art history

Hardcover. Sausalito CA, Windgate Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 172 pages illustrated in color. These beautiful and colorful promotional materials were designed to attract tourists and home seekers to the Golden State. Produced by the thousands, these now rare publications touted California as a land of perpetual spring and boundless opportunity. Many of the posters in this book are part of a special collection held at the California State Library. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Color photographs throughout. California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video art in California. Since the late 1960s

Hardcover. Stichting Kunstboak , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Photography offers a thousand possible ways of looking at the society we live in. Foremost among the talents that have brought Calvin Dondo international recognition is the ability to put into his work all the respect he has for the individual identities of those he captures on film. This artist who reveals the nature of Zimbabwe today freely tells us of his country and the history concealed within it. This book presents a new world in which images are an essential component. This first monograph to be devoted to a contemporary Zimbabwean photographer will encourage others, for the excellent reason that it is time to look at Africa through the clearsighted viewfinder of those working on its development. Text in English, French, Dutch and German.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, like new in dust jacket. This fascinating account of Silvy's life and photography is published to mark the centenary of his death. Combining research into exhibition prints, still lifes, and street scenes, as well as the intimate, beautifully lit and posed cartes-de-visite, the book demonstrates Silvy's extraordinary originality and his life as a man of both art and commerce. Color and b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Belknap Press/Harvard, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1104 pages. The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system. Clean copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 76 pages in color. The first half of Milo Manara's two-volume epic biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter. It depicts Caravaggio's early years in Rome as he struggles to capture truth on canvas, only to have his art condemned to be burned by the Church. He then is forced to flee the city when he kills a man in righteous fury over the death of a prostitute. Discover the bawdy, swashbuckling life of one of the greatest painters in history through Manara's passionate, personal tribute to his artistic idol, Michelangelo Merisi, whom the world would come to know as Caravaggio.

Softcover. NY, Phaidon, 1st pbk, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 9 x 10". 448 pages. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was one of the most innovative painters of his time, and one of the most momentous artists of any era. Rescued from neglect, he has become a cultural icon in the late twentieth century, not only for his art but also because of his violent and tragic life. Catherine Puglisi's highly praised monograph, supersedes all previous studies of the artist by far. Making full use of the latest research and a series of dramatic recent discoveries, she has produced a concise, clear-headed and comprehensive work of scholarship that also provides a moving biography of the artist and an incisive deconstruction of the genius with which he absorbed and transformed the artistic tradition of his time. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Conway, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. During World War II, the British government issued a series of public warnings in the form of witty posters by the brilliant cartoonist Fougasse, a.k.a. Cyril Kenneth Bird. ("Don't forget that walls have ears!" a fashionable woman whispers to a friend, as Hitler's face peers ominously out of the wallpaper.) This illustrated tribute to one of Britain's most popular artists begins with his celebrated WWII posters and continues with his later work for Punch magazine and elsewhere. An important contribution to the history of both cartooning and propaganda, it compares the relative effectiveness of hard-hitting American wartime designs versus Fougasse's light touch.

Softcover. NY, Jaap Rietman, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Essay by David Bourdon, with additional text by Barbara Rose. Designed by Richard S. Haymes. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the substantial catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 circulating American Museum retrospective exhibition of sixteen sculptures and sculptural installations executed between 1959 and 1977 by minimal pioneer Carl Andre. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Columbia, S.C., University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Columbia, S.C., University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Good, 344 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Gilt titles on spine. Decorative stain to top edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. . Record # 467670

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Zephyr Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Illustrated with nearly 100 color plates of various carousel animals, as well as other color and black/white photographs. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket shows some rubbing and slight curling at the edges. Shows horses and menagerie animals carved out of wood for American and European carousels, traces the history of carousel rides, and looks at some prominent manufacturers.

Hardcover. NY, Distributed Art Publishers (DAP), 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with silver lettering. One of the most influential American artists working today, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated narratives around family, race, gender, sexism, class and the consequences of power for more than 40 years. Her complex oeuvre-always ahead of its time, and profoundly formative for younger generations of artists-has employed photography (for which she is best known), fabric, text, audio, digital images, installation and video. Writing in the New York Times, Holland Cotter succinctly described Weems as "a superb image maker and a moral force, focused and irrepressible." This volume, spanning four decades of work, is the most thorough survey yet published. It includes Weems' earliest series, such as Family Pictures and Stories, for which she photographed her relatives and close friends; the legendary Kitchen Table Series, in which she posed in a domestic setting; and other critically acclaimed works and series such as Ain't Jokin', Colored People, From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Not Manet's Type, The Jefferson Suite, Monuments, Roaming, Museums, Constructing History (A Class Ponders the Future), Slow Fade to Black and the Obama Project, among many others. Contextualizing these pieces are essays by LaCharles Ward and Fred Moten and a chronology by Raul Munoz. The book also includes a visual essay by Weems that presents a personal selection of her own works from the artist's perspective. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, cartoons, and drawings, Cartoon County brings the postwar American era alive, told through the relationship of a son to his father, an extraordinarily talented and generous man who had been trained by Norman Rockwell. Cartoon County gives us a glimpse into a very special community-and of an America that used to be.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 98 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on animator Grim Natwick, John Romita the Spider-Man artist, Garfield and Jim Davis, Alfred Andriola, c.omic strip history by Bill Blackbeard.

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 258 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. A tight copy. Cartoons for Victory showcases wartime work by cartoonists such as Charles Addams, Harold Gray, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Eisner, and many others. Most of the cartoons and comics in this book have not been seen since their first publication.

Hardcover. New Haven, New York Historical Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 964 pages. 2 Volumes. Hardcovers with dust jackets. Light rubbing to edges on dust jackets. Clean, tight copies with color pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Berkeey, University of California, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 305 pages, nearly 150 b&w photos accompany the text. A survey of photography in East Germany; from 1945 to 1989. In a very good dust jacket with light fade to spine. "Behind the Iron Curtain, against all odds, photography flourished as an art in the German Democratic Republic. The many images in this volume amply demonstrate that fact while also providing an illustrated social history of people 'caught' in the conflicting dictates of ideology, artistic oppression, a troubled national past, and basic human desires."

Hardcover. Steidl, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Chicago, Art Media Resources, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to cover boards, otherwise clean bright copy. Color pictures throughout. 12x12x1 dimensions. Numbering over 250 works spanning nearly 1500 years, the Dewey collection of ancient Chinese tomb sculpture is exceptional for its breadth and outstanding quality. Representing nearly all figural types, stylistic traditions and themes, it provides a comprehensive visual record with fascinating insights into the customs and fashions, inventions and superstitions of ancient China's ruling elite during the golden age of the Great Silk Road.

Softcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages, 347 illustrations, 85 in color. A comprehensive guide with factories, artists, potters and techniques all covered. Near fine in a similar dust jacket in a cardboard slipcase.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages. In the 1980s, London-based Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans, born in 1958, worked as an assistant to filmmaker Derek Jarman, soon gaining a reputation for his own experimental shorts and his collaborations with the dancer Michael Clark. Since the 1990s, Wyn Evans has also been creating installations, often inspired by cinema history or literature, that incorporate elements like philosophical texts, mirrors, neon lights, fireworks, plants and Morse code to form a constellation of meanings that unravel into myriad poetic associations. Evans' desire to animate knowledge and reconceive the materials of the past make him analogous to Marcel Broodthaers, his erstwhile mentor Derek Jarman or even William Blake. This publication includes essays that delve into the artist's use of language and his experiments with time and perception. On the subject of Evans' purposeful inscrutability, critic Jens Asthoff has written, "Evans wants to go beyond that which we describe as understanding, to reach the untranslatable elements hidden in all experience. 'I hate the idea of being accessible,' he says." This volume includes nearly 200 images of the artist's installations, films, wall texts and sound works.

Hardcover. NY, Gallimard, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 392 pages. Profusley illustrated, this book explores a hitherto overlooked topic in Chagall studies - the connection between Chagall and music. This intimate relationship, which ran deep in both his family history and the Jewish culture of his native city, was particularly meaningful in Chagall's creations for the stage. His works for the Jewish Theatre (Moscow, 1919-1920) and the ballets 'Aleko' (Mexico, 1942), 'The Firebird' (New York, 1945), 'Daphnis et Chloe' (1958) and 'The Magic Flute' (New York, 1967) celebrate the links he established between music, large-scale set design, and the material design of costumes. Chagall's monumental projects in the 1960s, such as the ceiling of the Paris Opera (1964) and his decorative architectural program for the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center in New York (1966), are a reflection of his notion of 'total art', and his explorations in the universality of music and its translation into the spatial dimension. Music was a constant source of inspiration to Chagall. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 792 pages, b&w illustrations. David Robinson who was given unbridled access to Chaplin's records documents Chaplin's life from his childhood in London to his death in Switzerland. Great attention is given to his film making methods especially the great classics. The book contains many photos and over a hundred pages of appendices.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. b&w and color illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket. Decorative endpapers. Minor edge wear. A very nice. clean and tight copy.