art reference

Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 3rd Revised, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor yellowing to dust jacket edges and spine. Previous owners inscription in pen to top edge of front flyleaf. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. 206 photographs, 16 in color. Follows the developments in the art and science of photography from the invention of the wet-collodion process through the evolution of dry plates.

Softcover. NY/Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in color and b&w. An unrivaled illustrated reference source on fighting men and commanders of the period. The Sassanians ruled the last great imperial Empire of Persia before the Arab conquests of the 7th century. Rome's only equal in the classical world, the Sassanian Empire had an enormous impact on the development of architecture, mythology, arts, music, military tactics and technology. Within the Sassanian military, the cavalry was the most influential element, and Sassanian cavalry tactics were adopted by the Romans, Arabs, and Turks. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London/ New York, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A year by year overview of critical science fiction works (and movies and TV series), and a synopsis of all the major writers of serious,quality science fiction up to the mid-1990s (when the book was published). An invaluable reference for the avid science fiction fan, especially one who wishes to learn about the many overlooked, but decent, writers of yesteryear.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture Foundation , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, navy blue cloth cover, silver lettering on spine, 156 pages. Features essays by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin. Includes over 100 duotones taken from throughout the early years of Salgado's career. From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastiao Salgado explores the live of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart. 'Published on the occasion of a major exhibition presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 4-December 2, 1990.'/ Includes bibliographical references (page 156). VG, dj has some edge wear, cover and pages clean and tight. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 468 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Illustrated from photographs, paintings, and other works of art, portraits, and plans. Eastlake (1793-1865), an artist, scholar, collector, and public administrator, served as president of the Royal Academy and the first Director of the National Gallery. Robertson covers the artists, writers, scholars, and statesmen of Eastlake's Victorian art world, as well as exhibitions and sales, critical controversies and art-historical writing. With appendices which include checklists of Eastlake's own paintings and private collection, a record of the National Gallery's acquisitions of 1824-1865, and much more. Includes bibliographical references and index. Rubbing, edge wear to dust jacket; closed tears to bottom of spine and rear top right corner. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Tarrytown NY, Sleepy Hollow Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages. includes index, bibliography, b/w illustrations throughout the book plus middle section of full-color photos. Covers Phillipsburg Manor, Upper Mills & Van Cortland Manor and Washington Irving's Sunnyside.

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.

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.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Society of Illustrators, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Fascinating insights into the lives and works of 82 top artists elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame make this an inspiring reference and art book. From illustrators such as N.C. Wyeth to Charles Dana Gibson to Dean Cornwell, Al Parker, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, Parrish, Pyle, Dunn, Peak, Whitmore, Leyendecker, Abbey, Flagg, Gruger, Raleigh, Booth, LaGatta, Frost, Kent, Sundblom, Erte, Held, Jessie Willcox Smith, Georgi, McGinnis, Harry Anderson, Barclay, Coll, Schoonover, McCay...the list of greats goes on and on. A deluxe production from 1997, in a handsome cloth slipcase with a mounted color plate of a nude, a special transparent dust wrapper, gold edging on all the pages, oversized square coffee table format. And of course, the highest quality reproduction all from original art. Profiles and major examples of each artist's work give a sweeping overview of the art of illustration for the last 130 years. 224 pages, 450 color illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, Society of Illustrators, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Fascinating insights into the lives and works of 82 top artists elected to the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame make this an inspiring reference and art book. From illustrators such as N.C. Wyeth to Charles Dana Gibson to Dean Cornwell, Al Parker, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, Parrish, Pyle, Dunn, Peak, Whitmore, Leyendecker, Abbey, Flagg, Gruger, Raleigh, Booth, LaGatta, Frost, Kent, Sundblom, Erte, Held, Jessie Willcox Smith, Georgi, McGinnis, Harry Anderson, Barclay, Coll, Schoonover, McCay...the list of greats goes on and on. A deluxe production from 1997, in a handsome cloth slipcase with a mounted color plate of a nude, a special transparent dust wrapper, gold edging on all the pages, oversized square coffee table format. And of course, the highest quality reproduction all from original art. Profiles and major examples of each artist's work give a sweeping overview of the art of illustration for the last 130 years. 450 color illustrations.

Softcover. New York, Sotheby's, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 75 pages. Softcover with paper warppers. Like new. Color photographs throughout.

Hardcover. New Bedford MA, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 221 pages, b&w photographs. The photographs and descriptive captions provide a wealth of information on the whaling vessel, its gear, shipboard routine, whaleboats, and the cutting in and processing of whales. The photographs the artist Ashley took for his own reference and constitute the most complete known pictorial record of a sperm whaling voyage. ... The photographs and descriptive captions provide a wealth of information on the whaling vessel, its gear, shipboard routine, whaleboats, and the cutting of whales. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, England, Adam and Charls Black, 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations by Victor Ambrus throughout. Decorated cover boards, cover boards slightly warped, but no moisture damage present. Back endpaper has an horizontal air-bubble. pages clean and unmarked with exception of half title page with has a small brown smudge. Dust jacket unclipped, slightly tanned from age. Light tanning to edges. Binding tight. Spine straight. Here is the story of the British people, written by an author renowned as 'the young reader's historian' and illustrated by an artist who is amongst the most talented book illustrators of our time.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 265 pages, b&w illustrations. This first broad study of the relation between Vincent van Gogh's psychological development and his art stresses the creative rather than the pathological. chronology, section of black & white photographs, notes, selected references, index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, a comprehensive and inspirational guide to editorial design packed with contemporary examples of sophisticated and effective solutions for virtually any design challenge. Moser's thorough understanding of the process, combined with intriguing juxtapositions of layouts, no-nonsense comments and original insight make for an entertaining and useful book. Chapters range from Grid Systems and Formats to Covers, Logos and Inside Pages, Types of Page and Themes, even a section on the design of magazine spines-illustrated with over 1500 examples from publications around the world, and drawn from the author's personal collection of over one million magazines! A great reference book for all graphic designers, art directors and editorial writers.

Hardcover. New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A comprehensive guide to nearly 4000 years of sword making from all over the world. Written by a distinguished team of experts and scholars, it provides an expert appraisal of the weapons themselves and is rich in historical and background detail. Fully illustrated throughout with photographs and art reproductions, this is a unique survey of a vast body of superb craftsmanship. It is an essential reference work for weapons enthusiasts, collectors and lovers of military history and fine art.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press;, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages. One of Chicago's great cultural achievements, the Institute of Design was among the most important schools of photography in twentieth-century America. It began as an outpost of experimental Bauhaus education and was home to an astonishing group of influential teachers and students, including Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Harry Callahan, and Aaron Siskind. To date, however, the ID's enormous contributions to the art and practice of photography have gone largely unexplored. Taken by Design is the first publication to examine thoroughly this remarkable institution and its lasting impact. With nearly 300 illustrations, including many never-before published photographs, Taken by Design examines the changing nature of photography over this critical period in America's midcentury. It starts by documenting the experimental nature of Moholy's Bauhaus approach and photography's new and enhanced role in training the "complete designer." Next it traces the formal and abstract camera experiments under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, which aimed at achieving a new kind of photographic subjectivity. Finally, it highlights the ID's focus on conscious references to the processes of the photographic medium itself. In addition to photographs by Moholy, Callahan, and Siskind, the book showcases works by Barbara Crane, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, Kenneth Josephson, Gyorgy Kepes, Nathan Lerner, Ray K. Metzker, Richard Nickel, Arthur Siegel, Art Sinsabaugh, and many others. Major essays from experts in the field, biographies, a chronology, and reprints of critical essays are also included, making Taken by Design an essential work for anyone interested in the history of American photography.

Hardcover. Oak Knoll Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 559 pages. First comprehensive bio-bibliography of one of the most loved children's book authors and illustrators in America and around the world. Not only does this book describe Tudor's sixty-year career, but also readers will enjoy the poignant stories about Tudor written by her two daughters, Bethany and Efner, and her editors, Patricia Gauch and Dorothy Haas. The daughter of naval architect, W. Starling Burgess, and portrait painter, Rosamond Tudor, Tasha Tudor, as a child, was greatly influenced by her father's engineering background and her mother's artistic life. She became particularly fascinated by life in the 1830's, which inspires her art, writing, and her own life. From 1938 onward, Tudor's children's books captivated a wide audience. Her fans are still intrigued by her magical stories and her romantic illustration of New England's countryside, drawn from her own experiences of family life. Her work is published in more than 90 books, which have been reprinted and republished many times. Through her eighties, Tudor remained active in publishing, meeting her fans, and autographing her books. In loving tribute, this work is illustrated with many drawings by Tudor's daughter, Bethany, as well as rare early photos of Tudor as a young woman, by Nell Dorr, and 16 pages of color photos of Tudor's book covers. The bibliography includes every known book illustrated and/or written by Tudor, including those published in the first half of 1998.

Hardcover. New Castle DE, Oak Knoll Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust wrapper. The Hares have collected and researched Tudor's works for over 15 years, and have worked closely with her two daughters, who granted them access to surviving publisher files and records at the Library of Congress. This work catalogs all of Tudor's work as well as those of her talented daughters and her husband. 559 pages includes index, bibliography, B&W and color plates.

Hardcover. Dallas TX, Taylor Publishing, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 168 pages. A brief history with some 300 color and b&w illustrations of covers, posters, publicity shots of detective and spy stories, TV, and cinema.

Hardcover. NY, Dey Street Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color illustrations. The Art of Archer is a true fan's guide to everything behind the scenes of the award-winning FX series. Featuring 240 pages of concept art, interviews with cast and crew, script excerpts, and the original pitch for the series, this collection offers a rare view of the Archer creative process. Commentary from the crew details how squiggles became the gorgeous final pictures fans saw, and exclusive interviews with the Emmy-nominated cast offer insights to their beloved characters and their favorite moments on the show. Storyboards, costume and set designs, reference photographs, immaculate background paintings, and more, this visually arresting collection is the ultimate guide to TV's greatest animated spy comedy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Last Gasp, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 288 pages. Illustrated with photographs and back and white illustrations. Introduction by Drew Friedman. Fantastic reference work on the history and back story of the creation of R. Crumb's legendary humor comics anthology.

Hardcover. Holdrege NE, privately printed, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in black and gilt, 92 pages. 11 1/4" x 8 1/2". Errata slip loosely laid in. A survey of this Italian-American modernist painter's etchings of highly realistic and romanticized still lifes, landscapes, and portraits. Clean copy.