Longo Robert Et Al (8 results)

Softcover, 206 pages, very good condition, no internal marks, clean and crisp. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Condition: Very good. - Folio [approximately 13 inches high by 9-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black-and-white wrappers with a cover portrait of Grace Jones by Robert Mapplethorpe. The wraps are lightly rubbed with the corners slightly creased. Unpaginated. Profuse illustrations and pictorial ads in color and black & white, many of them full-page. Very good. The illustrations include 5 full page classic color photographs of his Weimaraners by William Wegman. The text includes interviews with Ben Kingsley, William Wegman, John Lurie, Grace Jones and Robert Longo.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. From the collection of New York poet, Tom Savage and may contain minor markings from the poet in the book. We may request additional monies for international shipping, based on actual costs. Cover and/or pages may be lightly soiled/faded/discolored due to age or minor damage. Martens, Robert (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Back cover has a single faint 1/2 inch abrasion--visible in photo. Interior contents of book are fine.

Hardcover. Condition: New. \"I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals," Roland Barthes famously said. "I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object." For evidence of this dictum, one need look no further than Cars, the 1986-87 series of silkscreen prints and paintings that Andy Warhol (1928-1987) executed at the behest of Mercedes-Benz in honor of the esteemed German automaker's centenary. This volume of the same name collects Warhol's silkscreens together with the work of three other artists featuring Mercedes-Benz automobiles: drawings and airbrush paintings by Robert Longo (born 1953), videos by Sylvie Fleury (born 1961) and Vincent Szarek (born 1973), who takes design elements from the Mercedes-Benz SLR as the starting point for the sculptures depicted here.…

First Edition. First Edition. Small octavo. Twenty-four page exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a group show held at Semaphore Gallery, September 10th - October 3rd, 1981. The exhibition, a precursor of the New York East Village sensibility, featured work by John Ahearn, Robert Colescott, Peter Dean, Dan Freeman, Jedd Garet, Mike Glier, Mimi Gross, Keith Haring, Robert Longo, Alice Neel, Ed Paschke, Mark Schwartz and Greg Smith. From the introduction: "There is no intention to present any 'school' of artists, but, rather, a wide selection of figurative artists whose common concern is a passion for provocative imagery." Features thirteen black and white illustrations and brief artist's biographies. Close to fine in staple-bound printed wrappers.…

Paperback. Condition: As New.

Broadside poster (10.5 x 16.5 inches) announcing a group exhibition at Semaphore Gallery (Sep. 10 - Oct. 3, 1981), curated by Barry Blinderman. Featuring John Ahearn, Robert Colescott, Peter Dean, Dan Freeman, Jedd Garet, Mike Glier, Mimi Gross, Keith Haring, Robert Longo, Alice Neel, Ed Paschke, Mark Schwartz, and Gregg Smith; the group of 13 artists (2 women and 11 men) appropriately represented in the accompanying graphic. Faint vertical foldlines, else fine. …