Softcover. New York, Dover, 1st, July 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated, 66 b&w plates. Light edge wear to wrappers, top right corner slightly bent. Else a clean, tight 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.
Softcover. New York, Abbeville, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 154 pages, color illustrations throughout. Very light wear to corners. Else a very clean, tight copy. Mary Cassatt's paintings and prints have long been treasured as some of the finest examples of Impressionist art. A rebel by the Victorian standards of her time, Mary Cassatt moved from the art schools of staid Philadelphia to the boulevards of Paris, where the young Impressionist movement was flourishing. Degas, her friend and mentor, encouraged her involvement in the new art movement. Cassatt's luminous, observant, and innovative works-chiefly interiors with women and children-helped define Impressionism and have been compared to Raphael's paintings for their beauty and dignity. Frank Getlein, noted art critic and historian, has selected 72 of Cassatt's finest works, each reproduced here in full color. His accompanying text relates the intimate details of her life to her paintings while clearly defining her relation to fellow artists and her place in modern art.
Softcover. New York, Abbeville, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w and color illustrations, photo end papers. A very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 197 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Light yellowing to edges of wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy. 39 b&w and 50 color plates; 8.5 x 10.5 inches. An early retrospective of photographs by Cindy Sherman; introduction by Peter Schjeldahl; afterword by I. Michael Danoff.
Softcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 123 pages plus appendix, bibliography, etc. B&w and color illustrations throughout. Mild soil to back cover, small marks on fore-edge. Light rubbing to spine. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages, b&w illustrations. Newspaper clippings paper-clipped to front fly leaf. Previous price sticker on back cover. Edge wear, rubbing to wrappers, front cover slightly bent. Light stain to bottom edge. Else pages clean and tight.
Softcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 127 pages, b&w and color plates. Bottom right corner slightly bumped. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York , Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 285 pages, b&w and color plates. Art checklist laid in. Half-inch tear at top of spine. Light marking to bottom edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum of Art, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout, b&w frontispiece. Light edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Seattle WA, Seattle Art Museum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Red end papers. Marking on copyright page. Light edge wear to wrappers. Very light foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, MOMA, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 127 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers; yellowing to spine. Else a clean, tight copy. Illustrated with eighty-four reproductions, eighteen of which are in color, as well as fifty-one reference illustrations. Bibliography. Index.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams/Whitney Museum, 1st, March 1, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages. 245 plates and figures, 95 bw and 150 color. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, April 3 to July 20, 2003. This book is the most comprehensive publication to date on the work of Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), an important sculptor and a key member of the New York art scene in the first half of the 20th century.
Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Light edge wear, fading to dust jacket. Previous price written on front dust jacket flap. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Taschen, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, b&w and color photographs. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w erotic photography: fetishistic activitites, BDSM, leather, whipping, strap-on, heels, sexual torture, etc. Adults only.
Softcover. New York, Universe, 1st pbk, July 15, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 175 pages, color illustrations. Light rubbing to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy. In this second collection of Brody's work, it presents to us his use of the computer and its influence on his design. While his older work was more conservative, yet still radical for its time, his recent work truly embraces the digital age.
Hardcover. New York, Penguin Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages, color photographs throughout. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Small previous price sticker on rear cover. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, CA, Larry Utley, 1st, April 30, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Adults only. 117 pages, color photographs throughout. Light rubbing, edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cincinnati, Ohio, North Light Books, 1st, March 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 134 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. Explains the role of caricature, tells how to develop a personal style, and includes profiles and work by top caricaturists. No dj issued.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages, color illustrations throughout, illustrated end papers. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light foxing to end papers. Else a very clean, tight copy. Rien Poorvliet was a Dutch artist and writer of incomparable talent. He was rightly considered a national treasure in the Netherlands, and his death was a national tragedy. Most of his books are free-ranging collections of his superior drawings and paintings interspersed with cursive text narrative about the subject at hand. This book happens to be an account of his life, family, pets, love of animals, culture and country as he experienced it - past, and (at the time) present in the Netherlands. His artwork is extremely expressive and entertaining - he was a master draftsman, and the work ranges from very spontaneous pencil, charcoal, and conte drawings, along with watercolor, and well-finished oil paintings which provide a wonderful visual story of the man's life.
Hardcover. New York, 1st, February 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages. illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Maroon cloth, gilt title to front and spine, pictorial dust jacket. Slight foxing to top edge and upper edge of lightly worn jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.
Softcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, December 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. A very clean, tight copy. Resulting from a groundbreaking, four-venue exhibition, Theme & Improvisation features exquisite color reproductions of works from Kandinsky's abstract oeuvre as well as of works by thirty-eight remarkable American artists - some world-renowned, others less well known. Based on important new research into the art of the American avant-garde, and illustrated with many beautiful, often revelatory works of art, this book points the way to a new interpretation of the art of the first half of the twentieth century.
Hardcover. New York, Society of Illustrators, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Light foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 255 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Light fading to dust jacket spine. Else a very clean, tight copy. "Paul Rand (1914-96) was a pioneering figure in American graphic design. Adopting what he called a 'problem solving' approach to design, he drew on the ideas of European avant-garde art movements, such as Cubism, Constructivism and De Stijl, and synthesized them to produce his own distinctive graphic language."
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of Calfornis, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Light marking on bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 1st, June 24, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 132 pages, b&w illustrations, fold-out color plate in rear. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Previous price sticker inside front cover. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Pen marking to several pages. Else a very nice, tight copy. Although published almost fifty years ago, Reiff's information and conclusions are fundamental and don't seem to have been superseded by any subsequent study.
Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1st, November 17, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY PHOTOGRAPHER. Softcover, 256 pages, b&w photographs. A very clean, tight copy. In interviews and photographic portraits, [the author] and [the photographer] bring together forty-nine of Mexico's most acclaimed artists in the performing, visual, and literary arts, displaying the creative energy of a nation.
Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 193 pages, 8 color and 100 b&w plates. Examines the approach of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their associates to the natural world. It is the first serious examination of the consequences of the Pre-Raphaelite creed of 'exact truth to nature', which led to the ever increasing importance of natural detail in Pre-Raphaelite school of landscape painting. Following a discussion of the developing interest in the precise depiction of nature by the Pre-Raphaelites from 1848 to 1851, chapters on individual artists, many hitherto almost forgotten, trace the history of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape in the 1850s and 1860s and its relation to earlier and later art in England and abroad. Much new light is cast on Ruskin's central role as theorist, patron, and critic of mid Victorian art.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oversize, heavy hardcover. 306 pages, b&w illustrations, color tipped-in plates. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Foxing to fly leaves and bottom edge. Small stain on top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York/New Haven, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 636 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout, illustrated end papers. A very clean, tight copy. Between the completion of the Erie Canal and the outbreak of the Civil War, New York City grew to become an economic and cultural center of international importance. This magnificent book discusses the proliferation of the visual arts during this exciting era as well as the development of an increasingly sophisticated New York audience for these arts. The book is lavishly illustrated with hundreds reproductions of works from the period. This book accompanies an exhibition that opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on 11 September 2000.
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 237 pages, b&w illustrations, 16 color plates. A very clean, tight copy. Thomas Eakins, a native of Philadelphia, painted two worlds: one sure of its valuesthe surgeons, inventors, musicians, and athletes of his timeand another that reflected his own struggles with depression and sexual identity. In this evenhanded account of those struggles, William S. McFeely sheds new light on Eakins's genius and on the evocative melancholy of his portraits, particularly of women, which include many of his remarkable wife, Susan McDowell Eakins. Those deeply perceptive paintings may be the greatest expressions of his art.
Hardcover. Zurich, Parkett Publishers, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 150 pages, color illustrations. Buster's Bedroom is a 1990 independent German comedy film directed by Rebecca Horn. The film follows a young woman with an infatuation for Buster Keaton. The film was shown at the Marche du Film of the Cannes Film Festival in May 1990.
Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 227 pages plus 112 b&w and color plates. Cream colored boards. Light smudging to covers and edges. Else a very clean, tight copy. A facsimile reprint of the 1935 first edition, a study of 19th century lithography in California.
Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 415 pages with 18 Color and 136 Black and White Plates. Cream colored boards. A reprint of the 1931 Doubleday edition. Some foxing to boards and edges, else very good. No dust jacket, as issued. Light smudging to covers and top and bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, 2 volumes complete. 331 + 404 pages with 354 plates. Originally printed by Doubleday, Doran in 1929. In this edition the color illustrations are reproduced in black-and-white.. Cream colored boards. Light smudging to covers and edges. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, July 16, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, color illustrations throughout. Light edge wear to dust jacket; small tear on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy. A showcase of Groom's drawings, prints & inimitable urban sculpto-pictograms (in full-color).
Hardcover. New York, Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Edge wear, rubbing, small tears to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 357 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to dust jacket flaps and top edge, else a nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine , 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with a few color plates. Light wear to dust jacket with slight tape-residue on rear cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Maurizio Martino, 3rd pr, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 359 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. German text. Red covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. A very clean, tight copy. A reprint of the 1955 edition published by Galerie St.Etienne, New York.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Accordion-fold folio. Wrap-around band torn and wrinkled but present. Minor rubbing to edges. Clean, tight copy. Foreword and Interview By Masahiko Yanagi. Photographs By Wolfgang Volz.
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.
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