Art

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, inc., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Just a little yellowing to dust jacket flaps, otherwise very clean inside and out. In very good condition.

1917, Book: Very Good, WW1 European soldier giving embarassed American soldier a hug. Two-color art by J. C. Leyendecker. 10 X 13", small label. 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. NY, Watson Guptill, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Publisher's full blue cloth, silver lettering on spine and front cover, contains 80 color plates and 28 black & white illustrations. Looks at the working methods of American artist Charles Pfahl (b. 1946), and includes "step-by-step photographic demonstrations of paintings in progress, with detailed technical captions showing how each step is painted."

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright yellow dust jacket with fading to spine. 170 pages, 16 color, 99 b&w illustrations. One of the standard exhibitions on this artist. Great plates, lengthy bibliography and list of exhibitions, index. Main essay written by Thomas B. Hess. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. The story of Pierre Matisse, his father, Henri Matisse, his gallery in NY and the European artists he introduced to America. 415 pages. Color, black & white illust. Dj price clipped.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 100 + black & white illustrations, 219 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy. 40 of Baskin's interpretive essays on artists from the 14th to 20th centuries, with Baskin's "portraits-in-homage" of each artist: Rembrandt, Goya, Soutine, etc.

Softcover. New York , Ballantine Books, 1st thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 320 pages, b&w art by R. Crumb, Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett and others. Clean, bright paperback. The classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie "American "Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival "American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them--he is himself. "Mr. Pekar has . . . proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life."

Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 48 pages illustrated in color. FRENCH LANGUAGE, graphic novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dustjacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.

Softcover. London, Titan Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages illustrated by Jordan. Widely considered as one of the most important sci-fi comic strips ever published, "Jeff Hawke" is a benchmark in intelligent storytelling. Jeff Hawke's not your average space-hero; rather his focus is on reasoning, diplomacy and moral virtues instead of brute force, and he is frequently forced to be the ambassador - rather than the savior - of mankind. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press , 1st, 2010, Softcover, 224 pages. color illustrations throughout. It's a situation we are all acquainted with: planning to visit friends in an unfamiliar part of the city, you draw yourself arudimentary map with detailed directions. In March 2008, graphic designer Kris Harzinski founded the Hand Drawn Map Association in order to collect just such drawings of the everyday. Fascinated by these accidental records of a moment in time, he soon amassed a wide variety of maps, ranging from simple directions to fictional maps, to maps of unusual places, including examples drawn by well-known historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Shackleton, and Alexander Calder. From Here to There celebrates these ephemeral documents usually forgotten or tossed aside after having served their purpose giving them their due as artifacts representing stories from people's lives around the world. There is the young woman suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis who created maps of the Humira injections on her stomach and thighs to help her remember the sites, and give them time to heal. Or the young boy who imagined a whole country for ants and put it to paper. Lucas from Australia drew an obsessively detailed map of his local traffic island, and a teenage girl contributed a map of her high school locker. Two American tourists got lost in the Bulgarian mountains following the hand drawn map of a local, and Britanny from Denmark drew directions to an animal rights protest in Copenhagen. The maps featured in From Here to There are as varied and touching as the stories they tell.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 256 pages, Index. Maroon cloth, stamped in gilt. Copiously illustrated with watercolors by Karl Bodmer. Map on endpapers. The Firsthand Account of Prince Maximilian's Expedition Up the Missouri River, 1833-34. Wonderful color plates by Swiss-born Bodmer accompany extracts from Maximilian's text, enhanced by historical background from Thomas and Ronnefeldt. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover, 287 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. A very clean, tight copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Centre, New York. Illustrated card covers with long inside flaps, minimal wear. An exhaustive compilation of the best graphic work of Steinberg covering his life in advertising, graphic design and fine arts.

Softcover. New York, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. The definitive Comics Journal interviews with the cartoonists behind Zap Comix, featuring: Supreme 1960s counterculture/underground artist Robert Crumb on how acid unleashed a flood of Zap characters from his unconscious; Marxist brawler Spain Rodriguez on how he made the transition from the Road Vultures biker gang to the exclusive Zap cartoonists' club; Yale alumnus Victor Moscoso and Christian surfer Rick Griffin on how their poster-art psychedelia formed the backdrop of the 1960s San Francisco music scene; Savage Id-choreographer S. Clay Wilson on how his dreams insist on being drawn; Painter and Juxtapoz-founder Robert Williams on how Zap #4 led to 150 news-dealer arrests; Fabulous, Furry, Freaky Gilbert Shelton on the importance of research; Church of the Subgenius founder Paul Mavrides on getting a contact high during the notorious Zap jam sessions; and much more. In these career-spanning interviews, the Zap contributors open up about how they came to create a seminal, living work of art.

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.

Hardcover. Boston, The Taylor Press, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 285 pages. Brown cloth covers, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's bookplate to blank endpaper, light wear to covers, edges and spine; overall a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST on half title page. Light shelf-wear and sun-fade to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Essay by Paul J. Karlstrom. With 365 illustrations including 260 plates in full color.

Hardcover. New York , Watson Guptill, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages illustrated throughout with 175 b&w illustrations and 70 plates in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. A collection of over 250 b&w cartoons from 'The New Yorker' dealing with the humorous side of artists & sculptors. Bright red dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 288 pages, color & b/w plates, sources, index.

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 71 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Essay by Kevin J. Avery. "The wide variety of selections from Frederic Edwin Church's collection of his own paintings shows the master in all phases of his career, in sketches and finished paintings, depicting the breadth of his subjects and the high technical skills that established him as an eminent and influential artist in his own time. As works he held on to or reacquired and kept in his house during his lifetime, they embody the heart of his artistic vision and convey a deeply personal slant. As pictures he hung and lived with at Olana, they tell the larger story of that extraordinary place and are as illuminating when seen in context as on their own."

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Last Gasp, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover The Summer, 1982 issue of the famed Weirdo comics series, created by Robert Crumb, his wife Aline and others, featuring a beautiful, color collage front cover with a border of "girlie" photos and a full color rear drawing by Aline Kominsky Crumb; contributors include Terry Boyce, Norman Dog, a fabulous, four page piece by Robert, entitled Trash:What Do We Throw Away, a funny 4-page, photo piece called Untamed Passion For Pasta, Jeff John, Fried Nuts by Robert, and a terrific Drew Friedman piece called Joe Franklin Is A Dream Walkin' and Old Bud Abbott, also by Drew; a wonderful issue, this is the true first printing, in stapled wrappers.

Hardcover. Santa Cruz, CA, Flesk Publications, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Harvey Dunn was one of twentieth century America's most powerful illustrators, painters and teachers. This comprehensive volume covers a major portion of his illustrations and paintings for the first time. Content includes illustration art, pioneer and western works, and his powerful World War I pieces inspired by his battlefield sketches. Also included are the rarely seen nudes, portraits, and murals. Paintings from museums and private collections showcase the full range of this talented American artist. For this book, many original paintings were tracked down and re-photographed in order to reintroduce the work of this important artist. Until now, most of Dunn's paintings and illustrations have been unavailable to the public in their original form. Locations of pictures in public collections are listed, as are the original publication dates and places. Additionally, a section is devoted to the artist's working and teaching methods. Also included is a reprinting of Dunn's "An Evening in the Classroom," compiled from notes made during critiques, passing on his inspirational teaching philosophy. A comprehensive list of Dunn's students with sample art is included as well.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, In Painting as an Art, which began as the 1984 Andrew Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., philosopher Richard Wollheim transcended the boundaries and habits of both philosophy and art history to produce a large, encompassing vision of viewing art. Wollheim had three great passions--philosophy, psychology, art--and his work attempted to unify them into a theory of the experience of art. He believed that unlocking the meaning of a painting involved retrieving, almost reenacting, the creative activity that produced it.In order to fully appreciate a work of art, Wollheim argued, critics must bring to the understanding of a work of art a much richer conception of human psychology than they have in the past: "Many [critics] . . . make do with a psychology that, if they tried to live their lives by it, would leave them at the end of an ordinary day without lovers, friends, or any insight into how this came about." Many reviewers have remarked on the insightfulness of the book's final chapter, in which Wollheim contended that certain paintings by Titian, Bellini, de Kooning, and others represent the painters' attempts to project fantasies about the human body onto the canvas. Light fading to dj spine. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Washington , Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 202 pages, illustrated throughout with 148 plates in b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to covers, small tear to upper edge of spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 1992, 102 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cream cover boards, decoration in brown on front cover, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket price-clipped, excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. Go climb a tree, cats! it's the year of the dog--thanks to the 101 inimitable cartoons in this book, a whole glorious, uproarious world of dogs from more than sixty-five years of The New Yorker.

Hardcover. Valby, Borgens Forlag, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Text in Danish and English. Illustrated in full color. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, dark red cloth/dark red DJ. 144 pp. 108 bw plates. All of Falconet's major works and attributions are illustrated in gravure, with many details. Includes a translation from the French of Falconet's Reflections sur la sculpture by Eda Mezer Levitine.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Seven volumes bound in illustrated glazed boards. Each volume with 3 complete Tintin stories illustrated in full color by Herge. One volume slightly cocked, otherwise clean, very good. No slipcase.

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, cream wraps with color illustration; blue spine with white lettering. Unpaginated, approx 50 pages. 15 color plates and additional images, 1 fold-out. Auction catalogue for sale 21 June 2004. Lots 21-35, sale L04007.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 211 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy. For adults only.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 236 pages, b&w art throughout. Jack Kamen's stories for The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear favored unnerving creepiness over gruesome shock. With his penchant for deft delineations of scheming women, jealous husbands, murderous love triangles, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen's pen laid down a precise, sure line that brought each story's shock ending into sharp relief. This volume features 27 Kamen favorites, drawn at the peak of powers, including:"Kamen's Kalamity," our title story, featuring the "true" origin story of the artist himself! Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages, b&w illustrations. Title on spine: "The American Art Museum". Blue cloth, gilt title, no dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine, slight foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 146 pages of text followed by large section of black & white photographic illustrations. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket worn, with chipping along edges, fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

softcover. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Softcover with light fading to spine. Edgewear to corners, wrappers. Color pictures throughout. SPANISH TEXT.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 2005, Hardcover, 360 pages. A compelling insight into Gilbert & George's everyday enigma. The artists' unfailing politeness, consideration for others and open nature exert an irresistible charm. But it's Jonquet's walks with G & G around their home patch of Spitalfields that shed new light on the work, lavishly illustrated with accompanying personal photos.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 364 pages, 9 color plates plus 80 b&w illustrations. Small remainder stamp to top edge otherwise very good.

Softcover. Bethel CT, Apple Comics, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled comic book with color wraps, 28 pages illustrated in b&w by Lomax. Creator Don Lomax, a Vietnam War veteran, has entrenched his Vietnam Journal as one of the most realistic graphic representations of the Vietnam War. Recommended by The Military Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

NY, Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages. For more than 30 years, Brian Dowling's studio was the birthplace of some of the most remarkable fashion photography ever created. In his Islington darkroom, using specialist analog equipment, Dowling shepherded amazing images from negative to paper captured by the likes of Anton Corbijn and Nick Knight. Dowling's BDI studio was also responsible for a number of technical innovations in color photography, paving the way for many of today's digital effects. This tribute to Dowling includes extensive interviews, commentary, testimonials from his clients, and numerous examples of iconic haute couture photographs that passed through his hands. In addition, a series of photographs specially commissioned for this volume demonstrate Dowling's groundbreaking techniques: cross-processing, masking, filtering, layering light, and color fades. Dowling's hands-on achievements and alchemic talents are showcased in this beautiful ode to fashion photography.

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, Abrams/Menil Foundation, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, 470 illustrations, 340 in color. Crisp, clean copy in a bright dust jacket.

Minneapolis MN, Washburn Crosby Co., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "Ask for it by name", food art not credited. 11X 14", 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. Austin, University of Texas Press, First, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 68 pages, profusely illustrated in b/w and color. Slight edgewear otherwise tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages. Gold, red, green and black (old Lucky Strike colors) boards, no dust jacket. A history of cigarette smoking. Great photos of smoking in films, antique ads and packages, etc. Laid in are publicity photos of author and designer. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Santa Barbara CA, UCSB Art Museum, 2nd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 105 pages illustrated with b&w photos and architectural drawings. Clean, crisp copy of this exhibition catalog.

Hardcover. New York, Prestel, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 10 x 13", 207 pages. Color and b&w images. Widely considered one of the major works of Expressionist printmaking, this series of spectacular woodcuts by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner is presented for the first time in a comprehensive study, specifically designed to allow readers a full understanding of the artist's achievement. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 640 pages, pofusely illustrated. In the late nineteenth century, Chicago -- the birthplace of modern architecture in the United States -- was a magnet for aspiring architects. The city was forced to rebuild after the destruction wrought by the Great Fire of 1871 and also to expand to accommodate a surge in the population. The seemingly endless demand for taller and more sophisticated buildings offered young draftsmen an unprecedented opportunity to influence the design of the American skyscraper. The Chicago Architecture Club: Prelude to the Modern documents the history of these draftsmen, the organization they founded, and its role in shaping architectural education and modern architectural practice.

Hardcover. Miami FL, Mad Cave Studios, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 206 pages in color. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, Posters Auctions International, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 551 posters illustrated in color. Catalog for May 3 2009, sale no. xlviii. no dj issued.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with still in publishers shrink wrap. Visions of an American Dreamland highlights more than 200 images from Coney Island's history, including paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, posters, film stills, architectural artifacts, and carousel animals.