Fritz Neumeyer's comprehensive and meticulous research on van der Rohe's philosophy of building offering a complex and powerful view of the architect's approach to modernism. With an extensive appendix documenting essential texts by van der Rohe, plus his 1927-28 manuscript notebook published here for the first time. Originally published in German in 1986. Out of print.

Condition: Near Fine, light yellowing around page edges.
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A massive oversized catalogue raissone on the complete work of the architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. A definitive and impressive book on the important work of these influential architects who defined architecture at the beginning of the 20th Century. Wonderful photography in black and white with select color images. Out of print and scarce. Due to size and weight, an additional shipping fee of $10 will be added at checkout.

Condition: Near Fine, light edgewear and minor scuffing to DJ; previous owner's architectural stamp on half-title page.
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The 1920 second printing of 500 copies by Orientalia of Yone Noguchi's "Seen & Unseen, or Monologues of an Homeless Snail." Signed by Noguchi and with his chop opposite the title page. The book of verse was first published in 1897 and written by Noguchi as a young man in the San Francisco Bay area. Noguchi is the father of the contemporary sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The handsome historiated initials (the flourished letters at beginning of a verse) and the cover decoration were designed by Gelett Burgess. From the collection of.....
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The scarce catalog for the early pop exhibit "My Country 'Tis of Thee" at the Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles in 1962. This was one of the first pop exhibits on the West Coast and included John Chamberlain, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg, among others. With a short essay by Gerald Nordland. Rare in this fine condition. In a custom-made protective mylar dust jacket.

Condition: Fine, faint rubbing along spine fold.
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A 1969 issue printed on paper of various colors. Published from 1968-1969 in the East Bay, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party, Black Politics was "a part of the Black liberation movement and believe[s] that freedom, justice, and equality must be attained by those means that the oppressed think necessary." This issue includes articles on the role of violence in revolutionary change, the strike as a tactic, Israel, terrorism and sabotage, an editorial on police murder, and an appeal to boycott Safeway, plus more.

Condition: Very Good+, edge toning.....
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The Laura Owens catalog from her 2017 restrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The first printing with unique silkscreened covers, all made in Owens' LA studio. Apparently the popularity of the book caught up with the idea to produce unique covers as later editions no longer included the silkscreen covers, but came with various stickers that could be affixed to make your own custom cover. More of artists' book than a traditonal retrospective monograph, it reproduces photographs, notes, documents and ephemera from her career with the artwork being.....
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Mt. Omei (also Emei) in China has been a major religious site and "holy mountain" for over fifteen hundred years. Early Western visitors wrote descriptions of their experiences with the site, but Dryden Phelps (Professor of English Literature at West China Union University) went much further and translated the Mount Emei Illustrated Handbook, a Chinese-language guide first published in 1891. This 1936 translation and "new edition" features the original Chinese text with an English translation and annotations below. The original woodblock plates from the original guide were destroyed or missing.....
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The political magazine of Italy's cultural right. Text in Italian. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.

Condition: Very Good+, toning to newsprint pages.
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Exhibition catalog of "randomly selected and randomly displayed contemporary artifacts" organized by Arnold Rockman at the Fine Arts Gallery in Vancouver BC, February 6-22, 1968. The catalog consists of an introduction, letters, notes, and images, all of which contain (printed) edits, notes and corrections. Rockman was a sociology professor interested playing with categories of objects and spaces to disrupt aesthetic expectations and cause cognitive dissonance, and in this exhibit explored questions such as: Is junk displayed in an art gallery junk or art? And does the art gallery become a......
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A book based on Swiss artists Fischli & Weiss' art project for the Ringier AG Annual Report 2007, edited by Kunsthalle Zurich Director and Ringier Collection Curator Beatrix Ruf. "The encyclopedic element in all Fischli & Weiss pieces is just as evident in this Annual Report which is best described as an encyclopedia, obtained from hundreds of magazines, of the temptations and yearnings that mark contemporary life. The artists clearly consider print ads the most powerful embodiment of the economic principle and show their fascination with the never-ending flood of.....
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The rare October, 1965 mimeographed second printing of the Fugs’ Songbook, from the counterculture NYC band founded in 1964 by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.

Condition: Good, a relatively large previous moisture staining to lower left corner, visible on all interior pages and front and back covers; the number "2" with a dash is written next to four songs in blue felt pen on the Table of Contents. Priced accordingly.
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The Walker Art Center published Design Quarterly from 1954-1993 which covered subjects such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, product and graphic design. This issue focused on the Thirteenth Triennale held in Milan in 1964, an international exhibition of architecture and decorative arts. The United States participated for the first time at the Thirteenth Triennale, a representation organized by the designer Jack Lenor Larsen. With silver metallic printing on the cover and a few interior pages.

Condition: Very Good, very faint scuffing to front cover; soft crease to top corner.....
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