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Great Tapestries: The Web of History from the 12th to the 20th Century. by: Jobe, Joseph (Edited by)

Great Tapestries: The Web of History from the 12th to the 20th Century.
by: Jobe, Joseph (Edited by)

Hardcover. Switzerland, Edita S. A. Lausanne, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large folio in a bright dust jacket. 278 pages, color and b&w illustrations, many tipped-in color plates. Essay on Gothic tapestry by Pierre Verlet; essay on classical tapestry by Michel Florisoone; contemporary tapestry by Adolf Hoffmeister. An essay titled "The Weaver's Art" is by Francois Tabard. Lacks slipcase. DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 396582

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Greetings from Las Vegasby: Peter Moruzzi

Greetings from Las Vegas
by: Peter Moruzzi

Layton UT, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover with pictorial boards. 176 pages. A curated vintage ephemera tour of Las Vegas through the first half of the twentieth century as it blossomed out of the desert sands into an entertainment mecca. The story of early to mid-twentieth-century Las Vegas in its gilded age as told through a fun and diverse collection of old photos, picture postcards, matchbooks, ads, and other vintage ephemera. Featured are classic glimpses of Fremont Street and the world-renowned Las Vegas Strip, landmarks such as the Sands and Riviera hotel casinos, and the cream of Hollywood glitterati, including Frank, Sammy, Dino, and the Rat Pack. Author Peter Moruzzi's sharp, witty, and sometimes irreverent commentary accompanies the visual treats and provides a unique historical take on the evolution of this desert playground.

Record # 379169

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Gustav Klimt: From Drawing to Paintingby: Nebehay, Christian M.

Gustav Klimt: From Drawing to Painting
by: Nebehay, Christian M.

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. "Christian M. Nebehay, a leading Klimt scholar who knew the artist personally in the last year of his life, places Klimt in the context of the society which he both shocked and delighted. The best of his abundant sketches and the finished paintings which they precede are brought together for the first time, juxtaposed to alllow direct comparison" With 370 illustrations including 135 plates in full color.

Record # 350158

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Handbags: The Making of a Museumby: Clark, Judith

Handbags: The Making of a Museum
by: Clark, Judith

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This book features specially commissioned photographs of an extraordinary, newly formed collection of fashionable handbags that date from the 16th century to the present day. It has been acquired for exhibition in the first museum devoted to the handbag, in Seoul, South Korea. The project is a commission undertaken by experimental exhibition-maker Judith Clark, whose innovative practices are revealed in Handbags.

Record # 353403

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Happy Hooligan (Forever Nuts: Classic Screwball Strips)by: Opper, Frederick Burr

Happy Hooligan (Forever Nuts: Classic Screwball Strips)
by: Opper, Frederick Burr

Hardcover. US, NBM Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350649

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Happy Hooligan (Forever Nuts: Classic Screwball Strips)by: Opper, Frederick Burr

Happy Hooligan (Forever Nuts: Classic Screwball Strips)
by: Opper, Frederick Burr

Hardcover. US, NBM Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Opper was already a quite successful cartoonist/illustrator for the prestigious Puck magazine when William Randolph Hearst lured him out to create a comic strip for the New York Journal. While a step down from (relatively) high to low brow, Opper jumped at the chance and out came ?Happy Hooligan" an un-heroized vagrant who ends up very badly at the end of each strip, no matter how much good he might mean. His perennial demise surely went on to inspire Wile E. Coyote or Mr. O, especially as his own cowardice and unworthiness contributes to his hilarious woes. This second entry in ?Forever Nuts' presents a collection of the better early full color Sundays. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 360838

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Havemeyers, The: Impressionism Comes to Americaby: Weitzenhoffer, Frances

Havemeyers, The: Impressionism Comes to America
by: Weitzenhoffer, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy in shrinkwrap. Like new. The first biography of the couple who created the landmark collection that is still the base of most American museums.

Record # 606013

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Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium by: Safran, Linda (Editor)

Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium
by: Safran, Linda (Editor)

Softcover. Universtity Park PA, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 280 pages. This easily accessible volume, which grew out of a series of lectures presented at the Smithsonian Institution in 1991, aims to provide a coherent introduction to Byzantine culture with a focus on the interconnected realms of art and religion. The eight participants have revised their lectures into chapters on Byzantine history, theology, icons and icon theory, church architecture, monumental painting, silver church furnishings, illustrated liturgical books, and pilgrimage. In addition to presenting current research on this range of topics, the chapters each contribute original scholarship from authors who are recognized experts in their respective fields. The Introduction, by Linda Safran, deals with views and definitions of Byzantium over the course of its long history and considers why that civilization deserves our attention today. Illustrated in b&w and color.

Record # 384493

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Heaven on Earth: Tiepolo Masterpieces of the Wurzburg Years by: Kruckmann, Peter O.

Heaven on Earth: Tiepolo Masterpieces of the Wurzburg Years
by: Kruckmann, Peter O.

Hardcover. Munich/NY, Prestel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 143 pages with 100 color and 79 b&w illustrations. In 1750 the Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo arrived in Wurzburg, capital of the small German principality of Franconia. Its ruler, Prince-Bishop Carl Philipp von Greiffenclau, had commissioned him to decorate the Kaisersaal, one of the state rooms in his palace, the Residenz. Later extended to include the decoration of the Residenz's staircase, the commission resulted in a series of frescos that are numbered among the greatest glories of Baroque painting. Created by the last major representative of the Venetian tradition in painting, the frescos in the Wurzburg Residenz are a truly epochal work of art. They form the culmination of a venerable tradition of fresco decoration initiated by Giotto over four hundred years earlier and, in their marriage of mythological and historical subject-matter, constitute a monument to the dying age of absolutism. In his highly readable text Peter O. Kruckmann tells the story of how Tiepolo came to receive the commission, explores in detail the thematic and artistic intricacies of the frescos, and documents their genesis as a continuous process, from the preliminary sketches to the finished works. Clean copy.

Record # 386766

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Hector Guimard: Architect, Designer (1867-1942)by: Vigne, Georges

Hector Guimard: Architect, Designer (1867-1942)
by: Vigne, Georges

Hardcover. NY, Delano Greenidge Editions, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 396 pages, lavishly illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Guimard is the pre-eminent architect of Art Nouveau in France. He influenced French architecture and design in the first half of the 20th century. He was also the architect of a number of Paris Metro entrances. He was regarded as an architect who wielded the greatest influence on the popular imagination in Paris during the late 19th- and early 20th centuries.

Record # 462837

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Henri Matisse: the Early Years in Nice 1916-1930by: Cowart, Jack & Dominique Fourcade

Henri Matisse: the Early Years in Nice 1916-1930
by: Cowart, Jack & Dominique Fourcade

Softcover. Washington DC/NY, National Gallery of Art/Abrams, 1st, 1986, Softcover, large exhibition catalog, white wraps, 367 pages. Profusely illustrated with color and bw plates. A coherent group of major paintings representing that period when Matisse gave up his primary artistic residence in Paris to watch him settle in Nice. First as a temporary visitor and then as a permanent citizen, we watch him respond to the Mediterranean and the constancy of its light. Bookplate on inside fron cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy. Heavy volume. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 382301

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Henry Clay Frickby: Martha Frick Symington Sanger

Henry Clay Frick
by: Martha Frick Symington Sanger

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 600 pages. Henry Frick, remembered by art lovers today for his splendid collection of old-master paintings by Rembrandt, Bellini, and others that make up New York's Frick Museum, was one of the 19th century's worst robber barons. Brutal with workers, he never hesitated to hire mercenary armies to kill railway and mine strikers. Frick's was such a bloody and vicious climb to a pot of gold that his descendents have been understandably reluctant to allow historians full access to his papers. Finally, his great-granddaughter, Martha Sanger, a noted steeplechase and hunting enthusiast, decided to write about the life of her ancestor, and was allowed full use of the archives. Sanger's publisher, Abbeville, has done her proud with a luxuriously produced volume in which Sanger offers many theories about why Frick bought certain works of art. And although art historians may dismiss her black-and-white analyses of a collector's motivations--based, as she admits, on her own years in psychoanalysis--they at least reflect how Frick's own family saw him. Among the reproductions are famous pictures by Goya, Greco, and Gainsborough, but also many others rarely reproduced, perhaps because they are typically bad-taste 19th-century art, showing that even Frick bought some duds. Whether or not he acquired paintings, as Sanger asserts, because they reminded him of a daughter who died in early childhood, Frick was still a major historical figure, and his life needs this kind of voluminous treatment in order to complement harsher portraits by professional historians like Samuel Schreiner, who subtitled his own 1995 book from St. Martins Press The Gospel of Greed.

Record # 362457

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Herbert Crowley:The Temple of Silence: His Forgotten Works and Worldsby: Herbert Crowley

Herbert Crowley:The Temple of Silence: His Forgotten Works and Worlds
by: Herbert Crowley

Hardcover. Justin Duerr, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. large oversize volume. Crowley was an artist who created the "Wigglemuch" over 100 years ago. Hi intricate and obsessive drawings and sculptures have not been seen in many years. This book has loads of color and b&w drawings and paintings and photographs of sculptures along with biographical details.

Record # 381120

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Herge: Son of Tintinby: Peeters, Benoit

Herge: Son of Tintin
by: Peeters, Benoit

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 394 pages, b&w illustrations. The adventures of Tintin and his dog, Snowy, have captivated people worldwide since they first appeared as an insert in the Belgian Catholic newspaper Le Vintieme Siecle in 1929. Available for the first time in English, this insightful biography delves deep into the psyche of Tintin creator Georges Remi and his public persona Herge. Author of the critically acclaimed Tintin and the World of Herge and the last person to interview Remi, Benoit Peeters tells the complete story behind Herge's origins and shows how and why the nom de plume grew into a larger-than-Remi personality as Tintin's popularity exploded. Drawing on interviews and using recently uncovered primary sources for the first time, Peeters reveals Remi as a neurotic man who sought to escape the troubles of his past by allowing Herge's identity to subsume his own. As Tintin adventured, Herge lived out a romanticized version of life for Remi.

Record # 353249

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High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Artby: Reeder, Jan Glier

High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by: Reeder, Jan Glier

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 257 pages, This lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication on the Brooklyn Museum's internationally renowned historic costume collection. The nearly 25,000-object collection comprises fashionable women's and men's garments and accessories from the 18th through the 20th century.

Record # 359192

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Hippie Chicby: Whitley, Lauren D.

Hippie Chic
by: Whitley, Lauren D.

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. The 1960s saw a revolution in fashion that was born, like most things new and hip in that era, of youth rebellion in the streets. For the first time, designers didn't dictate the trends. Instead, the latest looks trickled up into the top fashion houses (Halston and Yves Saint Laurent among them), by way of bohemian boutiques and avant-garde labels with names like Granny Takes a Trip and Cosmic Couture, and musicians like the Beatles, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Defying easy definition but becoming an international phenomenon all the same, hippie fashion twisted and turned from trippy to retro and crafty to ethnic. The accompanying idea that one can express a personal style with clothing went against everything about the previous generation's notion of matching suits or ladylike ensembles dictated by social class or profession. Sumptuous photography, dynamic design, and far-out images from the era make Hippie Chic a must-have book that goes past peace signs and patchouli to unearth how hippies forever changed the way fashion functions. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 397843

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Historia del Arte Espanol Vol. I & IIby: Pellicer, Alejandro Cirici

Historia del Arte Espanol Vol. I & II
by: Pellicer, Alejandro Cirici

Hardcover. Spain, Editorial Labor, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Spanish editions. 1,080 pages. Black & white photos, drawings. Both with 3/4 leather, spine with gilt lettering. Vol I with stain to endpapers. Vol. II page 1029 with bottom corner crease. Both with browning to black leather spines, bottom edgewear.

Record # 500121

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Historical Mode: Fashion and Art in the 1980sby: Martin, Richard

Historical Mode: Fashion and Art in the 1980s
by: Martin, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 352803

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History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past by: Haskell, Francis

History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past
by: Haskell, Francis

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 3rd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers. 558 pages, 240 b/w + 20 color plates. In this engrossing book, an eminent art historian surveys the ways that historians have made use of visual sources--sculptures, paintings, coins, and other relics--in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. Francis Haskell examines the specific objects that were used and discusses a wide range of historians - from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to later writers such as Michelet, Burckhardt, and Huizinga who made inferences from the visual arts to indicate the whole mentality of an age. Clean copy.

Record # 378846

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History Of Art: Ancient Art by: Faure Elie; Pach Walter Translator

History Of Art: Ancient Art
by: Faure Elie; Pach Walter Translator

Hardcover. London/NY, John Lane/ Harper & Brothers, 1st UK, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with embossed rules, gilt decoration and lettering. The letter code D-D appears on copyright page, probable first English edition. B&w halftones throughout, 306 pages plus additional pages with index, synoptic tables. Small signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Well preserved copy.

Record # 374949

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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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History of British Wood Engravingby: Garrett, Albert

History of British Wood Engraving
by: Garrett, Albert

Hardcover. Kent, U.K., Midas Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 407 pages, with b&w illustrations throughout. Very slight foxing on top edge and minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853760

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History of Decorative Arts, The: Classicism and the Baroque in Europe by: Gruber, Alain (Editor)

History of Decorative Arts, The: Classicism and the Baroque in Europe
by: Gruber, Alain (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in slipcase. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to slipcase edges. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 353576

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History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States, A (3 Volumes)by: Dunlap, William

History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States, A (3 Volumes)
by: Dunlap, William

Hardcover. Boston, MA, C. E. Goodspeed & Co , Revised, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, New Edition, Illustrated with three volumes. 391+403+418 pages. 174 b&w full-page illustrations. Ruff cut paper edges. Dark green cloth, some bumps to corners. No dust jackets as issued. Light edge wear, otherwise a very nice, tight set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 605381

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Hogarth to Cruikshank: Social Change in Graphic Satireby: M. Dorothy George

Hogarth to Cruikshank: Social Change in Graphic Satire
by: M. Dorothy George

Hardcover. NY, Walker and Company, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w and with 17 full color plates. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge wear and minor foxing on top and fore edge. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 385846

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Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times - Volume I & IIby: Paulson, Ronald

Hogarth: His Life, Art, and Times - Volume I & II
by: Paulson, Ronald

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover set. Volume I: 558 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Dust jacket quite worn along edges with some tape repair to small tears. Clean, tight copy. Volume II: 557 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Fore-edge shows slightest foxing. Dust jacket worn along edges with small tears and creases. Clean, tight copy. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT AND SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 511691

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Holland on Paper: In the Age of Art Nouveauby: Clifford Ackley

Holland on Paper: In the Age of Art Nouveau
by: Clifford Ackley

Hardcover. Boston, MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages, profusely illustrated. From the 1890s through the turn of the century, there was a flourishing of new, imaginative art and craft throughout Europe that we now know as Art Nouveau. The Netherlands experienced an inventive variant of this art and design phenomenon, but until now it has been largely overshadowed by its counterparts in other countries, especially France. This richly illustrated book is the first in English to celebrate the Dutch contribution to Art Nouveau through a tour of more than 100 works on paper--posters, decorative calendars and illustrated books, as well as prints and drawings. These innovative works of graphic design reveal the progressive Dutch artists' conscious reaction against the past, their inspiration in natural forms and exotic cultures, and their embrace of the principle that art should transform everyday life. They also show how the New Art--Nieuwe Kunst in Dutch--coexisted and sometimes intertwined in the Netherlands with other artistic strands, including persistent realist trends, Symbolism and the emergence of modernism. Included here are early drawings by well-known artists Vincent van Gogh and Bart van der Leck, as well as new discoveries from Jan Toorop, Theo Nieuwenhuis, Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, Theo Hoytema, G. W. Dijsselhof and C. A. Lion Cachet. This beautifully illustrated book is the first in English to celebrate the Dutch contribution to Art Nouveau through a tour of over one hundred posters, decorative calendars, and illustrated books, as well as prints and drawings. With text by Clifford S. Ackley, one of the leading specialists on Dutch prints and drawings, Holland on Paper in the Age of Art Nouveau provides a fascinating and visually rewarding introduction to a rich and creative artistic era.

Record # 371348

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Hollywood Fashion: 100 Years of Hollywood Icons by: Nancy J. Hajeski

Hollywood Fashion: 100 Years of Hollywood Icons
by: Nancy J. Hajeski

Hardcover. Buffalo NY, Firefly Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, pages illustrated in color and b&w. Hollywood Fashion explores the art and legacy of the cinematic costume designer, starting with the birth of the modern motion picture industry on a prime piece of California real estate known as Hollywood. Readers will discover how film clothing evolved from actors selecting items from their home wardrobes to outfits customized for their roles -- everything from suits of armor to ball gowns to office attire to lingerie, all created by a studio designer and a dedicated staff of costumers.

Record # 398124

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Homes of Our Ancestors, Theby: Halsey & Tower, R. T. H. & Elizabeth

Homes of Our Ancestors, The
by: Halsey & Tower, R. T. H. & Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Volume to accompany the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 302 pp. Features 20 color plates in addition to 217 other black/white illustrations (mostly photographs). Covers beginnings of New England through the Early Days of the Republic. Development of Interior Architecture and House Decoration from craftsmen influenced by old world style and the evolution.Shows significant wear due to age and water damage. Discoloration throughout, though text still entirely legible and color still vivid in the plates. Edges show significant wear as well. Prior owner's name and date (1929) written in ink twice inside the cover.

Record # 804819

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Horse and History: From Arabia to Ascotby: Curtis, John and Nigel Tallis

Horse and History: From Arabia to Ascot
by: Curtis, John and Nigel Tallis

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Lund Humphries, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color pictures throughout.

Record # 470117

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House of Liberty, The : Masters of Style and Decorationby: Calloway, Stephen

House of Liberty, The : Masters of Style and Decoration
by: Calloway, Stephen

Hardcover. US, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. From its founding in 1875, the firm of Liberty has been a byword for high-quality design. Arthur Lasenby Liberty, its founder, set out to transform the appearance of dress and interior decoration; that sense of energy and excitement remains integral to the house, making Liberty a world-recognized name. This account and celebration is divided into chronological sections. It begins with the early emporium and ends with a survey of the institution's influence on post-war aesthetics and design. The Arts and Crafts Movement found Liberty's associated with leading craftsmen-designers. After World War I its textiles continued the famous lines of prints. Now, in keeping with its role as innovator, the firm continues to commission designers and to promote both traditional and avant-garde furniture and artifacts. This history of a unique enterprise reflects in microcosm major developments in taste from the late 19th-century to the present.

Record # 462846

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House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collectionby: Davidson, Gail

House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection
by: Davidson, Gail

Hardcover. Washington DC, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1st, 2008-09-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Essays analyzing these beautiful, exquisitely detailed watercolors and their significance to the Museum's collection, accompanied by the watercolors and related objects from the permanent collection, document the evolution of the domestic interior in the nineteenth century, revealing the impact of economic, social, and political developments on the concept of the home.

Record # 350542

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House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collectionby: Gail S Davidson Floramae McCarron Cates Charlotte Gere

House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection
by: Gail S Davidson Floramae McCarron Cates Charlotte Gere

Hardcover. Washington DC, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Essays analyzing these beautiful, exquisitely detailed watercolors and their significance to the Museum's collection, accompanied by the watercolors and related objects from the permanent collection, document the evolution of the domestic interior in the nineteenth century, revealing the impact of economic, social, and political developments on the concept of the home.

Record # 350541

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Hume and the Heroic Portrait: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Imagery by: Wind, Edgar / Edited By Jaynie Anderson

Hume and the Heroic Portrait: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Imagery
by: Wind, Edgar / Edited By Jaynie Anderson

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with light fading to dj spine. 139 pages of text, 124 b&w plates in rear section. This is the second volume of Edgar Wind's selected papers, a companion to The Elegance of Symbols. Of all the scholars associated with the early development of the Warbur Institute Edgar Wind was the first to apply different theoretical principles to the study of English Art, above all in his early study of English portraiture, now a classic art history text. As the seminal essay, it gives title to the present volume, and is here translated into English for the first time. In this essay, which marked a change of direction in Wind's own development, he argues that two opposing styles of portraiture, exemplified in the art of Gainsborough and Reynolds, can be related to the different notions of humanity subscribed to by the philosophers David Hume and James Beattie. Other important studies, also reprinted here, make this volume an excellent resource to Wind's tremendous contributions to art history. Clean copy.

Record # 386769

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I Was There with the Yanks in France on the Western Front 1917-1919 by: Baldridge, C. LeRoy

I Was There with the Yanks in France on the Western Front 1917-1919
by: Baldridge, C. LeRoy

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated primarily with black & white drawings (some color) by C. LeRoy Baldridge. Dust jacket with chipping, closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612234

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Illustration / Number 75by: Jessie Wilcox Smith/ John Schoenherr

Illustration / Number 75
by: Jessie Wilcox Smith/ John Schoenherr

Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages illustrated in color. The entire issue devoted to two illustrators: Jessie Wilcox Smith and John Schoenherr.

Record # 377826

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Illustration Issue No. 50 by: Zimmer, Daniel and J.C. Leyendecker

Illustration Issue No. 50
by: Zimmer, Daniel and J.C. Leyendecker

Softcover. St. Louis MO , Daniel Zimmer , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcover. Extensive color illustrations by J. C. Leyendecker throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 352085

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Image of the Indian and the Black Man in American Art, 1590-1900, Theby: Parry, Ellwood

Image of the Indian and the Black Man in American Art, 1590-1900, The
by: Parry, Ellwood

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 189 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with spine fading, light wear at corners, edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611835

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Images From the Storm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of the Stormby: Sneden, Private Robert Knox (Author/Illustrator), Charles F. Bryan, Jr., James c. Kel

Images From the Storm: 300 Civil War Images by the Author of Eye of the Storm
by: Sneden, Private Robert Knox (Author/Illustrator), Charles F. Bryan, Jr., James c. Kel

Hardcover. New York, The Free Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. A touch of foxing on spine, otherwise clean inside. Binding tight, in great shape.

Record # 31148

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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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Imperial Wardrobeby: Dickinson, Gary and Linda Wrigglesworth

Imperial Wardrobe
by: Dickinson, Gary and Linda Wrigglesworth

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Ten Speed Press, Revised Ed., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Revised Edition of a book first published in 1990 in London. 204 pages illustrated with detailed color and b&w photographs. Court fashion of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

Record # 351112

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In a New Light: Giovanni Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert"by: Rutherglen, Susannah

In a New Light: Giovanni Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert"
by: Rutherglen, Susannah

Hardcover. Lewes, DE, GILES, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrinkwrap. Over 140 color illustrations. Provides analysis of this single panel painting of St. Francis, rendered by Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Bellini

Record # 353154

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In His Image: 60 Biblical paintings by James H. Daugherty (1887-1974)by: Daugherty, James H. (Artist), Robert R. McGruther (Forword), Henry M. Reed (A Reminiscence),

In His Image: 60 Biblical paintings by James H. Daugherty (1887-1974)
by: Daugherty, James H. (Artist), Robert R. McGruther (Forword), Henry M. Reed (A Reminiscence),

Softcover. Caldwell, NJ, Heritage Committee of The First Presbyterian Church at Caldwell, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Soft cover. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Wrapper in beautiful condition. pages have just a touch of tanning around edges, otherwise clean and bright. Binding tight. In excellent shape. "Part of Daugherty's legacy to us is the sixty works in this book entitled 'In His Image'. These paintings were done in the period 1940 to 1960. They are executed in a powerful, emotional mood."

Record # 369349

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In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Daliby: Sue Roe

In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
by: Sue Roe

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 310 pages, color and b&w illustrations. In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and ends with the 1936 unveiling of Dali's Lobster Telephone. As those extraordinary years unfolded, the Surrealists found ever more innovative ways of exploring the interior life, and asking new questions about how to define art. In Montparnasse recounts how this artistic revolution came to be amidst the salons and cafes of that vibrant neighborhood. Sue Roe is both an incisive art critic of these pieces and a beguiling biographer with a fingertip feel for this compelling world. Beginning with Duchamp, Roe then takes us through the rise of the Dada movement, the birth of Surrealist photography with Man Ray, the creation of key works by Ernst, Cocteau, and others, through the arrival of Dali. On canvas and in their readymades and other works these artists juxtaposed objects never before seen together to make the viewer marvel at the ordinary--and at the workings of the subconscious. We see both how this art came to be and how the artists of Montparnasse lived. Roe puts us with Gertrude Stein in her box seat at the opening of The Rite of Spring; with Duchamp as he installs his famous urinal; at a Cocteau theatrical with Picasso and Coco Chanel; with Breton at a session with Freud; and with Man Ray as he romances Kiki de Montparnasse.

Record # 374953

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In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection by: Bolton, Andrew, Vorwort: Regan, Jessica, Mitwirkende: Huber, Melissa

In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection
by: Bolton, Andrew, Vorwort: Regan, Jessica, Mitwirkende: Huber, Melissa

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a wraparound title band. This handsome volume explores the modern discipline of fashion collecting, presenting remarkable works from one of the greatest private collection of 20th-century costume. This group of clothing and accessories, assembled over several decades by Sandy Schreier, includes many rare and historically significant pieces that define key moments in fashion. Her collection features not only iconic garments by established designers but also looks by pioneering couturiers rarely represented in museum collections. Outstanding works, by designers that include Gilbert Adrian, Cristobal Balenciaga, Boue Soeurs, Gabrielle Chanel, Christian Dior, Mariano Fortuny, Karl Lagerfeld, Paul Poiret, and Valentina, are illustrated with new photography by fashion photographer Nicholas Cope. An informative introduction traces the progress of her collecting from its roots in Detroit to the present day. The book also includes descriptions of over 80 works, including garments, accessories, and rare designer drawings, in addition to a lively interview with Schreier by Andrew Bolton that reveals her collecting philosophy.

Record # 384773

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In the Mood for Munsingwear: Minnesota's Claim to Underwear Fameby: Marks, Susan

In the Mood for Munsingwear: Minnesota's Claim to Underwear Fame
by: Marks, Susan

Hardcover. US, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 116 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 350529

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Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945by: Trenton, Patricia

Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945
by: Trenton, Patricia

Softcover. US, University of California Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light sun-fade and edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Independent Spirits brings to vivid life the West as seen through the eyes of women painters from 1890 to the end of World War II. Expert scholars and curators identify long-lost talent and reveal how these women were formidable cultural innovators as well as agitators for the rights of artists and women during a period of extraordinary development.

Record # 462631

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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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Interiors: a Record of Some of the Changes in Interior Design and Furniture of the English Home From Mediaeval Times to the Present Dayby: Margaret and Alexander Pott

Interiors: a Record of Some of the Changes in Interior Design and Furniture of the English Home From Mediaeval Times to the Present Day
by: Margaret and Alexander Pott

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped with white lettering, decoration. Delightfully illustrated history of interior design and furniture. 48 pages, 2-color art throughout by the authors. Small library stamp on title page, otherwise clean.

Record # 384647

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Interviews with Artists: 1966-2012by: Peppiatt, Michael

Interviews with Artists: 1966-2012
by: Peppiatt, Michael

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 416 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A renowned curator and respected insider of the international art scene since the mid-1960s, Michael Peppiatt has spent his professional life with many of the greatest artists of the 20th century. His close friendships and frequent studio visits with Dubuffet, Sonia Delaunay, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore and others are included here.

Record # 350487

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