Constructivism by George Rickey (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Printing is stated on the Copyright Page, $15.00 Publishers Dust Jacket Price, B/W Illustrations, Much Edge Wear to the Dust Jacket, Not in Collectors Condition but a VG Reading/Working Copy.

Cloth Over Board. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Rough w/ Protective Cover. tight binding; clean pages; discoloring due to age; dust jacket has tears Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable.

Hardcover with dustjacket, 306 pages; poor to fair condition; spine slanted; dj yellwed and stained; foxing and staining to outer page edges and inside front covers; library stamp to 1 page; no other internal marks; errata slip taped in. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 2nd. xi, 306 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. *** Beginning in Russia and peaking in the late teens and early twenties, before Social Realism took over in the new Stalinist Soviet Union, Constructivism became an international phenomenon, partly because of a diaspora of artists practioning in that style. This is one of the better-known, canonical surveys of the movement, written by the American sculptor George Rickey. *** CONTENTS: PT. 1. THE LEGACY OF CONSTRUCTIVISM. I. Origins. II. The Non-Objective World in Russia. III. Constructivism and De Stijl. IV. The Bauhaus and Constructivism Between the Wars. V. The New World and New Thought. VI. Postwar Developments. VII. The New Generation; PT. 2. THE HEIRS AND THEIR WORK. I. Classic Order. II. New Ideas of Space. III. Reliefs. IV. Tangents and Pressures. V. The Centered Image. VI. Mathematics and Concrete Art. VII. Chance. VIII. Micro-elements. IX. Optical Phenomena. X. Movement. XI. Light. XII. Color. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Original hardcover, no jacket, 305 pages, index, b + w illustrations throughout. Condition: book is solid and square with some wear from both age and reference. There is a translucent stain to inside back cover from previous contact with water; related light waviness to pages at bottom edges. Creme colored cloth boards have some rubbing and soiling, few small stains and spots. Previous owner name on endpaper. The spine is slightly fragile. Ordinary reading wear otherwise. Overall, some blemishes and wear, but a very suitable reference copy. gc5.

Buckram. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. First Edition. Ivory buckram, lettered and with front panel decoration in black. Lightly soiled cloth. Minimally ex-library, with institutional book plate mounted on front pastedown and stamp on lower title page, circulation pocket mounted on rear pastedown though the book never actually circulated, otherwise unmarked. Firm binding, clean interior. xiii,305 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

hardcover. Condition: very good(-). Many black & white illustrations. Small square 4to, white cloth (some sunning & soiling on covers). New York: Brazillier, (1967). First printing. Foxed edges, still a very good(-) solid copy, internally clean.

Condition: good. Fast Free Shipping â" Good condition. It may show normal signs of use, such as light writing, highlighting, or library markings, but all pages are intact and the book is fully readable. A solid, complete copy that's ready to enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xi, 305 pages : illustrations. Second printing, 1969. Publisher's binding sturdy, corners sharp, slight slope to spine; contents mildly age-toned but unmarked. Light edgewear and sunning to dust jacket. 1200 grams.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 0807613819 pgs:317. 1995 revised edition, bright clean copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First printing. Errata slip laid in. Tear on bottom front of dust jacket with tape repair on back side. Numerous black and white illustrations. Bibliography and index. Background on the Constructivism art movement. Clothbound in white with title on spine and design on front cover. Photographic dust jacket. Dust jacket unclipped. Wear to all edges of dust jacket. 8vo, 305pgs.

paperback. Condition: Softcover. Softcover. New, unused. Free of any markings and no writings inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 2nd printing. DJ design by Jennie Bush. Decorated binding, design not attributed. Prior owner's stamp on DJ and FFEP; otherwise, unmarked pages. Copiously illustrated with drawings and photographs. Protected in an archival wrapper. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Condition: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket tanned along spine, with a couple tears on the front.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. George Rickey (illustrator). 1st Edition. a near fine copy in the original black and white grass texture cloth in a very good dj under mylar brodart. profusely illustrated by many sculptors of the Constructivism school including George Rickey a famous sculptor of large displays indoor and outdoor. sub title: Origins and Evolution a key treatise.

Condition: Good. 4to. Hard Cover Cloth Bound, [ca. 300 pp.] First printing, B&W Plates. Very good with Sunning. Dust Jacket Very Good with Creasing, Abrasions, Sunning, Age Toning, Tearing. Provenance: From the library of the San Francisco Gallerist Pasquale Iannetti.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Revised Edition. 306 pp. Index. Bibliography. Illus. French flaps. Light edgewear, corners rubbed. Front flap price-clipped. Provides the frameworks to understand this importnat 20th century art movement. Over 350 illustrations. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

Hardcover with dustjacket, 306 pages; dj in poor condiiton with lots of tears and creases; internally very good condition, clean and crisp,inscribed to For Arthur Cohen / George Rickey / New York June 13 1968 on first page; with owner s bookplate on inside front cover; no other internal marks; errata slip laid in. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First Edition, 2nd printing. DJ design by Jennie Bush. Decorated binding, design not attributed. Prior owner's stamp on DJ and FFEP; otherwise, unmarked pages. Copiously illustrated with drawings and photographs. Protected in an archival wrapper. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Condition: Very Good Condition DJ is in fair condition with some paper loss, tears and yellowing. First printing of first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Pp xi, blank, Contents, blank, 1-305. Black and white illustrations throughout. Tipped in errata on verso of title page. Slightly foxed and browned on free end papers. Red cloth covered boards, gilt titling on spine. Very small wear to top of spine panel of dj and tiny wear to the front bottom fore-corner. Otherwise near fine. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.".

Hardback. Condition: Very good. 2nd Printing. 21 x 25cm 306pp very good hardback in dust jacket with some minor wear. Constructivism, the early twentieth-century art movement founded in 1915 by Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko. Abstract and austere, constructivist art aimed to reflect modern industrial society and urban space. The movement rejected decorative stylisation in favour of the industrial assemblage of materials.[ Constructivists were in favour of art for propaganda and social purposes, and were associated with Soviet socialism, the Bolsheviks and the Russian avant-garde. Packed with black and white reproductions. Comes with a loosely inserted card with a lengthy message to the recipient of the book, signed George Rickey, Berlin 11/10/1977.

George Braziller, New York 1995. Large 8vo. 306 pages. Orig. cover. Very Good+. * Revised edition.