Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 238 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Covering the period from the Revolution to the beginning of World War II, this book considers Soviet avant-garde photography and film in the context of political history and culture. Three essays trace this generation of artists, their experiments with new media, and their pursuit of a new political order. A wealth of stunning photographs, film stills, and film posters, as well as magazine and book designs, demonstrate that their output encompassed a spectacular range of style, content, and perspective, and an extraordinary sense of the power of the photograph to change the world.
Hardcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 193 pages, 8 color and 100 b&w plates. Examines the approach of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their associates to the natural world. It is the first serious examination of the consequences of the Pre-Raphaelite creed of 'exact truth to nature', which led to the ever increasing importance of natural detail in Pre-Raphaelite school of landscape painting. Following a discussion of the developing interest in the precise depiction of nature by the Pre-Raphaelites from 1848 to 1851, chapters on individual artists, many hitherto almost forgotten, trace the history of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape in the 1850s and 1860s and its relation to earlier and later art in England and abroad. Much new light is cast on Ruskin's central role as theorist, patron, and critic of mid Victorian art.
Hardcover. London, Book Palace Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 200 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. A history of the great adventure comic strip created by Hal Foster, exploring its origin, the coloring process and showcase samples from original artwork and the color proofs, many scanned at their actual size. The book features all the artists that followed Foster from John Cullen Murphy to Gary Gianni and the current artist Thomas Yeates, with samples of their work scanned from their original art boards. In addition we interview Cullen Murphy who wrote the script for many years after Foster retired, Meg Nash who colored the strip from 1991 until her father John Cullen Murphy retired in 2004, Mark Schultz the current writer and Scott Roberts the colorist since 2004.
Hardcover. London, Book Palace Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 200 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. A history of the great adventure comic strip created by Hal Foster, exploring its origin, the coloring process and showcase samples from original artwork and the color proofs, many scanned at their actual size. The book features all the artists that followed Foster from John Cullen Murphy to Gary Gianni and the current artist Thomas Yeates, with samples of their work scanned from their original art boards. In addition we interview Cullen Murphy who wrote the script for many years after Foster retired, Meg Nash who colored the strip from 1991 until her father John Cullen Murphy retired in 2004, Mark Schultz the current writer and Scott Roberts the colorist since 2004.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. For 35 years, Hal Foster created epic adventure and romantic fantasy in his legendary Sunday strip, Prince Valiant. Realistic in its visual execution and noble in its subject, depicting a time in which the fabled warriors of history and legends fought together for the greater good, it remains one of the great masterpieces of the medium. In this second volume, Prince Valiant helps his father reclaim his throne in kingdom of Thule; fights alongside King Arthur; is made a knight of the Round Table; battles the Huns; sets off with Sir Gawain and Tristam of Arthurian legend fame; and is thrown off-course from Sicily; adventure follows him everywhere. Fantagraphics is proud to present these strips, which, thanks to the use of original proof sheets and advances in printing technology, are even brighter and crisper than when they were originally published 70 years ago. Foster's work, painterly and sweeping, is finally treated to the grand depiction it deserves.
Hardcover. New York, Skira/Rizzoli, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 279 pages, 86 color, 252 b&w illustrations. A clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket. Slipcased. The book delivers on its title, covering various printmaking techniques from the 15th century to the present. An excellent reference.
Hardcover. Detroit MI, Detroit Institute of Arts , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. In coordination with an exhibition held at Yale, Detroit Institute of Arts and The High Museum in Atlanta during 1993-1994, similar to an earlier exhibition but focuses on the art the Manoogian's had in their home.
Hardcover. New York, NYUP, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 208 pages of text followed by a ection of corresponding black & white illustrations. Titian's fame as the greatest colorist in the history of painting has led students of his art to concentrate on problems of style and authenticity rather than on problems of content and meaning. Dr. Panofsky treats this neglected aspect of the Venetian master's work with a wealth of humanistic scholarship, exploring such varied topics as Titian's relationship to the philosophy and literature of his time, his attitude toward the antique, and the reasons behind his unrivaled acclaim as a portraitist. These studies show Titian to have been a man of far richer and more complex culture than hitherto assumed, possessed not only of the supremely gifted hand but of a subtle and poetic mind.Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 390 pages, b&w illustrations. From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is transported to the luxurious and erotic world of a mid-eighth-century Muslim Arab prince. For scholars, though, Qusayr 'Amra, probably painted in the 730s or 740s, has proved a mirage, its concreteness dissolved by doubts about date, patron, and meaning. This is the first book-length contextualization of the mysterious monument through a compelling analysis of its iconography and of the literary sources for the Umayyad period. It illuminates not only the way of life of the early Muslim elite but also the long afterglow of late antique Syria. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, NYUP, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 303 pages. Hardcover. 246 black & white illustrations, 6 in color. Light wear to dust jacket at corners, edges. Clean, tight copy. Raphael (The Wrightsman Lectures, Delivered Under the Auspices of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts) [Oct 01, 1979].
Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Hardcover. 246 illustrations in black & white. 6 full page, full color illustrations. Red cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket with tears to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.
Softcover. Gloustershire UK, Tempus, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A collection of the British artist's drawings of archaeological sites as well as a sampling of his illustrations from the many historical books he has illustrated. Mild crease to book. Clean.
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA , University of California Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black and white illustrations throughout. This richly detailed study reconceptualizes a striking but enigmatic moment in Rembrandt's art from the 1650s--one of the artist's most prolific and creative periods. Michael Zell identifies a significant theological shift in Rembrandt's use of religious imagery and interprets this shift in light of the unique religious and social conditions of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Rembrandt's biblical art has generally been regarded as the embodiment of a Protestant aesthetic. By looking closely at the artist's relationship with his patron Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel and the ideas of a group of "philosemitic" Protestants with whom the rabbi was engaged in an apologetic dialogue, Zell deepens and complicates our understanding of Rembrandt's sacred art from this period.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson Potter, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 682 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Features over 750 illustrations, including 300 in full color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to top edge. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovers, complete in two volumes, housed in a glossy illustrated slipcase with light fading to top edge. Volume I: Paintings: Problems and Issues, 149 pages, index. Color and B&W plates. Volume II: Paintings, Drawings and Prints: Art-Historical Perspectives, 262 pages, index. B&W and color reproductions. This set is a two-volume catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum's paintings by Rembrandt as well as pictures once thought to be by the master but now recognised as the efforts of his pupils, contemporary followers, and the occasional later imitator. Bookplate on inside front covers. A heavy set. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, National Gallery London, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Slight soiling to dust jacket. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 408 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 3rd Revised, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor yellowing to dust jacket edges and spine. Previous owners inscription in pen to top edge of front flyleaf. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. 206 photographs, 16 in color. Follows the developments in the art and science of photography from the invention of the wet-collodion process through the evolution of dry plates.
Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, 143 pages, color frontis., b&w plates. A pioneering exhibition, with essay and catalogue by James Thrall Soby and Dorothy C. Miller. The exhibition checklist cites 213 works by 121 artists, and nearly all are names you would recognize. More than 100 pieces are pictured here. One of 7500 copies. Clean copy.
Softcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages including plates. (INSCRIBED) Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper has a touch of age yellow, otherwise very good. A small bit of soil on bottom edge. In very good condition.
Softcover. NY, Pierpont Morgan Library,, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stiff paper wrappers. 298 pages. Catalogue of Rubens and Rembrandt drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Introduction, indexed by artists and former owners. 130 black and white plates. Index of artists. Illustrations of 57 watermarks.
Hardcover. Russia, Aurora Art Publishers, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some foxing to textblock edges. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with some minor dust jacket wear. Black & white and color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 76 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink wrap. When Sam Taylor-Johnson climbed the famous mirrored staircase of Chanel's headquarters at 31 rue Cambon, Paris, she did not quite know what to expect. Her destination was Coco Chanel's private apartment on the second floor; her mission, to photograph it.