Search Results: Media / Sculpture from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, and New York: Prentice-Hall; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1990. Cloth, 439 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with an open tear/front cover, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated with 487 illustrations, including 63 in full colour. CONTENTS: Italy in the 17th century; France in the 17th century; Spain in the 17th century; Flemish painting in the 17th century; Dutch painting in the 17th century; Northern European architecture in the 17th and 18th centuries; France in the 18th century; Italy in the 18th century; English painting in the 18th century; Germany and Austria in the 17th and 18th centuries.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to.

Santa Barbara, CA: Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1973. 107 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Addenda slip laid-in. An exhibition organized by Phyllis Plous for the Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, 3 April through 6 May 1973. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's signature/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. 1st.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: David R. Godine Publisher in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1976. Cloth, 350 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. A Bicentennial exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, shown from March 16 to September 26, 1976. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by noted American sculptor Chaim Gross, with a sketch and personalized inscription. A very good copy, age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. The price of this unique book is not negotiable. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Sponsor's introduction, by David Rockefeller; Foreword, by Tom Armstrong; Aboriginal art, by Norman Feder; Images of a nation in wood, marble and bronze: American sculpture from 1776 to 1900, by Wayne Craven; The innocent eye: American folk sculpture, by Tom Armstrong; Statues to sculpture: from the nineties to the thirties, by Daniel Robbins; Magician's game: decades of transformation,… Read More

Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1977. [64] pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Edition of 800 copies. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

U.S.A.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2000. Cloth, 142 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Hillary Rodham Clinton; The Setting: the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, by Betty C. Monkman; Preface, by Iris Cantor; The Sculptures: Through My Camera Lens, by David Finn; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden University of Nebraska, Lincoln, October 1994; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, April 1995; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 1995; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, October 1996; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., September 1997; The Heard Museum, Phoenix, "Honoring Native America," October 1997; Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Inspired by Rodin," November 1998; The Denver Art Museum, "The View From Denver," October 1999.. 1st. Hardcover.… Read More

Brooklyn, NY: 55 Ferris Street; Frederieke Taylor, 1992. 28 pages, illustrations; 25 x 18 cm. Exhibition held October 17 to November 21, 1992. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Slight fold on title page. Includes: Anne Chu, Margaret Cogswell, Pietro Costa, James Donahue, Tom Hatch, Nene Humphrey, Mike Metz, Bonnie Rychlak, Stephen Whistler and Joseph Zito. Sculpture.. 1st.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Marlborough, 1997. 58 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 x 30 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held 15 January to 11 February 1997. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Title page clipped/top right corner. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office,, 1965. Cloth, iii, 47 pages, [7] leaves of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. House document / 89th Congress, 1st session, no. 158. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corners bumped. Age toning. The statue of Eusebio Francisco Kino was created by Susanne Silvercruys and presented in the Rotunda, United States Capital, February 14, 1965.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Guadalajara, Mexico: Museo Raul Anguiano, 2003. 48 pages, colour illustrations; 11 x 33 cm. Text in Spanish/Texto en espanol. Exhibition held November to December 2003. MUY BIEN. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

New York and Greenwich, CT: Museum of Primitive Art; New York Graphic Society, 1967. 30 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Cloth, xi, 181 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "In this visually stunning work, anthropologist Michele Coquet presents the power and the brilliance of African court arts. Grounding her analysis in the social and historical context of traditional royalty systems, Coquet examines the diverse roles played by artisans, nobles, and kings in the production and use of royal objects. From the precolonial kingdoms of the Edo and the Yoruba, the Ashanti and the Igbo, Coquet reconstructs from a comparativist view the essential cultural connections between art, representation, and the king. More than ornamentation, royal objects embodied the strength and status of African rulers. The gold-plated stools of the Ashanti, the delicately… Read More

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Cloth, xi, 181 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "In this visually stunning work, anthropologist Michele Coquet presents the power and the brilliance of African court arts. Grounding her analysis in the social and historical context of traditional royalty systems, Coquet examines the diverse roles played by artisans, nobles, and kings in the production and use of royal objects. From the precolonial kingdoms of the Edo and the Yoruba, the Ashanti and the Igbo, Coquet reconstructs from a comparativist view the essential cultural connections between art, representation, and the king. More than ornamentation, royal objects embodied the strength and status of African rulers. The gold-plated stools of the Ashanti, the delicately carved ivory… Read More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970. v, 196 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Bollingen Series, 201. Extracted from African folktales and sculpture, Bollingen series XXXII, first published in 1952 and in a revised edition in 1964. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Pace Primitive and Ancient Art, 1976. 103 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 26 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held April 24 to May 29, 1976, Pace Primitive and Ancient Art. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Includes a substantial essay by Leon Siroto.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

London: Paul Hamlyn; The Colour Library of Art, 1974. Cloth, 96 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates of African tribal art.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: AW Asia, 2011. 51 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held May 2 to July 15, 2011 at the Pulitzer Fountain, Grand Army Plaza at Central Park, New York City; exhibition also held August 20, 2011 to February 12, 2012 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, and January 24 to May 1, 2016 at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Saint-Etienne: Musee d'art moderne Saint-Etienne, 1992. 143 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Text in English and French. Firm binding, clean inside copy. COMME NEUF. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Madrid: Comisaria General de Exposiciones, 1970. 88 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, May to June 1970. Good+. Previous owner's notes/verso of the back endpaper & a little marginalia. . 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

New York: Acquavella Galleries, Inc., 1994. 125 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Acquavella Galleries, New York, October 27 to December 10, 1994. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1998. 127 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. English Edition. Exhibition held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, from June 18 to October 18, 1998. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine bumped at the crown. Contents page creased. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.