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Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Gene W. Baade Books on the West
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Morgan, Reid BINDER OF ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURAL AND BOTANICAL DRAWINGS
$250.00
Seattle: Privately Published. Original. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #5010075
ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURAL AND BOTANICAL DRAWINGS by noted Mercer Island, Washington, architect Reid Morgan. No date. Mr. Morgan was noted for his designs for beautiful home and other buildings that fit perfectly into the Pacific Northwest marine and forested landscape. This group includes presumably his drawing of the Guggenheim art museum, a Spanish mission church, etc. Many accolades of his work and him may be found on line. 18 drawings, including the architect’s color wheel and palette labels on paper boards and card stock, some in color, in three-ring binder. Most drawings are frameable.
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1915 Paris art student's watercolor notes
Reynoud, Marcel Cours de l’histoire de l’art
$1,024.00Paris: 1915-1916. [Original Manuscript]. Card Covers. Beautifully executed sketchbook, in pencil, pen-and-ink, and watercolor, by a student at the prestigious École de Boulle in Paris. Demy 8vo (217 x 165mm): 27 leaves of graph paper with lesson notes (emphasizing architecture) in an elegant script on verso and drawings (mostly in color and many on thick paper pasted down) on recto, followed by 26 blank leaves. Black quarter cloth over mottled green card covers, speckled end papers. A superb survival, skillfully drawn and richly colored, tightly bound and clean throughout. Fine. Original manuscript containing the notes for art history classes given in 1915-1916 at the École de Boulle in Paris, a sequence of 25 lessons, excepting the fourteenth (which the author perhaps missed) taken by a second-year student whose surname, which appears on front cover, title page, and following leaves, was Reynoud (one Marcel Reynoud was enrolled at the École as a first-year student in 1914). The École de Boulle, a college of fine arts and crafts and applied arts founded in 1886, is one of the most famous art schools in Paris, named for the cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle, the preeminent marquetry artist during the reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715). The school trains students in two main departments: artistic crafts, including marquetry, cabinetmaking, tapestry, and upholstery (Marcel Reynoud’s specialty), and applied arts, such as interior architecture and furniture design. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books and manuscripts in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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Deitch, Gene, with Design by Vratislav Hlavaty. The Giants
$1,250.00Unpaged; (98) pp. ; 5′ x 8 1/2″; No Place (Prague?); By the author, (1968). Plain red cloth over boards; tan endpapers; hand-drawn and colored drawings on each page (you can feel the ink on the paper’s surface). Designed in the form of a flip book, which format Deitch had used in 1967 with “Nudnik, the cut finger fumble”, published by Cinémathèque Canadienne occasion of the World Retrospective of Animation Cinema as part of Expo 67. This work appears to have never been published in book form, but was produced as a film. The book appears to be unique, bound as a ‘pitch bible’ for The Giants. There are several pastedown replacements/edits on pages form textual parts, to half, to whole page. It appears that some leaves, are actually two pages stuck together, as another way of removing or editing parts, or reusing the back side of a page to redraw a part. One of these was just separated enough to be able to see partial drawings ‘inside’ so to speak. Eugene Merril Deitch (born August 8, 1924) [1] is an American illustrator, animator and film director. Based in Prague since 1959, Deitch is known for creating animated cartoons such as Munro, Tom Terrific, and Nudnik, as well as his work on the Popeye and Tom and Jerry series. The background leading up to the creation of The Giants as a film, as well as its sensational reception and subsequent banishment, is a fascinating and complex drama. The inspiration for the story, according to Deitch, was the Israeli – Palestinian conflict: “But first, back to the dilemma of the offer by the Czechs to back an original film by me. I didn’t want to offend them with an all-out no. I just said that I couldn’t afford to do a film without a hard-currency backer. But that didn’t stop me from thinking about the idea, and a statement I had long wished to make about the futility of violence – violence begetting counter-violence. The seemingly endless blow and counter-blow between Israel and the Palestinian was on my mind. It had been going on a long time already in the mid-60s, and as of this writing it is still going on. So even though I couldn’t make such a film for the Czechs, (The Prague government at that time strictly backed the Palestinian – no evenhanded story about that could possibly be filmed here, however I might mask it. ) But I nursed a hope that I might someday find a backer, so I worked up a storyboard. I titled it, ‘The Giants’.” It was to be staged with symbolic characters, two equally ugly, snarling, spitting dwarfish figures, one solid blue, and the other a flaming magenta, on a deathly landscape. They hurl venomous insults at each other, to the constant, irritating, rasping sound of locusts. One dwarf loudly calls out the name of his protector. Thunderous, earthshaking footsteps are heard, and giant feet and legs, the same color as the summoning dwarf, stride in and stand behind him. Then the other dwarf turns and calls out the name of his protector. More thundering footsteps, and a giant of his color strides in. Then the two dwarfs goad each of their giants to engage in a series of blows and counter blows. After numerous drastic exchanges, and a devious peace conference, the two giants ultimately abandon their two irreconcilable clients to fight it out by themselves. But the mean-spirited dwarfs have no stomach for personal battle, and so cling together in a terrified embrace, repeatedly moaning,” How will we get along without our protectors?” “I got the wildest designer in the country, Vratislav Hlavat_, to give the film the highly bizarre look the story demanded. Hlavat was not only a wild designer, but also a wild adventurer. He and few other hot-eyed pals were flying on natural gas in homemade balloons! I brought in my most promising assistant, Milan Klikar, to do the layouts. Then, just as we were ready to begin animation, the Russians came in! After a week of terror, I put Zdenka and the Giants layouts in my little Saab car, and drove over the border to Austria. I couldn’t take a chance of being expelled from the country,Â
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Pre-WTC Lower Manhattan Remembered
Danny Lyon The Destruction of Lower Manhattan
$300.00New York: Macmillan, 1969. Hardcover. Square 4to. 75 black and white plates printed on rectos only. Very Good with a slight spine lean and small red remainder dot on top edge in a Very Good dust jacket. Item #701202503 A classic collection of photographs that documented the demise of the buildings in and around the lower Manhattan.  In 1966, after several years spent rambling around the country photographing a Chicago-based motorcycle club, Danny Lyon returned to his native New York City and moved into a downtown apartment on Beekman Street that was under re-construction. Lyon learned that the block was among the sixty acres below Canal Street slated for clearing, areas that had once been a hub of thriving printing and produce industries but had bled out economically after the Second World War. Lyon returned to New York in 1969 after his work in Texas and the South with the SNCC, and lived for a while with Robert Frank [‘The Americans’]. During his stay Lyon was commissioned by the New York State Council of Arts to cover the demolition of a number of landmark buildings. including old Penn Station. Lyon’s work was notably instrumental in the development of the NYC landmarks preservation movement.  Â
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A Design Journey Through Solitude and Space
Edited by Lars Muller and Akiko Miki; In Collaboration with Hiroshi Kagayama; With Photographs by Iwan Baan Insular Insight: Where Art and Architecture Conspire with Nature. Naoshima, Teshima Inujima.
$375.00Zurich: Lars Muller Publishers and Fukutake Foundation, 2011. Hardcover. Large 8vo., 453 pp., color plates, maps, appendix. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #122234  The islands of Naoshima, Teshima, and Inujima in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea are places of pilgrimage for friends of contemporary art and architecture. Alongside works in public spaces as well as site-specific installations, the islands are also full of numerous museums and collections of contemporary art. This book offers a comprehensive documentation of this unique cultural landscape surrounded by Japan’s Inland Sea. The photographs by the Dutch photographer Iwan Baan, ranging from tiny details to giant panoramas, create a comprehensive portrait of the islands with their fluid transitions between nature, art, and architecture.  Numerous texts introduce readers to the individual areas and projects that are either permanently on display on the islands or have taken place there temporarily. In addition, other essays deal with the island as a cultural concept and phenomenon. Among others, the book presents buildings by Kazuyo Sejima, Ruye Nishizawa, Tadao Ando, and Hiroshi Sambuichi. A scarce and important reference work. Â
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