Janette Ray Rare And Out of Print Books

184. (ROTH) DOBKE Dirk (curated by) Graphic Works Catalogue Raisonné 1947-1998 London Edition
Hansjorg Mayer 2003 339pp many colour + b/w illustrations with captions. 4to orange cloth boards with
illustrated dust wrapper. Fine. Limited A4 print inserted into sleeve on the lower board no 25/100. This
profusely illustrated Catalogue Raisonné documents Roth’s remarkable creative and original approach to
printmaking. Showing many well-known and lesser known printing techniques used by the artist. [18431 ]
£165
185. [RUSCHA] ENDBERG, [Author] Edward Ruscha Editions 1959-1999 Volume 1: Prints, Books Miscellany.
Volume 2: Essays, Entries, Information
Minneapolis, Minnesota Walker Art Center 1999 304pp 325 colour and 75 bw plates. 4to. Fine in dust
wrapper. Two-volume, full-colour, boxed catalogue raisonné that documents Ruscha's editioned work to date.
It features essays by exhibition curator Siri Engberg and independent artist's-book curator-critic Clive Phillpot.
This massive study documents Ruscha's printmaking process, and his particular aesthetic. [18097 ] £225
186. RYAN, Deborah S. The Ideal Home through the 20th Century
London Hazar 1997 173pp illus with b/w plates and line ills including period ads. 4to. VG in dw .Lower edge
has an indent probably caused by poor shelving in past. Decorated end papers. Lovely book documenting the
British Ideal Home Exhibition and its changing face. The book is organised in decades from the inception of the
show in 1908. [18538] £25
187. (SCHWITTERS Kurt) BURKETT, M. E., Kurt Schwitters, Creator of Merz
Kendal Abbot Hall Gallery 1979 28pp exhibition catalogue. b/w plates. Nice copy. [Ref: 18478] £12
188. (SCHWITTERS) ELDERFIELD, John. Kurt Schwitters
London, Thames and Hudson 1985 424pp with 356 illustrations, 32 of which in colour. Large square 4to with
very good vg. Top edge of book block a little specked with age. Comprehensive study of the artist’s work and
its cultural context, produced in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
[ref: 18101 ] £140
189. [SITUATIONISTS] BLAZWICK, Owona in consultation with FRANCIS, Mark. WOLLEN, Peter and IMRIE,
Malcolm. An Endless Adventure...an Endless Passion...an Endless Banquet: a Situationist Scrapbook
London Verso/ICA 1989 96pp, illustrated with line ills, 4to. With contrasting paper wrappers. Wrappers
preserved in self-adhesive plastic else very good copy. The book comprises The Situationist International,
Selected Documents from 1957 to 1962. Documents tracing the impact on British culture from the 1960s to
the 1980s. This publication accompanies the exhibition: “On The Passage of a Few People Through a Brief
Period of Time.” [ 18515] £40
190. [STREAMLINING] PERREAULT, John.. Streamline Design: How the Future Was New York Queens Museum
County Art and Cultural Center 1984 65pp illustrated with b/w plates. Square 4to. Decorated wrappers,
silvered end papers. On streamlining with a discussion of the designers involved including Dreyfus, Teague, Bel
Geddes , Raymond Loewy etc.. [ 18298 ] £20
191. STUCKISTS – CHILDISH, Billy. Words and Music by. The Turner
Prize Song Art or Arse? You be the judge
Promoted by Joe Crompton 2000 Limited edition CD. Includes the title
song, The Turner Prize Song Art or Arse? - You Be the Judge with Tracey
Emin's voice at the beginning, and another song, Anachronism in the UK,
both written and sung by Billy Childish with Wolf Howard, plus The
Turner Prize Manifesto, read by Charles Thomson. In original plastic box
with cover picture of “The Tat Gallery”. Produced in 2000 in association
with a rival exhibition, The Real Turner Prize Show, which denounced the
Turner prize, one of the most prestigious in the world, as "an ongoing
national joke". The serious point of the Stuckists was that the traditional
skills of painting and sculpture were rubbished by what they called "the
Serota brigade" after Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate. [ref: 18239 ] £45
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