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Saul Steinberg: Illuminations by: Smith, Joel
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Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
by: Smith, Joel

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover, 287 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. A very clean, tight copy. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Centre, New York. Illustrated card covers with long inside flaps, minimal wear. An exhaustive compilation of the best graphic work of Steinberg covering his life in advertising, graphic design and fine arts.

Record # 454939

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

From a Mighty Fortress: Prints, Drawings, and Books in the Age of Luther 1483-1546 by: Andersson, Christiane
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From a Mighty Fortress: Prints, Drawings, and Books in the Age of Luther 1483-1546
by: Andersson, Christiane

Softcover. Detroit MI, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 411 pages. Color frontispiece and b&w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Light soiling and wear to cover. Small sticker on spine. Else a tight copy.

Record # 454965

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Herman Miller: Classic Furniture and System Designs for the Working Environment by: Berry, John Raymond
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Herman Miller: Classic Furniture and System Designs for the Working Environment
by: Berry, John Raymond

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1st UK, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 242 pages. Brown cloth cover, embossed design, some light wear to corners and edges. Dust jacket has minor edgewear. Inside is bright and clean, with many b&w and color photographs throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 455375

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art by: McDonnell, Patricia
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On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art
by: McDonnell, Patricia

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 219 pages. Oversized. Green cloth cover, minor wear to corners and edges. Dust jacket has slight wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean, with many b&w and color illustrations throughout. A nice copy. "More than one hundred paintings, drawings, watercolors, and photographs that convey the highly charged experience of attending vaudeville, early moving-picture shows, and other forms of popular amusements. These works of art reveal much about the beginnings of modernity in the United States and about how artists in early twentieth-century America searched for new pictorial vocabularies to express the profound change and dynamism of their time."

Record # 455377

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris 1918-1925 by: Ducros, Francoise
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L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris 1918-1925
by: Ducros, Francoise

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Calif., Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a dust jacket. This copy is still shrink-wrapped in plastic. Many b&w and color illustrations throughout. Accompanied an exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2001. Examines more than seventy-five paintings and other artworks, representing the Purist movement in twentieth-century modernist art, featuring the works of Le Corbusier, AmTdTe Ozenfant, and Fernand LTger as well as a complete translation of the classic work AprFs le cubisme.

Record # 455385

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

William Blake at the Huntington: An Introduction to the William Blake Collection in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Cal by: Essick, Robert
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William Blake at the Huntington: An Introduction to the William Blake Collection in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Cal
by: Essick, Robert

Softcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Cover has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. Many color plates throughout. A nice copy. This book celebrates the art as well as the poetry of the great English poet William Blake. The Huntington Library has the most extensive collection of Blake's artwork in the world.

Record # 455386

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

That's the Way I See It by: Hockney, David
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That's the Way I See It
by: Hockney, David

Hardcover. San Francisco, Calif., Chronicle Books, 1st, September 1, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Oversized. Blue cloth cover, embossed design, minor wear to edges and corners. Dust jackethas light edgewear, some small dents. Many color and b&w illustrations throughout. A bright and clean copy.That's the Way I See It offers a revealing look at one of our most popular artists. In this tour de force, over 350 reproductions of Hockney's paintings, graphic designs, and experimental work are closely interwoven with the artist's insightful and highly personal narrative. Accessible, articulate, and always ahead of their time, Hockney's compostions and reflections offer a fascinationg look at a uniquely talented artist.

Record # 455394

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Tiffany Timepieces by: Loring, John
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Tiffany Timepieces
by: Loring, John

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, December 1, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Black cloth cover, embossed design, very little wear. Dust jacket has very slight wear to some edges. Die-cut slipcase has some edgewear. 343 illustrations, 333 are in full color. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 455398

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe by: Gilbert, Alma
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Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe
by: Gilbert, Alma

Hardcover. London, Philip Wilson Publishers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages. Oversized. Blue cloth cover, light wear to edges. Dust jacket has minor wear to corners. Many full color plates throughout. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 455399

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Hieronymus Bosch: The Complete Paintings and Drawings by: Vandenbroeck, Paul
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Hieronymus Bosch: The Complete Paintings and Drawings
by: Vandenbroeck, Paul

Softcover. Amsterdam, Ludion Ghent/Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oversized softcover. Published with the the exhibition "Hieronymus Bosch" at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, September-November 2001. Minor wear to corners and edges of cover. Inside is bright and clean. Many color illustrations throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 455419

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 
 

Ballets Suedois (The Swedish Ballet) by: Hager, Bengt
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Ballets Suedois (The Swedish Ballet)
by: Hager, Bengt

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st U.S., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages. With 264 illustrations, 145 in color. Oversized. Silver cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to corners and edges. White cardboard slipcase. Inside is bright and clean. A beautiful copy. Lavish look at Swedish Ballet, 1920-25, with ballet-by-ballet analysis.Glossary of names, list of illustrations, numerous b/w and color illustrations, b/w decorated endpapers; gray boards/silver decoration.

Record # 455421

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Will H. Bradley: American Artist in Print: A Collector's Guide by: Koch, Robert
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Will H. Bradley: American Artist in Print: A Collector's Guide
by: Koch, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, January 25, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages with 60 color and 117 b&w plates. Still wrapped in plastic. Oversized. A bright, beautiful copy. This comprehensive book brings together nearly two hundred illustrations from Ore, The Inland Printer, The Chap-Book, Collier's Weekly, and other periodicals, books advertisements, and ephemera. Adding to the volume's reference value are an extensive list of Bradley's published works, bibliography, lists of public collections and exhibitions, and an appendix reprinting his "Primer of Ornament and Design," including previously unpublished material.

Record # 455423

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

John Raimondi Sculptor by: Corbett, William
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John Raimondi Sculptor
by: Corbett, William

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover. Still wrapped in plastic. In great condition. Color photographs of Raimondi's artwork throughout. A nice, tight copy.

Record # 455427

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France by: Shaw, Professor Jennifer L.
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Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes, Modernism, and the Fantasy of France
by: Shaw, Professor Jennifer L.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, March 1, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 245 pages, illustrated throughout. Clean, bright pages and tight binding. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) was a towering figure in late nineteenth-century France. The country's greatest public painter, he created murals that decorated museums in Amiens, Rouen, and Lyons as well as major buildings in Paris-most notably the Pantheon, the Sorbonne, and the city hall. Critics from the political right, left, and center, the avant-garde, the Academy, and the state all agreed on the importance of Puvis's murals. Avant-garde artists greatly admired and drew from his work. There was much controversy, however, over the meaning of these murals. This handsomely illustrated book is the first full-length examination of Puvis's murals and their critical reception during the artist's lifetime. Jennifer L. Shaw explains that Puvis's paintings were imagined to embody a vision of France. Although his regional images, allegories of the French heritage, and evocations of the nation as an embracing motherland were all part of a grand tradition of public art, Puvis's painting style was more closely aligned with the avant-garde. Rather than providing a specific narrative or allegory of France, Puvis's murals provoked viewers to experience their own fantasies of Frenchness; rather than using the close brushwork favored by most of his contemporaries, Puvis used large flat areas of color to render his subjects. Shaw persuasively argues that Puvis was the only painter of the period to unite the traditions of public art and modernist form. Her original analysis of Puvis's art underlines his importance to the history of modernism; her examination of the public response to his art illuminates debates about art, subjectivity, and national identity in fin de siecle France.

Record # 455433

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech by: Ryan, Professor Susan Elizabeth
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Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech
by: Ryan, Professor Susan Elizabeth

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.

Record # 455435

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Kathy Prendergast: The End and the Beginning by: McKee, Francis
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Kathy Prendergast: The End and the Beginning
by: McKee, Francis

Softcover. London, Merrell Holberton, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages, illustrated throughout. Very clean and tight copy. Capturing the intricacy, symbolism, and irony of the work of contemprary artist Kathy Prendergast, this is the first comprehensive look at her critically acclaimed, multi-faceted artistic vision. A highlight of the art covered is City Drawings, a series of intircated drawings ot the capital cities of the world in which even the alrgest and most powerful communites are reduced to an equalizing frail network of lines, from Washington D.C., to Suva, Fiji; Tokyo to Dakar, Senegal.

Record # 455436

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Sellebrity: My Angling and Tangling With Famous People by: Lois, George
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Sellebrity: My Angling and Tangling With Famous People
by: Lois, George

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 272 pages. Color illustrations throughout, very clean and tight copy. American adman and image-maker George Lois (b. 1931) was a leader of the Creative Revolution of the 1960s and is the mind behind an astonishing array of branding campaigns and unforgettable magazine covers during his fifty-year career. Illustrated with the original ads and images, $ellebrity presents the stories behind the ads, explaining how each ad was conceived and produced, and the unexpected pitfalls, scuffles, and friendships that ensued.

Record # 455455

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey by: Wilber, Ken (Contributor)
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Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey
by: Wilber, Ken (Contributor)

Hardcover. Rochester, Vt., Inner Traditions, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oversized. Hard box cover with clasp, light wear to edges. Contains three separate volumes "Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey," "Transfigurations," and "Visions," all with very little wear. Essays by Ken Wilber, Carlo McCormick and Alex Grey. Many beautiful color illustrations throughout. A nice, impressive collection.

Record # 455556

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 
 

Matthew Barney: Cremaster 3 by: Barney, Matthew
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Matthew Barney: Cremaster 3
by: Barney, Matthew

Softcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color illustrated wraps, unpaginated, richly illustrated in mostly color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle. Never opened, still in original shrink wrap. First published in February 2002, concludes Matthew Barney's CREMASTER cycle that consists of five films. He began working on the cycle in 1994. The individual parts, however, were not produced in chronological order. Each of the five films is accompanied by a publication; this volume was uniquely designed as an artist's book by Matthew Barney and contains a multitude of photographs and film stills from Cremaster 3.

Record # 455691

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Striptease: From Gaslight To Spotlight by: Glasscock, Jessica
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Striptease: From Gaslight To Spotlight
by: Glasscock, Jessica

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. illustrated throughout. Very clean and tight copy. Striptease is the history of unapologetic fun aimed not at the head, not at the heart or even the stomach, but south of all three. Beginning with the birth of the striptease in the mid-19th century and culminating with its garish heyday in the 1950s, this book charts the evolution of the infamous bump and grind, which is, at its simplest, a pretty girl in a pretty dress ... and then not. The only fully illustrated book available on the subject, Striptease tells the history of this provocative form of stagecraft from its birth in vaudeville and burlesque through the "take it all off" attitude for which the term "striptease" was coined. Along the way, the book highlights such performers as Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller, Maud Allen, Gypsy Rose Lee, Tempest Storm, and Blaze Starr. The witty and well-informed text is illustrated with an array of titillating images, including never-before-published ephemera and illicitly photographed performances in progress. Whether revealing ankles or breasts, playing peek-a-boo or going the full monty, Striptease pays tribute to the women who made a vocation of their sex appeal and shimmied their way into American culture.

Record # 455699

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Anton Otto Fischer: Marine Artist: His Life and Work by: Fischer, Katrina Sigsbee
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Anton Otto Fischer: Marine Artist: His Life and Work
by: Fischer, Katrina Sigsbee

Hardcover. Nantucket, MA, Mill Hill Press, Reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 455723

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Ronald Searle's Big Fat Cat Book by: Searle, Ronald
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Ronald Searle's Big Fat Cat Book
by: Searle, Ronald

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated boards, 96 pages. A collection of Searle's cat cartoons,and caricatures. Some of these drawings were originally published as covers on the New Yorker magazine. Others in this anthology have been previously published in The Square Egg, More Cats, Searle's Zoodiac and the monograph Ronald Searle.

Record # 455749

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

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

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

Record # 455867

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Visible Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics by: Crow, David
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Visible Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics
by: Crow, David

Softcover. Switzerland, AVA Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Cover has very little wear. Many color illustrations throughout. Bright and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 455868

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Life of Saint Nicholas, The by: Blechman, R. O.
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Life of Saint Nicholas, The
by: Blechman, R. O.

Hardcover. NY, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. B&w and 2-color drawings by Blechman. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 455910

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Hirschfeld On Line by: Hirschfeld, Al
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Hirschfeld On Line
by: Hirschfeld, Al

Hardcover. NY, Applause Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 343 pages, hardcover with dut jacket. Drawings and photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Over 400 Hirschfeld drawings and photographs - many never before collected. Includes essays by Whoopi Goldberg, Arthur Miller, Mel Gussow, Kurt Vonnegut, Grace Mirabella, Louise Kerz Hirschfeld and more! Commentary by Hirschfeld throughout.

Record # 456293

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

I Bought Andy Warhol (SIGNED COPY) by: Polsky, Richard
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I Bought Andy Warhol (SIGNED COPY)
by: Polsky, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Remainder mark on bottom edge, light shelf-wear, else a clean, tight copy. A lively non-fiction account of an art dealer's long quest to own an original painting by Andy Warhol. An illuminating view of the inner workings of the art world and the interplay of artists, collectors, galleries, auction houses, etc.

Record # 456426

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

L.P. Latimer:: California Watercolor Painter (SIGNED COPY) by: Harrison, Jr., Alfred C.
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L.P. Latimer:: California Watercolor Painter (SIGNED COPY)
by: Harrison, Jr., Alfred C.

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Gallery, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 46 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Full color illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 456471

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

New Look: The Dior Revolution by: Cawthorne, Nigel
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New Look: The Dior Revolution
by: Cawthorne, Nigel

Hardcover. Edison, NJ, BookSales Inc, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages, copious photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456508

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Degas: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris 9 fevrier-16 mai 1988 : Musee des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa 16 juin-28 aout 1988 : Metropolitan Museum ... 1988-8 janvier 1989 by:

Degas: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris 9 fevrier-16 mai 1988 : Musee des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa 16 juin-28 aout 1988 : Metropolitan Museum ... 1988-8 janvier 1989
by:

Hardcover. Paris, Ministere de la culture et de la communication, Editions de la Reunion des, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 635 pages, copious color and b&w illustrations throughout. Ex-library stamp on front and rear fly leaf only, no other residue. Dust jacket edge wear and corner rips, small open tear on bottom back edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 456525

Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00 

Wyeth at Kuerners by: Wyeth, Betsy James

Wyeth at Kuerners
by: Wyeth, Betsy James

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.

Record # 456753

Price: $90.00
Price: $90.00 

Eric Fischl by: Fischl, Eric and David Whitney (Ed.)
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Eric Fischl
by: Fischl, Eric and David Whitney (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Art in America/ Stewart Tabori and Chang, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 270 pages, illustrated throughout with 134 plates in full color. Essay by Peter Schjeldahl. Edited by David Whitney. Illustrated with reproductions of 77 of Fischl's oil paintings from 1980-1987, 35 of his works on paper, and 12 seminal glassines. Includes a selected bibliography. Minor edgewear to white pictorial dust jacket . Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457096

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Winslow Homer in the 1870s: Selections from the Valentine-Pulsifer Collection by: Wilmerding, John
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Winslow Homer in the 1870s: Selections from the Valentine-Pulsifer Collection
by: Wilmerding, John

Softcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, June 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 77 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. A catalog published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at The Art Museum, Princeton University, and the Wadsworth Atheneum in 1990. Appendix, bibliography, exhibition catalogue, chronology. Foreword by Allen Rosenbaum, 12 color plates and numerous other illustrations and photographs. ; Oblong 4to 11" - 13".

Record # 457387

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Christo (SIGNED COPY) by: Laporte, Dominique G.
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Christo (SIGNED COPY)
by: Laporte, Dominique G.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages, INSCRIBED BY CHRISTO on title page to "Eeva annd Elvia" dated 1986. Color and black & white photographs throughout, light dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 457472

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

Prendergast in Italy by: Mathews, Nancy Mowil
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Prendergast in Italy
by: Mathews, Nancy Mowil

Hardcover. London/ New York , Merrell, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Minor bumping to corners, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457993

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Piero della Francesca by: Bertelli, Senior Carlo
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Piero della Francesca
by: Bertelli, Senior Carlo

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in full color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 458389

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Leonardo: The Last Supper by: Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla/Pietro C. Marani
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Leonardo: The Last Supper
by: Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla/Pietro C. Marani

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase. Full color and black & white illustrations. Beautiful copy with light sunning to dust jacket spine, Clean, tight copy. The technical problems with the Last Supper began as soon as Leonardo started to paint it. He jettisoned the traditional fresco technique of applying paint to wet plaster, a method unsuited to Leonardo's slow and thorough execution, and created the work instead with an experimental technique that involved painting directly on the dry plaster. With this renegade method, Leonardo rendered one of the most enduring painting techniques volatile and unstable. Added to this initial complication have been centuries of pollution, tourists, candle smoke, and the ravages of age, not to mention food fights in the refectory staged by Napoleonic soldiers and Allied bombs in 1943. By the middle of the twentieth century, the Last Supper was in desperate need of a complete restoration. Pinin Brambilla Barcilon was chosen to head this twenty-year project, and Leonardo, The Last Supper is the official record of her remarkable effort. It first documents the cleaning and removal of the overpainting performed in the other attempts at restoration and then turns to Barcilon's meticulous additions in watercolor, which were based on Leonardo's preparatory drawings, early copies of the painting, and contemporary textual descriptions. This book presents full-scale reproductions of details from the fresco that clearly display and distinguish Leonardo's hand from that of the restorer. With nearly 400 sumptuous color reproductions, the most comprehensive technical documentation of the project by Barcilon, and an introductory essay by art historian and project codirector Pietro C. Marani that focuses on the history of the fresco,

Record # 458394

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

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

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Cezanne by: Cachin, Francoise
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Cezanne
by: Cachin, Francoise

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 600 pages, illustrated throughout with 504 illustrations, including 242 plates in full color. Heavy oversized book. Light edgewear and faint tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A definitive survey of the life and work of the Paul Ce+a7zanne follwows the evolution of his art from drawing school in the 1860s to his death in 1906, providing more than six hundred reproductions of drawings, watercolors, paintings, and sketchbook pages that demonstrate his masterful artistic style.

Record # 458451

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Rembrandt - The Human Form and Spirit by: Guillaud, Jacqueline/Maurice Guillaud
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Rembrandt - The Human Form and Spirit
by: Guillaud, Jacqueline/Maurice Guillaud

Hardcover. New York, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 682 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Features over 750 illustrations, including 300 in full color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 458452

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Bolshevik Poster, The by: White, Stephen
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Bolshevik Poster, The
by: White, Stephen

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 3rd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Previous owner's signature scribbled over on front end paper, light wear to edges and spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458548

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Art of the Northern Tlingit by: Jonaitis, Aldona
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Art of the Northern Tlingit
by: Jonaitis, Aldona

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington, 1st PB, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 188 pages, illustrations in b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458735

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Gilbert Stuart by: McLanathan, Richard
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Gilbert Stuart
by: McLanathan, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, illustrated throughout with 120 plates, including 51 in full color. Minor sunning to dust jacket spine and light wear to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458863

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age by: Blanchard, Ms. Mary Warner
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Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age
by: Blanchard, Ms. Mary Warner

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 302 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light sun-fade along dust jacket spine. Clean, tight copy. Touring America as the "Apostle of Aestheticism" in 1882, Oscar Wilde brought a witty and controversial message of regeneration through art and beauty to a nation still shaken by the trauma of the Civil War. In this book, the first cultural history of the aesthetic movement in the United States, Mary W. Blanchard shows that it was a wide-ranging popular movement resisted by the moral guardians of Victorianism but advanced by visionary women.

Record # 458885

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

David Hockney Portraits by: Howgate, Sarah
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David Hockney Portraits
by: Howgate, Sarah

Softcover. London, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Essays by Marco Livingstone, Mark Glazebrook, Sarah Howgate, Edmund White and Barbara Stern Shapiro are followed by the section of 163 color plates, Notes on the sitters for the portraits, and an illustrated Chronology. A selected bibliography and index are also included.

Record # 458893

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Felix Buhot, peintre-graveur, 1847-1898 by: Fontaine, Andre
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Felix Buhot, peintre-graveur, 1847-1898
by: Fontaine, Andre

Hardcover. Paris, Editions Jafont, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, French text. 185 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Grey cloth. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Record # 458911

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks by: Gambone, Robert L.
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Life on the Press: The Popular Art and Illustrations of George Benjamin Luks
by: Gambone, Robert L.

Hardcover. Jackson [Miss.], University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor edgewear to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458926

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Arthur Wesley Dow, 1857-1922: His Art and His Influence by: Moffatt, Frederick C.
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Arthur Wesley Dow, 1857-1922: His Art and His Influence
by: Moffatt, Frederick C.

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.

Record # 459665

Price: $0.00
Price: $0.00 

Thomas Anshutz: Artist and Teacher by: Griffin, Randall C.
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Thomas Anshutz: Artist and Teacher
by: Griffin, Randall C.

Softcover. Huntington NY, Heckscher Museum, 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover,143 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Binding is cracked on page 62. Minor wear to wrappers. Neat, clean copy. This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition The Art of Thomas Anshultz, organized by Randall C. Griffith, Guest Curator; Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. The exhibition was on view from September 3rd through November 20, 1994. The book contains the monograph Thomas Anshultz Artist and Teacher, 28 color plates, and numerous black and white reproductions of art from throughout Anshultz's career.

Record # 459666

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Francis Hayman by: Allen, Brian
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Francis Hayman
by: Allen, Brian

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

Record # 459668

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 


  

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