Machine Seen End Mechanical Age (89 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with metal covers, no dust jacket.? Light shelf wear to bright covers.? Contents clean and tight. 216 pages, index, notes, b&w photos and illus.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No. 1968 Ex Library Reflective metal binding with colour illustration to front . Black and white photographs by various artists. Good condition with wear to covers as shown in pictures. With the usual library stamps/stickers. NO Dust Jacket. U5A62.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine clean tight unmarked copy in publisher's elaborate illustrated metal covers. Some scratching to metal spine but the nicest copy of this title I have ever seen.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover with printed metal covers; 218 pages; very good condition: front cover image still very clean except small stain at upper left corner; rear of metal cover scratched; and spine has wear; internally very good; pages toned and a couple creased at upper right corner; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Metal covers, stamped in color. Near Fine. A book of a 1968 MOMA exhibition.

[NONE] 1968. (hardcover) Near fine. 218pp. 4to. Colour illustrated embossed tin covers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at MoMA November 27, 1968 to February 9, 1969. Sculpture, drawings, paintings, photographs, amd else that explore artists' depictions of technology, their themes and intent and how their work comments on the technology of their era. The cover shows light scruffing as may be anticipated given its medium; otherwise a fine (and impressive) copy.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Cover shows minor shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Decorated Metal covers. Many photos and drawings of Machines through the ages.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). First. Illustrated with black & white photographic illustrations. 216 pages. Short square 4to, embossed and painted metal covers, slightly scuffed on spine. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968. First edition. A bright copy in very good(+) condition. The 1968-69 exhibition of "comments on technology by artists of the Western world" from Leonardo Da Vinci to the present.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition (?). B & W and Color; 9.40 X 8.30 X 0.10 inches; 218 pages; Covers are most unusual, made out of stamped metal, with a very colorful front cover. Metal hinges; light rubbing, scuffing to covers and spine. Former owner's sticker and small sticker residue spot on front leaf. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with mostly b/w art from the 15th century [Leonardo da Vinci] to 1968 [Lillian Schwartz, et al]. Artist's index. This was one of the most important exhibitions of the 1960s dealing with art and technology. The show was held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 25, 1968 - February 9, 1969. Its curator K. G. Pontus Hultén described it as a "collection of comments on technology by artists of the Western world," particularly in the modern age when "the mechanical machine - which can most easily be defined as an imitation of our muscles - is losing its dominating position among the tools of mankind; while electronic and chemical devices - which imitate the processes of the brain and the nervous system - are becoming increasingly important." The exhibition traveled to University of St. Thomas, Houston, March 25 - May 18, 1969; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco June 23 - August 24, 1969. Extra heavy 4#.

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Sm4to. 9 5/8" x 8 1/2". 216pp plus frontispiece and plate at the end with text on verso. Exhibition catalogue (MOMA Nov. 25, 1968 - Feb. 9, 1969. Illustrations on every page from 15-207, mostly b&w, several in blue. First edition in original pressed metal boards, no dust jacket. Very good plus. Lower fore-edge corner on front panel has small bend. Light scuffs on front and back panels; several minor scratches on back panel. Internally clean. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Excellent condition. Text block and inside edges are tanned but readability is not impacted. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Special Hardcover made of metal (tin and galvanized steel). Moderate wear on cover and corners with some yellowing on pages throughout, quite a few scratches to front, heavy rubbing to back. Front page may be altered but otherwise good reading copy with photos and descriptions.

Hardcover. Color illus. & stamped metal covers with riveted spinel; 218 pp., profusely illus. in BW. "Offers selections from a Museum of Modern Art exhibition of works by artists of the Western World chosen as being comments on technology. Includes pieces by Calder, Duchamp, Kienholz, Picabia, Stankiewicz, Tinguely, and others, which utilize a variety of objects and materials, some being kinetic or motorized." -- WorldCat. VG- (Contents are clear but for light age toning to textblock and margins; some scuffing to metal covers; otherwise very nice.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1968.NEAR FINE+ hardcover book in illustrated embossed metal boards, as issued. First Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First Edition. DECORATIVE METAL BOARDS, BOTTOM EDGE BUMP, CLEAN COPY.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 216 pages. Metal cover. Many b&w illustrations throughout. A nice, clean copy. Record # 853206.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Square octavo. 216 [2] pp. Illustrated. Color pictorial metal covers. Covers rubbed and soiled with small stains, very good, lacking the cardboard slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. METAL COVER WITH SPINE RIVETS. SPINE HAS SOME OXIDATION. THE ENAMELED PICTORIAL FRONT COVER IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. A BETTER THAN USUAL COPY WITH A BETTER THAN USUAL PRICE. Size: SMALL QUARTO.

Reliure de l'éditeur. Condition: Très bon. Ed. originale. Broché, sous reliure métallique articulé par une charnière, le premier plat orné d'une composition en couleurs en relief (reliure de l'éditeur). Edition originale du catalogue de cette importante exposition organisée par Pontus Hulten. De Léonard de Vinci à Nam June Paik, étonnant panorama retraçant l'intrusion de la machine dans l'art. Nombreuses illustrations et notices sur Méliès, Boccioni, Malevitch, Duchamp, Picabia, Calder, Bellmer, Tinguely, Oldenburg, Takis.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine+. First Edition. Hardcover. Tin covers silkscreened with raised and painted illustration on front; hinged, with a tin spine, bright and sharp, small dent and some scuffing to back. First edition. Book is firm in binding, mild age toning to interior. Contains mostly b&w plates of work by Calder, Duchamp, Ernst, Feininger, Lissitzky, Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, Picabia, Schwitters, Tatlin, Tinguely and many others. A very nice copy. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 216 pages.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 216 pp. Very Good with staining on pages and rusting on edges of covers. Hard cover. Embossed and printed metal board covers with hinged binding. Mostly Color plates. Featuring works by Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Fernand Leger, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Breer et al. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Vg. No Jacket. First Edition. 216 pgs. b/w illustrations of exhibits.Catalogue of the exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art, 25 Nov. 1968 - 9. Feb. 1969. The catalogue is notable for its striking design by Anders Osterlin, and its covers unusual fabrication from pressed metal, hinged along the spine. Front cover is bright and lightly rubbed. Back cover lightly scratched and a little tarnished. The catalogued works are divided into Art, Invention, Car, Camera and Experiments in Art and Technology and includes early examples by artists such as Durer and Leonardo da Vinci, but predominantly focuses on the technological and artistic explosion of the 20th century. Artists featured include Hans Bellmer, Alexander Calder, Charles Chaplin, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, El Lissitzky, Man Ray, and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Museum of Modern Art, 1968. Hardbound book. Book is in Good condition, embossed and screenprinted aluminum boards show overall handling and shelfwear, spots of printing loss to the front panel, some rubbing and oxidization to rear panel and spine, metal-hinged and riveted binding is secure, corners are sharp, interior is clean but for light, even toning and a small area where an address label might've been on the front free endpaper, otherwise text and images are free of markings. Without a dust jacket, as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. First edition. Catalog that accompanied a seminal exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1968. René d'Harnoncourt, then director of the MoMA had the idea for an exhibition of kinetic art but this idea was soon extended to new dimensions to an overview of the history of machines within an artistic context. Each of them is displayed on a single page with extensive black and white imagery. Starting of with earliest depictions of machines by Dürer, da Vinci and contemporaries, all the way through with Robert Beer's kinetic plastic sheet continiously changing its shape by different, indiscernible mechanisms. and Wen-Ying Tsai's "cybernetic" sculpture projecting onto ocillating rods. Hardcover with silkscreened tin covers, with raised and painted illustration on front. Covers are bound by three rivets and nine small hinges for front and rear covers. Spine has started to tarnish; there is mild rubbing to covers. Better than usual overall condition. 6" - 8½". book.

hardcover. Condition: fine. First. Illustrated with black & white photographic illustrations. 216 pages. Short square 4to, embossed and painted metal covers. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968. A bright copy in unusually fine condition. The 1968-69 exhibition of "comments on technology by artists of the Western world" from Leonardo Da Vinci to the present.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No markings. Metal covers. Published in conjunction with an exhibition.