Product Description: Artists' books always contain art, and the art often serves as the primary reason for the book's existence. And the history of bookmaking, since the Gutenberg Bible, contains examples of books whose typographic and design excellence is immediately apparent and beyond dispute, but which contain no art...read more

Product Description: Tatyana Grosman (1904-1982) founded Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) in 1957 and immediately began to make lithographs with some of the most important artists of the 1960s, such as Larry Rivers, Sam Francis, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg--sparking a revival of printmaking in America...read more

This splendid celebration of the illustrated book as an art form begins with remarkable works produced in France by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin at the end of the 19th century, and traces the international development of the modern illustrated book to the last decade of the 20th century. Major artists of the modern movement, among them Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, turned to the "illumination" of poems, classical literature, and their own writings to make books that are now collectors' objects, luxuriously produced. Such limited editions have continued to be produced alongside other types of artists' books aimed at a much larger audience. The more available artists' books have served a different purpose, often expressing aesthetic and political principles, in the hands of such artists as Kasimir Malevich, Marcel Duchamp, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Beuys, and Barbara Kruger. Accompanying texts consider the historical background, complex relationships between artists and book manufacturers, technical constraints, and recent changes.

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Product Description: Book by Castleman, Riva, Davenport, Guy

Presents representative prints from the Lilja Collection by Jim Dine, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, and Frank Stella

Product Description: Book by Riva Castleman, Wlofgang Wittrock

Looks at the recent history of art prints and describes lithographs, woodcuts, silkscreens, and etchings by Motherwell, de Kooning, Warhol, Oldenburg, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Stella

Works from the collection of New York City's Museum of Modern Art illustrate a history-survey of modern printmaking and of the styles, techniques, and modes of such masters as Chagall, Klee, Matisse, Miro, Picasso, and Rauschenberg

Product Description: Book by Castleman, Riva