Art

Hardcover. The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 261 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial boards with black title to spine. Tan dust jacket, with light wear to edges and small closed tears to front cover, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. The most popular of Capp's hundreds of distinctive characters was the Shmoo. This lovable little creature loved mankind so much that it would sacrifice itself and turn into a ham steak, a gallon of milk or a dozen eggs: whatever its owner desired. Its whiskers made nice toothpicks and its eyes could be recycled as buttons. Most important, a Shmoo could reproduce faster than a rabbit. Thus, if you had one Shmoo, you were set. You didn't need to work at all. Thus did the apparent book for mankind become its curse and the powers that be decreed that all Shmoos must be exterminated. Capp's insightful morality tale was so popular that it spawned an unprecedented merchandising bonanza. Two introductions, by David Schreiner and by science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, are illustrated with various Shmoo toys manufactured. The large back cover photograph shows a selection of Shmoo merchandise in color from the Denis Kitchen collection. Also featured in this volume: Flying Sausages (parody of "Flying Saucers," a term first coined a few months earlier; Fearless Fosdick, Nightmare Alice, Salomey, Adam Lazonga, Moonbeam McSwine, Cousin Weak-Eyes and Marryin' Sam. See also our Shmoo Facts Sheet for some amazing statistics about this character's popularity.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with B&W illustrated cartoons. 128 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, IDW Publishing, 3rd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Presenting a deluxe hardcover collection of Chester Gould's timeless comic strip, Dick Tracy. The second volume of this multi-year project includes nearly 500 comic strips from May 1933 to January 1935. This special second volume also features an exclusive essay from Consulting Editor and longtime Tracy writer Max Allan Collins.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Presenting a new type of graphic fiction from a legendary family in American cartooning. Underground cartoonist Kim Deitch has recruited his entire cast of siblings to produce a unique, all-new "picto-fiction" pocket book. Deitch's Pictorama leads off with Kim's comic "The Sunshine Girl." Then it's time for Seth's prose short story "Children of Aruf," about a man and his dog... in a world where dogs talk. Third up is "Unlikely Hours," a paranoid picto-story about a conspiracy of sentient rats written by Seth and illustrated by Kim. Next comes "The Golem," once again written by Seth and decorated with a series of superb pencil illustrations by Simon, a prose novella about the mythical Jewish monster/protector. Kim wraps with "The Cop on the Beat, the Man in the Moon and Me," one last comic - this one autobiographical. The book features an introduction by the Academy Award-winning animator, cartoonist and illustrator Gene (Tom and Jerry) Deitch, who happens to be the proud father of the author.

Troy NY, Cluett Peabody & Co., 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "What kind of shirt...", color art by James Williamson. 11 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.

Softcover. Hanover, Brandeis University Press, 1st pbk, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 338 pages, a study of Alice Neel and her paintings. Illustrated with b/w photographs and color plates, with notes, bibliography, and index. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Whitney/Knopf, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear. Else a clean, tight copy. Illuminates Steinberg's creative genius as a writer of pictures by critically viewing his ability to transcend borders between art and language in his drawings, cartoons, New Yorker covers, watercolors, and three-dimensional constructions.

1929, Book: Very Good, Color art of woman holding terrier in her arms by McClelland Barclay. 10 X 13", label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Lubbock, Texas, Texas Tech University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 374 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrinkwrap. Each chronological section covers the full range of men's clothing by category, including suits and evening wear, outerwear, sportswear, accessories, sleepwear, swimwear, underwear, and grooming. Documenting the panorama of men's dress with 650 illustrations.

1937, Color cartoon of a man vexed over his income tax forms. Art by Constantine Alajalov. 8 1/4 X 11 1/2", 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.

1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Christmas Issue, mother with baby in cradle. Art by Arthur Becher. 11 X 16", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages, $2 cover price. B&w art by Gilbert Shelton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs spanning over 30 years. Tight copy.

1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Bridal shower, art by Stevan Dohanos. 10 1/4 X 13 1/2", 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.

1925, Two-color art of boys shooting marbles while an older gentleman looks on. Painting by J. C. Leyendecker. 10 X 13", small chip at top corner not affecting image. 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. Washington DC, Anderson House, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with blue lettering, unpaginated (about 100 pages). B&w cartoons throughout. SIGNED WITH A COLOR ILLUSTRATION BY CHESNEY on the inside cover. Clean, square copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Shuster, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. No dust jacket, a bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Santa Fe NM, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2nd pr, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps. Foreword by George Kubler. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. 127 pages. 81 artists interpret this masterpiece of 19th century Spanish Franciscan architecture. Map of Taos laid in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink wrap. When Sam Taylor-Johnson climbed the famous mirrored staircase of Chanel's headquarters at 31 rue Cambon, Paris, she did not quite know what to expect. Her destination was Coco Chanel's private apartment on the second floor; her mission, to photograph it.

Softcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 352 pages. In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English. Now, in this gorgeously produced book, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys. This is The Dynamic Duo as you've never seen them: with a distinctly Japanese, atomic-age twist as they battle aliens, mutated dinosaurs, and villains who won't stay dead. And as a bonus: Jiro Kuwata, the manga master who originally wrote and drew this material, has given an exclusive interview for our book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 420 pages with 338 illustrations, including 278 plates in full color. Large heavy folio. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 430 pages. This volume of essays reexamines the establishment and early history of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, one of the most important centers of governance, education, and theory in the arts for the early modern period and the model for all subsequent academies of art worldwide. It is the most comprehensive history of the Accademia to be published in more than forty years, and the first in nearly two hundred years to be based almost entirely on new primary and documentary material. In reconstructing the early history of the institution, the volume also provides a new basis for tracking the careers of painters, sculptors, and architects working in Rome in the early 16th century, and for understanding the artistic and professional issues that engaged them.

Hardcover. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial covers. Numbers 7-12, all reproduced in full color. Very good.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stiff card wrappers firm and clean; Binding tight; Pages bright, internally clean, no ownership markings or annotations, illustrated with color and b&w plates, 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.8 inches; 287 pages. Best known for his barbed and brilliant art for The New Yorker, Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) did much more. He executed public murals, designed fabrics and stage sets, was an inventive collagist and printmaker, and turned his magic touch to the fields of painting, sculpture, advertising, and even wartime propaganda. This is the first comprehensive look at Steinberg's extraordinary contribution to 20th-century art, which was that of a modern-day illuminator, putting word and image in play to create art that spoke to the eyes, and minds, of readers. Previously unseen sketches, documents, and printed matter from the artist's papers illustrate the essay, career chronology, and entries for 120 objects featured in this important book.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. In 1952, at the age of 23, Helen Frankenthaler created her legendary painting Mountains and Sea. She poured thinned-down pigment directly onto unprimed canvas to be absorbed into its fibers. This large painting, the first in which Frankenthaler used her soak-stain technique, synthesized the influences that had informed her work to that point and announces her arrival as a mature artist. Published to accompany a 1998 exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, this book focuses on Mountains and Sea and other groundbreaking paintings of Frankenthaler's early career. In this period, Frankenthaler drew upon Cubism, the abstractions of Arshile Gorky and, especially, those of Jackson Pollock, whose radical technique inspired her to reject easel painting. Frankenthaler herself became associated with the second generation of the New York School and her unique method and experimental use of materials influenced her contemporaries and subsequent generations of artists.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st trade, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 146 pages. In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" the "calculated pandemonium" of the splendidly irrational kingdom of Wonderland is what Barry Moser set out to capture in illustrating the Lewis Carroll classic. In his seventy-five wood engravings, Moser depicts with consummate invention, wit, and skill the quite exceptional inhabitants and sights of Wonderland-the March Hare, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat's grin-as reviewed through Alice's eyes. The result is startlingly original.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated boards, yellow cloth spine with green lettering. Preface by Carl Van Vechten, color frontispiece, b&w caricatures throughout by the artist: Stravinsky, Picasso, Willa Cather, Jack Dempsey, Mary Pickford, Ed Wynn, Babe Ruth ,Will Rogers, Eugene O'Neill, Paul Whiteman, Lillian Gish, Fanny Brice, many more famous personalities of the day. Some light foxing to some pages. Good plus. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Grove Press, 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. 14 pages of text, with eighty-four drawings and sixteen watercolors by Grosz throughout. Introduction by Henry Miller. Moderate foxing on fabric covers. Clean, tight internally.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The first biography of the epic life of one of the most important, enigmatic and private artists of the 20th century. Drawn from almost 40 years of conversations with the artist, letters and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic. This is an extremely intimate, lively and rich portrait of the artist, full of gossip and stories recounted by Freud to Feaver about people, encounters, and work. Freud's art was his life--"my work is purely autobiographical"--and he usually painted only family, friends, lovers, children, though there were exceptions like the famous small portrait of the Queen. With his later portraits, the subjects were often nude, names were never given and sittings could take up to 16 months, each session lasting five hours but subjects were rarely bored as Freud was a great raconteur and mimic.Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 263 pages,16 BW illus., 16 color plates. Takes us into the mind of American abstract painter Ethel Schwabacher (1903-1984). "Comparable to such important literary journals as those of Virginia Woolf and Anais Nin, Schwabacher's record will become a valuable resource for research into the creative process as well as the art history and theory of our time." Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Ward Lock & Co., 4th Ed., nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with embossed design and bright gilt decoration, 143 pages plus publisher's ads. A standard mid-century book covering pencil-sketching, figure and object drawing, perspective and isometrical drawings, and engraving on metal and woo with 300 illustrations. Most likely late 1850s, 1860. Name on first blank page, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 304 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists appropriation of the past for political purposes focuses on the role of the visual in the aim of fusing the past and the modern world in Mussolini"s Italy. With contributions by art historians.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 712 pages. These superb stories from the nearly 20-year run of Love and Rockets define a world of Hispanic gang warfare, '80s California, punk rock, women wrestlers and the subtle battle to stay true to oneself. Hernandez's main characters are Maggie and Hopey, two adorable lesbian rockers who start out in a somewhat vague relationship and are then are separated by adventures both grand and demeaning. Maggie is a magnificent comics character, a tempestuous naif who wears her heart on her sleeve when she's not throwing it at a succession of bad boys who ignore her, even though Hopey is secretly the love of Maggie's life. Hopey, a mohawked imp, is more opaque, a symbol of the youthful rebellion of punk rock that all the characters are trying to return to in some way, even as real life sweeps them further away from their dreams. Maggie's weight gain over the years sends her self-esteem on a downward spiral, while Hopey goes on an endless tour with a band. Along the way, Hernandez gradually peels away the strip's early sci-fi trappings (dinosaurs and rocket ships) to create a devastatingly naturalistic world. Sharp b&w drawings capture the characters in minute detail with a wide range of emotions. Finally collected into one volume, these stories are among the greatest comics ever put to paper, and an essential piece of the literature of the punk movement.

Softcover. NY, New York Museum of the American Indian, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, leaflet of the Museum of the American Indian, account of a rare blanket, thought to be woven of dog hair, of the Salish Indians along with discussion of technique. Very good condition, bound between stiff card wraps.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2nd printing, 2010-06-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 263 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Created by McSweeney's in celebration of their 11th anniversary, this book showcases the independent literary publisher's award-winning art and design across all its activities, including McSweeney's books, quarterly journals, Wholphin DVDs, and The Believer magazine. Hundreds of images - from napkin sketches to final objects - offer insights into McSweeney's creative process, and a narrative history in interviews explores the incidental, accidental, and deliberate ways they have helped transform the visual experience of reading. hundreds of photos and illustrations, and interviews with the staff and writers and artists such as Rick Moody, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgeman, Lawrence Weschler, Michael Chabon, Chris Ware, Ben Katchor, Charles Burns, and many more.

Softcover. Washington D.C., The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog, 127 pages, 74 B&W plates throughout. Edgewear to cover. Small blemish to front of wrapper. Otherwise a very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Penn State University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 328 pages illustrated in color. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres has long been recognized as one of the great painters of the modern era and among the greatest portraitists of all time. Over a century and a half of scholarly writing on the artist has grappled with Ingres's singular identity, his relationship to past and future masters, and the idiosyncrasies of his art. Ingres and the Studio: Women, Painting, History makes a unique contribution to this literature by focusing on the importance of Ingres's training of students and the crucial role played by portraits-and their subjects-for Ingres's studio and its developing aesthetic project. Rather than understanding the portrait as merely a screen onto which the artist's desires were projected, the book insists on the importance of accounting for the active role of portrait sitters themselves. Through careful analysis of familiar and long-overlooked works, Ingres and the Studio traces a series of encounters between painters and portrait subjects in which women sitters-such as the artist Julie Mottez, art critic, salonniere, and historian Marie d'Agoult, and tragic actress Rachel-emerge as vital interlocutors in a shared aesthetic project. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New York, Skira Rizzoli, 1st, 2011, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 264 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Known for her life-size sculptures made entirely of beads, Liza Lou has had audiences and critics spellbound since her debut exhibition fifteen years ago. In this comprehensive volume devoted to her work, illustrated with two hundred photographs, writers, critics, and scholars explore her work in depth.

Softcover. Italy , Coconino Press, Reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Softcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor creasing to dust jacket rear flap.

Softcover. Old Westbury NY, The Feminist Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 237 pages, b&w illustrations. A generation after her death, German artist Kathe Kollwitz won a reputation as one of the great graphic artists of the 20th Century. Concentrating on the more 'democratic' media--especially etchings, lithographs, posters, and woodcuts, as well as sculpture and bronze reliefs--Kollwitz always created for the people, rather than for the upper class collector. This original paperback is generously illustrated with many striking, seldom-seen reproductions from private collections, assembled in one volume for the first time. Name on front fly leaf, inscription on title page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. La Fabrica, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 391 pages, profusely illustrated. This excellent catalog contributes a wealth of new information, providing a valuable contribution to our understanding of Man Ray. The treasure trove of images and objects collected here is drawn from the large archives of the Man Ray Trust in Long Island, New York, and includes little known early works, documents and objects from his private life, working drawings and sketches for major works as well as innumerable familiar masterpieces.

Hardcover. Flagstaff AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, original dark blue cloth stamped with a wolf and rattler in silver on front cover and lettered in silver on spine. Fine/pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed). Half folio. Illustrated Contains articles and check lists on, amongst many, Peter Hurd, N. C. Wyeth, Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, Maynard Dixon, Edward Borein and Will James.

1967, Book: Very Good, Color art of farm land in spring by Hubbell, 8 3/4 X 12", 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 THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Milan Italy, Jaca Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 315 pages, color illustrations. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The Panza Collection has gathered together a critical assembly of the art of the 50s, 60s and 70s. This book traces the history of Giuseppe Panza''s life as an art collector and includes an illustrated section of works by various artists like Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, Louis Cane and many others. Color and black and white illustrations. Bound in original gray boards. Housed in white pictorial dust jacket.

Rome, Franca May, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cardboard slip-case is VG with some wear. This is a written essay by the Italian author, Soavi of the art and world of Jean-Michel Folon. There are many full page full-color plates of the artist's paintings and serigraphs. This is also a visual essay (via color photos) of the farm in Burcy, near Paris, where the artist has his home and atelier. In all, twenty-eight of the artist's works are reproduced, most either taking up a full page, and some as two-page spreads.

Book: Very Good, Color drawing of man with watering can under a surreal tree. 8 3/4 X 12", 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 THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. New York, Gingko Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Illustrated throughout in color. Minor wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Renowned cartoonist Julie Doucet has created a unique, mass produced artist's book. Printed on a half dozen different papers in eight colors, this amalgamation of drawing, collage, painting, and narrative is a visionary meditation on love and its discontents.

Softcover. Boston, Shambhala, 1st, 1981, Softcover, 160 pages. The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns--ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again in all these forms. Patterns are also repeated in how things grow and are made--by the dynamic union of opposites--as demonstrated by the spirals that move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant.