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The books described here are only a tiny fraction of an estimated 30,000 books and exhibition catalogues currently in stock. The great majority are on modern and contemporary art and artists--Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Cobra, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Fluxus and so on. You also will find photography and unusual books in other areas.

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Hungarian caricatures, 1933. For a unique album from Budapest of brilliant, original caricatures worthy of publication and exhibition, please click here.

An additional 40,000 art periodicals include the world's largest holdings of Artforum, Art in America, and High Performance, plus many others.

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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. ** Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 6 November 1971–9 Januari 1972. Poster. The inside is several black-and-white drawings on pale blue paper. The outside is a long gestural drawing in flesh color—probably a serigraph. Folded in four. About 15-3/4 x 23-3/4 inches flat (oversquare). Some fading and browning at the folds. Laid in is an order form for the 1969 book published by the Stedelijk Museum. Never mailed.

Exhibition Paul Thek. Poster
Thek, Paul
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. ** Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 6 November 1971–9 Januari 1972. Poster. The inside.. more
Price: $500.00

FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. ** Profusely illustrated, with color accents. 32 pp., including covers in embossed, tinted, black leatherette. 38.8 x 22.7 cm. Paper cover reads "Production pledges 100% during 1927–28." Includes: photos of executives and staff; tables of "Paramount's 1926 Honor Roll" and the same for 1927, with credits for Clara Bow's "It" and 35 other movies. Illustrated half- or full-page descriptions of "Beau Geste," "Old Ironsides," "The Rough Riders," "Wings," and the 18 releases from 1926. Stars include Ronald Coleman, Wallace Beery, Clara Bow, Adolphe Menjou, Eddie Cantor, and many others. A list of 1927–28 releases includes "Metropolis," "Abie's Irish Rose," "The Girl Friend," Harold Lloyd comedies, and many others. Just before sound in Adolph Zukor's and Jesse Lasky's high-flying empire. Herman Mankiewicz and Elinor Glyn were among their writers. Paper covers stained from leatherette covers. Otherwise fine.

Greater Paramount Pictures 1927. Vol.II, no. 1. Honor Roll Anniversary. May 1927
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, New York
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. ** Profusely illustrated, with color accents. 32 pp., including covers in embossed,.. more
Price: $1,000.00

FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Paris: Cairn, 1979-1981. The issues are well illustrated on coated paper and are between 8 and 24 pp. each. Small tabloid size; about 38.5 x 28.5cm. They feature international performance, conceptual art, video, film, etc. No. 8 is titled "Dossier Canada/Québec, espaces 'paralleles' et centres video." "Directeur de la publication" is Jean Dupanier. Only one entry in OCLC, at the Bibliotheque d'Art et Archéologie in Geneva.

Cairn: journal d'un cooperative d'artistes. Nos. 1-8 (all published)
Cairn, Paris, complete set
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Paris: Cairn, 1979-1981. The issues are well illustrated on coated paper and.. more
Price: $400.00

FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Bedford Village, New York: Tyler Graphics, ©1982. Superb lithographed miniature in black of etching. 24 x 18.8 cm (image); 24.5 x 19.3 cm (paper). Print tipped into white folder with explanatory text, 27.8 x 22.8 cm. Original image size 52 x 66 inches. 4000 copies of this brochure printed. Several as-new copies available. For other similar publications, please search for "Albers" or "Motherwell" as author and "miniature" as title.

Swan Engravings. [Lithographed miniature of the etching by Frank Stella titled Swan Engraving III.]
Stella, Frank.
FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Bedford Village, New York: Tyler Graphics, ©1982. Superb lithographed miniature in black of etching... more
Price: $20.00

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