Ashton Dore Preface (8 results)

Condition: New. Brand New.

Paperback. 35p., color illustrations, wraps. Catalog of works by Carl Fredrik Reutersward, working under the alias of Arnold Forel Pratt-Muller, who is supposed to be a wealthy philanthropist. The catalog and works play off the concept of art as a financial instrument and vehicle for investment and speculation.…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1-2000 unnumbered copies. 8vo. Unpaginated [46 pp.]. Illustrated with 13 full-page color reproductions. Original stiff glossy pictorial French-style wrappers. This is a tight, fine book.

Corris, Michael. AD REINHARDT. Preface by Dore Ashton; 240 pp., no illustrations. 8vo, boards. London, Reaktion Books, 2008.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 40 [8] pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm.

Couverture souple. Condition: Comme neuf. Edition originale. Paris 2005. 1 Volume/1. -- Comme Neuf, non coupé. -- Broché cousu. Couvertures à rabats. Format 18,8 x 12,2 cm ( 62 gr ). ------ 47 pages , in-fine. ********************** Dans l'analyse du caractère de Rothko que fait Motherwell, il a souvent exagéré les racines juives de Rothko et tenu pour preuve de la dimension yiddish de Rothko son intérêt pour la parabole d'Abraham et Isaac. Quand il se donne le rôle de Stéphen et donne à Rothko celui de Bloom, d'après Ulysse de Joyce, quand il oppose le juif et le celte, le penchant de Motherwell pour le romanesque est évident. Il était, je pense, philosémite et essayait de faire jouer à Rothko un rôle de l'Ancien Testament que Rothko lui-même n'aurait jamais approuvé. En réalité, Rothko ne ponctuait jamais chacune de ces phrases du vieux «oy» yiddish et n'avait rien du n rabbin. Ceux qui persistait en à le voir ainsi n'étaient généralement pas juifs. D'après ma propre expérience, qu'au été bientôt. D'après ma propre expérience, Rothko était bien plutôt un produit des romanciers russes qu'il avait lus dans sa jeunesse. (extrait de la préface de Dore Ashton). ************************ ref att 888.…

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Large 4to. in colour printed thick boards, 118pp on thick art paper, colour printed folding frontispiece and endpiece, colour plates, illustrations in text, large folding sheet in pocket at rear (a fake Herald Tribune with centrefold in French on Reutersward's 'Kilroy' series). Text in French . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW unmarked copy ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

First Edition. Laid in materials: three invitation cards, including one for this gallery exhibit, John Levee's exhibit on gouaches, and Lee Boltin's Pre-Columbian Objects exhibit; four André Emmerich Gallery pamphlets including the Pre-Columbian Sculpture exhibit, Adolph Gottlieb's artwork, John Levee's art exhibit on gouaches, and the artwork of Theodoros Stamos; one signed postcard to Dr. E.M. Mendelson from André Emmerich inviting him to see the new gallery; one illustrated gallery poster on Pre-Columbian Art / Mexico Central America Peru 1000BC - AD 1500 / Stone Pottery Textiles Jade and Gold; one pamphlet on A Seminar on the Art of the Ancient Cultures of the Americas. Quarto (27.5cm); orange paper-covered boards stamped in black in spine and covers; [6],7-40,[8]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Lightly spine-faded, with light shelf-wear and soil, and modest rubbing to board edges; Very Good. This is Volume II in a continuing series of publications, with this text published in conjunction with its art exhibition of the same title in May 1967, and prefaced by the gallerist. [87782].…