Stephen Polcari (70 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. n Reprint. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority. David Finn Photos (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. David Finn Photos (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. minor wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 9.40 X 9.30 X 0.70 inches. David Finn Photos (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good copy with dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy and square. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. David Finn Photos (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Nice copy with just minor wear. Pages are clean, bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. David Finn Photos (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Stiff color illus. wraps. As new/as issued. 2001 exhibition catalogue. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Glossy wraps with trace edgewear and soil. Spine ends slightly bumped. Binding sound, spine uncreased, text clean. No previous owner names, stickers or stamps. Illustrated in b/w and color. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 408 pages.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on title page. (abstract expressionism, united states, american arts, 20th century ) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Trade PAPERBACK. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Reprint. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. G/NO DUSTJACKET. (1991). Reprint. Trade PAPERBACK. Sm 4to., 408 pp., rubbed, bumped . Black & White/Color Illus. (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Brilliant 1st edition catalog to accompany the Oct. - Nov. 2001 exhibition. 32 pages, with color photos throughout, color paperback wraps in fine uncreased condition showing negligible color loss at head of frt cover. 32 pp 1st edition paperback with 10-page essay by Stephen Polcari titled 'Calligraph Emblem of Motion'. Includes curriculum vitae. Sculptor Herbert Ferber was born in New York City in 1906 with the name of Herbert Ferber Silvers. Although best known for the open-form, welded sculpture that linked him to contemporaries such as David Smith and Theodore Roszak, Ferber also painted throughout his career. For many years Ferber supported himself through the practice of dentistry, which he taught as well. Turning from early massive figures in wood and stone, he developed large, spatially inventive abstractions in brazed metal called environmental sculpture.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Front covers lightly bowed. Binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked. ; 10.4 X 9.6 X 0.3 inches; 72 pages.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good paperback from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Very light shelfwear to corners and edges; a clean and crisp copy. Interior is free of previous owner markings. 33 beautiful full color plates. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. A major revisionist study of the art and artists who participated in what is now regarded as the first American style of international consequence. Based on examinations of new archival material and many unknown paintings, this study relates Abstract Expressionism to the actual historical circumstances, as well as intellectual and cultural milieu, of America from the 1930s to the 1950s. Stephen Polcari reverses the traditional perspective of Abstract Expressionism as an abstract art inspired by issues of the postwar period. Examining its roots in the art of the 1930s and 1940s, he contends that Abstract Expressionism emerges as a public art that actively engaged in the social, economic, and political crises of the 1930s, and, more significantly, the experience of World War II. Polcari provides an account of the contemporary artistic, intellectual and cultural history to establish a macro-history of human beings under the pressures of war, fear, torment, and hope. Within this context, he convincingly presents Abstract Expressionism as a mode of modern, metaphysical 'history' painting that uses the forms and devices of modern art to come to terms with the brutality of contemporary history.…

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: very_good. Fast Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket. 408 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text free of markings. Very good dust jacket. Published in 1991 with no later printing history. Presumed First Edition / First Printing. Discussions of works by Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, William De Kooning, and Robert Motherwell. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding. …

Softcover. Condition: VG. Glossy color-illustrated softcover with white lettering. 72 pp. 15 bw illus., 33 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1997-1998 exhibition of artwork by New York School painter Richard Pousette-Dart. With essays by Lowery Stokes Sims and Stephen Polcari, a checklist of 33 works, and a brief biographical note on the artist.…

Softcover. Condition: VG. Quarto. Softcover. Color-illustrated wraps with white lettering. Unpaginated. Numerous color plates. Catalogue of an exhibition from October 4 to November 10, 2001.

Hardback. Condition: Good. A major revisionist study of the art and artists who participated in what is now regarded as the first American style of international consequence. Based on examinations of new archival material and many unknown paintings, this study relates Abstract Expressionism to the actual historical circumstances, as well as intellectual and cultural milieu, of America from the 1930s to the 1950s. Stephen Polcari reverses the traditional perspective of Abstract Expressionism as an abstract art inspired by issues of the postwar period. Examining its roots in the art of the 1930s and 1940s, he contends that Abstract Expressionism emerges as a public art that actively engaged in the social, economic, and political crises of the 1930s, and, more significantly, the experience of World War II. Polcari provides an account of the contemporary artistic, intellectual and cultural history to establish a macro-history of human beings under the pressures of war, fear, torment, and hope. Within this context, he convincingly presents Abstract Expressionism as a mode of modern, metaphysical 'history' painting that uses the forms and devices of modern art to come to terms with the brutality of contemporary history.…

Softcover, 72 pages, very good condition; light crease to lower right corner of last couple pages and rear cover; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Paperback. Condition: Used: Good. Good to VG, closer to the VG; no marks; mild shelfwear.

Wrappers. Condition: Fine Condition. 194 pages with 107 illustrations 34 in color. Illustrated wraps. Foreword by Joan Rosenbaum, Director. First Paperback edition. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from The Jewish Museum, New York NY November 8, 1997-March 8, 1998. Selected Bibliography. Index of Names. Book. …

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. xxiii, 408 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Profusely illustrated. *** "A major revisionist study of the art and artists who participated in what is now regarded as the first American style of international consequence. Based on examinations of new archival material and many unknown paintings, this study relates Abstract Expressionism to the actual historical circumstances, as well as intellectual and cultural milieu, of America from the 1930s to the 1950s. Stephen Polcari reverses the traditional perspective of Abstract Expressionism as an abstract art inspired by issues of the postwar period. Examining its roots in the art of the 1930s and 1940s, he contends that Abstract Expressionism emerges as a public art that actively engaged in the social, economic, and political crises of the 1930s, and, more significantly, the experience of World War II. Polcari provides an account of the contemporary artistic, intellectual and cultural history to establish a macro-history of human beings under the pressures of war, fear, torment, and hope. Within this context, he convincingly presents Abstract Expressionism as a mode of modern, metaphysical 'history' painting that uses the forms and devices of modern art to come to terms with the brutality of contemporary history." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The History and Culture of Abstract Expressionism: 1. The psychology of crisis: historical roots; 2. Propaedeutics: intellectual roots; Part II. The Artists: 3. Clyfford Still: of plenitude and power; 4. Mark Rothko: 'In My Beginning is My End'; 5. Adolph Gottlieb: the allegorical epic; 6. Barnett Newman: new beginnings; 7. William Baziotes: tremors of history; 8. Jackson Pollock: ancient energies; 9. Willem de Kooning: a fever of matter; 10. Robert Motherwell: the school of Paris meets New York; 11. The expansiveness of abstract expressionism Conclusion; 12. Vernacular abstraction: the domestication of abstract expressionism in the 1950s; Epilogue. Size: 4to.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993. FINE- softcover in glossy illustrated wraps, as issued. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. Faint crease on rear cover, otherwise as new.