art Monograph

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase. Full color and black & white illustrations. Beautiful copy with light sunning to dust jacket spine, Clean, tight copy. The technical problems with the Last Supper began as soon as Leonardo started to paint it. He jettisoned the traditional fresco technique of applying paint to wet plaster, a method unsuited to Leonardo's slow and thorough execution, and created the work instead with an experimental technique that involved painting directly on the dry plaster. With this renegade method, Leonardo rendered one of the most enduring painting techniques volatile and unstable. Added to this initial complication have been centuries of pollution, tourists, candle smoke, and the ravages of age, not to mention food fights in the refectory staged by Napoleonic soldiers and Allied bombs in 1943. By the middle of the twentieth century, the Last Supper was in desperate need of a complete restoration.Pinin Brambilla Barcilon was chosen to head this twenty-year project, and Leonardo, The Last Supper is the official record of her remarkable effort. It first documents the cleaning and removal of the overpainting performed in the other attempts at restoration and then turns to Barcilon's meticulous additions in watercolor, which were based on Leonardo's preparatory drawings, early copies of the painting, and contemporary textual descriptions. This book presents full-scale reproductions of details from the fresco that clearly display and distinguish Leonardo's hand from that of the restorer. With nearly 400 sumptuous color reproductions, the most comprehensive technical documentation of the project by Barcilon, and an introductory essay by art historian and project codirector Pietro C. Marani that focuses on the history of the fresco,

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages. 21 b&w illustrations. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, light wear to extremities. Yellow dust jacket edge wear with a few small sealed up tears. Price clipped. A nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 303 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated primarily in black & white - one section in full color. Bottom corner of page 275 wrinkled with short tear. Dust jacket worn. Clean, tight copy.This is the landmark work on American artist Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), the first catalogue raisonne. The narrative is accompanied by many examples of his work. The full catalogue of 402 items appears at the rear of the book, with light annotations and small BW illustrations. An updated edition was published in 2000; and this one is useful to consult in order to compare the differences.

Hardcover. 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large oblong hardcover, 345 pages with 440 illustrations, including 68 plates in full color. Oblong folio. Cream cloth boards with blue titles to front and spine and a pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Paperclip imprints to front fly leaf, else like new.

Hardcover. Jackson [Miss.], University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor edgewear to dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Oakland, CA, WIM, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 85 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. The first complete survey of Nicholson's paintings and life, with a catalog of her currently known works. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Yellow pictorial dust jacket with fading to spine edge, small closed tear to back cover and light edge wear. A very nice, clean and well preserved copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Liu Bolin first became invisible in 2006. When the artist village in Beijing where he worked as a sculp-tor's assistant was demolished, he decided to protest. He camouflaged himself in the ruins with acrylic paints and photographed the finished product, marking the first of his Hiding in the City series. Since then, he has "disap-peared" in many different places around the world--from politically fraught areas in China to grocery stores, toy stores, and more. His work protests specific political acts of the Chinese government and offers commentary on consumer culture. This comprehensive book showcases Bolin's most striking photographs and sculptures and explores the techniques he uses to create his unforgettable art. Bolin has also helped other people disappear, including the members of Bon Jovi for the band's recent album cover, as well as the fashion designers Jean Paul Gaultier, Missoni, Valentino, and more, and a selection of these photographs is featured throughout the book.

Hardcover. New York , Abrams, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 135 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Faint foxing to edges, otherwise a clean, tight copy. 100 color plates with 39 black & white illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Skira Rizzoli, 1st, 2011, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 264 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Known for her life-size sculptures made entirely of beads, Liza Lou has had audiences and critics spellbound since her debut exhibition fifteen years ago. In this comprehensive volume devoted to her work, illustrated with two hundred photographs, writers, critics, and scholars explore her work in depth.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Featuring beloved New Yorker covers, iconic animated characters, and more, Local Fauna is the definitive monograph by award-winning illustrator and character designer Peter de Seve. His work spans four decades and various media, from magazines, books, and television commercials, to Broadway posters and character designs for animated feature films. He is perhaps best recognized for his many covers for The New Yorker magazine and his character designs for the blockbuster Ice Age franchise (Scrat is a veritable international celebrity). De Seve has also contributed to such films as Finding Nemo, Robots, The Little Prince, and The Grinch, to name only a few. Local Fauna showcases de Seve's most iconic illustrations and designs alongside a plentiful selection of sketches and personal work that have become fan favorites across social media. This monograph opens a doorway into his visual universe, and it includes behind-the-scenes insight into his process, from a character or cover's first conception to the final product. Local Fauna also includes an introduction by writer, illustrator, and character designer Carter Goodrich and an in-depth interview with Bill Watterson, the legendary creator of Calvin & Hobbes, as well as essays by The New Yorker art director Francoise Mouly; Academy Award winning director and animator Glen Keane; comic artist and creator of Hellboy, Mike Mignola; and New York Times bestselling picture book author Randall de Seve.

Softcover. Berlin, Gestalten Verlag, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This monograph features Jaybo's font designs, logos, record covers and examples of his work as the Art Director of the lifestyle magazine Style and the Family Tunes.

Softcover. Berlin, Gestalten Verlag, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This monograph features Jaybo's font designs, logos, record covers and examples of his work as the Art Director of the lifestyle magazine Style and the Family Tunes.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 263 pages. Louis Michel Eilshemius was a born poet-visionary. His paintings reveal a gift for lyrical expression, an ability to impart an unearthly, dreamlike quality to canvas, and an extraordinary originality. The abundant illustrations in this first comprehensive volume on the artist attest to the importance of his contribution to American art at the turn of the century. In his sensitive text, Paul J. Karlstrom illuminates the contradictions that provide the key to understanding Eilshemius's life and art. Thoroughly trained in the academic manner, Eilshemius later became known primarily as the painter of bizarre, 'primitive' nudes. His early paintings, landscapes influenced by the Barbizon school and Camille Corot, differ dramatically from his late works, which are naive and often disturbing fantasies. At his best, Eilshemius was a magician of the canvas, yet his unstable character and unrealistic ambitions prevented him from fully realizing his talent.

Hardcover. Watkins Glen, NY, Century House, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Purple leatherette, pictorial dust jacket. Like new. In shrinkwrap. Definitive biography of Louis Prang, Victorian color lithographer, artist, and art educator. Includes a checklist of Prang's chromolithographs, annotated bibliography, appendices, index. 16 full-page color plates, and countless illustrations.

Hardcover. New York , Praeger Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, profusely illustrated with nearly 200 color and b&w plates of Nevelson's work. Dark blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Slight edgewear and rubbing to jacket, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 264 pages. Lucian Freud is widely regarded as one of the greatest living artists, and drawing is fundamental to his development as an artist and to how he sees. Speaking recently about his early years he claimed, "I would have thought I did 200 drawings to every painting in those early days. I very much prided myself on my drawing." Drawing became an important part of Freud's life from the start and a famous sketchbook, The Freud-Schuster Book, has survived dating back to January 1940, when Freud was in Snowdonia with Stephen Spender, as do sketches from Freud's life as a merchant seaman on a cargo vessel in the Atlantic in 1941. His then surreal style lent itself to illustrations and his fascination with animals, birds, and fish was revealed in the famous line drawings he produced for Nicholas Moore's book of poems, The Glass Tower (1944). This volume charts Freud's work on paper, including the etchings, over his entire career. It includes the formative early work, the sketches in preparation for painting his masterpiece, Large Interior W11 (after Watteau) (1983), the sketches of the completed painting in the studio and the astonishing later studies of his mother. The book ends with the etchings of recent years.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 178 pages, color illustrations. Offers a look at the life and work of Luis Melendez, one of eighteenth-century Europe's greatest still-life painters. This catalogue details thirty of Luis Melendez's wonderful still-life paintings beautifully presented with new insights about Melendez's life, the everyday objects in his paintings, and the materials and methods he used in creating these works.

Hardcover. Detroit, MI, Wayne State University Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Black cloth, silver lettering to front cover and spine. A nice copy, in a worn dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Small piece missing from lower right corner of dust jacket, minor tears. Slight staining to edges.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, More than 200 illustrations in color and in black & white. 224 pages. Analyzes in detail Scottish architect Charles Rennie Macintosh's greatest work, the Glasgow School of Art, with commentaries discussing the school's place in the development of architecture. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages, 148 illustrations, (47 in color) many in full page photographs. Text in English by Barbara Rose based on numerous interviews with the artist. An extensive biography that deals with all the important works of the artist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY/, Taschen, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with mild edgewear to bottom of dust jacket, 251 pages. Copiously illustrated in black and white. In French, German and English. Essays by Andre Breton, Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais and Katherine Ware. Ray was a charismatic figure with a knack for creating and energizing artistic movements, influencing and befriending many leading lights of the European Avant-Garde, from Dadaists to Surrealists and including Duchamp, Picasso, Satie, Cocteau and Breton. Ray's vast photographic oeuvre is often considered to be his most important and ground-breaking body of work. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.