Art

Leicester VT, Gala Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 218 pages. Includes 3 essays: Hiding in Plain Sight: Decoding the Homoerotic and Socio-Political Imagery of Grant Wood.Charles Sheeler and Albert Einstein: Pioneers in the Exploration of Spacetime!The Case for Reattributing George H. Durrie's "Genre" Paintings to James Goodwyn Clonney.

Hardcover. NY, Robert Miller Gallery, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages, with roughly 60 color and 5 b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. This catalogue from the first and only exhibition of Alice Neel's Depression-era paintings places these early surrealist and expressionist influenced works in the context of quotations from the artist and an essay by Wayne Koestenbaum. No dust jacket issued.

Softcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 74 page catalog of 44 rich works of Kentucky quilting heritage. 63 color plates and 12 b&w photographs. A comprehensive collection of 19th century Kentucky quilting.

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Gallimard, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large heavy volume in glossy pictorial boards. 495 pages with index. Accompanying DVD in rear pocket inside cover. Girodet was one of the greatest French painters of the early 19th century. His career reached its height under the reign of Napoleon. Illustrated throughout in color, scholarly essays by various experts, a chronology. No dj issued, minor bump to lower corner of cover, otherwise like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 114 pages illustrated in color and b&w, catalog of an exhibition held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, January 24-April 1, 2001. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Last Gasp, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages. Glossy illustrated boards, color illustrations. Hideshi Hino is a cult author both in the comics and horror world. This volume features a selection of his artwork and three new short manga stories.

Hardcover. London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, reprint, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 284 pages. Vol I only. Red cloth with gilt designs and titles, all edges gilt. Covers with edge wear and soiling, small tears to cloth near spine. Damp stain spots on front a rear covers. End pages with foxing, otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. Munich / New York, Prestel / Neue Galerie, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 207 pages. profusely illustrated in color and black & white throughout, including several full-page illustrations. Includes a preface by Ronald S. Lauder, a foreword by Renee Price and essays by Vivian Endicott Barnett, Erich Franz, Ursula Heiderich, Annegret Hoberg, Isabelle Jansen, and Olaf Peters. This generously illustrated volume focuses on the poignant friendship of Franz Marc and August Macke, two innovative members of the Blue Rider group. During the five years Franz Marc and August Macke knew each other, the two men carried on an artistic and personal friendship that had an immense impact of each of their careers. This book traces their relationship and features meticulously reproduced images that bring their paintings, and the bond they shared, to life. In addition to paintings, watercolors, and drawings from both artists, this book includes objects and documents that show their connection to one another. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Artisan, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by William Steig. Introduction by John Updike. A study of the life and work of the eminent cartoonist, New Yorker cover artist, and humorist. Steig also served as art director of the New Yorker.

Hardcover. US, Dark Horse Books, 1st thus, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 247 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. You know Jughead as Archie's loyal sidekick, but wait until you see the trouble he can get up to on his own! Cheer as Jug matches wits with Archie's rival Reggie, gasp as he tests nutty experiments with his Uncle Herman, and marvel as he eats dozens upon dozens of burgers and shakes! With twice the mischief, twice the pranks, and twenty times the food, Jughead Archives takes you to the weirder side of Riverdale, in this uproarious volume illustrated by beloved Archie artists Samm Schwartz and George Frese! Collects Jughead #1#8 from 1949 to 1950.

Softcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages. 69 B&W plates. White pictorial cover with slight soiling to spine and back cover. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Scala Arts Publishers/Cornell, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages illustrated in color. Featuring African textiles, clothing, headwear, and jewelery, this book celebrates African dress as a product of global interactions, generational conflict and continuity, and expressions of gender. Featuring African textiles, clothing, headwear, and jewelery, this book celebrates African dress as a product of global interactions, generational conflict and continuity, and expressions of gender. The book highlights the strength and resilience of long-standing practices that characterize African dress; the wide variety of cultural, religious, and political motivations for adorning oneself; and the varying identities reflected in analyzing African material culture of the last century and a half. Textile selections include hand-woven and dyed examples alongside factory-woven and machine-printed cloth. Items of adornment include amber and silver jewelery from North Africa, beadwork-embellished clothing from South Africa, and various headdresses from across the continent, to name a few examples. From formal European colonization, to independence for African countries, to the liberalization of African economies, this book will demonstrate how dress practices reveal personal and group identities, cultural traditions, religious associations, political affiliations, and aspirations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1991, Large hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Uncommon monograph regarding British ornithological painter Basil Ede with contributions by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Walter H. Annenberg, and Jack Warner plus an essay by Robert McCracken Peck. Includes 103 color plates including one foldout as well as 15 b/w illustrations. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Light edgewear to spine corners. From the early 20th century to the present day, this large-scale, brightly colored, coffee table book features the very best (and also the very cheesiest) advertisements for the hottest movie releases and stand-alone Hindi classics.

Softcover. Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum Department of Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog, 120 pages. Color and B&W plates throughout. some B&W photos of artist throughout. Light soiling to wrapper and slight bending to bottom right corner. Some light edge wear. Otherwise a tight and clean copy.

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark red cloth, 371 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1949. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Weybright and Talley, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavender cloth with gilt tile on spine, 338 pages. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket but flaps laid-in.

Hardcover. Berlin, Gestalten Verlag, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, color photographs. Limited text. The Velvet Hammer Burlesque has put the "tease" back into striptease. based in Los Angeles, the world famous troupe kick started the current era of Neo-Burlesque reviving the traditional American genre and elevating the classical performance. This book presents photographs of the group's voluptuous ensemble of dancers and performers. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good. Subjects include Igarishi, Nygaard, and early tourism posters.

Hardcover. NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 223 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Award-winning artist Milton Glaser's Drawing Is Thinking explores language and communication through imagery. Introduction by Judith Thurman The drawings depicted here represent a range of subject matter taken from throughout Milton Glaser's career. They illustrate the author's commitment to the fundamental idea that drawing is not simply a way to represent reality, but a way to understand and experience the world.

Softcover. Collection du Musee Reattu , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 110 pages, 4to in French wraps. Color and b&w reproductions. Clean, bright copy. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. 358 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The most comprehensive and deluxe monograph on Wayne Thiebaud, a celebrated and active American artist, spanning the length of his career, from the mid-1950s to the present. Wayne Thiebaud is one of the world's most popular and respected painters. Born in 1920, he has lived for most of his life in Sacramento, with much of his youth spent in Long Beach; Southern California, in particular Laguna Beach, remains an area of great sentimentality. For this book he has selected the works himself, an act of autobiography in a sense. At age 94, he looked back over his life and his work, rich with breakthroughs in painting and masterful individuality. This deluxe volume, with more than 200 illustrations, covers Thiebaud's career as a painter and draftsman from 1959 to 2014. It features many of the still lifes of pies, cakes, desserts, candies, and other objects--lusciously painted, brightly colored, perfectly composed, and gently comic--for which he is best known. Such works brought national recognition in 1962 with a seminal exhibition at the Allan Stone Gallery in New York, attracting rave reviews and, to the discomfort of the artist himself, leading critics to see him as part of the Pop Art movement. The other artistic genres that he cultivated most avidly since then are landscape and cityscape, with special interests in the Sacramento River valley and San Francisco. New essays by a wide range of writers give a fresh perspective on his life and work.

New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages, illustrated throughout. Text and illustrations by McMullan, introductory interview by Milton Glaser. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, minor foxing on top edge. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Hartford CT, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art/ Yale University, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages, 106 full-page color plates. Issued in conjunction with 2003-2004 exhibitions featuring work by American modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). Gathers together the most recent scholarship on Hartley's work. Includes a chronology of his life, with a full catalogue entry accompanying each painting. With essays by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Amy Eillis, Patricia McDonnell, Wanda M. Corn, Jonathan Weinberg, Bruce Robertson, Donna M. Cassidy, Randall R. Griffey, Carol Troyen, Stephen Kornhauser, and Ulrich Birkmaier. Clean copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 3rd pr., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format with yellow pictorial covers. Some light fading to spine, a few small ink notations on inside rear cover, otherwise bright, clean copy. Originally published in 1977 in this format, this is the revised and enlarged edition of August 1982.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 51 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photographs by John Vachon throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Providing a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War, each Fields of Vision volume includes an introduction to the life of a Farm Security Administration (FSA)/Office of War Information (OWI) photographer with 50 evocative images selected from their work in the Library of Congress's collection. Transporting the viewer to American homes, farms, and streets of the 1930s and 1940s, they offer a glimpse of a new narrative and intimate style that defined America.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 179 pages, with photographs throughout by Martha Swope. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 383 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. A vivid picture of French art and society in the revolutionary years of the mid-nineteenth century. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket spine faded.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Black and white art by Selton inside. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Fort Worth TX , Fort Worth Art Museum, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. NY, James Graham & Sons, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. Color plates throughout. Color pictorial dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering along spine. B&w frontispiece. clean, tight copy. A monograph on the work of Gu Pene Du Bois, an American painter known for his depiction of American culture in the early 1900s, with this book discussing his murals and portrait paintings, among other work.

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. The 1960s saw a revolution in fashion that was born, like most things new and hip in that era, of youth rebellion in the streets. For the first time, designers didn't dictate the trends. Instead, the latest looks trickled up into the top fashion houses (Halston and Yves Saint Laurent among them), by way of bohemian boutiques and avant-garde labels with names like Granny Takes a Trip and Cosmic Couture, and musicians like the Beatles, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Defying easy definition but becoming an international phenomenon all the same, hippie fashion twisted and turned from trippy to retro and crafty to ethnic. The accompanying idea that one can express a personal style with clothing went against everything about the previous generation's notion of matching suits or ladylike ensembles dictated by social class or profession. Sumptuous photography, dynamic design, and far-out images from the era make Hippie Chic a must-have book that goes past peace signs and patchouli to unearth how hippies forever changed the way fashion functions. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial color wraps, $2 cover price, 48 pages in b&w by Shelton. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Robert Miller Gallery , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Softcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Creasing to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy. An autobiographical and transitional work, American Family explores the various roles Renee Cox has assumed throughout her life: Catholic schoolgirl, wife, mother, woman who knows and shows her sexual pleasure, and black woman artist contesting an art history that has all but excluded her race. A cross between Diary of a Mad Housewife and The Sensual Woman, American Family is a veritable minefield of taboos, revealed by the miscegenated family album and the erotic display of the artist's own beautiful body. Compartmentalized into sections called Family Room, Erotica, and the Salon, American Family accompanied an exhibition which included a video projection, large scale Cibachrome prints mounted on aluminum, a series of smaller black-and-white diptychs and triptychs, as well as photographs culled from the artist's own family album.Essay by Jo Anna Isaak.

Hardcover. Prescott, AZ, Gladstone Publishing Ltd., 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fortieth anniversary edition of Uncle Scrooge compilation. With storybook paintings by Norman McGary and commentary by Geoffrey Blum. Black covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Small abrasion to rear bottom spine edge, otherwise unmarked, clean and tight copy with light wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Bonn GR, Weidle Verlag, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 92 pages, color plates. Essay by John Yau and an interview with the artist. Clean copy.

Softcover. Barcelona , Ediciones del Serbal, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 147 pages. SPANISH TEXT.

Softcover. Williamstown, MA, Williams College Museum Of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 83 pages. Softcover. Extensive color and B&w illustrations throughout. Includes appendix of correspondence. Glue between cover and pages very loose. Some wear to covers. All pages clean and legible.

Hardcover. New York, Flammarion, 1st English, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Catalog of a traveling exhibition first held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, subsequently held at various European museums. Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre. Minor rubbing and fading to dust jacket, mostly to top edge. Slight bumping to corners. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Terra Uitgeverij, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 248 pages. In the 60s and 70s, Amsterdam was the epicentre of new cultural development and a magnet for national and international celebrities. Dutch photojournalists Hans Sabel and Henk Daniels were on site to capture all events and advancements. 30 years of photojournalism has resulted in an archive of around 150,000 negatives. In cooperation with the heirs of the archive a selection of images has been brought together in this book. It offers many previously unpublished images, from Jacques Brel, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Charles Aznavour, Elizabeth Taylor and Dutch celebrities like Johan Cruyff, princess Beatrix and prince Bernhard to Willeke Alberti. Starring Amsterdam is a unique photographic document from Amsterdam at a time when the city is alive and buzzing like never before. With a foreword by James Worthy and text by Joost Bastmeijer. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A collection of drawings by Tomi Ungerer on the themes of men, women, and sex. Unpaginated [112 pages]; 109 full-page b&w illustrations; 9.25 x 12.25 inches. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Rosewell GA, Canton Street Press , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Getty Publications, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Softcover. Paris / London, Paul Holberton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 216 pages in color. Jean Helion (1904-1987) became a leading member of the international Abstraction-Creation group in the early 1930s. He then took abstraction to New York, where he advised the avant-garde collector A. E. Gallatin on purchases for his Gallery of Living Art, a crucial influence on the early phases of the developing New York School. In France after World War II, however, he evolved a unique language of painting, employing people and objects that are both contructivist and naturalistic--his own language of signs populated by shop-window dummies, newspaper readers, and startling nudes. In his return to figuration he may be compared to his close friends Balthus and Alberto Giacometti, even though his style is unique. This book is the first in English on the artist for some thirty years. Mild crease to front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages illustrated in color. The latest (and possibly last) issue of the greatest magazine devoted to EC comics ever published. Co-edited by Grant Geisman and John Benson, this issue includes previously unpublished interviews with Gene Colan and Russ Heath, a lavishly illustrated critical study of Atlas' Kurtzman-inspired war comics by Benson, a Kurtzman remembrance by R.O. Blechman, an astounding reprint of The Hartford Courant's campaign against "salacious and depraved" comics (i.e., EC), 12 page spread of Jack Davis's Coca-Cola advertising images, and much much more. An essential historical feast for EC fans.

Hardcover. US, PM Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, color illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A declaration of love to Peter Kuper's adoptive city in which he has lived since 1977, this diary is a vibrant survey of New York City's history. Through Kuper's illustrations, this book depicts a climb to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge, the homeless living in Times Square, roller skaters in Central Park, the impact of September 11, the luxury of Wall Street, street musicians, and other scenes unique to the city. With comics, illustrations, and sketches, this work of art portrays everything from the low life to the high energy that has long made people from around the world flock to the Big Apple.

Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. Mostly b&w with some color. Catalogue of a traveling exhibition to be held at the Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University and other institutions, March 27, 1978 to November 18, 1979. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Tucked away among the letters, diaries, and other ephemera in the Smithsonian's archives lies a trove of rarely seen snapshots of some of the twentieth century's most celebrated artists. Unlike the familiar official portraits and genius-at-work shots, these humble snaps capture creative giants with their guard down, in the moment, living life. Pablo Picasso stands proudly on a balcony with young daughter Maya--a tiny, meticulously inked annotation penned by an unknown hand proclaims that "he's very much in love." Jackson Pollock morosely carves a turkey while his mother, Stella, and wife, Lee Krasner, look on. A young Andy Warhol clowns for the camera with college friend Philip Pearlstein, and in a later shot more closely resembles his famously enigmatic public self at a gallery opening with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Hardcover. London, Tate, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Provocative and entertaining, Pop Life examines how artists since the 1980s have cultivated their public persona as a product, and conjured a dazzling mix of media, commerce, and glamour to build their own "brands." Beginning with the grandfather of Pop, Andy Warhol, who manufactured mass-produced wares in The Factory in the 1960s, the book explores Jeff Koons' infamous Made in Heaven series-showcasing his marriage and sexual relations with Italian porn-star and latter-day politician Illona Staller (aka La Cicciolina)-and his stainless steel Rabbit sculpture; an iconic array of golden spot and butterfly paintings from Damien Hirst's recordbreaking 2008 auction; and a reconstruction of Keith Haring's Pop Shop in New York. Takashi Murakami's designs for Louis Vuitton are also included, along with works by Richard Prince, Martin Kippenberger, Tracey Emin, and many more.

Hardcover. Casterman, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. FRENCH TEXT. The history of Pratt's most famous character told in pictures and words. Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.