Lateral Thinking: Art Of The 1990s, by Toby Kamps, First Edition

The Art of Patronage, The Daywood Collection. Charleston: Huntington Museum of Art, 2017. First Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 122 pp. A catalogue of works from The Daywood Collection at the Huntington Museum of Art. The collection includes oils by: Childe Hassam, landscape and figurative oils...

Sulphides The Art of Cameo Incrustation by Paul Jokelson. New York: Galahad Books, 1968. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 149 pp. A book on the art of cameo incrustation ca...

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art by Leah Dickerman and Anna Indych-Lopez. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011. 1st Ed hardcover with no dust jacket as published. From the personal library of Herbert Kasper. Herbert Kasper was an American fashion designer known as "Kasper." He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at The Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the US Army in Europe. After WW II he enrolled at Parsons, where he became a protégé of milliner Fred Frederics. After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas. When he returned to the US, he worked for Frederics at Mr. John. He was an avid art collector with a famous art collection, and in 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer. In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set new attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the show's opening and gave him on-site studio space. There he produced five “portable murals” --large blocks of frescoed plaster...

Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996 by Ronald J Onorato and Hugh M Davies. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1999. 1st Ed, 2nd printing softcover. A classic documentation of site-specific and multi-media installation artwork, Blurring the Boundaries surveys twenty-five years of the genre's finest artwork. Included are: James Turrell, Vito Acconci...

From the personal 1st edition collection of famed memoirist, Augusten Burroughs comes this pristine copy of Joan Didion's iconic memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. The book is sle...

Exhibition book from The Fauve Landscape exhibition in 1990 at the LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Works from Matisse, Derain, Dufy, among others. An engaging and interestin...

Magritte by Jacques Meuris 1988 1st Edition. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 233pp 393 illustrations. Blue boards in dust jacket. Translat...

The Collins Big Book of Art, from Cave Art to Pop Art, General Editor David G. Wilkins. Stated first edition, published in 2005 by Collins Design. Hardcover w...