American / 7. Contemporary, 2000- from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Jack Shainman Gallery, 2010. 64 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, May 27 to July 16, 2010. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Interview with the artist by Amy Smith-Stewart. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York and London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. Pictorial boards, 256 pages, colour illustrations; 23 x 21 cm. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Computer art. Impressive survey of internet art and related works. "Far from the studios and galleries that have sheltered art in past centuries, creative people… Read more about this item

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010. vii, 292 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Rutgers series on the public life of the arts. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Foreedge lightly soiled. CONTENTS: Introduction: The diversity and mobility of immigrant arts, by Paul DiMaggio and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly; Migrants and the transformation of Philadelphia's cultural sector, by Mark J. Stern, Susan… Read more about this item

Singapore: Gatehouse Publishing, 2014. Pictorial boards, 237 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Art is now a globalized phenomenon, with artists from all corners of the world showing their works on an international stage as never before. How do we begin to understand the… Read more about this item

New York: Gallery at the American Bible Society, 2004. Pictorial boards, 200 pages, colour illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. "This publication is the outcome of the symposia series New Directions in the Study of Art and Religion. This three-year project was organized by The Gallery at the American Bible Society and sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc." -… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2021. Cloth, vii, 164 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 22 x 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This book features reproductions of 143 drawings by 150 Los Angeles graffiti artists that were done as part of a project collaborative project known as the Getty… Read more about this item

Overland Park, KS: Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007. Cloth, 172 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

San Diego, CA: San Diego Museum of Art, 2012. Cloth, 411 pages, colour illustrations; 32 cm. Issued in connection with three distinct, related shows, November 10, 2012 through February 10, 2013, at the Timken Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tips lightly bumped. Dust… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013. 165 pages, colour illustrations, poster, photographs; 24 cm. Exhibition held July 7 to September 8, 2013. Firm binding, clean inside copy. With dust jacket that unfolds to a vinyl/mylar poster of exhibition artwork, . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Milan: Electa, 2003. 1 volume (316 pages), colour illustrations; 22 cm. + 1 CD-ROM. Issued in tinfoil take-away food tray. Firm binding, clean inside copy. The accompanying tray has light wear from opening & closing. The volume within is fine. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2006. 84 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Santa Barbara, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017. 75 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Artists address climate change. CONTENTS: Beyond 2°, by Brooke Kellaway; When blood bees rule the world (or distributed agency on a planetary scale), by Laura Cassidy Rogers; Public programs; Acknowledgements; Exhibition checklist; Reproduction credits; Artists, by texts by Brooke Kellaway; Ursula Biemann/Paolo… Read more about this item

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2003. 207 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. "Cult film director John Waters and art critic and curator Bruce Hainley offer a provocative and personal interpretation of the theme of sex and sexuality in art. They have selected a wide range of works, from… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 2012. 139 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Mario Ybarra Jr.: The Tio Collection" held at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California, August 5 to September 30, 2012. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "The Tio Collection: Mario Ybarra Jr. was produced in conjunction with… Read more about this item

New York: Abrams; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2006. 596 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map; 25 cm. Design by Sagmeister Inc. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Worldchanging is poised to be the Whole Earth Catalog for this millennium. Written by leading new thinkers who believe that the means for… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. xv, 354 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Leonardo Book Series. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. A solid copy, lacking the DJ. "This work explores the characteristics distinctive to new media art, including its immateriality and its questioning of time and space, and relates them to such contemporary art forms as… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. xxv, 226 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. This is one of the most interesting books on digital art. Many of the essays originally appeared in Afterimage. "In Snap to Grid, an idiosyncratic guide to the interactive, telematic era, Peter Lunenfeld maps out the trajectories that digital technologies have traced upon… Read more about this item

New York and New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2018. Pictorial boards, 195 pages, colour illustrations, portraits; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 18, 2018 to January 6, 2019. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Since the mid-twentieth… Read more about this item

New York: Riverhead Books, 2020. xiii, 129 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 20 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Art has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist,… Read more about this item

New York: Thames and Hudson; World of Art Series, 2015. 224 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "The years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art--Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?--and, consequently, the reevaluation of art's… Read more about this item