Jed Perl (651 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($25.00 price intact). Published by Knopf, 2008. Octavo. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

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First Edition. small 8vo, pp. (207) A fine copy in dj. with 44 Illustrations. A biography and discussion of the noted painter.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. FIRST edition, first printing. Fine in near fine DJ. Unmarked.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.02.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Crisp, unread, unmarked copy. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Minor wear to spine ends. Two inch crease to front flap of dust jacket, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 431pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A few small marks on the back cover; the rest of the magazine is clean and unmarked. Mailing label on the front cover. Light wear to edges of back cover. One 1/2" edge tear in the bottom edge of the back cover. The lower left corner of the back cover is creased. Some pages have a light crease or wrinkle in the upper right corner. Very little wear otherwise. The magazine will be packed with a backing card, bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Who Was Rembrandt?" (As the authorship of half his paintings has been reattributed or at least challenged, long-smoldering debates about the most powerful self-portraitist of all time return to their basic questions. Will we ever know the real identity of the old master behind the masks, the man who so profoundly transformed the visual arts?" by Robert Kenner; "Armchair Revolutionary" (The seat of the greatest revolution in the history of biological thought was literally that: an armchair in the study at Down House, where Charles Darwin sat and write his monumental works. One of the most important evolutionary theorists of the twentieth century contemplates the home of his nineteenth-century spiritual mentor and happily reports that, unlike many houses of famous people, Down is not the passive repository of Darwin's early insight, but the site of his active genius) by Stephen Jay Gould; "Amish Expressionism" (The unlikely and provocative kinship between quilts made by Amish women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and paintings by some of the twentieth century's best abstract artists) by Frank Miele; "Thrones of the Soul" (To most people, the name Bugatti means the car. But there's another Bugatti--the designer who's finally getting the attention he deserves as creator of the most original Italian furniture ever made) by Donna Dorian; "Camera and Action" (A portfolio and last visit with photographer Hans Namuth, the man whose pictures of the people who paint pictures put abstract expressionism on the map) by Carol Strickland; "International Report" (An uncertain season, with a few players dominating the field) by Geraldine Norman; "Value Judgments" (Is your sterling silver really a metal mutant?) by Emyl Jenkins; "Critic's Notebook" (Architectural jokes and their unfunny punch lines) by Hilton Kramer; "Inside Story" (George Seurat's eloquent silence) by Hugh Kenner; "Notes from the Editor"; "Letters"; "Sketchbook" edited by Robert Kenner; "Openings"; "The Market"; "In the Galleries" (Multidimensional Matters) edited by Jed Perl; "Books"; "Queries"; and "Credits".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No missing or clipped pages. Spine is a little curled. Front cover and pages are clean. Very slight soiling and speckles of dirt on the back cover. Slight wear to edges of covers and spine. The magazine will be backed with cardboard and carefully packed in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Overrated Masterpieces: In a magically comical (and strangely sad) tour de force, one of America's greatest novelists, fed up with the 'red rant of unearned praise,' compiles a highly personal list of sacred cows unworthy of their status--from Leonardo's you-know-what to Fred Astaire's twinkling toes--lines them up, takes aim, and knocks them down. Hey, there's nothing so convincing as an opinion." -- by Stanley Elkin; "The Last Belle of Beaumont: One of Texas's own First Ladies tells the flamboyant Texas-style tales of W.P.H., Miss ida, and Mamie, the eccentric and colorful inhabitants of the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas" by Liz Carpenter; "Point of Views: Cape Canaille--a cliff in Provence that looms over a tiny fishing village--has been drawing painters to their easels for 150 years. A poet who lived there takes the measure of the results." by Henry Cole; "In the House of Orange: The story of Het Loo, the Dutch royal retreat in which the theatrical splendors of the palace of Versailles met the bourgeois comforts and values of the good burghers of Amsterdam" by Tamara Glenny; "High-Wire Act: Is Thomas Krens, the Guggenheim's ambitious director, a madman who must be stopped or a visionary who is redefining the concept of a museum as we know it?" by Geraldine Norman; "Field of Dreams: A Special Section: Our correspondents around the country, armed with whatever was in their piggy banks, provide the complete summer survival guidde to flea marketing in America"; "International Report: A legal crackdown in Japan and its echoes elsewhere" by Geraldine Norman; "Value Judgments: Will the real Southern sideboard please stand up?" by Emyl Jenkins; "Critic's Notebook: Was surrealist Max Ernst really any good?" by Hilton Kramer; "Inside Story: Man Ray's mirrored look at America's avant-garde" by Hugh Kenner; "Notes from the Editor"; "Contributors"; "Letters"; "Sketchbook" edited by Robert Kenner; "Openings"; "The Market"; "In the Galleries: Nature studies: from cozy to comic" edited by Jed Perl; "Books"; "Queries"; and "Credits".

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Very Good condition magazine. Previous owner's initials in the upper right corner of the front cover. Very slight soiling to front and back covers. Light water stain and slight wrinkling to lower left corner of the front cover, and parallel spots on inside front cover and first 30 or so pages until it fades out altogether. Will be backed with cardboard and shipped in a sturdy box to ensure safe delivery. This issue includes: "Joan Jonas: The Mirror Staged: Jonas's performances, originally solo works of ritualistic self-scrutiny, have recently evolved into dramatic spectacles" by Howard Junker; "Noble Dust: The misleadingly titled 'Search for Alexander' show contained some extraordinary archeological finds" by Franz Schulze; "Modernism and Melodrama: Two recent shows betray a love-hate affair with 'literary' content on the part of certain advanced artists" by Carter Ratcliff; "Pistoletto's American Campaign: On a recent cross-country tour, this Italian artist exposed us to his vision of art as a social action" by Marjorie Welish; "Iso-morphisms: The designs of Japanese architect Isozaki successfully fuse Eastern notions of space and time with Western formal idioms" by Martin Filler; "Hockney Abroad: A Slide Show: A friend of the artist wittily chronicles David Hockney's itinerant career" by Henry Geldzahler; "Review of Books: American Vistas" by Peter Schjeldahl; "Review of Books: Critical Manners: Adrian Stokes" by Bill Berkson; "Review of Books: Goya, Father of Us All?" by Carter Ratcliff; "Review of Books: The View from the Coffee Table" by Jed Perl; "Artworld"; "Report from London: 'The Artist's Eye'" by Richard Cork; and "Review of Exhibitions".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Corners bumped, corner of one leaf folded in bindery error. Jacket crimped at corners and extremities of spine.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Illustrated. (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. VG in wraps 8vo 431pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: Used - Very Good. 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. xxiv, 431 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Small remainder mark/tail edge. First paperback edition. New York critic Perl's reviews from 1986-90. *** CONTENTS: FIRST SEASON: 1986-1987: A case of retro madness; Picasso's sketchbooks; What I saw in September; Letters from Paris: whose century was it, anyway?; Jottings along the way; The Leland Bell show; Jasper's seasons; Paul Klee now; The shows must go on; Welcome to Berlin. SECOND SEASON: 1987-1988: Pollock and company; Photography and beyond; O'Keeffe in the capital; From September to December; Working Stella; What's major? What's minor?; Yes!; Letters from Paris: Obituaries and retrospectives; In the galleries; King of dropouts; All around the town; Hockney's people. THIRD SEASON: 1988-1989: Announcements; A dissent on Kiefer; Notes on art and politics; International episode; Master Courbet; Autumn alphabet; Letter from London: they do it their way; How simple everything could be!; Avida dollars; Keeping the faith; Comedy of styles; Letters from Paris: bicentennial blahs; Seeing Mapplethorpe. FOURTH SEASON: 1989-1990: Viva Velazquez; Diasporisms; The legend business; Yup pups love Babar; Half a dozen contemporaries; Classics without commercials; Paradise now; Mixed media; Being Balthus; Successes; Fallout out of love with photography; That was the season that was. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Text clean and tight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 184 pages.