Search Results: Art from Quadrant Book Mart

US: Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Handsome and tidy denim blue cloth boards with silver titling on front and spine, in a clean and sharp pictorial dustjacket. Brick red end papers. Binding is tight. Interior is clean and unmarked. Nearly new condition. Oblong quarto. Ships from US. Larger size may require extra postage; any increase will be submitted to customer for prior approval. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in color photography. Exhibition dates: November 13, 2016 - February 5, 2017. 'Ranging from intriguing portraits and cityscapes to graffiti painted with light, sculptural *photo-objects,* and psychic-informed photography, this diverse collection of images is unified by its subject: Allentown, Pennsylvania. This catalogue for the exhibition Allentown X7 offers seven original approaches to understanding the city that encourage viewers to consider unexpected narratives of… Read More

London, UK: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1981. Paperback. Very Good/Good-. Pictorial softcover with grey and blue titling; spine is uncreased, head of spine bumped. (No DJ). 8.25 x 10.5 ins. Interior is clean and unmarked. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: Illustrated in color and B&W reproductions. Includes essays by Nicholas Serota, Stephen Bann and Roberta Smith. Includes chronology, list of exhibitions and bibliography. See photos for Table of Contents and List of Works.

Dublin, Ireland: Gandon Editions, 1993. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Works O'Regan, John Black pictorial softcover, lightly edgeworn and a bit rubbed, with a pricesticker on front cover. Uncreased spine and tight binding. Interior is unmarked. 5.75 x 7.75 ins. BOOK INFO: Edited by John O'Regan. With an introduction by Desmond MacAvock and an article 'On Charles Brady' by Brady himself. Illustrated in color with glossy paintings by Brady. Laid in is a newspaper obituary clipped from the Irish Times, Aug. 1997, as hand-noted by a former owner. Brady, Charles, 1926-, Brady, Charles, 1926- --Catalogs, Painters--Ireland--Biography

Tallinn: Estonian National Publishers, 1956. Hardcover. Good/None. Beige cloth boards blindstamped with decorative borders and floral design on front, with a spray of soiling on center front. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Quarto. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: Estonian Art. The beginning portion is 45 pages of text and the rest is comprised of 238 plates, mostly B&W reproductions of paintings and sculptures, with some in color, all listed in an index (to page 50), and with two uncut pages.

New York: Martin and Johnson. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Not a reprint or print-on-demand, this appears to be an original set of one of the many editions of this book, which are scarce now on the marketplace. In light brown suede and leather boards with banded spine; bands of red and black with gilt titling on spine; Front covers decorated with embossed floral border. Marbled end papers: blue, yellow, and red on a ground of gray. Owner's name on front and rear end papers (in pencil on front). Front hinges are cracked on the exterior. Edgeworn and with chips to spine ends; first vol. spine head has backstrip detaching via a 2-in. horizontal closed tear. Interiors are unmarked, though lightly foxed. Bindings are sound. Undated; ca. 1850? Heavy small folio. (Extra postage may apply.) BOOK INFO: A dictionary of the science and practice of architecture, building, carpentry, etc., from the earliest ages to the present time, forming a comprehensive work of reference for the use of architects, builders,… Read More

Boston: Bunker Hill Pub. in association with Allentown Art Museum, 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Multi-colored pictorial boards and dustjacket are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Interior is unmarked. Square quarto, (8 1/4 x 8 1/4 ins.) Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: With bi-fold exhibition pamphlet laid in. Copiously illustrated in color photography. 'Faith Ringgold: A View From the Studio is a remarkable book about a world-famous Black American artist. It is an artist's artist's book--by one artist and about another--about the making of art, about politics and judgment, about passion and struggle. It is, above all, about a great artist's collaboration iwth others in the creation of a unique body of work, which expresses a deeply committed vision of American history and the struggle for freedom. Whether in the deeply personal works such as Coming… Read More

Pittsburgh, PA: Andy Warhol Museum, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good+/None. Pictorial softcover with black and white titling; spine is uncreased. The cover photo is a candid, group shot of the artists. (No DJ). Interior glossy pageis are clean and unmarked. Squarish octavo (8.5 x 9 ins). Gallery price sticker to bottom back cover. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: In partnership with Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York. Contents include (cf. our photos)-- My Warhol Experience(s), 1947-1950 and a Little Beyond, by Philip Pearlstein; and The Masked Figure: New Work by Philip Pearlstein, by Jessica Beck. Illustrated in B&W and color reproductions of the artists' works--Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein and Dorothy Cantor. 'For Pearlstein and Warhol, the differences in their mature work may have been foreshadowed by their diverse approaches to identical artistic… Read More

Quebec, Canada: Musee des Beaux Arts de Mont Saint-Hilaire, 2014. Hardcover. Near Fine/None. Full-color, pictorial boards, quarto. Binding is tight and square. Interior is unmarked. BOOK INFO: Full-color glossy pages filled with the expressive, quirky art of Neuman as displayed in Quebec, with commentary. Modern art; sculpture

Bogota, Colombia: Quinta Galeria, 2001. Paperback. Very Good+/None. Exposicion No. 28 Glossy black pictorial softcover with white titling, corners softened. With gallery opening invitation (large bifold card) laid in; Both the book's title page and the card bear paper clip stains. Clean, bright and sound with no other markings. 8.5 x 10.75 ins. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: 'Lo mas bello es la perfecta justicia;/lo mejor la salud; pero lo mas deleitoso/es alcanzar lo que se ama.' Photographs of the artist's headless, sculpted bronze figures, with an introduction by Syro.

New York, NY: Mark Borghi Fine Artl/Alexandre Gallery, 2003. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Burgundy softcover creased vertically near spine; lightly edgeworn. Interior is unmarked. Binding is sound. 9 x 12 ins. oblong. BOOK INFO: 'As Van Deren Coke has pointed out, New Mexico as a place--with its grandiose and forbidding terrain and ancient indigenous cultures--presented a challenge to both native and visiting artists. Among those drawn to the Southwest from the East Coast...many artists found the region too picturesque in both landscape and genre subjects...This was the challenge of New Mexico: to reach beyond the picturesque and the obvious. And the handful of artists who succeeded at it--Hartley, Georgia O'Keefe, Marin, among others--did so because when they went west, they were already individualists. And...Hartley helped to stimulate intellectual dialogue about the region's art and artists.' Painting; Watercolor

Amsterdam: Ludion, 2005. Paperback. Very Good+/None. 2005 Pictorial softcover with uncreased spine. (No DJ). Interior is clean and unmarked. Quarto. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Catalog of an exhibition at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Feb. 15-May 15, 2005; the Groeningemuseum, Bruges, June 7-Sept. 4, 2005; and at the Frick Collection, New York, Oct. 6-Dec. 31, 2005. Wth contributions by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Lorne Campbell and Paula Nuttall. Illustrated in vibrant color reproductions. 'Hans Memling is one of the most important Netherlandish painters of the fifteenth century. Originating from the middle Rhine region (Germany), he most probably trained in the workshop of Rogier van der Weyden in Brussels. In 1465 he moved to Bruges, where he studied and absorbed the art of Jan van Eyck. He succeeded in combining the achievements of Van der… Read More

Prague, Czech Republic: Shalom Neuman. Hardcover. Near Fine+/None. 2018 Our photos depict the actual book offered. Clean and bright pictorial boards. Otherwise, like new. Binding is tight. Interior is unmarked. Quarto. Ships from US. Larger size may require extra postage; any increase will be submitted to customer for prior approval. BOOK INFO: Text by Enrico Baj, Donald Kuspit, Robert Morgan, and Lester Strong. Glossy, clean & bright full-color reproductions throughout, with photos of live events at the end. 'To enter the universe created by New York-based artist Shalom Neuman is to enter a realm of glitzy brilliance, artistic virtuosity, and technological sophistication, tempered by an underlying vision of the world that is anything but upbeat. Neuman calls his work *fusion art,* and it's art with a message. Combining color, motion, and sound into a multidisciplinary, multisensory extravaganza aimed at appealing to more than just the visual sense, it reflects and comments on a contemporary world… Read More

UK: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2016. Paperback. Near Fine/None. Pictorial softcover; spine is uncreased. (No DJ). Interior is clean and unmarked. Oblong small quarto, 10.5 x 9.25 ins. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: This catalogue was printed on the occasion of the exhibition Nicolas de Stael held at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 1018 Madison Avenue, New York, May 2-May 31,2013. Laid in are a large gallery card and one-sheet on the exhibit. Frontis full-length photo of the artist. Illustrated in 11 vibrant, full-color reproductions. 'You look at a painting by Nicolas de Stael with the eyes of a child because you are learning a new language.' -from the text by Michael Peppiatt. 'It is with great pleasure that we present our second exhibition of Nicolas de Stael's work; the first took place in 1997 which was not only the gallery's inaugural exhibition but also the first show of Stael's work in New… Read More

New York: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good+/None. Handsome blue softcover; spine is uncreased, and edges are softened. (No DJ). Former owner's blindstamp to title page. Interior is otherwise clean and unmarked. Oblong quarto, 11 x 9.5 ins. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: Catalogue of the exhibition at the Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York, November 4 to December 13, 1997. With a frontis of the artist before one of his works. Illustrated in 40 glossy, full-color reproductions. With three essays: From Ravenna to the Twentieth Century by Dominique Astrid Levy and Simon Studer; Les Pays se dressent en ateliers... by Anne de Stael; Sur un rouge de Nicolas de Stael qui peut egalement etre dit blanc by Andre du Bouchet. 'For de Stael, life was a compelling and intense experience which he struggled to convey in paint. His letters are passionate with his… Read More

New York: C&M Arts. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Handsome grey cloth boards with black titling on front and spine. Gentle bump to bottom rear board. Binding is sound. 8.5 x 10.75 ins. No dustjacket. Owner's blindstamp to FFEP. Interior is otherwise unmarked. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: On the occasion of the exhibition April 2 - May 28, 1998. With essay by Peter Schjeldahl. See photos for List of Works. Frontis B&W photographs of Pablo Picasso and Willem De Kooning. Illustrated in vibrant color plates. 'These twenty-four works provide the opportunity to explore ideas concerning the use of paint, formal resemblances, psychological moods, male attitudes...in short, the whole range of affinities, similarities and differences that critics and art historians have passionately discussed in relation to Picasso's Dora Maar and de Kooning's Women.' (-from the Preface by Robert Mnuchin). Fold… Read More

New York: Hammer Galleries, 2006. Paperback. Near Fine/None. Glossy green and white softcover with green titling; spine is uncreased. (No DJ). Interior is clean and unmarked. Thick 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: Illustrated in color reproductions of the artist's work on glossy pages. 'Pierre Boncompain's work is always celebratory, presenting the pleasures of living with a Mediterranean vividness.' (~from the Introduction). Includes list of works. 'Born in 1938 in Valence, known as the gateway to Provence, Pierre Boncompain is recognized as a modern French master, and inheritor of the colorist tradition. The charm of Provence flows through Boncompain's paintings, pastels and works on paper. His themes are simple: nudes, still-lifes and landscapes, but, through his continued experimentation with intense color, expressive line, and flat, patterned surfaces, he transcends the… Read More

New York: Wallach Art Gallery, 2007. softcover. Very Good+/None. Green softcover with cream titling on front and spine. Illustrated in full-color photographs. Slightest corner/edge wear and a shallow ripple to the upper front cover. Spine is uncreased. Interior is bright and unmarked. Quarto. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Issued in conjunction with the exhibition ... held at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University ... 18 September through 8 December 2007.An exhibition of masks and other performance objects from East Africa, titled Revolutions: A Century of Makonde Masquerade in Mozambique features more than 60 examples of Makonde art, on loan from public and private collections, including a comprehensive selection of helmet masks, antelope-horn trumpets, drums, figural dance sticks, and ornate metal bracelets. \n\nPlaying a key role in the unique cultural performance genre known as mapiko, these objects present a broad overview of the evolution of mapiko during… Read More

Bignan, France: Centre d'Art Contemporain du Domaine de Kerguehennec, 1989. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Kelly green softcover with black titling on front, creased at top front corner and along back short edge; edgeworn. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. One illustrated leaf pulls out; appears never to have been bound. 12 x 9 in. oblong. BOOK INFO: Illustrated in B&W and color works from the exhibition at the Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY, July 1 - August 29, 1989. Grosvenor (b. 1937) is an American modern/architectural sculptor who works with found, industrial and natural objects. Includes list of works. sculpture

Buford, GA. Paperback. Very Good-/None. Light beige pictorial softcover. Spine is uncreased, and binding is sound. Book is a little bent vertically along the side/long edge. Interior is clean and unmarked. Quarto. BOOK INFO: Full-color catalog of 'the most comprehensive exhibition and sale of comtemporary [sic] folk art to ever be assembled!'

Museum of Russian Contemporary Art in Exile, 1985. Paperback. Very Good+/None. Signed. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by artist--with date and location--on prelim page opposite a photograph of him. Glossy white softcover with black and red painting reproduced on front and with black titling; stapled spine ends are softened. (No DJ). Light smattering of foxing to halft title page, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. Oblong quarto, (11.25 x 8.5 ins.) Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: Contents include: Vladimir Grigorovich, by Alexander Glezer; The Melancholy Landscapes of Grigorovich, by Naomi Ben-Tsur, art critic; The World of Vladimir Grigorovich, by Nicole Lamothe, art critic. Illustrated in color and B&W reproductions of his art. The Russian artist emigrated to Israel and then to the U.S. in the 1970s. ' Grigorovich says. It is worth mentioning that in his creations… Read More