• current project

Richard Prince: Pre-Appropriation Works, 1971 - 1974

Specific Object / David Platzker is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Richard Prince: Pre-Appropriation Works, 1971 - 1974. The exhibition will be on view at Specific Object from June 9 to September 17, 2010.

image from Richard Prince: Pre-Appropriation Works, 1971 - 1974
  • recent objects
  • critical theory
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 21 x 15 cm.
  • 136 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0306803038

Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp, Pierre Cabanne, Robert Motherwell, Jasper Johns, Salvador Dali

"In the original French edition of this book, Pierre Cabanne wrote, shortly before Duchamp's death: 'These interviews with Marcel Duchamp took place in his sutdio at Neuilly [near Paris], where he and his wife live during the six months they spend in France each year. ... [details]

New York, NY : Da Capo Press, n.d.
in stock
Condition: Fine. Light overall wear.
[Object # 16315]
Surrealism Reviewed
  • audio CD
  • 12.5 x 14 cm.
  • 74 min.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Surrealism Reviewed

Tango Argentinos, Herbert Read, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau, Max Ernst, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupault, Man Ray, Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, Robert Desnos, Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Antonin Artaud

Audio CD. "For the very first time, original recordings by key artists, writers, poets and theorists are now gathered together on a single volume. The various recordings, made between 1929 and 1963, include poetry, interviews, lectures and manifestos. ... [details]

Norfolk, United Kingdom : LTM Recordings, 2002
$30.00 US
Condition:  Fine. In publisher's shrink wrap.
[Object # 11972]
  • exhibition catalogue
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 28.7 x 25.5 cm.
  • 264 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0810961245

A Century of Artists Books

[Clothbound]

Riva Castelman

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 23, 1994 - January 24, 1995. Text by Riva Castleman. Large-scale catalogue documenting not artists' books but rather livre d'artiste or livre de peintre style publications. ... [details]

New York, NY : Museum of Modern Art, 1994
$175.00 US
Condition:  Fine. As issued.
[Object # 7375]
The Avant-Garde Book 1900 - 1945
  • exhibition catalogue
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 28 x 20.5 cm.
  • 68 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

The Avant-Garde Book 1900 - 1945

Jaroslav Andel, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Arp, Hugo Ball, Ernst Barlach, Herbert Bayer, Henryk Berlewi, Pierre-Albert Birot, William Blake, Georges Braque, André Breton, David Burliuk, Vladimir Burliuk, Paolo Buzzi, Francesco Canguillo, Josef Capek, Carlo Carrà, Blaise Cendrars, Giorgio de Chirico, Tullio d'Albisola, Salvador Dali, Sonia Delaunay, Fortunato Depero, André Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Conrad Felixmüller, Pavel Filonov, Paul Gauguin, Natalia Goncharova, Werner Gräff, Juan Gris, Georg Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Richard Huelsenbeck, Georges Hugnet, Iliazd (Ilia Zdanevich), Max Jacob, Marcel Janco, Alfred Jarry, Frantisek Kalivoda, Wassily Kandinsky, Lajos Kassak, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Klutsis, Oskar Kokoschka, Alexei Kruchenykh, Alfred Kubin, Mikhail Larionov, Fernand Léger, El Lissitzky, René Magritte, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Kasimir Malevich, Stéphane Mallarmé, Fillipo Tomasso Marinetti, Frans Masereel, André Masson, Ludwig Meidner, E.L.T. Mesens, Ljubomir Micic, Joan Miró, László Moholy-Nagy, Vítezslav Nezval, Roland Penrose, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Heinz & Bodo Rash, Man Ray, Odilon Redon, Hans Richter, Alexander Rodchenko, Zdenek Rossmann, Olga Rozanova, Kurt Schwitters, Ardegno Soffici, Laurence Sterne, Wladislaw Strzeminski, Jindrich Styrsky, Léopold Survage, Ladislav Sutnar, Yves Tanguy, Karel Teige, Solomon Telingater, Jan Tschichold, Tristan Tzara, Josef Váchal, Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Piet Zwart

Exibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held February 24 - May 6, 1989. Text by Jaroslav Andel. Artists featured in the exhibition include: Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Arp, Hugo Ball, Ernst Barlach, Herbert Bayer, Henryk Berlewi, Pierre-Albert Birot, William Blake, Georges Braque, André Breton, David Burliuk, Vladimir Burliuk, Paolo Buzzi, Francesco Canguillo, Josef Capek, Carlo Carrà, Blaise Cendrars, Giorgio de Chirico, Tullio d'Albisola, Salvador Dali, Sonia Delaunay, Fortunato Depero, André Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Conrad Felixmüller, Pavel Filonov, Paul Gauguin, Natalia Goncharova, Werner Gräff, Juan Gris, Georg Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Richard Huelsenbeck, Georges Hugnet, Iliazd (Ilia Zdanevich), Max Jacob, Marcel Janco, Alfred Jarry, Frantisek Kalivoda, Wassily Kandinsky, Lajos Kassak, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Klutsis, Oskar Kokoschka, Alexei Kruchenykh, Alfred Kubin, Mikhail Larionov, Fernand Léger, El Lissitzky, René Magritte, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Kasimir Malevich, Stéphane Mallarmé, Fillipo Tomasso Marinetti, Frans Masereel, André Masson, Ludwig Meidner, E. ... [details]

New York, NY : Franklin Furnace, 1989
$45.00 US
Condition:  Fine. Covers and contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 16871]
in stock
Condition: Fine. Light cover wear. Note from Franklin Furnace director loosely laid-in.
[Object # 10396]
Dèjà Vu : Masterpieces Updated
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white
  • 27.9 x 21.5 cm.
  • 83 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Dèjà Vu : Masterpieces Updated

Ronald E. Steen, Robert Anderson, Roger Arst, Walter Askin, David Baze, Joan Beck, Jack Butler, Judy Chicago, John Clem Clarke, Caroline Cochrane, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, James Endicott, Edgar Ewing, Sabato Fiorello, Ethel Fisher, Burton Frederickson, Stephen Geldman, Joseph Goldyne, George Herms, David Hockney, Bruce Houston, Don Lagerberg, Gary Lavasser, Tom Leeson, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Pettibone, Robert Ryan, Betye Saar, Miriam Shapiro, Miriam Slater, Masami Teraoka, Joyce Treiman, Mel Ramos, James Volkert, Ruth Weisburg, David Whalen, Sam Wilson

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Downey Museum of Art, June 25 - September 3, 1978. Traveled to Citrus Community College Art Gallery, September 11 - 29, 1978. Text by Ronald E. ... [details]

$20.00 US
Condition:  Good / Very Good. Slight dog-ears at top right page corners. Very minor soiling on front and back covers. Contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 16623]
Memoir of an Art Gallery
  • reference book
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 22 x 15 cm.
  • 230 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Memoir of an Art Gallery

Julien Levy

Personal memoir by Julien Levy, founder of the Julien Levy Gallery. Levy opened his gallery in 1931, and assembled the first Surrealist exhibition to open in New York in 1932. With contributions from Max Ernst, Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Giorgio di Chirico, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, Arshile Gorky. ... [details]

New York, NY : C.G. Putnam's Sons, 1977
$75.00 US
Condition:  Very Good. Lacks dust-jacket. Inscription by author on first inner page. Contents clean and otherwise unmarked.
[Object # 14439]
in stock
Condition: Good. Minor wear on edges of jacket; small loss on one corner. Name of previous own, in ink, on inside dust-jacket flap and on first free endpaper.
[Object # 10817]
Önskemuseet : The Museum of Our Wishes
  • exhibition catalogue
  • wrappers with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • tipped in image[s]
  • black-and-white & color
  • 16.5 x 24 pp.
  • 76 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Önskemuseet : The Museum of Our Wishes

Gerard Bonnier, Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Raoul Dufy, Emil Nolde, Edwin Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Oscar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, Chaim Soutine, Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, Roger de la Fresnaye, Henri Laurens, Amédée Ozenfant, Juan Gris, Alexander Archipenko, Jacques Lipchitz, Giacomo Balla, Ardengo Soffici, Carlo Carrà, Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini, Francis Picabia, Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Piet Mondrian, El Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, Antoine Pevsner, Georges Vantongerloo, Sophie Tauber-Arp, Naum Gabo, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Alexander Calder, Charles Despiau, Andre Derain, Maurice Utrillo, Amedeo Modigliani, Otto Dix, Ben Shahn, Marie Laurencin, Constantin Brancusi, Julio Gonzales, Paul Klee, Giorgio de Chirico, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Juan Miró, Andre Masson, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Alberto Giacometti, Wilfredo Lam, Victor Brauner, Salvador Dali, Sebastian Matta, Henry Moore, Roger Bissière, Jean Bazaine, Maurice Esteve, Alfred Manessier, Nicolas De Staël, Auguste Herbin, Serge Poliafkoff, Victor Pasmore, Barnett Newman, Richard Mortensen, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, Henri Michaux, Jean Dubuffet, Germaine Richier, Francis Bacon, Wols, Asger Jorn, Alberto Burri, Antonio Tapies, Karel Appel, Mark Tobey, Fritz Hundertwasser, Mark Rothko, Archile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Sam Francis, Robert Jacobsen, Robert Rauschenberg, Enrico Baj, César, Jasper Johns, Richard Stankiewicz, Jean Tinguely, Arman, Yves Klein

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held December 26, 1963 - February 16, 1964. Includes introduction by Gerard Boniier as well as additional text by Olle Granath, K.G. Hulten, Ulf Linde and Karin Bergqvist Lindegren. ... [details]

Stockholm, Sweden : Moderna Museet Stockholm, 1963
$25.00 US
Condition:  Good / Very Good. Cover shows shelf wear including some scuffing and one .5 cm and one 1.5 cm. tear. Contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 14496]
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