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

(U2). Parkyn, Geoff, Editor. U2 MAGAZINE: ISSUES NUMBER 2, 8, AND 11. London, UK. 1982, 1983 + 1984: U2 Info Service, First Editions. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Music Fanzines. Very Good - or Better. 12 + 12 + 12pp, illustrated in monochrome. Between 1981 and 1985, Londoner Geoff Parkyn under the guise of the U2 Info Service published sixteen issues of his reverent "U2 Magazine." Preceding the band's own official publication, "Propaganda", this DIY labor of love was devoted to disseminating the latest news and views on all things Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., and Adam Clayton. A broken run of three issues of this uncommon post-punk document - No. 2 - February 82, No. 8 - August 83, and No. 11 - Summer 84 - showing some light staining and insect damage. Inventory Number: 027281

(TEMPLETON, ED). Templeton, Ed. UMBRELLA: A TYPOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY BY ED TEMPLETON - SIGNED WITH A DRAWING BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed with a Drawing by the Photographer. NP (Los Angeles): Deadbeat Club Press, 2015. First Edition 1/400. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monographs. As New. np (44pp), profusely illustrated in b&w and color. "Umbrella" is the thirty-fifth publication from Los Angeles-based Deadbeat Club Press. It is a sweet little book cum 'zine of Ed Templeton's images of a wide variety of umbrellas - and their users - at rest and at work in both rain and shine. A brand new, most handsome example of this now unavailable item limited to four hundred unnumbered copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Ed Templeton" WITH A SMALL EYE DRAWING in black ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 027263

(CONAL, ROBBIE). Rugoff, Ralph & Deborah Irmas. UNAUTHORIZED HISTORY: ROBBIE CONAL'S PORTRAITS OF POWER - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by the Artist. Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Alliance, 1990. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. 56pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Deborah Ross. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with the 1990 Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts retrospective of the work of wry political satirist Robbie Conal. Firmly in the lineage of such 20th Century political artists as John Heartfield, Hans Haacke, and Klaus Staeck, Conal is renowned for his midnight guerrilla postering raids of the Los Angeles urban landscape with such memorable images as "Contra-Diction (Ronald Reagan)" and "It Can't Happen Here (George Bush Sr.)". Other Reagan-era stalwarts skewered here include Nancy Reagan, Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Jesse Helms, Ed Meese, Oliver North, Dan Quayle, John Poindexter, Margaret… Read More

(KELLEY, MIKE). Kelley, Mike. THE UNCANNY - SIGNED BY MIKE KELLEY. Signed and Dated by the Artist. Arnhem, THE NETHERLANDS: Sonsbeek, 1993. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Fine. np, 115 b&w illustrations. Text in English. This provocative, copiously illustrated essay by renowned artist Mike Kelley is a meditation on Sigmund Freud's "Uncanny", and its relation to the grotesque in art and everyday life. Published as part of the "Sonsbeek 93" exhibition in Arnhem, The Netherlands, artists whose work is represented here include Hans Bellmer, Nayland Blake, Robert Gober, Duane Hanson, Edward Kienholz, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Tetsumi Kudo, Zoe Leonard, Paul McCarthy, John Miller, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Paul Thek, and Mike Kelley himself. A brand new, most handsome example of the first and only printing of this 1993 edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Mike Kelley 93" in the year of… Read More

Author Not Stated. A UNIQUE ANONYMOUS ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF WORLD WAR ONE POSTERS. NP. ND.: NP, Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 4to. Scrap Book Binder. Poster Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (74pp) + np (24pp), 102 black and white mounted photographs + 36 b&w illustrations. This is a hand-assembled scrapbook album that has been filled with black and white photographs loosely inserted into corner mounts reproducing one hundred and two posters issued in conjunction with the United States' participation in the First World War. While not dated, its general appearance and the sulfurous nature of the pages give the impression that this dates to the first half of the twentieth Century. A most handsome example of this unique album bearing the vintage Ex Libris bookplate of Charles L. Heartwell who we suspect must be the compiler into which has been laid a Fine condition copy of "Recruiting Posters Issued by the U.S. Navy Since the Declaration of War" issued in 1918 by the… Read More

(BARTH, UTA). Tumlir, Jan & Uta Barth. UTA BARTH: WHITE BLIND (BRIGHT RED). Santa Fe, NM: SITE Santa Fe, 2004. First Edition. Square 8vo. Pictorial Self Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New. np (64pp), profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Meryl Pollen. With a bibliography and exhibition history. This is the elegant catalogue cum artist's book published in conjunction with the 2004 three-part exhibition by photographer Uta Barth at SITE Santa Fe. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9700774-7-5 Inventory Number: 027477

(UTAMARO, KITAGAWA). Utamaro, Kitagawa. UTAMARO: NO UTAMAKURA / UTAMAKURA: SECRET PRINTS BY UTAMARO. Tokyo: Gabun-Do, 1970. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. 147pp, 16 color and 122 b&w illustrations. Text in Japanese. This is a monograph on the renowned Japanese Ukiyo-E master Kitagawa Utamaro's Late Eighteenth Century erotic masterpiece "UtaMakura (Poem of the Pillow)". Reproduced here are the original twelve color woodblock prints as full page hand-tipped color plates, with one small quirk. Published in 1970, in keeping with Japan's then strict censorship laws the scenes depicting exposed genitalia have each been photographed with an orange rice-paper square covering the offending area. All of the reproductions of the explicitly graphic Shunga throughout suffer from the same fate. Still, this is obviously a very detailed and scholarly study of Utamaro's erotic prints. A most handsome… Read More