Sale 2497 - Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics, January 29, 2019

184 c   (CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZINES.) Crosby, Theo; and John Bodley. Living Arts: Issues 1-3 [complete]. Contributions by major artists, photographers, designers, architects, writers, and musicians including Franz Kline, David Sylvester, William Turnbull, Richard Smith, Cornelius Cardew, Adolph Gottlieb, Richard Hamilton, Black Orpheus, Gerald Gladstone, Bernard Cohen, and many others. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, fine but for slight blistering of clear coating along spines as common. London: The Institute of Contemporary Art in association with Tillotsons, 1963-64   [800/1,200] The influential, if short-lived “documentary magazine, planned to complement the activities of The Institute of Contemporary Arts, and to develop its own audience for original work and the examination of ideas. It will cover all the arts, especially the visual arts and architecture, and will also aim to publish creative work in the fields of literature, music, philosophy and science”—from Volume 1. 184 185 c   BOURGEOIS, LOUISE; andMILLER, ARTHUR. Homely Girl, a Life. 2 volumes. Volume 1 with 10 reproductions of drawings by Bourgeois; Volume 2 with photographic plates by Inge Morath. 4to, grey cloth; board slipcase. one of 1,200 sets , signed by miller , bourgeois , and morath . New York: Peter Blum Editions, 1992 [200/300] The two volumes contain different versions of the book. In the first volume “black drypoint sketches of flowers and two cataclysmic abstractions lead to a more profound reading of the text. A second volume . . . repeating the same text, contains color photographs from ophthalmological studies of pairs of eyes that overwhelm and disrupt the pages of type, as they magnify disturbing nuances in the story”— Castleman, 179. 185