Search Results: alexander calder by sweeney james johnson

M. Knoedler, 1980. First. Softcover. Very good except for light edge wear. 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers. 20 pp, 14 illustrations (8 in color), portrait. Exhibition December 4, 1980 - January 2, 1981. Sweeney's text was written in 1978

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1951), 1951. 8vo; eighty pp.; eighty plates from photographs; bibliography Corners, edges, top and bottom of backstrip worn, else a good copy in boards in a chipped and worn dust jacket. An early monograph on Calder..

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 80 b/w Illustrations; b/w Pictorial Endpapers. Tall 8vo. In pictorial jacket, 8vo, 80 pages. Includes biographical chronology; bibliography by Bernard Karpel. One of an unspecified number of copies, printed by The Hildreth Press, Bristol, Connecticut, July 1951. Freitag #1221. (shelfwear, rubbing and sm. nicks to jacket extremities, short gift inscription, spotting to endappers/preliminary pages).

NY: The Museum of Modern Art. Near Fine. 1943. Softcover. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Decorative endpages. Tight and square. Pages faintly toned. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 64 pages .

The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1962. Softcover. Good. Original stapled blind white wrappers, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, large 8vo.; Small name sticker on last page

New York : The Museum of Modern Art, 1951. Hardcover. Good. Original decorated red boards, price clipped dust jacket, decorated endpapers, richly illustrated in b/w, 4to.; Light tobacco smell; partly browned; edges dust jacket worn.

New York: Curt Valentin Gallery, 1952. Softbound. VG, tiny, light stain near top of cover. Blueprinted white wraps with original Calder design. (16) pp., 11 works illustrated in blue line drawings by Calder. A small exhibition catalogue for an exhibition held January 15 to February 10, 1952. Includes a translated essay by Fernand Leger. Also has an essay (Alexander Calder's Mobiles) by James Johnson Sweeney). Catalogue lists 30 works. Rare."Alexander Calder's Mobiles" by James Johnson Sweeney: pages [3-5]./ "Calder" by Fernand Léger: pages [6-7].

New York: Museum of Modern Art [MOMA], 1951. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. Alexander Calder. Small 4to. Pp. 80. Extensive bibliography. Illustrated throughout with b&w photography. Bright red boards. Fine in an excellent dust jacket. Please ignore glare in photo; it's a result of the removable archival jacket protector. This early catalog sets straight today's common misconception that Calder's work came about as part of the Pop Art movement; indeed, he was well ahead of it. This edition revises and slightly enlarges the 1943 first edition. A lovely copy.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Red boards, very lightly dinged and rubbed at the tips, dust jacket price clipped and with light wear to the edges and a couple of chipped surfaces around the spine middle and head. Overall a good clean copy.

The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1969. 1969 Reprint Edition. Hardcover with D/J. Very good/Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Very good hardcover with dust jacket, Minor creasing to Dust Jacket, 1969 Reprint Edition, There are five sections of this book, each book is dedicated to a different Sculptor, Clean pages, Prompt shipping with tracking, Sm 4to, 262pp.

(Philadelphia, PA: Orchestra of Our Time), (1977). , (1977). . Very good. - Oblong quarto [8-1/2 inches high by 11 inches wide], softcover bound in printed white wrappers. There is some very light soiling & foxing to the binding. The bottom corner of the front wrap is creased. 20 pages plus inside wraps. A few black-and-white illustrations & diagrams. The bottom page corners are lightly creased. Very good. The text includes an introduction by James Johnson Sweeney, the text of "Socrate" by Virgil Thomson and an essay on Calder's set by Ruth Wolfe.Rare.

MOMA. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. Quarto hardcover in fine red cloth, unworn with clean unmarked pages, tight binding, covers unworn else FINE in NFINE DJ, one tiny tiny chip, now in clear mylar jacket protector. Solid readable copy. The Calder drawings remain faithful to the text, harmonizing with the beautiful typography, and the selection of rhymes "...is one of the finest (selections) ever made." These emphasizing poetic beauty that has long been said to be wasted on the young, emhasizing modernism, with emphasis on 'folk psychology' can be found in ancient texts--ironically. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Paris: Galerie Louis Carre, 1946. A clean, near-fine copy in wrappers with some very minute wear and pale offsetting. An attractive and finely printed catalog. 12mo (15.6 x 12 cm). 35, [17] pages. Frontispiece photograph of Calder in his studio in Roxbury, 7 plates, of which four in color (and two of these double-page), and one color heapiece of a mobile. Printed wrappers, the front wrapper with a photographic image of one of his mobiles in motion. First edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Galerie Louis Carre in Paris that ran October 25 through November 16, 1946. Text in French with contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre, and James Johnson Sweeney. 24 pieces were included in the exhibition, created between 1941 and 1946. The cover, frontispiece and three balck-an-white plates reproduce photographs by Herbert Matter.