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Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruschaby: Ruscha, Ed /Editors: Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton ,Hermann Zschiegner

Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha
by: Ruscha, Ed /Editors: Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton ,Hermann Zschiegner

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in white. 288 pages in b&w and color. In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these "small books" were sought after, collected, and loved by Ruscha's fans and fellow artists. Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other small books that appropriated or paid homage to Ruscha's have appeared throughout the world. This book collects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha's books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes. These small books revisit, imitate, honor, and parody Ruscha in form, content, and title. Some rephotograph his subjects: Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Forty Years Later. Some offer a humorous variation: Various Unbaked Cookies (which concludes, as did Ruscha's Various Small Fires, with a glass of milk), Twentynine Palms (twenty-nine photographs of palm-readers' signs). Some say something different: None of the Buildings on Sunset Strip. Some reach for a connection with Ruscha himself: 17 Parked Cars in Various Parking Lots Along Pacific Coast Highway Between My House and Ed Ruscha's.

Record # 385663

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James McNeill Whistlerby: Dorment, Richard & Magaret F. MacDonald

James McNeill Whistler
by: Dorment, Richard & Magaret F. MacDonald

Hardcover. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Exhibition catalog. Hardcover, 331 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise like new.

Record # 372101

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ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER: Saturday Evening Post September 18 1909 - Teacher's Petby: J. C. Leyendecker (Illust.)

ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER: Saturday Evening Post September 18 1909 - Teacher's Pet
by: J. C. Leyendecker (Illust.)

1909, Book: Very Good, Boy giving class speech under watchful eye of teacher. Two-color art by J. C. Leyendecker. 10 X 13", mild soil. 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.

Record # 382949

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Arts and Crafts Movement in California, The: Living the Good Lifeby: Trapp, Kenneth R. (Ed.)

Arts and Crafts Movement in California, The: Living the Good Life
by: Trapp, Kenneth R. (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, illustrated throughout with 213 plates in color and b&w. Maroon cloth with white title to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. The rich artistic and social history of the Arts and Crafts movement in California, as well as the highly collectible objects it produced. In a brief but intensely prolific period between about 1895 and 1930. Essays by Leslie Greene Bowman, Bruce Kamerling, Cheryl Robertson, Joseph A. Taylor, David C. Streatfield, Karen J. Weitze and Richard Guy Wilson.

Record # 606317

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Easton Neston: Volume Two, 17-19 May 2005, Sale Code LO5500by: Sotheby's Northamptonshire

Easton Neston: Volume Two, 17-19 May 2005, Sale Code LO5500
by: Sotheby's Northamptonshire

Softcover. London, Sotheby's, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages, photographs throughout. Very slight corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853674

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Chromolithographs of Louis Prang, Theby: McClinton, Katherine M.

Chromolithographs of Louis Prang, The
by: McClinton, Katherine M.

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, inc., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Just a little yellowing to dust jacket flaps, otherwise very clean inside and out. In very good condition.

Record # 30670

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La Marque Jaune -  Les Adventures de Blake et Mortimerby: Jacobs, Edgar P.

La Marque Jaune - Les Adventures de Blake et Mortimer
by: Jacobs, Edgar P.

Hardcover. Bruxelles, Dargaud , reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 72 pages illustrated in color by Jacobs. Clean, very good. FRENCH TEXT.

Record # 410883

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Charley Harper's Animal Kingdomby: Harper, Charley and Todd Oldham

Charley Harper's Animal Kingdom
by: Harper, Charley and Todd Oldham

Hardcover. New York , Ammo Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, Harper's color illustrations of birds and animals throughout. No dust jacket as issued. Celebrated designer Todd Oldham opens another treasure trove of unseen and unpublished illustrations in the new AMMO Books release, "Charley Harper's Animal Kingdom." Todd has done it again by going deeper into Charley Harper's extensive archive to create the ultimate companion to "An Illustrated Life" and present the absolute best of Charley's previously hidden illustrations. Ranging from bugs and birds to all creatures of land and sea from the bountiful imagination of the artist, animal lovers and fans of Charley alike will be thrilled with this stunning new collection. Featuring more than 300 previously unseen illustrations, "Charley Harper's Animal Kingdom" includes illustrations created during a span of more than sixty years and appeals to a wide range of audiences both young and old. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 350792

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Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor by: Andrew Crispo

Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor
by: Andrew Crispo

Softcover. NY, Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor , 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, The catalogue of an exhibition at the Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, May 16 - June 30, 1974. Features the work of 10 artists: Milton Avery (15 works), Charles Burchfield (14 works), Charles Demuth (20 works), Arthur Dove (15 works), Winslow Homer (14 works), Edward Hopper (16 works), John Marin (19 works), Maurice Prendergast (13 works), John Singer Sargent (14 works), Andrew Wyeth (18 works). With 52 color Illustrations and 106 in black and white. Clean copy.

Record # 385770

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Matisse: Father & Sonby: Russell, John

Matisse: Father & Son
by: Russell, John

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. The story of Pierre Matisse, his father, Henri Matisse, his gallery in NY and the European artists he introduced to America. 415 pages. Color, black & white illust. Dj price clipped.

Record # 57297

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Breakthroughby: Enki Bilal, Neil Gaiman, Dave Gibbons, Milo Manara, Dave McKean, Moebius

Breakthrough
by: Enki Bilal, Neil Gaiman, Dave Gibbons, Milo Manara, Dave McKean, Moebius

Softcover. New York , Catalan Communications, 1st US, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Softcover, 80 pages illustrated in color by various artists. Edited by P. Christin and A.C. Knigge. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 410868

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Art of Tom Lovell, The: An Invitation to Historyby: Hedgpeth, Don and Walt Reed

Art of Tom Lovell, The: An Invitation to History
by: Hedgpeth, Don and Walt Reed

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. "A commercial artist who started out sketching in the 1930s for pulp magazines, Lovell advanced to the glossier "slicks" in the 1950s and has since specialized in Old West, Plains Indian, and Civil War themes. He here presents from that long career his best canvases, among them his famed depictions of Lee's surrender". Gorgeous color plates.

Record # 466639

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The Art of Romare Beardenby: Bearden, Romare and Ruth E. Fine, Mary Lee Corlett

The Art of Romare Bearden
by: Bearden, Romare and Ruth E. Fine, Mary Lee Corlett

Softcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art , 2nd pr., 203, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages illustrated with 224 color plates, 86 black & white. One of America's most innovative artists, Romare Bearden (1911-1988) made colorful and passionate images that reflected his life in a time of creative ferment. His influences ranged from the old masters to African art, as well as the world around him: popular religion and ritual, jazz clubs and brothels, the history and literature of his time, and the places he lived (the rural South, Pittsburgh and Harlem, the Caribbean island of St. Martin). The resulting images are fresh and evocative, filled with quirky details and rhythmic forms. This authoritative and beautiful book, which accompanies a major retrospective opening at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., provides a provocative and absorbing look at a beloved artist. The Art of Romare Bearden showcases compelling examples of his pioneering work: complex collages and photostats; watercolors, gouaches, and oils; little-known landscapes; his only known sculpture; costume designs; and book illustrations. Mildwear to corners otherwise very good, clean copy.

Record # 385939

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Risko Book, Theby: Carter, Graydon and Kevin Sessums

Risko Book, The
by: Carter, Graydon and Kevin Sessums

Softcover. New York , Monacelli Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages, color illustrations throughout by Robert Risko. These celebrity caricatures are instantly recognizable -- recognizable both as unmistakable portraits of famous subjects and as examples of Risko's bold and fluid style. Risko's career was launched in 1978 when Andy Warhol gave him an assignment for Interview magazine. Since then he has drawn likenesses of hundreds of notables from the worlds of film, television, politics, and culture. In addition to countless images for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and other major magazines, Risko has illustrated book jackets, video covers, movie posters, and CD packages. Very good plus.

Record # 512150

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Terry and the Pirates: Color Sundays Vol. 1 (1934-1935)by: Caniff, Milton

Terry and the Pirates: Color Sundays Vol. 1 (1934-1935)
by: Caniff, Milton

Hardcover. New York, Flying Buttress, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with color comics throughout. LIght wear to edges.

Record # 369120

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Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture - 3 Volumes - Plate Volume, Text Volume, Catalogue Volumeby: Pope-Hennessy, John

Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture - 3 Volumes - Plate Volume, Text Volume, Catalogue Volume
by: Pope-Hennessy, John

Hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Part III of Pope-Hennessy's Introduction to Italian Sculpture. 3 Volumes - Plate Volume - non-paginated. Illustrated with black & white plates. Bump at top of spine. Dust jacket age darkened, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy. Text Volume - 126 pages. Black & white illustrations. Bottom right corner bumped. Dust jacket age darkened, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy. Catalogue Volume - 183 pages. Dust jacket age darkened, wear along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611544

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Les Peuples De La Nuit. Aux Frontieres De L'Impossible Une Aventure D'Haxtur by: Victor de la Fuente

Les Peuples De La Nuit. Aux Frontieres De L'Impossible Une Aventure D'Haxtur
by: Victor de la Fuente

Hardcover. FR, Dargaud, 1st thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 48 pages illustrated in color. FRENCH LANGUAGE, graphic novel. Clean copy.

Record # 385953

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Constructing Modernity: The Art & Career of Naum Gaboby: Hammer, Martin H., Christina Lodder

Constructing Modernity: The Art & Career of Naum Gabo
by: Hammer, Martin H., Christina Lodder

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 528 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. A very clean, tight copy in great condition. This book is the first comprehensive account of Gabo's life, career, and artistic theory and practice. Martin Hammer and Christina Lodder explore in detail the evolution of the artist's work and his aesthetic concerns, creative processes, assimilation of such new materials as plastic, and approach to public sculpture. Drawing on Gabo's extensive and largely unpublished archives of letters, diaries, notebooks, models, and sketchbooks, they discuss the sculptor's work in the context of his relations with other avant-garde artists, architects, and critics, including his brother Antoine Pevsner.

Record # 454938

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De Kooningby: Rosenberg, Harold

De Kooning
by: Rosenberg, Harold

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover (cloth) in near fine condition with dust jacket which is protected by clear plastic covering, also in near fine condition. 293 pages., including 226 illustrations with 65 color plates. A beautiful and large-format monograph focusing on Willem De Kooning's life and paintings.

Record # 604952

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An Elephant is Soft and Mushy: More Cartoons by S. Grossby: Gross, S.

An Elephant is Soft and Mushy: More Cartoons by S. Gross
by: Gross, S.

Softcover. New York, Avon, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Light soil to pages. Tight copy.

Record # 368490

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Robert Bateman: A Retrospective of Limited Editions, Volume II - 1983-1986by: Robert Bateman

Robert Bateman: A Retrospective of Limited Editions, Volume II - 1983-1986
by: Robert Bateman

Softcover. Venice FL, Mill Pond Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light gray wrappers with gilt lettering. 109 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Illustrated in color with Bateman's wonderful wildlife paintings. Faint soil to covers, otherwise clean.

Record # 386004

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Sieff Fashionby: Sieff, Barbara and Jeanloup

Sieff Fashion
by: Sieff, Barbara and Jeanloup

Hardcover. New York , Prestel , 1st, 2012-09-25, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 207 pages, profusely illustrated. One of the most famous and popular photographers of his time, Jeanloup Sieff photographed some of the most beautiful women and men of his era. This wide-ranging collection of his work captures some of his most famous photographs spanning a career of nearly forty years. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 350715

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Aline and Bob's Dirty Laundry Comics (No. 1)by: Crumb R. and Aline Kominsky

Aline and Bob's Dirty Laundry Comics (No. 1)
by: Crumb R. and Aline Kominsky

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Cartoonist's Co-op Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Very good. 32 pages with semi-glossy color covers, b/w interiors. Cover price is $.75. An adult comic, also a seminal work in the field of both Underground, and Autobiographical comic storytelling and collaboration, by two of the most influential figures in Underground comics.

Record # 367575

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Max Beckmann: A Retrospectiveby: Schulz-Hoffmann , Carla/Judith C. Weiss

Max Beckmann: A Retrospective
by: Schulz-Hoffmann , Carla/Judith C. Weiss

Hardcover. Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum/Prestel-Verlag, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 482 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. illustrated throughout with 297 plates in full color and black & white. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 458399

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Diego Rivera - The Detroit Industry Muralsby: Bank Downs, Linda

Diego Rivera - The Detroit Industry Murals
by: Bank Downs, Linda

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages. Black & white photography. Color and black & white artwork by Diego Rivera. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Remainder mark on bottom book edge.

Record # 204943

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Kitsch Deluxeby: Gillilan, Lesley

Kitsch Deluxe
by: Gillilan, Lesley

Hardcover. London, Mitchell Beazley, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.144 pages. Illustrated with color photos by Dave Young.

Record # 75436

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Nixon Rated Cartoonsby: Ranan R. Lurie

Nixon Rated Cartoons
by: Ranan R. Lurie

Softcover. New York, New York Times Book Co., 1st Edition, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good with just a touch of tanning from age. Binding tight. Edges have some shelf wear. Pages clean and unmarked. In great shape.,

Record # 367564

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Rubens: A Porraitby: Oppenheimer, Paul

Rubens: A Porrait
by: Oppenheimer, Paul

Hardcover. NY, Cooper Square Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 432 pages. The most popular painter of his day, yet an artist whose reputation has fluctuated among art scholars and critics of the succeeding centuries, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is chiefly remembered today for his large canvases of sensual gardens, religious scenes, and voluptuous "Rubenesque" women. In Oppenheimer's account of his life, Rubens emerges not only as a talented painter but also as an intellectual with a unique conception of beauty that proved very influential and ahead of his time. Oppenheimer explores Rubens' ideas as he tells the story of his life, which included years as a diplomat, and illuminates his response to the humanism of the Renaissance in which he lived.

Record # 361245

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Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France 1900-1973by: Cohen-Solal, Annie/Taylor, Sam (Translator)

Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France 1900-1973
by: Cohen-Solal, Annie/Taylor, Sam (Translator)

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 588 pages, several color plates. Before Picasso became Picasso-the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France's leading figures-he was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services-the first of many entries in an extensive case file. Though he soon emerged as the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso's art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. The genius who conceived Guernica in 1937 as a visceral statement against fascism was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation. In a country where the police and the conservative Academie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma-as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist. Picasso the Foreigner approaches the artist's career and art from an entirely new angle, making extensive use of fascinating and long-overlooked archival sources. In this groundbreaking narrative, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Record # 386334

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Esquire Cartoon Album - 25th Anniversary Volumeby: Gingrich (Ed.), Arnold

Esquire Cartoon Album - 25th Anniversary Volume
by: Gingrich (Ed.), Arnold

Hardcover. NY, Esquire Magazine, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover. Over 550 cartoons, 150 in color. Dust jacket with closed tears, chipping, Chunk gone at top of spine - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 66997

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The Marvel Age of Comics 1961

The Marvel Age of Comics 1961

Hardcover. Taschen, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 396 pages. It was an age of mighty heroes, misunderstood monsters, and complex villains. With the publication, in November 1961, of Fantastic Four No. 1, comics giant Marvel inaugurated a transformative era in pop culture. Through the next two decades, the iconic Hulk, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the X-Men leapt, darted, and towered through its pages. Captain America was resurrected from his 1940s deep-freeze and the Avengers became the World's Greatest Super Heroes. Daredevil, Doctor Strange, and dozens more were added to the pantheon, each with their own rogues' gallery of malevolent counterparts. Over 50 years later, these thrilling characters from the '60s and '70s are more popular than ever, fighting the good fight in comics, toy aisles, and blockbuster movies around the world. In The Marvel Age of Comics 1961-1978, legendary writer and editor Roy Thomas takes you to the heart of this seminal segment in comic history-an age of triumphant character and narrative innovation that reinvented the super hero genre. With hundreds of images and insider insights, the book traces the birth of champions who were at once epic in their powers and adversaries and grounded in a world that readers recognized as close to their own; relatable heroes with the same problems, struggles, and shortcomings as everyone else. By the '70s, we see how the House of Ideas also elevated horror, sword and sorcery, and martial arts in its stable of titanic demigods, introducing iconic characters like Man-Thing, Conan, and Shang-Chi and proving that their brand of storytelling could succeed and flourish outside of the capes and tights. Clean, like new copy.

Record # 374268

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Kirby: King of Comics by: Evanier, Mark

Kirby: King of Comics
by: Evanier, Mark

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Color illustrations. Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books' most popular characters including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. There were comics before Kirby, but for the most part their page layout, graphics, and visual dynamic aped what was being done in syndicated newspaper strips. Almost everything that was different about comic books began in the forties on the drawing table of Jack Kirby. This is his story by one who knew him well-the authorized celebration of the one and only "King of Comics" and his groundbreaking work.

Record # 361284

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Painting as an Art: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1984by: Wollheim, Richard

Painting as an Art: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1984
by: Wollheim, Richard

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, In Painting as an Art, which began as the 1984 Andrew Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., philosopher Richard Wollheim transcended the boundaries and habits of both philosophy and art history to produce a large, encompassing vision of viewing art. Wollheim had three great passions--philosophy, psychology, art--and his work attempted to unify them into a theory of the experience of art. He believed that unlocking the meaning of a painting involved retrieving, almost reenacting, the creative activity that produced it.In order to fully appreciate a work of art, Wollheim argued, critics must bring to the understanding of a work of art a much richer conception of human psychology than they have in the past: "Many [critics] . . . make do with a psychology that, if they tried to live their lives by it, would leave them at the end of an ordinary day without lovers, friends, or any insight into how this came about." Many reviewers have remarked on the insightfulness of the book's final chapter, in which Wollheim contended that certain paintings by Titian, Bellini, de Kooning, and others represent the painters' attempts to project fantasies about the human body onto the canvas. Light fading to dj spine. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386470

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Book of Edward A. Wilson, The: A Survey of His Work 1916-1948by: Kent, Norman

Book of Edward A. Wilson, The: A Survey of His Work 1916-1948
by: Kent, Norman

Hardcover. New York, Heritage Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 107 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Decorative stain to top edge. Wear, chipping, rubbing to dust jacket. Spine of dust jacket sightly faded. Else a tight copy.

Record # 851696

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Selected Drawing of Clare Briggs, The: Real Folks at Home, Wonder What -- Thinks About, Movie of a Man, Handy Man Around the House/Memorial Editionby: Briggs, Clare

Selected Drawing of Clare Briggs, The: Real Folks at Home, Wonder What -- Thinks About, Movie of a Man, Handy Man Around the House/Memorial Edition
by: Briggs, Clare

Softcover. New York, Wm. H. Wise, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Comic strips by Clare Briggs that originally appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune. This being one volume of a seven volume set. Light wear to cover corners and edges. Clean, tight copy. Pebbled flexible cloth covers. Clean.

Record # 367638

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Theatre of the Face, The: Portrait Photography Since 1900by: Kozloff, Max

Theatre of the Face, The: Portrait Photography Since 1900
by: Kozloff, Max

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy. Covering many styles and movements, it includes work by pioneers such as Edward Sheriff Curtis, seminal figures like Walker Evans, Cecil Beaton and August Sander, as well as artists such as Martin Parr, Cindy Sherman and Philip-Lorca diCorcia - With over 300 black and white and color photographs, this book offers a new perspective on the history of photography by examining the personalities both behind and in front of the camera.

Record # 471473

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The Sculpture of Falconet by: Levitine, George

The Sculpture of Falconet
by: Levitine, George

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, dark red cloth/dark red DJ. 144 pp. 108 bw plates. All of Falconet's major works and attributions are illustrated in gravure, with many details. Includes a translation from the French of Falconet's Reflections sur la sculpture by Eda Mezer Levitine.

Record # 396781

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Birds of the Northern Forestby: Lansdowne, J.F. & John A. Livingston

Birds of the Northern Forest
by: Lansdowne, J.F. & John A. Livingston

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1966, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 56 plates in 6-color plus pencil sketches by Lansdowne.

Record # 19886

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In Formosa's Dire Straits: A Complete Steve Canyon Adventureby: Caniff, Milton

In Formosa's Dire Straits: A Complete Steve Canyon Adventure
by: Caniff, Milton

Softcover. Princeton WI, Kitchen Sink Press, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 142 pages illustrated in b&w by Caniff. Clean, very good.

Record # 411210

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Palazzo Te: Giulio Romano's Masterwork in Mantuaby: Ugo Bazzotti

Palazzo Te: Giulio Romano's Masterwork in Mantua
by: Ugo Bazzotti

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 255 color plates. Built for Federico II Gonzaga Duke of Mantua between 1525 and 1536, Palazzo Te is the masterpiece of Renaissance artist, designer, and architect Giulio Romano, the most accomplished and favored of Raphael's pupils.The palace's interiors are replete with frescoes depicting imaginative scenes and trompe l'oeil fantasies of gods and heroes, fictive marble statues, and portraits of the Duke's favorite thoroughbreds. From the erotic scenes of the Sala di Psiche to the famous Sala di Giganti, based on the mythological defeat of the Titans by the gods of Olympus, the High Renaissance ideal of classical harmony and balance is overtaken by breathtaking illusionist techniques and images of giants, falling masonry, and the thunderbolts from the gods.

Record # 374976

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Kamen's Kalamity and Other Stories by: Jack Kamen, Al Feldstein, Otto Binder

Kamen's Kalamity and Other Stories
by: Jack Kamen, Al Feldstein, Otto Binder

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 236 pages, b&w art throughout. Jack Kamen's stories for The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear favored unnerving creepiness over gruesome shock. With his penchant for deft delineations of scheming women, jealous husbands, murderous love triangles, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen's pen laid down a precise, sure line that brought each story's shock ending into sharp relief. This volume features 27 Kamen favorites, drawn at the peak of powers, including:"Kamen's Kalamity," our title story, featuring the "true" origin story of the artist himself! Clean copy.

Record # 386917

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Made In Italy? 1951-2001by: Settembrini, Luigi

Made In Italy? 1951-2001
by: Settembrini, Luigi

Softcover. Milan, Skira, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 217 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 351133

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In a New Light: Giovanni Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert"by: Rutherglen, Susannah

In a New Light: Giovanni Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert"
by: Rutherglen, Susannah

Hardcover. Lewes, DE, GILES, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrinkwrap. Over 140 color illustrations. Provides analysis of this single panel painting of St. Francis, rendered by Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Bellini

Record # 353154

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Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Artist as Photographerby: Riehlman, Franklin, Tom Wolf, and Bruce Weber

Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Artist as Photographer
by: Riehlman, Franklin, Tom Wolf, and Bruce Weber

Softcover. West Palm Beach, Fla, Edith C. Blum Art Institute / Bard College / Norton Gallery, First, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10.5" x 8.5" catalog for exhibition at the Edith C. Blum Art Institute in 1983. 46 pages and additional plates. Essays by Franklin Riehlman, Tom Wolf, and Bruce Weber. 28 full-page b&w photographic plates by Kuniyoshi, in addition to some by others. 42 b&w Kuniyoshi drawings. Accompanied by text. Minors scuffs on back cover. Else in very good condition

Record # 806697

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Gilbert & George: Intimate Conversations with Francois Joquetby: Jonquet, Francois

Gilbert & George: Intimate Conversations with Francois Joquet
by: Jonquet, Francois

Hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 2005, Hardcover, 360 pages. A compelling insight into Gilbert & George's everyday enigma. The artists' unfailing politeness, consideration for others and open nature exert an irresistible charm. But it's Jonquet's walks with G & G around their home patch of Spitalfields that shed new light on the work, lavishly illustrated with accompanying personal photos.

Record # 362100

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So Far So Goudeby: Goude, Jean-Paul with Patrick Mauries

So Far So Goude
by: Goude, Jean-Paul with Patrick Mauries

Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 349 pages, color illustrations throughout. DVD included. Representing Jean-Paul Goude's life and work from the late 1960s up to the present, the book spans Goude's years at Esquire; his revolutionary work with Grace Jones, his videos for MTV and for Azzedine Alaia; his advertising work for Chanel, and more. With text and images by Goude himself, So Far So Goude is the definitive book on the work of an extraordinarily innovative, talented and unorthodox man. With more than 350 illustrations in full color, this book is a fascinating reference for anyone interested in fashion illustration, photography, and all other avenues of commercial design and advertising.

Record # 351175

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Latin American Posters: Public Aesthetics And Mass Politicsby: Davidson (Ed.), Russ

Latin American Posters: Public Aesthetics And Mass Politics
by: Davidson (Ed.), Russ

Softcover. Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 188 pages, illustrated with 100+ political posters made between 1960 and 1990, this book documents the sociopolitical history of Latin America during a period of intense radicalism and upheaval. Essays by leading Latin American scholars

Record # 353190

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Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism (Georgia O'Keefe Museum)by: Heather Hole and Barbara Buhler Lynes

Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism (Georgia O'Keefe Museum)
by: Heather Hole and Barbara Buhler Lynes

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, color plates. Considered to be among the greatest early American modernists, the painter Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) traveled the United States and Europe in his search for a distinctive American aesthetic. His stay in New Mexico resulted in an extraordinary series of landscape paintings--created in New Mexico, New York, and Europe between 1918 and 1924--that show an evolution in style and thinking that is important for understanding both Hartley's oeuvre and American modernism in the postwar years. Marsden Hartley and the West examines this pivotal stage of the painter's career, drawing upon his writings and providing illustrations of rarely seen and previously unpublished works. The author considers Hartley's involvement with the Stieglitz circle and its "soil-and-spirit" philosophy, the Taos art colony, New York Dada, and the impact of historical events such as World War I. Within this setting she analyzes the pastels and oil paintings that suggest Hartley's increasingly ambivalent response to the land. Beginning with optimistic, naturalistic views, the New Mexico works grew progressively darker and more tumultuous, increasingly reflecting a sense of loss brought on by war. The paintings become a site where the landscapes of memory, self, and nation merge, while reflecting broader modernist debates about "American-ness" and a usable past.

Record # 361145

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The Art of Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace by: Jonathan Bresman

The Art of Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
by: Jonathan Bresman

Hardcover. NY, Lucas Books & Del Rey, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in gray boards with a black cloth spine. This lavish volume features more than six hundred examples of the art created for The Phantom Menace each a masterpiece in its own conceptual illustrations, sequential art, and brilliant, fully executed paintings. Digging deep into the exclusive Lucasfilm archives, The Art of Star The Phantom Menace details Episode 1's revolutionary use of traditional and high-tech media. Magnificent paintings that capture the exotic environments of Naboo, Tatooine, and Coruscant Key action sequences, including the Podraces on Tatooine and the riveting ground and space battles Fascinating insights and photos revealing the secrets of the artists at work The earliest conceptual drawings, following the evolution of Darth Maul, Qui-Gon Jinn, Queen Amidala, and Jar Jar Binks Exciting new poster art, created expressly for Episode 1. Clean copy, lacks dust jacket.

Record # 387004

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Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinetteby: Kahng, Eik and Marianne Roland Michel

Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette
by: Kahng, Eik and Marianne Roland Michel

Hardcover. New Haven CONNECTICUT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages, illustrated with 103 color and 262 b&w plates. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818) was one of the most talented still-life painters of the French school. Her exquisite paintings, today located in some of the world's finest museums, were admired and collected by many of her contemporaries, including Marie Antoinette, who became the artist's most important patron.

Record # 351225

Price: $60.00 
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