A two volume set of publications published in 1954 about the Ginza neighborhood of Tokyo housed in a brown cardboard box with a printed label. The first volume, "Ginza Kaiwai," edited by artist and writer Shohachi Kimura, includes a history of Ginza with photographs, illustrations, a beautiful color wood block print by Hiroshige, detailed hand drawn aerial maps of the neighborhood and more. ... [details]
Issue Two (August 1954) of the tri-annual periodical edited by Edmund Carpenter. Associate editor Marshall McLuhan and others. Contributions by H.J. Chaytor, Kamo Chomei, Ray Birdwhistell, Martha Wolfenstein, Dorothy Lee, Kenneth MacLean, D. ... [details]
Issue Two (April 1954) of the tri-annual periodical edited by Edmund Carpenter. Associate editor Marshall McLuhan and others. Contributions by Marshall McLuhan, Edmund Carpenter, D.S. Savage, Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, Dorothy Lee, Donald Theall, Lord Raglan, David Riesman, Stanley Edgar Hyman, and A. ... [details]
Art historical text on European painting after 1850. Text by W. Jos de Gruyter. Printed in color and black-and-white. Text in Dutch. [details]
Large thesis bound volume documenting artists and exhibitions. "... this supplement afford[s] a visual report on the significant gallery exhibitions in New York the mid-season of 1954-55.." "In as far as possible, the selection of works reveals the general profile of significant exhibitions in New York and reflects in part the response of artists and critics. ... [details]
Critical text tracing the history of painting in the 20th century by Werner Haftmann. Includs individual bibliographical entries for each artist and an index. Printed in black-and-white. Text in German. [details]
Monograph on the work of Amedeo Modigliani. Essay by James Thrall Soby. Includes selected bibliography by Hannah B. Muller. [details]
Collection catalogue published in conjunction with the donation of the Arensberg Collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Text by Henry Clifford. Artists include Alexander Archipenko, Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dali, Robert Delaunay, Charles Demuth, André Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Jean Hélion, Alexey Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Frank Kupka, Roger La Fresnaye, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Louis Marcoussis, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Carlos Mérida, Knud Merrild, Jean Metzinger, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Piet Mondrain, Roberto Montenegro, Jules Pascin, Francis Picaba, Pablo Picasso, Pierre August Renoir, Georges Rouault, Henri Rousseau, Pierre Roy, Morton Schamberg, Charles Sheeler, Yves Tanguy and Jacques Villon. ... [details]
"The world's greatest architect here meets the urgent problem of suitable shelter for The Family in a democracy, in a magnificent and - as was to be expected - challenging book. Here, presented at last in full detail, is the natural house. ... [details]
