Monograph featuring the life and work of Flora Whitney Miller in creating the Whitney Museum of American Art. Photographs, essays, text by Tom Armstrong, Ivor G. Balding, John I.H. Baur, Flora Miller Biddle, Bronson Winthrop Chanler, Eliza Parkinson Cobb, Gertrude Conner, Fredrick A. ... [details]
Critical biography on the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright by Vincent Scully, Jr. Includes notes to the text, bibliographical notes, selected chronological list of buildings and projects, sources of illustrations, and index. ... [details]
Anthology of vintage photographs with text by Mark Sloan, Roger Manley, and Michelle Van Parys, with an introduction by Roy Blount, Jr. "Featuring more than 150 black-and-white photographs, Hoaxes, Humbugs, and Spectacles is a vintage collection of bizarre, unusual, and humorous pictures that explore the universal human interest in spectacle. ... [details]
"In this reevaluation of Wright's architecture and his teaching, those who worked with Wright and knew him well, and who have become leaders in architectural thought today, examine the Wright heritage now, fifteen years after his death. ... [details]
Anthology of art texts compiled and edited by L.P.J. Braat. With contributions by L.P.J. Braat, Frans Coenen, Albert van Dalsum, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Albert Helman, Georg Schmidt, Wolfgang Born, J. ... [details]
Survey of the work of L.A. based artists before 1980. Edited by Lyn Kienholz with contributing editors Elizabeta Betinski and Corinne Nelson. Includes appendix. "'L.A. Rising SoCal Artists Before 1980' is the first comprehensive pictorial showcase of the diverse universe of artists working in the Los Angeles area during the formative period of Los Angeles' art history. ... [details]
October 11, 1948 issue of Life Magazine featuring "A Life Round Table on Modern Art : Fifteen Distinguished Critics and Connoisseurs Undertake to Clarify the Strange Art of Today." The meeting took place in the penthouse of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with traveling show held in 1973. Edited by Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kynaston McShine. Written contributions by Michel Sanouillet, Richard Hamilton, Lawrence D. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 17 - November 1, 1980. Essays by Jacki Apple, Mary Jane Jacob, Lori Christmastree and Barbara Tannenbaum. Artists included in the exhibition Pi Benio, Kathy Constantinides, Larry Cressman, Naomi Dickerson, Susan kae Grant, Ruth Brownell Green, Michael P. ... [details]
Edited by Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, and Douglas Crimp. Essays "A Specter and Its Specter," by Annette Michelson; "Russian Diary 1927-28," by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.; "Gogol-Meyerhold's The Inspector-General," by A. ... [details]