The First U.S. Edition of this classic book on the beautiful art of traditional Japanese packaging documenting the baskets, boxes, wrappers, and containers that were used in ordinary, day-to-day life and constructed by hand out of bamboo, rice straw, hemp twine, paper, and leaves. With an introduction by the design icon George Nelson. Over 200 photographs in lovely black and white photogravure printing, with a handful of color images; printed in Japan.

Condition: Very Good + to Near Fine, in a VG- dust jacket; interior clean and bright, light toning.....
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An archive of 46 items relating to Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), the New-York based group of artists who in the late-1960s sought to develop collaborations between artists and engineers to explore new technologies and approaches to creating art and performance. The collection includes the poster and catalog for the famous "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" event (1966), the catalog and related ephemera for “Some More Beginnings” at the Brooklyn Museum in collaboration with MoMA (1968), E.A.T. original Artist / Scientist / Engineer Membership forms (ca. 1968), E.A.T. New.....
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An exquisite collection of 64 original watercolor drawings and artworks by Karl Walton Kenyon of fish, marine and bird wildlife, created in the Asia Pacific during wartime deployment, circa 1941-1966. Many are draw to scale from life examples caught by hand. A large number of examples are signed with notes related to their locality, scale, species (if known), and often including the date and other related remarks i.e. "Espiritu Santo, tidepool, 5x life size, painted from life, June 5 1944 (signed)" or "(signed) May 24, 1944 near Guadalcanal, flew aboard.....
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A wonderful collection of 18 pochoir-printed plates from the Paris fashion magazine, La Gazette du Bon Ton, dated from 1920-1922. Published by Les Éditions Lucien Vogel of Paris and The Field Press Ltd. of London. The magazine was published from 1912-1925 (with a hiatus during WWI) and featured exquisitely printed illustrations of the latest fashions using the pochoir printing process, in which stencils were created for the various spot colors and the plates hand-stenciled in vibrant inks - a precursor to silkscreen printing and achieving a similar effect.Fashion designers and houses.....
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The extra large decorative pictorial map of the Hawaiian Islands produced by the Dole/Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1950. In rich colors and depicting the flora, fauna, sea life, culture and historical events of the islands. With a silhouetted legend on the right side that provides a key to the images in the larger map. Illustrated by Joseph Feher and finely lithographed in the USA on heavy paper stock by Schwabacher-Frey.

Condition: Very Good-, with some surface creases/wrinkles likely due to previous rolling; light edgewear with some nicks; a 6" area.....
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Wonderfully detailing Kelly's 2,700 square-foot stone building with colored glass, totemic sculptural works and black and white marble panels designed by the artist as a place for contemplation and gifted to the Blanton Museum in Austin, TX. It was completed in 2018 after Kelly's death - he died in 2015 at age 96, just two months before construction on the project began. Features archival material, drawings, historic photographs and images of nearly all the related works Kelly created for the building’s design. Beautifully printed, oversize and with a unique binding.....
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The big book on Connors covering works by the abstract painter with a sustainted interest in color and form, grids, framing devices, geometric compositions, and drawing on the history of painting and processes, particularly minimalism and abstraction. Published in an edition of 1,000 copies.

Condition: New.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat became a galvanizing, iconic frontrunner of the transformational and insurgent movement in contemporary American art that resulted from an unprecedented fusion of hip-hop culture, music and graffiti in 1980s New York. Young artists who freely sampled from their urban experiences and their largely Black, Latinx and immigrant histories infused the downtown art scene with expressionist, pop and graffiti-inspired compositions. Writing the Future features Basquiat’s works alongside those by his contemporaries, and sometimes collaborators: A-One, ERO, Fab 5 Freddy, Futura, Keith Haring, Kool Koor, LA2, Lady Pink, Lee Quiñones.....
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Issue 8 of Shoplifters focuses on 110 new, in progress, or unreleased typefaces by 60 designers plus an interview with designer Berton Hasebe, an excerpt of a research project and book on the Facit Corporation by Our Polite Society, and a section on real and speculative type design tools by Dinamo. Introduction by Kris Sowersby of Klim Type Foundry. With the type/font samples imploying a basketball theme instead of the standard A-Z example/format. Shoplifters is a bi-annual publication featuring the work of contemporary artists, photographers, designers and illustrators and it’s.....
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The oversize exhibition poster for an Ad Reinhardt exhibit at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Museum in April/June of 1985. Photo by Walter Rosenblum of Reinhardt, circa 1955, in his New York studio. Reinhardt died in 1967.

Condition: Near Fine.
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A poster advocating for rent control in the San Francisco Bay area, with references to a rent control initiative of 1975. With a cartoon of the thumb of "High Rents, Bad Conditions and Arbitrary Evictions" pressing down on the tenants. With a union printing bug.

Condition: Very Good-, some creasing to poster.
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Ernesto (Che) Guevara silkscreened poster, designed and printed at La Raza Graphic Center in SF's Mission District. With a quote from Guevara: "...At the risk of seeming ridiculous let me say that a true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love" (in both English and Spanish).

Condition: Near Fine.
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A rare copy of this pamphlet of Davis' early lectures, first given at UCLA in 1969 for the course she taught there, "Recurring Philosophical Themes in Black Literature". Produced by the New York Committee to Free Angela Davis.

Condition: Near Fine, rusting to staples at center fold.
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