Cubism and Abstract Art by Barr (38 results)

Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). 25.0 x 19.5cms 250pp b/w illusts very good paperback & cover The chapters include: 2 main traditions in abstract art impressionism to fauvism analytical cubism futurism abstract expressionism abstract painting in Paris synthetic cubism Brancusi constructivism the Bauhaus purism abstract films photography abstarct dadaism abstract tendencies in surrealism the younger generation.

Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 680.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. 480.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Cubierta envejecida.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint Edition. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Reprint edition, published by Arno Press for The Museum of Modern Art. Wear to board edges, otherwise very good.

Condition: Very good. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1974)., (1974). Very good. - Quarto, 10 inches high by 7-3/8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in color illustrated black & white wraps. The covers are lightly bumped. 249 pages, illustrated in black & white. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. ** 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING ** From April 1936. Former library book, otherwise Very Good condition. Internally Near Fine. One of only 3000 copies printed. With colophon at the bottom of the last page (p. 250) that reads: "Three thousand copies of this catalog were printed for the Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art by The Spiral Press, New York, April, 1936." Includes the often missing errata slip tipped in at the copyright page detailing 18 important corrections to the book's contents. Very well-made, weighty book, bound in very sturdy, heavy-duty cloth-covered boards, with the title in orange diagonally on the front, and in black on the spine, pages of coated glossy paper. NOTE: EX-LIBRARY, please expect library markings and indicia. With 223 black-&-white plates cataloging 386 works, with brief biographies of the artists, extensive bibliography, and an essay by museum director and curator Alfred Barr, Jr. spread over 180 of the 250 pages in the book. MOMA founding director Alfred H. Barr, Jr. assembled an astonishing and wide-ranging exhibition of works of painting, drawing, print-making, sculpture, architecture, furniture, theater design, and typography. A fundamental volume and source-book for the modern art movement, and a key to the exhibition that formed the pedigree for modern art and set the standard followed by the museum to this day. A bit of wear and a touch of fraying to the cloth at the top of the spine, somewhat less wear to the spine bottom, micro spots of wear at the corner tips, perhaps some slight darkening to the cloth binding from age. The book is quite clean and stain-free, square and straight, firm and tight in its binding, no pages are loose, torn, folded, creased, or missing. The hinges are sound and undamaged, the corners are unbumped. Internally Near Fine (slight age-toning to the pages). All pages are clean and stain free, and all text and illustrations are sharp and legible. Aside from the usual library markings, there is no writing, underlining, highlighting, or other such markings in the book. Five-star seller, buy with confidence, professional booksellers for 35 years, selling books online since 1995. B15.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Green and gray cloth, library-style binding. Some light edgewear - In our rare books collection Oversized.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 20 x 26cm 250pp fair hardback exhibition catalogue, no dust jacket, boards marked and worn, inside board has a Pratt Institute Library sticker, front end paper, a previous owner's handwritten namee a lending library foirm on the rear end paper, a white library classification number on the outer edge of spine. Divided into many different categories: Painting, Sculpture, Constructions, Photography, Architecture, Industrial Art, Theatre, Films, Posters and Typography complemented by black and white reproductions.

Condition: Good. 4to. Softcover, cloth binding. [ca 60 pp.] B&W Plates. Good, small portions of front and back cover torn on fore-edge, portion of title page cut out. Publisher written on cover. Formerly a library book.

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 249 pages. Catalog for this landmark exhibition that features a long essay by Alfred H. Barr Jr. who was the founding director of The Museum of Modern Art. Includes sections on cubism, futurism, cubist scupture, abstract painting in Russia, Abstract art in Holland: de Stijl: Neo-Plasticism, Purism, Abstract Dadaism, and others as well. Includes numerous illustrations of works by the likes of Brancusi, Picasso, Duchamp, Malevich, Jean Arp, Kandinsky, Gauguin, Gris, Lissitzky, Gabo, and others. Features a catalog by Dorothy C. Miller and Ernestine M. Fautl, and a bibliography by Beaumont Newhall. An about very good copy in cloth boards with some slight loss to the spine ends, some soiling to the boards and some other wear as well. No dust jacket. Still, a solid copy of this very important reference.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this important catalogue for the groundbreaking Museum of Modern Art exhibition from March 2-April 19, 1936. The exhibition was "key to establishing the pedigree for modern art proposed by Museum of Modern Art Founding Director Alfred H. Barr, Jr., a narrative that continues to shape the Museum's presentation of modernism to this day. In the introduction to the catalogue, Barr declared that the day's most adventurous artists 'had grown bored with painting facts. By a common and powerful impulse they were driven to abandon the imitation of natural appearance.' To demonstrate the breadth of this modernist impulse toward abstraction, Barr assembled a wide-ranging exhibition of nearly 400 works of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, furniture, theater design, and typography." (MoMA). Featuring 223 black and white plates, brief biographies of the artists, an extensive bibliography, and a 180-page essay. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1936. Publisher's original tan cloth, red-orange lettering to cover, black lettering to spine; pp. 250, errata slip present. In very good condition. Binding sturdy and square, minimal shelfwear, boards show foxing with minor soiling and rubbing, internally clean with minor foxing to the first few pages. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition April 1936. No jacket. Soiling to boards, bumping to corners, fraying to top of spine, foxing/discolouration to top edge Grubbiness to endpapers and pastedowns, light water stain to the top and fore edge of most pages but not extending to the text or images which otherwise remain unmarked, occasional light foxing. 223 B&W images. Catalogue to this groundbreaking exhibition of 386 works, with brief biographies of the artists, extensive bibliography, and 180-page essay. MOMA Founding Director Alfred H. Barr, Jr. assembled a wide-ranging exhibition of nearly 400 works of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, furniture, theater design, and typography. 249 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: dscf10829.

Hardcover. Origianl Edition April 1936. Tan cloth with red-orange lettering. 249 pp. 223 BW plates. Catalogue of 386 works, with brief biographies of the artists, extensive bibliography, and 180-page essay by Alfred Barr, Jr. Covers topics such as Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Neo-Pasticism, Purism, abstract art in Paris, Russia, Germany, Holland. Also includes sections on abstract films, photography, Dadaism, abstract tendencies in Surrealist art, the Bauhaus, and Brancusi. 3000 copies printed. This copy includes a photocopy of the front panel diagram from the original dustjacket and a photocopy of an article from 1966 detailing the inadequacies of the original edition as well as the reprint edition of this (an other) volumes by MOMA. Exceptionally scarce, a very nice copy with very light soiling and light foxing to the covers. Also includes a photocopy of the original errata sheet. "Arraying words and arrows in an art historical 2-space, Alfred Barr's famous diagram illuminated the influential exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art. Set in appropriately modern Futura type, the art chart simultaneously served as a beautiful cover for the catalog, a table of contents for the show, an organizing history of the art displayed in the museum, and a symbol of the entire enterprise. Barr, then Director of the Museum of Modern Art, imaginatively replaced the conventional typographic catalog-cover with a provocative flow chart, a didactic genealogy of interacting isms" (Edward Tufte, Beautiful Evidence, p.65). VG a solid and tight, internally clean copy with light soiling and age-toning to the covers and fading to the spine, tiny ding to top edge of front cover.

Hardcover. Origianl Edition April 1936. Tan cloth with red-orange lettering. 249 pp. 223 BW plates. Catalogue of 386 works, with brief biographies of the artists, extensive bibliography, and 180-page essay by Alfred Barr, Jr. Covers topics such as Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Neo-Pasticism, Purism, abstract art in Paris, Russia, Germany, Holland. Also includes sections on abstract films, photography, Dadaism, abstract tendencies in Surrealist art, the Bauhaus, and Brancusi. 3000 copies printed. This copy includes a photocopy of the front panel diagram from the original dustjacket and a photocopy of an article from 1966 detailing the inadequacies of the original edition as well as the reprint edition of this (an other) volumes by MOMA. Exceptionally scarce, a very nice copy with very light soiling and light foxing to the covers. Also includes an original errata sheet, loose. "Arraying words and arrows in an art historical 2-space, Alfred Barr's famous diagram illuminated the influential exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art. Set in appropriately modern Futura type, the art chart simultaneously served as a beautiful cover for the catalog, a table of contents for the show, an organizing history of the art displayed in the museum, and a symbol of the entire enterprise. Barr, then Director of the Museum of Modern Art, imaginatively replaced the conventional typographic catalog-cover with a provocative flow chart, a didactic genealogy of interacting isms" (Edward Tufte, Beautiful Evidence, p.65). VG a solid and tight, internally clean copy with significant soiling and staining along the right edge of the front cover, and large ugly letters on the top right of the ffep with a prior owner's name in black ink and another owner's name towards the middle in red pencil. Othwrwise, this is a rock solid and clean copy with little signs of use.

Hardcover. Origianl Edition April 1936. Tan cloth with red-orange lettering. 249 pp. 223 BW plates. Catalogue of 386 works, with brief biographies of the artists, extensive bibliography, and 180-page essay by Alfred Barr, Jr. Covers topics such as Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Neo-Pasticism, Purism, abstract art in Paris, Russia, Germany, Holland. Also includes sections on abstract films, photography, Dadaism, abstract tendencies in Surrealist art, the Bauhaus, and Brancusi. 3000 copies printed. This copy includes the front panel diagram from the original dustjacket and an article from 1966 detailing the inadequacies of the original edition as well as the reprint edition of this (an other) volumes by MOMA. Exceptionally scarce, a very nice copy with very light soiling and light foxing to the covers. Also includes the original errata sheet tipped onto the backside of the title-page. "Arraying words and arrows in an art historical 2-space, Alfred Barr's famous diagram illuminated the influential exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art. Set in appropriately modern Futura type, the art chart simultaneously served as a beautiful cover for the catalog, a table of contents for the show, an organizing history of the art displayed in the museum, and a symbol of the entire enterprise. Barr, then Director of the Museum of Modern Art, imaginatively replaced the conventional typographic catalog-cover with a provocative flow chart, a didactic genealogy of interacting isms" (Edward Tufte, Beautiful Evidence, p.65). VG a solid and tight, internally clean copy with light foxing to the top of the front cover.

Condition: Good. The Museum of Modern Art, New York Hardcover. No jacket. April 1936 edition. Title running diagonally across front in red type. Some fraying to upper and lower spine and corners. Pencil inscription on front fly leaf. "Corrections" flap inserted between copyright page and table of contents. Binding is apparent but intact, still tight.

FIRST EDITION [ONE OF 3,000 COPIES], 223 monochrome reproductions of various artists in the exhibition, errata slip following title-page (once tipped-in, but the adhesive now browned and dried, showing slightly to inner margin), pp. 249, 4to, original beige cloth, lettered in black to backstrip and red to upper board, a couple of tiny faint spots to edges, the first-state dustjacket (with the arrow between 'Machine Esthetic' and 'Futurism' added by hand) in superb shape, minor scrape to rear panel, backstrip panel gently browned and a couple of tiny nicks, very good. A lavish catalogue for an important exhibition - the publication principally of note from a design point of view for the curator's diagram on the dustjacket's front panel, charting the development of abstract art from the 1890s through to the present day. Edward Tufte, assessing it from an infographic point of view, writes: 'Arraying words and arrows in an art historical 2-space, Alfred Barr's famous diagram [.] simultaneously served as a beautiful cover for the catalog, a table of contents for the show, an organizing history of the art displayed in the museum, and a symbol of the entire enterprise. Barr [.] imaginatively replaced the conventional typographic catalog-cover with a provocative flow chart, a didactic genealogy of interacting isms' (p. 65). This is the best example we have seen.