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The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasuresby: Philip Mould

The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures
by: Philip Mould

Hardcover. NY, VIking, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 261 pages, illustrations. Philip Mould takes a wonderfully interesting look at how art restoration works. But, in looking at restoration of existing paintings, he also delves into how he, as a gallery owner, along with his team, find work that has remained under-valued or unvalued for centuries. And then how that piece, now restored by Mould's experts, ventures back into the art world in renewed glory. Mould takes five or so examples of "found" paintings - one from his "Antique Roadshow" - and writes how instinct and education about a painter, his other work, the painting's subject's history, and other "intangables' go into Mould and his staff taking on an often dirty and undistinguished painting on the chance that the painting is "the real thing" - a real Rembrandt, a real Homer Winslow, etc. Probably the most interesting story was that of a Norman Rockwell painting on display at the Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts that...wasn't. Wasn't the "real" Rockwell painting, but rather one done by a disciple of Rockwell, who copied the original for reasons sort of murky, and donated to the museum. The "real" Rockwell was found by the copier's sons after his death and turned over to the museum. Clean copy.

Record # 397279

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To Embrace the Universe: The Drawings of Frederic Edwin Churchby: Dee, Elaine Evans

To Embrace the Universe: The Drawings of Frederic Edwin Church
by: Dee, Elaine Evans

Softcover. Yonkers, NY, Hudson River Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 125 pages, b&w illustrations. Light rubbing to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy. Issued in conjunction with a 1984 exhibition of drawings by Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). With an essay by Elaine Evans Dee and foreword by Rick Beard. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 107 works. This is the only publication that examines in detail the preparatory studies of this master Hudson River School artist. Shows Church's drawings that were intended to provide preliminary detail for his oil paintings. The extensive notations on the drawings themselves are clear evidence of this intent. This provides a special insight into the processes of artistic creation as employed by one of 19th century American's greatest landscape painters.

Record # 401822

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Victorian Color Picture Booksby: Jonathan Cott and Maurice Sendak

Victorian Color Picture Books
by: Jonathan Cott and Maurice Sendak

Hardcover. Stonehill Publishing/Chelsea House, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages. This book presents a representative selection of the best work produced for children during the great flowering of the illustrator's art that began in England in the 1860s. Beautifully crafted drawings of such illustrators as Caldecott, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway, and Richard Doyle are reproduced with painstaking fidelity to the originals. Commentary by Maurice Sendak.

Record # 361833

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Cezanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artist and Critics 1891-1921by: Rewald, John

Cezanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artist and Critics 1891-1921
by: Rewald, John

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Tight copy with minor wear to edges. Previous owner's notes in pencil near rear end paper.

Record # 368966

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JoAnne Carson: Rise Up and Shine!by: Judie Gilmore

JoAnne Carson: Rise Up and Shine!
by: Judie Gilmore

Softcover. Albany NY, Opalka Gallery, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages in color. Exhibition catalog. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397255

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Mongersonby: Mongerson Galleries

Mongerson
by: Mongerson Galleries

Softcover. Chicago, Illinois, Mongerson Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 page catalog from October 1981 exhibition at The Mongerson Gallery. Numerous black and white prints and photographs. Brief artist biographies. Textured cover features color artwork and exhibits some wear, particularly along binding edge. Interior in near fine condition.

Record # 806577

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Miserere by: Rouault, Georges

Miserere
by: Rouault, Georges

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 14 pages of text plus 58 plates and an additional page of illustrations showing four variant states of one of the plates. Black cloth with gilt lettering. The dust wrapper a little sunned and slightly chipped and torn with slight loss. With a preface by the artist and an introduction by Monroe Wheeler. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 382428

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English Rooms and Their Decoration at a Glance 1066-1800by: Hayward, Charles H.

English Rooms and Their Decoration at a Glance 1066-1800
by: Hayward, Charles H.

New York, Putnam, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth hardcover, 289 pages. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Cover has light edgewear. Clean copy.

Record # 207720

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Henry Moore: From the Inside Outby: Claude Allemand-Cosneau , Manfred Fath, David Mitchinson

Henry Moore: From the Inside Out
by: Claude Allemand-Cosneau , Manfred Fath, David Mitchinson

Softcover. Prestel, 1st, 2009, Flexible card covers, 200 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w.Henry Moore is most celebrated for his monumental outdoor sculptures in many major cities around the world. Lesser known are the sculptor's plaster pieces, which represent an important stage in the development of his work leading up to the final bronze sculptures. Moore's sculptures are presented alongside a generous selection of his drawings and carvings made during the last decades of his life. Commentary by leading scholars from the Henry Moore Foundation offers Moore's audience a deeper understanding of the artist's approach to his work and the evolution of his world view.

Record # 397551

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Sir John Soane: The Royal Academy Lecturesby: Watkin, David (Editor)

Sir John Soane: The Royal Academy Lectures
by: Watkin, David (Editor)

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages with bibliography and index. A revised and abridged version of Watkins earlier work on Soane (1753-1837), concentrating on the twelve lectures the eminent architect gave to the Royal Academy between 1810 and 1820, dealing with the huge scope of the lessons to be gained from world architecture.

Record # 351719

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Robert Doisneau: From Craft to Artby: ChEvrier, Jean-FranAois

Robert Doisneau: From Craft to Art
by: ChEvrier, Jean-FranAois

Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 100 black and white photographs. Tight copy.

Record # 352998

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David Smith:  Sprays from Bolton Landingby: Ameringer, Will/ David Smith

David Smith: Sprays from Bolton Landing
by: Ameringer, Will/ David Smith

Softcover. London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated (46 pages), catalogue of 64 works all illustrated in b/w, 15 full-page color plates and essay 'After Image' by Will Ameringer. Interesting catalog of rarely seen works on paper by Smith, lent by the artist's daughters for this exhibition. Clean copy.

Record # 377873

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Webster Unabridgedby: Webster, H. T.

Webster Unabridged
by: Webster, H. T.

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, pictorial boards in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 128 pages. A collection of his b&w cartoons, Foreword by Frank Sullivan. Mild stain to dj, interior clean.

Record # 397776

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Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Starsby: Hoving, Kirsten

Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars
by: Hoving, Kirsten

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 307 pages, 60 color illustrations. 81 halftones. Provides an in-depth look at one artist's intense fascination with the science of astronomy. Joseph Cornell (1903-72) has often been viewed as a recluse, isolated in his home on Utopia Parkway, lost in the fairy tales and charming objects of his collages and assemblage boxes. Less commonly known has been Cornell's vested and serious interest in the history of astronomy and the cutting-edge discoveries made during his own lifetime. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 351620

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Angelica Kauffmann, R.A.: Her Life and Her Works by: Manners , Victoria and Dr. G.C Williamson

Angelica Kauffmann, R.A.: Her Life and Her Works
by: Manners , Victoria and Dr. G.C Williamson

Hardcover. New York, Brentano's Publishers, reprint, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. 1 of 1000 copies. Color and b&w illustrations by the subject throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated frontispiece. Decorative stain to top edge. Edge wear to top and bottom edge. Minor stains and shelf wear. Foxing throughout. Otherwise, clean tight copy.

Record # 857405

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American Signs: Form and Meaning on Rte. 66 by: Lisa Mahar

American Signs: Form and Meaning on Rte. 66
by: Lisa Mahar

Softcover. NY, Monacelli Press,, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The roadside sign has become an American icon: a glowing neon symbol of the golden age of the open road. Yet signs are complex pieces of design, serving not only as physical markers but also as cultural, political, and economic ones. In American Signs, Lisa Mahar traces the evolution of motel signs on Route 66 in a distinctive visual approach that combines text, images, and graphics. American Signs reveals the rich vernacular traditions of motel sign-making in five eras, spanning from the late 1930s through the 1970s. The motel signs of the early 1940s, for instance, reflect vernacular traditions dating back at least a century, while examples from the later years of the decade reveal a culture newly obsessed with themes. America's fascination with newness and technological progress is manifested in 1950s motel signs. Finally, in the 1960s, a turn toward simplicity and the use of new, modular technologies allowed motel signs to address the needs of a mass society and the beginnings of a national, rather than regional, aesthetic for motel signs.

Record # 374314

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Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists...and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized cultureby: McLeod, Kembrew

Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists...and rock 'n' roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture
by: McLeod, Kembrew

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The 1960s to early '70s was a pivotal time for American culture, and New York City was ground zero for seismic shifts in music, theater, art, and film-making. The Downtown Pop Underground takes a kaleidoscopic tour of Manhattan during this era and shows how deeply interconnected all the alternative worlds and personalities were that flourished in the basement theaters, dive bars, concert halls, and dingy tenements within one square mile of each other. Author Kembrew McLeod links the artists, writers, and performers who created change, and while some of them didn't become everyday names, others, like Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, and Debbie Harry, did become icons. Ambitious in scope and scale, the book is fueled by the actual voices of many of the key characters who broke down the entrenched divisions between high and low, gay and straight, and art and commerce -- and changed the cultural landscape of not just the city but the world.

Record # 397834

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Wifredo and Helena: My Life With Wifredo Lam 1939-1950by: Benitez, Helena

Wifredo and Helena: My Life With Wifredo Lam 1939-1950
by: Benitez, Helena

Hardcover. Lausanne, Acatos, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket., 206 pages. With photographs and reproductions in color and black and white of Lam's paintings and drawings. With facsimile of small booklet by Andre Breton in pocket inside front cover.

Record # 351673

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Black Holeby: Burns, Charles

Black Hole
by: Burns, Charles

Softcover. NY, Pantheon, reprint, 2008-01-08, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350418

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Bijou Funnies No. 3by: N/A

Bijou Funnies No. 3
by: N/A

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Kitchen Sink/Print Mint, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 50 cents cover price, 1st or 2nd Printing as they are considered indistinguishable, includes Jay Lynch, Skip Williamson, Justin Green, R Crumb, Jay Kinney, R Hayes, Kim Deitch, Jay Lynch, Roger Brand. 32 pages, some pages with wear, mild wrinkles.

Record # 374636

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Daliby: Gomez De Liano, Ignacio

Dali
by: Gomez De Liano, Ignacio

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 139 illustrations, 122 in color. Clean copy.

Record # 397975

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Terry Winters: Printed Worksby: Rosenthal, Nan

Terry Winters: Printed Works
by: Rosenthal, Nan

Softcover. New York , Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages, exhibition catalog includes intaglios, lithographs, screenprints, woodcuts, and linoleum cuts by the artist.

Record # 351713

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Sorry, Lady--This Beach is Private!by: Stevenson, James

Sorry, Lady--This Beach is Private!
by: Stevenson, James

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated. A collection of Stevenson cartoons that originally appeared in the New Yorker. Clean, bright copy, unclipped.

Record # 363428

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Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methodologies in Graphic Designby: Noble, Ian

Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methodologies in Graphic Design
by: Noble, Ian

Softcover. AVA Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Cover has very little wear. Color and b&w illustrations throughout. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 455867

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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time by: Jenny Uglow

Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
by: Jenny Uglow

Softcover. NY, Picador/Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 398 pages, Illustrated in color and b&w. In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts-streamlined, full of movement and brilliant color, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time, they looked back to medieval myths and early music, to country ways that were disappearing from sight. Jenny Uglow's Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island. This is a world of futurists, surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, of shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war. Remainder dot to top edge otherwise like new.

Record # 398120

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Blurred Zones: Investigations of the Interstitial: Eisenman Architects 1988-1998by: Eisenman, Peter

Blurred Zones: Investigations of the Interstitial: Eisenman Architects 1988-1998
by: Eisenman, Peter

Hardcover. New York , Monacelli, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, illustrated with color plates, additional drawings and plans. Very good hardcover in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 351771

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Label Book of Clothing Culture, The: Tradition. Quality. Styleby: Rusche, Thomas

Label Book of Clothing Culture, The: Tradition. Quality. Style
by: Rusche, Thomas

Hardcover. Germany, Daab, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.. The Label Book of Clothing Culture presents over 40 TOP labels within the fashion business which are among the very best in the world. Great names such as Barbour and Brioni stand next to numerous 'Hidden Champions' of clothing culture. But this extraordinary coffee-table book is about much more than mere fashion, it also presents craftsmanship and history, style and quality; it highlights those companies that have committed themselves to this tradition with heart and soul. The editor and enthusiastic art collector, Dr. Dr. Thomas Rusche, knows what he is talking about, since it is he that coined the term 'clothing culture.' He shares his knowledge of the true champions of the business and provides interesting background information about the companies presented here.

Record # 352267

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Stilettoby: Caroline Cox

Stiletto
by: Caroline Cox

Hardcover. NY, Harper Design, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 176 pages illustrated in color. Caroline Cox presents the various incarnations of the stiletto since its invention as a fantasy shoe brought to life by the flair and skill of shoemakers Vivier, Perugia, Ferragamo, and Jourdan in the early 1950s. Assertively modern, stilettos released women from the utilitarian wartime fashion of the 1940s, offering streamlined sophistication and glamour to women the world over. As the decade progressed the heel became saucier and higher, worn by starlets like Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield. By the end of the 1950s the heel was being worn by "bad girls" and had become a weapon of female power. The 1970s took the stiletto's associations with sex and death and turned it into a fetish object, eulogized by artists Allen Jones and Eric Stanton. 1980s power dressers brought the stiletto back into the fashion arena, and today heels designed by Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Jimmy Choo, and Gina are the badge of celebrity status and fashion savvy. Mild wear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Record # 375412

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Tales from the Land of Dragons: 1,000 Years of Chinese Painting by: Wu Tung

Tales from the Land of Dragons: 1,000 Years of Chinese Painting
by: Wu Tung

Softcover. Boston, MFA Publications, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 269 pages. Color and b&w reproductions of paintings throughout. A work issued in conjunction with an exhibition held in 1997, providing a survey of the extensive collection of paintings from China, including critical commentary on the work throughout, examining the cultural importance of the pieces discussed. 9 3/4" to 12" tall; interior is clean and unmarked.

Record # 398164

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Thomas Eakins Centennial 1844-1944by: M. Knoedler & Company

Thomas Eakins Centennial 1844-1944
by: M. Knoedler & Company

Softcover. New York, M. Knoedler & Company, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, vintage exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, b&w and color plates. Light wear to edges, spine. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 401824

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Gita Lenzby: Lenz/Gordon Stettinius, Gita

Gita Lenz
by: Lenz/Gordon Stettinius, Gita

Hardcover. Richmond, Va., Candela Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Tipped in plate on front cover. Small stain to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. Working primarily from the 1940s through the early 1960s, the American photographer Gita Lenz (1910-2011) made documents of New York street life that won her early recognition and inclusion in two group shows curated by Edward Steichen for The Museum of Modern Art, a three-person show at the Brooklyn Museum and numerous articles and features in photography magazines of the time. Equally given to inflecting her portraiture with hints of social realism one on hand, and surrealism on the other, and also influenced by her close friend Aaron Siskind, Lenz produced abstract compositions, city still lifes, surreal still lifes and intimate portraits. She receded from view in the 1960s as financial demands impeded her practice, but in 2002, a chance meeting with photographer Gordon Stettinius led to the retrieval of this small but charming body of work, and the publication of this superbly printed first monograph.

Record # 352336

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Japan Fashion Nowby: Steele, Valerie

Japan Fashion Now
by: Steele, Valerie

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

Record # 350010

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Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists Fifty Yearsby: Rosenthal, Mark/ Prather, Marla/Alteveer, Ian /Lowery, Rebecca

Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists Fifty Years
by: Rosenthal, Mark/ Prather, Marla/Alteveer, Ian /Lowery, Rebecca

Hardcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards with an acetate dust wrapper, 304 pages. Warhol brought to the art world a unique awareness of the relationship that art might have with popular consumer culture and tabloid news, with celebrity, and with sexuality. Each of these themes is explored through visual dialogues between warhol and some sixty artists, among them John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Gilbert & George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Alfredo Jaar, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Elizabeth Peyton, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman and Luc Tuymans. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398273

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London Calling:Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitajby: Crippa, Elena, Lampert, Catherine

London Calling:Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj
by: Crippa, Elena, Lampert, Catherine

Hardcover. Loa Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 136 pages. Offering a fresh account of developments that have since characterized postwar British painting, this catalogue focuses on Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitaj, and Leon Kossoff-- artists who worked in close proximity as they were developing new forms of realism. If for many years their efforts seemed to clash with dominant tendencies, reassessment in recent decades has afforded their work a central position in a richer and more complex understanding of postwar British art and culture. Rigorous and gorgeously illustrated, the essays reflect on the parallel yet diverse trajectories of these artists, their friendships and mutual admiration, and the divergence of their practice from the discourse of high modernism. The authors seek to dispel the notion of their work as a uniquely British endeavor by highlighting the artists' international outlook and ongoing dialogue with contemporary European and American painters as well as masters from previous generations.

Record # 371619

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Prendergast in Italyby: Mathews, Nancy Mowll

Prendergast in Italy
by: Mathews, Nancy Mowll

Hardcover. London, Merrell Holberton, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, color illustrated. Exhibition catalog. Forewords by Lisa G. Corrin and Elizabeth Glassman. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Wiliamstown College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA July 5-September 10, 2009. Checklist of Italian Works. Chronology and Index. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 352363

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Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 1: 1934-1935by: Capp, Al

Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 1: 1934-1935
by: Capp, Al

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.

Record # 350052

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Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle (SIGNED)by: Barney, Matthew; Spector, Nancy & Neville Wakefield

Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle (SIGNED)
by: Barney, Matthew; Spector, Nancy & Neville Wakefield

Hardcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Hardcover First Edition SIGNED on title page by Matthew Barney. With essays by Nancy Spector and Neville Wakefield. Text in English. Published on the occasion of the exhibitions in Cologne, Paris and New York, 2002 - 2003. Cremaster Cycle is the definitive guide for 'The Cremaster Cycle', the Matthew Barney's epic five-part film series. The book is filled with hundreds of Barney's fantastical images which use the biological model of sexual difference as its conceptual departure point. Three essays by Barney experts articulate the series' diverse themes and explore the artist's innovative aesthetic vocabulary; interviews with key collaborators, a composer, costume designer, make-up artist, technicians and actors reveal his working process. A trailblazing essay by Curator of Contemporary Art Nancy Spector charts Barney's work from the 1990s to the present and provides critical insights into the aesthetic vocabulary of his five 'Cremaster' films, while Neville Wakefield's 'Cremaster Glossary' illuminates the films most far-flung references with citations from sources as diverse as Freud's psychoanalytic studies, Mormon law and lore, and hardcore music fanzines. In addition to stills from the five films, the book features related sculptures, photographs, drawings and storyboards. Barney himself collaborated on all aspects of this extraordinary publication, including the selection of over 700 images, most of them never before published. 530 pages. 32,2x23,5x6,2 cm Hardcover with plastic dust jacket with green and black cover title . Clean, as new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398395

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Francis Haymanby: Allen, Brian

Francis Hayman
by: Allen, Brian

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 196 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers and slight crease to spine, else a clean, tight copy. A study of an important painter of the mid eighteenth century, who was the teacher of Gainsborough and whose work included conversation pieces, history painting, book illustration and theatrical painting. Also includes the catalogue of the exhibition in 1987.

Record # 459668

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Tate Modern Artists: Ed Ruschaby: Richards, Mary

Tate Modern Artists: Ed Ruscha
by: Richards, Mary

Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 2008, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 123 pages. Softcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 352392

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Wonders of Engraving, Theby: Duplessis, Georges

Wonders of Engraving, The
by: Duplessis, Georges

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.

Record # 804777

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Best of the Forties / Book #2by: Gladir, George

Best of the Forties / Book #2
by: Gladir, George

Softcover. Archie Comics, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, color throughout

Record # 351796

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Roy Thomas Presents Sheena Queen of the Jungle Vol. 3by: Artbooks, PS (Adapter)

Roy Thomas Presents Sheena Queen of the Jungle Vol. 3
by: Artbooks, PS (Adapter)

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. She may still be everyone's favourite yellow-tressed leopard-skin-clad Jungle Jane but, having made her first appearance almost 80 years ago (courtesy of Will Eisner and 'Jerry' Iger in the British mag Wags #1), Sheena, Queen of the Jungle could be forgiven for being somewhat less spritely swinging through the trees righting wrongs and wielding her knife. In 1938, she made it Stateside with her first showing in Jungle Comics #1 where she settled happily in every issue (plus a decade in her own title) until April 1953. There have been other incarnations, of course, but it's this classic material that strikes at the very heart of Good Girl Art! Collects issues #11-18, Spring 1951 to Winter 1952.

Record # 352464

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Klecksel the Painterby: Busch, Wilhelm

Klecksel the Painter
by: Busch, Wilhelm

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.

Record # 69061

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Portrait: A Life of Thomas Eakinsby: McFeely, William S.

Portrait: A Life of Thomas Eakins
by: McFeely, William S.

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 237 pages. Numerous b&w illustrations, including portrait frontispiece, 14 color plates. Thomas Eakins, a native of Philadelphia, painted two worlds: one sure of its values - the surgeons, inventors, musicians and athletes of his time - and another that reflected his own struggles with depression and sexual identity. This book presents an account of Eakins' struggles, his genius, and the evocative melancholy of his portraits.

Record # 351841

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Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Terror Of The Beagle Boysby: Barks, Carl

Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Terror Of The Beagle Boys
by: Barks, Carl

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.

Record # 352493

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Carl Milles: An Interpretation of His Workby: Rogers, Meyric R.

Carl Milles: An Interpretation of His Work
by: Rogers, Meyric R.

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.

Record # 500077

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Andy Warhol Treasuresby: Huxley, Geralyn

Andy Warhol Treasures
by: Huxley, Geralyn

Hardcover. London, Goodman Books, 1st, 20091st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, 300 color/b&w photographs plus over 20 pieces of memorabilia. One of the world's best-known artists, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) still exerts influence on contemporary art and culture. Packed with information about Warhol's prolific creativity, as well as his other cultural interests, the project follows the arc of his life. This beautifully illustrated publication reveals Warhol's rags-to-riches life from his early years in Depression-era Pittsburgh to his success as an illustrator in New York City in the 1950s and his transformation into a notorious Pop Artist, underground filmmaker, author, publisher, collector, recorder and iconic celebrity. With 21 beautifully produced removable facsimile documents help give an unprecedented insight into Warhol's life and work in this unique and authoritative guide to this celebrated modern artist.

Record # 351898

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The Great Centuries of Painting - Greek Painting by: Martin Robertson

The Great Centuries of Painting - Greek Painting
by: Martin Robertson

Hardcover. Geneva, Albert Skira, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean, bright copy with tipped-in color plates throughout, 193 pages.

Record # 378026

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Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Styleby: Calahan, April

Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style
by: Calahan, April

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 440 pages. Hardcover in purple slipcase. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Gilt lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with over 200 color plates. Tight copy. Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. These illustrations, known as "fashion plates," conveyed the cutting-edge styles embraced by the fashion-conscious elite and proved inspirational to the upwardly mobile. This lavishly illustrated book provides a comprehensive survey of 200 color plates from publications dating from 1778 to the early 20th century, accompanied by authoritative and fascinating texts. Organized chronologically and featuring both men's and women's garments, these lively and colorful vignettes not only are beautiful, but also deftly illustrate the evolution of fashion over time.

Record # 352917

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Matthew Barney & Joseph Beuys: All in the Present Must Be Transformedby: Spector, Nancy

Matthew Barney & Joseph Beuys: All in the Present Must Be Transformed
by: Spector, Nancy

Hardcover. New York, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible cloth covers, 164 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 28, 2006 through January 12, 2007. Features text by Nancy Spector, Mark Taylor, Christian Scheidemann, and Nat Trotman. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations.

Record # 351947

Price: $50.00 
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