Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Design Books

Reykavik, Iceland: Tolli, 2003. This is a near fine hardcover copy in a good dust jacket. The book has been signed by both Tolli and Ari Trausti on the half-title page, dated Iceland 2004. Text in English, French and German. The book is illustrated in color with Tolli's paintings of Mt. Skessuhorn, a famous mountain in Iceland. 13" high X 9" wide, 175 pages. The opaque printed vellum jacket has several tears to the edges and a small drawing in pencil next to Tolli's printed name. . Signed by Artist.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good.

Neuchatel, Switzerland: Editions Du Griffon, 1962. This is a very good hardcover copy in an almost very good dust jacket. The jacket spine top has a chip. Completely clean inside and out. Small tasteful private collector bookplate on front endpaper. All texts by Yaacov Agam. Illustrated throughout in black & white with some color. The plastic record 'Musical Trans Forms' is in the glassine wrapper and pocket inside the rear cover. 12" high X 9" wide, 126 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Jerusalem, Israel: The Israel Museum, 1978. This is a near fine softcover copy with a near fine dust wrapper with almost no wear. Completely clean, faint tanning to wrapper edges. Text in Hebrew and English. Captions to plates in English, Hebrew and French. This is a selection of photographs by Israeli photographer Yaacov Ben-Dov (1882-1968), who arrived in Palestine around 1907 and studied at the famed Bezalel Art School. 50 black & white photographs of individuals and groups. Essay by Tetty Kadury. 9" square, unpaginated. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Japan: Kam Press, 1986. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good white slipcase with titles printed in gilt (lacking banner). Completely clean inside and out. Small bump to rear corner of text block. Text in Japanese. Hiro Yamagata (born Hiromichi Yamagata, 1948, in Maibara city, in Shiga prefecture, Japan) is a painter/artist, based in Los Angeles, California. He is considered one of the most famous silkscreen artists in Japan, because of his use of vivid colors. He has recently become known as a master of laser and hologram technology. He is recognized as a pioneer of contemporary laser art. 92 full page color plates. 12" square. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Japan: Gunma Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, 1985. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Text completely in JAPANESE. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Mie Prefectural Museum in 1985. Kaoru Yamaguchi (1907-1968) was born in Gunma Prefecture and studied oil painting at Tokyo University of Arts. He then went to Paris and studied there for three years. After returning from Paris, he and his friends formed "Shin-Jidai-Youga-ten", "Jiyu-Bijutsuka-Kyoukai" and "Modern Art Kyoukai". Also he took up teaching at Tokyo University of Arts. Checklist with 127 works catalogued. Chronology. Page of black & white photographs of the artist's different signatures (15 photos). Pages of black & white vintage photos of the artist and family, colleagues, etc. 60 color plates + 68 black & white plates + several pages of photographs of prints and sculptures. Scarce. 11" high X 8" wide, 166 pages. This… Read More

Tokyo: Nerima Kuritsu Bijutsukan, 2007. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text all in JAPANESE. Except titles of illustrations also in English. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition of Yamaguchi Akira (1969- ) in Tokyo at the Nerima Kuritsu Bijutsukan in 2007. Illustrated in color and black & white, with 69 color plates + many black & white images + two photographs of the artist working in his studio + installation shots of the exhibition. 12" high X 8" wide, 63 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.

Paris: Musee du Louvre Editions , 2009. This is a fine hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. Signed in ink on the half title-page, by the artist, Yan Pei-Ming. Text in French. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Louvre from February to May 2009. Yan Pei-Ming (1960- ) born in Shanghai. Essays by Henri Loyrette and Bernard Marcade. Interview with Yan Pei-Ming by Marie-Laure Bernadac. Biographical sketch. Exhibition history. Illustrated with color photographs of the installation, including a fold-out, and black & white reproductions of paintings. 10" high X 12" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Signed by Artist.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

Shanghai, China: OCT Contemporary Art Terminal , 2013. This is a fine hardcover copy, two books bound together, without dust jackets, as issued, with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in English and Chinese. Illustrated in color and black & white, 7" high X 9" wide, unpaginated. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Fine.

New York: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2009. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. This is a facsimile collection of documentation about Allan Kaprow's famous installation/ happening event in New York in 1961. Illustrated in black & white with vintage photographs of the event. Laid in is a large folded double sided poster with more instructions from Kaprow. Catalog 12" high X 9" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.

Tokyo Shimbun, 1975. This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Text in English and Japanese. This catalog was prepared to accompany the traveling exhibition that first opened at the University Art Museum at Austin, Texas, then on to the Elvehjem Art Center in Wisconson, then the Georgia Museum of Art at Athens, Georgia. The the exhibition traveled to Japan at the Bridgestone Museum of Art from September 6 to October 26, 1975. Then on to Nagoya,The Prefectural Museum of Aichi, from October 29 to November 10; then to Kobe, the Museum of Modern Art Hyogo from November 15 to December 21, 1975. The last stop was the Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada in early 1976. Essay by Donald Goodall. Other texts by Atsuo Imaizumi, Alexander Brook, Paul Jenkins and Hideo Tomiyama. Chronology. Illustrated in black & white + 12 color plates. List of works. 9" square, 172 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with… Read More

Tokyo, 1987. This is a very good softcover copy with light cover wear, rubbed edges. Completely clean. Text all in JAPANESE except for the list of works in the collection, also in English. 35 color plates + 53 smaller black & white images. 10" square, 118 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

New York: The Society of Beaux-Arts Architects and of The Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, 1929., 1929. This is an almost very good hardcover copy in the original paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine and black & white photograph of the facade of the Institute of Design on the front cover. Boards worn around the edges. Inside completely clean, no marks to text, illustrations or ads, save one small old handstamp identifying it as once in a design school collection, to the inside front cover. Illustrated in black & white with reproductions of the work of members. Ads in black & white and color. 12" high X 9" wide, 94 pages.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Kehrer Verlag, 2017. This is a near fine hardcover copy with almost no wear, one tiny dent to top edge of front board., corner of one text page wrinkled due to binding defect. This copy has been SIGNED by Marc Erwin Babej and Agnieszka Artych, in black marker, on the title-page, and playfully dated in Roman numerals to the year 2770. Not inscribed to anyone just signed and 'dated'. Text in English and German. This monograph was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany in 2017. Illustrated throughout in black & white with photographs and drawings, including fold-outs. The exhibition at the museum was actually a performance of Marc Erwin Babej's production titled 'Mercury Theatre'. The Director and also principal actor was Agnieszka Artych. Essays by about a dozen scholars. Chronology. Bibliography. 10" high X 8" wide, 219 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and… Read More

Paris: Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, 2008. This is a very good softcover copy with light wear. Lower rear corner creased affecting the last about 20 pages. Completely clean inside and out. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Hear, Earth, Heart" held at Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont Paris, in the spring of 2008. Includes an interview by Jerome Sans. Text in English. Illustrated throughout in color with photographs of Yi Zhou's sculptures, drawings, videos, animations and performances. 12" high X 10" wide, 159 pages + 10 page illustrated index. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Rotterdam, 2004. This is a very good softcover copy with one library handstamp on the second page. Otherwise completely clean and free of marks. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam from May 15 to September 5, 2004. Illustrated throughout in color. Essays by Manthia Diawara, Jaap Guldemond, Gabriele Mackert, John Picton, Angela McRobbie, Peter Bailey, Onyema Offoedu-Okeke and Achille Mbembe. Biographical sketch. Bibliography. 11" high X 8" wide, unpaginated. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Takis Efstathiou, 1980. This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Center in 1980. Foreword by Gerald Nordland. Remarks by John Berry. Statement by Ynez Johnston. Illustrated in black & white with 21 plates. Biographical sketch. Exhibition history. Bibliography. 12" high X 8" wide, 36 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Florida: Tomlyn Gallery , 1994. This is a very good softcover folder containing a c.v. for Ynez Johnston and a gallery checklist of her artworks + 21 black & white plates (complete), loose in the folder. Completely clean, light cover wear. All of the works presented here are bronze sculptures. No prints or drawings. The sculptures vary in size from 11" to 75" high. 12" high X 9" wide. This book will be securely wrappedand shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Paris: Galerie Enrico Navarra, 1991. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Clear acetate or mylar cover fine. Text in French and English. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition in Nice, France at Galerie Enrico Navarra's booth at the Art Jonction International, Palais des Expositions, May 23 to 27, 1991. Essays by Arturo Silva and Pierre Provoyeur. Texts by the artist. Illustrated throughout in color with 50 large plates.The paintings are all from 1990.11" high X 10" wide, 136 pages. Also laid in is a large folded card announcement for the same show in Japan at Amuser, Ginza Komatsu in 1992. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.

Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, 1997. This is a very good softcover copy with only light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Spine not creased. Text in English and Japanese. Introduction by Atsushi Tanaka. Essays by Masanori Ichikawa and Yasuhiro Shimada. Yorozu Tetsugoro (1885- 1927) was a leading Japanese painter at the turn of the 20th century, very much influenced by the artists in the School of Paris. About 1912 he became a founder of the Fyuzankai (Fusain Society), a group of Japanese artists moving past the Impressionists into the world of Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism. Profusely illustrated in color and some black & white. 11" high X 9" wide, 265 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Tokyo: M Gallery , 1987. This is a fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean. Text in JAPANESE, with English titles of works. Signed by the artist, Yoshiaki Tono, in ink on the title-page and humorously inscribed to an art gallery owner in New York. Illustrated throughout in color. 11" high X 8" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.. Signed by Artist.. Soft Cover. Fine.