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Amsterdan: Rijksmuseum, 1963. Soft cover. Catalogue in Dutch with 72 pages of text. 100 pages of b/w prints. Light handling wear. Bindings firm. 8.75 inches tall.
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Amsterdan: Rijksmuseum, 1963. Soft cover. Catalogue in Dutch with 72 pages of text. 100 pages of b/w prints. Light handling wear. Bindings firm. 8.75 inches tall.
New York: The Hyperian Press, 1945. Good in a Good Dust Jacket. François Auguste René Rodin was a French sculptor, generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and.....
Mass: Yale University Press. 1987. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A versatile artist influenced by the French Rococo style, he achieved some note during the 1740s through decorative paintings executed for the supper boxes at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London. Hayman was also a successful portraitist and history painter.Francis Hayman RA.....
New Yorl: Guggenheim Museum, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. This comprehensive new exhibition catalogue, published to accompany the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's major mid-career survey of Catherine Opie's work, is the first to gather all of the artist's key projects to date in.....
Atlanta, Georgia: Ellis Lane Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The lives and works of blue-collar, African American artists Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley are documented in this true story of outsider art, ego, exploitation, and race.
New York, New York, U.S.A. Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 1989. A Fine Soft cover. Providing a new viewpoint of contemporary American printmaking, this illustrated volume surveys the work of a number of painters and sculptors whose contribution to printmaking is widely known.The artists discussed include Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg and.....
New York: Crescent Publishing, 1988. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.
New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1985. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Charles Wysocki delights in his native land and portrays the joys of its early days so lyrically that he has become the country's leading painter of Americana. The text by Betty Ballantine perfectly embellishes his sense of time and place.....
USA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012. A Fine Hardcover. Dancing around the Bride is the first exhibition to explore the interwoven lives, works, and experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887-1968) and four of the most important American postwar artists: composer John Cage (1912-1992), choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009).....
New York: H. S. Nichols, 1920. Limited Edition of 500. A Very Good Hardcover. The drawings are considered forgeries probably by Nichols and one of his associates according to Beardsley experts. In a style very like Beardsley's, though perhaps a bit less stylish in implementation. Cf. Aubrey Beardsley / A.E......
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1983. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The Essays explore the philosophy of art, the definition of a work of art, the aims of art criticism, and the nature of creativity.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press, First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. In the years between 1936 and 1943, some 300 murals (also sculptures and stone reliefs) were installed in federal buildings throughout the South.This examination, done with humor, perseption and a storyteller's sensibility.....
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1987. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Henry Moore's rise from Yorkshire miner's son to international acclaim as the 20th century's greatest sculptor is one of the most remarkable stories in British art. In this handsomely illustrated second edition of The Life of.....
New York: Holmes & Meier Pub, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Matthew Cullerne Bown's fascinating and often provocative analysis focuses on the art of the Stalin era, from 1932 to 1953, and includes discussion of the pre- and post-Stalin years.The author illuminates the.....
New York: Chartwell Books, 1994. Photography by Yukichi Watabe. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. A compilation of illustrations enhances this history of stained glass that covers its evolution, historical tradition, techniques, materials, and modern developments.This text provides an outstanding and comprehensive historical review of.....
California: Chronicle Books, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardover. Vibrant with color and image on virtually every page, this handsome volume includes unusually clear explanations of fine-art printmaking techniques and entertaining stories about the artists and their working habits. An engaging consideration of the creative process, Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood.....
Seattle: Museum of Art, Washington State University, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. traces the evolution of her work from the obsessively beaded and extravagantly patterned taxidermy heads to the more subdued and haunting figurative paintings and doll sculptures. The work is intensely alive.....
New York: Four Winds Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Various themes thread through this photobiography of Lartigue's (1894-1986) early years: the boy's technical mastery of a relatively new medium; his sense of whimsy; the pleasures of growing up in a privileged French.....
Columbia: Univ of South Carolina Press, 1984. Second Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket.
New York: Anchor Books, 1979. This is the comprehensive, self-illustrated 1979 monograph detailing the history and execution of Judy Chicago's iconic monumental installation devoted to the cultural achievements of women.The Dinner Party, now in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum took five years and cost about $250,000 to complete. First.....
New Rork and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1995. First Edition, Second Printing. A Fine Softcover. Born in 1915, Hiroshima Kazuo is a professional basketmaker in the Hinokage region on the Japanese island of Kyushu. This book celebrates the life of this master bamboo craftsman and integrates the story of his career with.....
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Soft cover. A well-researched and documented presentation of the off-neglected artists of Washington D,C.
First Edition, First Printing after a limited signed edition. A Fine Softcover in a Fine Dust Wrapper. David Stone Martin created more than two hundred album covers during the 1950s for the Norman Granz labels, Clef, Norgran and Verve.An encyclopedic compendium of album covers designed by David Stone Martin for.....
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1967. Art by Ted De Grazia. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Ettore (Ted) DeGrazia was an American impressionist, painter, sculptor, composer, actor, director, designer, architect, jeweler, and lithographer. Described as "the world's most reproduced artist", DeGrazia is known.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Tiffany was an interior designer, and in 1878 his interest turned toward the creation of stained glass, when he opened his own studio and glass foundry because he was unable to find the.....