Art

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. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Light soil to top pages, abrasion on title page. Black and white pictures throughout, some color.

Softcover. Copenhagen, Court Gallery, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 1056 pages, b&w illustrations. This work presents a biography of the artist Marc Chagall in dialogue with events and ideologies of his time. It encompasses different aspects of his life (1889-1985) including his roots in folk culture, his personal relationships and his interests.

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Two years of the Sunday strips in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. The eleventh volume of Fantagraphics award-winning Prince Valiant series concludes our heroes' adventures in Cornwall, and marks the first appearance of Arvak the Red Stallion. At the Council of Kings, Prince Valiant stands alone in the decision to avoid a ruinous war. Val returns to Aleta, and the two are summoned to Camelot, where Queen Guinevere becomes jealous of Aleta's popularity. Meanwhile, Val leads a bloody campaign to secure the Eastern marches and learns the tragedies of war. As the book ends, Prince Valiant begins searching for Gawain. There may just be another adventure afoot. Bonus features include a gallery of Foster's rare and never-before-reprinted advertising art from the 1920s. Hal Foster's Prince Valiant is the most illustrious heroic saga ever written and drawn for the Sunday newspapers. In full, glorious, restored color, this is the finest reproduction of this enthralling, romantic adventure serial ever published. Full color illustrations throughout

Hardcover. New York, Weybright and Talley, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 370 black & white plates and a color frontispiece. Introduction by Henry Moore. Photographs by Ilario Bessi in collaboration with Henry Moore. Brown canvas, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover blocked in gilt with publishers' device, Dust jacket with light surface wear to back cover. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Hamilton NJ, Grounds for Sculpture, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages, illustrated in color. Essay by Karen Wilkin. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 271 pages. Journey into the mind and creative process of one of the most celebrated anime directors working today with The Man Who Leapt Through Film: The Art of Mamoru Hosoda. Written by renowned animation critic and historian Charles Solomon (The Art of WolfWalkers) and featuring exclusive interviews alongside hundreds of never-before-seen sketches, storyboards, background paintings, character designs, and concept art, this is the ultimate companion piece to Hosoda's work. Writer/director/animator Mamoru Hosoda's work includes Belle (2021), the Academy Award-nominated Mirai (2018); The Boy and the Beast (2015); Wolf Children (2012); Summer Wars (2009); and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006). He is the cofounder of Studio Chizu, one of Japan's premier animation studios. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st revised, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pages. Maria, the potter of San Ildefonso (1887-1981), is not only the most famous of Pueblo Indian potters but ranks among the best of international potters. Her work Is collected and exhibited around the world, and more than any other artist, Maria Martinez brought "signatures" to Indian art. She and other members of her family revived a dying art form and kindled a renaissance in pottery for all the Pueblos. She raised this regional art to one of international acclaim. This lavishly illustrated book draws from Spivey's 1979 classic work. Featuring entirely new photography and 120 added pots as well as a significantly expanded text, this volume considers the entirety of this artist's immense oeuvre and important works and developments in her collaboration with Julian, and after his death, with her daughter-in-law Santana, son Popovi Da, and grandson Tony Da, bringing the legacy of Maria into the bright future of Pueblo ceramics.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 2nd pr., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages .Continues the multi-volume series comprising the complete works of the legendary cartoonist, one of America's most original, trenchant, and uncompromising satirists. This volume features work from 1976 and 1977. Some color, mostly b&w. Clean, bright copy

Softcover. NY, Modern Art Foundry, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Stapled softcover exhibition catalog, 16 pages illustrated in color. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Faber & Faber, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers otherwise Clean, unmarked copy in very good condition.

Softcover. US, Carlton Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 9" x 6", 400 pages, profusely illustrated in color - 300 classics from rare vintage to latest designs. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Images of New Orleans and the city's jazz culture, performers, bands, and clubs between 1957 and 1982. Over 200 black and white photographs taken by Friedlander. Tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Photographs of glaciers and Arctic regions have existed almost as long as photography itself, as a function of documentary and mapmaking endeavors. As early as the 1860s, the medium was used to assess topology, capturing Arctic landscape at a distance and at close quarters, or producing stereoscopic images or panoramas. Glaciologists needed photographs to be taken year after year in order to assess the growth or contraction of the ice, and today repeat photography has become a valuable tool for documenting and demonstrating the real effects of global warming. In Infinite Ice, historical images are reproduced alongside the responses of contemporary artists who have addressed photography and landscape--for example, long, nighttime exposures by Darren Almond, aerial photographs by Olafur Eliasson or panoramic views by Walter Niedermayr. Featuring approximately 100 images, this volume presents a broad variety of glacial photography from 1860 to the present.

Hardcover. London, Royal Academy Publications;, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 92 pages. In recent years renowned artist David Hockney has returned to England to paint the landscape of his childhood in East Yorkshire. Although his passionate interest in new technologies has led him to develop a virtuosic drawing technique on the iPad, he has also traveled outdoors with a traditional sketchbook, an invaluable tool as he works quickly to capture the changing light and fleeting effects of the weather. Executed in watercolor and ink, these panoramic scenes have the spatial complexity of finished paintings--the broad sweep of sky or road, the patchwork tapestry of land--yet convey the immediacy of Hockney's impressions. For those who know the East Yorkshire Wolds, the location of the sketches is unmistakable; for those who don't, its features will come to life in these pages.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. How does the artist's self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this intriguing study, art historian Philip Sohm considers some of the greatest artists of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and their experiences of aging. Sohm investigates how art critics, collectors, biographers, and fellow artists dealt with old painters, what mental landscapes preconditioned responses to art by the elderly, and how biology and psychology were co-opted to explain the imprint that artists left on their art. He also looks carefully at the impact of prejudices, stereotypes, and other imaginary truths about old age. For some artists, the problems of old age were related to physical decline-Poussin's hands became shaky, Titian's eyesight dimmed. For others, psychological symptoms emerged. The book's cast of characters includes Michelangelo, the hypochondriac young fogy; Titian, the shrewd marketer of old age; the multiphobic Pontormo; and others. With sensitivity and insight, Sohm uncovers what it meant to be an old artist and how successive generations have looked at the art of an old master.

Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout.

Softcover. Paris, Books & Co., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 169 pages. A volume on French Art Nouveau design, architecture and interior decoration. Features designs by Emile Galle, Alphonse Mucha, Paul Signac and others. Color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Berlin, Brinkmann & Bose, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, original publisher's tan cloth, over blue papered boards. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. German language edition but with notes in English by Fagiolo at rear. Ink inscription on half-title page. Light wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. Softcover. Extensive illustrations and photographs throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Goodman, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. For 40 years Rob Roth has collected rare examples of rock tour posters, advertising posters, rock memorabilia, and original artwork. His vast spectacular collection has never been displayed publicly; only visitors to his spacious New York loft--visitors like Elton John and Alice Cooper--have glimpsed his amazing treasures. This lavishly produced volume presents some of the most vivid and exciting images from the rock world featuring classic artists like the Rolling Stones, Queen, Pink Floyd, the Who, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, Alice Cooper, and David Bowie.

Hardcover. New York, R. H. Russell, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A collection of black & white cartoons by Gibson. Oblong cardboard covers with beveled edges, cloth spine. Some spotting to front cover foredge. Front hinge tender. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. London , Titan Comics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 156 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Phil Davis throughout. Illustrated pastedowns and end papers. Clean, tight copy. The Sunday strips from the first two years.

Softcover. NY, Brooklyn Museum : exclusively distributed by H. N. Abrams, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Previous owner's blind stamp on front end paper. Light edgewear, rubbing and creasing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Swiss artist Daniele Buetti is notorious for his defaced photographs of supermodels, which feature scars, tattoos and disenchanted fragments of text. Buetti has been questioning the socially determined constructs of beauty and the commodification of sexuality and glamour since the 1980s. His altered photographs--large-scale C-prints on aluminum or light-boxes--have messages like "How much is my body worth?" and "What shall I hope for?" scrawled across them in electric colors. Buetti also often energetically scratches out or draws over portions of the image in a manner that recalls the destructive doodling of a truculent adolescent. Maybe You Can Be One of Us focuses on Buetti's recent drawings, videos, sculptures and installations. In these newer pieces, the fashion models give way to enigmatic illustrative symbols, such as two disembodied hands conjuring a puff of smoke. This publication accompanies an exhibition of new work at the Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art in New York.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages in color. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The Spirit returns for the third volume in this archival series! In it, Will Eisner's classic crimefighter of the 1940s continues to face off against enemy agents on the homefront. This volume includes an appearance by the sultry Silk Satin, as well as the Spirit's developing relationship with Police Commissioner Dolan and his beautiful daughter Ellen.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lacks dust jacket. Light soil to front board, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. 1st US, Bulfinch Press, New York, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in full color. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. The second collection of Hazel cartoons by Ted Key from The Saturday Evening Post. Dust jacket with light edgewear, clean.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Prestel, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 408 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Large oversized book. Devi, the Great Goddess of India is beautiful, beneficent, terrifying, all-powerful, and glorious. Ubiquitous in India's social and spiritual fabric, she has, over the millennia, been painted, sculpted, carved, and wrought from silver and bronze in a myriad of shapes and forms. Devi: The Great Goddess brings together one hundred and twenty of these diverse examples of Devi and a group of distinguished essayists who explore facets of Devi worship and tradition, including ritual, architecture, literature, history and contemporary issues such as feminism and gender politics. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

New York, Schenley Distributors, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "David Niven says -", color photos of movie star David Niven, 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. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrinkwrap. The book features images by a who's who of legendary photographers: Anton Corbijn, Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Mario Testino, Tim Walker, and Bruce Weber. The book includes a foreword by Anna Wintour and is punctuated with Posnick's personal memories and irreverence.

Hardcover. New York, Morgan & Morgan , 2nd Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Sun fading to dust jacket spine. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy. Facsimile of the 1941 edition with an updated choreographic record. The B/W photographs, taken in 1935 to 1941; capture scenes of Martha Graham and members of her company performing 16 dances choreographed by Ms. Graham.

Softcover. Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, b&w reprints of the early strips. This book contains a complete set of the 1940 daily strips. The first Hollywood adaptation of Li'l Abner was made in 1940. Newspaper columnist Michael Price and the late film historian George Turner provide a fascinating history of this largely forgotten movie, complete with 9 rare stills and lobby cards. The back cover features the very rare Li'l Abner movie poster and another lobby card in full color. Buster Keaton plays Lonesome Polecat in the film but the once hugely popular silent star was in such professional disgrace by 1940 that he was not even listed among the seven acting credits on the film poster! A sidebar provides backgrounds on the producer, director and actors. A second introduction by editor Dave Schreiner provides a political and historical context for the strip itself in 1940. The year begins with Capp's parody of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (also made into a movie this year). Dogpatch is wiped out by turnip termites, so our favorite hillbillies are lured to Boston to pick oranges in winter! Li'l Abner also learns how to woo "Dogpatch style" from Adam Lazonga, whom Schreiner speculates is based on controversial philosopher and free thinker Bertrand Russell or possibly playwright George Bernard Shaw. In another episode Mammy and Pappy Yokum get a 100 year-old letter and rush off to the California gold rush. Earthquake McGoon is introduced in the daily strip this year, as is the popular phrase, "As any fool kin plainly see!" Plus the annual Sadie Hawkins Day Race. The cover is drawn by Peter Poplaski.

Softcover. Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Calla Editions, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This deluxe large-format volume presents scores of sumptuous color illustrations from La Vie Parisienne's heyday, the years between 1917 and 1922. Consisting chiefly of cover designs and editorial cartoons, the images abound in chic young beauties in fanciful and occasionally risque tableaux. Many of these illustrations have not been readily available for nearly a century, making this compilation of particular interest and value to lovers of graphic art and Parisian culture.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 118 of Arno's b&w cartoons from The New Yorker.

Softcover. Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 201 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Minor wear to edges, slight wrinkle to lower front cover, else like new. This exhibition catalog explores the artist, his history, his views and his works in as comprehensive a fashion as any living artist could desire. Black and white and full-color plates on heavy coated paper. Essays by Mark Rosenthal and Richard Marshall. Exhibition travelled to Philadelphia, the Whitney in NY, Berkeley U. Art Museum, Walker Art Center and the Corcoran in Washington.

Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 3rd Revised, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor yellowing to dust jacket edges and spine. Previous owners inscription in pen to top edge of front flyleaf. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. 206 photographs, 16 in color. Follows the developments in the art and science of photography from the invention of the wet-collodion process through the evolution of dry plates.

Hardcover. New York , William E. Rudge's Sons, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 187 pages, b&w illustrations, 2-color designs. Tan cloth with gilt title front, spine and back.

Hardcover. Simcoe, Ontario, The Norfolk Historical Society/Fanshawe College, 2nd revised, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black. Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean. No dust jacket.

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. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gold endpapers. Profusely illustrated with numerous full-color plates (many full-page) as well as B&W illustrations. Published to coincide with the exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, October 1996 to May 1997. Includes essays by Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Gail Feigenbaum, Patricia Behre Miskimin, Edmund P. Pillsbury, and Leonard J. Slatkes; and also technical essays by Claire Barry, Barbara Berrie, Melanie Gifford, and Michael Palmer. Also includes Bibliography and detailed Index. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in pristine condition.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. Contributions by Andrice Arp, Tim Hensley, Anders Nilsen, Paul Hornschemeier, Sophie Crumb, others.

Hardcover. Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 176 pages. Light green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, decorated endpapers, over 250 large glossy photographs, 10 in color. Extremely light wear to dust jacket; a very tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Taschen, 2nd Ed., 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two white folio volumes in a slipcase, 559 pages, b&w illustrations (chiefly color). Vol. 1: Interviews. Bob Ciano ; Fred Cohen ; Michael Cuscuna -- Record covers. A-K by artist -- v. 2: Interviews. Rudy Van Gelder ; Ashley Kahn ; Creed Taylor -- Record covers. L to Z by artist. Vinyl mania: Jazz LP covers from the 1940s to 1990s. This volume features a broad selection of jazz record covers, from the 1940s through the decline of LP production in the early 1990s. Each cover is accompanied by a fact sheet listing performer and album name, art director, photographer, illustrator, year, label, and more.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages. Design writer Siegel takes us on a inspiring tour of the history, stylistic concerns and uses of tiles. Though their cool, hard surface might seem best suited to Mediterranean climates, tiles have enjoyed wide use as far afield as the Netherlands, and any area subject to heavy foot-traffic could benefit from their easily cleaned faces. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs supplied by Country Floors, a well-known tile importing company, the book emphasizes the traditional "country" look; a brief, less successful foray into modern styles relies heavily on simple geometric patterns. In his introduction, Country Floors owner Norman Karlson tells how his fascination with tiles developed. Seemingly meant as a sourcebook for designers and tile enthusiasts, the volume offers scant information on the proper application of tiles--only instructions for care and maintenance. Installation, it is hinted, should be left to a specialist.

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.

Softcover. New York, American Federation of Arts, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 199 pages, b&w illustrations. Introduction by Victor Carlson; catalogue entries by Carol Hynning Smith. Light edge wear, small tear on spine, else a very clean, tight copy.