Art

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.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Admired for finding beauty in everyday surroundings, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) brought an autobiographical element to his work, earning him a unique place in late-19th-century American art history. This book, the third of four volumes to document the complete works of Chase, traces his career as a landscape painter.Following Chase's training in Munich in the 1870s and his many trips to Spain in the early 1880s, his works became light filled and colorful. These paintings anticipate Chase's well-known park scenes of the 1880s painted in Brooklyn and New York and his 1890s works depicting the hills and shoreline adjacent to his home in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island, now recognized as being among the most important examples of American Impressionism. This book presents all of his known landscapes painted in oil, which include many of his best-loved works, in beautiful reproduction, accompanied by the most current and thorough documentation on them.

Hardcover. University Park, Pennsylvania State Univ Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets. Professor Armi posits that the great third abbey at Cluny is the building where regional masons of different traditions first combined their talents to develop a new design, and that the artisans responsible for the masonry also created its sculpture. Volume I Text, 204 pages; Volume II contains 238 b/w Illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 200 pages. Hardcover with translucent dust jacket. This retrospective study of the work and life of Robert Frank demonstrates the artistry, innovations, and magnificent images of the distinguished photographer in more than 350 photographs. The book was originally published by Yugensha in Tokyo in 1972. Remainder mark to top edge, dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. No marking, clean.

Hardcover. St. Louis, MO, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This book features incredible artworks from the Golden Age of illustration. 204 artists with 217 full page reproductions of original paintings, all photographed directly from the original art. Limited to 900 copies.

Hardcover. New York, National Gallery of Art/Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with mniior wear to edges. Color photos throughout. Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created some of the most visually breathtaking works of the twentieth century. From early wrapped objects to monumental outdoor projects such as The Umbrellas, Japan-U.S.A., 1984-91 and Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-95, the artists have used fabric - wrapped, draped, and folded over, around, and through natural and constructed forms - to transcend the traditional bounds of painting, drawing, sculpture, and architecture.This volume spanning forty years of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's remarkable career accompanies an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art of sixty-one works from the collection of Dorothy and Herbert Voqel, whose relationship with the artists dates to 1971. The wonderful breadth of works presented in color and discussed here includes several early packages, models for large-scale public works, preparatory drawings and collages for projects in urban and rural sites, and photographs of the completed projects.

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. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, b&w cartoons by the New Yorker artist. Lacks dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Little, Brown UK , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, lavishly illustrated in color. This is a truly exceptional collection of drawings from one of our most revered cultural commentators. Gerald Scarfe began his career in the 60s working for PUNCH and PRIVATE EYE before taking a job as a political cartoonist for the DAILY MAIL. He then worked for TIME Magazine in New York before starting his long association with the SUNDAY TIMES that still exists today in the form of his weekly drawings. His varied career has seen him work with Pink Floyd (The Wall, Wish You Were Here), Roger Waters and Eric Clapton (The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking), Disney (Hercules), English National Ballet (The Nutcracker), Los Angeles Opera (Fantastic Mr Fox) as well as produce such iconic images as those for the titles of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. His work has featured in the New Yorker and various BBC TV films such as Scarfe on Sex and Scarfe on Class. Exhibitions of his paintings and drawings have appeared in the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. He is viewed by many as both a national treasure and a genius and this is the first collection of his work to appear for 20 years.

Softcover. New York, ACA Galleries , 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 70 pages. Softcover. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout by Moses Soyer. Some wear to spine and soil to back cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press. , 1st , 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in black & white, 5 color plates. 487 pages + 646 photos, 16 plates in rear. Previous owner's inscription, bookplate on front pastedown. End papers tanned.

Hardcover. Hermes Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. Here we have the third volume of the complete reprinting of Buck Rogers dailies. This volume picked up where the last one left off, reprinting the next 6 stories: "Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet" (5/16/32 to 8/29/32), "Asterite Invaders" (8/30/32 to 2/24/33), "The Great Wolves of Jupiter" (2/25/33 to 6/22/33), "In the City of Floating Globes" (6/23/33 to 9/1/33), "Depth Men of Jupiter" (9/2/33 to 11/8/33), "Tika of the Tidegates" (11/9/33 to 1/20/34). As in previous volumes, there is an introductory article, this one by Flint Dille, the current head of the Dille Family Trust, which owns the Buck Rogers property.

Softcover. New York, Dell, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Mass market paperback, Dell #2254, 128 pages. B&w cartoon drawings throughout by the Berenstains. Clean.

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. New York , Random House , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages, hardcover in publisher's original deep navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Folio 12 1/2 '' x 10 1/4 ''. Contains 436 printed pages of text with 350 color and approximately 550 monochrome illustrations throughout. Illustrator Raeburn Van Buren's copy with his ownership signature on the half-title page dated February 24, 1978. His illustrations featured on several pages. Foreward by Norman Rockwell, notes on the artists, bibliography. Dust jacket bright with minor shelf wear.

Softcover. NY, Citadel Press, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages, color and b&w photos. An updated 20th Anniversary Edition with new material. She has been called the most photographed model in history. From her modest beginnings in Nashville to her legacy as a cult figure, here is the true story of America's iconic pinup queen, legendary Playboy centerfold Bettie Page--including her stormy marriages, her trial for attempted murder, and her decade-long isolation in a California mental institution.

Hardcover. New York, Atria Books, 1st Hardcover, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge of textblock. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Tracing the highs and lows of fashion photography from the late 1940s to today, Gross vividly chronicles the fierce rivalries between photographers, fashion editors, and publishers like Conde Nast and Hearst, weaving together candid interviews, never-before-told insider anecdotes and insights born of his three decades of front-row and backstage reporting on modern fashion. An unprecedented look at an eccentric and seductive profession and the men and women who practice it on the treacherous shifting sands of pop and fashion culture, Focus depicts--perhaps most importantly--the rewards and cost, both terribly high, of translating an artist's vision of beauty for an often cold and cruel commercial reality.

Softcover. London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2nd Ed., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 26 pages, stapled wraps, illustrated with b&w drawings. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 87 pages. 32 color illustrations. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Very nice, clean and tight copy. Dust jacket edgewear on upper corner of spine. In good shape.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 39 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and instructive drawing outlines. Pea size piece of paper missing at top of dust jacket spine. Closed tears along dust jacket edges. Clean, tight copy.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Powerhouse Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages, color illustrations. The history of American comics through the stories of comics' most important and influential creators -- tracing the medium's journey all the way from its beginnings as junk culture for kids to its current status as legitimate literature and pop culture. Featuring artists such as Jerry Siegel, Will Eisner, Jerry Robinson, Al Jaffee, Neal Adams, Peter Kuper, Stan Lee and many more.

Hardcover. NY, Viking / Madison Press Books, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, second (1986) printing, 168 pages. Selection of over 90 of Robert Bateman's wildlife paintings, reproduced in full color, together with his commentaries as a naturalist, plus an introduction based on extensive travels and interviews with the artist. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Bell Publishing, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrated boards, unpaginated (96 pages), b&w cartoons throughout by Bob Dunn. Rear board with light chipping, otherwise clean.

Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 110 pages, illustrated throughout color and b&w. Gray pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear and rubbing to covers and spine, else a very nice. tight,. clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Heavy Metal Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. Color art by the grear Milo Manara. Very good condition.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. Contributors include Eleanor Davis, Ray Fenwick, Paul Hornschemeier, Sophie Crumb, Jonathan Bennett, Tom Kaczynski, others.

Hardcover. NY, Ibooks/Simon & Schuster, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. B&w art by Lomax.

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 208 pages, 46 four-color plates, and 100+ b&w reproductions. The first fully illlustrated major study of the artist, considered one of the greatest painters of the American scene. Burchfield (1893-1967) 'painted 'the haunting lights and shadows of small-town America. He evolved 'quite alone anmd independently' in Ohio and New York, painting nostalgic fantasies, dreary small-town life; fanciful & poetic landscapes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 90 pages. A collection of Kovarsky's better New Yorker cartoons, with an additional 40 new cartoons. In a bright dust jacket that's been price-clipped. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, still in publisher's shrink wrap. Jean Patchett was both model and muse, a famous face from New York's vibrant midcentury popular culture and the most successful high-fashion model of her time.A small-town girl from rural Maryland, Patchett had no firm ambitions until a friend suggested she drop out of college and go to New York and become a model. Within a year Jean had left school, met model agent Eileen Ford, and begun a career that saw her photographed by the greatest photographers of her era, with more than 58 magazine covers over 14 years."A young American goddess in Paris couture," was Irving Penn's epitaph for the model he photographed for a classic series in Lima, Peru where, pushed past their limits, Patchett and Penn created passionate art with a possible passionate relationship as well. Penn would go on to create stunning images of Patchett forVogueand later, for a series of nudes he called "the major artistic experience of my life." Letters from Patchett to her family show a young woman in love with her life and eager to share the thrills and struggles of her career. Quotes from photographers Cecil Beaton, John Rawlings, William Helburn, Jerry Schatzberg, and Francesco Scavullo reflect their admiration for her technical skills as a model as well as her unique beauty. A work diary from 1951 allows us to see how-and with whom-she worked from day to day.

Hardcover. London, Fuel, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 192 pages. Plutser-Sarno has been collecting Russian street messages, usually hand-written and posted on walls, for two decades; this book is a sampling from his Museuam of Ads and Announcements. The notes are of a great variety: seeking recruits for cults or prostitution, offering items, some of them bizzare ones, for barter, warning miscreants of dire harm should they, for example, continue to steal light bulbs from a common corridor, prohibiting--predictably--a wide range of activities, and occasionally pleading in tones of insanity.Many of the messages are shown in illustrations, and Pluter-Sarno offers brief comments, sometimes necessary ones: Without them I shouldn't have known, for example, that 'artificial rock' was a euphemism for a concrete slab. (I'm sorry though that he didn't explain what curious Slavic behaviors created the need for notices in public lavoratories asking users to abstain from standing on toilet bowls.) Given the range of notes here, it's possible for the reader to get a hint of Soviet and post-Soviet customs and beliefs, the daily struggling with poverty and paucity, and the impact of the political upon the individual.Because Fuel, the publisher, is a design company it's small wonder that as an object this is a wonderful book. It's a small hardback with a cover done in relief, and sewn in signatures. The outer 2/3 of the pages are a kraft-paper brown and the inner 1/3, with colour illustrations, a cream color.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Library, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. With 2014 marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of World War I, En Guerre offers a fresh, thought-provoking exploration of the impact of the Great War as viewed through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of these illustrations at the University of Chicago Library's Special Collections Research Center, this catalog draws from illustrated books, magazines, and prints to present a wide range of perspectives on themes essential to a deeper understanding of the war in France: patriotism, nationalism, propaganda, and the soldier's experience, as well as the mobilization of the French national home front as seen through fashion, music, humor, and children's literature. With a text by noted historians Neil Harris and Teri J. Edelstein and featuring more than one hundred reproductions of the vivid and colorful work of French illustrators, En Guerre reaffirms the persuasive role that art can play in the service of political and military power.

Softcover. NY, Jordan Volpe Gallery, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 89 pages, b&w and color photographs. Very light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers, else a very clean, tight copy.The catalogue of an exhibition at the Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, April 15 - June 30, 1980. Illustrated with 18 color plates and 11 figures in the text.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 136 pages. From the early 1960s through the early 70s, Pop Art swept the industrialized world. Iconoclastic, rebellious, and immediately popular, the new movement found its roots in an unprecedentedly prosperous consumer society. Encouraged by galleries and publishers who catered to a new collectors' market, many Pop artists were drawn to the creation of editions on paper and in multiples. 60 vibrant examples by such American icons as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, and by such European artists as Richard Hamilton, Niki de Saint Phalle, Gerhard Richter, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Sigmar Polke, are organized according to the themes of mass media consumer culture, politics, erotica and more. All of the works included herein are from The Prints and Illustrated Books Collection at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, an exceptionally rich repository of such work.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth stamped in gilt, 243 pages. Twenty-five b&w plates illustrating landscape designs. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Chartwell Books, 3rd pr., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color, black and white pictures throughout. For more than 75 years, through countless comics, television, and movies, Batman has been a symbol of strength and perseverance. He was created in 1939, on the brink of World War II -- a volatile time, when we needed a hero most. Who better to come to the rescue than the Caped Crusader? For the first time, Batman: The War Years 1939-1945 details The Dark Knight's involvement in the war and his fight against some very real villains.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 129 pages. Color photographs by Ethan Hoffman and text by Mark Holborn, Tatsumi Hijikata and Yukio Mishima and Kazuo Ohno. Includes a 12 page section on Ohno with numerous color photographs. Color cover photograph is of Ohno. Features work of several other Butohchoreographers/dancers.

1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "Dolls and baseball gloves...", b&w drawing by Norman Rockwell. 10 X 13". very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. London, Paul Elek, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth, 181 pages. 11 color, 58 black-and-white illustrations. This account of Blake's life discusses his artistic, religious, philosophical, political and sexual ideas; his politics; his compelling myths and truths; his poems and his prophetic books; his artworks and illustrations. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket.

Softcover. Montevideo, Impresora Gordon, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Monograph on the Uruguayan artist who championed a modernist aesthetic in South American art. Color wrappers with light wear, interior clean. SPANISH TEXT.

1980, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon by Saul Steinberg. 8 1/2 X 11 1/2", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. Los Angeles, CA, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc., 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 118 pages. Softcover. Very clean, LIKE NEW in publishers shrinkwrap. Estranged for more than 50 years, Brooklyn-born identical twin brothers-the celebrated artists Joel-Peter Witkin and Jerome Witkin-are brought together for the first time in this publication recreating an exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Los Angeles. Each of the artists' works from the critically acclaimed exhibition is fully illustrated in this volume, which also includes an audio CD of the historic first interview of the brothers together, as well as a selection of the initial reviews and interviews published through the mid-point of the exhibition's extended run.

1946, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of woman riding in a horse-drawn cart in the Caribbean by Helen Hokinson. 8 1/4 X 11 1/2", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Portrait of girl in Spring dress, art by Neysa McMein. 10 1/2 X 13 1/2", some chipping at edges, else very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

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.

Softcover. Amsterdam, Ludion Ghent/Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oversized softcover. Published with the the exhibition "Hieronymus Bosch" at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, September-November 2001. Minor wear to corners and edges of cover. Inside is bright and clean. Many color illustrations throughout. A nice copy.

1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Boy beating rug, art by J.C. Leyendecker. 10 1/4 X 13 1/2", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, a series of tipped-in color plates. Blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Light edge wear to covers, spine darkened. Light yellowing to end papers. Else a clean, tight copy. A humorous tribute to the Rossetti family and their circle, including Wilde, Ruskin, Millais, Ford Madox Brown, Swinburne, et al. Twenty two color plates mounted on art paper with amusing descriptive tissue guards.