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The History of EC Comicsby: Geissman, Grant

The History of EC Comics
by: Geissman, Grant

Hardcover. Taschen, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Huge oversized hardcover, 16x11", 596 pages. The full, fascinating story of this fabled company, written and designed by EC-expert Grant Geissman. Even the most die-hard EC Fan-Addicts will find something new within these pages, with the Gaines family archives providing over 100 rarities that have never seen print. Cover images are reproduced from Gaines file copies. 1,000 illustrations include the rarest and most notorious covers, interior pages and panels, rare photos, vintage original artwork, and some of the most celebrated stories ever to be printed in four colors. Author Grant Geissman was a customer in Bud Plant's San Jose comic book store in 1968-69, long before he became a recording star and EC expert. Grant has written several books on EC and, in my mind, is the foremost authority on both Mad and EC. He generously did a special bookplate for us, which reproduces a "fantasy" cover for Incredible Science Fiction that he commissioned from Angelo Torres. It's in full color and signed by Grant.

Record # 370562

Price: $500.00 
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EC Comic Panic (2 Volumes in slipcase)  (EC an Entertaining Comic,  (Hardcover) by: Gaines, Bill; Al Feldstein

EC Comic Panic (2 Volumes in slipcase) (EC an Entertaining Comic, (Hardcover)
by: Gaines, Bill; Al Feldstein

Hardcover. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two folio-size volumes in a slipcase. Covers reproduced in color, stories in b&w. Numbers 1-12. Notes and comments Edited by John Benson and Written by John Benson, Bill Mason and Bhob Stewart.

Record # 351729

Price: $200.00 
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The Art Museum In Americaby: Pach, Walter

The Art Museum In America
by: Pach, Walter

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages, b&w illustrations. Title on spine: "The American Art Museum". Blue cloth, gilt title, no dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine, slight foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606350

Price: $15.00 
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Greek Art of the Aegean Islandsby: Dietrich von Bothmer

Greek Art of the Aegean Islands
by: Dietrich von Bothmer

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages. Illustrated profusely in b&w and 16 plates in color. An exhibition sponsored by the government of the Republic of Greece and the Musee du Louvre. Metalwork, bronze, clay, marble: all manner of objects 4th millennium B.C. to 4th century B.C.

Record # 396569

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John Singleton Copley: American Portraits in Oil Pastel and Miniature With Biographical Sketchesby: Parker Barbara Neville and Anne Bolling Wheeler

John Singleton Copley: American Portraits in Oil Pastel and Miniature With Biographical Sketches
by: Parker Barbara Neville and Anne Bolling Wheeler

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. 284 pages, 210 BW illustrations. A catalogue raisonne of Copley's work in America prior to his departure for England in 1774. Begins with a 12-page biography. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Record # 371185

Price: $40.00 
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Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry Muralsby: Downs, Linda Bank

Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry Murals
by: Downs, Linda Bank

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 202 pages, illustrated with 242 color and b&w plates, including a pullout poster in rear pocket. Early in the Depression, Diego Rivera was commissioned by Edsel Ford to create a series of murals in the gallery of the Detroit Institute of Arts, giant frescos whose theme would be America's industrial might. This volume studies the astonishing results and gives us a remarkably close look at Diego and his wife, Frida Kahlo. Rivera's Detroit Industry murals are one of this country's greatest treasures. In addition to providing full coverage and analysis of the murals, the book includes chapters on the murals' planning and antecedents, Rivera's working methods (which can be read as a primer on frescos), Diego and Frida's lives for their nine months in Detroit, and the public's dramatic response to the strong socialist/communist themes in the works.

Record # 351768

Price: $75.00 
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Hirschfeld - On Lineby: Hirshfeld, Al

Hirschfeld - On Line
by: Hirshfeld, Al

Hardcover. New York, Applause, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 343 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings (one section in full color). Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606515

Price: $35.00 
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Kommix by: Burns, Charles

Kommix
by: Burns, Charles

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards with a red cloth spine, color plates. Master cartoonist Charles Burns has never hidden his passion for comic books and pop culture from the 1950 and 1960s. Inspired by the romance, horror, and sci-fi comics of his youth, as well as the 1960s American underground, the author of Black Hole has created a collection of 80 original comic book covers that, through his own inimitable aesthetic, present an alternate universe of stories that never were, but that you will wish existed. The covers - some with otherworldly titles in alien letterforms, and others that riff on classic genres (Throbbing Hearts, Unwholesome Love) and eras (Drug Buddy, Huss) - each inspire a multitude of interpretations, build entire worlds, and suggest entire narratives that lie within their non-existent guts. This is Burns at his most playful, imaginative, and suggestive, using the format of the comic book to continue to explore many of the themes that run through all his longer-form work. Clean copy

Record # 396730

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A. B. Durand : 1796-1886by: N/A

A. B. Durand : 1796-1886
by: N/A

Softcover. Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages 49 b&w plates and 4 color plates, along with a catalog of works from the exhibit at the Montclair Art Museum from October 24 - November 28, 1971. Includes a biographical introduction. Overall, a good clean copy, pages unmarked.

Record # 371571

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Art of S. Clay Wilson, Theby: Wilson, S> Clay

Art of S. Clay Wilson, The
by: Wilson, S> Clay

Hardcover. San Francisco, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color, b&w illustrations. THE ART OF S. CLAY WILSON is the long-awaited career retrospective of the most extreme of the Zap cartoonists of the late 1960s. A self-described "graphic agoraphobe," Wilson draws manically dense scenes of lurid mayhem that rank among the seminal works of underground, counterculture American art. It's all here, from the classic chronicles of the Checkered Demon to salacious stories about the pirates, prostitutes, and poets that inhabit Wilson's divinely depraved world.The definitive collection of the art of legendary Zap comic artist S. Clay Wilson.Features 200 full-color images, including new work and previously unpublished prints commissioned for private collections.Introduction by R. Crumb touts Wilson's role as one of the originators of underground comix."Wilson was the strongest, most original artist of my generation that I had yet met. . . . There was something very familiar about the drawings, yet something entirely new, never before seen! It looked like folk art, like old-time tattoos, like some high school hotrodder's notebook drawings. They were rough, crazy, coarse, deeply American."

Record # 351821

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Life's Pleasures - The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925by: Tottis, james W.

Life's Pleasures - The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925
by: Tottis, james W.

Hardcover. New York, DIA/Merrell, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Illustrated in full color. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 609081

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Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenbergby: Tomkins, Calvin

Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg
by: Tomkins, Calvin

Softcover. NY, Picador, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 318 pages. Calvin Tomkins first discovered the work of Robert Rauschenberg in the late 1950s, when he began to look seriously at contemporary art. While gazing at Rauschenberg's painting Double Feature, Tomkins felt compelled to make some kind of literal connection to the work, and it is in that sprit that "for the last forty years it's been [his] ambition to write about contemporary art not as a critic or a judge, but as a participant." Tomkins has spent many of those years writing about Robert Rauschenberg, whom he rapidly came to see as "one of the most inventive and influential artists of his generation." So it seemed natural to make Rauschenberg the focus of Off the Wall, which deals with the radical changes that have made advanced visual art such a powerful force in the world.Off the Wall chronicles the astonishingly creative period of the 1950s and 1960s, a high point in American art. In his in his collaborations with Merce Cunningham and John Cage, and as a pivotal figure linking abstract expressionism and pop art, Rauschenberg was part of a revolution during which artists moved art off the walls of museums and galleries and into the center of the social scene. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 396766

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Thomas Waterman Wood PNA:1823-1903 by: Lipke, William

Thomas Waterman Wood PNA:1823-1903
by: Lipke, William

Softcover. Montpelier VT, Wood Art Gallery, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Color illustrated wraps, 63 pages. 36 bw repros. Lists 79 works exhibited. Essay by William Lipke. Exhibition held at Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vt., Sept. 11-Oct. 5. Includes bibliographical references. Clean copy.

Record # 371716

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Mad - The Complete EC Library: Volume 2 only                          by: Benson (Ed.), John, Harvey Kurtzman

Mad - The Complete EC Library: Volume 2 only
by: Benson (Ed.), John, Harvey Kurtzman

Hardcover. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial covers. Numbers 7-12, all reproduced in full color. Very good.

Record # 351875

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Anthony van Dyckby: Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K./Susan J. Barnes/Julius S. Held

Anthony van Dyck
by: Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K./Susan J. Barnes/Julius S. Held

Softcover. Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 383 pages. Softcover. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Covers show light wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.Essays by various art historians in the field.

Record # 610729

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Hirshhorn, Medici from Brooklyn: A Biographyby: Hyams, Barry

Hirshhorn, Medici from Brooklyn: A Biography
by: Hyams, Barry

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages, b&w illustrations. White cloth spine, red boards. Pictorial dust jacket. For-edge rough cut. Light wear to edges and covers, slight bump to lower edge of spine, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 396784

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Lure of Italy, The: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760 - 1914by: Stebbins, Theodore E. Et al.

Lure of Italy, The: American Artists and The Italian Experience, 1760 - 1914
by: Stebbins, Theodore E. Et al.

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 470 pages. Brown cloth cover, color illustrated dust jacket, 113 color and 206 illustrations. Still in original shrink wrap; book in excellent condition. American artists have been inspired by Italy since the 1760s, when Benjamin West, the first American painter to travel there, was drawn to the ancient Roman ruins and magnificent Renaissance architecture, statuary, and frescoes. This intriguing, superbly illustrated book is the first to explore the fascination Italy held for the American artist from West's time to the eve of World War I.The unique sense of the past found in Italy, where tangible evidence exists of a continual civilization from antiquity to the present, lured countless American artists to its cities, towns, and countryside. Painters from West and Copley in the eighteenth century to Cole, Inness, Whistler, Sargent, and Prendergast in the nineteenth century were inspired to create many of their finest works in Italy, as were American sculptors such as Hiram Powers and Harriet Hosmer and writers from Washington Irving to Henry James. This in-depth study includes 319 illustrations, of which 113 are reproduced in full color, many of works that have not previously been published. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., John Moors Cabot Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Professor of Art History at Boston University, provides a broad overview of the American perception of Italy and the unique role that Italy played in the formation of American art.

Record # 371895

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Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall/ An Artist's Country Estateby: Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney

Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall/ An Artist's Country Estate
by: Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 262 pages, color and b&w illustrations. This is an excellent and scholarly book filled with incredible photos and descriptions of LCT's home, Laurelton Hall. The author has written a series of fine chapters that look at all aspects of this magnificent residence. What the fire at Laurelton destroyed, this book restores with words and photos.

Record # 351920

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Poster Pleasures - Phillips Auction April 11, 1981 - Sale No. 366by: Phillips

Poster Pleasures - Phillips Auction April 11, 1981 - Sale No. 366
by: Phillips

Softcover. New York, Phillips, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Black & white Illustrations of posters for sale by Phillips Auction House - Sale No. 366 - April 11, 1981. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611539

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Final Cutby: Burns, Charles

Final Cut
by: Burns, Charles

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. The beloved and award-winning author's haunting and visually arresting story of an artist's obsessions, and the value and cost of pushing the boundaries of creativity. As a child, Brian and his friend Jimmy would make sci-fi films in their yards, convincing their friends to star as victims of grisly murders, smearing lipstick on the "bodies" to simulate blood. Now a talented artist and aspiring filmmaker, Brian, along with Jimmy, Jimmy's friend Tina, and Laurie--his reluctant muse--sets off to a remote cabin in the woods with an old 8 millimeter camera to make a true sci-fi horror movie, an homage to Brian's favorite movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But as Brian's affections for Laurie go seemingly unreciprocated, Brian writes and draws himself into a fantasy where she is the girl of his dreams, his damsel in distress, and his savior wrapped into one. Rife with references to classic sci-fi and horror movies and filled with panels of stunning depictions of nature, film and the surreal, Burns blurs the line between Brian's dreams and reality, imagination and perception. A master of the form at his finest, Final Cut is an astonishing look at what it means to truly express oneself through art. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 396824

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Intimate Grandeur: Vermont's State Houseby: Graff, Nancy Price,  Schutz, David

Intimate Grandeur: Vermont's State House
by: Graff, Nancy Price, Schutz, David

Hardcover. Montpelier VT, Friends of the Vermont State House, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Intimate Grandeur is a 120-page celebration of the historic seat of Vermont state government. Illustrated with exquisite photographs and dozens of historic paintings and drawings. Clean copy.

Record # 372116

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Best Cartoons from France, Theby: Bennett (Ed.), Edna

Best Cartoons from France, The
by: Bennett (Ed.), Edna

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 b&w cartoons. Preface by Philippe Halsman. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 351973

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Raw Creation - Outsider Art and Beyondby: Maizels, John

Raw Creation - Outsider Art and Beyond
by: Maizels, John

Hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated in full color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611885

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Picturesque United States of America 1811 1812 1813 being a Memoir on Paul Svinin Russian Diplimatic Officer Artist and Author Containing Copious Excerpts from His Account of His Travels in America with Fifty two Reproductions of Wat

Picturesque United States of America 1811 1812 1813 being a Memoir on Paul Svinin Russian Diplimatic Officer Artist and Author Containing Copious Excerpts from His Account of His Travels in America with Fifty two Reproductions of Wat

Hardcover. NY, William Edwin Rudge, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 46 pages + 51 b&w plates (color frontispiece). Russian artist and diplomatic secretary Paul or Pavel Svinin (1787-1839) toured the northeastern United States in the early 1800s. Here are excerpts of his notes, details about the time and his trip, and 51 BW reproductions of landscapes he rendered along the way. Most of the paintings show scenes from Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland. Of interest to both cultural and art historians. With an introduction by R.T.H. Halsey. One of 1000 copies. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to endpapers, gilt lettering on spine faded, otherwise clean.

Record # 396856

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Moebius - Alla ricerca del tempo (Moebius In Search of Time) by: Moebius

Moebius - Alla ricerca del tempo (Moebius In Search of Time)
by: Moebius

Hardcover. Napoli IT, Comicon Edizioni,, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 10 X 12". Over 330 reproductions. This impressive new exhibition book features an all-new look at the master of French comics and fantasy art. Packed with reproductions from original artwork and paintings, and essays on the themes of time and archeology. Based on an exhibit at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN) in 2021. Text in Italian and French. Here are his best known works: The Major, Arzak, the World of Edena, the Fauna of Mars and Inside Moebius, but also Greek Myths, Time and Matter, Casanova, Celtic Venice, Dante's Paradise.

Record # 372513

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Photoboothby: Hines, Babbette

Photobooth
by: Hines, Babbette

Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine and cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 352036

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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci - Two Volumesby: MacCurdy (Editor), Edward

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci - Two Volumes
by: MacCurdy (Editor), Edward

Hardcover. New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Hardcover volumes. Volume 1 - 655 pages. Black & white illustrations. Moderate fading to spine of red cloth covers. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 640 pages. Black & white illustrations. Moderate fading to spine of red cloth covers. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613717

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Translocal: Contemporary Miniaturist Practice Out of Pakistan by: Flint, Lucy (ed.)

Translocal: Contemporary Miniaturist Practice Out of Pakistan
by: Flint, Lucy (ed.)

Softcover. Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 113 pages, color illustrations throughout. Clean, like new.

Record # 397165

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Wallpaper in America: From the Seventeenth Century to World War Iby: Catherine Lynn

Wallpaper in America: From the Seventeenth Century to World War I
by: Catherine Lynn

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, cream cloth, gilt letters on spine & on front cover, color pictorial dust jacket, 533 pages, many BW & 55 color plates. "Surveys the most distinctive styles used in America from the seventeenth century, when their presence can first be documented, to World War I, when the taste makers began to associate the plain white wall with all that was 'Modern." Sort closed tear to dust jacket, unclipped, clean.

Record # 372683

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Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay by: Mark, Mary Ellen

Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay
by: Mark, Mary Ellen

Hardcover. Berlin, Steidl, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 123 pages, 65 color plates. Documentary project on the prostitutes of Falkland Road, Bombay. Originally shot as a photo-essay for Geo magazine, which deemed it too raw for American audiences, it was picked up by Stern and run in September 1981. The first book-form edition was released the same year by Knopf. This second edition is 2.5 inches wider, allowing the photos to run uncropped and has additional images.

Record # 352083

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Factual Nonsense: The Art and Death of Joshua Compston. A user's guide to living fast and dying young in the contemporary art world. by: Coffield, Darren

Factual Nonsense: The Art and Death of Joshua Compston. A user's guide to living fast and dying young in the contemporary art world.
by: Coffield, Darren

Hardcover. Leicestershire, England, Matador, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean, tight copy. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 750307

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Norman W. Lewis, et al.by: Bill Hodges Gallery

Norman W. Lewis, et al.
by: Bill Hodges Gallery

Softcover. NY, Bill Hodges Gallery, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages with color and b&w plates throughout. Includes the work of Norman Lewis, Charles Alston, Milton Avery, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthe, Edward Clark, Sam Gilliam, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles White, Kehinde Wiley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and more.

Record # 397240

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Ch'i Pai-shih: Paintings, Calligraphy, Sealsby: Laurence C. S. Tam-Assistant Curator

Ch'i Pai-shih: Paintings, Calligraphy, Seals
by: Laurence C. S. Tam-Assistant Curator

Softcover. Hong Kong, The Urban Council, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 146 pages. Illustrated in b&w, some color. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 373224

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Will Eisner's The Spirit: The New Adventures by: Various

Will Eisner's The Spirit: The New Adventures
by: Various

Hardcover. Milwaukee, OR, Dark Horse Books, 2nd Ed., 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 352126

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Paintings of L. S. Lowry, The - Oils and Watercoloursby: Levy (Editor), Mervyn/Laurence Stephen Lowry

Paintings of L. S. Lowry, The - Oils and Watercolours
by: Levy (Editor), Mervyn/Laurence Stephen Lowry

Hardcover. London, Jupiter Books, First Edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 31 pages text followed by 130 plates. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Frontis photograph of the artist, L. S. Lowry, Stockport, Winter 1962. Full page, full color & bw plates throughout. Dust jacket with wear & toning to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750837

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Revealing Art by: Kieran, Matthew

Revealing Art
by: Kieran, Matthew

Hardcover. London/NY, Routledge, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 280 pages with index. Color and b&w illustrations. Why does art matter to us, and what makes it good? Why is the role of imagination so important in art? Illustrated with carefully chosen color and black-and-white plates of examples from Michaelangelo to Matisse and Poussin to Pollock, Revealing Art takes us on a compelling and provocative journey. Kieran explores some of the most important questions we can ask ourselves about art: how can art inspire us or disgust us? Is artistic judgement simply a matter of taste? Can art be immoral or obscene, and should it be censored? He brings such abstract issues to life with fascinating discussions of individual paintings, photographs and sculptures, such as Michelangelo's Pieta, Andres Serrano's Piss Christ and Francis Bacon's powerful paintings of the Pope. He also suggests some answers to problems that any one in an art gallery or museum is likely to ask themselves: what is a beautiful work of art? and can art really reveal something true about our own nature? Clean copy.

Record # 397282

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Vue Imprenable - Essays on the World of Folonby: Soavi, Giorgio

Vue Imprenable - Essays on the World of Folon
by: Soavi, Giorgio

Rome, Franca May, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cardboard slip-case is VG with some wear. This is a written essay by the Italian author, Soavi of the art and world of Jean-Michel Folon. There are many full page full-color plates of the artist's paintings and serigraphs. This is also a visual essay (via color photos) of the farm in Burcy, near Paris, where the artist has his home and atelier. In all, twenty-eight of the artist's works are reproduced, most either taking up a full page, and some as two-page spreads.

Record # 373449

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Fixer, The: A Story from Sarajevo by: Sacco, Joe

Fixer, The: A Story from Sarajevo
by: Sacco, Joe

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 140 pages. Hardcover NO dust jacket. Black and white comic. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to boards. Award-winning comix-journalist Joe Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop. He begins by returning us to the dying days of Balkan conflict and introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins. Thanks to a complex relationship with the fixer Joe discovers the crimes of opportunistic warlords and gangsters who run the countryside in times of war. But the west is interested in a different spin on the stories coming out of Bosnia. Almost ten years later, Joe meets up with his fixer and sees how the new Bosnian government has "dealt" with these criminals and Joe ponders who is holding the reins of power these days...

Record # 352224

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Fifty Caricaturesby: Beerbohm, Max

Fifty Caricatures
by: Beerbohm, Max

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann , 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Green cloth, gilt lettering and design. Slightly darkened spine, minor spotting. Minor foxing to first few pages. 50 black & white caricatures.

Record # 804092

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The Tilted Arc Controversy: Dangerous Precedent? by: Harriet F. Senie

The Tilted Arc Controversy: Dangerous Precedent?
by: Harriet F. Senie

Softcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 205 pages, b&w illustrations. A comprehensive look at a controversy that continues to fuel debates about the role of public art in America. Since its installation at and subsequent removal from New York City's Federal Plaza, noted sculptor Richard Serra's Tilted Arc has been a touchstone for debates over the role of public art. Installed in 1981, the 10-foot-high, 120-foot-long curved wall of Cor-Ten self-rusting steel instantly became a magnet for criticism. Art critics in the New York Times and the Village Voice labeled it the city's worst public sculpture, and many denounced it as an example of the elitism associated with art and as an obstacle to the use and enjoyment of the plaza. Harriet F. Senie explores the history of Tilted Arc, including its 1979 commission and the heated public hearings that eventually led to its removal in 1989 (it was dismantled and is currently stored in a government warehouse in Maryland). Analyzing the archive of popular opinion, Senie shows how the sculpture was caught in an avalanche of shifting local and national discussions about public funding for the arts. Clean copy.

Record # 397331

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Art studies for an editor: 25 essays in memory of Milton S. Fox by: N/A

Art studies for an editor: 25 essays in memory of Milton S. Fox
by: N/A

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 301 pages. Fox was Editor-in-Chief of Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 6 color plates, 105 b/w photos. 301 pages, clean and clear. Blue endpapers, with previous owner's name and address on ffep. White cloth cover, with silver titles on the spine.

Record # 374058

Price: $12.00 
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Andres Serrano: Holy Worksby: Serrano, Andres

Andres Serrano: Holy Works
by: Serrano, Andres

Hardcover. Bologna, Italy, Damiani, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, White cloth covers with gilt lettering and color picture on front. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Holy Works is the culmination of Andres Serrano's vision of Christian iconography, reinterpreted photographically for the present. Serrano's intention with these works is not to recreate specific medieval or renaissance religious paintings, nor to invest them with the iconoclasm that made his name in the 1980s, but rather to renew the genre of sacred portraiture: "Rather than destroy sacred icons," says the artist, "I reinvent and reinforce them." Serrano's subjects for this series are selected from among his friends and acquaintances, emphasizing (like Caravaggio before him) the ordinariness of human features. The genres and themes are familiar, and Holy Works includes a "Last Supper" and a "Stations of the Cross" (rendered as a triptych panel), as well as bolder portrayals typical of Serrano--a "Blood Madonna" and a "Chinoise Madonna," for example. This volume is Serrano's major statement of his religious and artistic belief.

Record # 352255

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Gilbert Stuartby: Whitley, William T.

Gilbert Stuart
by: Whitley, William T.

Hardcover. New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., & Da Capo Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of painter Gilbert Stuart. Contains 7 black/white illustrations; 6 are reproductions of Stuart's work, and one is a portrait of the artists himself. Very good condition; brown cloth with gilt lettering, corner of the back cover bumped. This edition is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in Cambridged, Massachusetts, in 1932. It is reprinted by arrangement with Harvard University Press.

Record # 804732

Price: $15.00 
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Menswear: Vintage People on Photo Postcards Photo Postcards by: Tom Phillips

Menswear: Vintage People on Photo Postcards Photo Postcards
by: Tom Phillips

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Bodleian Library, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. pictorial boards, 112 pages. This book celebrates the Bodleian Library's acquisition of Tom Phillips's archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, 'ordinary' people could afford to own their portraits. Each title in this series is thematically assembled and designed by the artist, the covers featuring a linked painting specially created for each title from Tom Phillips's signature work, A Humument. With an illuminating foreword by Eric Musgrave, 'Menswear' presents postcards of men in all manner of outfits, whether formal, practical or casual, dating from around 1900 up to c. 1949. Most of the subjects are posing for portraits, displaying both their individual style and an interpretation of the fashions of the time. The rich variety of accessories on display includes ties, gloves, pocket squares, walking sticks, canes, boutonnieres and spats. Clean copy.

Record # 397407

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Egon Schiele: Fifteen Works from a Private American Collection. June 21, 2004. Sale 7470 by: Sotheby's

Egon Schiele: Fifteen Works from a Private American Collection. June 21, 2004. Sale 7470
by: Sotheby's

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, cream wraps with color illustration; blue spine with white lettering. Unpaginated, approx 50 pages. 15 color plates and additional images, 1 fold-out. Auction catalogue for sale 21 June 2004. Lots 21-35, sale L04007.

Record # 374274

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Bailey's Box of Postcardsby: Bailey, David

Bailey's Box of Postcards
by: Bailey, David

Hardcover. Washington D.C, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. For this exclusive collection of postcards, David Bailey, one of the worlds most distinguished and distinctive photographers, has chosen a selection of images from his archive some familiar, others previously unseen. This box of 36 portraits, reminiscent of Baileys acclaimed Box of Pin - Ups (1965), demonstrates the extraordinary range of people that he has captured during his long career;

Record # 352333

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Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-Garde, 1910-1925by: Tashjian, Dickran

Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-Garde, 1910-1925
by: Tashjian, Dickran

Hardcover. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Study of American artists influenced by Dada and their relationship with American avant-garde. 283 pages, 94 black/white illustrations. Cloth bound book in near fine condition, only sign of wear is slight discoloration to the top edges of pages (light spotting), not visible when reading the book.

Record # 804815

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Printmaking in New Mexico, 1880-1990 by: Adams, Clinton

Printmaking in New Mexico, 1880-1990
by: Adams, Clinton

Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages. Over 100 etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, and serigraphs by New Mexicans or relating to New Mexico, are accompanied by a review of the art over the past century. Clean copy.

Record # 397701

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The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat - Book 2by: Gilbert Shelton/Dave Sheridan

The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat - Book 2
by: Gilbert Shelton/Dave Sheridan

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 52 pages including semi-glossy color covers and b/w interior. Saddle-stapled wraps, 75 cent cover price. Fat Freddy's Cat first appeared in "underground comix" in 1969 in various underground newspapers, usually under Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic strip. This is one of the five small collections of those strips. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 374584

Price: $20.00 
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Prendergast in Italyby: Mathews, Nancy Mowll

Prendergast in Italy
by: Mathews, Nancy Mowll

Hardcover. London, Merrell Holberton, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, color illustrated. Exhibition catalog. Forewords by Lisa G. Corrin and Elizabeth Glassman. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Wiliamstown College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA July 5-September 10, 2009. Checklist of Italian Works. Chronology and Index. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 352363

Price: $30.00 
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