Book of the Day > Kathy Butterly: ColorForm
Book of the Day > Kathy Butterly: ColorForm. Published by Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. “ColorForm is the first major monograph on the work of New York sculptor Kathy Butterly (born 1963). Encompassing 60 sculptures and 20 drawings from throughout Butterly’s career, all of which are reproduced here, it focuses mainly on the last ten years of her work. Butterly is well known for her sculptures that challenge the conventions of ceramic tradition through oblique figurations of the body, with shapes that evoke mouths, feet and genitalia. Her work, which stands in historical dialogue with that of Ken Price, Viola Frey and Robert Arneson, engages with the politics of 20th-century femininity even as it leans ever closer to abstraction. The works collected here chart the evolution of Butterly’s sensibilities and philosophical stance, tracking the development of her highly personal yet immediate and accessible ceramic language from explorations of the body to personhood and autobiography.”
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TODD HIDO: HOUSE HUNTING (REMASTERED) - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd & A.M. Homes. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press, 2019. First Edition Thus 1 /4000. Small Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "House Hunting (Remastered)" will be signed by Mr Hido at Arcana on Saturday, December 7th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 10th. Should you wish to place an order and collect your copy at the shop on or after December 7th, please use the discount code PICKUP10 at checkout; you will not be charged for postage.
“Todd Hido’s large color photographs of suburbia are lonely, forlorn, mysterious… and strangely comforting. Hido photographs the interior rooms of repossessed tract homes, and the outsides of similar houses at night whose habitation is suggested by the glow of a television set or unseen overhead bulb. Seldom does the similar evoke such melancholy. Yet rather than passing judgment on his anonymous subjects, Hido manages to turn the banal into something beautiful, imbuing his prints of interiors with soft pastels, and allowing the exteriors to glow in the cool evening air.” — From our description of the first printing of House Hunting, announced in 2000 We are excited to announce a newly remastered edition of Todd Hido’s iconic and highly sought-after first monograph, House Hunting. To celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of this important book – certainly one of the most influential and oft-cited photography monographs of our time – we have collaborated closely with the artist to achieve a new impression of the highest possible fidelity. Printed on heavy weight matte art paper, using cutting-edge technologies in both the pre-press and production phases, this new edition of House Hunting stays true to the original design and format while delivering even more accurate color rendition and nuances in tone and saturation. It will be a welcome addition to collections lacking access to the very scarce original printings; and to those fortunate enough to own a copy of the original edition, it further illuminates the images themselves that first catapulted the artist and his first monograph to fame. Todd Hido’s photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and most recently at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. Other major institutions that have exhibited Hido’s work include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Miami Art Museum, Florida; Netherland Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy; Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Korea; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work was recently on view in the 49th edition of Les Recontres d’Arles, France. Work by Hido is held in public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian; and Fotomuseum Winterthur. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2019 "Remastered" edition of Todd Hido's long unavailable classic "House "Hunting" additionally SIGNED by the photographer in ink. 978-1590055052 Inventory Number: E000THHH -
THE HOLLYWOOD BOOK CLUB: READING WITH THE STARS - SIGNED BY AUTHOR STEVEN REA
Rea, Steven. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2019. First Edition. Square 8vo. Pictorial Boards. Cinema Photography Survey. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of “The Hollywood Book Club" will be signed by Steven Rea at our event on Saturday, November 2nd, and shipped beginning Tuesday, November 5th.
120pp, 55 b&w illustrations.
"Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe—the brightest stars of the silver screen couldn't resist curling up with a good book. This unique collection of rare photographs celebrates the joy of reading in classic film style. The Hollywood Book Club captures screen luminaries on set, in films, in playful promotional photos, or in their own homes and libraries with books from literary classics to thrillers, from biographies to children's books, reading with their kids, and more. Featuring fifty-five enchanting images, lively captions about the stars and what they're reading by Hollywood photo archivist Steven Rea, and a glamorous stamped case design, here's a real page-turner for booklovers and cinephiles alike". A brand new, most handsome example of this charming document additionally SIGNED by author Steven Rea in ink on the title page.
978-1452176895 Inventory Number: E000SRTHBC -
STEVE BANKS: NITRO, DRAG RACING IN THE SIXTIES: 1964-1966 - SIGNED, SLIPCASED LIMITED EDITION
(BANKS, STEVE). Banks, Steve. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press, 2019. First Edition 1/350. Small Folio. Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in tritone.
“In 1964, a young Steve Banks bought one of the most coveted ‘Muscle Cars’ on the market - a Pontiac GTO with a four-speed stick and a Hurst shifter, Tri-Power, and three Rochester 2G carburetors. He then drove Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles to begin his new advertising agency job. Gassing up one day after arriving at Nobo’s Shell station at Beverly and Larchmont, Banks learned that Nobo had previously been head mechanic at the Courtesy Chevrolet dealership, and that his station had become a center for building and tuning street racers. On and off over the next few months, Banks would leave his car at the garage while Nobo fine-tuned the carburetors, replaced the stock tires, torsion, and sway bars, and added Koni shocks and a Sun tachometer. Next, he taught Banks how to ‘speed shift’ while making late night runs up and down Larchmont Boulevard. One day, Nobo mentioned he was going to a drag race that Saturday, and that Banks was welcome to come along. Witnessing his first drag race, Steve Banks was immediately hooked. He returned the following Saturday, and the next, and again the next; but this time with his cameras. Over the course of two years, Banks photographed guys preparing runs, the thundering nitro-burning dragsters launching down the strip at two hundred-plus miles per hour, and everything else that moved. Today, fifty years later, the sport of drag racing is a big bucks, corporate-sponsored television broadcast business with the NHRA sporting over two hundred different drag racing classes. However, in a nod to the sport’s modest beginnings, almost every weekend from coast-to-coast one can find ‘nostalgia racing’ events preserving the dragster culture of the 1960s captured here in NITRO, Drag Racing In The Sixties: 1964-1966." A brand new, pristine specially-priced AP example of this stunning volume from the fourth and final set of NZ Press SIGNED AND SLIPCASED editions limited to three hundred and fifty copies.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of “NITRO, Drag Racing In The Sixties: 1964-1966” will be signed by Steve Banks at our event on Saturday, July 27th, and shipped beginning Tuesday, July 30th. Inventory Number: E000SBN -
ROGER HERMAN: CERAMICS - SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES
(HERMAN, ROGER). Connors, Matt & Roger Herman. Los Angeles: Self-Published, 2019. First Edition 1/250. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New. 426pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Ross McLain / Art Design Office. This is the massive, beautifully illustrated book documenting Roger Herman's polychrome ceramics.It features a brief text by artist Matt Connors, followed by hundreds and hundreds of color images of nearly two decades worth of the noted Los Angeles artist's striking pieces. A brand new, pristine example of this comprehensive monograph limited to two hundred and fifty copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the artist in pencil on the title page, as issued.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Roger Herman: Ceramics" will be signed at our event on Saturday, July 20th, and shipped beginning Tuesday, July 23rd. 0-578-50456-1 Inventory Number: E000RHC -
BIBLIOSTYLE: HOW WE LIVE AT HOME WITH BOOKS - SIGNED BY NINA FREUDENBERGER AND SHADE DEGGES
Freudenberger, Nina & Sadie Stein. Shade Degges, Photographer. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2019. First Edition. Small 4to. Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Interior Design Survey. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
PLEASE NOTE: We are now taking pre-orders for signed copies of BIBLIOSTYLE! If you'd like an un-signed copy, let us know in the "notes" of your order and we'll send it to you as soon as the book is released.
Books will be signed by Ms. Freudenberger and Mr. Degges at Arcana on November 16th. Orders for signed books will be shipped beginning Tuesday, November 19th. If you would like to collect your copy at the shop, you may us the code PICKUP at checkout and you will not be charged for postage.
"A visual delight and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library, this dream-and-drool design book features some of the most jaw-dropping book collections of homeowners around the world. Interior designer Nina Freudenberger, New Yorker writer Sadie Stein, and Architectural Digest photographer Shade Degges give readers a peek at the private libraries and bookshelves of passionate readers all over the world, including Larry McMurtry, Silvia Whitman of Shakespeare and Co., Gay and Nan Talese, and Emma Straub. Throughout, gorgeous photographs of rooms with rare collections, floor-to-ceiling shelves, and stacks upon stacks of books inspire readers to live better with their own collections. A brand new, most handsome example of this stylish tome dedicated to stylish living with tomes additionally SIGNED by author Nina Freudenberger and photographer Shade Degges in ink 978-0525575443 Inventory Number: E000NFB -
SITE: MARMOL RADZINER IN THE LANDSCAPE - SIGNED BY THE ARCHITECTS
(MARMOL RADZINER). Marmol, Leo & Ron Radziner. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2019. First Edition. 4to. Hardbound. Architecture Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Site" will be signed by Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner at Arcana on November 9th, and orders will be shipped beginning Tuesday, November 12th. If you would like to collect your copy at the shop, you may use the code PICKUP10 at checkout and you will not be charged for postage.
The spectacular houses of Marmol Radziner merge interior and exterior life as they engage the built and natural environment. With lush photography and an expansive format, Site: Marmol Radziner in the Landscape focuses on the evolving relationship between house and landscape, revealing what the architects describe as "the gradual erasure of boundaries between indoor and outdoor" spaces. This collection of nineteen houses, shown in over two-hundred full-color photographs that will make readers swoon, is organized by habitat--desert, urban, canyon, and woodland--and includes projects in Arizona, Southern California, Utah, Nevada, and the Netherlands. A foreword by novelist Mona Simpson provides a personal reflection on her experiences in a Marmol Radziner house, while an interview with Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner and detailed descriptions of their projects offer insights into the architects' philosophy and process. A brand new, most handsome example of this elegant document additionally SIGNED by Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner in ink. 978-1616898168 Inventory Number: E000MRS -
MONA KUHN: SHE DISAPPEARED INTO COMPLETE SILENCE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(KUHN, MONA). Kuhn, Mona. Gottingen, GERMANY: Steidl, 2019. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 96pp, 60 illustrations in color and b&w. “Acclaimed for her intimate nudes, Mona Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction in her latest publication, “She Disappeared Into Complete Silence”. Photographed at a golden modernist structure on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, architectural lines, light reflections and a single figure have been carefully balanced against the backdrop of the California desert. The human figure in these images - Kuhn’s friend and collaborator Jacintha - emerges like a surrealist mirage, fragmented and indistinct, at times submerged in shadows or overexposed. The building’s facades of glass and mirrors serve as optical planes, an extension of the artist’s camera and lens. Light is split into refracting colors, desert vegetation grows sideways, inside is outside and outside in. Kuhn pushes a certain disorienting effect by introducing metallic foils as an additional surface, at times producing purely abstract results. The work marks Kuhn’s increasing use of techniques that appear to merge the figure, abstraction and landscape into one” A brand new, most handsome example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by Mona Kuhn in ink.
Born in Brazil, photographer Mona Kuhn currently resides in Los Angeles. Through intimacy with her subjects, knowledge of traditional iconography, and technical mastery, Kuhn portrays the complexities of human nature, both tempting and provoking our imagination.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of “She Disappeared Into Complete Silence” will be signed by Mona Kuhn at our event on Saturday, May 25th, and shipped beginning Tuesday, May 28th.
978-3958291805 Inventory Number: E000MKSDICS$50.00 InquireFiled Under: Architecture, California Artists and Arts, Erotica, Photography Monographs, Signed Books -
MICHAEL JANG: WHO IS MICHAEL JANG? - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(JANG, MICHAEL). Jang, Michael & Kingston Trinder. Introduction by Sandra Phillips. Foreword by Erik Kessels. Pascale Georgiev, Editor. London, UK: Atelier Editions, 2019. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 280pp, 198 b&w and 25 color illustrations.
“Who is Michael Jang? I don’t know if he’s a hipster or a nerd, a conceptual genius or instinctual savant. All I know is that he takes some of the best pictures I’ve ever seen.” - Alec Soth
San Francisco–based photographer Michael Jang spent nearly four decades working as a successful commercial portrait photographer. Unbeknownst to the world, however, he was simultaneously assembling a vast archive of thousands of remarkable images documenting, variously: college days, Hollywood celebrities, would-be weather presenters, San Francisco street scenes, his family, Bay Area punks, and adolescent garage bands. For almost forty years Jang revealed nothing of his ever-expanding, eclectic archive until 2001, when he submitted a number of images for consideration to San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. Jang’s work attracted immediate acclaim, and for the past decade he has continued to unveil his considerable oeuvre in national and international exhibitions and monographs. The photographer’s first major monograph, "Who Is Michael Jang?" highlights Jang's most important bodies of work. Introduced by his longtime collaborator and SFMoMA curator emerita of photography, Sandra Phillips, this volume offers readers a long-overdue introduction to Jang’s incredible images." A brand new, most handsome example of this charming, beautifully produced volume from Atelier Editions additionally SIGNED by the photographer in ink.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of “Who Is Michael Jang?” will be signed at our event on Saturday, October 5th, and shipped beginning Tuesday, October 8th. If you would like to collect your copy at the shop, you may enter discount code PICKUP10 at checkout and you will not be charged for postage. 978-0997593594 Inventory Number: E000MJWIMJ$65.00 InquireFiled Under: California Artists and Arts, Cinema, Music + Sound Art, Photography Monographs, Signed Books -
EL CROQUIS 198: JOHNSTON MARKLEE 2005-2019: FOLDING TIME - SIGNED BY THE ARCHITECTS
(JOHNSTON MARKLEE) (EL CROQUIS). Lee, Mark & Sharon Johnston. Fernando Marquez Cecilia and Richard Levene, Editors. Madrid, SPAIN: El Croquis, 2019. First Edition. Small Folio.. Pictorial Flexi-Binding. Monographic Architectural Journal. As New..
278pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Founded by partners Sharon Johnston, F.A.I.A. and Mark Lee in 1998, Johnston Marklee is recognized for its diverse portfolio of architecture, engaging the physical and cultural circumstances of each project through a precise synthesis of structural form, materiality, and atmospheric light. The work of the firm pays tribute to a specific Southern Californian interpretation of modernism, and at the same time operates at the intersection of a global and local dialogue. Johnston and Lee have forged a leading role in the cultural discourse around contemporary art and architecture, eliciting design collaborations with distinguished museums, foundations, and artists around the world. Complementing this far-reaching network, the firm’s work is recognized for being deeply rooted in the history and foundations of the discipline. Their work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Menil Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Architecture Museum of TU Munich. Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston served as Artistic Directors for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. In 2018 they were named Professors in Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Mark Lee was appointed Chair of the Architecture Department. They have also taught at major universities including Princeton University, the University of California, Los Angeles, the Technical University of Berlin, ETH Zurich, and have held the Cullinan Chair at Rice University and the Frank Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto. A brand new, most handsome example of this brand new, comprehensive monograph i,on the firm in the form of the one hundred and ninety-eighth installment of noted Spanish architectural journal "El Croquis" additionally SIGNED by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of “El Croquis 198: Johnston Marklee 2005-2019: Folding Time” will be signed by Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston at our event on Saturday, June 15th, and shipped beginning Tuesday, June 18th.
978-8412003406 Inventory Number: E000JMEC198 -
HUGH HOLLAND: SILVER. SKATE. SEVENTIES. - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(HOLLAND, HUGH). Holland, Hugh. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Chroma, 2019. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Skate Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
PLEASE NOTE: Books will be signed by Mr. Holland at Arcana on November 23rd, and orders will ship beginning Tuesday, November 26th. If you would like to collect your copy at the shop, you may use the code PICKUP10 at checkout and you will not be charged for postage.
"In the 1970s, photographer Hugh Holland masterfully captured the burgeoning culture of skateboarding against a sometimes harsh but always sunny Southern California landscape. This never-before-published collection showcases his black-and-white photographs that document young skateboarders sidewalk surfing off Mulholland Drive in concrete drainage ditches and empty swimming pools in a drought-ridden Southern California. From suburban backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, this was the place that inspired the legendary Dogtown and Z-Boys skateboarders. With their requisite bleached-blond hair, tanned bodies, tube socks and Vans, these young outsiders evoke the sometimes reckless but always exhilarating origins of skateboarding lifestyle and culture." A brand new, most handsome example of this quintessentially California style bible additionally SIGNED by Hugh Holland in ink. 978-1452182056 Inventory Number: E000HHSSS -
GARY CANNONE: FOREVER NOW - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
(CANNONE, GARY). Cannone, Gary & Jamillah James. Los Angeles, CA: Campbell Hall Art Gallery, 2019. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. np, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Ivan Golinko.
"Albums by Conceptual Artists" originated as a crowd-sourced online project in which Gary Cannone encouraged like-minded artists to infiltrate popular and obscure album covers with content from the history of contemporary art in a communal act of parody. Begun as a Facebook comment thread, a Tumblr site of the project soon followed and grew to over five hundred album cover contributions ranging from transgressive to silly, from informative to obtuse. Cannone sees the series as a form of fan fiction, a positive creative act often using arcane minutiae linking the worlds of art and music done by and for art nerds. The artist’s formative influences include 70s comedy such as Norm Crosby, Wacky Packages, Carol Burnett, Mad Magazine, and the disembodied PA from M*A*S*H (the TV series). He is a 2019 recipient of a California Community Foundation’s Fellowship in Visual Arts grant and his artist’s book, Time Settings for a Microwave Oven with Broken Three, Four, and Nine Buttons was recently acquired by The Getty Museum. His current work explores the phenomenology of furniture in gallery spaces through the lens of a prop comic." A brand new, most handsome example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by artist Gary Cannone in ink.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of “Forever Now” will be signed by Gary Cannone at our event on Saturday, August 3rd, and shipped beginning Tuesday, August 6th. Inventory Number: E000GCFN -
ED TEMPLETON: CITY CONFESSIONS #1 TOKYO - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(TEMPLETON, ED). Templeton, Ed. Tokyo: Super Labo, 2019. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New..
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "City Confessions #1: Tokyo" will be signed by Ed Templeton at Arcana on September 28th, and orders shipped beginning Tuesday, October 1st.
np (56pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Ed Templeton. Text in English.
"I first came to Tokyo in 1998 on a skateboarding tour, and then again two times in 2001, first for a big citywide art exhibition called "Untitled 2001" and then again as a skateboarder later that year. Those first visits to Tokyo were full of walking and wandering and photographing in the streets when I wasn't skateboarding. Then in 2016 I came back to Tokyo as a tourist after a long absence. These more recent trips have been more focused on shooting photographs and observing the life and rhythms of the people of Tokyo. I like to find moments that speak to human existence and specifically to the customs and rituals of life in Tokyo."
These photographs were taken during seven trips to Tokyo between the years 1998 and 2018, with the majority being shot between 2016 and 2018. "City Confessions #1: Tokyo" is the initial installment of Ed Templeton's new and ongoing series that will each feature a selection of photographs from an individual city the photographer has spent significant time working in and exploring. The "City Confessions" books will ultimately be gathered and slipcased together as a set, so don't miss out on this first volume!
A brand new, most handsome example of the 2019 first printing of this lovely offering from Tokyo's Super Labo limited to one thousand copies additionally SIGNED by Ed Templeton 978-4908512803 Inventory Number: E000ETCCT -
DEANNA TEMPLETON: YESTERDAY - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(TEMPLETON, DEANNA). Deanna Templeton. Tokyo: Super Labo, 2019. First Edition 1/800. Small 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New..
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Yesterday" will be signed by Deanna Templeton at Arcana on September 28th, and orders shipped beginning Tuesday, October 1st.
np (44pp), 52 color illustrations + color covers. Designed by Deanna + Ed Templeton. Text in English.
"Yesterday is a project specifically conceived for Super Labo by Deanna Templeton to convey a single though not specific day in her life, morning to night, as told through Polaroid photographs. From the intimate look at her private daily routine inside her household and garden, to the architecture, flora and fauna of Huntington Beach, and the people, both friends, family and strangers, that float in and out of her day. Yesterday is a personal document, a visual slice of her Southern California life and the details where she finds beauty and inspiration." - Ed Templeton
A brand new, most handsome example of the 2019 first printing of this lovely offering from Tokyo's Super Labo limited to eight hundred copies additionally SIGNED by Deanna Templeton 978-4908512797 Inventory Number: E000DTY -
DIANE KEATON: CALIFORNIA ROMANTICA - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
(KEATON, DIANE). Keaton, Diane & D.J. Waldie. Photographed by Lisa Hardaway and Paul Hester. New York: Rizzoli, 2019. First Edition Thus. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Architecture Monograph. As New/As New.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of “California Romantica” will be signed by Ms. Keaton at our event on Saturday, October 26th, and shipped beginning Tuesday, October 29th. If you would like to collect your copy at the shop, you may use the code PICKUP10 at checkout and you will not be charged for postage.
"California Romantica" features the most important, yet rarely seen, residential exemplars of the California Mission and Spanish Colonial styles, by such noted architects as George Washington Smith, Wallace Neff, Richard Requa, Lilian Rice, and Paul R. Williams, among others. From whitewashed stucco walls and cloistered patios to tile roofs and sumptuous gardens, each house shown is a rare masterpiece, splendidly appointed with authentic Monterey furniture, California tile, and Navajo rugs. Among the magnificent seaside estates, canyon villas, and courtyard bungalows shown is Diane Keaton’s former home in Beverly Hills, which she thoughtfully restored with noted designer Stephen Shadley, and for which she has been recognized as a committed preservationist. She brings her cinematic eye, a keen sense of natural drama, and a profound appreciation for the nuances of shadow and light to the elucidation of these buildings, through the selection of specially commissioned photography. Authoritative text by D. J. Waldie lucidly explicates the architecture and provides an intimate tour of a historic and distinctly Californian lifestyle. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2019 first printing of the slightly smaller-format re-edition of this long-unavailable classic additionally SIGNED by Diane Keaton in ink.
978-0847864751 Inventory Number: E000DKCR -
COLE STERNBERG: THE NATURE OF BREATHING IN SALT - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
(STERNBERG, COLE). Sternberg, Cole. Los Angeles, CA: Hat & Beard, 2019. First Edition 1/650. 4to. Cloth With Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 300pp, profusely illustrated in color.
"In Western Japan, a bottle of champagne is smashed against the hull of a massive bulk cargo vessel, its path charted along the arch of the northern hemisphere: We follow its gentle glide through the lilac calm of the Japanese outer islands; a waive at the lights of Busan, the South Korean city along its charted path; the frigidity of the Aleutian Islands; a circular motion to avoid a mid-ocean monster; and lastly a cruise into Portland past the forests and factories on the Columbia River. On this maiden voyage across the Pacific, the vessel’s holds sit empty. One is in ballast to strengthen against heavy storms. A crew of twenty, plus four creative wanderers—including artist Cole Sternberg, who wrangled the quartet especially for this journey—anxiously steady themselves for weeks under swaying ground. It is within the context of this floating island that the work comprised of “The Nature of Breathing in Salt” emerges.
We find rainbows confronted by fluorescent hallways, black clouds fighting the setting sun, Sternberg’s paintings dragged in the sea, the glory of the unknown and unwelcoming greeting of the land. The imagery shifts in a bell curve of pleasant anxiety, mirrored by a narrative of Melville, Sternberg’s poetry and the dialogue of the crew. It is an experience that leaves one yearning for, and sick of the sea. It is an art object more than just a book.
Sternberg’s practice of using the environment to tell its own story is apparent here. His practice ultimately results in the paintings and photography featured throughout this book. Works from this body of imagery have been exhibited extensively, and are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and the El Segundo Museum of Art, among other".
"Cole Sternberg was born in Richmond, Virginia. He lives and works in Los Angeles and practices in a range of formats, including painting, installation, video, and writing. Series of his work have focused on a variety of social issues, from current human rights activism and its relationship to the law, to the environment, to the media, and concepts of content overload. The works tend to be subtle or subversive in nature, driven by elegant visual concepts and poetry. He is interested in the intersection between humanity and humankind and how their lack of congruity hinders social progression and development".
A brand new, most handsome example of the 2019 first Hat & Beard first edition of this sumptuous title limited to six hundred and fifty copies additionally SIGNED by the artist.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "The Nature of Breathing in Salt" will be signed by Cole Sternberg at the event on Saturday, February 9th, and shipped starting on Tuesday, February 12th. Inventory Number: E000CSTNOBIS -
BILLY AL BENGSTON: PAINTINGS & WATERCOLORS - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
(BENGSTON, BILLY AL). Donoghue, Mary Agnes. Hans Neuendorf, Editor. Frankfurt AM Main & Esslingen, GERMANY: Galerie Neuendorf & Edition Cantz, 2019. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Bengston will sign copies of "Paintings & Watercolors" at our event on Saturday, September 7th. Orders will begin shipping on Tuesday, September 10th. If you would like to collect your copy at the shop and not pay for shipping, please use the code PICKUP10 at checkout.
368pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a chronology, exhibition history, bibliography, and collections listing.
For more than sixty years Billy Al Bengston has been an innovative and integral part of the Southern California cultural scene. A member of the original group of Los Angeles artists to exhibit at Ferus Gallery, Mr. Bengston has made a name for himself over the decades in the varied worlds of contemporary art, surfing, and dirt-track motorcycle racing. From his early Dentos and Finish / Fetish pieces to delicate watercolors of Dracula Orchids and beyond, his work remains remarkably vibrant and ever-inventive. He has been the subject of several major museum retrospectives, but until now there has never been a single comprehensive book to fully do justice to his prolific body of work. At long last, from Neuendorf Gallery comes that tome - Billy Al Bengston: Paintings & Watercolors! Weighing in at five pounds, this lavishly illustrated hardbound volume illustrates hundreds of works spanning 1957 through 2016. A brand new, most handsome example of this comprehensive monograph additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by the artist. 978-3947563395 Inventory Number: E000BABP&W -
BILL OWENS: ALTAMONT 1969 - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(OWENS, BILL). Owens, Bill & Sasha Frere-Jones. Claudia Zanfi, Editor. Bologna, ITALY: Damiani Editore, 2019. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, 48 illustrations in color and b&w.
"Bill Owens: Altamont 1969" presents a new and previously unpublished series of photographs of The Rolling Stones’ infamous concert at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California. The Altamont Free Festival has become an emblem of the upheavals and aftershocks of a decade of change, and where Owens captured a generation’s desire to stand up and raise its voices against the war in Vietnam, against segregation and racial discrimination, against authority in general. Owens was hired by the Associated Press to cover what promised to be a huge rock concert whose lineup featured the Stones, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Santana, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. But when he arrived at the Speedway with “two Nikons, three lenses, thirteen rolls of film, a sandwich and a jar of water,” the photographer witnessed one of the defining moments of the late sixties. The Utopian hopes and innocent conviviality of the 1960s gave way to tension and a deadly violence; as the Stones continued to play and much of the crowd remained oblivious, an eighteen year-old African-American boy named Meredith Hunter was killed by the Hell’s Angels who had been hired as concert security. This book captures the era's agitated energy that manifested itself in slogans and billboards, sit-ins and demonstrations, and a concert that was treated as a collective rite.” A brand new, pristine example of this engaging document published in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the Festival from the renowned photojournalist whose "Suburbia" is one of the crowning photobooks of the 1970s additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Bill Owens" in ink.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of “Altamont 1969” will be signed by Bill Owens at our (postponed) event on Saturday, June 29th, and shipped beginning Tuesday, July 2nd. 88-6208-623-7 Inventory Number: 026084 -
THREE MODERN MASTERS: BILLY AL BENGSTON / EDWARD RUSCHA / FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
(RUSCHA, EDWARD) (BENGSTON, BILLY AL). Lindsley, Carol. San Francisco: Reese Palley Gallery, 1969. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Fine.. np (6pp), 7 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition checklist. Designed by Edward Ruscha. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. One of the very earliest publications for both of these seminal Los Angeles artists, this slender six-page catalogue documents a 1969 exhibition of nineteen works each by Billy Al Bengston and Edward Ruscha held at San Francisco's Reese Palley Gallery. The gallery was located at the site originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948 for the V.C. Morris Gift Shop, and the cover photograph by Ruscha's good friend Patrick Blackwell shows the two artists contemplating the brass plaque crediting Wright with the design of The Guggenheim Museum. A brand new, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item - only four copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat. Inventory Number: 026072
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UNDRABORN / EXTRAORDINARY CHILD: PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARY ELLEN MARK - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(MARK, MARY ELLEN). Mark, Mary Ellen, Ivar Brynjolfsson & Einar Falur Ingolfsson. Introduction by Margret Hallgrimsdottir. Reykjavik, ICELAND: The National Museum of Iceland, 2007. First Dutch Language Edition. Large 4to. Printed Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. 176pp, profusely illustrated in duotone and color. "In the fall of 2006 The National Museum of Iceland arranged to collaborate with Mary Ellen Mark to photograph the lives of disabled children in Iceland. The result of this was the exhibition "Extraordinary Child", and its accompanying catalogue. These photographs were taken at Öskjuhlíðarskóli and Safamýrarskóli schools and the Lyngás centre for the disabled in the fall and winter of 2006-2007. At the same time as Mary Ellen Mark was photographing, her husband, renowned documentary filmmaker Martin Bell, made a film about the life of Alexander Viðar Pálsson - a pupil at Öskjuhlíðarskóli - entitled Alexander. The exhibition and film allow us to face these children and their circumstances with the help of the lens. At the same time we are also directing our gaze at our own perceptions and feelings. In this exhibition we see the reality of disabled children in our contemporary society. We sense how extraordinary these children, like all children, are. Deeply moving, poignant, sad and joyous, these photographs take us into a reality that adjoins our own, but is very seldom seen. In addition to Mark's work, this volume contains fifteen photographs of the empty schools by renowned Icelandic photographer Ivar Brynjolfsson as well as twenty paintings by the children". A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item (cited on page 243 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION "For... - / - With Admiration - / Fondly / 2007 / Mary Ellen Mark" in the year of publication in black ink on the half title page. Inventory Number: 026047
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ENCYCLOPEDIE DES ARTS DECORATIFS ET INDUSTRIELS MODERNES AU XXEME SIECLE, VERS 1925 - COMPLETE IN TWELVE VOLUMES
Office Central d'Editions et de Librairie, Editor. Paris: Office Central d'Editions et de Librairie, 1927. First Edition. 4to. Decorative Boards. Decorative Art Monograph. Very Good/No Jackets - As Issued. np, 1152 illustrations in color and b&w in twelve volumes. Text in French. In protective clear acetate dustwrappers. This is the lavishly illustrated twelve volume set documenting the "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes" - the massive 1925 Parisian exhibition of recent Art, Architecture, and Decorative and Industrial Arts that is credited as the birthplace of the Art Deco movement. Each book is devoted to a specific subject: 1. "Evolution de L'art Moderne", 2. "Architecture et Decoration Fixe", 3. "Decoration Fixe de L'Architecture", 4. "Le Mobilier et son Ensemble", 5. "Accessoires du Mobilier", 6. "Tissu et Papier", 7. "Le Livre", 8. "Jeux et Jouets", 9. "La Parure", 10. "Theatre", 11. "Rue et Jardin", and 12. "Enseignement". When presented together on the shelf the twelve spines decoratively present the title of the set in a stylish Deco font. A most handsome, exceptionally well-preserved complete set of the 1927 first edition of this seminal document showing some typical light wear, soiling, and patination to the cream colored decorative paper-covered boards. Inventory Number: 025963
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ANTON YELCHIN: IN CASE OF FIRE
(YELCHIN, ANTON). Cash Machine / FatherSons Press / Lurker LTD / Anton Yelchin, 2019. First Edition 1/400. Paperback. As new/No Jacket - As Issued.. A collection of photographs by Anton Yelchin with a beautiful introduction by Simon Pegg. Proceeds from purchase are donated to the Anton Yelchin Foundation, a 501(c)(3) Charity Corporation based in California who's mission is to support and empower artists living with a disability or disease. More info at antonyelchinfoundation.org 0986391158 Inventory Number: 000YVICOF
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Deanna Templeton: The Moon Has Lost Her Memory - SIGNED
WHITNEY'S PICK, JESS'S PICK. *
Please note: Subject to real-time availability.
"In "The Moon Has Lost Her Memory," Deanna Templeton strings together a selection of photographs from her archive, some dating as far back as 16 years, and knits them along with fragments from T.S. Eliot's “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” into a observational rumination on humankind and their activities under the cloak of night.
The poem and the images harmonize in the pleasing hum of street lamps and the surrounding shadows. In a dark corner of a cafe a bored couple await their bill staring out into oblivion as a flock of women squished into shiny dresses flutter across the street, cars headlamps filtering through their spindly legs balanced on high heels teetering along the asphalt. Her camera peers into open doors at forlorn men in bars drinking by themselves as the world dances around them reveling in the darkness. The light sings in her frames, long exposures seared into the film, both the glow of the moon and garish neon signs glancing off the faces her subjects as they move through the night.
Deanna Templeton’s sensitive eye gazes upon the after hours denizens of London, Barcelona, Los Angeles and Rome as they perform the rituals of the night, drunken gaiety for some and isolated solitude for others." Super Labo Inventory Number: SP17074 -
ZANDRA RHODES: 50 FABULOUS YEARS IN FASHION - SIGNED BY DAME ZANDRA RHODES
(RHODES, ZANDRA). Rhodes, Zandra. Preface by Iris Apfel. Foreword by Suzy Menkes. Dennis Nothdruft, Editor. With contributions by Marylou Luther, Anna Sui, Journalist Joan Agajanian Quinn, Rajeev Sethi, Helena Matheopoulos, Mary Schoeser & Pierpaolo Piccioli . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Fashion Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
PLEASE NOTE: Books will be signed by Dame Zandra Rhodes at Arcana on October 13th. Orders will be shipped beginning Tuesday, October 15th. If you would like to collect your copy at the shop, you may use the code PICKUP at checkout and you will not be charged for postage.
Event address and details are here.
Celebrating decades of achievement by one of the foremost names in British fashion, whose vitality and influence continue to shine Zandra Rhodes provides a luscious documentary of this leading British designer, spanning her fifty-year career in fashion and textile design. The book showcases not only Rhodes’s work but also her vivid personality and creative energy. Both a fashion trailblazer and a consummate textile designer, she has influenced the work of contemporary labels such as Mary Katrantzou and Alice Temperley. The book honors the centrality of textile design in Rhodes’s work, while exploring the versatility of her imagination throughout her long career; contributors include Pierpaolo Piccioli (creative director of Valentino), Suzy Menkes (editor of Vogue International), and celebrated fashion designers Anna Sui and Rajeev Sethi. It also commemorates the 50th anniversary of the house of Zandra Rhodes, a British-owned and -made brand, and Rhodes’s successful establishment of the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.
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TONY MANZELLA: TRUE IMAGE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(MANZELLA, TONY). Manzella, Tony. Venice, CA: Verb Editions, 2017. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Pictorial Tabloid Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.
32 pages, four color offset on 17 x 11 1/2" tabloid newsprint
Edition of 1000 designed by David Blankenship for Because
Published by Verb Editions
“Excavating local landscapes. True Image is a photographic representation of our unseen surroundings.” - Tony Manzella
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TODD HIDO: INTIMATE DISTANCE, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS, A CHRONOLOGICAL ALBUM - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER!
Hido, Todd. Essay by David Campany, Texts by Katya Tylevich.. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2016. Later Printing. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New.
"Intimate Distance" is the first comprehensive monograph charting the career of acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido. Though he has published many previous books of individual bodies of work, this sumptuous new Aperture publication gathers his most iconic images for the first time and brings a fresh perspective to his oeuvre with the inclusion of many unpublished photographs.
Well-known for his images of landscapes and suburban housing across the United States, and for his use of luminous color, Hido casts a distinctly cinematic eye across all that he photographs, digging deep into his memory and imagination for inspiration. David Campany introduces the work and looks specifically at Hido's cinematic influences and the kind of spectatorship the work demands. The book is organized chronologically, showing how his series overlap in exciting, new ways. Also featured are interviews with Hido and Katya Tylevich about the making of each of his monographs. From exterior to interior, surface observations to subconscious investigations, landscapes to nudes, this mid-career survey reveals insight into Hido's practice and illustrates how his unique focus has developed and shifted over time. A brand new, most handsome example additionally SIGNED by the photographer.
978-1597113601 Inventory Number: E000THID -
TODD HIDO: HOUSE HUNTING (REMASTERED) - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd & A.M. Homes. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press, 2019. First Edition Thus 1 /4000. Small Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "House Hunting (Remastered)" will be signed by Mr Hido at Arcana on Saturday, December 7th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 10th. Should you wish to place an order and collect your copy at the shop on or after December 7th, please use the discount code PICKUP10 at checkout; you will not be charged for postage.
“Todd Hido’s large color photographs of suburbia are lonely, forlorn, mysterious… and strangely comforting. Hido photographs the interior rooms of repossessed tract homes, and the outsides of similar houses at night whose habitation is suggested by the glow of a television set or unseen overhead bulb. Seldom does the similar evoke such melancholy. Yet rather than passing judgment on his anonymous subjects, Hido manages to turn the banal into something beautiful, imbuing his prints of interiors with soft pastels, and allowing the exteriors to glow in the cool evening air.” — From our description of the first printing of House Hunting, announced in 2000 We are excited to announce a newly remastered edition of Todd Hido’s iconic and highly sought-after first monograph, House Hunting. To celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of this important book – certainly one of the most influential and oft-cited photography monographs of our time – we have collaborated closely with the artist to achieve a new impression of the highest possible fidelity. Printed on heavy weight matte art paper, using cutting-edge technologies in both the pre-press and production phases, this new edition of House Hunting stays true to the original design and format while delivering even more accurate color rendition and nuances in tone and saturation. It will be a welcome addition to collections lacking access to the very scarce original printings; and to those fortunate enough to own a copy of the original edition, it further illuminates the images themselves that first catapulted the artist and his first monograph to fame. Todd Hido’s photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and most recently at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. Other major institutions that have exhibited Hido’s work include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Miami Art Museum, Florida; Netherland Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy; Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Korea; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work was recently on view in the 49th edition of Les Recontres d’Arles, France. Work by Hido is held in public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian; and Fotomuseum Winterthur. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2019 "Remastered" edition of Todd Hido's long unavailable classic "House "Hunting" additionally SIGNED by the photographer in ink. 978-1590055052 Inventory Number: E000THHH -
THOMAS DEMAND: THE DAILIES - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Demand, Thomas. Text by Hal Foster. MACK, 2015. "Working within the parameters of his established technique, Thomas Demand created carefully formed paper and card sculptures, a parallel world which is photographed and then destroyed. The Dailies offers only traces – signs of consumption, or the spectres of things left behind. His creations are based on things he saw and photographs he took while travelling and walking the street. They show a world that is familiar but out of reach, like the dancing coloured pins on a clothesline, suspended somewhere between the overfamiliar and the hallucinatory – as if a chance apparition, glimpsed momentarily, before it vanishes into its habitat.
The images lure the viewer into a mirror world, a twin universe made only of paper. But the imperfect models are awash with discrepancies from actual things, and as such, they act as small ruptures that complicate the old indexical bond between a photograph and reality. Demand describes the series as Haiku poetry, simple fragments strung together to inspire reflection; they are the stock of our daily lives, but as they trigger deja vu through performed repetition, they ask us to look again, anew, to find in the repertoire an ordinary but redemptive beauty.
Demand’s work has been shown extensively across the world and is included in most of the significant private and institutional collections. Recent books include Model Studies (Ivory Press, 2011) and Blossom with the poet Ben Lerner (MACK, 2015).
PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "The Dailies" will be signed Saturday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. 9781910164402 Inventory Number: E000TDTD
