Modernism (138 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 333 pages. "Violence and Resistance in the Americas: The Legacy of Conquest" MICHAEL TAUSSIG / "The Stars Beneath Alabama" (For Molly Jarboe) ALLEN SHELTON / "Reported Speech and Other Kinds of Testimony" MEGAN VAUGHAN / "Modernism and the Machine Farmer" ROD BANTJES / "Dutchman Ghosts and the History Mystery: Ritual, Colonizer, and Colonized Interpretations of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion" BRACKETTE F. WILLIAMS / "The Lips of the Dead and the Kiss of Life : The Contemporary Deathbed and the Aesthetic of CPR" JOHN TERCIER / "The Survivors: My Last Sixty-Six Long-Playing Records For Ray Smith and Bob Glass" COLIN RICHMOND (SL#83/3).

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Color illus. padded cloth, 95 pp., many color illus. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition at the Modernism Gallery in San Francisco in 2013. "Empire Falling is artist Elena Dorfman's most recent series of photographs, conceptual landscape images exploring the abandoned and active rock quarries of the Midwest, in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana. Combining images made over the course of several years and numerous locations, the work presents a contemporary view of an ancientthough evolvinglandscape." (artist's web site) A lovely book to hold in one's hands.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First edition. Very clean unworn volume with single ink line (1/4") inside, else Near Fine condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 84 pages. Illustrated. John Lane "Cecil Collins in Retrospect" / Rupert Martin "David Nash: Truth to Materials" / Rupert Martin "Romanticism and Modernism: Towards a British Tradition" / Clive Turnbull "Stephen Conroy: Life in the Red Room" / Anna Adams "Chiaroscuro: a study of the poetry of Kit Wright" / Carel Weight "Robert Buhler 1916-1989: an appreciation" (U.P.).

Ephemera. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked. Four-sided card/invitation on glossy stock, measures 8.75x6.75 inches folded. Served as an invitation to Selected Prints: Mel Ramos, John Register, Edward Rusca, Mark Stock, Wayne Thiebaud (May 1-June 21, 2003) held at the Modernism gallery. Invitation image is the Dancer lithograph by Edward Ruscha.

Ephemera. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked. Four-sided card/invitation on glossy stock, measures 10x6.75 inches folded. Served as an invitation to the Margaret Caldwell: New Painting (May 1--June 21, 2003) held at the Modernism gallery. Margaret Caldwell (b. 1968) is an American Artist.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 128 pages. Patrick Camiller "Beyond 1992: The Left and Europe" / Nicky Hart "Gender and the Rise and Fall of Class Politics" / Raymond Williams "When Was Modernism?" / Michael Rustin "The Politics of Post-Fordism: Or, The Trouble with 'New Times'" / Mohammed H. Malek "Kurdistan in the Middle East Conflict" / Paul Buhle "Between Bad Times and Better" / Carlo M. Vilas "Revolutionary Unevenness in Central America" / Edward Said "C. L. R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary".

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 100 pages. Jean-Claude "Pour un journal d'anthropologie sociable" / Ernest Gellner "Anthropology and Europe" / Jack Goody "Culture and it's boundaries: a European View" /Adam Kuper "Post-modernism, Cambridge and the Great Kalahari debate" (SL#83).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Book.

Ephemera. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked. Six-fold card/invitation on glossy stock, measures 9.5x7.25 inches folded. Served as an invitation to the Edvard Munch 1863-1944 exhibition held at the Modernism gallery from August 31-October 7, 2017. Exhibition titled Breathe, Feel, Suffer and Lover: Prints and Drawings 1894-1930. Four large color images. Artist chronology. Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

Ephemera. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked. Four-fold card/invitation on glossy stock. Served as an invitation to the Jean Dessirier exhibition Mythologies held at the Modernism gallery from June 15 through August 19, 2017. 6 color images, including the artist and his studio. Jean Dessirier (b. 1944) is a French sculptor and painter. Since the early 1980s, Dessirier has crafted polychromatic sculptures out of salvaged roofing zinc.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 78 pages. Poems by: Robert Gray, Sheenagh Pugh, Andrew Motion, Lucy Tunstall, John Peck, Roger Garfitt, Andrew McNeillie, Moe Way, Maung Pyiyt Min, ko ko thett, Erico Noguiera, Sophie Hannah, Jennie Feldman, David Herd, Patrick McGuinness, James Womack, Rory Waterman,David Herman reads the reviews, Michael Alexander remembers Peter Whigham,Nick Liptrot almost discovers modernism, Jason Guriel observes Logan the poet,Clive Wilmer addresses the responsibilities of poets,Kevin Gardner ferrets through Peter Scupham's basement. (U.P.).

paperback. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. c.

Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Illustrations in color. Includes index.

Very clean and bright with sound binding. 296 pgs. The University of Michigan Press. 2002. NEW clear mylar sleeve covers and protects jacket.

Condition: New. An examination of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the frame of 20th-century American culture. The essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution or extremity, but of haunting. Editor(s): Scandura, Jani. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 321 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 431. . 2000. Paperback. . . . .

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Original card covers. Introduction by Frank Cartledge, 53 colour illusts, 151 item catalogue. With the Private View invitation.

Condition: NEW.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. John McGahern "Parachutes" (story) / George Urban in Conversation with Daniel Bell / Mary Kenny "In the Driver's Seat" / Mary Midgley "Duties Concerning Islands" / Roger Scruton "The Real Stoppard" / Dannie Abse "A Meeting with Robert Graves" / Malcolm Bradbury "Struggling Westward America & the Coming of Modernism (II).

BOXED Set. Condition: USED Very Good. Jacketed hardcover, (with photographs and Spanish text), together with a paperback (containing the English translation of that text) in a slipcase. The books are in great shape, but the slipcase has shelfwear. This item is large and heavy and may incur additional shipping costs.

Condition: New.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Oblong. 34 pp. Soft, laid brown wraps with white titling. Very good. Color plates. Includes text by David Pagel. Catalogue created on occasion of exhibition "John M. Miller: Passage. Paintings 1995 - 1996" in San Francisco at Modernism, Inc. from November 7 through December 21, 1996. Limited edition: 1 of 2000 copies printed. From the Collection the Art Historian Peter Selz.

Condition: New. An examination of the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the frame of 20th-century American culture. The essays suggest that the relationship between the modern and the postmodern is not one of rupture, belatedness, dilution or extremity, but of haunting. Editor(s): Scandura, Jani. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 321 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 431. . 2000. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Folded Card, Very Good with minor stain, creasing. Image of Fred Astaire shot by Martin Munkacsi on cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. BROOKLINE BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. BOOK: Brown Leatherette; Brown topstain; Spine 1; BL Gold Logo on front and spine; Brown Marble Endpapers; front blank page missing. STORY: Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Pbk, plastic comb-bound, 90pp, a new and unread copy, excellent, clean and unmarked, as new.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Pbk, plastic comb-bound, 49pp, a new and unread copy, excellent, clean and unmarked, as new.