art Landscape

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with sunned dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean and tight copy. Color and black and white photographs throughout.

Rome, Contrasto, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 136 pages, 53 b&w plates. A collection of 53 photographs of Pompeii, never published before, shot by the master photographer Mimmo Jodice. Unique images, visions conjuring up a long-lost past tradition, coupled with texts by Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet and Jay Parini. No dj issued.

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. Middlebury, VT, Paul S. Eriksson, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages, color art reproductions, b&w photos, small taped tears to price-clipped dust jacket, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Berlin , Steidl, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Robert Polidori is known for his large format photographs of habitats and rooms saturated with the traces of human intervention. In EYE and I, he turns the lens around to reveal the portraits of people he has encountered in his work of over thirty years photographing around the world, particularly in the Middle East and India. These instantaneous portraits of mutual recognition reveal the photographed subject and the photographer intersecting with each other in a fleeting gaze of mutual regard.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Takes us away from Sargent's famous society portraits and enters a world of open air studies and landscape paintings. Includes exerpts from Sargent's travel diaries. Light gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful, clean, crisp and tight copy in MINT condition. Looks brand new.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Takes us away from Sargent's famous society portraits and enters a world of open air studies and landscape paintings. Includes exerpts from Sargent's travel diaries. Light gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful, clean, crisp and tight copy in MINT condition. Looks brand new.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages. 32 plates in full color. Takes us past the image of Sargent, portrait painter of Edwardian and Georgian high society, and views instead his vast talent as a watercolorist. Blue cloth, silver lettering to spine and front color. Price clipped. Previous owner's inscription in front. Pictorial dust jacket with two minor sealed up tears, otherwise a very clean, tight and crisp copy.

Softcover. Charlottesville, Va., University of Virginia Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 123 pages. Exhibition catalog. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear/crease to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Charlottesville, Va., University of Virginia Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 123 pages. Exhibition catalog. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light wear/crease to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages with index, bibliography, chronology. With 170 illustrations including 130 in full color. Detailed and authoritative study of the life and work of Alfred Sisley, one of the greatest landscape painters of the 19th century and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement.

Hardcover. New York, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages, color plates. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Lynn Davis, known for surveys of natural and man-made wonders, has long been fascinated with the objects and venues of space exploration. Her photographs of the architectural icons, cornerstones, and abandoned sites of the space race reflect the many facets of a historically complex industry: the beginnings of space exploration; the changing nature of technology; and a fascination with otherworldly ruins. She emphasizes the bold modernism of these sites while evoking the presence of obsolete technologies. Davis traveled to historic sites in Kazakhstan, Russia, Germany, French Guiana, and the United States. She received special permission to visit Baikonur in Kazakhstan, a leading launch site shrouded in secrecy since the 1950s, and her photographs offer one of the first inside glimpses of launches, transmission towers, fuel lines, and satellites.

Hardcover. Revere, Pa., Lodima Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, featuring 76 plate reproductions of Elliston's archeological landscapes.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages. Red cloth cover with embossed title and gilt lettering to spine, acetate-protected color-illustrated dust jacket, 301 illustrations with 100 in full color. Book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY/London, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, Revised Ed., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. 26 illustrations in color, and 420 in black and white. Originally published in 1979. John Harris was one of England's leading Architectural Historians at the time this book was written. He was curator of the Drawing Collection for RIBA. (Royal Institute of British Architects). Each section introduces a period such as: the Age of Estate Cartographers and the Garden Converstations, The Country House and Sporting Art: John Wootton, Peter Tillemans and Others, Caneletto and the Architectural Topographers, Gainsborough and the Picturesque, The Art of Turner and Constable. Harris comments on the artists , their style and pictures.

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 113 pages, b&w illustrations. When architects create a landscape or building, when artists depict a landscape, and when poets write of nature, they recreate certain aesthetic elements observed in nature. Jay Appleton asserts in an insightful analysis that these aesthetic values in landscape are not found in an elevated philosophy of aesthetics or in a culturally bound artistic symbolism but in the biological and behavioral needs that we share with other animals. Thus, the aesthetics of landscape may be approached through other areas of human experience and science, especially the natural and behavioral sciences. They are expressed in symbolism drawn from a primal habitat in which all animals seek survival. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. In a series of breathtaking canvases, painted principally in the Catskill Mountains, Cole portrayed vast spaces, awesome horizons, and vibrant color. Earl A. Powell III, director of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, traces Cole's development and explores the Romantic theories that guided his thinking and informed his vision. Superb color reproductions bring Cole's paintings to life, revealing the America that once was. 111 illustrations, 67 in full color, 91/2 x 11". Mild sunning to dust jacket spine. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 315 pages, b&w illustrations. Spine slightly cocked. Pictorial dust jacket with light sunfading to spine; edge wear and light rubbing near extremities. Clean text.

Softcover. Yonkers, NY, Hudson River Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 125 pages, b&w illustrations. Light rubbing to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy. Issued in conjunction with a 1984 exhibition of drawings by Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). With an essay by Elaine Evans Dee and foreword by Rick Beard. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 107 works. This is the only publication that examines in detail the preparatory studies of this master Hudson River School artist. Shows Church's drawings that were intended to provide preliminary detail for his oil paintings. The extensive notations on the drawings themselves are clear evidence of this intent. This provides a special insight into the processes of artistic creation as employed by one of 19th century American's greatest landscape painters.

Softcover. Yonkers, NY, Hudson River Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 125 pages, b&w illustrations. Light rubbing to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy. Issued in conjunction with a 1984 exhibition of drawings by Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900). With an essay by Elaine Evans Dee and foreword by Rick Beard. The annotated and illustrated catalogue presents 107 works. This is the only publication that examines in detail the preparatory studies of this master Hudson River School artist. Shows Church's drawings that were intended to provide preliminary detail for his oil paintings. The extensive notations on the drawings themselves are clear evidence of this intent. This provides a special insight into the processes of artistic creation as employed by one of 19th century American's greatest landscape painters.

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 71 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Essay by Kevin J. Avery. "The wide variety of selections from Frederic Edwin Church's collection of his own paintings shows the master in all phases of his career, in sketches and finished paintings, depicting the breadth of his subjects and the high technical skills that established him as an eminent and influential artist in his own time. As works he held on to or reacquired and kept in his house during his lifetime, they embody the heart of his artistic vision and convey a deeply personal slant. As pictures he hung and lived with at Olana, they tell the larger story of that extraordinary place and are as illuminating when seen in context as on their own."

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, blue cloth with bright silver titles to spine. Published to accompany 2013/14 Exhibition at National Maritime Museum. 288 pages with Foreword by Keven Fewster, Introduction, 7 Chapters, Notes, Bibliography, Credits and Index. Large collection of color plates. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Birmingham UK, Washington Green Fine Art Publishing Company, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong,128 pages. Full color plates throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket and slight rubbing on bottom spine of covers.

Hardcover. Pennsylvania, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 176 pages. Light green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, decorated endpapers, over 250 large glossy photographs, 10 in color. Extremely light wear to dust jacket; a very tight, clean copy.