Hardcover. Chicago, Art Media Resources, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to cover boards, otherwise clean bright copy. Color pictures throughout. 12x12x1 dimensions. Numbering over 250 works spanning nearly 1500 years, the Dewey collection of ancient Chinese tomb sculpture is exceptional for its breadth and outstanding quality. Representing nearly all figural types, stylistic traditions and themes, it provides a comprehensive visual record with fascinating insights into the customs and fashions, inventions and superstitions of ancient China's ruling elite during the golden age of the Great Silk Road.
Softcover. Williamstown MA, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press., 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. Art history, aesthetics, and visual studies today find themselves in contested new philosophical and institutional circumstances. This fascinating and challenging volume explores the connections and differences among these three methods of investigating visual representation. What are the dominant aesthetic assumptions underlying art historical inquiry? How have these assumptions been challenged by visual studies? Are questions of quality, form, content, meaning, and spectatorship culturally specific? Can we still define the parameters of what should properly constitute the objects of the history of art? Fifteen distinguished scholars answer these and other questions, critically examining the relationships among these three scholarly fields from their founding moments through their contemporary practices. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket, 278 pages. An important pioneer of the artform that became known as photomontage. Hoch (November 1, 1889 to May 31, 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Hoch was the lone woman among the Berlin Dada group, however she was dismayed to the Dadaists lip service to women's emancipation and her work echos her feelings that there were difference between women in media and reality. Marriage did not escape her criticism. She depicted brides as mannequins and children, reflecting the idea that women are not seen as complete people and have little control over their lives. A long-time German resident, her work fell out of favor after WWII although she continued to produce her photomontages and exhibit them internationally until her death in 1978.
Hardcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.
Hardcover. New York, Congreve Publishing Co., 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 144 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with works by Jones in full color. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Hermes Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 190 pages. When cartoonist Elzie Segar created Popeye, as a minor character ten years into the run of the Thimble Theatre strip in 1929, little did he know that the world's most famous sailor would still be around over ninety years later and still being offered as a Sunday feature.To celebrate Popeye, the character, the comic strip and his universe, a feature cartoonist Charles M. Schulz described as "perfect... consistent in drawing and humor," Hermes Press is publishing the definitive art monograph on the subject.This book features a comprehensive essay written by pop culture historian R.C. Harvey accompanied by over 350 illustrations of original strip and comic book art, animation art, illustrations, advertising art, products, the Robert Altman film, and everything Popeye. Every aspect of Popeye is explored, from Olive Oyl and Eugene the Jeep to Wimpy and Bluto. Clean, bright 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.
Hardcover. Liverpool UK , Tate Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations and photographs throughout. Includes extensive documentation and notes. Some edge wear to fore edge, Slight fray to raised bands, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, National Academy of Design, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. 62 B&w illustrations and 77 plates in full color. Black leatherette. silver lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Like new.
Hardcover. Munich/NY, Prestel, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 296 pages, color illustrations and portraits throughout. Issued in conjunction with a 2014-2015 exhibition of portraiture rendered by Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918). "Despite a career that lasted less than a decade, Schiele is considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. A protege of Gustav Klimt, Schiele is celebrated for his singular style of draftsmanship, unusual use of color, and physically raw, often sexually provocative depictions of his sitters. Schiele's expressive style and controversial subject matter played an important role in the advancement of modernism in Europe. ... Both the catalogue and the exhibition are divided into six groupings of the artist's work: Family and Academy; Fellow Artists; Sitters and Patrons; Eros; Lovers; and Self-Portraits and Allegorical Self-Portraits. In addition, there is a section highlighting a traumatic and pivotal period in Schiele's life: his arrest and imprisonment during the spring of 1912. The color plates document the evolution of the artist's style, both pre- and post-imprisonment. Schiele's untimely death at the age of 28 adds a mythic quality to his abbreviated career." (dj) With five thematic and illustrated essays, and many illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright yellow price-clipped dust jacket. 18 pages of text, frontis portrait, plus 157 plates. All of the best drawings of Beardsley's early period, including the illustrations for "Salome". Reprinted from the second London edition of 1911. Previous owner's initials on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. San Diego, CA, IDW Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w illustrations by Milton Caniff throughout. Illustrated pastedowns and end papers. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In the third volume of The Complete Steve Canyon -- reprinting every strip from 1951 and 1952 -- new and old characters are paired off. Breck Nazaire and Dr. Deen Wilderness return. Steve meets the lovely Duchess of Denver and the sadistic Fungo; gets assigned to Eel Island, where he encounters crusty Colonel Index and his not-so-blushing bride; is sent to protect a government secret at Maumee University, only to reconnect with Summer Olson and meet her mysterious friend, Kate Subjekt; and eventually gets caught in the deep woods with Miss Mizzou and Roy Himmerskorn before coming face-to-face yet again with not only Summer, but the Copperhead herself -- Copper Calhoon!
Hardcover. London, Wordsworth, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with full color paintings by P.J. Redoute. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 2nd pr., 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black, 161 pages, many b&w drawings. This Book Gives More Than 150 Delightful And Practical Uses Carefully Selected From Magicians' And Seaman's Manuals, Craft Books, Accounts Of Native Games, And Other Widely Scattered Sources. Ranging From Tricks And Games To Serious Knotwork And Netting, They Will Keep You Entertained While Opening Up A Host Of New Crafts And Recreational Areas. Shelf worn copy, clean internally.
Hardcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 224 pages. The Dakota is arguably the best-known residential address in the world, home to dozens of New York City's most famous artists, performers, and successful executives. The rare sale of an apartment there, usually at jaw-dropping prices, is newsworthy, as is the financial and architectural health of the building itself, a landmark in every sense of the word.The first true luxury apartment house built in New York City, more than 130 years ago, the Dakota is still the gold standard against which all other apartment buildings are weighed. Historian Andrew Alpern tells the fascinating story of how the Dakota came to be, how Singer sewing magnate Edward Clark dared to build an apartment building luxurious enough to coax the city's wealthy from their mansions downtown for ultra-modern living on what was then the swamplands of the Upper West Side. Redrawn plans of the entire building, published here for the first time, show how Clark created apartments glamorous enough that they made living under a shared roof as acceptable in Manhattan as it already was in Europe's grand capitals, forever revolutionizing apartment life in New York City.
Softcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. Softcover. Extensive color illustrations by Adrian Tomine throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 181 pages, 171 illustrations, 50 plates in color. The definitive monograph on Bishop. Like new in a bright, crisp dust jacket in a mylar protector.
Softcover. Hanover NH, Hood Museum of Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, French flaps, 75 pages with 36 figures and 12 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 2005 exhibition / installation by American artist Fred Wilson (b. 1954). With essays by Barbara Thompson, Mary K. Coffey, and Jessica Hagedorn, and many fine views of the artist's creativity. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli/Gagosian Gallery , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 156 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Dan Miller Design. With a biography and exhibition history. This is the elegantly produced, copiously illustrated hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with Los Angeles-based sculptor Robert Therrien's elaborate 2008 Gagosian Gallery New York installation.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 197 pages. Forged explores art forgery from ancient times to the present. In chapters combining lively biography with insightful art criticism, Jonathon Keats profiles individual art forgers and connects their stories to broader themes about the role of forgeries in society. From the Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto who faked a Raphael masterpiece at the request of his Medici patrons, to the Vermeer counterfeiter Han van Meegeren who duped the avaricious Hermann G?ring, to the frustrated British artist Eric Hebborn, who began forging to expose the ignorance of experts, art forgers have challenged "legitimate" art in their own time, breaching accepted practices and upsetting the status quo. They have also provocatively confronted many of the present-day cultural anxieties that are major themes in the arts. Keats uncovers what forgeries --and our reactions to them-- reveal about changing conceptions of creativity, identity, authorship, integrity, authenticity, success, and how we assign value to works of art. The book concludes by looking at how artists today have appropriated many aspects of forgery through such practices as street-art stenciling and share-and-share-alike licensing, and how these open-source "copyleft" strategies have the potential to make legitimate art meaningful again. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 416 pages in color. In June of 1938, Action Comics debuted with a new kind of comic book character on its cover: a costumed man with two identities, who possessed extraordinary strength and powers-a man able to protect the public when ordinary measures would not do. He was not the first super hero, but the Man of Steel would become the prototype for all super heroes thereafter.Superman's story, and those of Batman, Wonder Woman, and hundreds of other DC Comics characters, are all told in The Golden Age of DC Comics. The single most comprehensive book on the subject, this volume traces the company's first decades, from its pulp origins up to the comic book burnings of the McCarthy '50s in more than 400 pages bursting with comics, art, comics, photographs, and more comics. Also included is an exclusive interview with legendary artist Joe Kubert. Expanded from the Eisner Award-winning XL book, 75 Years of DC Comics, TASCHEN's series on DC Comics explores the origins of comics' most enduring legends and the behind-the-scenes, era by era. In a reader-friendly size, the books feature updated essays by author Paul Levitz and thousands of covers and interiors, original illustrations, photographs, film stills, and collectibles to bring the story lines, the characters, and their creators to vibrant life.Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Valentina was the twentieth century's first American fashion designer celebrity, working and living on equal social footing with the clientele she dressed (Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Katharine Hepburn, Millicent Rogers, and Audrey Hepburn, among others). One of the few designers who proved that America could live without the Parisian haute couture, her career is a much needed missing link in the history of American fashion. Beyond merely turning out show-stopping evening gowns, Valentina's exotic beauty, dramatic personality, and incomparable style earned her a legendary reputation. Kohle Yohannan explores the carefully constructed persona and lore of this designer who helped define American Couture. Published in association with the Museum of the City of New York's exhibition Valentina: New York Couture and the Cult of Celebrity, this book includes photographs, never-before-seen personal ephemera, sketches, and original platinum prints from master photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst, and George Hoyningen-Huene.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 115 pages. 30 color reproductions throughout. Beautifully illustrating the skills of this remarkable man, accompanying each of his paintings with notes describing techniques employed, many with revealing comments by the artist himself. Dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, color slightly faded at edges. Pictorial dust jacket with light edge wear and faint smudges to front cover. Tight binding.
Hardcover. New York, John Day, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, slate blue boards with black cloth spine with gilt lettering, 9 page introduction by Calkins, followed by 50 b&w plates. The best of ad brochures and catalogs from the 1920s. Front hinge cracked, small stamped name to endpapers, otherwise clean.
Softcover. San Francosco, San Francisco Comic Book Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Softcover, October 1971 First edition, first printing 50 cents original price. Mr. Natural (Fred Natural) is a comic book character created and drawn by 1960s counterculture and underground comix artist Robert Crumb. Mr. Natural #2 : "A Gurl in Hotpants" (with Flakey Foont), "Sittin' Around the Kitchen Table" (with Flakey Foont), "The Girlfriend" (with Flakey Foont), "Have you seen 'um lately?", "I am the greatest! Make way! Make Way!" (with the Snoid), "On the Bum Again, part two". Ccorner creases, mild wear.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 304 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A thought-provoking examination of the challenging and sometimes sinister roles that fashion has played in the history of cinema.
Hardcover. Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. b&w illustrations throughout. Brings together for the first time all of Stock's extant papers-his will, one lengthy letter to his brother, various newspaper notices concerning him, and his remarkable journal written sometime after 1846. In addition, it includes reproductions of all known surviving Stock paintings. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. yellow pictorial dust jacket, minor wear to spine. Like new. A very nice, clean and tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Babcock Galleries, 1s, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in color. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name; Includes images of and images by African-Americans, including William Sidney Mount, Thomas Worth, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Lyell E. Carr, Sol Eytinge, Eastman Johnson, Sheldon Orrin Parsons, and others. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 168 pages. In The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay, Thierry Smolderen presents a cultural landscape whose narrative differs in many ways from those presented by other historians of the comic strip. Rather than beginning his inquiry with the popularly accepted "sequential art" definition of the comic strip, Smolderen instead wishes to engage with the historical dimensions that inform that definition. His goal is to understand the processes that led to the twentieth-century comic strip, the highly recognizable species of picture stories that he sees crystallizing around 1900 in the United States. Featuring close readings of the picture stories, caricatures, and humoristic illustrations of William Hogarth, Rodolphe Topffer, Gustave Dore, and their many contemporaries, Smolderen establishes how these artists were immersed in a very old visual culture in which images--satirical images in particular--were deciphered in a way that was often described as hieroglyphical. Across eight chapters, he acutely points out how the effect of the printing press and the mass advent of audiovisual technologies (photography, audio recording, and cinema) at the end of the nineteenth century led to a new twentieth-century visual culture. In tracing this evolution, Smolderen distinguishes himself from other comics historians by following a methodology that explains the present state of the form of comics on the basis of its history, rather than presenting the history of the form on the basis of its present state. This study remaps the history of this influential art form.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 216 pages+63 b&w prints of the Hudson River artists. Green cloth, gilt titles to front and spine. Pictorial dust jacket only good and price clipped. Still a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, HarperResource, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez reveal how the storyline of one of the most beloved TV shows unfolded, and reflect upon more than three decades of work with Charles M. Schulz. Includes full-color images from the animated film; never-before-seen photographs, sketches and production materials, interviews with musicians who were inspired by Vince Guaraldi's music, the full script of the show, and more. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Gambit, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Fine in heavy cloth covered boards with a blue and gilt title block on the spine and a gilt facsimile of N.C. Wyeth's signature on the front board. In a very good+ unclipped dust jacket although lightly soiled at the folds. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2", 858 pages, stated 1st edition. A fascinating insight into Wyeth's life, interspersed with photos and color reproductions.
Softcover. New Haven, NJ, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a nice, clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 255 color plates. Built for Federico II Gonzaga Duke of Mantua between 1525 and 1536, Palazzo Te is the masterpiece of Renaissance artist, designer, and architect Giulio Romano, the most accomplished and favored of Raphael's pupils.The palace's interiors are replete with frescoes depicting imaginative scenes and trompe l'oeil fantasies of gods and heroes, fictive marble statues, and portraits of the Duke's favorite thoroughbreds. From the erotic scenes of the Sala di Psiche to the famous Sala di Giganti, based on the mythological defeat of the Titans by the gods of Olympus, the High Renaissance ideal of classical harmony and balance is overtaken by breathtaking illusionist techniques and images of giants, falling masonry, and the thunderbolts from the gods.
Softcover. US, Kitchen Sink Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white comics throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A Knopf , 1st, 1971, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial gray cloth with gilt title to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Light wear and sun to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 2nd Ed., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. Since its first publication in 1987, this book has become a standard reference work for typographers, designers and students alike. This new edition includes an examination of the latest technological developments in design and composition of type, and introduces the work of some of the more recent designers to have made their mark in the 20th century. Profiles of a new generation of typographers working in the latter half of the 20th century, such as Matthew Carter, Sumner Stone and others, bring the book up to date. Working with entirely different tools than their predecessors, they reflect the new typography in varying degrees. Filmsetting and digital typesetting have brought new opportunities - as well as new disciplines. Clean copy.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages illustrated in color. The entire issue devoted to two illustrators: Jessie Wilcox Smith and John Schoenherr.
Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 128 pages, comprised of sixteen "graphic biographies" of luminaries of comics and illustration. Beautifully illustrated by artists like Mark Alan Stamaty, Peter Kuper, Drew Friedman, Arnold Roth and others.
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/NY, Hamlyn, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, black cloth with silver lettering, 96 pages, Illustrated profusely with 59 black-and-white and 40 color illustrations. 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. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color comics in center. Celebrating the best in graphic storytelling and literary comics, a diverse collection, guest edited by the award-winning author of The Quitter and American Splendor, features excerpts from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and the Web, from Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Kim Deitch, Jaime Hernandez, Alison Bechdel, Joe Sacco, and others.
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.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Shambhala, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red & green patterned wraps. 142 pages with primarily b&w plates, select color & color frontispiece. Clean copy.