Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. David Dawson was Lucian Freud's assistant, companion, and model. Freud moved in rarefied, powerful circles and was tenacious about protecting his privacy. Dawson, however, was in a unique position, and as Freud became comfortable in the presence of his camera, photographing became part of the daily ritual of the studio. These photographs reveal in a most intimate way the subjects and the stages of paintings in progress. Few artists, if any, have had their lives and their work recorded over such a length of time.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 209 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Animation historian John Canemaker chronicles the lives and work of sketch artists at Disney from the 1930s to the present.
Hardcover. Milan, Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore Inc, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages, photos in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Recounting the 30 years that turned Giorgio Armani into an international fashion icon, this investigation of the man and the myth he built around himself explores how he maintained a distinct identity in an industry built upon rapid changes. Written with the designer's cooperation and access to his personal archives, Armani's story is accurately rendered, from his modest beginnings and early home environment to the influences and colleagues who helped build his name. Yet ultimately, this is the story of a man with an innate sense of style and unmatched entrepreneurial strategy, both of which allowed him to create a new way of thinking--an aesthetic genre that went beyond a world of appearance and clothing--that single-handedly changed the face of fashion forever.
Hardcover. Milan, Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore Inc, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 236 pages, photos in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Recounting the 30 years that turned Giorgio Armani into an international fashion icon, this investigation of the man and the myth he built around himself explores how he maintained a distinct identity in an industry built upon rapid changes. Written with the designer's cooperation and access to his personal archives, Armani's story is accurately rendered, from his modest beginnings and early home environment to the influences and colleagues who helped build his name. Yet ultimately, this is the story of a man with an innate sense of style and unmatched entrepreneurial strategy, both of which allowed him to create a new way of thinking--an aesthetic genre that went beyond a world of appearance and clothing--that single-handedly changed the face of fashion forever.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 132 pages of text, plus 125 numbered plates in b&w and color. Price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 267 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This book examines the often-neglected role played by immigrant artists and critics in the circle of Alfred Stieglitz, including Japanese-German author Sadakichi Hartmann, Mexican-born caricaturist Marius de Zayas and English Sri-Lankan curator Ananda Coomaraswamy, as well as better-known U.S.-born painters, including Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Co. , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on half title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. As a boy, Edward Hopper knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: on the cover of his pencil box, he wrote the words EDWARD HOPPER, WOULD-BE ARTIST. He traveled to New York and to Paris to hone his craft. And even though no one wanted to buy his paintings for a long time, he never stopped believing in his dream to be an artist. He was fascinated with painting light and shadow and his works explore this challenge. In this striking picture book biography, Robert Burleigh and Wendell Minor invite young readers into the world of a truly special American painter (most celebrated for his paintings "Nighthawks" and "Gas").
Hardcover. US, Harper, 1st, 2012-12-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 419 pages, photos in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2012-12-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 419 pages, photos in color and b&w. Remainder mark to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Angelika Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Perfumier Frederic Malle was born into the world of fragrances: his grandfather was Serge Heftler, founder of Dior Parfums. However, Malle describes his own role as that of a publisher, likening his label Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle, founded in 2000, to the great French publisher Gallimard: "Not only did Gallimard publish the best authors in its time, but its books also look like nothing else," Malle explains. "I said to myself, 'I'll do an Editions de Parfums like Editions Gallimard.'" The packaging of Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle is modeled on Gallimard's simple red and cream cover design, declaring the modest, unostentatious sensibility of its founder. Malle also functions as something of a curator: when developing a fragrance, he invites the best contemporary perfumers and gives them absolute creative freedom, supplying them with both an unlimited selection of ingredients and as much time as needed to compose the best possible scent. Pierre Bourdon, Jean-Claude Ellena, Edouard Flechier, Olivia Giacobetti, Dominique Ropion, Maurice Roucel, Edmond Roudnitska, Michel Roudnitska and Ralf Schwieger are among the many perfumiers who have collaborated with Malle. In this beautifully produced luxury volume, Malle describes the process of creating a fragrance and collaborating with these great perfumiers. With a foreword by Catherine Deneuve, On Perfume Making offers a rare glimpse into the refined world of contemporary perfume. Scarce title.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 320 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Jan Lievens (1607-1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the 17th century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal portraits, and religious and allegorical images that were widely praised and valued during his lifetime. This beautiful book, the first overview of the full range of Lievens' career, features more than 50 paintings-many of them newly discovered in private collections-and more than 75 prints and drawings, providing a reassessment of his place in the history of art.
Softcover. NY, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. In 1915, Kazimir Malevich changed the future of modern art when his experiments in painting led the Russian avant-garde into pure abstraction. He called his innovation Suprematism--an art of pure geometric form meant to be universally comprehensible regardless of cultural or ethnic origin. His Suprematist masterpiece, White Square on White (1920-27), continues to inspire artists throughout the world. Focused exclusively on this defining moment in Malevich's career, Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism features nearly 120 paintings, drawings and objects, among them several recently discovered masterworks. In addition, the book includes previously unpublished letters, essays and diaries, along with essays by international scholars, who shed new light on this popular figure and his devotion to the spiritual in art.
Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages, 173 illustrations, 131 in color. Although he is now seen as a progenitor of the "naive" style, during his lifetime Edward Hicks (1780-1849) was known only as a devout, impoverished Quaker minister who liked to paint. With a few exceptions, his extant body of work is made up of 62 "Peaceable Kingdom" pictures, based on Isaiah's biblical prophecy. Although these paintings, known for their charmingly wide-eyed and sensuous beasts, use potent color and effective design, they are technically unsophisticated and repetitive in the extreme. But they contain a powerfully serene devoutness, a mood probably expressed in compensation for Hicks's guilt about an avocation viewed as frivolous by other Quakers. As the popularity of folk art boomed in the early 20th century, Hicks's homely visions were popularized and became the focus of scholarly attention, and this work is probably the best to date. Weekley, the director of museums at Colonial Williamsburg, shrewdly considers Hicks's "secular" life and art through the filter of his intense piety and copiously illustrates her large-format book with brilliant color plates.
Softcover. Germany, Benedikt Taschen, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers and faint foxing to edges and endpapers, else a clean, tight copy. There is an astounding range in the paintings of Otto Dix - from self-portraits, brothel paintings, war paintings and family-style portraits. Also the paintings are raw and to the point (battle scenes, women with pendulous breasts...). In a sense Dix's paintings do give a coarse sensuality to the unattractive and decadent side of life. The main emphasis of this book is on the paintings and the reproductions are excellent (as we would expect from a Taschen book).
Softcover. New York, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. A look at book jackets designed by Grushkin, also includes jackets designed by George Salter, Grushkin's teacher. Table of contents, introduction, a biography of Grushkin, book jackets and examples of graphic design by Grushkin. Glossary, biographical sketches of important figures, biographical sketch of the author.
Hardcover. US, Bulfinch, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 98 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Minor tear to dust jacket front flap, else a clean, tight copy. The little-known story of Pablo Picasso and his lovable dog Lump, who is immortalized in many of Picasso's acclaimed works of art.
Hardcover. Milan/London, Skira/Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This book is the catalogue of an exhibition that took place at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art (29 March-7 May 2008) to celebrate the eighty-year anniversary of the company. Photographs, sketches, and drawings explore design processes and showcase shoes, handbags, and accessories --a magnificent selection of fashion works embodying social and cultural changes over time. Illustrated with b&w and color photos. Includes bibliography and three essays.
Hardcover. NY, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 732 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.
Hardcover. London/New York , Faber and Faber, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. London/New York , Faber and Faber, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 164 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages, oblong hardcover illustrated in color and b&w. Frank Benson, a pivotal artist of the American Impressionist movement had three great loves in his long and productive life: his family, his art, and the sporting life. As a boy, Benson dreamed of being an ornithological illustrator. In mid-life, after an extremely successful career as a portraitist, he returned to the wildfowl and sporting subjects that were his lifelong passion. Over the next forty years, in etching, lithography, watercolor, and oil and wash, he portrayed birds beloved since childhood, scenes of his hunting and fishing expeditions, and still lives of incomparable delicacy. Whether painting a hunter setting out decoys, a wash of geese by moonlight, a watercolor of a companion poised to gaff a salmon, or an etching of a group of ducks silently gliding in for a landing, Benson conveyed the joy and beauty of a sportsman's life.
Hardcover. US, Rizzoli, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Valentino: Master of Couture is an exhibition at the Somerset House co-organized by Valentino himself, who selected over 130 dresses for the exhibition. The book focues as much on Valentino and his glamorous lifestyle as it does on his legendary dressmaking techniques and atelier.
Hardcover. New York, Taschen, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 416 pages, color illustrated, large format. This catalog raisonne brings together Velazquez's complete works--jaw-dropingly reproduced in extra-large format with a selection of delicious enlarged details--with insightful commentary on how his paintings give equal attention to all that they contain. To him, an old woman frying eggs or a buffoon was as important as a Pope or a King. For him, form was subservient to light and color; the brushstrokes were markers to help the viewers reconstruct each picture mentally--concepts adopted vehemently by the Impressionists. Velazquez's greatest talent was creating beauty from the grotesque, imbuing each subject with a human liveliness rarely seen on canvas. In its extensive detail and comparisons, Jose Lopez-Rey's book reveals the development of this vision.
Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 408 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Containing uncensored and on-the-spot observations of Picasso at home and in company, Visiting Picasso is a wonderfully vivid, spontaneous and lively record of Roland Penroses many encounters with the artist and his family, friends and associates, from their first meeting in 1936 to the artists death in 1973. Over 70 photographs, many by Penroses wife Lee Miller, illustrate the colorful cast of characters.
