Art

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, May 11, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages, illustrated throughout. Very clean and tight copy. Although lumped together with Pop artists such as Roy Liechtenstein and Andy Warhol, and often the movement's spokesperson, Indiana and his paintings actually have an uneasy fit in Pop company, mostly because his work isn't grounded in the commodity-oriented (Campbell Soup) realism of most Pop Art. Instead, his work engages with literature and poetry and with the popular rhetoric of the American dream-all permeated by the particularities of his upbringing and life. Ryan's dual accomplishments are in articulating the dynamics of Indiana's art-especially the connections between the artworks and the sources of imagery and themes in his own biography-and in rendering a sophisticated and judicious roundup of the Pop Art movement.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A Revised Edition of the 1954 title with new material. Introduction By John Hollander. Over 350 illustrations by the artist. INSCRIBED BY STEINBERG in blue pencil and dated Oct 79 on the half-title page. Inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. Arieti. Silvano Arieti (1914-1981), was a psychiatrist, regarded as the world's foremost authority on schizophrenia. He was also a longtime professor at New York Medical College. Clean copy with edgewear and closed tears to the dust jacket.

Softcover. NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages. 85 illustrations (41 color). Checklist of 54 exhibits, including 34 works by Bierstadt (28 paintings and oil sketches, 3 sketchbooks, 1 chromolithograph, and 2 stereographs). Foreword by Patterson Sims; Introduction, "The Return of History: America Rediscovers Albert Bierstadt" by Linda S. Ferber; "The Story of the 'Plainfield Bierstadts': Shifting Perspectives, Changing Times" by Diane P. Fischer; "Autumn in the Sierras: A Remote Location Revealed" by John Zielenski; "A Cherokee Artist Looks at The Landing of Columbus at San Salvador" by Kay Walkingstick; chronology; bibliography.

Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 3. 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 324 pages, illustrations throughout. Minor corner bump and dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, Dover Publications, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. "70 European and American posters of the 1890's in color". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Painters of Reality, titled after an exhibition held in Milan more than fifty years ago, is the first study in English of this major aspect of Italian art. It builds on the work of the art historian Roberto Longhi. Reexamining the subject in light of copious subsequent scholarship, the authors of this volume contribute major essays that define and discuss naturalism as it appeared in both Lombard paintings and drawings. There is also a fresh consideration of the North Italian predecessors whose influence is apparent either directly or indirectly, in the paintings of Caravaggio. More detailed discussions of the subject center on the precise elements that constituted Leonardo's "hypernaturalism": the important schools of paintings that arose in Brescia, Bergamo, Cremona, and Milan; and Caravaggio's most notable successors in northern Italy, who kept Lombard realism alive into the eighteenth century.Among the 136 paintings and drawings, many never before seen outside of Italy, are influential drawings by Leonardo and major paintings by Caravaggio. Other acknowledged masters in the history of European art are represented, including Lorenzo Lotto, Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, Giovanni Battista Moroni, and Giacomo Ceruti. Works also appear from significant but less widely known artists such as Sofonisba, Anguissola, Vincenzo Campi, Moretto da Brescia, and Fra' Galgario.

Hardcover. US, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 348 pages, 169 illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The depictions and roles of women in the paintings of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Max Beckmann (1884-1950) and Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) typically give rise to conversations and presumptions about machismo and misogyny. Of course, these artists' portrayals of women cannot be dismissed so easily, and in fact all offer highly nuanced explorations of the theme. This publication explores their depictions of women as more than painterly projections of male longing and desire, treating them as reflections of social and political conflicts and upheavals. Contributions from art historians, sociologists and artists approach the figures of women in these bodies of work from a variety of perspectives: for Picasso, as a catalyst for a confrontation with the artist's own life and history; for Beckmann, as completely independent themes; and for de Kooning, as the force that makes artistic expression itself possible.

Hardcover. New York, Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. This book was published to go along with an exhibition of Dow's work that showcased the work of a leading figure in the development of American modernism.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear to wrappers, mild damp stain to rear cover. Previous owner's writing, underlining to several pages.

Hardcover. New York, Artisan, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by William Steig. Introduction by John Updike. A study of the life and work of the eminent cartoonist, New Yorker cover artist, and humorist. Steig also served as art director of the New Yorker.

Softcover. Paris, Beaux Arts Magazine, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 65 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text in French. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, N.Y., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 63 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. Mineola NY, Dover, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 72 pages. A comprehensive home furnishings catalog from the height of the popularity of Mission design, reprinted from a rare original, illustrating and describing 400 items from beds and highboys to arm chairs and kitchen cabinets, many designed to be shipped knocked-down for reassembly at home. With invaluable information on woods, finishes, upholstery, colors, more. Catalogue issued by the Come-Packt Furniture Company of Ann Arbor and Toledo in 1912. Introduction by Victor Linoff. Color plate at rear showing finishes and colors of furniture and cusion materials.; 9 x 12 ". Clean copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Franklin Bowles Galleries, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 128 pages illustrated in color. Features over 150 works of art on paper by the famous Playboy illustrator.

Softcover. US, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Volume 3. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

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.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This is the second in a series of exhibitions organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, that shows a small number of artists' recent work on paper. Artists featured: Jonathan Borofsky, Francesco Clemente, Mario Merz, A.R. Penck, and Giuseppe Penone. Introduction by Bernice Rose. Clean copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. Contributors include Eleanor Davis, Ray Fenwick, Paul Hornschemeier, Sophie Crumb, Jonathan Bennett, Tom Kaczynski, others.

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 167 pages, square 4to. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. 68 full-page reproductions of works by Artaud, many in color, plus many other illustrations, including documentary photographs. Essays by the editor, Ronald Hayman, Marthe Robert, Agnes de la Beaumelle, and Sylvere Lotringer, with artistic responses by Nancy Spero, Patti Smith, and Kiki Smith, and a catalogue of the exhibition, chronology, exhibition history, and select bibliography. Gray boards with black cloth spine. Issued without jacket. Minor dust soil to edges of boards otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, 1st, 2000-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 198 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket with two faint damp stains to front panel. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Hudson Hills, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages, color illustrations. Loring Coleman's voice as a storyteller is full of his humor and sense of wonder as he tells us about his life and then gives us the tales behind the beauty and mystery of over 50 of his paintings, most of which are reflections of a disappearing life in New England. He begins by describing the moment when his eyesight failed, and he learned that after seven decades as an artist, he might never paint again. His creation of this book became his response. With spirited memories of the intriguing characters who affected his life, Loring describes his upbringing in the tough Chicago of the 1930s, his discovery of idyllic rivers in Concord, Massachusetts, and his adventures as a motorcyclist and young student of great art teachers. He tells of marrying his wife Katinka the day before Pearl Harbor, entering the military, and quickly finding himself commanding the U.S. Army's largest World War II art department. He then traces his energetic years as a teacher, traveling art historian, and lover of Bavaria and Austria. In the context of his rich personal life, Loring shows us his paintings, as he reveals the many amusing, exasperating, and provocative experiences surrounding the artistic choices he made as he became one of New England's most revered artists. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMECTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated. The cartoonist's first book is rich with his portrayal of people's foibles, goofs, and misinterpretations, as seen originally in the New Yorker, Playboy, and Punch. Introduction bu Whitney Balliett. Dust jacket with small tape repair, price-clipped.

Hardcover. US, Collins & Brown, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. The dynamic 1970s saw the optimistic ideals of the previous decade achieving mainstream acceptance even as a conservative backlash took shape. Little wonder this turbulent time was reflected in its diverse music--and in iconic album covers that came to symbolize an era. Classic Album Covers of the 1970s is a visual journey through more than 200 of the very best, from psychedelia-influenced artwork to punk anti-design, from Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and David Bowie, to Patti Smith, The Ramones, and the Sex Pistols.

Softcover. US, Brooklyn Museum Bookshop, 1st, 1992-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. FR, Dupuis, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 46 pages illustrated in color by Van Hamme. FRENCH LANGUAGE, graphic novel. Clean copy.

Softcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, approx. 64 pages. Color illustrated wrappers, stapled. B&w cartoons by Dunn illustrating a collection of some of the world's worst jokes - the 'knock-knocks'. Nice condition, paper has tanned and is brittle. Whitman #801.

Hardcover. London , J. M Dent & Sons , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages. Extensive b&w photography throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Includes extensive notes and documentation accompanying every photograph. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Florence, Italy, Cantini, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in SLIPCASE cover. ITALIAN TEXT. Color pictures. Previous owner's bookplate on end paper, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Slipcase has some tape repair on bottom edge. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine.

Tulsa OK, Thomas Gilcrease Museum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. light gray cloth with black lettering, 255 pages, b&w plates throughout. Thomas Moran (1837-1926) from Bolton, England was an American painter & printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. This catalog features 129 prints with extensive notes. Bibliography and index. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", twenty-four page exhibition catalog is bound in stapled wrappers and is in VG+ condition. B&W reproductions and photographs. Foreword by William S. Lieberman, Curator of Prints for MOMA.

Hardcover. St. Louis, MO, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This book features incredible artworks from the Golden Age of illustration. 204 artists with 217 full page reproductions of original paintings, all photographed directly from the original art. Limited to 900 copies.

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. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages, color illustrations. Eighty-two comic artists are featured, varying greatly in age, experience, and style. Each artist is introduced with a few paragraphs including some biographical material and quotations regarding their style, influences, and approach to their work, followed by approximately four large pages per artist of previously unpublished doodle or draft drawings from their sketchbooks, totaling 700 individual illustrations.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, The Print Mint, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover First Edition July 1970. .50 cent printed price. (28 pages.) Close to near fine in stapled pictorial printed wrappers. Text mildly toned.

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.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 243 pages. Black & white illustrations by Cole. Bookseller's label and previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light rubbing to corners, spine.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. Much has been written about John Constable and his innovative paintings that inspire every succeeding generation of naturalistic artists, but there are few straightforward accounts of this English artist's life and works. Cormack's monograph links biographical detail and scholarly appraisal together in a way that goes beyond the previously most pertinent biography, Graham Reynold's Constable (London: Grenada, 1977). He focuses on the growth of Constable's career rather than new revelations. The book benefits from the inclusion of almost 300 illustrations, with one-third in color. All the major works are shown, plus many that have not been published much in the past. A few flaws are noted: some color reproductions are overbright, there is no chronology to assist readers. Yet this is a solid work and should be considered for large public and all academic libraries covering 19th century art and/or British painting. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Boatner Norton Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Illustrated with black & white examples of works by Robert Crumb - 4 pages in full color.

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Long Beach Museum of Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages, illustrated with 45 color plates. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Since 1970, Mizuno's work has evolved from functional dinnerware to abstract sculptural forms, from playful and humorous trompe l'oeil plates to richly layered sculpture informed by his evocative personal history, paralleling the development of the ceramics field itself in the late 20th century as it evolved from functional forms to a medium of full artistic expression. The exhibition is the first major museum exhibition to survey the work of this artist whose superbly crafted works, while firmly grounded in the traditions of the ceramic arts, extend to new forms in clay that defy traditional categories. This exhibition catalogue designed by Takaaki Matsumoto includes a forward, interview with the artist, a biography and exhibition history, and the exhibition checklist of 48 artworks. The exhibition and publication trace the work of this Japanese-born, Los Angeles-based ceramist from 1971 through 2003. ISBN 0-97127772-3-0 Published by the Long Beach Museum of Art Interview of the artist by Deborah McLeod, foreword by Museum Director Harold Nelson Format: hardcover Dimensions: 8-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches 96 page plus cover / 51 color plates.

Softcover. Brunswick ME, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages, color illustrated wrappers. Black and white, color plates. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, DK Publishing, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 72 pages. Embark on an amazing, visually dazzling adventure across the Golden Age of DC Comics history! The Golden Age heralded the birth of the Super Hero, and DC Comics paved the way. From the big bang debut of Superman in 1938 to the sensational arrival of the Amazon Princess, Wonder Woman in 1942, the face of comics books was to change forever. Profusely illustrated in color. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Frank Tousey, 1st, 1906, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Stapled wraps in color, worn, chipping, short tears to margins of cover but not affecting image. Cover art is bright. Owner's name written in ink above masthead. 30 pages, cheap pulp paper. Offered for cover art.

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. NY, Praeger Publishers, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 288 pages. 971 illustrations including 64 color plates. Previous owner's inscription, embossed stamp on front fly leaf, some edge wear on dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color throughout. Classic Superman stories from the Silver Age are collected together in this brilliant hardcover omnibus. Fans of the Man of Steel won't want to miss this stunning collection of some of the best tales of the 1950's and 1960's! Superman- The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 contains stories from Action Comics #241-265 and Superman #122-137.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill Company, 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with green cloth covers and gilt lettering. Color illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy throughout. Heavy stock pages, gutter cracked in several places. Glue repair abrasion on first chapter. Cover boards clean with minimal wear.

Hardcover. New York , Harrison House, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 150 vintage black-and-white 1920s and 1930s Hollywood star portraits (many/most full-page) with accompanying descriptive captions. "This book lets us see, with dramatic impact, the artistry of the Hollywood studio photographers, whose portraits (reproduced by the millions as cheap fan photographs) of Crawford, Garbo, Cooper and the others both revolutionized photographic portraiture and, to an enormous extent, formed our vision of the great Hollywood faces." 292 pages. Small previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages. Black cloth cover with silhouette of Jefferson's head embossed to front and gilt lettering to spine, b&w illustrated dust jacket, 60 b&w figures, 8 b&w plates. Light wear to dust jacket; otherwise a very tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a in a bright dust jacket except for a sliver of fading to fore-edge, oblong format, unpaginated, illustrated with 52 full color cartoons. Foreword by Mark Boxer. Small owner's stamp on front fly leaf with bottom corner clipped. Uncommon in hardcover.