Movements / Earthworks from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. 218 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Site-specific art emerged in the late 1960s in reaction to the growing commodification of art and the prevailing ideals of art's autonomy and universality. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, as site-specific art intersected with land art, process art, performance art, conceptual art, installation art, institutional critique community-based… Read more about this item

Los Angeles and Berkeley, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art; University of California Press, 2004. 280 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 12 to December 13, 2004; the Dallas Museum of Art, January 14 to April 3, 2005; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 23… Read more about this item

New York: Exit Art, 1987. 45 pages, illustrations (some colour), portrait; 23 cm. Exhibition held at Exit Art, New York, October 24 to November 28, 1987 Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1981. 97 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Exhibition held November 7, 1981 to January 3, 1982 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corner bumped. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "This book which accompanies the exhibition is an effort to begin to assemble the photographs… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon Books, 1983. xiv, 266 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Introduction; Stones; Feminism and prehistory; The forms of time: earth and sky, words and numbers; Time and again: maps and places and journeys; Ritual; Homes and graves and gardens.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005. 390 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Stated First St. Martin's Griffin Edition: January 2005. Remainder mark/tail edge. "For their sheer scale and breathtaking audacity, their works have made them among the most celebrated and controversial artists in the world. Valley Curtain stretched 1,250 feet across a valley in… Read more about this item

London: Black Dog Publishing, 2008. 188 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 23 cm. Published on occasion of the exhibition held at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "In debates over the transition from modernism to postmodernism much is made of the… Read more about this item

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1964. 1 volume (unpaged), 139 illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated: Instruments, Buildings, Towers, Columns and Roofs, Vaults and Domes, Bridges, Roads, Tunnels, Dams, Spillways and Earthworks.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1984. Cloth, 144 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Boards slightly bowed. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Monument and Environment: The Avant-Garde, 1966-1976; The Ramble; Tradition and Antecedent; Beyond Land Art.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.… Read more about this item

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1990. Cloth, 128 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First edition thus. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Examines the Bulgarian-born artist's major works, such as Surrounded Islands, Running Fences, and the… Read more about this item

Cologne: Taschen, 1995. 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Photographs by Wolfgang Volz. SIGNED by Christo and Jeanne-Claude on the title page, no dedication. A fine copy. "This text provides a survey of the work of Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, who specialize in creating art on a monumental scale: they have taken on landscape projects in the US,… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994. Cloth, 120 pages, colour illustrations, portrait; 32 cm. Illustrated lining papers. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corners bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. An artist working in the footsteps of Richard Long and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Richly illustrated with colour… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Painted Bride Art Center, 1991. 1 volume (unpaged), illustrations, plans; 14 x 22 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held as part of New Arts Consultations Series at the Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, February 14 to March 17, 1991. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum,, 2010. Cloth, 143 pages, colour illustrations, colour map; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism and utopian… Read more about this item

Paris: Flammarion, 1985. Cloth, 88 pages, illustrations, 1 map, portraits; 22 cm. Text in French/Texte en francais. TRES BON+ ETAT. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. 162 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. Interviews with pioneering conceptual artists Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Seth Siegelaub, Robert Smithson and Lawrence Weiner. The interviews were undertaken by Norvell. "Recording Conceptual Art features a highly provocative series of previously unpublished interviews… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1970. Cloth, xi, [12] pages, 71 illustrations (3 colour); 21 x 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong. Collectible.

Henthorne Media, 2015. Cloth, 141 pages, illustrations; 34 cm. SIGNED by Henthorne/half-title page. A fine copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. SIGNED. 1st.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio. Collectible.

Soro, Denmark: Vestsj llands Kunstmuseum, 1996. 36 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Text in Danish and English. Edition of 1000 copies. Catalogue of the exhibition of the same name in Vestsjllands Kunstmuseum January 6 to April 8, 1996. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Earthworks by American artist Dennis Oppenheim. Includes an interview with… Read more about this item

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press; Issues in Art History Ser., 2001. x, 230 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Essays exploring artists' use of gender to understand and interpret the landscape. "While gender has been the subject of extensive critical inquiry, the debate has focused primarily on the human, particularly the female, body. The spaces bodies occupy and… Read more about this item