Publications
Melissa Meyer
“Melissa Meyer: Sketchbooks, 1993 - 1995”
Letterset on Magnani paper.
Texts by Allan Gurganus and Robert Klitzman, M.D.
Printed by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, Italy.
Paper size: 13.25 x 10 in.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. Hardcover.
Description: Facsimile sketchbook with 26 color plates. Gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards with cover label; linen slipcase with mounted label. Vibrant color illustrations, most of which are two-page spreads, accompanied by an interview with the artist by Allan Gurganus, and a two-page essay by Robert Klitzman. A beautiful book.
Deluxe Edition of 425.
Price $300
Deluxe Edition of 75, including one original watercolor by Melissa Meyer, 11 x 8 in., signed and dated in ink on verso, laid into pocket inside rear cover.
Price $3,000
Alex Katz
“Alex Katz”
Written by Carter Ratcliff, Edited by Vincent Katz
The definitive Alex Katz book, like his iconic paintings, is larger than life. With more than 300 images, many unpublished, and a searching profile by an art historian who has studied the painter for more than half a century, this monograph charts the development of Katz's singular American style. Alex Katz has found his audience. It's not the first time. Over seven decades, the artist has developed his vision with determination as the tides of avant-garde and academic fashion ebbed and flowed. His first audience was other painters (including de Kooning and Philip Guston), and today, still, he is perhaps best understood by other artists: those who appreciate how difficult it is to make something so simple, so well. Working in a representational style while his classmates celebrated Abstract Expressionism, eschewing slick surfaces for a pared-down view while his peers went glossy with Pop, Katz cleaved to one vision, a few locations, and subjects. Katz's endurance and commitment to developing an original American style is explored in depth, from his boyhood influences to an artistic circle that included John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Lois Dodd, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Fairfield Porter, Yvonne Rainer, Larry Rivers, and Paul Taylor.
Sketches, works on paper, and archival material selected by the artist's son, the poet Vincent Katz, give a fuller picture of the painter and his world. The more than 250 paintings--reproduced at an unprecedented scale--will be the most comprehensive collection available in a single publication.
About The Author
Carter Ratcliff is an American art critic, writer, and poet. His books on art include John Singer Sargent, Robert Longo, The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art, and Andy Warhol: Portraits. Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and curator. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry.
Publish Date: October 13, 2020
Format: Hardcover
Category: Art - Individual Artists - Monographs
Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
Trim Size: 11 x 11
Pages: 416
US Price: $150.00
CDN Price: $200.00
ISBN: 978-0-8478-6618-2
Paul Binnie
“Paul Binnie: A Dialogue with the Past”
The First 100 Japanese Prints
Eric van den Ing
Price: $79.00 + $9.95 shipping
In this ground breaking book the career and work of contemporary woodblock print artist Paul Binnie (b.1967) is presented. Binnie’s complete Japanese prints are illustrated in colour and many other reference photographs are provided as well, ensuring that the reader is given an insight into his working methods and his sources of inspiration. The in-depth essay provide the context of the more than 100 prints Binnie has made to date. An indispensable book for all those interested in 20th century Japanese woodblock prints and the very newest prints being created today.
The Female Image
“The Female Image - 20th Century Japanese Prints of Japanese Beauties”
Shinji Hamanaka and Amy Reigle Newland
Published by Hotei Publishing, 2000.
216 pp. 280 color illustrations.
Hardback, 9 x 12 in.
Price: $147
The female image is a comprehensive survey of the genre of bijinga (‘prints of beautiful women’) produced in the Shin hanga tradition that evolved in the early 20th century. This bilingual (Japanese/English) publication is lavishly illustrated with works from Japanese, European and American public and private collections. Prints by major artists such as Hashiguchi Goyo (1880-1921), Torii Kotondo (1900-76) and Ito Shinsui (1898-1972) are included, as are examples from more obscure print designers which have rarely been reproduced.
Designed for Pleasure
“Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860”
Editors: Julia Meech and Jane Oliver
Publisher: Asia Society/Japanese Art Society of America/ University of Washington Press, April 2008
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Price: $375 plus postage
Designed for Pleasure brings together paintings, prints, and illustrated books featuring images known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world. The carefully selected images present the principals of that realm—the actor, the artist, the courtesan, the poet, the publisher, the patron—and they also reveal the confluences and contradictions in a time of enormous social, cultural, and economic change in Japan.
This book examines the floating world of popular culture centered in Edo (modern Tokyo) during the period between 1680 and 1860, when Japan transformed itself from an agrarian to a booming commercial economy. By 1710, Edo was the largest city in the world, with a population of over a million. We know so much about this time in part because of the vast body of imagery created and treasured by succeeding generations. The artists and writers held a looking glass up to their heady world and, in the process, to themselves. Fads and fashions proliferated, and this highly literate, consumer-driven society insisted on being up to date. Innovative color printing techniques fed the demand for ever-new information.
Print publishers, mindful of a business opportunity, also responded to the clamor for representations of the public’s cherished heroes. Their stables of artists not only produced mass-market prints and books, but used their connections in the literary salons of the day to secure commissions from the wealthy and elite for luxury paintings and printed works.
Building on the existing body of ukiyo-e scholarship, a team of renowned experts presents a new perspective and an expanded view of the visual culture of Edo Japan and the way in which art became more accessible to a new class beyond the ruling elite. The volume authors showcase individuals—adding to the already substantial scholarship on Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Utamaro—including the father of ukiyo-e, Hishikawa Moronobu; the artist and publisher Okumura Masanobu; the color innovator Suzuki Harunobu; the master publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo; and the brilliant painter Katsukawa Shunsho. Rather than focus on one artist, one school, or one artistic medium, Designed for Pleasure presents the best of ukiyo-e, in their three primary manifestations: paintings, prints, and illustrated books.
Julia Meech is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan and the editor of Impressions, the journal of the Japanese Art Society of America. Jane Oliver is an editor and consultant in Asian art. Other contributors include John T. Carpenter, Timothy Clark, Julie Nelson Davis, Allen Hockley, Donald Jenkins, David Pollack, Sarah E. Thompson, and David Waterhouse.
Daniel Kelly
“Daniel Kelly: An American Artist in Japan”
by Daniel Kelly
Foreword by Banana Yoshimoto
Commentary by Hollis Goodall
Price: $50.00 + $9.95 shipping
Kyoto-based artist Daniel Kelly has won international renown for his portrayal of Japanese themes in arrestingly unconventional forms. His paintings and prints of people, fish, paper lanterns, and landscapes are noteworthy for their innovative textures and materials, and for their physical impact-from some of the largest woodblock prints in Japan to “wall sculptures” that seem ready to explode from the wall on which they hang. His work has attracted the attention of leading art museums around the world and is held by a variety of prestigious institutions including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the British Museum.
Daniel Kelly: An American Artist In Japan chronicles Kelly’s journey as an artist from his arrival in Kyoto in the late 1970s to the present day.
Full-page, full-color reproductions of eighty-five of his most important works from this period are accompanied by a comprehensive, illustrated catalogue raisonne of all his editioned prints from 1977 to 2009, making this volume a must-have for collectors, students, and anyone with an interest in portrayals of Japan through contemporary art.
Size: 280×228 mm, 990 g
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128 full color, 86 color plates of selected works.
Tom Wesselmann
“Tom Wesselmann The Late Prints: Still Life, Nude, Landscape”
Exhibition catalogue, November 2013
Text by Marco Livingstone
A 60 page catalogue with 25 full colour illustrations, full print documentation and biography
Published by Alan Cristea Gallery, 2013
Price: $40.00
Robert Kipniss
“Robert Kipniss: Paintings and Poetry, 1950 - 1964”
by Marshall Price (Author), Robin Magowan (Author), Robert Kipniss (Artist)
2013
12.3 x 10.5 x 0.9 inches
144 Pages
Published by The Artist Book Foundation (November 30, 2013)
Marshall N. Price is curator of modern and contemporary art at the National Academy Museum, New York. Award-winning poet Robin Magowan is based in Santa Fe. Among his numerous books are a travel collection, an autobiography, and volumes of poetry.
Price: $95
autographed + $20 shipping and handling
Robert Kipniss
“Robert Kipniss – A Working Artist’s Life”
by Robert Kipniss
Price: $95 autographed + $20 shipping.
Robert Kipniss
“Robert Kipniss Intaglios 1982 – 2004”
Intro and documentation by Trudie A. Grace, essay by Thomas Piche Jr.
Published by Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2004.
183 pages, 156 color illustrations.
Hardback, 9 x 12 in.
Price - Signed: $100
Robert Kipniss has been widely known for several decades as a painter and printmaker producing works evocative of intense contemplation and rendered with extraordinary technical facility. Part of Kipniss’s reputation lies in his frequent use of the mezzotint technique in a highly personal manner that involves showing the action of the hand in the intimate act of drawing. While his choices of subject matter-landscapes, views of houses, and still lifes-link him to representational art, Kipniss’s distillation of forms produces formal interactions that often verge on the abstract.
Robert Kipniss: Intaglios 1982-2004 reproduces 139 intaglio prints including mezzotints, drypoints, roulette prints, and etchings. Hand colored mezzotints, drawings, and paintings are also illustrated. Kipniss’s intaglios are found in many of the foremost public and private collections in the United States and Europe.
Thomas Piché, Jr., is former senior curator at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. Dr. Trudie A. Grace, former associate curator of the National Academy of Design, New York City, is curator of the Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum, Cold Spring, New York and lectures on art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.
Robert Kipniss
“Robert Kipniss: Intaglios 1982-2004; Deluxe Edition”
Intro and documentation by Trudie A. Grace, essay by Thomas Piche Jr.
Published by Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2004.
183 pages, 156 color illustrations in cloth slipcase with embossed title in both the slipcase and binding.
Hardbound deluxe edition with two artist signed prints; Interior w/mountain, 2004 and Nocturne w/six trees, 2004, created specifically for this edition.
Deluxe edition size: 150 + 25 artist proofs
Signed and numbered.
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
Robert Kipniss
“Robert Kipniss Paintings 1950 – 2005”
Forward by: E. John Bullard, essay by Richard J. Boyle.
Published by Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2007.
148 pages, 102 color illustrations.
Hardback, 9 x 12 in.
Price - Signed: $100
This stunning monograph of the paintings of Robert Kipniss is the culmination of nearly forty years work. His paintings, like his print work, are evocative of intense contemplation and rendered with extraordinary techincal facility. While Kipniss’s choice of subject matter varies from landscape to still life to a mixture of structures and natural forms they all share a sense of mystery, grace and quiet solitude. Although linked to representational art, Kipniss’s paintings produce formal interactions that often verge on the abstract. His work can be found in major collections in the United States and Europe.
Robert Kipniss
“Robert Kipniss: Paintings 1950 – 2005; Deluxe Edition”
Foreword by: E. John Bullard, essay by Richard J. Boyle.
Published by Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2007.
148 pages, 102 color illustrations, cloth cover in slipcase with embossed title in both the slip case and binding.
Deluxe edition with one artist signed print; Silver Morning, 2007, created specifically for this edition.
Deluxe edition size: 300 signed and numbered copies + 25 artist proofs. Signed and numbered.
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
Robert Kipniss
“A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
In 1981, Robert Kipniss was asked to illustrate a bi-lingual publication of the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke by C.F. MacIntyre. The result was the beautiful suite of ten black and white lithographic prints, bound into the limited edition of 2000 copies, published by The Limited Edition Club. The effect is described by Dr. Karl Lunde in his book, Kipniss: The Graphic Works; i.e. In these lithographs the artist makes tangible the elegiac poetry of the piercing beauty of landscape when experienced alone, and holds it in poignant solitude for our contemplation…Kipniss’s prints represent the emergence of purity and wonder. These poetic landscapes and objects are dreams which lead us to discover the special unity of man and nature.
In the artistry of Robert Kipniss and Rainer Maria Rilke, man’s relation to the universal is a vital concern, though one expresses himself in the written work and the other in a graphic medium that has no language but the universal. The ten lithographs that Kipniss has made for the Selected Poems of Rilke evolve from years of communion by the artist with Rilke’s poetry – specifically with his favorite translations, the MacIntyre versions. [1]
A rarely available, limited publication of boxed sets of A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, printed in colors, published concurrently with the limited edition of the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke. These colored suites, published in 1981, inscribed and signed by the artist and boxed along with the associated poems by Rilke in an edition of 120 with 15 A.P.’s and 10 H.C.’s.
Price: $4,500
[1] The Monthly Letter of The Limited Edition Club, January 1981, Number 518.
Illustrations
Robert Kipniss
“The Poems from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
Robert Kipniss
“Lament from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
Color Lithograph
6 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
Inscribed and signed
Robert Kipniss
“Initiation from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
Color Lithograph
6 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
Inscribed and signed
Robert Kipniss
“The Neighbor from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
Color Lithographs
each 2 3/8 x 3 in.
Inscribed and signed
Robert Kipniss
“Summer Rain from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
Color Lithograph
6 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
Inscribed and signed
Robert Kipniss
“A Woman's Fate from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
Color Lithographs
each 2 3/8 x 3 in.
Inscribed and signed
Robert Kipniss
“The Parks from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
Color Lithograph
6 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
Inscribed and signed
Robert Kipniss
“Leda from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
Color Lithographs
each 2 3/8 x 3 in.
Inscribed and signed
Eight Parts Full: A Life in the Tokyo Art Trade A Memoir by Sakamoto Goro
“Eight Parts Full: A Life in the Tokyo Art Trade A Memoir by Sakamoto Goro”
Editors: Julia Meech and Jane Oliver
Publisher: Japanese Art Society of America
Format: Paperback, 183 pages
Price: $75 plus postage
Anita Klein
“Anita Klein - Through the Looking Glass”
A fully illustrated 120 page book with introductory essays by Molly Mackey and Vincent Eames.
Published to coincide with a groundbreaking solo show across two central London venues,
‘Through the Looking Glass‘ is a visual celebration of an artist’s life lived in two very different
cultures, and features over 70 full colour reproductions of Anita’s latest paintings and prints.
Published by Five Leaves with support from the Arts Council.
Price £24.99
Anita Klein
“Anita Klein Painter – Printmaker”
A fully illustrated 60 page book with an introductory essay by Mel Gooding.
Published by Five Leaves with support from the Arts Council.
Price: $25.00
Limited Edition of 75
Signed and accompanied by a correspondingly numbered and
signed etching; i.e. Remembering.
Price $250.00
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