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Backstage at the Stripsby: Walker, Mort

Backstage at the Strips
by: Walker, Mort

Hardcover. New York, Mason/Charter, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages, illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 457190

Price: $25.00 
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Turn: The Journal of an Artistby: Truitt, Anne

Turn: The Journal of an Artist
by: Truitt, Anne

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.

Record # 396776

Price: $28.00 
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Paintings by Fitz Hugh Laneby: Wilmerding, John

Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane
by: Wilmerding, John

Softcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover163 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, with small crease to front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459677

Price: $18.00 
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The New Emerging from the Old - Lu Shengzhong: Works 1980- 2005 by: Shengzhong, Lu

The New Emerging from the Old - Lu Shengzhong: Works 1980- 2005
by: Shengzhong, Lu

Hardcover. NY/Beijing, Chambers Fine Arts, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover copy in black boards with the artists' name embossed in darker black on the front cover, in a bright red dust jacket, with some edge-wear. This is the most complete catalog of Lu Shengzhong's works to date. The catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the University at Albany Art Museum. Text In English and Chinese. Essays by a dozen scholars. Biographical sketch. 34 page illustrated chronology, records Lu Shengzhong's artworks from 1980 to 2005. Illustrated throughout in color, some black & white, vintage photographs. 11" high X 8" wide, 155 pages.

Record # 373368

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Looking Back at Francis Baconby: Bacon, Francis, Sylvester, David

Looking Back at Francis Bacon
by: Bacon, Francis, Sylvester, David

Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages with 52 color and 102 b&w plates. A unique portrait of the artist by an scholar, who draws on his personal experience of Bacon. A survey of his artistic development precedes critical studies of selected aspects of the artist and his work. Previously unpublished extracts of the author's conversations with Bacon are reproduced and followed by a brief account of Bacon's life.

Record # 353226

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Anne Truitt in Japanby: Lovatt, Anna / Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt in Japan
by: Lovatt, Anna / Anne Truitt

Hardcover. NY, Matthew Marks Gallery, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, brown-grey boards with white lettering; 139 pages, richly illustrated, in color. Created on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York from September 11th through October 23, 2015. This catalogue focuses on the formative drawings that Anne Truitt (1921-2004) made while living in Tokyo from 1964 to 1967, a pivotal moment for her, both artistically and intellectually. Though she later destroyed the sculptures she produced there (all in aluminum, a material she ultimately found unsuited to her intentions), this process of discovery was essential to the clarification of her sculptural vision. The innovations she developed in Japan, many in the form of drawings, would profoundly inform her lifelong practice. Clean copy.

Record # 396858

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Noah's Arkby: Poortvliet, Rien

Noah's Ark
by: Poortvliet, Rien

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams , 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large hardcover volume in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. The author and illustrator gives his special imaginative touch to the most famous animal story through more than two hundred full-color paintings and a lively text. This is the larger first US printing, not the 1992 reprint in a smaller format. Clean, like new.

Record # 372326

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Bacon - Portraits et autoportraits: Francis Bacon, le visage en viscEresby: Kundera, Milan

Bacon - Portraits et autoportraits: Francis Bacon, le visage en viscEres
by: Kundera, Milan

Hardcover. Paris, Les Belles Lettres , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout. FRENCH TEXT.

Record # 353291

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Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thoughtby: Ernst van Alphen

Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought
by: Ernst van Alphen

Softcover. University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 228 pages, b&w illustrations. Art has the power to affect our thinking, changing not only the way we view and interact with the world but also how we create it. In Art in Mind, Ernst van Alphen probes this idea of art as a commanding force with the capacity to shape our intellect and intervene in our lives. Rather than interpreting art as merely a reflection of our social experience or a product of history, van Alphen here argues that art is a historical agent, or a cultural creator, that propels thought and experience forward. Examining a broad range of works, van Alphen--a renowned art historian and cultural theorist--demonstrates how art serves a socially constructive function by actually experimenting with the parameters of thought. Employing work from artists as diverse as Picasso, Watteau, Francis Bacon, Marlene Dumas, and Matthew Barney, he shows how art confronts its viewers with the "pain points" of cultural experience-genocide, sexuality, diaspora, and transcultural identity-and thereby transforms the ways in which human existence is conceived. Clean, like new.

Record # 396873

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Graphic Work of Joseph Hirsch, Theby: Hirsch, Joseph

Graphic Work of Joseph Hirsch, The
by: Hirsch, Joseph

Softcover. New York, Associated American Artists, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with blue wraps. Unpaginated. Compiled and edited by Sylvan Cole, Jr., 2 b&w frontispieces, 66 b&w plates, errata slip laid in. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 805345

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David Stromeyer: Equilibrium: Career Retrospective (SIGNED COPY)by: David Stromeyer

David Stromeyer: Equilibrium: Career Retrospective (SIGNED COPY)
by: David Stromeyer

Softcover. Burlington VT, BCA Center, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 page exhibition catalog illustrated in color. SIGNED BY ARTIST on the title page. Text includes the artist's remarks and essays by Courtney Lynch and Jasminr Parsia. Related postcard and brochure laid in. For more than five decades, Stromeyer has created sculptures whose graphic forms, saturated colors, and complex, balanced compositions seem to defy steel's material limits. Despite the weight of their materials and construction--including welded, cold-bent, half-ton steel plates--many of Stromeyer's sculptures play with space and perception; they seem to defy gravity, appearing to float and extend upwards effortlessly in the landscape. Very Good plus.

Record # 381562

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Weird Mysteries:  Volume 2 - Pre-Code Classicsby: Lantz James Heath

Weird Mysteries: Volume 2 - Pre-Code Classics
by: Lantz James Heath

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 350554

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Edith Halpert: The Downtown Gallery and the Rose of American Artby: Shaykin, Rebecca

Edith Halpert: The Downtown Gallery and the Rose of American Art
by: Shaykin, Rebecca

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 232 pages. The question "What is American art?" might conjure the hyperrealism of Raphaelle Peale and William Harnett, the bold graphic style of Stuart Davis and Jacob Lawrence, or the Precisionist forms of Charles Sheeler. Little known, however, is that such notions of American art are significantly owed to a Russian Jewish immigrant named Edith Halpert. The founder of the Downtown Gallery in New York, Halpert shaped an identity for American art, declaring that its thrilling heterogeneity and democratic values were what most distinguished it from the European avant-garde. For forty-plus years, Halpert's gallery brought recognition and market success to now-legendary American artists--among them Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe, in addition to the artists mentioned above. She relentlessly championed nonwhite, female, and unknown artists and was a formative advisor in the shaping of many of the nation's most celebrated art museums and collections, from San Francisco to Boston. Not content with those achievements, she also pioneered the appreciation and collecting of American folk art. Richly illustrated with works that passed through her groundbreaking gallery, this book tells the extraordinary and largely overlooked story of her career and legacy. The artists Halpert launched into the American canon are household names--and this book compellingly argues that hers should be, as well. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 397216

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John Barber: the Artist, the Man (SIGNED COPY)by: Love, Richard H.

John Barber: the Artist, the Man (SIGNED COPY)
by: Love, Richard H.

Hardcover. Chicago, Haase-Mumm Publishing, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages. #174 of 1, 000 copies signed by author. Biography and critical study of John Barber (1893-1965), American artist and contributor to the radical magazine The Masses. 16 color and 109 b&w plates. Bibliography and index.

Record # 371464

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Planet Comics 1940: Volume 1: Collected Worksby: Carmine, Infantino (Foreward)

Planet Comics 1940: Volume 1: Collected Works
by: Carmine, Infantino (Foreward)

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Collects January 1940 to April 1940, Issues 1-4.

Record # 350523

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Chamber of Chills: Volume 2: Harvey Horrors Collected Worksby: N/A

Chamber of Chills: Volume 2: Harvey Horrors Collected Works
by: N/A

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2012-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 2. 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350605

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Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural Turn by: Margaret Dikovitskaya

Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural Turn
by: Margaret Dikovitskaya

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 316 pages, b&w illustrations. The history, theoretical frameworks, methodology, and pedagogy of the new field of visual culture; current debates and the possibility for future consensus. In recent years, visual culture has emerged as a growing and important interdisciplinary field of study. Visual culture regards images as central to the representation of meaning in the world. It encompasses "high" art without an assumption of its higher status. But despite the current proliferation of studies and programs in visual culture, there seems to be no consensus within the field itself as to its scope and objectives, definitions, and methods. In Visual Culture, Margaret Dikovitskaya offers an overview of this new area of study in order to reconcile its diverse theoretical positions and understand its potential for further research. Clean copy. Uncommon in the hardcover.

Record # 397276

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Julian Alden Weir- an Appreciation of His Life and Worksby: Phillips, Duncan, and others

Julian Alden Weir- an Appreciation of His Life and Works
by: Phillips, Duncan, and others

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 141 pages. 33 B&W illustrations. No dust jacket. Pages uncut. Blue cloth. In good condition. Articles included in this tribute include: Julian Alden Weir, by Duncan Phillips; Weir The Painter, by Emil Carlsen; Weir, by Royal Cortissoz; Reminiscences of Weir, by Childe Hassam; The Tile Club, by J.B. Millet; Weir The Fisherman, by H. de Raasloff; A Letter, from Augustus Vincent Tack; A Letter from C.E.S. Wood; Lists of Paintings, which is 17 pages long, and lists paintings chronologically, and lists dimensions and owner. One of 712 copies with eight extra illustrations which were published by Phillips Publications as Publication No. 1.

Record # 605073

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The ABC's of The Bauhaus and Design Theoryby: Miller, J. Abbott; Lupton, Ellen

The ABC's of The Bauhaus and Design Theory
by: Miller, J. Abbott; Lupton, Ellen

Softcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, illustrated in three colors throughout. Clean copy.

Record # 380628

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Under a Watercolour Sky: Britain's Rural Heritage Through the Paintings of Alan Inghamby: Ingham, Alan E.

Under a Watercolour Sky: Britain's Rural Heritage Through the Paintings of Alan Ingham
by: Ingham, Alan E.

Hardcover. Birmingham UK, Washington Green Fine Art Publishing Company, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong,128 pages. Full color plates throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket and slight rubbing on bottom spine of covers.

Record # 466528

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Encounters With Modern Art: The Reminiscences of Nannette F. Rothschild : Works from the Rothschild Family Collectionsby: Rothschild, Nannette F. and Marcus, George H

Encounters With Modern Art: The Reminiscences of Nannette F. Rothschild : Works from the Rothschild Family Collections
by: Rothschild, Nannette F. and Marcus, George H

Softcover. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover 215 pages. Many illustrations, 78 in full color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC September 22, 1996-January 26, 1997 and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA March 2-May 11, 1997. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 397312

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Raphael Soyer: Sixty-five Years of Printmakingby: Gettings, Frank

Raphael Soyer: Sixty-five Years of Printmaking
by: Gettings, Frank

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in very good condition. Catalog of exhibition at the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., Aug. 5-Oct. 3, 1982. 87 pages., illustrations., bibliography, index. Tight, clean copy.

Record # 805479

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Prince Valiant, Vol. 4: 1943-1944by: Hal Foster and Brian M. Kane

Prince Valiant, Vol. 4: 1943-1944
by: Hal Foster and Brian M. Kane

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 112 pages. As this fourth volume begins, Prince Valiant, haunted by Aleta, seeks Merlin's wise counsel. This brief episode segues into one of Hal Foster's patented epics, "The Long Voyage to Thule," which ran for seven straight months and featured Valiant's return to his birthplace and reunion with his father. Of course, Foster's astonishingly detailed and evocative depictions of Val's homeland contribute greatly to this sprawling epic. After a series of shorter adventures including "The Seductress," "The Call of the Sea," and "The Jealous Cripple," Val finally decides he can stand it no more and sets out to find his long-lost love. Long-time fans know that his quest will eventually be successful, but Foster throws so many obstacles in the way of true love that the saga "The Winning of Aleta" would end up stretching a full year and a half, well into the next volume.

Record # 361823

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American Jukebox: A Photographic Journeyby: Felver, Christopher

American Jukebox: A Photographic Journey
by: Felver, Christopher

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy. Christopher Felver has collected over 240 photographs from tours and encounters with musicians over the past 25 years. From Doc Watson to John Cage and Mavis Staples to Sonny Rollins, this collection celebrates the tapestry and diversity of musical styles that make up the American sonic landscape.

Record # 353289

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Beatrix Potter's Art: Paintings and Drawings by: Stevenson Hobbs, Anne / Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter's Art: Paintings and Drawings
by: Stevenson Hobbs, Anne / Beatrix Potter

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 192 pages illustrated with her superb watercolors. Clean copy.

Record # 397549

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1937 New Yorker Albumby: N/A

1937 New Yorker Album
by: N/A

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth spine and green paper-covered boards.A nice collection of b&w cartoons from The New Yorker. No dust jacket.

Record # 351617

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Crafting Devotions: Tradition in Contemporary New Mexico Santosby: Kalb, Laurie Beth

Crafting Devotions: Tradition in Contemporary New Mexico Santos
by: Kalb, Laurie Beth

Softcover. Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 2230207

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Russian Painted Shop Signs and Avant-Garde Artistsby: Povelikhina, A. V

Russian Painted Shop Signs and Avant-Garde Artists
by: Povelikhina, A. V

Hardcover. Russia, Aurora Art Publishers, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some foxing to textblock edges. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with some minor dust jacket wear. Black & white and color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471472

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Gianlorenzo Bernini (Masters of Art Series) (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Charles Scribner III

Gianlorenzo Bernini (Masters of Art Series) (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Charles Scribner III

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small crumbled tear to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 397754

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Uganda: Wellspring of Africaby: Leguineche, Manuel

Uganda: Wellspring of Africa
by: Leguineche, Manuel

Hardcover. New York, Sirecox, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color photographs throughout. Illustrated with color photographs by Jose Luis Gonzalez Grande. Translation by Louis Bourne. Foreword by Sam K. Sebagereka, Minister for Tourism and Wildlife of Uganda. Preface by Luis Yanez-Barnuevo. A photographic safari of Uganda.

Record # 2230145

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John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionistby: Peters, Lisa N.

John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist
by: Peters, Lisa N.

Hardcover. Atlanta GA, High Museum of Art, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, color and b&w plates. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. John Henry Twatchman (1853 - 1902) was an American painter best known for his Impressionist landscape paintings, though his painting style varied widely through his career. Art historians consider Twachtman's work to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation. He was a member of "The Ten", a loosely allied group of American artists, whose members included Childe Hassam, Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, and Robert Reid.

Record # 401444

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ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER:  New Yorker Dec. 4 1965 - glass with flower bouquet by: Abe Birnbaum (Illust.)

ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER: New Yorker Dec. 4 1965 - glass with flower bouquet
by: Abe Birnbaum (Illust.)

1965, Book: Very Good, Color art of flower petals and leaves floating out of a glass by Abe Birnbaum, 8 3/4 X 12", 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 THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Record # 384049

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Loulou & Yves: the Untold Story of Loulou De La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurentby: Petkanas, Christopher

Loulou & Yves: the Untold Story of Loulou De La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent
by: Petkanas, Christopher

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.

Record # 397827

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Annette Messager: Word For Wordby: Szeemann, Harald

Annette Messager: Word For Word
by: Szeemann, Harald

Hardcover. France, D.A.P./Les Presses du Reel, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Bound in red boards. stamped in black with illustrated dust jacket. Tight, clean copy of this 460 page book of art. Hundreds of illustrations (color and black and white).

Record # 351666

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Prince Valiant Volume 2: 1939-1940 (Vol. 2) by: Foster, Hal

Prince Valiant Volume 2: 1939-1940 (Vol. 2)
by: Foster, Hal

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. For 35 years, Hal Foster created epic adventure and romantic fantasy in his legendary Sunday strip, Prince Valiant. Realistic in its visual execution and noble in its subject, depicting a time in which the fabled warriors of history and legends fought together for the greater good, it remains one of the great masterpieces of the medium. In this second volume, Prince Valiant helps his father reclaim his throne in kingdom of Thule; fights alongside King Arthur; is made a knight of the Round Table; battles the Huns; sets off with Sir Gawain and Tristam of Arthurian legend fame; and is thrown off-course from Sicily; adventure follows him everywhere. Fantagraphics is proud to present these strips, which, thanks to the use of original proof sheets and advances in printing technology, are even brighter and crisper than when they were originally published 70 years ago. Foster's work, painterly and sweeping, is finally treated to the grand depiction it deserves.

Record # 350415

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Zap No. 0by:

Zap No. 0
by:

San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Standard comic book size and format. 28 pages. Cover art and entire contents by Robert Crumb. Second printing (35 cents cover price, hairline mark removed, interior pages not numbered, yellow ink on upper-left-corner lettering removed).. [24 pp].

Record # 374634

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Romanesque Art by: Zarnecki, George

Romanesque Art
by: Zarnecki, George

Hardcover. NY, Universe Books, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt titles. 196 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Discusses the history of the movement and shows examples of architecture, sculpture, metalwork, ivories, stained glass, wall paintings, and book illuminations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 397884

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Notebook at Random, Aby: Penn, Irving

Notebook at Random, A
by: Penn, Irving

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 125 pages, 81 tritone and 56 four-color illustrations of a combination of Penn's photographs, drawings, and sketches.

Record # 351711

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Maus & Maus II -2 softcover volumesby: Spiegelman, Art

Maus & Maus II -2 softcover volumes
by: Spiegelman, Art

Softcover. NY, Pantheon, reprints, 1986/1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching softcover books, illustrated in b&w by Spiegelman, 159, 136 pages. Pulitzer Prize winner. Light shelf wear, clean copies.

Record # 369861

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Masterworks of Chinese Paintings from Three Important Private Collections, 26 May 2008, Sale Number 2607by: Christie's

Masterworks of Chinese Paintings from Three Important Private Collections, 26 May 2008, Sale Number 2607
by: Christie's

Softcover. Hong Kong, Christie's , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 168 pages color illustrations. 117 lots, text in English and Chinese. Unusual fold-out cover.

Record # 373731

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The Fantastic Engravings of Wendel Dietterlin by: Dietterlin, Wendel

The Fantastic Engravings of Wendel Dietterlin
by: Dietterlin, Wendel

Softcover. NY, Dover Publicastions, 1st pbk, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Reprint; The 203 Plates & Text of His Architectura published in 1598. Late Renaissance and early Baroque architectural ornament. Clean copy.

Record # 398086

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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

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Caricaturesby: Caruso, Enrico

Caricatures
by: Caruso, Enrico

Softcover. NY, La Follia , 1st, 1939, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover 8.25" x 11"; 175 pages. As well as being one of the best known voices of his time, Mr Caruso was also a talented hand at the art of caricature and this volume reproduces hundreds of them from the worlds of entertainment, music, and politics. 276 caricatures organized in five sections: Auto-caricatures, including family; Evolutions and Transformations; Composers and Conductors; Sketches of Some Operas; and Rulers of the World and Celebrities, with photo of the artist on cover in his role as Pagliacci. Includes facsimile and transcript of last letter sent by Caruso to the publisher, Marziale Sisca two days before he died, with English translation. Covers soiled, chipped. Backstrip gone, upper and lower covers are detached and upper cover is damaged.

Record # 363403

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Illustration Magazine No. 71by: Zimmer (Ed.) W.W. Denslow, Ken Riley, Daniel

Illustration Magazine No. 71
by: Zimmer (Ed.) W.W. Denslow, Ken Riley, Daniel

Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages illustrated in color. Articles feature W.W. Denslow and Ken Riley.

Record # 369419

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Edvard Munch: Mirror Reflections by: Patricia G. Berman

Edvard Munch: Mirror Reflections
by: Patricia G. Berman

Softcover. The Norton Gallery of Art, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 122 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Here the Norton Gallery of Arts Museum shows the exhibition of works by the distinguished Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch. For him, art must do nothing less than reveal the essential human condition. Having emerged as an accomplished Naturialist painter in the 1880s, he rejected Naturalism in his artistic manifesto of 1889-90. He began to paint images reflecting the stormy human psyche, and arranged his paintings into friezes to better communicate their meaning. At his death in 1944, his legacy included several thousand oil prints, reams of drawings, literary fragments, photographs and sculpture. Light sticker residue to front cover otherwise clean and bright.

Record # 398159

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Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings on Ben Shahnby: Chevlowe, Susan

Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings on Ben Shahn
by: Chevlowe, Susan

Softcover. NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog. 194 pages. 32 plates, 32 B&W figures. Pictorial stiff wrapper with very slight wear and soiling to back cover. Frontispiece. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) has long been renowned for his Social Realist paintings of Depression-era America. Equally striking, however, are Shahn's extraordinary later works, which reveal a more introspective style as well as the evolution of a new allegorical and mythical pictorial language. This book combines beautiful reproductions of Shahn's art with essays by leading experts on his life and career to present a groundbreaking survey of his powerful and engaging mature style. The volume is published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition organized by The Jewish Museum, New York, to commemorate the centenary of Shahn's birth. The book contains more than one hundred illustrations, including thirty-two in color.

Record # 850299

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Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 4 by: Crumb, Robert

Complete Crumb Comics Vol. 4
by: Crumb, Robert

Softcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics Books, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 126 pages. Softcover. Extensive color and b&w illustrations by R. Crumb throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 352334

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American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashionby: Mears, Patricia

American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion
by: Mears, Patricia

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages, hardcover illustrated in color and b&w. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, reveals that great design and great style were consistent elements in the work of American's best fashion designers. Patricia Mears introduces many great forgotten figures, as well as many familiar names: work by lesser-known figures such as Jessie Franklin Turner, Ronaldus Shamask, and Charles Kleibecker is discussed alongside pieces by more celebrated creators, such as Halston and Charles James; work by designers of the past is juxtaposed with that of present-day designers such as Rick Owens, Yeolee Teng, and Maria Comejo.

Record # 350007

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R. Crumb Sketchbook. Volume 4: Dec. 1982-Dec, 1989by: Crumb, Robert

R. Crumb Sketchbook. Volume 4: Dec. 1982-Dec, 1989
by: Crumb, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black & white illustrations throughout on every page. 11" high X 8" wide, 448 pages. The perfect tribute to the world's favorite dirty old man. It spans the years 1982 to 1989, a period when the artist was comfortably ensconced in rural California, raising his young daughter Sophie, who appears throughout this volume. But Crumb was still Crumb, declaring in one drawing, above a lovingly rendered tree, "As I get older I get more twisted, convoluted, depraved, cynical, embittered, self-centered, jaded, debauched, ruthless, greedy, conceited, set-in-my-ways, long-winded, absent-minded, prejudiced, closed-minded, misanthropic, nervous..." To prove this self-flagellating analysis he fills the pages with his signature perversions (in country settings), scathing social commentary, cruel self-portraits, experimental cubism... and some lovely sylvan landscape. His mastery of the Rapidograph pen is at its zenith here in his 40s, Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 398270

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Vermeer and the Delft School by: Walter Liedtke, Michiel C. Plomp, et al.

Vermeer and the Delft School
by: Walter Liedtke, Michiel C. Plomp, et al.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. 550 pages. Seventeenth-century Delft has traditionally been viewed as a quaint town whose artists painted scenes of domestic life. This important book revises that image, showing that the small but vibrant Dutch city produced fine examples of all the major arts--including luxury goods and sophisticated paintings for the court at The Hague and for patrician collectors in Delft itself. The book traces the history and culture of Delft from the 1200s through the lifetime of the city's most renowned painter, Johannes Vermeer. The authors discuss at length some ninety major paintings (seventeen by Vermeer), forty drawings, and a choice selection of decorative arts, all of which are reproduced in full color. Among the paintings are state portraits, history pictures, still lifes, views of palaces and church interiors, illusionistic murals, and refined genre pictures by Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch. The rich works on paper encompass exquisite drawings by Delft artists and sketches of the town by visiting artists. Included in the decorative arts are tapestries, bronze statuary, silver, Delftware, and glass. The volume concludes with an essay that takes the reader on a walk through seventeenth-century Delft. It is accompanied by maps of the city's neighborhoods that indicate major monuments and the homes of patrons, art dealers, and painters.

Record # 371616

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