Movements / Post-Modernism from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Port Townsend, WA: Bay Press, 1985. 243 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps, expected browning. First paperback edition, with blueish-green wraps. Foster argues in favour of a politically-progressive, adversarial notion of postmodernism. Most of these essays originally appeared in Art in America. "For the past few decades Hal Foster's critical gaze has encompassed… Read more about this item

New York: Allworth Press, 2000. xxxii, 319 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "In essays culled from three decades of critical writing, Donald Kuspit explores the aesthetic developments of the twentieth century, from post-impressionism to the latest permutation of post-Modernism. Ranging from Willem de Kooning to Andy Warhol to Sue Coe, this provocative anthology chronicles the distinctive voice of… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Books, 1989. viii, 242 pages; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. Expected browning. First thus.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Allworth Press, 2000. xxxii, 319 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge. Another copy available. "In essays culled from three decades of critical writing, Donald Kuspit explores the aesthetic developments of the twentieth century, from post-impressionism to the latest permutation of post-Modernism. Ranging from Willem de Kooning to Andy Warhol to Sue… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. 262 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. CultureTexts Series. Tight, clean copy. Spine slightly sunned. First paperback edition.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Free Press: Macmillan, Inc., 1985. Cloth, xv, 445 pages; 25 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Age toning, light soiling. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. A collection of articles & reviews by the cranky art critic for the New York Times and The New Criterion, a journal he cofounded with funding from various right-wing thinktanks.… Read more about this item

London: Academy Editions; St. Martin's Press, 1994. 144 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 28 cm. Papers based on material presented at an international conference/exhibition on post-modernism and national cultures which was held at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, in October 1993. Firm binding, clean inside copy. CONTENTS: Moscow, October 4, 1993, 10:10 am: Modernity is Dead, by Charles Jencks; Apocalypse and Utopia… Read more about this item

London and New York: Architectural Design; St. Martin's Press, 1982. 128 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 28 cm. Architectural design; 5-6, 1982. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "The narrative of recent architecture tells how Post-Modernism, was born to disreputable Modernist parents, left home and took to the road, how he went to Shingle-style and… Read more about this item

New York and Boston: New Museum of Contemporary Art; David R. Godine, Publisher, 1984. xviii, 461 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "The waning of the century-old modernist movement in the arts has called forth an astonishing array of artistic and critical responses. The twenty-five essays in Art After Modernism provide a comprehensive survey of the most provocative directions… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1984. 207 pages, illustrations (some colour); 36 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. A massive compilation of international artists, chiefly European and American.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

New York: PowerHouse Books, 2002. Cloth, 142 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 26 x 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "A Chronicle of the Art Sales Benefiting the AIDS Community Research Initiative (ACRIA) 1993-2002." "The Community Research Initiative on AIDS (CRIA) is a non-profit community-based AIDS research and treatment education… Read more about this item

London: Tate Gallery, 2001. Heartney, EleanorA good reading copy with underlining on half a dozen pages. CONTENTS: Neo-expressionism; The anti-aesthetes; Postmodern feminism; Postmodern multiculturalism; Commodity critics.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

San Francisco and New York: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Distributed Art Publishers, 1994. 187 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, January 18 to April 30, 1995. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated… Read more about this item

Los Angeles and New York: A.R.T. Press; Distributed by Distributed Art Publishers, 1996. Cloth, 93 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with a creased front flap, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Allan McCollum interviewed by Thomas Lawson; WORKS; Early works; Collaborations;… Read more about this item

San Diego, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002. 144 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. With Catalogue Entries by Tamara Bloomberg, et al.; Preface by Hugh M. Davies; Essay by Toby Kamps. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "The title of this exhibition borrows the term 'lateral thinking,' coined by British educational philosopher Edward de… Read more about this item

Mulgrave, VIC: Images Publishing, 1999. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corners lightly bumped. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Michael Graves, the media, and the making of metonymic architeicture, by Christian Zapatka;… Read more about this item

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1989. 264 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Constructivist origins; Theory and philosophy; Deconstruction and art; Deconstruction and architecture.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983. 307 pages; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. An excellent volume on deconstructivist, post-structuralist philosophy that will not give you a migraine headache. Completely readable.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Bologna: Damiani, 2011. Cloth, 313 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "James Casebere (born 1953) emerged in the Pictures Generation as an artist-photographer complicating the status of the photographic image alongside Cindy Sherman and Richard… Read more about this item

New York and London: Writers & Readers, 1997. Ilv, 186 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Illustrated by Van Howell. Tight, clean copy.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.