Walter Hopps Introduction (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, xix, 312 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Edited by Deborah Treisman, from interviews with Anne Doran. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist Edward Kienholz, where he turned the spotlight on a new generation of West Coast artists. Ferus was also the first gallery ever to show Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans and was shut down by the L.A. vice squad for a show of Wallace Berman's edgy art. At the Pasadena Art Museum in the sixties, Hopps mounted the first museum retrospectives of Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell and the first museum exhibition of Pop Art--before it was even known as Pop Art. In 1967, when Hopps became the director of Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art at age thirty-four, the New York Times hailed him as 'the most gifted museum man on the West Coast (and, in the field of contemporary art, possibly in the nation).' He was also arguably the most unpredictable, an eccentric genius who was chronically late. (His staff at the Corcoran had a button made that said WALTER HOPPS WILL BE HERE IN TWENTY MINUTES.) Erratic in his work habits, he was never erratic in his commitment to art. Hopps died in 2005, after decades at the Menil Collection of art in Houston for which he was the founding director. A few years before that, he began work on this book, a vivid, personal, surprising, irreverent, and enlightening account of his life and of some of the greatest artistic minds of the twentieth century." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published for the William Coply "Trust Lust Heed Greed" exhibition, September 6 - October 1, 1991, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL. Clean and tightly bound in stapled wraps with translucent endpapers. Contents are fine. One rear corner is creased and very slight edge wear, remains almost fine.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. First Edition. HBDJ, 1968, 1st american Edition, originally published in german 1963, Black cloth Red lettering Spine, F/F-, DJ light rub, wear & tiny Chips Extremities,221 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

1st Paperback Ed. Large Sq. 4to. [iv] + 284pp. Colour illus. half title, double page colour illus. title page, profusely illus. throughout mainly in colour. Good in lightly rubbed original red yellow & white lettered coloured pictorial laminated limp card wrapps., head and tail of spine sl. chipped, corners sl. rubbed and creased. Additional postage may be necessary US$52.

Artists exhibited were Barnett Newman, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Robert Irwin, Donald Judd, Larry Poons & Frank Stella; 72 pages, illustrated A crease on the rear wrapper (cover) and front & rear wrappers rubbed otherwise a clean good exhibition catalog.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Robert Williams. First paperbound edition. This is a large, colorful softcover volume chock-full of the fevered, delirious paintings of Robt. Williams. In fine condition. 284 pages. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed & signed by Kate Trauman Steinitz on the title page. This octavo volume in dust jacket contains the entire libretto of Collisions. Included with this book is a small archive of additional material: a picture postcard from Steinitz with a long message to the original owner of this book; several newspaper articles including a couple obituaries of the author, two copies of a memorial of her by noted Los Angeles bookseller, Jake Zeitlin; an article clipped from a 1985 issue of Time Magazine by Robert Hughes; some correspondence from Steinitz to the book's owner and several other printed items relating to Schwitters and Steinitz's work. The book contains B&W illustrations. Condition: minor wear & age-darkening to the DJ which also has slight nicking to its edges; else a near fine copy in very good DJ. Pages: xxviii, 221. Inscribed by Author(s).

Fantagraphics Books - 1999 - In-4, broché, format carré, couverture souple illustrée - 283 pages- Nombreuses reproductions en couleurs hors texte et photographies en N&B in texte Bon état - Frottements et plis sur la couverture - Plis de lecture au dos (voir photos).