Robert J Smithson (9 results)

Condition: Good. 1952. No Edition Remarks. 96 pages. Blue dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout and similar frontispiece. Pages bright with some tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Binding remains firm. Dedication to front pastedown. Boards have slight shelf wear with mild marking and corner bumping. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping and mild rubbing and marking. Spine mildly tanned and sunned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Pages clean and tight/no markings/former owners name on inside cover/slight sticker residue upper inside corner/BOXG-31.

Condition: Good. 1952. No edition remarks. 96 pages. Blue dust jacket over blue cloth. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Heavy sunning to head of spine. Boards are mildly warped. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable foxing. Moderate tanning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The dustwrapper is rubbed and has discolouring, some wear to the edges and corners, with some small rips and chips to the edges. The blue boards are lightly rubbed with some bumping to the edges, with clear lettering to the spine, tanning lines to inside covers. The binding is firm. The pages are clean with light tanning and crease free. This book has 96 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.…

Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. 176 pages. Blue jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In stock.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2009 Whitechapel Gallery paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: THE REVIVAL OF BEAUTY Dave Hickey Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty Kathleen Marie Higgins Whatever Happened to Beauty? A Response to Danto Elaine Scarry On Beauty and Being Just Wendy Steiner Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art Suzanne Perling Hudson Beauty and the Status of Contemporary Criticism Saul Ostrow The Eternal Problem of Beauty's Return Arthur C. Danto The Aesthetics of Brillo Boxes Alexander Alberro Beauty Knows No Pain Diarmuid Costello, Arthur C. Danto, Anna Dezeuze, Martin Donougho, Thierry de Duve, James Elkins, David Raskin, Dominic Willsdon, Richard Woodfield The Art Seminar CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS Theodor Adorno On the Concept of the Beautiful Jacques Derrida The Sans of the Pure Cut Griselda Pollock Woman as Sign: Psychoanalytic Readings Jay Bernstein Beauty and the Labour of Mourning Fredric Jameson Transformations of the Image in Postmodernity Thierry de Duve Kant after Duchamp Jason Gaiger Incidental and Integral Beauty: Duchamp, Danto and the Intractable Avant-Garde T.J. Clark Vulgarity Caroline A. Jones The Discourse of the Studio Meets the Technological Sublime John Roberts Replicants and Cartesians Mark Cousins The Ugly Mark Hutchinson Nausea: Encounters with Ugliness Simon O'Sullivan Art and the Political: Minor Literature, War Machines and the Production of Subjectivity POSITIONS Rosalind Krauss The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Robert Morris's Paradoxes Robert Smithson An Aesthetics of Disappointment Andy Warhol On Beauty Rasheed Araeen Cultural Imperialism: Observations on Cultural Situation in the Third World Gerhard Richter Notes Paul Wood Truth and Beauty: The Ruined Abstraction of Gerhard Richter Leon Golub and Nancy Spero Interview with Adrian Searle Agnes Martin Interview with Irving Sandler Alex Katz Interview with David Sylvester John Currin Interview with Robert Rosenblum Wendy Steiner On Marlene Dumas Art & Language On Painting Rudolf Sagmeister Endangered Beauty: On Gary Hume Christoph Grunenberg Attraction-Repulsion Machines: The Art of Jake and Dinos Chapman Vito Acconci Interview with Bryant Rousseau Leo Fitzmaurice Beauty (a list of possibilities).…

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 303 pages. Monograph published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that had three stops in Oslo, Norway, Stockholm, Sweden and Ishoj, Denmark. Features text contributions by Per BJ Boym, Anette Osterby, Tim Martin, Vibeke Petersen, and Stian Grogaard with much of it in English. Includes numerous color and some black and white illustrations and a checklist. A very good plus copy in wrappers with some bumping to the corners. A fairly ucommon book on this important American artist who sadly died at the young age of only thirty five.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 72 pages. Features: Nice one-page photo ad for the Dodge Custom Royal V-8 Lancer Convertible; Photo ad of De Soto Indy pace car with De Soto President L.I. Woolson at the wheel; Super one-page color-photo ad for Palm Beach sportswear features golfers Cary Middlecoff and Gene Littler at the Thunderbird Country Club in Palm Springs; Nice one-page color ad for Wilson Patty Berg golf clubs; Article on the St. Louis Cardinals; Article on the Indianapolis 500 - with great color photos; Race horse Nashua; Great two-page photo of boxer Ray Robinson standing over Bobo Olson; Photo of Georgia Tech football practice - wearing 'space-suits; The Ultimate Storm (part 2) - with lovely photos of William A. Robinson beside his self-made Tahitian home, his daughters and wife; Photos of these Indy drivers in their cars - Giuseppe Farina, Paul Russo, Pat Flaherty and Jim Bryan; Georgia Tech's new Aeck dome under construction - article with photo; Tuna fishing at Cat Cay in the Bahamas - article with color photos; Photo of beautiful trampolinist Paulette Nelson; Photos of dog owners J. Horace Lytle, Frank Straw and Jack Greene; Nostalgic color-photo ad for Coopers boxer shorts inside back cover features five young men. Nice one-page color-photo ad for Jantzen shorts features young man with walking stick; Jimmy Jones of Calumet Farm; Nice one-page color-photo ad for Evinrude 'quiet' outboard motors shows water skiers putting their boat in the water. Average wear. Address label mostly removed from front cover. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Lyon, Fred (cover); Broadhead, W. Smithson (illustrator).…