Less Is a Bore Maximalist Art & Design Institute of Contemporary Art Boston

Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Auction, part of ‘20th/21st Century at Christie’s’, March 6, 2018. 1st Ed softcover catalog. The season will be le...

Contemporary Art Afternoon May 16, 2007 Sotheby's. Published by Sotheby's, NY, 2007. 1st Ed softcover auction catalogue. The Rockefeller name worked its magic at Sotheby’s sale of contemporary art, where a mysterious bearded collector in a skybox outbid five other contenders for Rothko’s “White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose).” The $72.8 million he paid, far above the painting’s $40 million estimate, set records for both the artist and for any contemporary work at auction. Sotheby’s declined to say who the buyer was or where he was from. But the seller was David Rockefeller, the retired banker and chairman emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art, who had decided to cash in on the market and invest the money in other philanthropic endeavors. Seasoned auction goers noticed that last night rubles appeared for the first time on the salesroom’s currency board, along with dollars, euros, pounds and Swiss...

Lateral Thinking: Art Of The 1990s by Toby Kamps. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 2002. Kamps is the curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. First edition softcover. Lateral Thinking assesses the artistic achievements of the 1990s, concentrating on works by 40 contemporary artists from North, South, and Central America, Cuba, Africa, China and Europe. These include: Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft...

Outliers and American Vanguard Art by Lynne Cooke. Published by National Gallery of Art, University of Chicago Press, Washington, Chicago, 2018. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. With a personal letter from the Director of the National Gallery of Art, Earl A. Powell III, to Herbert Kasper the famous clothing designer and art collector. In 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer. Some 250 works explore three distinct periods in American history when mainstream and outlier artists intersected, ushering in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. The exhibition aligns work by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler, Christina Ramberg, and Matt Mullican with both historic folk art and works by self-taught artists ranging from Horace Pippin to Janet Sobel...

Contrasts of Form. Geometric Abstract Art, 1910-1980, From the collection of the Museum of Modern Art Including the Riklis Collection of McCrory...

Piet Mondrian (Masters of Art) by Hans L. C. Jaffe. Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985. 1st Ed Reprint of 1969 hardcover with dust jacket. Mondrian is generally recognized for ...

Design Impact - A History of Art Center College of Design Alumni Vision culture. A History of Art Center College of Design and the Myriad Ways its Alum...

Tahiti : contemporary art in an age of uncertainty : Hirsch Farm Project / Mitchell Kane. The sixth annual book published by the Hirsch Farm Project, an arts-based think tank, addresses a variety of contemporary issues. The project which took place in April and July of 1996 gathered six artists to speculate on the notion of Tahiti as an allegory for contemporary uncertainties ranging from environmental havoc to oscillating geographical economies. Contributions by John Currin, Mariko Mori, Alexis Rockman...

Gerard Bignolais was a French sculptor and artist, 1937-2007. He mostly worked on sculptures of human bodies illustrating life at it's raw form. In this 2007 limited edition are basel box entitled plages 115, it is an interactive installation of "miniature paper and mixed-media clothes not only for the beach/plages and also for a ladies traveling wardrobe...

This fun painting explores art and its history throughout time. What we consider "art" ranges from truly creative, original works to simply clever designs...

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...

Vintage Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62 Paperback Book. December 15, 1992 by Donna De Salvo Paul Schimmel. From Publishers Weekly Ferguson of the Museum of Con...