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1	A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns more books like this by John Yau, Jasper Johns (Illustrator) add to wishlist This beautifully illustrated and profoundly original volume of essays by the New York poet and critic John Yau mounts one of the most eloquent defenses of the art and vision of Jasper Johns ever written--going well past tired and traditional Formalist readings of the artist's work to propose a completely new way of reading them: One that is ... see all copies from $24.95! new only from $27.92! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Paradiso Diaspora more books like this by John Yau add to wishlist As the anagram of its title suggests, the poems, prose, and memoir in Yau's new collection focus on an inescapable duality. High school & older. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
3	Forbidden Entries more books like this by John Yau add to wishlist "Forbidden Entries" brings together 54 new poems in verse and prose by New York writer John Yau, who has distinguished himself among multicultural poets by his resistance to what he calls the "oppressive rules" of conventional discourse: "the structures of language--the accepted narratives, their little boxes." see all copies from $4.98! new only from $11.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Hawaiian Cowboys more books like this by John Yau add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Dazzling Water, Dazzling Light: Pat Steir Paintings more books like this by John Yau, Pat Steir add to wishlist This beautiful volume provides an overview over the last three decades of Pat Steir's astounding work, from early conceptual works of the 70s like "Looking for the Mountain" and "Or", to the dazzling circles of light of her wave paintings in the 80s and the miracles of free-flowing and dripping paint that create Steir's waterfalls, night skies and ... see all copies from $25.00!
6	My Symptoms more books like this by John Yau add to wishlist This collection of short stories explore confused identity, cultural dislocation and psycho sexual alienation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	My Heart is That Eternal Rose Tattoo more books like this by John Yau add to wishlist These poetic short stories are often very short, and many of them are about works of art that exist only in the author's descriptions of them. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Fetish more books like this by John Yau add to wishlist Some of the best and brightest writing talents are set loose to explore the dark side of wishful thinking, in this anthology which examines some of the more extreme variations of fetishism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	John Buck: Iconography: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation more books like this by Eleanor Heartney, John Yau, Bud Shark add to wishlist Over the past four decades John Buck (born Ames, Iowa, 1946), working out of his studios in Bozeman, Montana, and in Hawaii, has created a large and enormously important body of woodblock prints and rubbings, sculpture, and three-dimensional wood panels in which both his two and three-dimensional forms are saturated with a visual and spatial ... see all copies from $24.15! new only from $31.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Borrowed Love Poems more books like this by John Yau add to wishlist If the "I" cannot be representative, what or who can it represent? In John Yau's new collection, Borrowed Love Poems, the reader encounters artists (Hiroshige and Eva Hesse), poets (Marina Tsvetayeva and Georg Trakl), actors (Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre), and memorable figures (a retired wrestler and a private eye named Genghis Chan). Each ... see all copies from $3.03! new only from $5.18!
11 view cover	Noon Knives: Recent Paintings and Collages by Katherine Pavlis Porter more books like this by Katherine Pavlis Porter, Lydia Csato Gasman, John Yau add to wishlist A rich medley of Porter's abstract compositions accompanied by quotes from the people who have influenced her life and work. see all copies from $9.42! new only from $10.14! \| first editions
12	A.R. Penck more books like this by John Yau, Paul Labell (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! new only from $29.95! \| first editions
13 view cover	Morris Graves: Flower Paintings more books like this by Theodore F Wolff, John Yau (Introduction by) add to wishlist Art critic Wolff's extended essay and a briefer introduction by art critic John Yau serve to interpret the flower paintings of Graves (b.1910) who is better known for his metaphysically charged paintings of chalices, birds, snakes, and other small creatures. His flowers, too, are metaphysically cha see all copies from $14.00! new only from $34.55! \| first editions
14	Michael Goldberg: New Paintings by John Yau add to wishlist see all copies from $14.95! new only from $19.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol more books like this by John Yau add to wishlist By the time he died in 1987, Andy Warhol's notoriety extended far beyond the rarified confines of the New York art world, beyond the fifteen minutes of fame he predicted for everyone's future, and into the vast realm of pop-culture. Warhol's public image was no less fascinating or controversial than his portraits of Campbell's soup cans, Brillo ... see all copies from $9.77! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Jackie Winsor more books like this by Dean Sobel, Peter Schejeldahl (Contributions by), John Yau (Contributions by) add to wishlist This book presents a mid-career survey of the work of American sculptor Jackie Winsor, known for simple, often geometric forms and associated with the so-called Postminimalists. Here, Winsor's work is marked by the powerful, personal vision of a major artist of her generation. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. see all copies from $4.95! new only from $10.71! \| first editions
17 view cover	Roger Brown more books like this by John Yau, Sidney R Lawrence (Introduction by), Roger Brown add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	Chuck Close : recent paintings more books like this by Chuck Close, John Yau add to wishlist see all copies from $19.32! first editions
19 view cover	Young + Brash + Abstract: January 18 - March 10,2002 more books like this by Anderson Gallery, Ted Potter (Foreword by), John Yau (Introduction by) add to wishlist Young and Brash and Abstract features eleven young abstract painters in their twenties and thirties currently working in and around New York. They originate from Spain, Japan, Korea, and England as well as the United States. Crossing ethnic, social, and economic boundaries they represent the multi-cultural diversity that is synonymous with New ... see all copies from $4.22! new only from $27.49! \| first editions
20 view cover	In Pursuit of the Invisible more books like this by John Yau, Mickey Cartin (Foreword by) add to wishlist A beautifully produced book cataloging some of the remarkable American Outsider Art in the collection of Janice and Mickey Cartin. see all copies from $4.87! new only from $4.87! \| first editions
21 view cover	Ed Moses more books like this by John Yau add to wishlist Ed Moses (b. 1928) is widely considered to be one of the central figures in the rich and complex history of postwar West Coast art. Like Richard Diebenkorn and Sam Francis, his work has been greatly influenced by the brilliant light of Southern California. Modernism and European and American abstract art are also echoed in Moses' work, and the ... see all copies from $19.00! new only from $21.00!
22 view cover	Radiant Silhouette: New & Selected Work, 1974-1988 more books like this by John Yau add to wishlist see all copies from $4.49! new only from $10.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Glorious Dust more books like this by Sean Scully (Illustrator), John Yau add to wishlist Sean Scully uses pastels to create abstract works in emotive response to color. This beautifully produced two-volume set, which accompanies the traveling exhibition "Wall of Light," which starts at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. then travels to The Modern in Fort Worth, Texas and The Cincinnati Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, and ... see all copies from $28.75! new only from $32.17! \| SVS
24 view cover	Randy Hayes: The World Reveiled more books like this by John Yau add to wishlist Since photography was first developed in the mid-19th century, artists have been incorporating it in their work. Randy Hayes follows in that tradition, combining the stop-action immediacy of photos with the timeless commentary of painting to produce provocative, many-layered images. His unique method of "veiling" photographs with semi-translucent ... see all copies from $9.00! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25	Bruce Nauman Prints 1970-89 more books like this by John Yau (Designed by), Christopher Cordes (Editor), Debbie Taylor (Designed by) add to wishlist see all copies from $69.46! new only from $185.50! \| first editions

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