Movements / Body Art from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. 168 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from December 6, 2001 through April 2002. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Over time and across cultures,… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. 144 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. First published, 1981. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Small remainder mark/tail edge, near spine. First paperback edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Includes: Dress, decoration, and art in New Guinea, by Andrew Strathern.. 1st. Paperback.… Read more about this item

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001. 168 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from December 6, 2001 through April 2002. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Over time and across cultures, extraordinary manipulations of the body have occurred in a… Read more about this item

Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xviii, 199 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "The French artist Orlan is famous for performances during which her body is surgically altered. During her performances, viewers witness a material tampering with the realtionship between the face and individual identity, the original and the… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner, 2001. 124 pages; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. A fine copy of the first printing. "For thirty years, since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its… Read more about this item

Milan: Skira, 2018. Pictorial boards, 295 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A superb profusely-illustrated book documenting the work of American artist Dennis Oppenheim, focusing on his Body and Performance art works of the late sixties and early seventies. Includes an interview with the… Read more about this item

Philadelphia and London: Courage Books; Running Press, 2005. Pictorial boards, 128 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Tattooing is a reflection of the basic human desire to decorate the body, and… Read more about this item

Milan: Skira, 2018. Pictorial boards, 295 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A superb profusely-illustrated book documenting the work of American artist Dennis Oppenheim, focusing on his Body and Performance art works of the late sixties and early seventies. Includes an interview with the… Read more about this item

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 354 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Religion and Postmodernism Ser. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. "The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the… Read more about this item

London: Allen Lane; Penguin Books, 1975. 339 pages, [8] leaves of plates, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: A prospectus, as published in Studio International, July 1972, by Jonathan Benthall; Social bodies, by Ted Polhemus; Background considerations to the study of the body as a medium of 'expression', by Ray L. Birdwhistell; The body and social metaphor, by Donald… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. 80 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Body art/tattooing. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Durfee, Dale (Photography by). 8vo.

San Francisco and New York: San Francisco Art Institute; Critical Press, 1998. 177 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Contributions by: Marina Abramovic, Dennis Adams, Jochen Gerz, Suzanne Lacy, Anna Vovakov, Victoria Vesna and Krzysztof Wodiczko. CONTENTS: Introduction: Locating the Private in the Public; La fille publique, by Anna Novakov; Role Exchange: Desire,… Read more about this item

New York: New Museum; Skira Rizzoli Publications, 2013. 247 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the New Museum, New York, October 2, 2013 to January 12, 2014. Exhibition organized by Lisa Phillips with Massimiliano Gioni and Jenny Moore. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE!… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. Cloth, xxi, 587 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Body Criticism is a celebration of visual culture as well as a major contribution to our understanding of the history… Read more about this item