Art

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 302 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light sun-fade along dust jacket spine. Clean, tight copy. Touring America as the "Apostle of Aestheticism" in 1882, Oscar Wilde brought a witty and controversial message of regeneration through art and beauty to a nation still shaken by the trauma of the Civil War. In this book, the first cultural history of the aesthetic movement in the United States, Mary W. Blanchard shows that it was a wide-ranging popular movement resisted by the moral guardians of Victorianism but advanced by visionary women.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages, 85 reproductions of Holbein's exquisite portrait drawings, tipped-in color frontispiece. Dust jacket with chipping to top and bottom of spine otherwise very good.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Tulia TX, Y-8 Publishing Company, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, faux brown leather with orange gilt lettering to the front and spine. 100 pages, 15 full page color reproductions of Wyatt's paintings interspersed with themed quotes from many authors. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, NY, New York Public Library, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 92 pages, with illustrations, introductory essay by Dale Roylance and checklist and commentaries by Roberta Waddell and Theresa Salazar. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Exhibition catalog with 180 illustrations, 158 in full color. Measures 12x14.5 inches. Introduction by Nancy J. Troy and contributions by Mary E. Davis, Caroline Evans, Jared Goss, Heather Hess, Caroline Rennolds Milbank, and Kenneth E. Silver. Paul Poiret (French, 1879-1944) dominated haute couture in the first decade of the twentieth century. The catalogue features photographs of a number of garments by Paul Poiret, as well as pochoir prints by graphic artists, who created deluxe albums of Poiret's designs for his elite clients.

Softcover. US, Kitchen Sink Press, 3rd pr., 1988-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Volume 1 only. 232 pages, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. Dallas TX, Adams-Middleton Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages illustrated in color. Second brochure laid-in, all text, 4 pages. An exhibition catalog of the Spanish sculptor's work.

Softcover. Archie Comics, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 color pages illustrated by Bob Montana.

Softcover. New York, Derrydale Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 149 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w and color illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, reprint, undated/c1880, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. History of the art of engraving within a European context. Undated, published c1880. Illustrated with 34 black/white reproductions of engravings. Good condition; pages have gilt edges, cloth bound book has some wear to the edges and introductory pages lightly spotted from age.

Softcover. NY, Sindin Galleries, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages illustrated in b&w. Text by Judith Hancock de Sandoval. Wrappers lightly rubbed otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Terrific monograph on this important American artist. Includes 275 illustrations, most in color and with 4 double gatefolds. Dust jacket with light soiling on back cover.

Hardcover. UK, PS publishers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Ungar, 1st Eng. transl., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 76 pages. Transl. from German by Max Born. Black & white cartoon drawings by Busch. Decorative stain to top edge. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, closed tear.

Softcover. NY, Nohra Haime Gallery, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, color cover, b&w photos of his sculpture inside. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Barcelona SP, FKG. , reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Facsimile edition. Folio. Cloth binding, 191 pages. In 1834 the leading scholars of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, led by Professor A.L.G. Bayle, compiled a remarkable atlas of exquisite anatomical drawings. It immediately became a benchmark work in international medical and scientific communities, praised not only for its scientific value but also for the artistry of the color plates. This large facsimile volume features 94 color plates, 11 x 15 inches, labeled in English, German, French, and Dutch.

Softcover. Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 176 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Oliphant's cartoon talents are marvelously displayed in this satire of the past year's news events. It's a hilarious look at life and the scandals that shape our political environs. Pulitzer Prize winner.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2nd pr., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover,163 black and white plates illustrating Milles' sculptures. Oversized. A comprehensive book on the foremost sculptor of Sweden, Carl Milles (1875-1955). Beautiful black and white photographs of his stone and bronze sculpture - mostly depicting commissions in the U.S. as he was a professor at Cranbrook and a permanent resident in the U.S. Clothbound, In very good condition, Index. Dust jacket torn along bottom edges with a large chunk missing from top of spine. Tape repairs to reverse of dust jacket. Some slight yellowing to pages, but all plates are in very good condition.

Hardcover. London, Merrell Publishers, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages, 200+ color illustrations. The first of a three-part series that explores the creativity and productivity of Native American artists. This volume "focuses on the work of nearly ninety of the most exciting and innovative artists of the region, working in a variety of media, from clay to glass, from fiber to jewelry, and from metal to wood, as well as mixed media." (flap).

Hardcover. Suffolk, UK, Antique Collectors Club, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages, hardcover. This is the story of David Sassoon, the British fashion designer whose name has been synonymous with British glamour for the last 50 years through the label Bellville Sassoon. Heavily illustrated on every page in color and b&w.

Hardcover. US, Other Distribution, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover with dust jacket, 378 pages. Gloria F. Ross (1923-1998) described her work as the translation of paint into wool. She was deeply committed to reinventing the centuries-old art of tapestry, particularly championing the handmade in contemporary art. This remarkable book, written by textile scholar Ann Lane Hedlund, draws from rare unpublished archives to unravel the evolution of Ross's modern tapestries and to illuminate the significance of her creative partnerships.Gloria F. Ross and Modern Tapestry features the collaborative work of 28 acclaimed modernist painters and sculptors, including Helen Frankenthaler (Ross's sister), Kenneth Noland, and Louise Nevelson, with several dozen traditional-yet-innovative weavers in France, Scotland, and the Southwestern United States. Brief biographies of the artists, letters, notes, sketches, and photographs illustrate the practical and aesthetic challenges that occupied Gloria Ross for over three decades.

Softcover. London, Unicorn Press Ltd, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. Many color illustrations and photographs throughout. Artist David Shillinglaw is as comfortable in the street as in the studio, as likely to paint on found objects as on canvas, as interested in tiny hand-made artist's books as in large-scale public murals. His mural in the Olympic Park in East London is the longest mural ever commissioned in Great Britain, while his brilliantly inventive creations enliven construction hoardings throughout London's changing cityscape. The Dance of 1000 Faces is the first book to gather a significant number of Shillinglaw's works. It presents his art in full color in all its many forms: not only paintings and murals, but journals drawings, sketches, and more. It reveals Shillinglaw's particular genius for depictions--and distortions--of the human face, grimacing and grinning, shifting and shaping as it becomes no one and everyone at once.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 360 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w and color illustrations throughout. Includes extensive bibliography. Very slight edge wear, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press/Electa , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Softcover in excellent, clean condition. Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804, the son of Giambattista, left a corpus of drawings which show him to be one of the talented Venetian artists of the 18th century. 176 drawings plus many photographs of details and of paintings.

Softcover. New York, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. A look at book jackets designed by Grushkin, also includes jackets designed by George Salter, Grushkin's teacher. Table of contents, introduction, a biography of Grushkin, book jackets and examples of graphic design by Grushkin. Glossary, biographical sketches of important figures, biographical sketch of the author.

Hardcover. Glitterati , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 228 pages. What do Elmer's Glue, Krylon Spray Paint, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups have in common? The designer Ted Eron, of course. You may not know his name, but you know Ted Eron. Although he remains largely unknown in the public consciousness, Eron played an integral role in defining the aesthetics of everyday goods and household staples in the 1950s and '60s. In Ted Eron Designed That, Joseph Eron and Elizabeth Eron Roth - Ted's children - chronicle the life and art of their father through a nostalgic tour of the iconic graphic designs that have shaped and revolutionised twentieth-century visual culture. From his humble beginnings painting signs in the basement of a market while attending Cooper Union, to the Eron & Eron Industrial Design years during World War II and beyond, Ted Eron Designed That pays a long overdue tribute to the man behind the iconic designs. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Published to coincide with the Gauguin exhibition that traveled between Cleveland and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Lavishly illustrated with 254 images, of which 234 are in color.

Hardcover. New York, New York Graphic Society Books, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 306 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Exceptional copy. Based on the Exhibition at the National Gallery(1988-1989), "Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-1986" 120 color and 11 black and white illustrations. The book is complemented by documentary photographs and portraits as well as over 120 letters--most of them never published before--written to artists, critics, and friends.

Hardcover. Manchester VT , Hudson Hills, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Text by numerous authors. 104 pages, over 100 color plates. 4to, cloth. Museum of Contemporary Art in association with New York, Hudson Hills Press. This book brings together works from Lichtenstein's "Interiors" series, most of which he painted in the last decade of his career. In addition to paintings, the book includes prints, sculptures, drawings, and some of the source materials Lichtenstein used to develop this imagery. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Softcover. NY, Praeger, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages, b&w and color plates. Very light edge wear, else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA , University of California Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black and white illustrations throughout. This richly detailed study reconceptualizes a striking but enigmatic moment in Rembrandt's art from the 1650s--one of the artist's most prolific and creative periods. Michael Zell identifies a significant theological shift in Rembrandt's use of religious imagery and interprets this shift in light of the unique religious and social conditions of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Rembrandt's biblical art has generally been regarded as the embodiment of a Protestant aesthetic. By looking closely at the artist's relationship with his patron Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel and the ideas of a group of "philosemitic" Protestants with whom the rabbi was engaged in an apologetic dialogue, Zell deepens and complicates our understanding of Rembrandt's sacred art from this period.

Hardcover. San Diego CA , IDW Publishing, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Cliff Sterrett throughout. Clean, unmarked copy. Sterrett whimsically played with every element of his feature, and was blissfully free of self-conciousness or restraint. Like all truly great comedians, he often recruits the reader, and lets them in on the gag as it plays out, while the actual characters are clueless. It's a deceptively complicated comedic gift. Other times its pure slapstick, with the unvarnished roughness and outrageous takes that characterized the period, but it's still out laugh loud funny, and honestly, when's the last time you really laughed at a comic strip? Sterrett stretched the limits of comics with the freedom that accompanied an art form yet to deigned respectable, and he produced one of the most personally stamped features in comic strip history.

Softcover. NY, St. Martins Griffin, 1st Wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Illustrated in color, black & white by Crumb, 182 pages. Accolades and Reflections on the Controversial R. Crumb: "Robert Crumb--lurid, pornographic, sexy, twisted, hilarious, and depraved. The greatest American satirist is also its finest draftsman." --Joe Coleman"God bless Crumb. I've always been happy that there was someone as sick and twisted as I am." --George Carlin"I can think of no one more unqualified to say anything about Robert Crumb's artwork than myself. In fact, it's useless for most cartoonists of my generation to do so; without him, there wouldn't "be" any cartoonists of my generation." --Chris Ware, "The Acme Novelty Library"

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

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 51 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout by Carl Mydans throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Reagan Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages. Through striking illustrations and stunning photographs, Bohemian Modern explores the unique structural and interior designs that have put California's ultra-chic Silver Lake neighborhood at the forefront of a new style phenomenon. One of the country's most renowned modernist architects, Barbara Bestor has fully embraced and perfected Silver Lake's "bohemian modern" style: a practical philosophy that is Californian in origin but achievable anywhere. It is a look that favors raw, authentic materials, brilliant colors, creative space planning, and a natural flow between indoors and outdoors. The results, as Bohemian Modern presents, are striking: a flawlessly restored Neutra house decorated with both whimsy and restraint, a rooftop constructed for viewing the stars, a lavish outdoor garden delicately integrated into the surrounding architecture, a double-sided bookcase that soars three stories and serves as a functional art installation...there is no limit to the creativity and beauty of Silver Lake style.

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

Softcover. St Louis MI, Daniel Zimmer , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. Extensive color illustrations by various artists throughout. Feature on John Gannam. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Chicago, CIty Files Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A wonderful collection of amateur photographs. These personal snapshots form a pictorial history of everyday Americans from the last century. Unpaginated, 350 b&w and color images. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout. In the 1960s, fashion changed dramatically. At the end of the 1950s, Yves Saint Laurent was starting to look for new ways to define the female form; by the 1970s, styles, markets, materials, demographics, inspirations, and the very definition of fashion had been utterly transformed. Richly illustrated with contemporary imagery, including fashion shots, advertising, and magazine features, this is an essential sourcebook. The story begins with the new internationalism that changed the fashion landscape as New York, San Francisco, Florence, London, Madrid, Rome, and Hong Kong challenged the dominance of Paris haute couture. 306 illustrations, 176 in color.

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

Softcover. New Haven / Washington DC, Yale University Art Gallery/National Gallery of Art, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcver, pictorial wraps, 312 pages. This is the catalog for an exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery, 1984, consisting of 43 folding screens designed by European and American artists from about 1870 to the present were on view. The exhibition was organized by Michael Komanecky of Yale University and by Virginia Butera. Mild sunning to edges of wrappers otherwise clean, tight copy.

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

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

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 257 pages with 126 black and white illustrations. Biographical notes. List of printers. Index of Prints. Frontispiece is an original lithograph created especially for this volume. "The only catalogue of Soyer's prints. Contains 126 separate prints - from his first etched self-portrait to his most recent experiments in advanced lithographic technique. Each print is fully described, and each is illustrated - full size wherever possible - on a separate page." Very good in a bright dust jacket.

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

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

Hardcover. London, Pavilion, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear and curling to dust jacket edges. Color photographs throughout. Includes DVD. Genius innovators in haute couture, AP have commissioned Mike Figgis to portray Kate Moss in her first acting role, resulting in four unique films: "Shadows", "Scale", "Exhibitionist and "Narcissus" - "The 4 Dreams of Miss X". Shot in night vision, these films are intensely intimate: a beautiful woman's private dream experiences.

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