Kouros Gallery (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Paperback.

Paperback. Condition: VG. Text free of underlining, writing and highlighting. Very nice clean copy. T-lere are many ways to view a roomful of Lawrence Fane's sculptures: is a field of well-hewn implements with no apparent function; as a mind full of ripening kernels of thought; as a discarded group of cultural artifacts of indeterminate age and origin; or even as archeological objects of the future?like handmade R2D2s. While the sculptures may sometimes look almost familiar, we find it hard to place them, and yet they assume quizzical postures as if asking us to decifer them. Few artists expose their thought processes, intentionally or inadvertently, as clearly as Fane does. In fact, the act of thinking, more than anything, could be considered his subject. His wood sculptures express themselves with the directness of drawing. Ultimately, the product is the process, in terms of thought and material, so it follows that Fane would be more a modeler then a constructor and that he would shun fabricators. It's a writerly approach, in the way accidents of thought, inadvertent gestures, and the tricks of tools, such as the swirled 24 pages.…

0 Includes illustrations. Very good. light shelf wear, ex museum stamp on blank flyleaf.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 23 pp.; ill., chiefly color plates, portrait, 25 cm.: Bright, sharp, clean copy with no ownership markings: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Paper. Condition: Good. Good paper copy ex. cat. 23 pp, 2 B/W and 25 4/C illus. *Stained throughout.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. This is a fine softcover copy, with no wear, very fresh and clean inside. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Kouros Gallery from November 7 to December 14, 1991. Essay by Diane Kelder. Biographies of artists involved. Illustrated in color and black & white. Essay compares the work of Piet Mondrian and Joaquin Torres-Garcia and examines the influence of the short-lived Paris group "Cercle et Carre" which both artists belonged to, and its impact on some of their younger contemporaries. 11" high X 8.5" wide, 39 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.…

Softcover. square, white stapled wraps w/ cover illustration. 16 pgs w/ 15 color plates. Vibrant color plates. Exhibition held October 17 - November 16, 2002. Also, includes illustrated gallery invite card featuring 'Soliloque, 2002' and price list for exhibiton pieces. Good+ (coffee staining to section of spine & upper cover edges; instances of light staining visible to these areas internally; otherwise, interior clean & bright. area of scoring to back cover; light marks & scuffs).…

Softcover. Condition: VG. White wraps. 10 pp. 7 color plates. Selections from the notebooks of Vana Xenou translated and edited by James Stone.

Softcover. Condition: VG. Pictorial stapled wraps. 23 pp. Numerous color plates. Essay by Carter Ratcliff.

Softcover. Condition: VG, some slight wear. Color wraps. [24] pp. 12 color plates.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 24 pp. Very Good. Soft Cover. Illustrated paper wraps. Staple binding. Color plates throughout. Text in English and Greek. Exhibition invitation laid in. Scarce.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz (1919-2019).

Condition: Good. 8vo. 23 pp. Soft illustrated wraps. Very Good+. Color and B&W plates throughout. Staple binding. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz.

Condition: Very good plus. First Edition. Scarce exhibition catalogue showcasing the vast spectrum of women's artistic talent from throughout the Americas, jointly exhibited at Kouros Gallery and Center for Inter-American Relations. Artists included: Barney, Alicia; Benglis, Lynda; Bessouet, Norma; Clark, Lygia; Gingras, Micheline; Gonzales, Beatriz; Graves, Nancy; Grostein, Marcia; Hartigan, Grace; Hoyos, Ana Mercedes;Leet, Wendy Knox; Mayer, Becky; Mendieta, Ana; Minujin, Marta; Modiano, Sara; Neel, Alice, Nevelson, Louis; Ohtake, Tomie; Okumura, Lydia; Parra, Catalina; Porter, Liliana; Rockburne, Dorothea; Sanin, Fanny; Schendel, Mira; Vicuna, Cecilia; Xando, Niobi. 11" x 8". Original bright blue saddle-stapled typographic wrappers. Faint rubbing and light scratches to extremities, small spots of yellow paint to rear wrappers. …

Condition: Good. [Exhibition catalogue]. 8vo. Oblong. 23 pp. Stiff, stapled glossy color illustrated wraps with large tan block in center. Very good with marginal rubbings along spine. Color plates. Thick beige end papers. Includes an essay by Carter Rattliff. Includes artist biography of selected one man and group exhibitions as well as selected permanent installations. Catalogue created to accompany an exhibition of works by Stephen Antonakos, held from September 6 through October 14, 1989 at Kouros Gallery in New York, NY. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz.…

Condition: Good. 4to. 24 pp. Very Good. Some creasing on cover. BW and Color plates. Soft covers.Provenance: From the estate of Gerald Nordland (1927-2019). Nordland was a museum director, art critic, educator and author. Dean of the Chouinard Art Institute (1960-64), Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA (1966-73), Milwaukee Art Museum (1977-85), and the UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1973-77). He is the author of over 60 publications, including books on Lachaise, Nakian, Diebenkorn and Frank Lloyd Wright.…

Condition: Good. 8vo. 6 page foldout brochure. 3 Color plates. Very Good. Minor rubs.Provenance: From the collection of UC Berkeley art historian Peter Selz (1919 - 2019).

Condition: Good. 8vo. [circa 6 pp.] 6-page Fold-out card, Very Good, Color Plates.Exhibit Announcement and Reception Invite. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz (1919-2019).

Condition: Good. 1 folded sheet (6 pages). Very Good+. Color plates throughout. Extremely Scarce.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz.