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Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. Paperbound quarto in dustwrapper. Unpaginated. Illustrated in both color and black and white. One page introduction in French by Claude Fournet. An exhibition of prints. Very good copy in lightly used dustwrapper.
Published by New York : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988., 1988
ISBN 10: 1555840760ISBN 13: 9781555840761
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xix, 295 p., [8] p. of plates ; 24 cm. ; ISBN: 1555840760; 9781555840761 LCCN: 87-22490 ; LC: N6512; Dewey: 709/.73 ; OCLC: 16683887 ; blue and white cloth with gold lettering, in photographic dustjacket ; Contents: America as paradise -- Geometry, American-style -- Synchromism : a tale of the two Gertrudes -- Photography in America -- Filthy pictures -- Venus envy -- The auction is the action -- Diane Arbus : the American scene as the American nightmare -- Andy Warhol's aluminum foil : the mirror of our time -- Pop in perspective -- Roy Lichtenstein : reproduction as representation -- ABC art -- Color-field painting : the Washington school -- Mondrian boogies in New York -- The late paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe -- Decoys and doubles : Jasper Johns and the modernist mind -- Ellsworth Kelly : an American in Paris -- Painting within the tradition : the career of Helen Frankenthaler -- Seventies painting -- Jackson Pollock and the death of painting -- Sculpture and perception -- Blowup : the problem of scale in sculpture -- Lucas Samaras : the self as icon and environment -- John Chamberlain : painterly sculpture -- On Mark di Suvero : sculpture outside walls -- Richard Serra : the site is specific -- Sculpture in the seventies -- About Eva Hesse -- Art criticism in America -- One-dimensional criticism -- Criticism as propaganda -- The politics of art -- The myth of Pollock and the failure of criticism -- Document of an age -- Protest in art -- Twilight of the superstars -- American painting : the eighties -- Art in discoland. ; small tear at bottom of spine, else VG/VG. Book.
Published by Los Angeles, CA: Gemini G.E.L., 1971
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. 4to. 108 pp. Portfolio. First Edition. Very Good. Mostly Black and White Plates, 364 total, 20 in color. Signed. In Hardcover White Plastic Box, with Jasper Johns 'Target 1970' inside covers, with Johns offset-litho-facsimile signature, watercolor pads, paintbrush & catalogue. Includes exhibition checklist and bibliography. Prospectus loosely laid in. Catalogue Raisonne of Gemini's complete publications.Provenance: From the estate of Gerald Nordland (1927-2019). Nordland was a museum director, art critic, educator and author. Dean of the Chouinard Art Institute (1960-64), Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA (1966-73), Milwaukee Art Museum (1977-85), and the UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1973-77). He is the author of over 60 publications, including books on Lachaise, Nakian, Diebenkorn and Frank Lloyd Wright.