Ken Kiff (54 results)

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. A Hundred Suns. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Softcover, staple-bound, 16 pages; very good condition; light rubbing to covers; no internal marks.

0 22 p. Includes illustrations. 13 November 31 December 1996. Very good. light shelf wear, ex museum stamp on blank flyleaf.

First edition, first printing Attractive oblong shaped catalog wraps with wonderful display of the artist's work in color and black and white. Tipped in a price sheet and descriptions from the gallery.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New.

Softcover, 40 pages; very good condition; light rubbing to covers; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDPrints by Ken Kiff 7 June - 6 July 1991. 20pp Very good.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

First edition, first printing One of only 800 copies Nicely displayed throughout with the artist's work in color and attractive fold-outs. Fine bright wraps all around.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 26 pages, tall 4to. Out of Print. Illustrated with color prints. Catalogue no.448 : 13 November - 31 December 1996. Minor shelfwear: light rubbing along edges and covers, light tanning along page edges. Tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.…

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. about 24pages.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Qto., 16 pages, colour illustrated. A Fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Faber & Faber 1979 pictorial paperback First edition 90 pp Ken Kiff (illustrator). Light rubbing to covers Otherwise inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch via Tracked. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request. Ken Kiff (illustrator).…

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Square 4to in stiff glossy card covers, 56pp, plates in colour and b/w, etc . [CONDITION: VERY GOOD+, a clean and tight unmarked copy (covers a little foxed, tiny slight crease to cover corner tips) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Sq.8vo. Original card covers. Critical texts, 5 colour and 2 b/w plates, portrait, documentation.

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Condition: Good. Exhibition prospectus and opening invitation. 16mo. [8pp]. Stapled wraps. Very good. Including 8 color plates of works by Ken Kiff.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Extra Large 4to. in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 32pp on thick art paper, colour plates, etc. Private view invitation card loosely inserted . [CONDITION: A well preserved AS NEW unmarked copy ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 23 x 22,5 cm., 56 pages, 23 illustrations (5 in color). Soiled and scuffed covers, fine interior. Jake Berthot, Dan Christensen, Alan Cote, Tom Holland, Yvonne Jacquette, Ken Kiff, Joan Snyder, William Tucker (illustrator). Book.

Soft cover. Oblong 8vo. pp 20. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white. Rear cover toned and marked, else internally clean and bright. Very good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. . Nicola Jacobs, bright clean copy, col illus, feint marking to cover, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Three poems by Mayakovsky, O'Hara and Ken Kiff's close friend Martha Kapos shed light on the way Kiff, like Paul Klee before him, took a line for a walk, and then another line, and then yet another. Kapos' poem was inspired by A true account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island by Frank O'Hara, which was written in jealous awe after reading Mayakovsky's An Extraordinary Adventure Which Befell Vladimir Mayakovsky in a Summer Cottage.The three poems, the three conversations between the three poets and the sun, look for the reason to get out of bed in the morning. Over a samovar of tea, the Sun tells Vladimir that it is his creative duty to shine as a poet. He berates O'Hara: 'Hey! I've been trying to wake you up for fifteen minutes. Don't be so rude, you are only the second poet I've ever chosen to speak to personally.' And as for Martha, he assures her: 'I'll not measure out any more distress than you'll need to write your poems.'Kiff uses paint as the poets use words. He pushes his bricks of colour together, forcing them to blur and rhyme. His exploitation of complementary colour is second to none. Yet as with poets, the technique and understanding of the language are but tools to reach another place. 'Fantasy, ' he said, 'is a way of thinking about reality.'Kiff made specific paintings in homage to poetry including the 1985 canvas, The Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky Invites the Sun to Tea, 1985-7, but more importantly he had similar aspirations in his art to poetry. He would agree with Gaston Bachelard's dictum that 'The poet does not describe, he exalts.' Kiff needs to depict 'A hundred suns in one sunset.' Kiff was an intellectual, with endless nagging doubts. He was always questioning, and his reasoning was byzantine, circuitous, forever probing, but when it came down to the paintings, he managed to conjure up those hundred and forty in one. Not that this stopped him doubting himself, which is why he embarked on the Sequence, as one painting is never enough.If one wants to engage with the full ambition of Ken Kiff one needs to take the path along the two hundred works in his Sequence, but this little book and exhibition is taking Bachelard's advice. Following Kiff's meandering but always needle-sharp thinking, can distract from the essential simplicity of individual works. Let's just enjoy the paintings, the poems and the hundred suns.…

1977, 175pp, hardcover met stofomslag in goede staat.

22 x 29cm 32pp very good exhibition catalogue with colour plus black and white reproductions showing the fluid, expressive style of the English figurative artist, who came to prominence in the 1980s thanks to the championship of art critic Norbert Lynton, and a cultural climate intent on re-assessing figurative art following the Royal Academy's New Spirit in Painting exhibition in 1981. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1991 and became Associate Artist at the National Gallery 1991 93. His 30-year teaching career at Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College influenced a generation of students.…

Condition: Good. Oblong Qto. Illustrated with 23 color plates. 20 pages. Includes price list and postcard.