Search Results: Authors starting with R from Arcana: Books on the Arts

(RAINER, YVONNE). Rainer, Yvonne. YVONNE RAINER: WORK 1961-73. Halifax, CANADA & New York: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design & New York University Press, 1974. First Edition. 4to. Gilt-Stamped Cloth. Dance Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket. 338pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. With a chronology and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, this is the first monograph on the pioneering contemporary New York dancer/choreographer Yvonne Rainer. It contains texts and notes on choreography (often reproduced in facsimile), and photographs documenting her performances between 1961 and 1973. An internally most handsome example of the uncommon 1974 first edition issued in lavender cloth lacking its dust jacket and showing some soiling and spotting along the edges of the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. 0-8147-7360-5 Inventory Number: 026775

(RAINER, YVONNE). Rainer, Yvonne. YVONNE RAINER: WORK 1961-73 - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Signed Presentation Copy from the Author. Halifax, CANADA & New York: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design & New York University Press, 1974. First Edition. 4to. Gilt-Stamped Buckram. Dance Monograph. Fine/Good +. 338pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. With a chronology and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, this is the first monograph on the pioneering contemporary New York dancer/choreographer Yvonne Rainer. It contains texts and notes on choreography (often reproduced in facsimile), and photographs documenting her performances between 1961 and 1973. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1974 first edition issued in silver gilt-stamped black buckram boards additionally bearing the SIGNED PRESENTATION "For ... - in contrition and gratitude - Yvonne May 1997" in black ink on… Read More

(RAUCH, NEO). Szeeman, Harald, Daniel Birnbaum & Lynne Cooke. NEO RAUCH. Maastricht, THE NETHERLANDS, & Ostfildern, GERMANY: Bonnefantenmuseum & Cantz Verlag, 2002. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. 144pp, 66 color illustrations. Text in German and English. This is the comprehensive catalogue published in conjunction with the noted Leipzig-based artist having received the 2002 Vincent Van Gogh Bi-Annual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe. "One of the most original artists of his generation, Neo Rauch's paintings appear disturbingly detached and yet familiar, their figures, objects, and mood seemingly borrowed from old advertising posters, dusty book jackets, and forgotten comics. Rauch's formulistic visual symbols suggest a more profound meaning, yet it is difficult to decipher their message. The tension lurking under their almost frozen surfaces, washed with dusky, sinister colors, is fueled by paradox: as vivid as the structure of the… Read More

(RAUCH, NEO). Kunde, Harald. Foreword by Klaus Albrecht Schroder. NEO RAUCH: ARBEITEN AUF PAPIER / WORKS ON PAPER 2003-2004. Ostfildern, GERMANY & Vienna, AUSTRIA: Hatje Cantz Verlag & Albertina, 2004. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (60pp), 15 color and 1 b&w illustration. Text in German and English. With a chronology. This is the hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with noted Leipzig-based artist Neo Rauch's 2004 exhibition of recent large scale works on paper held at Vienna's Albertina. A most handsome copy. 3-7757-1501-0 Inventory Number: 018693

(RAUSCHENBERG, ROBERT). Kotz, Mary Lynn. RAUSCHENBERG - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST AND THE AUTHOR. Signed by the Artist and Author. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 320pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a collections listing, exhibition history and bibliography. Published in 1990 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., this is the beautifully illustrated, comprehensive monograph on the pioneering late American artist Robert Rauschenberg featuring a lengthy, insightful text by Mary Lynn Kotz. A bright, most handsome example of the first edition of this important document additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Mary Lynn Kotz" in black ink and "BOB RAUSCHENBERG" in gold marker across the half title page. 0-8109-3752-2 Inventory Number: 026394

(RAUSCHENBERG, ROBERT). Saff, Donald. RAUSCHENBERG: PAINTINGS 1989. Stockholm, SWEDEN: Heland Wetterling Gallery, 1989. First Edition 1/4000. Square 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. 24pp, 11 color and 2 b&w illustrations. Text in English. With a biography and exhibition history. This handsome catalogue was produced by Stockholm's Wetterling Gallery in conjunction with a 1989 Robert Rauschenberg exhibition of paintings by screened on copper, aluminum, and galvanized steel. A most handsome copy. Inventory Number: 013444

(RAUSCHENBERG, ROBERT). Hopps, Walter. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: THE EARLY 1950's. Houston, TX: The Menil Collection & Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 240pp, 143 b&w and 70 color illustrations. This exquisite book was published as the hardbound catalogue for the 1991 Walter Hopps curated "Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s" held at The Menil Collection - one of the great Museum retrospectives of the past two decades. A show incredible for its scope and execution, the focus was Robert Rauschenberg's earliest mature work, executed between 1951 and 1954, that at once embraced and mutated the prevailing trend of Abstract Expressionism. A brand new, most handsome example. 0-939594-25-0 Inventory Number: 026649

(RAUSCHENBERG, ROBERT). Alloway, Lawrence. Foreword by Joshua C. Taylor. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts & Smithsonian Institution, 1976. First Edition. Small 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/Near Fine. 218pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With an exhibition checklist. This is the comprehensive catalogue published in conjunction with the 1976 Robert Rauschenberg retrospective held in honor of America's Bicentennial at the National Collection of Fine Arts that subsequently traveled to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and The Art Institute of Chicago. An otherwise most handsome example of the hardbound first printing of this important document showing some light rubbing and sunning to the dust jacket along with the discreet ink ownership stamp of the director of one of Rauschenberg's galleries at the time on the front pastedown. It… Read More

(RAUSCHENBERG, ROBERT). Alloway, Lawrence. Foreword by Joshua C. Taylor. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by the Artist. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts & Smithsonian Institution, 1976. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. 218pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With an exhibition checklist. This is the comprehensive catalogue published in conjunction with the 1976 Robert Rauschenberg retrospective held in honor of America's Bicentennial at the National Collection of Fine Arts that subsequently traveled to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and The Art Institute of Chicago. An internally bright, most handsome example of the paperbound first printing of this important document additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "BOB RAUSCHENBERG" in blue ink across the title page showing some typical light sunning to the spine. LC 76-58522… Read More

(RAUSCHENBERG, ROBERT). Jouffroy, Alain, Lawrence Alloway, Michel Ragon, Francoise Choay, Gillo Dorfles, John Cage & Robert Rauschenberg. RAUSCHENBERG. Paris: Ileana Sonnabend, 1963. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. np (32pp), 11 b&w illustrations. Text in French. With a chronology and exhibition history. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with two sequential 1963 exhibitions of twenty-six works total executed by Robert Rauschenberg between 1953 and 1963 held at his longtime Parisian gallery Ileana Sonnabend. A most handsome example of this uncommon early item with the gallery's exhibition checklist additionally laid in showing just a bit of typical age-toning and soiling to its matte white covers. Inventory Number: 025851

(RAUSCHENBERG, ROBERT). Rauschenberg, Robert. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: PAGES & FUSES. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1974. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Print Prospectus. Fine. np (12pp), 2 tipped color and 6 b&w illustrations + covers. Designed by John Coy. Cover Montage by Robert Rauschenberg. This is one of Los Angeles based Gemini G.E.L.'s lovely little print/multiple prospectuses announcing the publication of Robert Rauschenberg's 1973 dyed, handmade paper multiples known as "Pages" and "Fuses". A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item.. Inventory Number: 025860

(RAY, CHARLES) (PARKETT). Ray, Charles. Curiger, Bice, Editor. PARKETT NO. 37: CHARLES RAY, FRANZ WEST - COLLABORATIONS + EDITIONS: PIPILOTTI RIST - INSERT - FROM CHARLES RAY'S SIGNED, LIMITED ARTIST EDITION WITH NINE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Parkett, 1993. First Edition #IX/XXIII Deluxe. Small 4to. Wrappers + Color Photographs. Contemporary Art Periodical. Fine. ca 200pp + nine 4 x 6" color C prints, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Parallel Text in English and German. This thirty-seventh issue of the late, great influential Swiss visual arts quarterly "Parkett" focuses on the work of Charles Ray, Franz West, and Pipilotti Rist. This example from the "Artist Edition" series features Charles Ray's limited edition contribution "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" consisting of nine informal snapshots of nineties fashion icon Tatjana Patitz taken by Ray at her Pacific Palisades home. A brand new, most handsome example of the… Read More

(RAY, CHARLES). Ray, Charles. CHARLES RAY: LOG - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by the Artist. New York. ND (2009).: Matthew Marks Gallery, First Edition. Oblong Small 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (40pp), 22 color illustrations. Designed by Silvia Gaspardo Moro. "Log" presents Charles Ray's life-size sculpture of a fallen log he discovered by the side of the highway in California. After visiting it many times, the artist decided to move the log in pieces to his studio, where he made molds and produced a fiberglass replica of it. Eventually, he sent the fiberglass replica to Japan where a master woodworker and his apprentices carved the final wooden sculpture out of Japanese cypress". A brand new, most handsome example of this elegant hardbound document additionally SIGNED "Charles Ray" in black ink. 1-880146-54-1 Inventory Number: 018690

(RAYSSE, MARTIAL). Ashbery, John & Pierre Restany. MARTIAL RAYSSE: MIRRORS AND PORTRAITS 1962. New York: Dwan Gallery, 1963. First Edition. Oblong Small 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. np (8pp), 3 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition history. This is the slender, charmingly designed six page catalogue featuring brief texts by John Ashbery and Pierre Restany published in conjunction with Martial Raysse's January 1963 exhibition at Los Angeles' legendary Virginia Dwan Gallery entitled "Mirrors and Portraits: 1962". Only the French Pop artist's second one-man show in the United States, it traveled to New York's Iolas Gallery the following month. A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event showing a bit of light handling along with two tiny areas of white-out on the rear cover. Inventory Number: 024391

(RAYSSE, MARTIAL). Hahn, Otto & Martial Raysse. MARTIAL RAYSSE. Los Angeles: Dwan Gallery, 1967. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. 20pp, 6 color illustrations. Designed by John W. Weber. This is the engaging catalogue published in conjunction with Martial Raysse's 1967 exhibition at Los Angeles' legendary Dwan Gallery. It reproduces six then-new paintings along with a tipped-in text by the French Pop artist entitled "I have a thousand things to put in order". A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item showing just a bit of light soiling and handling to its textured white covers. Inventory Number: 024389

(RAYSSE, MARTIAL). Hahn, Otto & Martial Raysse. MARTIAL RAYSSE. Los Angeles: Dwan Gallery, 1967. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -. 20pp, 6 color illustrations. Designed by John W. Weber. This is the engaging catalogue published in conjunction with Martial Raysse's 1967 exhibition at Los Angeles' legendary Dwan Gallery. It reproduces six then-new paintings along with a tipped-in text by the French Pop artist entitled "I have a thousand things to put in order". A most presentable example of this uncommon item showing some light soiling and handling to its textured white covers along with a slight diagonal soft crease through the upper foredge corner of the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024390

Reed, Jr., Orrel P. & Robert Gore Rifkind. Foreword by Gerald Nordland. GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST ART: THE ROBERT GORE RIFKIND COLLECTION (PRINTS, DRAWINGS, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, PERIODICALS, POSTERS). Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977. First Edition. 4to. Gilt-Debossed Cloth. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued.. 380pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Jack Carter. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the copiously illustrated, scholarly catalogue published in conjunction with a 1977 exhibition of four hundred and eighteen German and Austrian Expressionist, Dada, Bauhaus, and related European modernist prints, drawings, illustrated books, posters and periodicals drawn from the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection. Now part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's holdings, the collection is reputedly the most comprehensive archive of Expressionist graphics… Read More

(REGGAE AND AFRICAN BEAT, THE). Smith, C.C. & Roger Steffens, Editors. THE (REGGAE AND AFRICAN) BEAT: VOL. 13, #3, 1994. Los Angeles: Bongo Productions, 1994. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Music Periodical. Fine. 90pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Cover image of Bob Marley. "Reggae Beat and African Beat" is the magazine that grew out of deejays Smith, Hank Holmes and Roger Steffens' early eighties weekly KCRW show "The Reggae Beat". This 1994 (Volume 13, #3) installment is their thirteenth annual "collectors edition" issue devoted to Bob Marley and The Wailers that includes contributions on or by Steffens, Cindy Breakspeare, Bruce Talamon, Glen Adams, Gilly Gilbert, Cedella Booker, Wanda Coleman. Also featured is "Reggae Sunsplash 94" Also featured are regular columns "Reggae Update", "African Music", and more along with loads of informative record reviews, playlists, and advertisements. A bright,… Read More

(REGGAE AND AFRICAN BEAT, THE). Smith, C.C. & Roger Steffens, Editors. THE REGGAE AND AFRICAN BEAT: JUNE 1985 (VOL. IV #3). Los Angeles: Bongo Productions, 1985. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Music Periodical. Fine. 50pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Cover image of Bob Marley. C.C. Smith's Los Angeles-based "Reggae Beat and African Beat" is the magazine that grew out of deejays Smith, Hank Holmes and Roger Steffens' early eighties weekly KCRW show "The Reggae Beat". This June 1985 installment is their third annual "collectors edition" issue devoted to Bob Marley and The Wailers that includes contributions on or by Steffens, Timothy White, Jeff Walker, and "Jamfest 85". Also featured are regular columns "Reggae Movement", "African Music", and more along with loads of informative record reviews, playlists, and advertisements. A most handsome example. Inventory Number: 019744

(REICHEL, HANS) (MILLER, HENRY). Miller, Henry & Karl Shapiro. Introduction by Lawrence Durrell. Louise and Jon Webb, Editors. ORDER AND CHAOS CHEZ HANS REICHEL: THE 99 COPY BLUE OASIS 1ST "LEATHER EDITION" SIGNED AND DATED BY HENRY MILLER. Signed and Dated by Henry Miller. Tucson, AZ: Loujon Press, 1966. First Edition 1/99 Deluxe. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. ¼ Leather Over Cloth Slipcased. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/Very Good. 106pp, illustrated in monochrome. Text in English and French. Designed by Louise and Jon Webb. "Order and Chaos Chez Hans Reichel" publishes for the first time Henry Miller's thoughtful 1938 essay on the underappreciated German-born, Parisian-based visual artist Hans Reichel. A typically elaborately designed and lavishly produced Loujon undertaking, it features an introduction by Lawrence Durrell along with beautiful reproductions of several of Reichel's Paul Klee-inspired works. A most handsome example of the uncommon… Read More