Art

Hardcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. illustrated mainly in color. Black cloth. Brand new copy still in original shrink wrap. Beautifully illustrated dust jacket. Gives an insight to Homers artistic growth trough the eyes of his critics.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1989, Book: Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear to bottom edge, rear cover. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Donna Mills on cover, centerfold Renee Tenison. Stories on sex inthe Cinema 1989 pictorial; abortion opinions; Donna Mills Knots Landing; interview with Garry Kasparov; solving the murder of Jimmy Hoffa; confessions of an SOB and more.

Hardcover. Brooklyn. NY, Powerhouse Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color comics throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. The enduring cultural phenomenon of comic book heroes was invented in the late 1930s by a talented and hungry group of artists and writers barely out of their teens, flying by the seat of their pants to create something new, exciting, and above all profitable. The iconography and mythology they created flourishes to this day in comic books, video, movies, fine art, advertising, and practically all other media. Supermen! collects the best and the brightest of this first generation, including Jack Cole, Will Eisner, Bill Everett, Lou Fine, Fletcher Hanks, Jack Kirby, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and Basil Wolverton. If the reader is expecting to find an All-American group of altruistic do-gooders, he in for quite a jolt. As Jonathan Lethem writes in his Foreword, "A collection like Supermen! works like a reverse-neutron bomb to assumptions about the birth of the superhero image: it tears down the orderly structures of theory and history and leaves the figures standing in full view, staring back at us in all their defiant disorienting particularity, their blazing strangeness." Beautifully designed and produced in full color, Supermen! contains twenty full-length stories, ten full- sized covers, and a generous selection of vintage promotional ads, and is indispensable to anyone interested in the origins of superheroes and the history of the comic book form.

Hardcover. Detroit, MI, Wayne State University Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Black cloth, silver lettering to front cover and spine. A nice copy, in a worn dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Small piece missing from lower right corner of dust jacket, minor tears. Slight staining to edges.

Hardcover. Last Gasp, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 288 pages. Illustrated with photographs and back and white illustrations. Introduction by Drew Friedman. Fantastic reference work on the history and back story of the creation of R. Crumb's legendary humor comics anthology.

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller Incorporated, 1st, 1986, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color pictures throughout. landscapes. Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art. The series contains many of Hiroshige's best-loved and most extraordinary prints. Like Venice and Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries, or Paris in the age of the Impressionists, the city of Edo, with its superb landmarks and its festive display of elegant urban life, exerts a special and compelling fascination. Hiroshige revealed the panorama of his city's activities with subtle and vivid visual anecdotes: fireworks seen from the river, fashionable geishas on parade, the kabuki district at night, intimate moments in the gardens and teahouses. It is a tour de force of artistic vision and printmaking craftsmanship. This edition has been reproduced from an exceptionally fine, first-edition set in the Brooklyn Museum of Art to insure maximum fidelity to the original prints. Henry Smith ex-plains the world of Edo in its twilight before the Meiji Restoration and the beginnings of a modern urban society. Each plate is accompanied by a commentary that discusses its artistic and cultural interest in detail. For anyone interested in Japan, the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo is perhaps the finest guide and one of the greatest legacies imaginable.

Hardcover. Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 189 pages. Blasphemy: Art that Offends is a prescient examination of the perpetually troubled, often explosive relationship between religion, politics and art. This book draws on a rich wealth of visual material, tracing both the history of blasphemy as a concept and re-positioning the term in the twenty-first century. Questions of censorship and freedom of expression are today extremely volatile, a fact evinced by the recent international backlash against the Danish newspaper Islamic caricatures and the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh following the release of his notorious Submission. Blasphemy: Art that Offends provides a vital vantage point from which to view the complicated, compelling interrelations between religion, politics and the visual arts.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, C. E. Goodspeed & Co , Revised, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, New Edition, Illustrated with three volumes. 391+403+418 pages. 174 b&w full-page illustrations. Ruff cut paper edges. Dark green cloth, some bumps to corners. No dust jackets as issued. Light edge wear, otherwise a very nice, tight set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 8th pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 220 pages with black & white illustrations. A thorough study of the art of the Indian silversmiths of the Southwest. Includes the history of the craft as well as names and localities of pioneer artisans. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Atglen, PA, SCHIFFER PUBLISHING, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket issued. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to copy. Like new.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A fully illustrated, stylish look back at the story behind a Canadian design icon. With 250 illustrations, including previously unpublished drawings, rare film stills, confidential memorandums, and original photography,The Art of Clairtone is a candid and in-depth look at the company's skyrocketing success and sensational collapse.

Softcover. New York, Da Capo, 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 14 pages + 100 prints in b&w. Green pictorial stiff wrappers with some wear to spine and slight rubbing to covers, otherwise a nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 419 pages. Saint-Gaudens was one of the major artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; his outstanding craftsmanship remains a tremendous influence on American sculpture to this day. Fifty-five b/w illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred Van der Marck, 2nd printing, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Hardcover with minor wear to edges. Color artwork throughout. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages. Color illustrations, index and appendices. Introduction by Margit Rowell; essay by Joseph Jacobs. A groundbreaking retrospective of art from "off the beaten path" sculpture features spectacular images from a wide variety of American artists and craftspeople, in a study that includes everything from religious totems and antique trade signs to hand-carved canes.

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, Pond Ekberg, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Limited edition. #219/500 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Blue cloth spine. blue paper boards, gilt titles. No dust jacket. Light wear around edges and spine, front cover slightly sunned with tape mark from old price-sticker. Bookplate. A nice, tight copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. This periodical issue contains an article by Vincent Scully about Frank Lloyd Wright; Recycling New York; interview with Cesar Pelli; Thirty museum plans, etc. Includes a fold-out sheet of various plans, 24x36 inches. Beige card covers with French flaps. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket is unclipped. Examines Homer's watercolor achievements from 1873 through the early years of the 20th century, depicting the carefree life of children at the shore and the tropical lushness of Florida, Bermuda, and the Bahamas. Reproduces 140 of the 700 watercolors that have survived. 224 pages includes index, scholarly text.

Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of classic tales featuring the Man of Steel fighting subversion and sabotage on the home front during World War II, meeting mythic figures like Paul Bunyan and Hercules and foiling villains including the Toyman and the Prankster. Reprints Nos. 25-29 of Superman. This volume also features the first episodes of "Lois Lane, Girl Reporter." Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. "Silly Fool Comics" fills the final page in this sixth volume, with a devilish creature telling the anguished Crumb, "YOU Will Soon Be DEAD!" He was a mere 67, but in his self-absorbed Crumbish way was obsessing about death, when not making intimate and loving portraits of his wife Aline and all the other women who'd tormented his libido since boyhood. Most impressive in this book are his historic tableau, some single page, others multi-page strips, including Piers the Ploughman of 14th century England, My Secret Life by "Walter," Rough Women of the Dark Ages and The Apache Dance, from a 1930s Parisian postcard. His Rapidographed cross hatching is superb as ever and we are treated to long screeds displaying his undimmed brilliance at analyzing the human condition, in a morbid but nonetheless amusing way. One could say there are no surprises in content, as Crumb has produced a consistent body of work over the last 40, if not 50, years, yet each page is also jarringly different from the one before, due to his personal juxtaposition of images. So much is packed in you can spend an hour and find you're only a quarter of the way through, with Crumb bemoaning his mortality, while continuing to prosper, every few pages. A fine stand-alone volume, and must-have completion for the sketchbook set.

Hardcover. NY, Posters Please, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, catalog for poster auction held Sunday, May 2, 2004 featuring American show posters, PKZ posters, Olympic posters, International posters, books and periodicals. Bright, clean covers.

Softcover. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 2nd, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 331 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minimal wear to covers, else like new.

Hardcover. London, Frances Lincoln, 1st, 2011, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 255 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Brenda Colvin (1897-1981) ranks with Sylvia Crowe and Geoffrey Jellicoe as a pioneer of twentieth-century landscape design in Britain. This first full account of her life and work demonstrates her importance. Early in her career Colvin visited the USA to see the new civic landscaping projects, especially the parkways. In England she transformed the landscapes of power stations, reservoirs, industrial sites, new towns and national parks and worked on private gardens. Her simple planting style and her ecological approach had enormous influence. NOTE: There is a very mild ripple/wave throughout the pages, otherwise a clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Published in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.With 103 illustrations including 44 plates in full color. Includes bibliiographical references and index.

Softcover. Archie Comics, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 color pages illustrated by Bob Montana.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 2nd pr., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Price clipped dust jacket shows minor wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Praeger, 1st US, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. 208 indexed illustrations. Several full color reproductions. Translated from the French by Thomas Walton. 255 pages. "Elgar has made use of valuable information from Mondrian's contemporaries in his account of this dedicated artist.The plates show all the phases through which Mondrian's art passed, from the traditional landscapes and still lifes of his early years, through the more personal and more abstract works conceived in series, to the eventual emergence of his fully mature style." Three color plates/postcards of his art laid / paster on inside covers. Small name on front fy leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch/Little Brown, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages in an unclipped dust jacket that has fading to spine. Shows paintings, murals, frescoes, and art objects produced by the Bloomsbury Group and briefly traces the group's origins and aims. Over two hundred illustrations in color. Some of the artists included, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, and more.

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Terrific monograph on this important American artist. Includes 275 illustrations, most in color and with 4 double gatefolds. Dust jacket with light soiling on back cover.

Hardcover. New York, Meredith Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Edward Gorey. Some light rubbing to cover edges. Price clipped dust jacket with chips of paper missing at top of spine and along edges - dust jacket now protected with clear plastic protective cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 214 pages. A follow up of Truitt's journal "Daybook." The author continues the exploration of her life as an artist, a woman, and a mother, focusing on the constant interplay between daily activities and choices and the broader context of history and ideas. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 672 pages. Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London, one of today's most important institutions collecting and exhibiting contemporary art, this mammoth book is the most comprehensive volume on contemporary sculpture. The title itself refers to H. G. Wells's eponymous novel which envisioned the future and was a surprisingly accurate prophecy reflecting the author's own time. That book inspired Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which a great monolith is an iconic but enigmatic sculptural presence. This new book opens with an enormous, standing monolithic Styrofoam sculpture of a videocassette of 2001 and, like the Wells book, seeks to explore how sculpture will evolve in the coming decades. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. A survey of the most original Southwestern Indian jewelers -- from traditional and contemporary silversmiths to exquisite lapidary artists to metalsmiths who create wearable art and objects.. Color photos by Addison Doty.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st Thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Glitterati , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 228 pages. What do Elmer's Glue, Krylon Spray Paint, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups have in common? The designer Ted Eron, of course. You may not know his name, but you know Ted Eron. Although he remains largely unknown in the public consciousness, Eron played an integral role in defining the aesthetics of everyday goods and household staples in the 1950s and '60s. In Ted Eron Designed That, Joseph Eron and Elizabeth Eron Roth - Ted's children - chronicle the life and art of their father through a nostalgic tour of the iconic graphic designs that have shaped and revolutionised twentieth-century visual culture. From his humble beginnings painting signs in the basement of a market while attending Cooper Union, to the Eron & Eron Industrial Design years during World War II and beyond, Ted Eron Designed That pays a long overdue tribute to the man behind the iconic designs. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Los Angeles Times, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 208 pages. Profusely illustrated with the best work of one of the leading political cartoonists of the 20th century, Paul Conrad (1923-2010). This extraordinary retrospective collection, containing more than 300 cartoons, from 1963 to the present, displays the wit, strong opinion and skillful drawing that have won Conrad three Pulitzer prizes and numerous other awards for excellence in journalism. The cartoons, arranged by decade, represent the work of a man who has become a legend in cartooning and an institution in American journalism. The book is very good. The DJ has some light edge wear.

Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, filled with impressive folk art in full color on just about every page. Three essays on the collection by Marshall and Lynne E. Spriggs, High Museum of Art's Curator of Folk Art, Joanne Cubbs, the museum's first curator of folk art, and Lynd Roscoe Hartigan, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Forword by Michael E. Shapiro, director of the High Museum of Art. In a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, NYUP, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 208 pages of text followed by a ection of corresponding black & white illustrations. Titian's fame as the greatest colorist in the history of painting has led students of his art to concentrate on problems of style and authenticity rather than on problems of content and meaning. Dr. Panofsky treats this neglected aspect of the Venetian master's work with a wealth of humanistic scholarship, exploring such varied topics as Titian's relationship to the philosophy and literature of his time, his attitude toward the antique, and the reasons behind his unrivaled acclaim as a portraitist. These studies show Titian to have been a man of far richer and more complex culture than hitherto assumed, possessed not only of the supremely gifted hand but of a subtle and poetic mind.Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Hanover NH/ New York, Hood Museum of Art/Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages. with 82 color plates and 270 halftones. Catalogue to accompany the centerpiece exhibition of a year-long celebration commemorating the Hood's 20th anniversary and its permanent collection. Thorough text accompanies each plate, and the essay material includes an overview of the collection. Clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPIG ONLY.

Hardcover. Baltimore, privately printed, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Bound in black paper boards with titling in white and a photo reproduction on front cover. Photographs are reproduced on glossy white paper. SIGNED BY YOUNG on title page. Barbara Young is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has been practicing in Baltimore for 65 years. Her second career as an art photographer began in 1979 and continues to this day. She is acknowledged as one of the earliest pioneers of color art photography. This book has come into being out of an intermingling of her two professions. The photographs are from her travels, Baltimore. friends and strangers, and more. Clean copy.

Softcover. US, Stichting Kunstboak , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 135 pages.Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Norbet Hostyn, curator of the Museum of Fine Art in Ostend, has produced a fascinating and comprehensive account of the world and ideas of the by turns celebrated and vilified James Ensor (1860-1949). He offers an illuminating introduction to the artist's life and oeuvre, accompanied by a selection of fifty representative works, each comprising a large, color reproduction and an art-historical commentary. It is the story of a striking and controversial painter who was initially the focal point of a new school, but later became an eccentric with a finely tuned sense of image and business.

Softcover. New York, WMAA/Prestel, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Full color illustrations. Shallow crease at bottom right corner of front cover. Clean, unmarked copy. Goodman's book, with essays by Clement Greenberg and Irving Sandler and the artist's own statements, provides an excellent introduction to the life and work of the man frequently called the dean of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism.

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.

Hardcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 84 pages. The catalogue for an auction of a group of the original drawings Blake did to illustrate Blair's poem "The Grave," in 1805. These drawings had been lost, were recently re-discovered and were auctioned by Sothebys. The catalogue is of 20 lots, and theis essay by Bialler surveys the history and scholarship surrounding the works.

Softcover. Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 16 full-page color plates; many other illustrations. Short-lived mid-nineteenth-century Baltimore artist who painted interior and exterior scenes usually of two or more people in some sort of exchange. Critics praise his composition and use of color.

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 552 pages. Hardcover. Bollingen Series C. Dust jacket with light wear, tears to edges, price clipped. Full color and black & white photographs throughout. Clean unmarked text.

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. London/NY, Prestel/DelMonico Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 272 pages. Richly illustrated and filled with detailed information about one of the leading artists of the 20th century, this is the first book to explore in depth the Saint Louis Art Museum's outstanding holdings of paintings by Max Beckmann-the largest collection of its kind in the world. One of the greatest German painters of the 20th century, Max Beckmann came to America in the mid-1940s and settled in St. Louis. There he met the retailer and collector Morton D. May. By the time May died, in 1983, he had amassed a comprehensive collection of Beckmann's oeuvre, most of which he bequeathed to the Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM). The stunning breadth and power of Beckmann's work are explored in this volume, which examines all thirty-nine paintings in SLAM's collection. Featuring some of Beckmann's most celebrated images, this book offers fascinating insights into Beckmann's life and art-in particular his underappreciated early work and previously unexplored aspects of his final years in the United States.

Softcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.