Search Results: Movements / Abstract Expressionism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Museum of Modern Art; Simon and Schuster, 1956. Rebound in library boards, 95 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour), portraits; 24 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held May 29 through September 9, 1956. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings. No writing in text. Includes: Ernest Briggs, James Brooks, Sam Francis, Fritz Glarner, Philip Guston, Raoul Hague, Grace Hartigan, Franz Kline, Ibram Lassaw, Seymour Lipton, Jose de Rivera, and Larry Rivers. In her Foreword, Miller explains that "no single style or theme runs through the [present] exhibition," though she remarks that 8 worked on WPA., and most had solo shows in the late '40s and early '50s. Vintage MoMA catalogue.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. 225 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. First published, 1983. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "Mark Rothko (1903-1970) produced possibly the most lasting paintings of the New York School, monumental abstract expressionist canvasses that function as 'a passport to a more luminous world.' Drawing on Dore Ashton's countless conversations with Rothko himself, About Rothko is the best full-scale critical biography of this intellectually restless but deeply committed artist. / Dore Ashton's books include A Joseph Cornell Album, Picasso on Art, A Critical Study of Philip Guston, A Fable of Modern Art, The New York School, Noguchi East and West, and A Reading of Modern Art. She lives in New York City." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xxiii, 408 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The History and Culture of Abstract Expressionism: 1. The psychology of crisis: historical roots; 2. Propaedeutics: intellectual roots; Part II. The Artists: 3. Clyfford Still: of plenitude and power; 4. Mark Rothko: 'In My Beginning is My End'; 5. Adolph Gottlieb: the allegorical epic; 6. Barnett Newman: new beginnings; 7. William Baziotes: tremors of history; 8. Jackson Pollock: ancient energies; 9. Willem de Kooning: a fever of matter; 10. Robert Motherwell: the school of Paris meets New York; 11. The expansiveness of abstract expressionism Conclusion; 12. Vernacular abstraction: the domestication of abstract expressionism in the 1950s; Epilogue.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New Brunswick, NJ: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, 1989. 164 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. With contributions by Sam Hunter and Irving Sandler; and excerpts from writings by William Seitz and Matthew Lee Rohn. Exhibition held at Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, October 26 to December 3, 1989; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, January 23 to March 11, 1990; The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 25 to June 13, 1990. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951. Pictorial boards, 159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 23 to March 25, 1951. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Crown of spine lightly chipped. 2 pages near the back are creased.. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 4to.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951. 159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 23 to March 25, 1951. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean text, stain on pp. 46-47. Browning.. Paperback. Good. 4to.

New York: Thames & Hudson; World of Art Series, 1990. 216 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: 1. Introduction ; 2. Background and Early Work; 3. The Question of a Heritage; 4. The Ideographic Picture; 5. The Process of Painting; 6. Being and Field; 7. The Later Work; 8. After Abstract Expressionism; Select Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index. Profusely illustrated. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951. Pictorial boards, 159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 23 to March 25, 1951. Binding slightly shaken (weak front hinge). Boards, tips, spine ends worn. Clean inside copy. Another copy available.. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 4to.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Phoenix Books., 1983. ix, 214 pages; 21 cm. Originally published 1970. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps lightly soiled, age toning. First edition thus. CONTENTS: The stages: geography of action; A psychological case; From play acting to self; Criticism-action; Actor in history; Guilt to the vanishing point; Missing persons.. 1st.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Brookfield, CT: Roaring Brook Press, 2002. Pictorial boards, 32 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. Dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A kids' picture book introducing the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. Illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Parker, Robert Andrew. 4to.

Brookfield, CT: Roaring Brook Press, 2002. Pictorial boards, 32 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A kids' picture book introducing the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. Illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Illus. by Parker, Robert Andrew. 4to.

New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1977. [32] pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 23 cm. Exhibition held at Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, February 1977. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

London: Marlborough, 1971. 66 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held November 1971, at Marlborough, London; and February to March 1972, at Marlborough, Zurich. Firm binding, unmarked. Spine bumped at the heel. Age toning, edges lightly soiled.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1980. [7] leaves, [13] leaves of plates, colour illustrations; 23 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held April 1980. Near fine. Wraps fine, clean copy. Age toning. Richly illustrated with colour plates. In the late fifties, Held simplified his fussy, gestural paintings to create large, bolder compositions, building a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and the emerging Minimalism.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. ..

New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1990. 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Robert Miller Gallery, January 4 to February 3, 1990. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Before Al Held became a 'hard edge" painter in the sixties and beyond, he was an abstract expressionist. This exhibition, with an introduction by Ashton, focuses on his works of the mid-fifties, after a period spent in Paris influenced by tachiste painting and existentialism. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Robert Miller Gallery, 1990. 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Robert Miller Gallery, January 4 to February 3, 1990. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Before Al Held became a 'hard edge" painter in the sixties and beyond, he was an abstract expressionist. This exhibition, with an introduction by Ashton, focuses on his works of the mid-fifties, after a period spent in Paris influenced by tachiste painting and existentialism. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Cloth, 224 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Thames & Hudson; World of Art Ser., 2003. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "No other introductory book presents the diversity and complexity ofpostwar American art from Abstract Expressionism to the present asclearly and succinctly as this groundbreaking survey. David Joselit traces and analyzes the often contradictory formal, ideological and political conditions during this period that made American art predominant throughout the world. Social and cultural transformations rooted in mass media technologies - photography, television, video and the internet - elevated consumer commodities to the status of legitimate art subjects, as in Pop and Installation art, and also brought about a mechanization of the creative art. Canonical movements and figures are discussed - Pollock, Rothko, Krasner, Oldenburg, Johns, Warhol, Paik, Ruscha, Sherman, Holzer, Koons and Barney - in juxtaposition with lesser known contemporary artist and practices." -… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers; Icon Editions, 1982. xii, 274 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Corner crease/front cover. "The fact that so much of modern art has devoted itself to the exploration and assertion of its own identity is reflected in, but does not explain, the increasing amount of writing and talking on the part of contemporary artists. Rather, the whole history of the changing role of art and artists in a democratic, industrial, and technological society stands behind the spate of artists' words and the public's hunger for them - even some of the general public out there beyond art's little circle. Statements by artists appeal somewhat the way drawings do: they bring us, or at least they hold the promise of bringing us, closer to the artists thoughts and feelings and to an understanding of his or her modus operandi; they hold the keys to a mysterious realm. And sometimes they offer us the sheer pleasure of good reading. Such is the primary… Read More

New York: Horizon Press Inc., 1962. Cloth, 144 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. New York Jewish intellectual Harold Rosenberg profiles the Armenian-born artist who straddled between Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. Rosenberg was a prolific writer, whose rival in art criticism was Clement Greenberg. An unusually well-preserved copy.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.