Wim Wenders: Written in the West Revisited

Hardback book titled Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910–1980, authored by Magdalena Dabrowski with an introduction by John Elderfield. Published by The Museum of Modern A...

Vintage hardback coffee table book featuring Art Deco furniture designs. By Alastair Duncan, published in 1984. First edition, 192 pages. "The Art Deco movement, which swept through...

Vintage hardcover monograph on Catalan sculptor Eudald Serra, published in 1979. 140 pages. Text in Catalan and English, printed in Spain. Written by Joan Teixidor, this richly illu...

Vintage hardback coffee table book featuring the work of sculptor, Berto Lardera. Introduction by Michel Seuphor, published in 1960. First edition, 143 p...

Exhibition Catalogue with Barry Friedman. Wendell Castle was at the forefront and cutting edge of American furniture design for half a century, known for his sophisticated use of mat...

This is a vintage biography of Sir Emery Walker. A Danish, limited edition overview of the British printer and photographer, published in English in 1959....

In a Rugged Land; Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953-1954 by James R. Swensen. Softcover book, published in 2018 by The University of Utah Pr...

John Baeder’s Road Well Taken By: Jay Williams Echoing Paul Gauguin’s momentous decision of a century earlier, John Baeder, in 1972, suddenly made up his mind to forgo the growing riches of a career on Madison Avenue to become a full-time painter. With little more to bank on than an offer by the legendary Ivan Karp of a future show at his New York gallery, Baeder bravely gambled his livelihood on Karp’s evaluation of his first four efforts at serious painting: a diner, a motel, a gas station, a tourist camp. “They were works of cultural consequence, . . . works of visual power.” Based on color-postcards in his growing collection of roadside memorabilia, John had made blow-ups of the cards “to see what they’d look like as paintings.” It was a bold, inventive move, but typical Baeder as he continued to lay the groundwork for what soon became known, through his efforts, as “Diner Culture.” And his masterful technique inevitably put him at the forefront of the growing photo-realist movement, along with Ralph Goings and Richard Estes. Baeder’s paintings, particularly of vintage diners...