Search Results: Titles starting with G from Arcana: Books on the Arts

(OROZCO, GABRIEL). Buchloh, Benjamin H.D. & Jean Fisher. Catherine de Zegher, Editor. GABRIEL OROZCO. Kortrijk, BELGIUM: The Kanaal Art Foundation, 1993. Second Edition 1/1300. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. 72pp, 22 color illustrations + color cover. Text in English, Spanish and Dutch. With an exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in conjunction with a 1993 Kanaal Art Foundation exhibition, this is the very first publication on the renowned contemporary Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco. A most handsome example of the second printing of exceedingly this uncommon item limited to one thousand, three hundred unnumbered copies. Inventory Number: 024242

(OROZCO, GABRIEL). Buchloh, Benjamin H.D., Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Kuri, Molly Nesbit, Damian Ortega & Alma Ruiz. GABRIEL OROZCO. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good. 208pp, 132 color and 17 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 2000 Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art retrospective, this is the first comprehensive monograph in English on the renowned contemporary Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco. A handsome example showing just a bit of external wear and soiling to the covers. 0-914357-75-1 Inventory Number: 014351

(OROZCO, GABRIEL). Orozco, Gabriel, James Lingwood, Jean Fisher, Mark Hayworth-Booth & Guy Brett. GABRIEL OROZCO: EMPTY CLUB. London: Artangel, 1996. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Artist Monograph. Near Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. 106pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Luc Derycke. Published in conjunction with a 1996 London exhibition, the year's Artangel book commission is a well-illustrated monograph in English on the renowned contemporary Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco. A most handsome copy. 1-902201-02-7 Inventory Number: 016574

(OROZCO, GABRIEL). Orozco, Gabriel & Ann Temkin. GABRIEL OROZCO: PHOTOGRAVITY. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 184pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Luc Derycke. With an exhibition checklist. Published in conjunction with a 2000 Philadelphia Museum of Art survey, this substantive catalogue focuses on the photographically based work of noted contemporary Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco. A most handsome copy. 0-87633-128-2 Inventory Number: 016732

(HILL, GARY). Bruce, Chris, Lynne Cooke, Bruce W. Ferguson, John G. Handhardt & Robert Mittenthal. GARY HILL. Seattle, WA: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, 1994. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. 108pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. This catalogue was produced for a 1994 touring retrospective of works by prominent video/installation artist Gary Hill that included the Hirshhorn Museum, MCA Chicago, MOCA Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Soho, and the Henry Art Gallery. A most handsome example showing some minor rubbing to the covers with the Henry Art Gallery exhibition checklist laid in. 0-935558-32-2 Inventory Number: 003154

(HUME, GARY). Searle, Adrian & David Batchelor. GARY HUME: BRITISH PAVILION XLVIII VENICE BIENNALE, 13 JUNE - 7 NOVEMBER 1999 - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by the Artist. London: The British Council, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. xxxii + 88pp, profusely illustrated in color. With an exhibition history, bibliography, and exhibition checklist. Published in conjunction with Gary Hume's exhibition at the British Pavilion of 1999's 48th Venice Biennale, this comprehensive, well-designed catalogue includes sixteen reproductions on tracing paper of the artist's "Acetate Drawings" which gives this elegant production the feel of an artist's book. A pristine copy additionally SIGNED "Gary Hume" on the front pastedown. 0-86355-412-1 Inventory Number: 018631

(SALGADO, SEBASTIAO). Salgado, Lelia Wanick. GENESIS - SIGNED BY SEBASTIAO SALGADO. Signed by the Photographer. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2013. First English Language Edition 1/1000. Stout Small Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 520 + 34pp, profusely illustrated in duotone. Text in English. Concept and Design by Lelia Wanick Salgado. Published in 2013, this is the massive hardbound collection of famed Magnum photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado's haunting images of the dwindling unspoiled land, flora, fauna, and peoples of Planet Earth. "Genesis" is the result of an epic eight year expedition to rediscover the mountains, deserts and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society - the land and life of a still-pristine planet. Salgado reminds us that "Some 46% of the planet is still as it was in the time of genesis. We must preserve what exists". The Genesis project, along with the… Read More

(WINNINGHAM, GEOFF).. GEOFF WINNINGHAM: VINTAGE COLOR POSTCARD - HOPKINS COUNTY COURT HOUSE, SULFUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, c1856-58. NP: Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., 1978. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Postcard. Fine. One 4 ¼ x 6" glossy cardstock postcard printed offset recto and verso, 1 color illustration. To mark the 1976 Bicentennial of the United States of America, Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc. commissioned twenty-four photographers to record more than one thousand County Court houses across the country using both color and black and white film. The project, directed by Phyllis Lambert and edited by Richard Pare, created the then-most comprehensive survey of an American building type. The Seagram County Court House Archives collection of photographic negatives and master prints was ultimately presented as a gift, with its copyright ownership, to the Library of Congress. In 1978 Horizon published the lovely Richard Pare-edited book of images from this undertaking entitled… Read More

(SEKULA, ALLAN). Sekula, Allan, Gary Dufour & John O' Brian. GEOGRAPHY LESSON: CANADIAN NOTES - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM ALLAN SEKULA. Signed by the Photographer. Vancouver, CANADA & Cambridge, MA: Vancouver Art Gallery & MIT Press, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Allan Sekula and Reinhard Derreth Graphics. With a bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1997 exhibition held at the Vancouver Art Gallery, "Geography Lesson: Canadian Notes" is a body of work by the noted late socially-conscious photographer and educator Allan Sekula examining the Canadian mining industry and the executives, workers, and labor activists that depend on it for their livelihoods. A brand new, most handsome example additionally bearing the SIGNED INSCRIPTION "For ..., With Thanks, Allan Sekula / Atlanta 10/10/98" to an institutional curator in black ink on the title page.… Read More

Ghez, Susanne, Karen Marta and Stephen Ellis, Glenn O'Brien, Ian Brunskill & Gary Garrels. GEORG HEROLD / ALBERT OEHLEN / CHRISTOPHER WOOL. Chicago: The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 1989. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. As New. np (32pp), 21 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. Designed by Georg Herold, Albert Oehlen, and Christopher Wool in collaboration with Michael Glass Design, Inc. With an exhibition checklist. This is the engaging, "Windy City"-themed catalogue published in conjunction with a 1989 Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago exhibition of then-recent works by the kindred trio of Georg Herold, Albert Oehlen, and Christopher Wool. It features a series of brief-but-lively texts by Susanne Ghez, Karen Marta and Stephen Ellis, Glenn O'Brien, Ian Brunskill, and Gary Garrels along with reproductions of the exhibited pieces that invoke such Chicago icons as Al Capone and Bertrand Goldberg's… Read More

[NAKASHIMA, GEORGE]. Nakashima, George. GEORGE NAKASHIMA, WOODWORKER - A RARE 1962 TRADE CATALOGUE FROM THE CRAFTSMAN'S NEW HOPE STUDIO. New Hope, PA. ND (circa 1962): George Nakashima, Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 4to. Wrappers in Printed Jacket. Furniture Trade Catalogue. Fine./Near Fine.. np (28pp), profusely illustrated in monochrome gravure. Designed by Quentin Fiore. This exquisitely produced publication is an early sixties trade catalogue for the iconic 20th century craftsman George Nakashima. Issued by the woodworker to illustrate the range of hand made-furniture available for purchase from his New Hope, Pennsylvania studio, it was elegantly designed by Quentin Fiore, printed by Meridan Gravure on a selection of hand-made Japanese paper stock, and hand-sewn. An internally bright, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon - with Nakashima's six page price list additionally laid in showing uneven sunning to its pale grey handmade paper dust jacket. Inventory Number:… Read More

(RICKEY, GEORGE). Davidson III, Maxwell. GEORGE RICKEY: THE EARLY WORKS. Altglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2004. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 288pp, 382 color and b&w illustrations. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. "George Rickey's importance to the art world is belied by the lack of literature about one of the world's most accomplished kinetic sculptors. His fascinating sculptural oeuvre spans a fifty-three-year working period (1949-2002) and is incredibly diverse. This book is concerned exclusively with the early indoor sculptures from the first twenty-five years of George Rickey's output. With three hundred and eighty-two color and black & white photographs covering the artist's early innovations, we get an intimate and complete picture of his artistic diversity. This book lays a firm foundation to an understanding of Rickey's creative intentions, and carefully categorizes the works into… Read More

(RICKEY, GEORGE). Hope, Henry R.. GEORGE RICKEY - PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST. Presentation Copy from the Artist. Dusseldorf, GERMANY: Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1962. First Edition. Small 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -. np (20pp), 8 b&w illustrations + cover. Text in English and German. With an exhibition checklist, biography and bibliography. This is the slender catalogue published in conjunction with pioneering kinetic artist George Rickey's 1962 exhibition of seventy-one sculptures and works on paper executed between 1951 and 1962 held at Dusseldorf's Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen. A most presentable copy of this uncommon early document showing some overall light wear and soiling as well as two diagonal soft creases through the upper foredge corner that has been INSCRIBED but not signed by George Rickey in his inimitable script with his address (R.D. #2, East Chatham, New York.) in black ink below his printed name… Read More

(SEGAL, GEORGE). Hunter, Sam. Introduction By Fred Hoffman. GEORGE SEGAL: NEW PHOTO SCULPTURE. Santa Monica, CA: Fred Hoffman Fine Art, 1995. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. 32pp, 11 duotone illustrations + color cover. With a biography, exhibition checklist and exhibition history. This is the beautifully designed and produced catalogue that accompanied the 1995 Sam Hunter curated Santa Monica gallery exhibition of recent works by the late, renowned American figurative sculptor George Segal. A pristine copy. Inventory Number: 008583

(LAING, GERALD). Laing, Gerald. GERALD LAING: PAPER PLATE MULTIPLE - ARCHIVALLY FRAMED IN A PLEXIGLAS BOX. New York. ND (circa 1968).: On First (Gerald Laing & Bert Stern), First Edition. 4to. Printed Paper Plate in a Box. Artist's Multiple. Fine. One 10 ¼" diameter paper plate screenprinted with lavender ink on white. This is one of four striking paper plate designs conceived by noted British Pop Artist Gerald Laing for the groovy late sixties New York boutique, On First. Located on First Avenue at 61st in Manhattan, the shop was the brainchild of noted fashion and advertising photographer Bert Stern who opened it with the idea of commissioning stylish-yet-inexpensive objects for the home and wardrobe from artists and fashion designers. The store was ultimately short-lived - closing its doors after little more than a year - leaving most of these plates neither distributed, nor seen again. A most handsome example of the lavender biomorphic circle variant of this exceedingly… Read More

(MARCKS, GERHARD). Marcks, Gerhard. GERHARD MARCKS: RECENT SCULPTURE. New York: Otto M. Gerson Gallery, 1961. First Edition. 12mo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good. np (16pp), 10 b&w illustrations. This is the slender catalogue published in conjunction with a 1961 Gerhard Marcks exhibition at Otto Gerson's blue chip New York sculpture gallery of the late '50s & early '60s. A handsome example. Inventory Number: 003697

Spalek, John M., Bruce M. Broerman, Carol L. Paul & Henry A. Smith III. GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM IN THE FINE ARTS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1977. First Edition 1/1000. Square 4to. Printed Wrappers. Art Reference. Very Good-. 272pp. This invaluable reference to German Expressionism is the third in a series of Art and Architecture bibliographies published by Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc. Over four thousand entries are divided into three indexes: General reference, Movements and Schools, and works on individual artists - with a general index by author, gallery and subject. A most presentable copy showing some soiling to the wrappers at the spine as well as a small diagonal crease along the upper foredge corner of the first few pages. It has been priced accordingly. 0-912158-18-2 Inventory Number: 005771

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

(BALTZ, LEWIS) (PERKOVIC, SLAVICA). Baltz, Lewis & Slavica Perkovic. GESCHICHTEN VON VERLANGEN UND MACHT (STORIES OF DESIRE AND POWER). Braunschweig, GERMANY: Museum Fur Photographie Braunschweig & Scalo, 1995. First Edition 1/1500. 4to. Cloth Spine Over Boards, Boxed. Photography Monographs. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 60pp + 48pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in German with English translations laid in. This unusual title is actually two separate exhibition catalogues in the form of artists' books - Lewis Baltz's "Die Toten Von Newport Beach" ("The Deaths in Newport"), and Slavica Perkovic's "Seche Geschichten Fur Vier Manner" ("Six Stories for Four Men") - housed in a printed chipboard box. Each is illustrated with photographs and text - in Baltz's case, the photos all appear to be found images relating to a murder and trial in California in the 1940s. A most handsome example of this unusual collaborative undertaking… Read More

(AMER, GHADA). Buszek, Maria Elena & Christophe Kihm. GHADA AMER: BREATHE INTO ME. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2006. First Edition. 4to. Gilt-Debossed Boards. Artist Monograph. As New. 69pp, 38 color illustrations. Designed by Giampietro + Smith. With an exhibition checklist. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue produced in conjunction with the 2006 Gagosian New York exhibition of twenty-two recent paintings on canvas and eight works on paper by Egyptian-born, New York-based artist Ghada Amer. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-932598-25-1 Inventory Number: 019050