American Masters: The Voice and the Myth
by O'Doherty, Brian
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394464230
- ISBN 13
- 9780394464237
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House; A Ridge Press Book, 1973. Cloth, 288 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corner/front board scraped. Age toning. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. A celebrated collection of essays on eight contemporary American artists: Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Andrew Wyeth, and Joseph Cornell. O'Doherty has some great observations on these artists; he even makes Wyeth almost interesting (which is quite an accomplishment). Popularized in paperback, this title is increasingly scarce in hardcover. CONTENTS: Hopper's Voice; Davis: Colonial Cubism; Pollock's Myth; De Kooning: Notes Toward a Figure; Rothko: The Tragic and the Transcendental; Rauschenberg: The Sixties; Wyeth: Outside on the Right; and, Cornell: Outsider on the Left. Illustrated with photographs by Hans Namuth, famous for his images of Pollock at work.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Namuth, Hans (Photography by). Folio. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034769
- Title
- American Masters: The Voice and the Myth
- Author
- O'Doherty, Brian
- Illustrator
- Namuth, Hans (Photography by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0394464230
- ISBN 13
- 9780394464237
- Publisher
- Random House; A Ridge Press Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- Folio
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999;
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