|         FORTHCOMING TITLES & RECENT RELEASESIn this tender posthumous collaboration initiated by Alex Katz (born 1927), the artist embellishes journal entries by his old friend Joe Brainard (1941–94) with a new series of exquisite charcoal drawings of flowers (a popular >>more Karma Books, New York ISBN 9781949172867 US $35.00 CAN $49.00 TRADE Clth, 9.25 x 10 in. / 44 pgs / 19 b&w. Pub Date: 05/16/2023 Out of stock
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| Long out of print, this new edition of David Leeming’s landmark biography of Beauford Delaney (1901–79) features an introduction by Hilton Als. Leeming, also the author of James Baldwin’s acclaimed 1994 biography, delves into the >>more Karma Books, New York ISBN 9781949172669 US $35.00 CAN $52.50 TRADE Hbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 292 pgs / 23 color / 40 b&w. Pub Date: 01/07/2025 Awaiting stock
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| And Warren Niesluchowski Was There Edited with introduction by Sina Najafi, Joanna Warsza. Text by Warren Niesluchowski, Barry Schwabsky. Warren Niesluchowski (1946–2019), one of the most charismatic and eccentric figures in the art world, was at once an exhilarating conversationalist, a polymath, an attentive companion of artists, a polyglot translator, a networker without status, >>more Cabinet Books ISBN 9781932698848 US $10.00 CAN $14.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.75 x 8 in. / 272 pgs / 36 b&w. Pub Date: 01/21/2025 Awaiting stock
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| Oscar Wilde was one of the most influential writers on art and design in the late 19th century. Alongside his acclaimed plays, novel and short stories, he wrote and lectured extensively on the subject. This >>more Art / Books Vintage Classics ISBN 9781908970541 US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Clth, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 216 pgs. Pub Date: 01/21/2025 Awaiting stock
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| Ayrton Senna Edited by Carlo Cavicchi. Ayrton Senna (1960–94) was one of the greatest racing champions of all time, an outstanding driver who became timeless especially after his tragic death on May 1, 1994, on the Enzo and Dino Ferrari circuit >>more SKIRA ISBN 9788857252193 US $50.00 CAN $71.00 TRADE Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 225 color. Pub Date: 02/04/2025 Awaiting stock
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| Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy Edited with text by Erica Ciallela, Philip S. Palmer. Introduction by Philip S. Palmer. Foreword by Colin B. Bailey. Text by Araceli Bremauntz-Enriquez, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Rhonda Evans, Anne-Marie Eze, Daria Rose Foner, Jiemi Gao, Juliana Amorim Goskes, Gail Levin, Deborah Parker, Deborah Willis. Afterword by Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty. When J.P. Morgan’s personal library opened as a public institution in 1924, the choice for its first director was an obvious one: Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950). Not only had she organized and cataloged the >>more DelMonico Books/Morgan Library & Museum ISBN 9781636811352 US $49.95 CAN $69.95 TRADE Hbk, 8 x 10.5 in. / 304 pgs / 141 color / 34 b&w. Pub Date: 11/12/2024 In stock
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| Brazilian Intelligence By Max Bense. Edited with afterword by Georg Vrachliotis. This travelogue by German philosopher Max Bense (1910–90) explores 1960s Brazil. Published for the first time in English, and including unpublished archival material, this important work of German postwar literature records his encounters with concrete >>more Spector Books ISBN 9783959052146 US $20.00 CAN $27.95 FLAT40 Pbk, 4.25 x 7.25 in. / 80 pgs / 40 b&w. Pub Date: 05/27/2025 Awaiting stock
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| Published to mark the centenary of Eduardo Chillida’s birth, Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce: Memories of a Daughter is the first English translation of Susana Chillida’s memoir about her parents, Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce. >>more Hauser & Wirth Publishers ISBN 9783906915951 US $32.00 CAN $46.00 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 300 pgs / 30 color / 30 b&w. Pub Date: 11/26/2024 In stock
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| “Where all we see is change I like to think sculpture may have in this a special role—as an antidote to impermanence—with newness yes, but with a quality of enduring freshness relative to that resonant >>more Steidl ISBN 9783969993101 US $85.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE Clth, 9.25 x 10 in. / 264 pgs / 13 color / 257 b&w. Pub Date: 02/11/2025 Awaiting stock
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| Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures Edited by John Reynolds, Tiny Robinson. Text by Jack Kerouac, Glenn O’Brien, Mason Roberson, Pete Seeger, Tom Waits, et al. Poems by Tyehimba Jess. This is a new edition of Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures, the rich visual biography of legendary Louisiana blues musician Lead Belly, originally published by Steidl in 2007. Here is a treasure trove of >>more Steidl ISBN 9783958297036 US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 56 color / 110 b&w. Pub Date: 06/24/2025 Awaiting stock
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| Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows Edited by Julian Cox, Jim Shedden. Introduction by Julian Cox. Text by Alan Light, Joan Angel, Laura Cameron, Jim Shedden. Interview by Julian Cox with Michael Petit. Afterword by Robert Kory. Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart. The objects, papers and artifacts from Cohen’s personal archive provide fresh insight into the artist’s creative pursuits >>more DelMonico Books/Art Gallery of Ontario ISBN 9781636810911 US $39.95 CAN $55.95 TRADE Hbk, 9.25 x 9.25 in. / 168 pgs / 378 color / 40 b&w. Pub Date: 02/28/2023 In stock
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| Philip Guston (1913–80) is one of the outstanding figures in 20th-century American art. Beginning as a muralist in the 1930s, Guston embraced the lyrical vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism in his paintings and drawings after his >>more Hauser & Wirth Publishers ISBN 9783906915753 US $38.00 CAN $53.00 TRADE Flexi, 6 x 9 in. / 372 pgs / 62 color / 72 b&w. Pub Date: 05/09/2023 In stock
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| In this deeply personal account, author Omar Kholeif takes readers on a journey through the life and work of Nil Yalter (born 1938)—one of the pioneering artists of our time. Born in Cairo and raised >>more Mousse Publishing ISBN 9788867496297 US $35.00 CAN $52.50 TRADE Pbk, 8.75 x 12.25 in. / 128 pgs / 149 color / 120 b&w. Pub Date: 02/25/2025 Awaiting stock
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| Glimmering with candor and dead-on humor, this memoir tells the story of the meteoric rise of Japanese American filmmaker Jon Moritsugu (born 1965), from 1980s teenage delinquent in Honolulu to Ivy League slumster to take-no-prisoners >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030603 US $29.95 CAN $34.95 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 7.5 in. / 304 pgs / 25 color / 84 b&w. Pub Date: 01/21/2025 Awaiting stock
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| The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924–87) considered himself a “witness” as he challenged perspectives on America and its history through his work. He was often recognized for speaking out against injustice when other >>more DelMonico Books/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ISBN 9781636811321 US $39.95 CAN $56.95 TRADE Hbk, 9 x 12.5 in. / 112 pgs / 60 color. Pub Date: 09/17/2024 In stock
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|                                                                                                                                                             VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST Swiss artist Max Bill (1908–94) was a master of many trades during his lifetime: he was at once an architect, graphic designer, painter, industrial designer and typeface designer. A student of greats such as Wassily >>more Hauser & Wirth Publishers ISBN 9783906915401 US $45.00 CAN $61.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 736 pgs / 162 color / 74 b&w. Pub Date: 03/01/2022 In stock
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| Alfred Comte: A Life for Aviation Edited with text by Michel Comte. Text by Alfred Comte, Tyler Brûlé. This book is a visual biography of the legendary Swiss aviation pioneer Alfred Comte (1895–1965). Combining historical photos and documents with texts by Comte’s son (also Alfred) and grandson, the photographer Michel Comte, the book >>more Steidl ISBN 9783958295766 US $55.00 CAN $77.00 FLAT40 Clth, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 224 pgs / 50 color / 200 b&w. Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock
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| Another Promised Land: Anita Brenner’s Mexico Edited with text by Karen Cordero Reiman. Text by Doris Berger, Tatiana Flores, Linde B. Lehtinen, Laura Mart, Ilan Stavans. She came to occupy a central part in the world of postrevolutionary Mexican and American thinkers, artists and writers of the avant-garde, influencing American perceptions through her writing about Mexican culture. Brenner also championed the >>more Skirball Cultural Center ISBN 9780998669304 US $34.95 CAN $45.95 TRADE Pbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 296 pgs / 90 color / 40 b&w. Pub Date: 11/28/2017 Out of stock
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| Author of From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender presents a new expanded edition of his 2010 publication Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof, with never-before-published material, including diary entries and >>more Hauser & Wirth Publishers ISBN 9783906915081 US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE Flexi, 6.25 x 9 in. / 600 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock
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| Arthur Cravan: Maintenant? Edited with text by Emmanuel Guigon. Text by Georges Sebbag, Jean-Paul Morel, Laurence Madeline, Erich Weiss, Aitor Quiney. In the course of his brief life, the adventurer, poet and boxer, Arthur Cravan (1887–1918) galvanized the avant-garde circles of Paris and New York with his pugnacious attitude, handsome looks, his romance with Mina Loy, >>more Silvana Editoriale/Museu Picasso ISBN 9788836637379 US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Hbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color. Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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| Better Books / Better Bookz Edited by Rozemin Keshvani, Axel Heil, Peter Weibel. Text by Rozemin Keshvani, Barry Miles. Contributions by Stephen Dwoskin, John Hopkins, Graham Keen, Bruce Lacey, Gustav Metzger, Jeff Nuttall, Frank Popper, Criton Tomazos, Islwyn Watkins. In the 1960s and ‘70s, the legendary independent London bookstore Better Books, located on the Charing Cross Road, was the hub for Britain’s counterculture, with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi, >>more Walther König, Köln ISBN 9783960984580 US $55.00 CAN $75.00 FLAT40 Pbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 320 pgs / 165 color / 180 b&w. Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Out of stock
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| In January 1965 the international art world converged on New York to pay homage to a brilliant new star. The glittering opening of The Responsive Eye, a major exhibition of abstract painting at the Museum >>more Ridinghouse ISBN 9781909932500 US $24.95 CAN $34.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 272 pgs / 11 color / 19 b&w. Pub Date: 09/17/2019 In stock
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| Chanel: Her Life By Justine Picardie. Drawings by Karl Lagerfeld. This is the long-awaited reprint of Justine Picardie’s acclaimed 2010 illustrated biography of Coco Chanel (1883–1971), one of the 20th century’s most captivating personalities and a defining figure in fashion history. Whoever attempts to understand >>more Steidl ISBN 9783958296305 US $65.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE Clth, 6 x 9.25 in. / 400 pgs / 24 color / 230 b&w. Pub Date: 07/14/2020 Out of stock
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| Charles Dickens and His Circle By Lucinda Hawksley. In this new volume, historian and award-winning author Lucinda Hawksley explores the life of her great-great-great-grandfather, Charles Dickens (1812–70)—one of the first people to whom the term “celebrity” in its modern sense was applied, and >>more National Portrait Gallery ISBN 9781855145962 US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 8.75 in. / 120 pages / 45 color. Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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| Don't Tell Sybil By George Melly. Don’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926–2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came to attention as a jazz >>more Atlas Press ISBN 9781900565653 US $25.95 CAN $35.50 TRADE Hbk, 7 x 7.75 in. / 176 pgs / 1 color / 31 b&w. Pub Date: 01/31/2014 In stock
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| Duchamp: A Biography By Calvin Tomkins. First published to great acclaim in 1996, New Yorker writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins’ biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has been out of print for many years. Now, The Museum of >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870708923 US $29.95 CAN $42.95 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 540 pgs / 119 b&w. Pub Date: 07/31/2014 In stock
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| Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller By Chloé Griffin. Contributions by John Waters, Mink Stole, Gary Indiana, et al. Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild child, a writer, a go-go dancer, a mother and a queer icon. A child of suburban 1950s Maryland, she made her name first as >>more Bbooks Verlag ISBN 9783942214209 US $29.95 CAN $41.95 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 336 pgs / 230 b&w. Pub Date: 09/30/2014 In stock
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| Einstein: The Man and His Mind By Gary S. Berger and Michael DiRuggiero. Foreword by Hanoch Gutfreund. A one-of-a-kind, hard-cover, 4.4 pound book with rarely-seen photos of Albert Einstein as well as of beautifully preserved letters, manuscripts, journals, and even equations written in Einstein's hand. Extraordinary among Einstein biographies, the book presents >>more Damiani ISBN 9788862087841 US $70.00 CAN $98.00 TRADE Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 212 pgs / 100 color. Pub Date: 11/08/2022 In stock
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| Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014) produced a vast body of work that includes sculptures, outdoor installations, drawings, illustrations, artist’s books, lyrical essays and art criticism. In 1971 she began to focus on the use of fabric as >>more Soberscove Press ISBN 9781940190259 US $22.00 CAN $31.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 164 pgs / 22 color. Pub Date: 05/12/2020 In stock
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| Frida Kahlo: Sus fotos Edited with text by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. Text by James Oles, Horacio Fernandez, Masayo Nonaka, Laura González, Mauricio Ortíz, Gerardo Estrada, Rainer Huhle, Gaby Franger. Cuando Frida Kahlo muere Diego Rivera, marido, ex marido y viudo de Frida, le pide al poeta Carlos Pellicer que convierta la Casa Azul en un museo para que el pueblo de México pueda visitarla >>more RM/Museo Frida Kahlo ISBN 9788492480746 US $45.00 CAN $62.00 TRADE Hbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 496 pgs / 401 duotone. Pub Date: 01/01/2010 In stock
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| God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin Edited with text by Hilton Als. Text by Stephen Best, Daphne A. Brooks, Teju Cole, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Barry Jenkins, Jamaica Kincaid, David Leeming, Darryl Pinckney. When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind an extraordinary body of work: novels, poems, film scripts and, perhaps most indelibly, essays. A friend and supporter of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X >>more Dancing Foxes Press/Brooklyn Museum ISBN 9781954947092 US $39.95 CAN $56.95 TRADE Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color. Pub Date: 03/19/2024 In stock
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| Great Masters and Unicorns By Konrad O. Bernheimer. According to legend, the horn of the unicorn could counteract poison and purify water. The collector Lehmann Bernheimer used to cite this myth regarding an item in his collection, which for centuries had been treasured >>more Hatje Cantz ISBN 9783775740692 US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Hbk, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 344 pgs / 46 color. Pub Date: 02/23/2016 Out of stock
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| Acclaimed on first publication, Harriet Vyner’s Groovy Bob is the cult biography of hedonistic gallery owner Robert Fraser and a dazzling evocation of 1960s culture and counter-culture. Taste-maker, heroin addict and promiscuous homosexual, Fraser astonished >>more Heni Publishing ISBN 9780993010392 US $16.00 CAN $23.00 TRADE Pbk, 5 x 8 in. / 384 pgs / 20 color / 30 b&w. Pub Date: 06/15/2017 In stock
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| Hello We Were Talking about Hudson Edited with preface by Steve Lafreniere. Introduction by Bob Nickas. Text by Hilton Als, Gary Indiana, Mike McGonigal, Richard Prince, et al. Neither a comprehensive oral history nor a biography, this reader is an intimate collection of anecdotes, reflections and musings that cohere to form a narrative portrait of a complex man and the vehicle through which >>more Soberscove Press ISBN 9781940190341 US $24.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 216 pgs / 16 color / 25 b&w. Pub Date: 04/30/2024 In stock
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| Jonas Mekas’ I Seem to Live picks up in the 1950s, where his extraordinary and popular memoir I Had Nowhere to Go left off. These were crucial years for the artist: Jonas Mekas and his >>more Spector Books ISBN 9783959052887 US $45.00 CAN $62.00 TRADE Hbk, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 824 pgs / 350 b&w. Pub Date: 02/11/2020 In stock
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| “Can one wreak vengeance against oneself?” This anguished question hangs over Gene Oishi’s powerful memoir about his lifelong struggle to claim both his Japanese and American identities in the aftermath of World War II, when >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030825 US $18.95 CAN $25.95 TRADE Pbk, 5 x 7 in. / 192 pgs. Pub Date: 03/12/2024 In stock
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| The unmarried younger daughter of a country vicar, she published her novels anonymously. When she died, aged only 41—having earned less than £700 from her writing—her name was still almost unknown to the world at >>more National Portrait Gallery ISBN 9781855147010 US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 120 pgs / 52 color. Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock
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| Joan Didion: What She Means Edited by Hilton Als, Connie Butler. Introduction by Ann Philbin. Text by Hilton Als, Joan Didion. In Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer and curator Hilton Als creates a mosaic that explores Didion's life and work and the feeling each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics. Arranged chronologically, the book >>more DelMonico Books/Hammer Museum ISBN 9781636810577 US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE Clth, 9 x 12.5 in. / 128 pgs / 80 color / 32 b&w. Pub Date: 11/08/2022 In stock
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| This book celebrates the life and work of the English art gallery director and arts administrator Joanna Drew (1929–2003). Drew began her impressive career at the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1952 and during >>more Skira ISBN 9788857239521 US $45.00 CAN $62.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 80 color. Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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| Tracing the transformation of German artist Jonathan Meese (born 1970) into a kind of stage character, this biography draws on archival materials and extensive interviews to create an account of an artist who has incorporated >>more Walther König, Köln ISBN 9783960982395 US $29.95 CAN $39.95 FLAT40 Pbk, 5.25 x 7.5 in. / 520 pgs / 1 color / 277 b&w. Pub Date: 06/18/2019 In stock
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| Kippenberger By Susanne Kippenberger. Translation by Damion Searls. Over the course of his 20-year career, Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997) cast himself alternately as hard-drinking carouser and confrontational art-world jester, thrusting these personae to the forefront of his prodigious creativity. He was also very much >>more J&L Books ISBN 9780982964286 US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 592 pgs / 25 b&w. Pub Date: 05/31/2013 In stock
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| Lincoln Kirstein's Modern Edited with text by Samantha Friedman, Jodi Hauptman. Text by Lynn Garafola, Michelle Greet, Michelle Harvey, Richard Meyer, Kevin Moore. Lincoln Kirstein was a polymathic writer, critic, curator and impresario: a key connector and an indefatigable catalyst whose sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and ‘40s shaped artists and institutions. Best known >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9781633450820 US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 200 pgs / 205 color. Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock
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| Living Well Is the Best Revenge By Calvin Tomkins. First published in 1971 and now available for a younger generation with a new introduction by the author, Living Well Is the Best Revenge is Calvin Tomkins' now-classic account of the lives of Gerald and >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870708978 US $15.95 CAN $21.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 152 pgs / 83 b&w. Pub Date: 12/31/2013 Out of stock
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| Ludwig Grote and the Bauhaus Idea Edited by Torsten Blume, Claudia Perren. Text by Peter Bernhard, Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Magdalena Droste, Christian Eger, Susanne Neubauer, Marian Wild, et al. German art historian Ludwig Grote (1893–1974) had an almost unparalleled influence on the conception of the Bauhaus, helping to shape an idea of the school that has extended far beyond its historical existence. Drawing on >>more Spector Books ISBN 9783959052801 US $35.00 CAN $49.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 90 color. Pub Date: 07/13/2021 In stock
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| Printed in an edition of 300 copies, this numbered limited edition includes a foulard. >>more Damiani ISBN 9788862087131 US $150.00 CAN $215.00 SDNR40 Special edition, 11 x 14 in. / 192 pgs / 120 color. Pub Date: 04/07/2020 Out of stock
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| Jerry Hunt (1943–93) was among the most eccentric figures in the word of new music. A frenetic orator, occultist and engineering consultant, his works from the 1970s through the early ’90s made use of readymade >>more Blank Forms Editions ISBN 9781953691040 US $15.00 CAN $20.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 320 pgs / 1 b&w. Pub Date: 02/08/2022 Out of stock
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| Peggy Guggenheim: The Last Dogaressa Edited by Karole P.B. Vail, Vivien Greene. Text by Patricia Allmer, David Anfam, Malvina Borgherini, Davide Colombo, Alice Ensabella, Chiara Fabi, Simonetta Fraquelli, Flavia Frigeri, Karen Kurczynski, Ellen McBreen, Antonia Pocock, Chris Stephens, Gražina Subelyte. This book offers a thorough visual biography of the life of Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) as collector, through a selection of works from the world-renowned collection she established primarily between 1938 and 1946, and to which >>more Marsilio Editori/The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation ISBN 9788829701292 US $60.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 150 color. Pub Date: 04/14/2020 Out of stock
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| Pepys and His Contemporaries By Richard Ollard. The Diary of Samuel Pepys is an indisputable treasure of English literature, and one of the most important documentary sources of the English Restoration period. Pepys’ Diary, maintained daily for almost ten years, records his >>more National Portrait Gallery ISBN 9781855145856 US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 120 pgs / 47 color / 9 b&w. Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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| Piet Mondrian: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of Piet Mondrian to be published in English. This remarkable book provides a long-overdue and compelling account of the life of perhaps the most influential abstract >>more Ridinghouse/Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague ISBN 9781909932517 US $50.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 464 pgs / 64 color / 60 b&w. Pub Date: 09/27/2022 In stock
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| Based on original interviews and previously unpublished letters and diaries, Queer St Ives reveals a fascinating, hitherto undocumented history, adding vital new insight into the history of the fabled British art colony. At the center >>more Ridinghouse ISBN 9781909932692 US $40.00 CAN $56.00 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 40 color / 20 b&w. Pub Date: 09/13/2022 In stock
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| Self-Exposure is the autobiography of celebrated American art photographer Ralph Gibson. With his 80th birthday on the horizon in January 2019 and a career spanning over 50 years, Gibson is at a point of reflection >>more Heni Publishing ISBN 9781912122103 US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE Pbk, 9 x 13 in. / 372 pgs / 285 color. Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock
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| Henry James credited John Singer Sargent with a "knock-down insolence of talent." Among the painter's many renowned works, few deserve the phrase as much as The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882), one of Sargent's >>more MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ISBN 9780878468607 US $17.95 CAN $24.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 262 pgs / 25 color / 40 b&w. Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock
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| Shakespeare and Company, Paris Edited with introduction by Krista Halverson. Foreword by Jeanette Winterson. Epilogue by Sylvia Whitman. This first-ever history of the legendary bohemian bookstore in Paris interweaves essays and poetry from dozens of writers associated with the shop--Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, Ethan Hawke, Robert Stone and Jeanette Winterson, among others--with hundreds >>more Shakespeare and Company Paris ISBN 9791096101009 US $34.95 CAN $45.95 TRADE Hbk, 6.25 x 9.5 in. / 384 pgs / 225 color. Pub Date: 09/27/2016 Out of stock
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| Shakespeare and His Contemporaries By Charles Nicholl. William Shakespeare and his peers helped create not only a new kind of theatre in the Elizabethan era but also a new form of language. In an age of religious and political upheaval, they gave >>more National Portrait Gallery ISBN 9781855145801 US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 136 pgs / 54 color / 24 b&w. Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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| The Bear in the Mirror is a collection of stories, prose poems, drawings, photos, letters, notes and memories by Simone Forti (born 1935)—a founding figure of postwar American dance for those following in the wake >>more Walther König, Köln ISBN 9783960983958 US $39.95 CAN $55.00 FLAT40 Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 94 pgs / 2 color / 17 b&w. Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock
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| Song of Arirang By Nym Wales, Kim San. Edited with afterword by Dongyoun Hwang. Introduction by Arlif Dirlik. Text by George O. Totten III. First published in 1941 and long unavailable, Song of Arirang tells the true story of Korean revolutionary Kim San (Jang Jirak), who left colonized Korea as a teenager to fight against Japanese imperialism and fought >>more Kaya Press ISBN 9781885030566 US $35.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE Hbk, 5 x 7 in. / 512 pgs / 7 b&w. Pub Date: 08/06/2024 In stock
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| This book offers a captivating account of the joint life of two prominent figures in the Iraqi art scene between the 1960s and the 1990s: poet and critic May Muzaffar (born 1940) and artist Rafa >>more Hatje Cantz ISBN 9783775755450 US $34.95 CAN $49.95 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 288 pgs / 50 color. Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock
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| The Anchored Angel By Luis Cabalquinto. Edited by Eileen Tabios. Contributions by Nick Carbo, Jonathan Chua, Jose Garcia Villa. >>more Kaya/Muae ISBN 9781885030283 US $14.95 CAN $21.00 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 1 b&w. Pub Date: 10/02/1999 In stock
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| The Bloomsbury Group was a union of friends who transformed British culture with their approach to art, design and society. The group aimed to rebel and challenge what they felt were the religious, artistic, social >>more National Portrait Gallery, London ISBN 9781855147232 US $24.95 CAN $34.95 TRADE Hbk, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 120 pgs / 48 color / 21 b&w. Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock
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| Alice James (1848–92) was the sister of Henry and William James, as literary as her more famous brothers, but—as was typical for a Victorian woman—never formally educated and thus deprived of any opportunity for a >>more Exact Change ISBN 9781878972200 US $15.95 CAN $22.50 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 232 pgs. Pub Date: 02/02/2004 In stock
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| In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi generated an art market in Iran, as Stein encouraged Pahlavi’s >>more Skira ISBN 9788857244341 US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 75 color. Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock
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| The first of Luis H. Francia's books of non-fiction to be published in the United States, The Eye of the Fish paints a vivid and detailed portrait of the terror, beauty and insistent humanity of >>more MUAE Publishing ISBN 9781885030313 US $15.95 CAN $22.50 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 392 pgs / 1 b&w. Pub Date: 02/02/2001 In stock
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| The Physiology of the Employee By Honoré de Balzac. Introduction and translation by André Naffis-Sahely. Illustrations by Louis Joseph Trimolet. If Honoré de Balzac's Treatise on Elegant Living addressed one crucial pillar of modernity--the "mode" itself, fashion--his Physiology of the Employee examines another equally potent cornerstone to the modern era: bureaucracy, and all of the >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9781939663047 US $13.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 160 pgs / 55 b&w. Pub Date: 10/31/2014 In stock
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| The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments By Pierre Louÿs. A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925) was a friend of, and influence on, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Oscar Wilde and Stephane Mallarmé among others. He achieved instant notoriety with Aphrodite and The >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9780984115518 US $12.95 CAN $18.50 TRADE Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 76 pgs / 1 b&w. Pub Date: 02/28/2010 In stock
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| Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man Introduction by Dawn Ades. Translated by Chris Allen. Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of its protagonists; and also reprints >>more Atlas Press ISBN 9781900565431 US $26.95 CAN $37.00 TRADE Hbk, 7 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 01/31/2014 In stock
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| Treatise on Elegant Living By Honoré de Balzac. Honoré de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Anatomy of Dandyism (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's “The Dandy” (in The Painter of Modern Life, 1863), and >>more Wakefield Press ISBN 9780984115501 US $12.95 CAN $18.50 TRADE Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 112 pgs / 1 b&w. Pub Date: 02/28/2010 In stock
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