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4 Dreams of Miss X, Theby: Figgis, Mike

4 Dreams of Miss X, The
by: Figgis, Mike

Hardcover. London, Pavilion, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear and curling to dust jacket edges. Color photographs throughout. Includes DVD. Genius innovators in haute couture, AP have commissioned Mike Figgis to portray Kate Moss in her first acting role, resulting in four unique films: "Shadows", "Scale", "Exhibitionist and "Narcissus" - "The 4 Dreams of Miss X". Shot in night vision, these films are intensely intimate: a beautiful woman's private dream experiences.

Record # 353346

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A Northern Adventure: The Art of Fred Machetanzby: Woodward, Kesler E.

A Northern Adventure: The Art of Fred Machetanz
by: Woodward, Kesler E.

Softcover. Augusta GA, Morris Communications Company, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 100 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Retrospective exhibition monograph, showcasing the work of a prominent Alaskan artist.

Record # 350183

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A. B. Durand : 1796-1886by: N/A

A. B. Durand : 1796-1886
by: N/A

Softcover. Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages 49 b&w plates and 4 color plates, along with a catalog of works from the exhibit at the Montclair Art Museum from October 24 - November 28, 1971. Includes a biographical introduction. Overall, a good clean copy, pages unmarked.

Record # 371571

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A. B. Durand : 1796-1886by: N/A

A. B. Durand : 1796-1886
by: N/A

Softcover. Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 111 pages 49 b&w plates and 4 color plates, along with a catalog of works from the exhibit at the Montclair Art Museum from October 24 - November 28, 1971. Includes a biographical introduction. There is a tear on the bottom left corner of the back cover as well as rubbing. Light soil along the spine of the book. Overall, a good clean copy, pages unmarked.

Record # 805524

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After A Fashion: What We Wore 1947 to the Presentby: Roberts, Elizabeth

After A Fashion: What We Wore 1947 to the Present
by: Roberts, Elizabeth

Hardcover. East Sussex, Ammonite Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages, color and b&w photographs. Hardcover in a very good dust jacket, clean. As pointed out in the introduction by Elizabeth Roberts, this book isn't aiming to be a history of fashion of the past century. It explores the ideas behind it; the influences of clothing by society we live in, and to convey this the outstanding work of the Press Association is used. This book is a visual, eye-watering history that tells the story of how we've become today.The book is split into five chapters followed by a page-to-page picture index. 1. FILMSTARS, FULL SKIRTS AND FUR: POST-WAR GLAMOUR 2. ROMANCE AND REVOLUTION: 1960's 3. FROM THE QUEEN TO POSH: FASHION ICONS 4. ON THE STREETS AND IN THE SHOPS: WHAT WE REALLY WORE 5. FANTASY AND REALITY: LONDON FASHION WEEK 2008-2009

Record # 350793

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Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention (Jewish Museum)by: Klein, Mason

Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention (Jewish Museum)
by: Klein, Mason

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Quarter cloth with pictorial paper-covered boards. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 350016

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Alison Jackson: Confidentialby: Alison Jackson , Will Self , et al.

Alison Jackson: Confidential
by: Alison Jackson , Will Self , et al.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. Alison Jackson has photographed the Queen of England on the toilet, George Bush and Tony Blair chatting in the sauna, Mick Jagger doing gymnastics, and Monica Lewinsky lighting Bill Clinton's cigar. Or has she? The likenesses are uncanny, but of course, her subjects are look-alikes. Her photos demonstrate that while seeing is believing, the truth is another story entirely. In her work, Jackson says, "Likeness becomes real and fantasy touches on the believable. The viewer is suspended in disbelief. I try to highlight the psychological relationship between what we see and what we imagine. This is bound up in our need to look--our voyeurism--and our need to believe." Indeed, by showing "celebrities" ostensibly caught unawares, Jackson's pictures show us what we imagine might go on behind closed doors. Jackson's work causes controversy, because it threatens to cross the line between the private and public life of our contemporary icons. Because we unquestioningly accept the authenticity of the photograph, it would appear that we are being given a glimpse of something confidential, a private moment. It is only upon closer examination that we question the reality of the image, and hopefully this makes us question our unwitting tendency to believe everything we see in the media today.

Record # 362272

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All Told: My Art And Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, And Provocateursby: Neiman, LeRoy

All Told: My Art And Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, And Provocateurs
by: Neiman, LeRoy

Softcover. Guilford, CT, Lyons Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. With his life's work, and in All Told, LeRoy Neiman captured sports heroes, movie stars, presidents, dishwashers, jet-setters, jockeys, and more than a few Bunnies at the Playboy Mansion.

Record # 353166

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Amazing Men - Courage, Insight, Enduranceby: Tenneson, Joyce

Amazing Men - Courage, Insight, Endurance
by: Tenneson, Joyce

Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch Press, First Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover. Wine cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Full page, black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750689

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American Jukebox: A Photographic Journeyby: Felver, Christopher

American Jukebox: A Photographic Journey
by: Felver, Christopher

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy. Christopher Felver has collected over 240 photographs from tours and encounters with musicians over the past 25 years. From Doc Watson to John Cage and Mavis Staples to Sonny Rollins, this collection celebrates the tapestry and diversity of musical styles that make up the American sonic landscape.

Record # 353289

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Andre Kertesz: Americana/Paysages/Portraits/Oiscauxby: Kertesz, Andre

Andre Kertesz: Americana/Paysages/Portraits/Oiscaux
by: Kertesz, Andre

Softcover. Paris, Chene, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four softcover books in a cardboard slipcase. 64 pages each, all with 64 b&w plates by Kertesz. Books are clean and tight, very good. Slipcase has rubbing, edgewear.

Record # 350848

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Animal Art of Wilhelm Kuhnert, Theby: Kuhnert, Wilhelm

Animal Art of Wilhelm Kuhnert, The
by: Kuhnert, Wilhelm

Hardcover. Camden, SC, The Sporting Heritage Collection/Live Oak Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Limited edition, #142/2300. Green leather with gilt decoration, lettering to front and spine with top edge gilt and ribbon marker. No dust jacket issued. Color frontispiece of tiger, 35 color plates (from paintings) and some color photos, 137 black-and-white plates (etchings and engravings). Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 856865

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Ardent Eye by: Kemp, Hans

Ardent Eye
by: Kemp, Hans

Hardcover. Hong Kong, Visionary World, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Price sticker on rear dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Over 20 years worth of photography from Asia.

Record # 352946

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Arrestedby: Lee, Jim and Peter York

Arrested
by: Lee, Jim and Peter York

Hardcover. East Sussex, Ammonite Press, 1sr, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages, color photographs throughout. No dust jacket as issued. Large, heavy folio. Black cloth with cover label photo. "Arrested" is the biography of idiosyncratic London-based photographer and film director Jim Lee. Lee established a portfolio photographing bands such as the Kinks and the Who and later became in demand as a fashion photographer, notably working with "Vogue" editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Lee's earlier photographic work is included in a permanent collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Born in 1945 to parents who were both MI5 operatives, Lee's life has followed anything but a conventional route. Dyslexia and an independent spirit saw Lee at the age of just seventeen emigrate to Australia where his passion for photography was kindled. Rescued from fighting in the Vietnam war by his parents' intervention, Lee returned to the UK and began to establish a portfolio photographing bands. As his reputation grew, Lee became in demand as a fashion photographer for magazines during the late sixties and seventies. He collaborated with some of the most influential fashion designers, including Yves St Laurent and Gianni Versace, and his work appeared in "Elle", "The Sunday Times Magazine", "Harpers & Queen" and "The New York Times".

Record # 350790

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Arrestedby: Lee, Jim and Peter York

Arrested
by: Lee, Jim and Peter York

Hardcover. East Sussex, Ammonite Press, 1sr, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages, color photographs throughout. No dust jacket as issued. Large, heavy folio. Black cloth with cover label photo. "Arrested" is the biography of idiosyncratic London-based photographer and film director Jim Lee. Lee established a portfolio photographing bands such as the Kinks and the Who and later became in demand as a fashion photographer, notably working with "Vogue" editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Lee's earlier photographic work is included in a permanent collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Born in 1945 to parents who were both MI5 operatives, Lee's life has followed anything but a conventional route. Dyslexia and an independent spirit saw Lee at the age of just seventeen emigrate to Australia where his passion for photography was kindled. Rescued from fighting in the Vietnam war by his parents' intervention, Lee returned to the UK and began to establish a portfolio photographing bands. As his reputation grew, Lee became in demand as a fashion photographer for magazines during the late sixties and seventies. He collaborated with some of the most influential fashion designers, including Yves St Laurent and Gianni Versace, and his work appeared in "Elle", "The Sunday Times Magazine", "Harpers & Queen" and "The New York Times".

Record # 350791

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Art Of The Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers 1925-1940, Theby: Kobal, John

Art Of The Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers 1925-1940, The
by: Kobal, John

Hardcover. New York , Harrison House, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 150 vintage black-and-white 1920s and 1930s Hollywood star portraits (many/most full-page) with accompanying descriptive captions. "This book lets us see, with dramatic impact, the artistry of the Hollywood studio photographers, whose portraits (reproduced by the millions as cheap fan photographs) of Crawford, Garbo, Cooper and the others both revolutionized photographic portraiture and, to an enormous extent, formed our vision of the great Hollywood faces." 292 pages. Small previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 351324

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Art Of The Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers 1925-1940, Theby: Kobal, John

Art Of The Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers 1925-1940, The
by: Kobal, John

Hardcover. New York , Harrison House, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 150 vintage black-and-white 1920s and 1930s Hollywood star portraits (many/most full-page) with accompanying descriptive captions. "This book lets us see, with dramatic impact, the artistry of the Hollywood studio photographers, whose portraits (reproduced by the millions as cheap fan photographs) of Crawford, Garbo, Cooper and the others both revolutionized photographic portraiture and, to an enormous extent, formed our vision of the great Hollywood faces." 292 pages. Small previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 385813

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Artist Within, Theby: Preston, Greg

Artist Within, The
by: Preston, Greg

Hardcover. US, Dark Horse Books, 2nd, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. The culmination of more than fifteen years of photography by renowned photographer Greg Preston, this book is a living history of the men and women who have shaped the imaginations of countless millions of people around the world through their work in the fields of animated cartoons, comic books, comic strips and editorial cartooning. The list of more than two hundred artists includes such luminaries as Frank Miller, Al Hirschfeld, Joe Barbera, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Moebius, Walter and Louise Simonson and many more, all in photographs exclusive and shot expressly for this book.

Record # 352450

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Artists Unframed: Snapshots from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art by: Merry A. Foresta

Artists Unframed: Snapshots from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art
by: Merry A. Foresta

Hardcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Tucked away among the letters, diaries, and other ephemera in the Smithsonian's archives lies a trove of rarely seen snapshots of some of the twentieth century's most celebrated artists. Unlike the familiar official portraits and genius-at-work shots, these humble snaps capture creative giants with their guard down, in the moment, living life. Pablo Picasso stands proudly on a balcony with young daughter Maya--a tiny, meticulously inked annotation penned by an unknown hand proclaims that "he's very much in love." Jackson Pollock morosely carves a turkey while his mother, Stella, and wife, Lee Krasner, look on. A young Andy Warhol clowns for the camera with college friend Philip Pearlstein, and in a later shot more closely resembles his famously enigmatic public self at a gallery opening with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Record # 377979

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Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans 1839-1844by: Oliver, Andrew

Auguste Edouart's Silhouettes of Eminent Americans 1839-1844
by: Oliver, Andrew

Hardcover. Charlottesville VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 553 pages, 348 full-page portraits in b&w. Includes a catalogue of 3,800 silhouettes by the artist. Very good in a crisp, unclipped dust jacket. Auguste Edouart was the most prolific silhouettist ever to work in this country. Arriving from France in 1839, he traveled throughout the United States contracting enough projects in six years to fill over fifty albums; at the same time he created a biographical record of the most famous Americans of the period. This volume contains the most, and the best, of Edouard's silhouettes every to appear under a single cover.

Record # 804912

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Aura Rosenberg: Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I?by: Nicolas Guagnini (Author), Dan Graham (Author), Mike Kelley (Author), Aura Rosenberg (Photographer)

Aura Rosenberg: Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I?
by: Nicolas Guagnini (Author), Dan Graham (Author), Mike Kelley (Author), Aura Rosenberg (Photographer)

Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. Celebrating the kind of childhood play that signals a search for identity, Who Am I, What Am I, Where Am I? is a series of 70 photographs by New York- and Berlin-based artist Aura Rosenberg. For each picture, a child and an artist were paired up to create an idiosyncratic portrait of the child--each of whom was given access to masks and costumes. Among the collaborating artists are John Baldessari, Coco Fusco, Skuta Helgason, Louise Lawler, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Vik Muniz, Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw, James Siena, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith and Haim Steinbach. Rosenberg's contribution to the collaboration is her technically playful style--the photographs are often digitally manipulated to create an array of surreal and humorous effects. This volume draws a compelling parallel between childhood play and the work of the adult artists. Also included are texts by artists Dan Graham, Mike Kelley and Nicolas Guagnini.

Record # 361617

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Becoming By Cindy Crawford: By Cindy Crawford with Katherine O' Learyby: Crawford, Cindy

Becoming By Cindy Crawford: By Cindy Crawford with Katherine O' Leary
by: Crawford, Cindy

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, like new copy, still in publishers shrink wrap, although has a slight tear in shrink wrap on bottom edge. Remainder mark on bottom edge of text block. Otherwise tight copy. Color and black & white photographs throughout. International supermodel Cindy Crawford presents her own personal visual autobiography, the first book to chronicle her life and career, featuring some of her most memorable images.

Record # 352949

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Bill Owensby: Homes, A.M.

Bill Owens
by: Homes, A.M.

Hardcover. New York, Damiani, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 170 b&w and color photographs. A comprehensive monograph, this volume consists of several sections of work from 1969 to the present, opening at the height of flower power, with images of the Beat generation, Woodstock and the protests against Vietnam.

Record # 353056

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Bill Owensby: Homes, A.M.

Bill Owens
by: Homes, A.M.

Hardcover. New York, Damiani, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 170 b&w and color photographs. A comprehensive monograph, this volume consists of several sections of work from 1969 to the present, opening at the height of flower power, with images of the Beat generation, Woodstock and the protests against Vietnam.

Record # 353063

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Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Nowby: Naeem, Asma

Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now
by: Naeem, Asma

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Portrait Gallery/Princeton University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Accompanied exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Illustrated. First major publication to focus on the development of silhouettes, gathers leading experts to shed light on the surprisingly complex historical, political, and social underpinnings of this ostensibly simple art form. This richly illustrated volume explores likenesses of everyone from presidents and celebrities to everyday citizens and enslaved people. Ultimately, the book reveals how silhouettes registered the paradoxes of the unstable young nation, roiling with tensions over slavery and political independence. Primarily tracing the rise of the silhouette in the decades leading up to the Civil War, Black Out also considers the ubiquity of the genre today, particularly in contemporary art. Historical research and four contemporary artists: Kara Walker, Kristi Malakoff, Kumi Yamashita, and Camille Utterback. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 385760

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Bright Young Things : Londonby: Ocampo, Brooke De and Jonathan Becker

Bright Young Things : London
by: Ocampo, Brooke De and Jonathan Becker

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 190 pages, color plates. Step inside the fabulous lives of 40 architects, artists, designers, and writers to discover why they embody everything London is known for: wit, cutting-edge style, and glamour. Along with elegant photographs by Vanity Fair photographer Jonathan Becker are intimate anecdotes written by the people who know these bright young things best. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 351778

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Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer by: James Wyeth/Belanger, Pamela J.

Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer
by: James Wyeth/Belanger, Pamela J.

Hardcover. Rockland ME, Farnsworth Art Museum, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 91 pages. Beautiful full-color illustrations throughout - several historical photographs of Nureyev. Clean copy.

Record # 396649

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Catalogue of American Portraits in The New YOrk Historical Society (2 Large VOLUMES)by: N/A

Catalogue of American Portraits in The New YOrk Historical Society (2 Large VOLUMES)
by: N/A

Hardcover. New Haven, New York Historical Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 964 pages. 2 Volumes. Hardcovers with dust jackets. Light rubbing to edges on dust jackets. Clean, tight copies with color pictures throughout.

Record # 368974

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Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture by: Tappert, Tara Leigh

Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture
by: Tappert, Tara Leigh

Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 148 pages, b&w illustrations throughout, 31 full-color plates. Previous price sticker on rear cover. Very light edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451394

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Changing Perceptions: Milestones in Twentieth-Century British Portraitureby: Elizabeth Cayzer

Changing Perceptions: Milestones in Twentieth-Century British Portraiture
by: Elizabeth Cayzer

Hardcover. Brighton UK, Alpha Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 127 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. This book examines the extraordinary metamorphosis that has occurred in the presentation of the human face during the twentieth century. A series of essays charts the portraits which are the "Milestones" to that change, while the discussion that follows - "Changing Perceptions" - endeavours to identify its nature, its causes, and to show the manner in which the artists reveal this transformation when painting their sitters. Clean copy.

Record # 396875

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Charles Willson Peale and His Worldby: Richardson, Edgar P., Brooke Hindle

Charles Willson Peale and His World
by: Richardson, Edgar P., Brooke Hindle

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 272 pages. 189 illustrations, including 98 plates in full color. Light brown cloth. Clean, bright copy. As good as new. Peale painted thousands of canvases and that provided a superb record of colonial and federal society. In mid-life Peale turned to the study of nature and assembled a museum in Philadelphia that was, at its time, the most important institution of its kind in the country.

Record # 605053

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Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005by: Close, Chuck, and Halbreich, Kathy (Foreword by), and Engberg, Siri (Editor)

Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005
by: Close, Chuck, and Halbreich, Kathy (Foreword by), and Engberg, Siri (Editor)

Hardcover. Minneapolis MN, Walker Art Center/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 152 pages. No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as published. Boards, bibliography, color and B&W reproductions and photos of Close's amazing self-portraits.

Record # 353601

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Chuck Close: Workby: Finch, Christopher

Chuck Close: Work
by: Finch, Christopher

Paperback. New York, Prestel, Revised, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Oversize hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this book offers the first comprehensive critical examination of one of America's most celebrated living artists. Chuck Close reinvented portraiture almost four decades ago with a series of nine-foot-tall, black-and-white likenesses of himself and fellow artists, which astonished an art world dominated by minimalism and conceptualism. Close has since explored an array of mediums. This lavish, large-format volume is the first to deal with all aspects of Close's career and to place them in a biographical context. Christopher Finch's insight into CLose's achievement comes by way of hundreds of studio visits and thousands of hours of conversation since he met Close in 1968. Finch provides an engaging, in-depth analysis of Close's portraits on canvas, from the continuous-tone airbrushed heads of the 1960s and '70s to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past two decades. The more than 300 illustrations features in the book survey almost all of CLose's paintings, including his most recent work, together with a selection of his prints and multiples, and examples of his photographic oeuvre. This beautifully designed volume reveals not only the variety of pictorial strategies Close has devised, but the extrordinary personality of the artist behind the work.

Record # 353360

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Cindy Sherman Retrospectiveby: Amanda Cruz, Amelia Jones, et al.

Cindy Sherman Retrospective
by: Amanda Cruz, Amelia Jones, et al.

Softcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 220 pages. This comprehensive catalogue traces the career of Cindy Sherman, examining her achievements as one of the leading American artists of our time. By exploring the myriad constructions of female identity and the body in our culture, Sherman imitates and confronts assorted representational stereotypes, becoming for many an icon of the contemporary concerns of feminism and postmodernism. Essayists Amada Cruz, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, and Amelia Jones offer keen insight and observations from several distinct vantage points, demonstrating that Sherman's work is a lens through which to view contemporary art and its ongoing concern with the profound issues of the structures of the self. More than 200 images show the breadth of Sherman's body of work, from the Untitled Film Stills of the 1970s to series such as Centerfolds, Fashion, Disasters, Fairy Tales, and History Portraits, as well as photographs influenced by surrealist artists. Also included are intriguing excerpts from Sherman's notebooks, selections from her contact sheets, and numerous Polaroid studies, all of which shed light on the artist's process.

Record # 362327

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Cindy Shermanby: Sherman, Cindy

Cindy Sherman
by: Sherman, Cindy

Softcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 197 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Light yellowing to edges of wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy. 39 b&w and 50 color plates; 8.5 x 10.5 inches. An early retrospective of photographs by Cindy Sherman; introduction by Peter Schjeldahl; afterword by I. Michael Danoff.

Record # 451242

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Close Portraits
by: Lyons, Lisa and Martain Friedman

Softcover. Minneapolis MN, Walker Art Center, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages, color and b&w plates. Softcover exhibition catalog in like new condition.

Record # 850196

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Clown Paintingsby: Keaton, Diane

Clown Paintings
by: Keaton, Diane

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color pictorial hardcover. 11 1/2 x 9". Beautiful color illustrations throughout. Contains commentary by Woody Allen, Dan Ackroyd, Roseanne Barr, Candice Bergen and many others. 128 pages. Clean and tight.

Record # 351939

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Colonial & Federal Portraits at Bowdoin Collegeby: Sadik, Marvin S.

Colonial & Federal Portraits at Bowdoin College
by: Sadik, Marvin S.

Softcover. Brunswick ME, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages, color illustrated wrappers. Black and white, color plates. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 512706

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Colonial American Portraitureby: Craven, Wayne

Colonial American Portraiture
by: Craven, Wayne

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 459 pages. Green cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine. Book comes with a press release from "News From Cambridge". Black and white plates throughout. Thirty-one essays on colonial painting organized in three chronological sections: Origins and Beginnings, to 1680; The Transition, 1680-1840; and The Culmination, 1740-1790. Bibliography.

Record # 603170

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Dahlhart Windberg; Artist of Texasby: Potter, Jerry Allen

Dahlhart Windberg; Artist of Texas
by: Potter, Jerry Allen

Hardcover. Austin, TX, University of Texas, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Captures the best of Windberg's work with 50 of his finest paintings splendidly reproduced and illustrates the tranquity of the hillsides, meadows, harbors and shores of his beloved Lone Star State. Brown leather-like cover, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful pictorial dust jacket with some edgewear. Very clean, tight and crisp copy.

Record # 605175

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David Bailey: Tears and Tears by: Bailey, David

David Bailey: Tears and Tears
by: Bailey, David

Hardcover. Steidl, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 96 pages. Determining the perfect exposure time for a photographic print in a traditional darkroom can be a time-consuming and tedious process, and the irreverent David Bailey (born 1938) has never had much patience for it. Normally a photographer makes a number of test strips, each showing different exposure times; but Bailey has always just intuitively torn off strips of the unexposed paper to find the desired result: "I would usually have it in the bag after three tears." Over the decades, Bailey has kept his "test tears," re-fixing and washing them to preserve the unpredictable and unique qualities of these "accidents." This book contains the best of Bailey's tears, which transform some of his most famous motifs into fascinating abstract pictures through their torn edges and myriad tones.

Record # 370578

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David Hockney Portraitsby: Howgate, Sarah

David Hockney Portraits
by: Howgate, Sarah

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 256 pages, 163 color plates, roughly 150 figures, most in color. 4to, cloth. The full range of Hockney's portrait work in all media - painting, drawing, photographs, and prints - from the past 50 years is given a thorough overview in this well-illustrated exhibition catalogue. Featured subjects include members of Hockney's family and private circle, as well as portraits of artists and cultural figures.

Record # 351881

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David Hockney Portraitsby: Howgate, Sarah

David Hockney Portraits
by: Howgate, Sarah

Softcover. London, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Essays by Marco Livingstone, Mark Glazebrook, Sarah Howgate, Edmund White and Barbara Stern Shapiro are followed by the section of 163 color plates, Notes on the sitters for the portraits, and an illustrated Chronology. A selected bibliography and index are also included.

Record # 458893

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David Levine Calendar 1983by: n/a

David Levine Calendar 1983
by: n/a

Softcover. New York, New York Review of Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paper wrapper covering a 1983 calendar featuring each month a drawing of different authors by David Levine. Clean, tight copy. Wrappers lightly faded on reverse.

Record # 368475

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Daybooks of Edward Weston, The  (Vol. 1) Mexicoby: Weston, Edward; Newhall, Nancy (Ed.)

Daybooks of Edward Weston, The (Vol. 1) Mexico
by: Weston, Edward; Newhall, Nancy (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 214 pages. Excerpts from Weston's diaries covering the California period of 1923 - 1926. A remarkable documentation of the important and the mundane by an artist at the height of his powers. Includes 32 plates from the period. Crisp, clean and unmarked with tiny bit of sunning to board edges. Dust jacket with light tape repair, wear, unclipped.

Record # 352891

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Daybooks of Edward Weston, The  (Vol. 2)  California by: Weston, Edward; Newhall, Nancy (Ed.)

Daybooks of Edward Weston, The (Vol. 2) California
by: Weston, Edward; Newhall, Nancy (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Horizon Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 290 pages. Excerpts from Weston's diaries covering the California period of 1927 - 1944. A remarkable documentation of the important and the mundane by an artist at the height of his powers. Includes 40 plates from the period. Crisp, clean and unmarked with tiny bit of sunning to board edges. Dust jacket with light soil, wear, price-clipped.

Record # 352890

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Drew Friedman's Heroes Of The Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books by: Friedman, Drew

Drew Friedman's Heroes Of The Comics: Portraits of the Legends of Comic Books
by: Friedman, Drew

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2014, Hardcover, 176 pages. 83 color portraits by Friedman. Like new condition. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 359004

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Drew Friedman's Sideshow Freaksby: Friedman, Drew

Drew Friedman's Sideshow Freaks
by: Friedman, Drew

Hardcover. NY, Blast Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 110 pages. Melvin Burkhart the Anatomical Wonder; Zip the Pinhead; Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins; Johnny Eck, the King of the Freaks; Koo Koo the Birdgirl; and 45 more fascinating sideshow freaks both famous and obscure are immortalized in Drew Friedman's color portraits.

Record # 351961

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Early American Portraitureby: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild

Early American Portraiture
by: Sherman, Frederic Fairchild

Hardcover. New York, Benjamin Blom, reprint, 1972, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 65 pages. Reissue of rare 1930 first edition. Brown cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, illustrated profusely with over 50 b&w plates. Copy still packaged in original shrinkwrap, never opened; in excellent condition.

Record # 806497

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Edward Hicks: His Life and Artby: Ford, Alice

Edward Hicks: His Life and Art
by: Ford, Alice

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 276 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Gray cloth with dark green title to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. Edward Hicks (1780-1849), itinerant Quaker preacher and painter of coaches, signs and his own pictures, viewed Paine and Spinoza as devils, considered slavery a moral but not a political issue, and abhorred the temperance movement. When not torturing himself with guilt for being an artist or for leaving his wife and children in order to preach, he produced some masterpiecesnotably The Peaceable Kingdom, whose 50 or so variants dramatize Isaiah's biblical prophecies. Fifty color plates and 100 halftones show Hicks's folk renditions of William Penn, Noah's ark, David and Jonathan, along with his pastoral landscapes.

Record # 605822

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