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Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870by: Phillips, Sandra S.

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870
by: Phillips, Sandra S.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. 230 color illustrations throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 352915

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Face of Forgiveness, The: Salvation and Redemptionby: Coleman, A.D. (Foreword)

Face of Forgiveness, The: Salvation and Redemption
by: Coleman, A.D. (Foreword)

Hardcover. New York, PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. With sumptuous black-and-white photographs that recall the religious fervor of El Greco and the anguish of Francis Bacon, The Face of Forgiveness: Salvation and Redemption takes us inside evangelical meetings across the world and bears witness to the driving emotional faith of Christian revival, where emotion and love pours from the eyes and mouths of the faithful, praying and thanking the Lord.

Record # 353139

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False Dawn: Paul Rosenfeld and Art in America 1916-1946by: Hugh M. Potter

False Dawn: Paul Rosenfeld and Art in America 1916-1946
by: Hugh M. Potter

Softcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Published for U. New Hampshire by University Microfilms International, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages. Biographical history of Paul Rosenfeld, his artistic, musical, and literary criticisms and his contemporaries. Slight bumping to corners, otherwise a tight and clean copy.

Record # 387555

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Frederic Remington (The Library of American Art)by: James K. Ballinger

Frederic Remington (The Library of American Art)
by: James K. Ballinger

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. , 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine, all excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. More than one hundred reproductions--58 in full-color--bring to life this quintessentially American artist and the dramatic and colorful imagery that has become part of America's epic story.

Record # 367555

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Fresh Perspectives on Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler, and George H. Durrieby: Maroney, James H.

Fresh Perspectives on Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler, and George H. Durrie
by: Maroney, James H.

Leicester VT, Gala Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 218 pages. Includes 3 essays: Hiding in Plain Sight: Decoding the Homoerotic and Socio-Political Imagery of Grant Wood. Charles Sheeler and Albert Einstein: Pioneers in the Exploration of Spacetime! The Case for Reattributing George H. Durrie's "Genre" Paintings to James Goodwyn Clonney.

Record # 372512

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Fresh Perspectives on Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler, and George H. Durrieby: Maroney, James H.

Fresh Perspectives on Grant Wood, Charles Sheeler, and George H. Durrie
by: Maroney, James H.

Hardcover. Leicester VT, Gala Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 218 pages. Includes 3 essays: Hiding in Plain Sight: Decoding the Homoerotic and Socio-Political Imagery of Grant Wood. Charles Sheeler and Albert Einstein: Pioneers in the Exploration of Spacetime! The Case for Reattributing George H. Durrie's "Genre" Paintings to James Goodwyn Clonney. Rear panel of dust jacket wrinkled otherwise very good, clean copy.

Record # 386657

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Futurismby: Taylor, Joshua C.

Futurism
by: Taylor, Joshua C.

Hardcover. NY, The Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 154 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. The works and writings of the Futurist artists in their most creative period, 1910-1916. 141 Illustrations (22 in color). Tanning to wraps, light edgewear. Mild foxing to top edge text block. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 387712

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Gauguin, Cezanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia by: Rishel, Joseph J.

Gauguin, Cezanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia
by: Rishel, Joseph J.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 20 June-3 September 2012]/edited by Joseph J Rishel; with essays by Stephanie D'Allessandro.[et al.] A trio of masterpieces by Gauguin, Cezanne, and Matisse are joined by works by other major artists in this exploration of the enduring vitality of the theme of Arcadia. Paul Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897-98), Paul Cezanne's The Large Bathers (1906), and Henri Matisse's Bathers by a River (1909-10, 1913, and 1916-17). Other masterpieces by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Nicolas Poussin, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes establish the high value given to Arcadia in the history of French painting. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 387713

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Georges Braque: A Lifeby: Danchev, Alex

Georges Braque: A Life
by: Danchev, Alex

Hardcover. NY, Arcade Publishing, 1st us, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 440 pages, color and b&w illustrations. This biography examines Braque's creativity, his personal and professional relationships (with Beckett, Cezanne, Giacometti, Matisse, Miro, Picasso etc) and enriches our understanding of France's early 20th century art culture.

Record # 351906

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Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Thingsby: Turner, Elizabeth Hutton

Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things
by: Turner, Elizabeth Hutton

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 158 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. Explores O'Keeffe's unmatched accomplishments in still-life painting in two essays accompanied by reproductions of her work and photographs of her studios.

Record # 353355

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Grant Wood: A Study in American Art and Cultureby: Dennis, James

Grant Wood: A Study in American Art and Culture
by: Dennis, James

Hardcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The definitive study of the painter.

Record # 804915

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Grid-Portraits (SIGNED)by: Levy, Stu

Grid-Portraits (SIGNED)
by: Levy, Stu

Hardcover. Portland, OR, Nazraeli Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages. This printing limited to 1000 copies. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Creasing to a few pages. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. In the mid-1980s, Stu Levy began making 'grid-portraits' in order to overcome his his frustration with traditional portraiture's limited point of view. These constructs of photographs, consisting of twelve to twenty-five individual images, scan the architecture and flow of time in a subject's living or working environment. The resulting portraits, usually of artists, craftspeople and musicians, are made in the subjects' studios or living spaces and serve as a backstage tour of the artist s mind and creative process. Levy is fascinated by the artifacts that fill these spaces the possessions by which the subjects are themselves possessed. Rather than confining himself to a single 'decisive' moment, Levy explore its antithesis, a maze of scrambled time. These are made with a view camera using 4 x 5-inch negatives to allow for precision of detail. The sections are printed together to form the illusion of glancing through a window at a 'snapshot' of an event, which in reality might consist of fragmentary views made months apart and in totally separate rooms or environments. Among the subjects included in this important new monograph are Dr. Stanley Burns, Linda Connor, Barbara Crane, Jay Dusard, David Hockney, Graham Nash, and Jerry Uelsmann. Beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper and bound in black Japanese cloth, this first printing of Grid-Portraits is limited to 1,000 copies.

Record # 353374

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Guide to Drawing, A: Sixth Editionby: Mendelowitz, Daniel M. , Duane A. Wakeham, David L. Faber

Guide to Drawing, A: Sixth Edition
by: Mendelowitz, Daniel M. , Duane A. Wakeham, David L. Faber

Softcover. Belmont, CA, Wadsworth Thompson, 1st, 2003 , Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent, like new. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Looks nearly new and barely used. designed for both beginning and advances drawing classes, this best seller explores all topics, media, and techniques that guide students in mastering basic skills and using those skills creatively and expressively.

Record # 32395

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History of Art: Gothic Painting IIby: H?©rubel, Michel

History of Art: Gothic Painting II
by: H?©rubel, Michel

Hardcover. Geneva, Edito-Service, 1st English Ed., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pebbled red cloth with gilt decoration and color label on front cover. Good general overview of painting in Western Europe during the later Medieval period. Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Record # 383532

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Hogan's Alley: Magazine of the Cartoon Arts No. 21by: Heintjes, Tom(Editor)

Hogan's Alley: Magazine of the Cartoon Arts No. 21
by: Heintjes, Tom (Editor)

Softcover. Atlanta, GA, Bull Moose Publishing, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. Slight creasing on bottom right corner of front wrapper. Black and white illustrations throughout. Includes a rare, long, previously unpublished interview from 1937 with the artist, George Herriman.

Record # 352945

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Hokusai: One Hundred Poetsby: Morse, Peter

Hokusai: One Hundred Poets
by: Morse, Peter

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket and heavy fading on rear. Internally clean. Color illustrations by Hokusai.

Record # 8230004

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Horn Book Magazine: August 1971by: Betsy Byars, Gail E. Haley, John Rowe Townsend, Virginia Haviland

Horn Book Magazine: August 1971
by: Betsy Byars, Gail E. Haley, John Rowe Townsend, Virginia Haviland

Softcover. Boston, The Horn Book , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 95 pages. Reference of books and reading for children and young people. Featuring: 'Newbery and Caldecott Acceptance Speeches by Betsy Byars and Gail E. Haley, 'In Literary Terms' by John Rowe Townsend, 'A Second Golden Age? In a Time of Flood?' by Virginia Haviland and more. Light marking or library stamp on cover. Black & white illustrations. Interior clean and bright.

Record # 396759

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Ideal Landscape: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrainby: Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlof

Ideal Landscape: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain
by: Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlof

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 247 pages with 105 plates (many color)."Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin, and Claude Lorrain were the masters of ideal, or heroic, landscape painting in the seventeenth century. In this original and highly sophisticated book, Margaretha Lagerlof interprets these paintings in a new way, examining them from four perspectives relevant to their contemporaries - those of drama, rhetoric, utopianism, and metaphysics."

Record # 386467

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Idols of Perversity; Fantasies of Feminine Evel in Fin-de-Siecle Cultureby: Bram Dijkstra

Idols of Perversity; Fantasies of Feminine Evel in Fin-de-Siecle Culture
by: Bram Dijkstra

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 453 pages, b&w illustrations. At the turn of the century, an unprecedented attack on women erupted in virtually every aspect of culture: literary, artistic, scientific, and philosophic. Throughout Europe and America, artists and intellectuals banded together to portray women as static and unindividuated beings who functioned solely in a sexual and reproductive capacity, thus formulating many of the anti-feminine platitudes that today still constrain women's potential. BramDijkstra's Idols of Perversity explores the nature and development of turn-of-the-century misogyny in the works of hundreds of writers, artists, and scientists, including Zola, Strindberg, Wedekind,Henry James, Rossetti, Renoir, Moreau, Klimt, Darwin, and Spencer. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 385573

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Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivismby: Kiaer, Christina

Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism
by: Kiaer, Christina

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 326 pages, illustrated in color, b&w. How Constructivist artists in Russia between 1923 and 1925 developed a counterproposal to capitalism's commodity fetish by producing objects meant to be "comrades" in the creation of an egalitarian socialist culture. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 351806

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Imperfections By Chance: Paul Feeley Retrospective, 1954-1966by: Dreishpoon, Douglas

Imperfections By Chance: Paul Feeley Retrospective, 1954-1966
by: Dreishpoon, Douglas

Hardcover. Lewes, DE, GILES, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Like new still in publishers shrinkwrap. In addition to color plates of all works in the exhibition--nearly one hundred paintings, works on paper, and sculptures--this volume features essays by exhibition curators Douglas Dreishpoon and Tyler Cann, as well as poet and critic Raphael Rubinstein, and an illustrated chronology by academic and granddaughter of the artist Cary Cordova. From his early Abstract Expressionist-inspired paintings to his organic, anthropomorphic figure-ground compositions and later diagrammatical, hard-edged works, Imperfections by Chance charts the full range of Feeley's influential life and career.

Record # 353153

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Ingres and his Critics by: Shelton, Andrew Carrington

Ingres and his Critics
by: Shelton, Andrew Carrington

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 334 pages. Spanning his renunciation of the Salon in 1834 until his large retrospective at the crucial 1855 Universal Exposition, this book examines the critical writing and journalistic reportage on Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres. It demonstrates how Ingres shaped his career in the rapidly evolving art world of mid-nineteenth century Paris. While enjoying the benefits of his affiliation with the Academy, the artist also pursued certain modes of presentation, most notably the single-artist exhibition and illustrated monograph, through which he distanced himself from the embattled world of artistic officialdom.

Record # 362409

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Italian Landscape in Eighteenth Century England: A study chiefly of the influence of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa on English Taste 1700-1800 by: Manwaring, Elizab

Italian Landscape in Eighteenth Century England: A study chiefly of the influence of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa on English Taste 1700-1800
by: Manwaring, Elizab

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth stamped in gilt, 243 pages. Twenty-five b&w plates illustrating landscape designs. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 383183

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Jackson Pollock: Energy Made Visible by: B. H. Friedman

Jackson Pollock: Energy Made Visible
by: B. H. Friedman

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a price-clipped dust jacket with light wear, 293 pages, b&w illustrations. Nowhere is the complex and destructive painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) revealed with more compassion and insight than in this exemplary biography. Friedman, a friend of Pollock's and active in the art world, shows him to be a brilliant man tormented by his relationship to his family; an artist who worked hard through years of poverty to achieve his controversial painting technique; the first American painter to gain an international reputation for himself and for what has been variously called Action Painting or Abstract Expressionism; and a man who struggled with alcohol and the tension between gentleness and violence. Light tape repair to dust jacket on reverse. Otherwise clean.

Record # 396768

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James Feeby: Krull, Craig

James Fee
by: Krull, Craig

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, St. Ann's Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Limited to 200 copies. Presented here are the many black and white photographs of American icons and imagery that are thematically connected by Fee's obsession with the decline and destruction of the America that he knew as a young man: we see his series of New York imagery, including the Chrysler building and the Brooklyn Bridge; pictures of the crumbling Penn State penitentiary; Beat inspired series of photographs of the American road; a distinctive and unique series of nude imagery; as well as his innovative collaborations with multimedia artist George Herms.

Record # 353069

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Jan van der Heyden: 1637-1712by: Sutton, Peter C.

Jan van der Heyden: 1637-1712
by: Sutton, Peter C.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This book includes a general discussion of Van der Heyden's work, entries on 40 of his paintings, illustrations of about 100 of his paintings, as well as supplemental drawings and prints. Focusing mainly on the bustling city of Amsterdam, he also recorded other Dutch, Flemish, and German cities with a brilliant palette and exceptionally detailed technique. Often innovative in his composition, he was the first artist to create imaginary scenes by rearranging existing city views and known buildings.

Record # 353138

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now's the Timeby: Buchhart, Dieter

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now's the Time
by: Buchhart, Dieter

Hardcover. Germany, Prestel, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A thematic presentation of the groundbreaking and provocative art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, this volume offers a new appreciation of his tragic but highly influential career. From his early years spray painting the walls of lower Manhattan to his first solo show in 1982 and his untimely death at the age of 27 in 1988, Jean-Michel Basquiat has become a symbol of the 1980s New York art scene.

Record # 353062

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John Heartfield: Laughter is a Devastating Weaponby: Heartfield, John

John Heartfield: Laughter is a Devastating Weapon
by: Heartfield, John

Hardcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Includes an insightful essay and more than 150 full-color reproductions of Heartfield's work.

Record # 353408

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John Steuart Curry's Hoover and the Flood: Painting Modern Historyby: Eldredge, Charles C.

John Steuart Curry's Hoover and the Flood: Painting Modern History
by: Eldredge, Charles C.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Univ of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 86 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Minor shelf wear on front cover. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 470903

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Just Looking: Essays on Artby: Updike, John

Just Looking: Essays on Art
by: Updike, John

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Twenty-two essays on art with subjects ranging from Andrew Wyeth's Helga paintings to children's book illustrators to classic masters Vermeer, Monet, Degas and others.

Record # 350492

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

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

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Last Chance for Eden: Selected Art Criticism by Christopher Knight 1979-1994 by: Christopher Knight

Last Chance for Eden: Selected Art Criticism by Christopher Knight 1979-1994
by: Christopher Knight

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Art Issues Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 420 pages with index. Christopher Knight is the unprecedented five-time winner of the Chemical Bank Award for Distinguished Newspaper Art Criticism, and was a finalist for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Writing first for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and now for the Los Angeles Times, Knight has developed a new journalistic approach to American art and culture, in which a radical defense of images stands alongside an incisive critique of cultural institutions. Among the 129 essays and reviews collected here are individual writings on internationally important historical figures, such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Tung Ch'i Ch'ang, and douard Manet; contemporary American masters like Edward Ruscha and Mike Kelley; and significant artists virtually forgotten today, such as California's Henrietta Shore and Mexico's Hermenegildo Bustos. Clean copy.

Record # 398254

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Le Mouvement Symboliste dans L'Art du XIX Siecle: Gustave Moreau, Redon, Carriere, Gauguin et le Groupe de Pont-Aven, Maurice Denis by: Charles Chasse

Le Mouvement Symboliste dans L'Art du XIX Siecle: Gustave Moreau, Redon, Carriere, Gauguin et le Groupe de Pont-Aven, Maurice Denis
by: Charles Chasse

Softcover. Paris, Librairie Floury, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray wrappers with black and red lettering, 213 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. Small tears at foot and crown of paper spine. Clean, tight copy. FRENCH TEXT.

Record # 383855

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Leonardo; A Study in Chronology and Style by: Pedretti, Carlo

Leonardo; A Study in Chronology and Style
by: Pedretti, Carlo

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.

Record # 385934

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Letters of John Ruskin To Charles Eliot Norton [2 Volumes] by: Ruskin, John

Letters of John Ruskin To Charles Eliot Norton [2 Volumes]
by: Ruskin, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd pr., 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Two hardcover volumes in worn, soiled dust jackets. Dark green cloth covers with gilt titles to upper covers and spines. As a result of djs, both volumes are bright and clean, 261. 243 pages. No markings.

Record # 398038

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Lichtenberg's Commentaries on Hogarth's Engravings by: Herdan, Innes & Gustav (translated by)

Lichtenberg's Commentaries on Hogarth's Engravings
by: Herdan, Innes & Gustav (translated by)

Hardcover. London, The Cresset Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 297 pages + 26 b&w plates. English language edition. Translated from the German and with an introduction by Innes and and Gustav Herdan. Contains very clever and funny remarks on Hogarth's engravings by an 18th century German professor of physics. Small owner's stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387457

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LIFE 50 Years of James Bondby: The Editors of LIFE Books

LIFE 50 Years of James Bond
by: The Editors of LIFE Books

Hardcover. New York, Liberty Street, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. B&W and color photographs throughout. Fifty years ago, the dashing Scottish actor Sean Connery kicked off the Bond franchise, a cinematic series unlike any other. In November 2012, Skyfall, the 23rd movie in what is seen as the authorized line of Bond films, will be released, with Daniel Craig (the sixth Bond) again in the lead role. The world will once more stream to the theaters for another dose of Bond. LIFE was on the scene in the swinging '60s when James Bond became a cultural icon (in fact, when we put the gold-painted actress Shirley Eaton on the cover in 1964, we helped him along), and now LIFE tells the whole story in this commemorative book.

Record # 353075

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Life's Pleasures - The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925by: Tottis, james W.

Life's Pleasures - The Ashcan Artists' Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925
by: Tottis, james W.

Hardcover. New York, DIA/Merrell, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Illustrated in full color. A bright, clean copy.

Record # 609081

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Malevich on Suprematism: Six Essays 1915 to 1926by: Malevich, Kazimir and Patricia Railing

Malevich on Suprematism: Six Essays 1915 to 1926
by: Malevich, Kazimir and Patricia Railing

Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 115 pages, b&w illustrations. Paper wraps. Table of contents with black and white copies of Malevich's sketches and art work. Partial quote from the forward by Stephen Prokopoff "As the work of the principal theoretician of the extraordinary modernist development that occurred in Russia during the first quarter of the twentieth century, Malevich's writings provide an important entry to the understanding of its artistic production and to the thought that animated it."

Record # 351212

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Malevich on Suprematism: Six Essays 1915 to 1926by: Malevich, Kazimir and Patricia Railing

Malevich on Suprematism: Six Essays 1915 to 1926
by: Malevich, Kazimir and Patricia Railing

Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa, 1st, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 115 pages, b&w illustrations. Paper wraps. Table of contents with black and white copies of Malevich's sketches and art work. Partial quote from the forward by Stephen Prokopoff "As the work of the principal theoretician of the extraordinary modernist development that occurred in Russia during the first quarter of the twentieth century, Malevich's writings provide an important entry to the understanding of its artistic production and to the thought that animated it."

Record # 351213

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Manet's "Olympia"by: Reff, Theodore

Manet's "Olympia"
by: Reff, Theodore

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.

Record # 452340

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Martine Sitbon: Alternative Visionby: Sitbon, Martine

Martine Sitbon: Alternative Vision
by: Sitbon, Martine

Hardcover. New York, NY, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Martine Sitbon has become an icon among designers and fashionistas, earning her praise from Karl Lagerfeld as being "the only living French designer." With never-before-seen sketches and photographs, this book allows readers to gain a better understanding of the designer's personal universe and inspirations that have until now been largely hidden from view.

Record # 353422

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Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting: The American Collectionsby: Murase, Miyeko

Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting: The American Collections
by: Murase, Miyeko

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. 124 color prints. 13 gatefold illustrations especially valuable: nearly 5 feet wide when opened. Textual material includes descriptions of each screen reproduced, a glossary, and short biographies of the artists whose work is presented.

Record # 353145

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Matisse Portraitsby: Klein, John

Matisse Portraits
by: Klein, John

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Klein surveys the history of Matisse's portraits and their sitters, with attention to the details of the financial transaction or other agreement that caused the painting to be made. An analysis of Matisse's self-portraits is also provided. Klein works chronologically, detailing the artist's developing style, but remains attached to his biography as well, with many quotes about Matisse or his works from contemporary sources. This volume is well illustrated with b&w and color plates.

Record # 353372

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Matisse's Sculpture: The Pinup and the Primitiveby: McBreen, Ellen

Matisse's Sculpture: The Pinup and the Primitive
by: McBreen, Ellen

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 228 pages. Long perceived as a side pursuit to his celebrated painting career, Henri Matisse's sculpture receives an overdue critical examination in this book. Beginning in 1906, soon after the artist acquired his first African sculpture, Matisse found inspiration in erotic and ethnographic photography, which had become inexpensively mass-produced thanks to advances in halftone technology. Working with these two radically different depictions of the body--one hand carved, the other mechanically made--was a foundational method for Matisse and crucial to the development of his pre-World War I abstraction. Far from a simple narrative of the artist "discovering" Africa, the highly original readings of Matisse's Sculpture plot new coordinates of study for early 20th-century primitivism. It examines the larger constructs of thought at the time, with a penetrating analysis of anthropology, popular erotica, and the visual culture of French colonialism. In addition, the book repositions Matisse's sculptural practice, particularly in regard to its investigations of race and sexuality, as a cornerstone of his prolific career.

Record # 352872

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Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869-1918by: Flam, Jack

Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869-1918
by: Flam, Jack

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University, 1st, 1986, Hardcover, 523 pages. Flam, who translated Matisse's writings in Matisse on Art (Phaidon, 1973), presents a thorough and scholarly examination of the artist's life and stylistic development. Each painting is given a complete analysis, revealing Matisse's encounters with the prevailing styles and theories of art to arrive at work distinctly his own. Glimpses of his personal life combined with discussions of his paintings show the inner turmoil with which he struggled to find a style that would satisfy both his instinct and his intellect. Flam provides new documentary material, corrects earlier misconceptions, and redates several paintings. Heavily illustrated, often with fine color reproductions, this volume is an excellent successor to Alfred Barr's Matisse .

Record # 361252

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Maus Now: Selected Writing by: Hillary Chute (Ed.)

Maus Now: Selected Writing
by: Hillary Chute (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 394 pages. Collects responses to Spiegelman's monumental work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status. The writers approach Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions, inspired by the material's complexity across four decades, from 1985 to 2018. The book is organized into three loosely chronological sections-- "Contexts," "Problems of Representation," and "Legacy"--and offers for the first time translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus. The book includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics--including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik--on the radical achievement and innovation of Maus, more than forty years since the original publication. Remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean, bright copy.

Record # 397214

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Mel-Practice in New Hampshire: A Cartoonist's View of Gov. Meldrim Thomsonby: Johnson, D.B.

Mel-Practice in New Hampshire: A Cartoonist's View of Gov. Meldrim Thomson
by: Johnson, D.B.

Softcover. Meredith, NH, Intervale Publishing, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 92 pages. Softcover with light wear to edges. Illustrations throughout by author. Tight.

Record # 8230005

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Minor White: Rites & Passagesby: White, Minor

Minor White: Rites & Passages
by: White, Minor

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Minor White was one of the twentieth century's most influential B&W art photographers. Rites & Passages, is a compilation of his writings and photographs, with a biographical essay by James Baker Hall. The book is well writen and edited, and is a significant insite into the thoughts and motivations of a great artist. With a generous number of stunning photographs, expertly printed on quality paper, it is a book worthy of any discriminating collection.

Record # 351348

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Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, Vol. XXI ['21], No. 1), Fall 1953. Jacques Villon/His Graphic Art.by: William S. Lieberman

Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, Vol. XXI ['21], No. 1), Fall 1953. Jacques Villon/His Graphic Art.
by: William S. Lieberman

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", twenty-four page exhibition catalog is bound in stapled wrappers and is in VG+ condition. B&W reproductions and photographs. Foreword by William S. Lieberman, Curator of Prints for MOMA.

Record # 363594

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