bann stephen edited (12 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Near Fine. xlix, 334 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1974. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. *** "'Today is the deed. We will account for it tomorrow. The past we are leaving behind as carrion.The future we leave to the fortune-tellers. We take the present day.' With these words the sculptors Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner pronounced the official birth of constructivist art, the most revolutionary, challenging, and enigmatic of twentieth-century artistic movements. Since the time of their 'Realistic Manifesto,' constructivism has spread throughout the world, opposing personal, expressionistic art with abstraction and formal construction. In this book, Stephen Bann has collected the most important constructivist documents, including the writings of EI Lissitzky, Theo Van Doesburg, Hans Richter, Victor Vasarely, and Charles Biederman--many of which have never before been available in English and supplemented them with a critical introduction, a chronology of constructivism, and an invaluable bibliography of close to four hundred items. This volume is illustrated with thirty-eight constructivist prints, paintings, drawings, and sculptures, some of them are rare and previously unpublished." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Constructivism in Russia: 1920-23; Toward international constructivism: 1921-22; Constructivism and the Little Magazines: 1923-24; Extension of constructivist principles: 1923-28; Retrospect, theory, and prognosis: 1928-32; The constructive idea in Europe: 1930-42; The constructive idea in the postwar world: 1948-65. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. xix, 229 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. *** "The interpretation of contemporary art has always presented the critic with the hardest challenge; yet today, as new and often bewildering trends and movements come to the fore with dizzying speed, a critical engagement with the works of our own time is particularly vital. Each contributor to Interpreting Contemporary Art has looked at his chosen painting, sculpture, photograph or installation with a conviction that the work's own importance can be enhanced by what is written about it. From the French critic Marcelin Pleynet, writing about a painting by Robert Motherwell, to the English artist and critic Victor Burgin, who chooses a photograph by Helmut Newton, the range of contributions covers a broad international field, touching upon virtually all the most significant art-forms of the present day. Anyone seeking a greater substance in writings on the art of the last two decades, going beyond the major critical orthodoxies of recent years, and who wishes to understand more about the profound links which unite the art of our own period with that of the past, will find this book full of invaluable insights into the kaleidoscope of contemporary art." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Art and literature: Robert Motherwell's Riverrun, by Marcelin Pleynet; The shining cuckoo, by Wystan Curnow; Jannis Kounellis and the question of high art, by Stephen Bann and William Allen; David Reed: an abstract painter in the age of 'postmodernism', by David Carrier; Romance of the real: Jonathan Lasker's Double-Play, by Rainer Crone and David Moos; Susan Smith's archaeology, by Yve-Alain Bois; Perverse space, by Victor Burgin; 'Salle/Lemieux': elements of a narrative, by Paul Smith; Echo and reflections, by David Reason; From world to earth: Richard Deacon and the end of nature, by Michael Newman. Size: 8vo.

Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Illustrated Ilustrador. Reading copy/Near fine. Hardcover with dustjacket. Some highlighting and writing and underlining in 1/4 of book. Nice solid copy.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN 0226951243. Trade Paperback. First printing as indicated by merging number lines on copyright page. Very slight wear to corners and edges; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good to Near Fine condition. No Signature.

Trade Paperback. Condición: Like New. 231 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. 1st. With 39 illustrations, chronology and select bibliography.

Hardcover. Condición: NEW. Estado de la sobrecubierta: NEW. 1st. 200 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition entitled Deja Vu? Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces, at the Walters Art Museum, October 7, 2007 to January 1, 2008 and at the Phoenix Museum of Art, January 20 to May 4, 2008. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. *** "Today, repetitive imagery dominates all forms of visual experience, from the realm of advertising to the spaces of contemporary art. In this innovative project, the authors show that the phenomenon of repetition - often considered merely incidental to the age of mechanical reproduction - was a pervasive attribute of early modern painting long before its embrace by twentieth-century high modernism. In works by David, Ingres, Delaroche, Gerome, Corot, Millet, Monet, Cezanne, Degas, and Matisse, the reader can compare closely related versions of some of the most familiar imagery of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The authors demonstrate that by making multiples of closely related subject matter in their paintings and in other media, these artists challenged an aesthetic based on the notion of an inimitable, unique masterpiece. Through beautiful illustrations and essays by leading scholars, this book shows how repetition in early modern painting took on a complex, multivalent significance and that the traditional medium of painting remained undiminished despite the nineteenth-century invention of photography and film." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Repetition as symbolic form, by Eik Kahng; Reassessing repetition in nineteenth-century academic painting: Delaroche, Gerome, Ingres, by Stephen Bann; Strategies of repetition: Millet/Corot, by Simon Kelly; The predications and implications of Monet's series, by Charles Stuckey; Risible Cezanne, by Richard Shiff; The Matisse grid, by Jeffrey Weiss. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Softcover. Condición: Fine. Magazine. Quarto. 64pp. Stapled wrappers. Illustrated with black and white plates. Light edgewear else fine. Notable contributors include Raymond Jean, Vincent Divilly, Stephen Bann, Mia Stark, Linton Weeks, and Mas-Felipe Delavouet.

First edition, first printing New and bright black boards in like illustrated dustjacket with crisp bright text. A wonderful back cover full photograph of Ian in his sailboat. Nicely illustrated with photographs, vintage, all centered around Ian Hamilton Finlay, his work and location and home. A lovely copy.

Paperback. 383pp card covers, Da Capo, NY 1974. Very good.

Softcover. Condición: Near Fine. No. 10. Oblong small quarto. 36pp. Illustrated, with a cover image by Rodchenko. Stapled self-wrappers. Light general wear and first few leaves with a small area of creasing and a tiny tear in the bottom margin, just about near fine. Prints "Structuralism & Literary Criticism" by Gerard Genette; "The Aesthetic of Ian Hamilton Finlay" by Simon Cutts; poems by Jiri Valoch and R. C. Kenedy; "Art in Crisis" by Charles Biederman; "Skullshapes" by Charles Tomlinson; and material regarding the little magazine *LEF*. Steadman designed and published 10 issues of *Form* between 1966 and 1969. His purpose, as stated in the first issue, was "to publish and provoke discussion of the relations of form to structure in the work of art, and correspondences between the arts. Emphasis is to be placed in particular on the fields of kinetic art and concrete poetry.".

Paperback. Condición: Very Good + / Near Fine. 1st Edition. FORM MAGAZINE. Complete set: Issues 1-10. (Summer) 1966- (October )1969.The most significant British magazine of the 60s concentrating on pure abstraction and through this art theory, architecture, avant-garde magazines et al. Interest in FORM itself has grown in recent years: while studying for his Ph.D. the Portuguese architect Joaquim Moreno made a particular study of the magazine, contending that it is essentially a magazine about little magazines of the avant-garde. Moreno was part of the research group that produced 'Clip Stamp Fold' (M + M books, Princeton, 2011), which features interviews with Bann and Steadman. Issues often include a Great Little Magazines section. Each issue is about 9.5 inches square, illustrated, with 32pp (apart from one issue with 36pp). Number 1: Contents includes Film as Pure form by Theo Van Doesburg (first translation of 1929 essay), The Activity of Structuralism by Roland Barthes, Experimental Aesthetics by Carlyn Cumming, essay on Fernand Leger, Great Little Magazines No.1 : Secession with work by William Carlos Williams, Hans Arp Yvor Winters / Number 2: Contents includes Le Parc and The Group Problem by Frank Popper; A Little Night Music by Charles Tomlinson; Articles by Gillo Dorfles; Poem by Charles Tomlinson; William Carlos Williams on Emanuel Romano. Great Little Magazines No.2: Blues with work by Gertrude Stein, Sidney Hunt, Parker Tyler, Kenneth Rexroth, Charles Henri Ford./ Number 3: Contents includes Poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ernst Jandl, Paul de Vree, Kenneth Robinson. Articles on and by Charles Biederman and 'The Electrical -Mechanical Spectacle' by El Lissitzky. Great Little Magazines No 3: 'G' with work by Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Mies van der Rohe, Miklos Bandi./ Number 4: Contents includes: Brighton Concrete Poetry Exhibition , notes, map & full review (exhibition organised by Form's editors), Black Mountain College, Albers 'Graphic Tectonics', 'What is Kentetism' ? Two essays by Charles Biederman, Poems by Anselm Hollo. Review of Mecano magazine in Great Little Magazines No.4 (therefore discussion of Van Doesburg) - which includes translation of Van Doesburg text. / Number 5: Contains Hans Jaffes - De Stijl and Architecture, features on Bernard Lassus and Raul Hausmann, and in the Black Mountain Series John A. Rice, George Zabriskie and designs for college buildings by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Great Little Magazines No.5 'RAY' with work by Sidney Hunt, I. K. Bonset ( Theo Van Doesburg) and Kurt Schwitters./ Number 6: The contents include essays on Russian unofficial art, and on the work of Laszlo Moholy Nagy; John Evarts and Jean Charlot writing on Black Mountain; and poems by David Chaloner. Great Little Magazines No.6 'De Stijl' (Part 1). / Number 7: March / 1968. Contents include Kinetic Art in Czechoslovakia, Cinema and Semiology, by Peter Wollen, new American Photography, Abraham Moles on Vasarely. Airfields by Simon Cutts. Great Little Magazines No.6 'De Stijl' (author index part 2). / Number 8: The contents include Russian Exhibitions 1904 to 1922, Xanti Schawinskys - Spectodrama, and a feature on Pierre Albert-Birot with Barbara Wrights translations from - Grabinoulor. Great Little Magazines No.7 'SIC' with work by Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Albert-Birot. / Number 9: Contents includes articles by Hans Richter, Joost Baljeu, H. H. Stuckenschmidt. 'Notes on Theatre at Black Mountain College (1948-1952)' by Mark Hedden. 'Theo van Doesburg is of Today' by Maurice Agis and Peter Jones. Great Little Magazines section No 8: 'Kulchur' with work by Robert Indiana./ Number 10: The Aesthetic of Ian Hamilton Finlay by Simon Cutts. Art in Crisis by Charles Biederman, Structuralism & Literary Criticism by Gerard Genette. Great Little Magazines : LEF by Richard Sherwood & articles from LEF by Brik, Arvatov, Mayokovsky. Together with printed letter from the editor, Philip Steadman, sent to contributors when the magazine finished & flier for Form subs.