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Paris Review, The: Issue 193 Summer 2010by: N/A (Robert Crumb, David Mitchell)
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Paris Review, The: Issue 193 Summer 2010
by: N/A (Robert Crumb, David Mitchell)

Softcover. New York , Paris Review, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover journal, 218 pages. Featues an interview with Robert Crumb, Illustrated. Also an interview with David Mitchell.

Record # 352487

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Willem De Kooning - Reflections in the Studio (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)by: Lieber, Edvard
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Willem De Kooning - Reflections in the Studio (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)
by: Lieber, Edvard

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 137 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrated with full color photographs. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613370

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Last Chance for Eden: Selected Art Criticism by Christopher Knight 1979-1994 by: Christopher Knight
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Last Chance for Eden: Selected Art Criticism by Christopher Knight 1979-1994
by: Christopher Knight

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Art Issues Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 420 pages with index. Christopher Knight is the unprecedented five-time winner of the Chemical Bank Award for Distinguished Newspaper Art Criticism, and was a finalist for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Writing first for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and now for the Los Angeles Times, Knight has developed a new journalistic approach to American art and culture, in which a radical defense of images stands alongside an incisive critique of cultural institutions. Among the 129 essays and reviews collected here are individual writings on internationally important historical figures, such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Tung Ch'i Ch'ang, and douard Manet; contemporary American masters like Edward Ruscha and Mike Kelley; and significant artists virtually forgotten today, such as California's Henrietta Shore and Mexico's Hermenegildo Bustos. Clean copy.

Record # 398254

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Candice at Sea (A Heavy Metal book)by: Lob & Pichard translated By Sean Kelly & Valerie Marchant
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Candice at Sea (A Heavy Metal book)
by: Lob & Pichard translated By Sean Kelly & Valerie Marchant

Softcover. NY, Heavy Metal Communications, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 60 pages, b/w throughout, color wrapper. Vintage erotic adventure comics, featuring the orphan Candice & her masked protector as they climb aboard a ship at sea, cigar-smoking villains, their sadist mistresses, B/D/S/M themes.

Record # 375385

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Komplete Kolor Krazy Kat Volume 1: 1935 1936 by: Herriman, George/ Rich Marschall
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Komplete Kolor Krazy Kat Volume 1: 1935 1936
by: Herriman, George/ Rich Marschall

Hardcover. Princeton WI, Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Light musty odor.

Record # 352535

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Stieglitz and His Artists - Matisse to O'Keefeby: Messinger, Lisa Mintz
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Stieglitz and His Artists - Matisse to O'Keefe
by: Messinger, Lisa Mintz

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Binding strong. Dust jacket unmarked. Clean tight copy.

Record # 750038

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R. Crumb Sketchbook. Volume 2 Sept. 1968-Jan. 1975 by: Crumb, Robert
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R. Crumb Sketchbook. Volume 2 Sept. 1968-Jan. 1975
by: Crumb, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black and white fantasy cartoon sketches, many scatological. 11" high X 8" wide, 439 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398332

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Audacious Eroticism: The Unconventional Art of Felicien Rops (1833-1898) by: Felicien Rops/Victor Arwas
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Audacious Eroticism: The Unconventional Art of Felicien Rops (1833-1898)
by: Felicien Rops/Victor Arwas

Softcover. NY, Theodore B. Donson, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog with price list laid in. 169 items listed, b&w illustrations. Some light spotting to wrappers, inside clean, unmarked.

Record # 377872

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Bob Dylan Revisitedby: Dylan, Bob
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Bob Dylan Revisited
by: Dylan, Bob

Hardcover. New York , Norton, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 98 pages. 13 graphic interpretations of Dylan's lyrics illustrated in color by various artists. No dust jacket issued. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 352607

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Paul Kleeby: Lanchner, Carolyn
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Paul Klee
by: Lanchner, Carolyn

Softcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, First Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Softcover published on occasion of the exhibition by the same title, touring various locations including the Museum of Modern Art, February 12 - May 5, 1987. Full page, full color and bw illustrations throughout. Frontis illustration, Twittering Machine, 1922. Light toning to spine. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750514

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Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years by: Sarah Whitaker Peters
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Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years
by: Sarah Whitaker Peters

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1991, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 397 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. In this thoughtful and thought-provoking art historical study, Peters first traces strands of Art Nouveau and Symbolist theory in the art of Georgia O'Keeffe. She then discusses other influences, from Arthur Dow as teacher to Paul Strand as photographer and friend. But by far the most sustained study in the text is the relationship between O'Keeffe's painting and the photography and philosophy of her husband, Alfred Stieglitz. Peters argues lucidly and always in accessible language for O'Keeffe's emergence as a great and deeply individual artist while illuminating these many influences and illustrating her points with lavish use of excellent reproductions. Clean copy.

Record # 398451

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Alex Katz: Small Paintingsby: Alex Katz
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Alex Katz: Small Paintings
by: Alex Katz

Hardcover. Kansas City, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, exhibition catalog, unpaginated. New York artist Alex Katz is best known for his eye-catching, large-scale portraits, figures, and landscapes, but in the mid-1950s he painted intimate works, originating the style that would become the hallmark of his mature work. By the early 1960s, he established a procedure of making small sketches using oil paint on Masonite board, which he would enlarge and modify, then make into paper cartoons to transfer to the canvas. He produces one or more small sketches for every large painting. Although Katz considers the large works to be his major productions, small-scale paintings are the underpinning of his work, revealing his initial passion for a subject--a love at first sight before it has fully matured. While his big paintings are akin to a public performance, the small paintings are rehearsals that reveal not only how he works but more importantly why he is interested in a particular subject. This volume focuses on the achievement and significance of Katz's small paintings.

Record # 377991

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Dick Tracy, Colorful Cases of the 1930sby: Gould, Chester
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Dick Tracy, Colorful Cases of the 1930s
by: Gould, Chester

Hardcover. US, Sunday Press (CA), 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Over-size volume. This selection of Dick Tracy Sunday pages from 1931 to 1939 features Gould's most infamous villains of the decade, with four complete stories, plus forty more fabulous Sundays highlighting the villains and heroes not seen in the featured cases. 168 pages, 11" X 16", color throughout.

Record # 352655

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Advertising World of Norman Rockwell,Theby: Stoltz, Donald and Marshall
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Advertising World of Norman Rockwell,The
by: Stoltz, Donald and Marshall

Hardcover. New York, Harrison House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages. Over 200 color illustrations tell the story of Rockwell's advertising work. Good tight copy with a repaired tear to rear portion of dust jacket. Totally illustrated by Rockwell plus copy related to each advertising art work piece from Acme Markets to Valspar Varnish.

Record # 802944

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Moonlight in Duneland The Illustrated Story of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroadby: Edited by Ronald D. Cohen and Stephen G. McShane

Moonlight in Duneland The Illustrated Story of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad
by: Edited by Ronald D. Cohen and Stephen G. McShane

Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 138 pages. the complete run of lithographic posters done to promote the South Shore Railroad in the early 20th century by artists such as Will Bradley, Maxfield Parrish, Ethel Reed, J. C. Leyendecker, Edward Penfield etc. Color illustrations.

Record # 398798

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English Gothic Foliage Sculptureby: Samuel Gardner
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English Gothic Foliage Sculpture
by: Samuel Gardner

UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt decoration, lettering, 56 pages plus 111 b&w plates. This 1927 book presents an accessible guide to Gothic foliage sculpture, aimed at visitors to ancient English churches. 186 pages total. Decorative bookplate inside front cover otherwise clean copy.

Record # 378308

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SKULL STYLE: Skulls in Contemporary Art and Designby: Farameh, Patrice
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SKULL STYLE: Skulls in Contemporary Art and Design
by: Farameh, Patrice

Hardcover. US, Farameh, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 496 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Slipcased. "SKULL STYLE is a beautifully designed book presents not only one of the most ancient symbols used in the history of mankind but how it is utilized in the most surprising and modern way today. Formerly an emblem of evil and mortality, the skull has been transformed into an avant-garde design element used in the most cutting-edge art, chic interiors and vanguard style of the moment. Whether embellished on costly T-shirts, woven on limited edition chairs, and even encrusted with diamonds sold at an art auction for $100 million, the skull is no longer just a daunting memento of our frail mortality but a contemporary figure of fashion. This 500-page book shows how this once morbid trinket of death has been reinvented into the much-desired decoration by the trendsetters of tomorrow. Glow-in-the dark cover art designed by Lucien Pellat-Finet."

Record # 352723

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R. B. Kitajby: Livingstone, Marco
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R. B. Kitaj
by: Livingstone, Marco

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket,160 pages. Folio. gray cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Richly illustrated with 172 illustrations, 50 in full color. First monograph of this American-born artist who has lived most of his life in England. Includes a catalogue of all his work up until 1985.R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007) is one of the most intriguing 20th century artists. Born into a Russo-Jewish family near Cleveland, Ohio, 17-year old Kitaj spent 5 years at sea aboard a Norwegian freighter. He went on to study art in New York and Vienna. A Royal College of Art stipend made him move to London where he became a celebrated artist. Curating The Human Clay, a 1976 show of figurative contemporary British artists, he coined the term "School of London" for the artistic circle around Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, and Leon Kossoff. In 1991 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy, one of only three American painters to be thus honored in the history of the institution. A major 1994 retrospective at London's Tate Gallery failed to produce Kitaj's international breakthrough, but was unanimously panned by British critics instead. This, and the unexpected death of his wife Sandra, induced his increasingly paranoid perspective. Embittered he returned to the USA and settled in Los Angeles, where he finally took his own life in 2007. Kitaj left behind a manuscript unmatched among 20th-century artist autobiographies -- Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter. Eloquently describing his vices and sufferings, it stands in the traditions of both St. Augustine and Thomas de Quincey. Now published for the first time, it is a sensation, from both a literary and art historical point of view.

Record # 804710

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Robert Thieleby: Carter Ratcliff/ Robert Thiele

Robert Thiele
by: Carter Ratcliff/ Robert Thiele

Softcover. NY, Howard Scott/M-13 Gallery, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages featuring 6 new works by the artist reproduced in color. Essay by Carter Ratcliff. Clean copy.

Record # 398873

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The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book by: Crumb, R.
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The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book
by: Crumb, R.

Softcover. Boston, Kitchen Sink Press/Little Brown, 1st pbk, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 250vpages. This first-ever retrospective of the legendary underground artist's work features his characters Keep on Truckin', Fritz the Cat, Devil Girl, and Mr. Natural, as well as unpublished rarities and personal reflections from the artist himself. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 378596

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Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestryby: Hedlund, Ann Lane/Grace Glueck (Foreword)
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Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry
by: Hedlund, Ann Lane/Grace Glueck (Foreword)

Hardcover. Other Distribution, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in publisher's shrink-wrap. 378 pages. Gloria F. Ross (1923-1998) described her work as the translation of paint into wool. She was deeply committed to reinventing the centuries-old art of tapestry, particularly championing the handmade in contemporary art. This remarkable book, written by textile scholar Ann Lane Hedlund, draws from rare unpublished archives to unravel the evolution of Ross's modern tapestries and to illuminate the significance of her creative partnerships. Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry features the collaborative work of 28 acclaimed modernist painters and sculptors, including Helen Frankenthaler (Ross's sister), Kenneth Noland, and Louise Nevelson, with several dozen traditional-yet-innovative weavers in France, Scotland, and the Southwestern United States. Brief biographies of the artists, letters, notes, sketches, and photographs illustrate the practical and aesthetic challenges that occupied Gloria Ross for over three decades

Record # 352876

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Wonders of Engraving, Theby: Duplessis, Georges
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Wonders of Engraving, The
by: Duplessis, Georges

Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, reprint, undated/c1880, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. History of the art of engraving within a European context. Undated, published c1880. Illustrated with 34 black/white reproductions of engravings. Good condition; pages have gilt edges, cloth bound book has some wear to the edges and introductory pages lightly spotted from age.

Record # 804777

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Baladiby: Roland Baladi/Linda Chase

Baladi
by: Roland Baladi/Linda Chase

Softcover. NY, OK Harris, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, b&w illustrations. Essay and interview by Linda Chase. Works in marble by the Egyptian sculptor.

Record # 398890

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History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past by: Haskell, Francis
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History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past
by: Haskell, Francis

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 3rd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers. 558 pages, 240 b/w + 20 color plates. In this engrossing book, an eminent art historian surveys the ways that historians have made use of visual sources--sculptures, paintings, coins, and other relics--in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. Francis Haskell examines the specific objects that were used and discusses a wide range of historians - from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to later writers such as Michelet, Burckhardt, and Huizinga who made inferences from the visual arts to indicate the whole mentality of an age. Clean copy.

Record # 378846

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Sixties, The: Young in the Hamptonsby: Gruen, John Jonas
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Sixties, The: Young in the Hamptons
by: Gruen, John Jonas

Softcover. New York, Charta, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. 80 photographs in black and white. A collection of portraits from throughout the 1960's.

Record # 352924

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I Remember Americaby: Sloane, Eric
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I Remember America
by: Sloane, Eric

Hardcover. New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Eric Sloane presents a volume containing autobiographical notes and reproductions of his paintings. 184 pages, featuring 37 color plates of Sloane's oil paintings in addition to numerous other black-ink drawings. Excellent condition; book has no internal flaws but few very light marks on the cover. Dust jacket is in very good condition, very slight rubbing and wear, price-clipped.

Record # 804863

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G. Roy Levin Objects (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Levin, G. Roy

G. Roy Levin Objects (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Levin, G. Roy

Softcover. Montpelier VT, Laughing Bear, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages, color photos throughout. A collection of various artworks, collages, sculptures and constructions by the artist. INSCRIBED BY LEVIN on the title page. Clean copy.

Record # 398917

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Compulsive Beauty by: Foster, Hal
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Compulsive Beauty
by: Foster, Hal

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, Andre Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death. To this end Foster first restages the difficult encounter of surrealism with Freudian psychoanalysis, then redefines the crucial categories of surrealism-the marvelous, convulsive beauty, objective chance-in terms of the Freudian uncanny, or the return of familar things made strange by repression. Next, with the art of Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, and Alberto Giacometti in mind, Foster develops a theory of the surrealist image as a working over of a primal fantasy. This leads him finally to propose as a summa of surrealism a body of work often shunted to its margins: the dolls of Hans Bellmer, so many traumatic tableaux that point to difficult connections not only between sadism and masochism butal so between surrealism and fascism. At this point Compulsive Beauty turns to the social dimension of the surrealist uncanny. First Foster reads the surrealist repertoire of automatons and mannequins as a reflection on the uncanny processes of mechanization and commodification. Then he considers the surrealist use of outmoded images as an attempt to work through the historical repression effected by these same processes. In a brief conclusion he discusses the fate of surrealism today in a world become surrealistic. Compulsive Beauty not only offers a deconstructive reading of surrealism, long neglected by Anglo-American art history, but also participates in a postmodern reconsideration of modernism, the dominant accounts of which have obscured its involvements in desire and trauma, capitalist shock and technological development.

Record # 379158

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Scrapbookby: Cartier-Bresson, Henri (Photographer)
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Scrapbook
by: Cartier-Bresson, Henri (Photographer)

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Oversize hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, like new copy still in publishers shrink wrap. Large black and white & color photographs throughout. Tight copy. Henri Cartier-Bresson was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1940. After two unsuccessful attempts, he managed to escape in 1943. During this period, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, assuming that the photographer had died in the war, started preparing what they thought would be a posthumous exhibition of his work. When he reappeared, Cartier-Bresson was delighted to learn of the exhibition and decided to review his entire oeuvre and curate it himself. In 1946 Cartier-Bresson traveled to New York with about 300 prints in his suitcase, bought a scrapbook, glued in the photos, and brought that album to MoMA's curators. His exhibition there, a celebration of his survival, opened on February 4, 1947. In the 1990s, Cartier-Bresson once again turned his attention to this scrapbook. Following his death in 2004, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, the present owner of the prints, finished the job of restoring them, making it possible to bring a large body of his extraordinary work to the public, images that have now become a memorial collection after all.

Record # 352957

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Mary Cassattby: Mathews, Nancy Mowll
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Mary Cassatt
by: Mathews, Nancy Mowll

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Red cloth cover, light blue dust jacket with color illustrations, 135 illustrations including 50 plates in full color, published for the Library of American Art. Still in original shrink wrap, never opened, very small hole to front of wrapping and dust jacket; book in excellent condition.

Record # 805063

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Chung Un-Kiby: Chung Un-Ki/You Hong June

Chung Un-Ki
by: Chung Un-Ki/You Hong June

Softcover. Daegu Korea, Byuk-A Gallery, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 38 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Laid in essay on the Korean sculptor by You Hong June, "A Dialogue with Image and an Aesthetic of Stone". Clean copy.

Record # 398971

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Irma Stern: A Feast for the Eye by: Arnold, Marion ; Stern, Irma [Painter]
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Irma Stern: A Feast for the Eye
by: Arnold, Marion ; Stern, Irma [Painter]

Capetown SA, Fernwood Press/Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear 156 pages. Irma Stern (1894-1966) became a renowned artist in South Africa, the country she chose to live and paint the diversity of life and objects. She painted numerous portraits and still life and Rose to fame as one of their great artists. Herart works are exhibitted around the world, and this book is an attempt to shed some lights on Irma Stern?s life and her paintings. Printed on high quality stock, this oversized volume is jampacked with some of her finest works. Clean copy.

Record # 379759

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Bird Center Cartoons: A Chronicle of Social Happenings at Bird Center, Illinoisby: McCutcheon, John T.
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Bird Center Cartoons: A Chronicle of Social Happenings at Bird Center, Illinois
by: McCutcheon, John T.

Hardcover. Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, folio size, unpaginated, profusely illustrated in b&w by the author. A fictitious chronicle in newspaper prose with cartoon illustrations satirizing society in a small mid-west community. Corners and edges show wear. Interior clean.

Record # 352984

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Utopian Craftsmen: The Arts and Crafts Movement from the Cotswolds to Chicagoby: Lambourne, Lionel
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Utopian Craftsmen: The Arts and Crafts Movement from the Cotswolds to Chicago
by: Lambourne, Lionel

Hardcover. Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith, Inc, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 256 b&w plates, some in color. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a tight, clean copy.

Record # 805312

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Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Vol. 4by: Don Moore and Austin Briggs

Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Vol. 4
by: Don Moore and Austin Briggs

Hardcover. Mad Cave Studios, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Volume 4 reprints the Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1944-1948. Color illustrated. Flash Gordon returns for another thrilling space-bound adventure as the original guardian of the galaxy, battling to save us all from a host of sinister super-villains determined to dominate, destroy, and wreak havoc--including the fierce and seductive Storm Queen of Valkir! Don Moore was the writer of the Flash Gordon, taking over scriptwriting duties from strip creator Alex Raymond in August 1935. Moore was a former pulp editor. Austin Briggs worked for a while at an advertising agency then became an assistant to the cartoonist Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon and succeeded him on Secret Agent Corrigan. In 1940 he drew a Flash Gordon Daily strip which he stayed on until about 1944. He drew the prestigious Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1944 until 1948. He was one of the founding faculty for the Famous Artists School. In 1969 he was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 399080

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A Lesson in Art & Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett Haines by: Hugh St. Clair
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A Lesson in Art & Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett Haines
by: Hugh St. Clair

Hardcover. London, Pimpernel Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 216 pages, color plates. Interest in mid-20th century British artists and the world they inhabited is growing internationally--prices are rising and exhibitions proliferate. This biography focuses on the couple who were at the centre of the Modern British art scene: Cedric Morris (1889-1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (1894-1978). Both men studied in Paris in the 1920s where they absorbed the work of the French Post Impressionists, Cubists and Surrealists. Later in London, Morris became a sought-after painter of flowers, birds and landscapes, and a friend of Augustus John and Ben Nicholson. Lett was hailed as Britain's first Surrealist. They gave fabulous parties attended by the cream of creative London. Morris and Haines founded the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Suffolk, attended by Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling. The atmosphere was described as 'robust and coarse, exquisite and sensitive all at once, also faintly dangerous.' The conversation was sometimes bawdy and bitchy but never boring. Lett-Haines, who ran the school, was a superb cook who swapped recipes with Elizabeth David. Cedric Morris became an award-winning plantsman and poppy iris breeder. He was an acknowledged influence on Beth Chatto, amongst others. like new.

Record # 380132

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Landscape in Photographsby: Hellman, Karen
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Landscape in Photographs
by: Hellman, Karen

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Like painters and draftsmen before them, photographers turned to the landscape as a source of inspiration after the invention of the medium in 1839. Since then, changing artistic movements and technical advancements have provided opportunities for camera artists to approach the subject in diverse and imaginative ways, as illustrated by the wide range of works from the extensive collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Landscape in Photographs.

Record # 353009

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Porcelain of the Nineteenth Centuryby: Fay-Halle, Antoinette and Barbara Mundt
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Porcelain of the Nineteenth Century
by: Fay-Halle, Antoinette and Barbara Mundt

Softcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 302 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 405 b&w and 80 color illustrations, stapled cardboard slipcase. Bottom right corner of cover slightly bumped. Very light wear to dust jacket edges; a very clean, tight copy. This book is the first to survey the whole i development of porcelain n Europe between the Napoleonic era and the First World War. The nineteenth century was a period of technological change and of artistic innovation: both these strands came together in the development of porcelain, which industrialization brought within the reach of the burgeoning middle classes of industrial Europe. While early in the century Neoclassicism had brought about a new purity of line and decoration, in Germany and in England taste demanded more elaborate styles and resulted in the emergence of the 'new Rococo' and later in the development of revived styles of decoration such as Minton's 'Majolica' and the work of studio potters. This book covers not only the great factories, Sevres, Limoges, Copenhagen, Meissen, but also the smaller producers in Holland, Italy and Spain and extends to the birth of Art Nouveau.

Record # 805497

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Prince Valiant Artists (illustrators Hardcover Special #19) (Limited Edition) by: Diego Cordoba/ illustrated by Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, Gary Gianni, Thomas Ye
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Prince Valiant Artists (illustrators Hardcover Special #19) (Limited Edition)
by: Diego Cordoba/ illustrated by Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, Gary Gianni, Thomas Ye

Hardcover. London, Book Palace Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 200 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. A history of the great adventure comic strip created by Hal Foster, exploring its origin, the coloring process and showcase samples from original artwork and the color proofs, many scanned at their actual size. The book features all the artists that followed Foster from John Cullen Murphy to Gary Gianni and the current artist Thomas Yeates, with samples of their work scanned from their original art boards. In addition we interview Cullen Murphy who wrote the script for many years after Foster retired, Meg Nash who colored the strip from 1991 until her father John Cullen Murphy retired in 2004, Mark Schultz the current writer and Scott Roberts the colorist since 2004.

Record # 399299

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Sundays with Walt and Skeezix by: King, Frank, Editor: Maresca, Peter, Introduction: Ware, Chris, Introduction: Heer, Jeet
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Sundays with Walt and Skeezix
by: King, Frank, Editor: Maresca, Peter, Introduction: Ware, Chris, Introduction: Heer, Jeet

Hardcover. Palo Alto, Sunday Press , 1st, 2007, Hardcover, oversize format 21" x 16". Collected for the first time here are the best of King's early Gasoline Alley Sunday comics, starting from the very first Sunday in 1921, reprinted in the original size and colors. King's innovations in art, layout and storytelling brought a new warmth and style to the medium at the dawn of the Golden Age of newspaper comic strips. If you are interested in the development of this unique American art form, or simply love beautiful comics, this sumptuous volume is a masterpiece in comic art, and a must for your collection. Like McCay, Feininger, Herriman, and others of that era, King was a graphic innovator. His panoramic layouts, themed styling, and whimsical cartoon conceits explored new artistic methods. But he also had a great knowledge of story and character, presented with a warmth and humanity never seen before in comics, and rarely done as well since. He went beyond the gags and slapstick of his contemporaries to create vignettes of genuinely human characters; showing them relating to each other and, particularly in his Sunday comics, to the world around them.

Record # 380602

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Andy Warhol: Cosmos: Drawings & Collagesby: Warhol, Andy
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Andy Warhol: Cosmos: Drawings & Collages
by: Warhol, Andy

Softcover. Koln GR, Jablonka Galerie, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages with color and b&w plates. Exhibition catalog. Limited to 400 copies.

Record # 353041

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Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Fargeby: L. Yarnell, James
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Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Farge
by: L. Yarnell, James

Softcover. New York, Jordan-Volpe Gallery, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. Front cover completely illustrated in full-color, 77 b&w figures throughout text and chronology, 45 beautiful full-page full-color plates, 91 b&w figures through catalogue of selected still-lifes. Very slight rubbing to covers, else a beautiful copy.

Record # 806512

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No Ideas but in Things (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Richard Turner/Marcus Herse
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No Ideas but in Things (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Richard Turner/Marcus Herse

Softcover. Guggenheim Gallery, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 108 pages in color. Exhibition catalog. Turner transforms the gallery space into an ever-changing environment assembled of objects and furniture from his studio and home, alongside existing artworks that are newly configured and contextualized. With ongoing efforts by the artist, gallery team, and participation of Chapman University students, different elements of the exhibition undergo changes on a daily basis, rendering in material the infinite possibilities of expression of the artistic impulse. INSCRIBED BY TURNER IN BOLD MARKER on the front fly leaf. (to Paul Christensen who contributed an essay in the catalog).

Record # 399393

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The Birth of an Artist: A Journey of Discovery (SIGNED COPY)by: Ed Hamilton
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The Birth of an Artist: A Journey of Discovery (SIGNED COPY)
by: Ed Hamilton

Softcover. Louisville KY, Chicago Spectrum Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations throughout. INSCRIBED BY HAMILTON on the front fly leaf. Ed Hamilton was raised on a street, in a neighborhood, that no longer exists. But Walnut Street and the now razed black professional district are vibrant and alive in this account of how one skinny black youth became a nationally acclaimed sculptor. This autobiography chronicles not just one man, but a way of life. It is filled with photos of art work now located all over the U.S., in private homes, public plazas, and prestigious museums.

Record # 380922

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Resort Lobby (ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR ART) SIGNED.by: McMullan, James
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Resort Lobby (ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR ART) SIGNED.
by: McMullan, James

Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This painting shows guests enjoying the amenities of the lobby by the huge picture window with the bay as a backdrop. Image size: 9* X 9", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Unpublished.

Record # 353091

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Design and Figure Carvingby: Tangerman, E.J.
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Design and Figure Carving
by: Tangerman, E.J.

Hardcover. New York, Whittlesey House, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages. Tan cloth covered boards with black ink spine title. Slight shelf-wear. Slight foxing on inside covers, otherwise, tight, clean copy. Profusely illustrated in b/w.

Record # 807155

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Dance Drawings of Martha Graham by Charlotte Trowbridgeby: Charlotte Trowbridge

Dance Drawings of Martha Graham by Charlotte Trowbridge
by: Charlotte Trowbridge

Softcover. NY, The Dance Observer, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages, b&w drawings by Trowbridge. With a foreword by Martha Graham and a preface by James Johnson Sweeney. Light retouching to scuffing on black front wrapper, otherwise clean.

Record # 399438

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Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architectureby: Beth Dunlop
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Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture
by: Beth Dunlop

Hardcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 208 pages illustrated in color. A surprising look at who designed for Disney: Michael Graves, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, Robert Venturi etc. Based on interviews with those involved plus original photos and drawings. From fairy-tale castles to extraordinary buildings designed by the world's most distinguished architects, The Walt Disney Company has set new standards for the imaginative use of popular imagery in architecture. The company's enormously influential architectural philosophy, first expressed more than fifty years ago at Disneyland, draws on characters and settings from the world's most compelling legends and stories, especially Disney's own remarkable animated films. Clean copy.

Record # 381189

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Hysteria in Remission: Comix & Drawingsby: Williams, Robert
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Hysteria in Remission: Comix & Drawings
by: Williams, Robert

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, Reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. In addition to being one of the seven, original Zap Comix contributors, Robert Williams's influence on alternative art is immeasurable. From his endeavors to broaden the possibilities for young artists to gain exposure sprang the well-known art chronicle, Juxtapoz magazine.

Record # 353113

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Close Portraits
by: Lyons, Lisa and Martain Friedman

Softcover. Minneapolis MN, Walker Art Center, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, color and b&w plates. Softcover exhibition catalog in like new condition.

Record # 850196

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