Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with black printed titles to mustard cloth spine. Dust jacket with moderate toning & light wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Illustrations in bw throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Johnson Reprint Corporation, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages, illustrated with 22 color plates and 177 in b&w. Contents: 1). Preface. 2). Major events in Leonardo's life. 3). The river. 4). The fiction. 5). Hercules. 6). Leda. 7). Bacchus. 8). Epilogue. 9). Bibliography. 10). Index. Smaller ownership sticker on inside front cover otherwise bright and clean.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Lester Beall, who died in 1969, was the first graphic designer to receive a one-man exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (in 1937) and was awarded the 1993 Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Institute of Graphic Artists, a sign of his importance in American graphic design. In full color, this book documents the work of his pioneering 44-year career-advertising, corporate-identity programs, product styling, packaging, exhibits, murals, annual reports, posters, books, and magazines for a wide range of clients, including the U.S. government, the International Paper Company, Martin Marietta Corporation, and many others.
Softcover. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 454 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to edges, creases to cover & spine. Light foxing throughout & to top edge. Toning to edges. Includes drawings in bw by the author, decorating his letters, memoirs. Over 20 additional portraits in black & white. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Hardcover Volumes. Covers are 3/4 leather with marbled sections. Spine with raised bands, title and decoration in gilt. Marbled endpapers. This set Previously owned by Charles B. Woodcock Savage who achieved notoriety as the lover of King Karl of Wurttemberg and features his signature at the top of preliminary page in each volume. Gift inscription to Savage from Nellie on front endpapers of both volumes. Top edges gilt. Features 316 black & white illustrations. Volume 1 - Light wear. Clean, tight. Volume 2 - front cover hinge cracked, with loosening to spine strip up to 1" from top - hinge tender. Light wear otherwise. Overall, very good.
Softcover. NY, St. Martins Griffin, 1st Wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Illustrated in color, black & white by Crumb, 182 pages. Accolades and Reflections on the Controversial R. Crumb: "Robert Crumb--lurid, pornographic, sexy, twisted, hilarious, and depraved. The greatest American satirist is also its finest draftsman." --Joe Coleman"God bless Crumb. I've always been happy that there was someone as sick and twisted as I am." --George Carlin"I can think of no one more unqualified to say anything about Robert Crumb's artwork than myself. In fact, it's useless for most cartoonists of my generation to do so; without him, there wouldn't "be" any cartoonists of my generation." --Chris Ware, "The Acme Novelty Library"
Hardcover. Boston, The Taylor Press, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 285 pages. Brown cloth covers, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's bookplate to blank endpaper, light wear to covers, edges and spine; overall a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday and Co., reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Photographs and text by Edward Steichen. Includes a biographical outline. Illustrated end pages. 249 black and white plates. Measures 11.5x10 inches. Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Later he worked for Conde Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair. After World War II he became the Director of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Note: This book is the First edition, second printing (The book was originally published in 1963 with duotone and color plates, this second printing is in black and white only). In a very good dust jacket.
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.
Softcover. Cape Cod Museum of Art/Providencetown Museum, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 59 pages, exhibition catalog illustrated in color. Essays by Robert Henry, April Kingsley, Myra Harrison and Claire Sprague. Lillian Orlowsky painter, teacher, curator, critic and mentor (Born 1914 in New York City, died August 7, 2007 in Provincetown) I was fortunate to have taken part in one of the most important periods of art in this century. The 1930's through the 1950's saw a cultural upheaval where diverse concepts in painting went from one extreme to another: from realism to abstraction. In the forefront were the WPA (Works Projects Administration - Art Project) and in some measure the Provincetown Art Association. They promoted cultural awareness of the different pictorial concepts which were the beginning of the changing scene of plastic expression.
Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages with 52 color and 102 b&w plates. A unique portrait of the artist by an scholar, who draws on his personal experience of Bacon. A survey of his artistic development precedes critical studies of selected aspects of the artist and his work. Previously unpublished extracts of the author's conversations with Bacon are reproduced and followed by a brief account of Bacon's life.
Softcover. Berlin, Gestalten Verlag, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This monograph features Jaybo's font designs, logos, record covers and examples of his work as the Art Director of the lifestyle magazine Style and the Family Tunes.
Softcover. Berlin, Gestalten Verlag, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This monograph features Jaybo's font designs, logos, record covers and examples of his work as the Art Director of the lifestyle magazine Style and the Family Tunes.
Hardcover. Hudson Hills, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages, color illustrations. Loring Coleman's voice as a storyteller is full of his humor and sense of wonder as he tells us about his life and then gives us the tales behind the beauty and mystery of over 50 of his paintings, most of which are reflections of a disappearing life in New England. He begins by describing the moment when his eyesight failed, and he learned that after seven decades as an artist, he might never paint again. His creation of this book became his response. With spirited memories of the intriguing characters who affected his life, Loring describes his upbringing in the tough Chicago of the 1930s, his discovery of idyllic rivers in Concord, Massachusetts, and his adventures as a motorcyclist and young student of great art teachers. He tells of marrying his wife Katinka the day before Pearl Harbor, entering the military, and quickly finding himself commanding the U.S. Army's largest World War II art department. He then traces his energetic years as a teacher, traveling art historian, and lover of Bavaria and Austria. In the context of his rich personal life, Loring shows us his paintings, as he reveals the many amusing, exasperating, and provocative experiences surrounding the artistic choices he made as he became one of New England's most revered artists. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMECTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 263 pages. Louis Michel Eilshemius was a born poet-visionary. His paintings reveal a gift for lyrical expression, an ability to impart an unearthly, dreamlike quality to canvas, and an extraordinary originality. The abundant illustrations in this first comprehensive volume on the artist attest to the importance of his contribution to American art at the turn of the century. In his sensitive text, Paul J. Karlstrom illuminates the contradictions that provide the key to understanding Eilshemius's life and art. Thoroughly trained in the academic manner, Eilshemius later became known primarily as the painter of bizarre, 'primitive' nudes. His early paintings, landscapes influenced by the Barbizon school and Camille Corot, differ dramatically from his late works, which are naive and often disturbing fantasies. At his best, Eilshemius was a magician of the canvas, yet his unstable character and unrealistic ambitions prevented him from fully realizing his talent.
Hardcover. Prestel, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 167 pages. Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells is both a catalog of works by and a biography of the famous Parisian artist. Born in 1911, the now-octogenarian Bourgeois has shown widely throughout the world and to great critical acclaim, especially within the last decade. Bourgeois's personal history is vastly important in the content of her work, and this book takes readers on a journey from her affluent childhood in France, including family photographs, to her schooling under painter Fernand Leger to her eventual marriage and move to the United States, where she continued her long and varied career working primarily as a sculptor and installation artist. Bourgeois's abstract figurative sculptures range in materials from plaster, marble, and bronze to the more nontraditional latex, glass, thread, etc. Regardless of the medium, the work is imbued with a strong physicality that echoes the forms of the human body. Included in the book are discussions of Bourgeois's work in relation to other artists and movements such as Rodin, Brancusi, and primitivism. Bourgeois has been an inspiration to an entire generation of artists, not just because of her long and illustrious career but because her work has pushed so many boundaries. Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells is an informative and beautiful book with 77 color and 176 black-and-white images.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Renowned as the world's leading female fashion photographer from the 1930s to the 1960s, Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) was acclaimed for her fashion photographs, still lifes, and portraits.This book is the first comprehensive retrospective on this important photographer. In addition to her fashion images, the 200 photographs gathered here include Louise Dahl-Wolfe's experimental color work and black-and-white portraits of such luminaries as Mae West, Cecil Beaton, Josephine Baker, Christian Dior, Orson Welles, Isamu Noguchi, and others. In sum, they evoke a glamorous and unforgettable era.
Softcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. White glossy covers with b&w photographic plate of Louise Nevelson, perfect binding, introduction by John Canaday, profusely illustrated throughout with large b&w plates. Light rubbing to covers; otherwise a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.
Hardcover. Boston, New Harvest, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 174 pages. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Hoban has written an insightful book into what may have made Lucian Freud the great painter he came to be. From his early days in Germany with his grandfather, Sigmund Freud, to his subsequent life in London, where his family moved before the war, we see Lucian Freud gradually developing from an intense adolescent who often resorted to physical violence in conflicts with others to the powerful figure who changed the face of Realism. His many liaisons with women are described in detail: Hoban offers us a candid sketch of who the most prominent women in his life were, his problems with commitment and other moral conundrums we are forced to consider in his character, such as his questionable demand on his lovers that they use no form of birth control, resulting in at least 14 children, most out of wedlock. Along with that, Freud's gambling addiction and his love of risk are explored by Hoban in a way that allows us a glimpse into Freud's psyche that is invaluable for anyone wanting to understand in a more in depth way the factors that might have contributed to his enormous talents and output.