Genre & Subject / Death & Disaster from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015. 3 volumes; 25 cm. BRAND NEW. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "This work explores the science behind some of the worst global disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries, including structural and engineering failures, natural disasters, nuclear and industrial accidents, train derailments, and plane crashes. Entries cover physics,… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. 133 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. October files, 2. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: Andy Warhol's one-dimensional art: 1956-1966, by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh (1989); Saturday disasters: trace and reference in early Warhol, by Thomas Crow (1996); Death in America, by Hal Foster (1996); "Where is your rupture?" Mass culture and the Gesamtkunstwerk, by Annette Michelson (1991); Carnal… Read more about this item

Barrytown, NY: Station Hill of Barrytown, 2017. Cloth, 267 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards. Variant cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "The art of the human image arose millennia ago as a way beyond impermanence and, especially, to keep the dead among us. The pictorial object the icon often… Read more about this item

New York: Abbeville Press, 1983. Cloth, 136 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Edges lightly soiled. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1999. 72 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., May 8 to July 18, 1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

Tokyo: National Museum of Western Art, 2000. 275 pages, illustrations; 30 cm. Text in German and Japanese. Eine Ausstellung ausgewahlter Werke der Graphiksammlung "Mensch und Tod" der Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf; vom 11. Oktober bis 3.Dezember 2000 im National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. WIE NEU. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. The Dance of Death… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. Cloth, 271 pages, illustrations; 31 cm. First published under title: Images de l'homme devant la mort. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

New York: Villard Books; Random House, 1994. 258 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Death is where this story begins; disaster is what follows. In 1987, Andy Warhol overcame his deep fear of hospitalization to seek treatment for… Read more about this item