Corso Coltello by Celant Germano (23 results)

Softcover, 240 pages, in English, missing dustjacket so cover is blank, no internal marks. Reading copy; as is.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket is lightly foxed at top and bottom edges and is contained in protective plastic jacket. Top back corner of book spine is bumped, but binding is tight. Front and back end leaves and half-title page are lightly foxed. Inside is otherwise clean and unmarked.

Softcover with dustjacket, 240 pages, in English, very good condition; light rubbing and edgewear to yellowed dj; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

very good dust-jacket, small tear at top of spine, attractive copy, very good large black hardcover with only slightest wear, right edge of glossy paper is slightly wavy to the touch. CELANT, GERMANO, ed. . Il Corso del coltello / The course of the knife: Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Frank O. Gehry. TEXT IN ENGLISH. New York: Rizzoli, 1987, 239pp., . CONTENTS: The indiscreet knife / Germano Celant -- The Swiss army knife -- Waiting for Dr. Coltello / Coosje van Bruggen -- First thoughts / Claes Oldenburg -- Studies / Frank O. Gehry -- Preliminary script -- Characters -- Props -- Knife ship -- Coosje's journals -- Final stage directions -- Rehearsals -- Menu -- The café -- The lecture -- The bridge -- The ship. 9780847808229 ISBN 084780822X.

Hardcover. Size: 9"x11.25", 239pp., profusely illustrated. As new, clean, tight & bright condition, with bright and crisp dust jacket which is now in a clear protective mylar sleeve.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Text: English. 240 p.; ill.; 21 x 28 cm; 1050g. Good.

Boards. Oldenburg, Claes (illustrator). First edition. 240 pages. Voluminously illustrated in black and white and color. Bibliography. Documents the history of Il Corso delColtello (The Course of the Knife), a monumental multimedia performance created by sculptor Claes Oldenburg, writer/curator Coosje van Bruggen, andarchitect Frank O. Gehry, and performed in Venice in 1985. Orig. black boards. Fine in fine dust wrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This copy is boldly hand SIGNED in full across the title page by both Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen; with essay by Germanoo Celant; the trade edition of this book is limited 2,500 clothbound copies; published by Electa Milan 1986; with numerous b&w and color illustrations; softcovers with paper wrappers, pp 237; the removable fold-out dustjacket is printed by offset lithograph in four colors measures: 27 x 11in. (28x21.5cm) which is nice for framing; edition size is unknown; sewn bound and offset printed; the book with Bibliography. Documents the history of Il Corso del Coltello (The Course of the Knife), a monumental multimedia performance created by sculptor Claes Oldenburg, writer/curator Coosje van Bruggen, and architect Frank O. Gehry, and performed in Venice in 1985; SYNOPSIS: "An 83-foot Swiss Army knife cruising the Venetian lagoon? In 1985, sculptor Claes Oldenburg, L.A. architect Frank Gehry, and writer Coosje van Bruggen joined forces for an "architectural performance" interweaving an army of characters dressed as objects in a scenario too complicated to summarize. Il Corso del Coltello lovingly documents this urban theatrical from the earliest notes through performance photographs. The event preaching the new architectural order in the shadow of Venetian Renaissance buildings clearly was fun for spectators and performers alike." (Reference: Annette Melville, Research Libraries Group, Stanford, CA; Library Journal, 1987.); book is tight; with just few tiny nicks at the top of the spine of the illustrated wrappers, some kind of mechical mark on first title page, and there are a few small dents in the last pages of the Bibliograph's text in rear of book; otherwise in VERY GOOD COND. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: BUONO USATO. INGLESE Progetto supportato dal Gruppo GFT, edizione stampata in Italia ma in lingua inglese, pagine non numerate arricchite da numerose illustrazioni, disegni e bozzetti in nero e a colori nel testo, carta lucida scurita maggiormente in cornice, la cerniera è perfettamente salda. Brossura muta in cartoncino avorio, protetta da sovraccoperta di carta rigata con bandelle illustrata con un disegno a pastello, aspetto sciupato, strappetti definiscono le estremità, appesantiti i toni, marcatamente al dorso e lungo i bordi. Traduzione di Meg Shore, edito da David Frankel.

239, (1)pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Wraps. D.j. This copy boldly signed by Oldenburg across the title-page.

Wrappers in Illustrated Jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 230pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. With a bibliography. This is the detailed monograph written by noted art historian Germano Celant documenting Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen, and Frank O. Gehry's collaborative theater cum performance piece "Il Corso del Coltello (The Course of the Knife)" that premiered at the 1984 Venice Biennale. The partcipants included, Oldenburg, Van Bruggen, Gehry, Celant, Pontus Hulten, John Miller, and much of Gehry's family. A bright, most handsome example of the paperbound Electa English language edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Claes O" in black ink across the title page with a two page Solomon R. Guggenheim press release.regarding their upcoming December 1986 exhibition of the "Knife Ship" from "Il Corso del Coltello" additionally laid in. Signed by Claes Oldenburg. Artists Monograph.

First edition. Softcover. 239 pages. The record of a collaborative performance created by Oldenburg, van Bruggen and Gehry. Features text by Celant. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A clean and tight very near fine copy in wrappers and in a near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen to photographer Arnold Newman and with a small drawing as well. A very nice copy with an interesting association.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.