesis, University of Wisconsin. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Stated First Printing. Price-clipped dust jacket toned, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. "Examines the ideological motivations of Grosz's political cartoons in an effort to define further the… Read more about this item

Paris: Galerie 1900-2000, 1988. 72 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Text in French/Texte en fran ais. Exhibition held at Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, 20 September to 15 October 1988. BON+ ETAT. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine ends worn. Man Ray: Peintures et dessins provenant de l'atelier = Man Ray: Paintings and drawings from the studio.. 1st. Paperback. Good.… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. 272 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Good+. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning, edges & endpapers lightly soiled. "The period between the end of World War I and Hitler's accession to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany. John Willett… Read more about this item

New York and Philadelphia: Museum of Modern Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973. 345 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 28 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art and shared by the Art Institute of Chicago. Essays by Michel Sanouillet, and others. Firm binding, gently creased… Read more about this item

London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2011. 304 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "This volume presents a rich selection of the Dadas' experimental visual and literary works, covering not only Western Europe and America but also Central and Eastern Europe, Japan and later Neo-Dada, eminent scholar Rudolf Kuenzli gives… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; An October Book, 2010. xvii, 476 pages, illustrations 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "This volume presents a study of the French artist and writer Francis Picabia (1879-1953). The author focuses on Picabia's work in Paris during the Dada years. He describes a series of nearly forgotten objects and events, from… Read more about this item

Ghent: Ludion Press, 2000. 406 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Ribbon book mark. Translated from the French. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Marcel Duchamp left behind a large volume of correspondence, more than a thousand documents forming a valuable archive of primary source materials on one the 20th Century's most important cultural figures. In his… Read more about this item