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Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine

By: Barter, Judith A.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago: 2013

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 012370

ISBN: 0300196237

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

An appealing exploration of the art and culture of food in 18th- through 20th-century America. Essays by leading experts address topics including the horticultural and botanical underpinnings of still-life painting, the history of alcohol consumption in the United States, the cultural history of Thanksgiving, and the commercialization of food in the world of Pop art.

In addition to the images and essays, this book includes a selection of vintage recipes for all-American dishes.

No Flaws or Blemishes but the book plate of art collector Robert Allen Lewis. Throughout his life he ...
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Dinghy Building

By: Creagh-Osborne, Richard

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York State, John de Graff: 1978

Edition: 2nd Edition

Seller ID: 010110

ISBN: 0828600732

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. American edition of Adlard Coles British Edition. 240 pages with index; Illustrated . --- A very through manual intended for a skilled amateur builder. Covering a range of methods, including cold mounting, clinker, carvel, single and double chine, GRP, and bonded plywood. Advice is given on painting and fitting out.
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The Two Georges. A Novel of Alternate America

By: Dreyfuss, Richard; Turtledove, Harry

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Tor Books: 1996

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 012820

ISBN: 0312859694

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. First Edition, First Printing.

A story of murder, intrigue, and a stolen painting portrays America as it might have been, had George Washington surrendered to George III
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Sketches in Stable and Kennel

By: Edwards, Lionel R.I. [Dalhousie Robertson] (1878 - 1966)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London: England, Nattali & Maurce Ltd: 1944

Seller ID: 009702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Lionel Edwards (1878 - 1966) was a British artist who specialized in painting horses and other aspects of British country life. He is best known for his hunting scenes but also painted pictures of horse racing, shooting and fishing. He provided illustrations for Country Life, The Sphere, The Graphic and numerous books. [wiki]

Rather than the usual scenes of the horse and hound in the field, Mr. Lionel Edwards has drawn and painted his subjects for this volume, not in action on the hunting field, but for the most part resting at home. It is hear that the personalities can be studied to...
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Masterworks in Berlin: A City's Paintings Reunited : Painting in the Western World, 1300-1914

By: Eisler, Colin

Price: $49.95

Publisher: New York, New York Graphic Society: 1996

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 010911

ISBN: 0821219510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This edition truly unites the rich collections still dispersed among the Prussian capital's many museums. Eisler, the Robert Lehman professor of Fine Arts at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, loves these works and brings discussion of over 700 paintings.

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal retail shelf handling; Still Gift Quality.
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Three Hundred Years of American Painting

By: Eliot, Alexander

Price: $24.00

Publisher: New York, Time Incorporated: 1957

Seller ID: 012202

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A very good copy in an equally nice slipcase. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; some minor foxing. Color illustrations. Folio; 12 inches tall; 318 pages with an extensive bibliography.
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Italian Recollections : Dutch Painters of the Golden Age

By: Frederik J.; Graif, Linda L. Duparc

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: 1990

Seller ID: 008864

ISBN: 2891921313

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: As New

Unused, No flaws but two small dings to top edge from retail handling. Bindings tight and square. 238 pages with lists of works; bibliography, list of former owners; 11 inches tall. Fully illustrated in color. --------- Published on the occasion of the exhibition presented at the Museum from June 8 to July 22, 1990.
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Francis Bacon

By: Gowing, Lawrence

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution: 1989

Seller ID: 009819

ISBN: 0962320307

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. ------- Bacon is considered one of Britain's greatest contemporary painters; in fact, he has been a powerful presence in the art world for virtually half this century. In this exhibition catalog, noted British art historian Gowing and his American collaborator have done a thoughtful job of explaining Bacon's intensely morose artistic vision. In their essays they develop a few main themes, then devote the rest of the book to full-page color plates that allow for a chronological survey of the artist's painting.
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Tom Wesselmann

By: Hunter, Sam

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Rizzoli: 1994

Seller ID: 012343

ISBN: 0847818314

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

One of the founders of the Pop Art movement, Tom Wesselmann has created art in a variety of genres and media, from his early work in painting, collage, and assemblage; to his well-known series of pop paintings

No Flaws or Blemishes but some minor wrinkling at the top rear the of the dust jacket and the book plate of art collector Robert Allen Lewis. Throughout his life he was an active collector of art focused on contemporary and outsider works. Appears new.
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The Art of Richard Diebenkorn

By: Livingston, Jane

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Berkley, California, University of California Press: 1997

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 012335

ISBN: 0520212576

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Recognized as a major figure in postwar American painting The Art of Richard Diebenkorn will give readers with an interest in all phases of modernism new thoughts about the relationship between abstraction and representation. Stunningly illustrated, with 192 full-color reproductions, this book is an exhilarating testament to a distinctive American artist.

Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was an artist strongly identified with California but whose work is beloved throughout the United States and the rest of the world. This catalog is the most comprehensive volume on the artist now available. View More...

Young Van Dyck

By: McNairn, Alan

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Canada, National Gallery of Canada: 1980

Seller ID: 008857

ISBN: 0888844565

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. No flaws but for some minor shelf handling to the Dust jacket, now protected in a Mylar sleeve. ---- Text in French and English clean with a bit of age-toning. Illustrated with b/w photography of prints / painting. ---- Anthony Van Dyke was an adolescent prodigy, perhaps more-so than is commonly known. The author makes a convincing case for a new chronology of Van Dyck's works while charting the influences of Rubens and Italian art on the artist's style
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To Be Looked At: Painting And Sculpture From The Museum Of Modern Art

By: McShine, Kynaston and Umland, Anne

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York: 2002

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 010992

ISBN: 087070687X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. --- Full color illustrations with text. 4to; 10 inches tall; 144 pages.
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Everywhere I Go [Poem, 1958] Private Press Small Poster / Broad Side

By: Micheline, Jack

Price: $85.00

Publisher: [Unspecified], [Unspecified]: 0

Seller ID: 011429

Binding: No Binding

Condition: New

Single sheet 10.75 inches tall by 7.875 inches wide; on canary yellow card stock. Poem with color painting with photo centered. Art is after Jack Micheline but there is no publishing information. This piece was not located online or in OCLC at the time of the listing. ------------- A true voice of the Beat Generation, a poet who has remained "underground" since he published his first book (River of Red Wine) in 1958. ----- Jack Micheline has never been published by the bigger presses, and according to himself he never will. He thinks he's living in "Siberia in the United States&...
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In His Own Light: Francis A. Silva

By: Mitchell, Mark D. ; Introduction by John Wilmerding

Price: $39.95

Publisher: New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc.: 2002

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 011370

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

A beautiful exposition catalog, richly illustrated with full-color prints, text with black and white illustrations, catalog of known works with picture. Square 4to; 9 inches by 9 inches; 148 pages. ------- No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. ---------- Born in New York, Francis Silva was a second-generation Hudson River School painter, who did much painting along the Hudson River and along the coastline from Chesapeake Bay to Cape Ann, Massachusetts. ----- He became one of the leading marine painters of the luminist style of the mid to late 19th century, espe...
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The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan

By: Morier, James

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1937

Seller ID: 011403

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The humor and insight into oriental life displayed in this oriental 'Gil Blas' immediately seized the popular fancy. The book went into several editions; and Morier acquired a high reputation as a novelist" (DNB).

James Justinian Morier was a renowned British diplomat and author who entered the diplomatic service. First visiting Iran in 1808 as secretary to Sir Harford Jones-Brydges, Morier had an extensive career in the country, and wrote several travel works of his experiences that were widely popular.

This picaresque romance of Persian life was written after Morier r...
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Bable.TV

By: Patrick Mimran

Price: $19.95

Publisher: France, Editions du Regard: 2001

Seller ID: 002893

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Unused; CD sealed Minimal shelf wear to intact DJ. no flaws to book. Text in English and French. Patrick Mimran multitask artist, working with painting, photography, video art, sculpture and installations. He also composes electronic music in collaboration with Peter Greenaway and also Maurice Béjart for his ballet Kurozuka (Bunkan Kalkan Theatre, Tokyo)
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A Legacy of Arctic Art

By: Ray, Dorothy Jean

Price: $14.95

Publisher: U.S.A., University of Washington Press: 1996

Seller ID: 004764

ISBN: 0295975180

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

No flaws or blemishes but minimal retail shelf handling. Unused; Unread. ___ A catalog and memoir combining photographs, analytical descriptions, and the author's anecdotes about the artists represented in her collection of arctic art, now part of the University of Alaska's Museum. The catalog covers the spectrum of Eskimo painting, graphic art, basketry, wood carving, skin and cloth sewing, dolls, engraved ivory from 1866
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Painting on Site

By: Rothman, Elliot Paul

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Boston, Rothman Partners Architects: 2003

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 012568

ISBN: 0615124739

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Saffron cloth covered boards with paste-on color reproduction in a stamped frame. Titles stamped in black and white. Square: 9 inch tall by 9 inches. Gift Quality.

Painting on Site contains 69 of Elliot Paul Rothman's watercolors and 9 crayon pastels, painted only on the sites he visited in sixteen countries over the past fourteen years. Countries include: Canada, United States, French West Indies, Mexico, Panama, France, Spain, Morocco, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, and China... Appears to be signed below title though I am not sure if this is not published ...
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A Private Journal of John Glendy Sproston U.S.N.

By: Sakanishi, Shio [Editor].

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Tokyo:, Sophia University ,: 1968

Seller ID: 004050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

19 illustrations in b/w, 1 folding color painting. 128 pages with appendix, bibliography, and index. ---- Sproston served as an officer aboard the USS Macedonian. The Macedonian was part of the 1854 initial US expedition to Japan. Led by Admiral Perry, Sproston and the expedition visited the Ryukyus, Bonins, Formosa, and the Philippines.

Bindings tight and square, Minimal handling wear, text clean. Dust jacket is price -clipped, Moderate handling wear in a clear Mylar sleeve.
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Old England. Her Story Mirrored In Her Scenes

By: Sparrow, W. Shaw

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, J. Pott: 1908

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 010895

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Publisher's green cloth with gilt stamped decoration and titles. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Shelf handling wear with light corner rubs, edges show shelf handling. One tissue-guard with tear and partial loss. 4to; 10.25 inches tall (27.5cm); x, 347p. 80 captioned tissue-guarded plates, several in color. Illustrations: James Orrock. ----------------- James Orrock R.I., R.O.I. (1829 - 1913), was a prominent Scottish collector of art and oriental ceramics, illustrator and landscape watercolorist. Some modern scholars like to believe Orrock was a forger and not o...
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Keyword: Painting

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