art Monograph

Hardcover. Edison NJ, The Wellfleet Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, large oblong volume, 448 pages illustrated in color. First printing of arguably the finest work in print on the life and work of Maxfield Parrish. SIGNED on the title page by both Cutlers, founders of the National Musem of American Illustration. Maxfield Parrish's images achieved remarkable popularity and critical acclaim when they appeared on the covers of countless periodicals and books making him the most celebrated illustrator of the first half of the 20th century as well as incredibly famous and immensely wealthy. Clean copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. CA, Pomegranate Art Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with moveable parts. Based on Maxfield Parrish's paintings. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 164 pages. It was estimated in the 1920s that one out of four homes in America had one of Parrish's make-believe illustrations on the wall, and he remains one of our best-loved illustrators. This unique work, a celebration of "Parrish Blue" water and skies, hued hills, and young women draped in classical garments, is the result of a 1995 traveling exhibit, "Maxfield Parrish: A Retrospective." The Cutlers, he an architect and she a gallery owner, were instrumental in working with the Parrish Family Trust to put together that international exhibit to commemorate the artist's 125th birthday. The Cutlers were able to locate numerous items in private collections for the exhibit. Many of the 130 color plates are of these works, never reproduced before, while better-known pieces are lavishly reproduced from the original paintings rather than prints. The Parrish family offered rare photos for the biographical text, which is supplemented with a reminiscence by granddaughter Joanna Maxfield Parrish.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, 2nd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 164 pages. It was estimated in the 1920s that one out of four homes in America had one of Parrish's make-believe illustrations on the wall, and he remains one of our best-loved illustrators. This unique work, a celebration of "Parrish Blue" water and skies, hued hills, and young women draped in classical garments, is the result of a 1995 traveling exhibit, "Maxfield Parrish: A Retrospective." The Cutlers, he an architect and she a gallery owner, were instrumental in working with the Parrish Family Trust to put together that international exhibit to commemorate the artist's 125th birthday. The Cutlers were able to locate numerous items in private collections for the exhibit. Many of the 130 color plates are of these works, never reproduced before, while better-known pieces are lavishly reproduced from the original paintings rather than prints. The Parrish family offered rare photos for the biographical text, which is supplemented with a reminiscence by granddaughter Joanna Maxfield Parrish.

Hardcover. London, Philip Wilson Publishers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages. Oversized. Blue cloth cover, light wear to edges. Dust jacket has minor wear to corners. Many full color plates throughout. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley, Ca, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Illustrated throughout with full-color and b&w prints, including full-color fold-outs. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket with illustrations to back and front. "THE MASTERWORKS stands as the authoritative collection of Parrish's best works. Compiled by long-time Parrish expert and curator Alma Gilbert...." New copy, in shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. This is a volume with detailed chapters pertaining to Maxfield Parrish's work, including book and magazine illustration, posters and advertisements, as well as paintings and murals often depicting fantastical or mythological creatures. 224 pages, with over 100 b&w illustrations and 64 full color plates. Includes catalog of selected works, chronology, bibliography, and index. Bound in blue cloth, tight and clean. Clean dust jacket with full color reproduction of painting.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. This is a volume with detailed chapters pertaining to Maxfield Parrish's work, including book and magazine illustration, posters and advertisements, as well as paintings and murals often depicting fantastical or mythological creatures. 224 pages, with over 100 b&w illustrations and 64 full color plates. Includes catalog of selected works, chronology, bibliography, and index. Bound in blue cloth, tight and clean. Clean dust jacket with full color reproduction of painting.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. This is a volume with detailed chapters pertaining to Maxfield Parrish's work, including book and magazine illustration, posters and advertisements, as well as paintings and murals often depicting fantastical or mythological creatures. 224 pages, with over 100 b&w illustrations and 64 full color plates. Includes catalog of selected works, chronology, bibliography, and index. Bound in blue cloth, tight and clean. Clean dust jacket with full color reproduction of painting.

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, California Academy of Sciences, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Cream cloth with blind stamp of Dixon's thunderbird logo, original cream slipcase with foxing to cloth. No dust jacket. A clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Germany, Kerber, Ltd. ed., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 95 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. US, Cameron & Hollis, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover. Remarkable British artist Merlyn Evans developed a highly personal abstract style, combining plant, crustacean and mechanical forms. His work was fundamentally shaped by his conviction that art should be an engagement with life, reflecting psychological, ethical and political concerns. This monograph focuses on the life and work of Evans.

Hardcover. Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz's (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a sequence of installations drawing on architecture, cultural artifacts and cuisine to tell stories of social ritual, conflict and loss. It encompasses work considering the citizen visionaries of post Soviet Hungary, Middle Eastern Beatles fans and the stonecarvers of Afghanistan, with Rakowitz's casts of players and objects revealing the legacy of colonization, modernism and globalism. The artist's life-size replica of the gigantic lamassu, one of two monumental winged bulls that once guarded the gates of Nineveh in Iraq, currently features on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. This recreation of an ancient mythological creature is made from everyday date syrup cans and is part of an epic endeavour to recreate all 7,000 objects looted from the Iraq Museum in 2003, as well as those destroyed more recently at archaeological sites like Nimrud, also presented here. Text in English and Italian. Short closed tear to dj corner. otherwise like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art/Steidl, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible boards, 264 pages. B/w and color illustrations throughout. Published to accompany exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Super clean. By repeatedly re-photographing her images, transferring them from video to film and back again, and manipulating them digitally, Michal Rovner creates photographic and video imagery that abstract familiar subjects like houses, animals, and people into ambiguous and iconic forms. Working with representation but against the traditions of narrative and documentary purpose, her artworks imply a tentative universe, one that is paradoxically peaceful and unsettled, vivid and shrouded, and completely counter-factual. If the changing nature of art has resulted in a general blurring of boundaries--between painting and photography, reality and memory, presence and absence--Rovner mines this haziness, refuses to respect borders, and exists completely in The Space Between.

Hardcover. NY, Hacker Art Books, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 269 pages, illustrated throughout with 119 plates in color. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, John Day, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Illustrated with black & white photographs. INSCRIBED BY SIPPRELL on the half-title page and dated in 1966. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy. Clara Sipprell (1885-1975) was a Canadian-born, early 20th-century photographer who lived most of her life in the United States. She was well known for her pictorial landscapes and for portraits of many famous actors, artists, writers and scientists.

Hardcover. New York, John Day, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 174 pages. This catalog, featuring 130 b&w illustrations and 40 color plates cover almost all of Graves major paintings. This is a very nice and clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 323 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London , Royal Academy of Arts, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 206 pages. Contains color illustrations of Edvard Munch's artwork. Dust jacket with small bump to rear corner. Otherwise very good.

Softcover. US, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover. A collection of b&w drawings by The New Yorker cartoonist. Light edgewear to wrappers.

Softcover. New York, Harpercollins, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Softcover with minor wear to edges. Color artwork throughout. Clean.

Hardcover. US, Antique Collectors Club , 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 240 pages, mostly bw photos, some color. This book depicts, both in pictures and biographical text, the life and work of Mabel Julianelli, starting as a pattern designer in Brooklyn, NY. Beginning with her student years studying commercial art at Pratt Institute in the 1920s, and spanning her 40-plus year career, Mabel Julianelli, with her husband and partner Charles Julianelli, is credited with many constructional, interpretative, and fashion firsts. Her 1950 Coty Award-winning naked evening sandal, which had versions into the 1960s and 1970, is vital today due to the resurgence of ballroom dancing (i.e. 'Dancing With The Stars'): a style Mabel Julianelli first designed at a time when nobody wore sandals as evening wear. Mabel Julianelli's 1940s wedge sandal patent was referenced by Nike, Inc. in the 1990s and her shoe designs and ornaments were referenced by Jimmy Choo Ltd. in 2004-2006, among others. Her forte was the wearable, comfortable construction of shoes so it is no wonder that today's shoe companies have referenced her 1940s patents.

Hardcover. Germany, Moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The animated films of Nathalie Djurberg (born 1978) won the artist a Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Her films animate figurines made of cloth and plasticine in a puppet/marionette theater of macabre sexual intrigue. Here, Djurberg's films are accompanied by Hans Berg's musical compositions.