Movements / Graffiti from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2021. Cloth, vii, 164 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 22 x 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This book features reproductions of 143 drawings by 150 Los Angeles graffiti artists that were done as part of a project collaborative project known as the Getty… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. Pictorial boards, 208, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. "Banksy: Completed is the first in-depth investigation into the hidden meaning and social, political, and cultural impact of the world-famous street artist's work." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Banksy: completed; Banksy in Folkestone; The case for graffiti; Banksy… Read more about this item

Normal, IL: University Galleries, Illinois State University, 1998. 99 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition, "Kenny Scharf, When Worlds Collide," held January 14-February 23, 1997. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear. CONTENTS: Ghost of future past, by Barry Blinderman; Way we were, by Ann Magnuson; Thousand clowns of Kenny Scharf, by Robert Farris Thompson;… Read more about this item

Cologne: Taschen, 2016. 96 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at… Read more about this item

Munich and New York: Prestel, 1997. 212 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Keith Haring: labyrinths of life and death, by Germano Celant; Haring's place in homoerotic American art, by Bruce D. Kurtz; A quest for immortality: the sculptures of Keith Haring, by… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions Place des Victoires, 2016. Pictorial boards, 239 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Text in French/Texte en francais. COMME NEUF. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Fine. 4to.

Cologne: Taschen, 2011. 96 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Presents the life and career of the artist, including his childhood in Brooklyn, years as a graffiti artist, rise to stardom as a painter,… Read more about this item

New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1988. Postcard in fine condition. Unmailed. Cards are sent in stiff mailers.. 1st. Fine.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Pictorial boards, 311 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 27 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy of the first printing. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "A sweeping history of Los Angeles told through the lens of the many marginalized groups-from hobos to taggers-that have used the city's walls… Read more about this item

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2004. 128 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 x 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Graffiti art is constantly changing. Fresh coats of paint and newly pasted posters appear overnight in cities across the world. New artists, ideas and tactics displace faded images in a perpetual process of renewal and metamorphosis. From Los Angeles to… Read more about this item

London: Aurum Press, 2017. 399 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), map; 24 cm. First published in 2013. Revised and updated edition. Tight, clean copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Painted murals first appeared in Latin America in the early 20th century; in the 1950s, spray-can graffiti associated with Latino gangs followed, notably the 'cholo' graffiti of Los… Read more about this item

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1980. Cloth, 160 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards, age toning. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Deitch Projects; Charta, 2005. 141 pages, colour illustrations; 30 x 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Revenge of the nerds, by Cory Archangel; Sour lightening, by Richard Guichard; Fort thunder, forcefield, and the New York art world, by Lawrence Rinder; Live… Read more about this item

Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2004. 96 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 23 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "By the time of his death from AIDS at the age of 31, Keith Haring (1958-1990) was already a wildly successful and popular artist. Haring's original and instantly recognizable style, full of thick black lines, bold colors, and graffiti-inspired cartoon-like figures,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, PA: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1984. 64 pages, illustrations, map; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Exhibition held October 12-December 2, 1984, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. An important early eighties' exhibition. Includes: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gretchen Bender, Mike Bidlo, Frederick Brathwaite (Fab Five Freddy), John… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2007. Pictorial boards, 103 pages, colour illustrations; 23 x 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo.

Munich and New York: Prestel Publishing; Pegasus Library, 2006. 151 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Graffiti NYC takes the reader on an 'All-City' tour of New York, where graffiti art was born in the early 1970s. Works from the past five years by more than 100 graffiti writers capture the creative excitement of this ephemeral art… Read more about this item

New York and Bologna: Paul Kasmin Gallery; Damiani, 2013. Pictorial boards, 95 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, April 4 to May 4, 2013. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This publication presents the artist's new body… Read more about this item

Los Angeles, CA: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2010. Pictorial boards, 100 pages, colour illustrations; 19 x 34 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Boards slightly bowed. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This book celebrates the artistry and audacity of taggers and uncommissioned muralists who have decorate and deface contemporary cities." - Publisher.. 1st. Ring… Read more about this item

New York: Abrams; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2008. Pictorial boards, 127 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 27 cm. Translated from the French by Nicholas Elliott. Firm binding, clean inside copy. A fine copy of the first printing. Photographs by Fabienne Grevy. "As much as London, New York and Los Angeles, Paris has been hijacked by street artists who have transformed… Read more about this item