American / Latin American from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019. xvi, 560 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Soft crease/front free endpaper, age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated… Read more about this item

Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1964. [32] pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, June 1964. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Essay by anthropologist George Kubler (The Shape of Time).. 1st. Paperback. Very… Read more about this item

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xv, 390 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 23 cm. Objects/Histories Series. Tight, clean text. Small gift inscription/half-title page, otherwise unmarked. "Examines the work of more than forty Chicana artists across a variety of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture, performance, and other installations forms, and fiction, poetry, and plays. This book describes how Chicana artists invoke… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001. 218 pages, illustrations (some colour), facsimiles; 30 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara and several other institutions between June 2, 2000 and 2003. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, fading to extremities.… 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

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

Boston: Little, Brown and Company; A Bullfinch Press Book, 2002. 160 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small remainder mark/top edge, else fine. Stated First North American Edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Cheech Marin, well known for his three decades of work as a comedian, actor, director, and musician, has long… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. 159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Photographs by Eric Swanson. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. First paperback edition. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "At last, a beautiful, authoritative survey of the thriving Hispanic craft movement of the Southwest. Tracing the roots and revival of arts… Read more about this item

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1998. xxi, 308 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean text. Light dust spotting/top edge. "In the early 1990s, a major exhibition--Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985--toured major museums around the United States. As a first attempt to define and represent Chicano/a art for a national audience, the exhibit attracted both praise and… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, 2012. 66 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held February 23 to March 31, 2012 at Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1973. xv, 149 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. John Fielding and Lois Lasater Maher Series, no. 2. Firm binding, with highlighting on half a dozen pages. Creased spine, rubbing & wear to extremities. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; PART 1: ANTECEDENTS. 1. LANDS AND PEOPLES: DISCOVERY, EXPLORATION, AND SETTLEMENT. 2. ART AND ARCHITECTURE: SEVENTEENTH TO NINETEENTH… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. xiii, 206 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In the years between the two world wars, the enormous vogue of 'things Mexican' reached its peak. Along with the popular appeal of its folkloric and pictorialist traditions, Mexican culture played a significant… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2014. xiii, 146 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Cuban American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta addresses what author Alejandro Anreus calls the wounds and screams of the human condition. Although Cruz Azaceta s work is extensively exhibited and widely collected, this is the first book on the… Read more about this item

New York: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 1995. Postcard in near-fine condition, a little age-toned. Unmailed. Cards are sent in stiff mailers. *** FREE SHIPPING FOR EACH ADDITIONAL CARD (price will be adjusted after checkout) ***. 1st. Very Good.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979. xiii, 326 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, handling soil/edges, age toning.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Distributed by University Press of New England, 2004. 55 pages, colour illustrations; 23 cm. Issued in connection with an exhibition held June 6 to September 19, 2004, at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, and at the University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, October 14 to December 11,… Read more about this item

San Diego, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006. 167 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Parallel text in English and Spanish. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, September 17, 2006 to May 23, 2007 and other venues. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California, 1977. ix, 126 pages, [4] leaves of plates, illustrations; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1980. Cloth, xxv, 282 pages; 24 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Stated First edition. Dust jacket, with foxing & a sunned spine, protected in a mylar cover. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2014. xii, 266 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear. Stated First edition. "Located less than a mile from Juarez, the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for Visual Arts… Read more about this item