624 pp. Off-white softcover with red and black lettering on the front, back, and spine. Black leaf imagery on the front cover. Minor wear to the extremities and a slight crease to the upper-left corner of the back cover. Front endpaper is signed and dated by previous owner, otherwise no marks. Pages are clean and bright. Tight binding, square textblock. Black and white images throughout the book, with a frontispiece, "Bamboo," reproducing an ink on silk painting c. 14th century. Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese... View More...
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Washington, Published By the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Association with the Smithsonian Institution Press : 1998
160 pp. Yellow boards with gold embossed title on the spine have no signs of previous use, the only sign of use is a stamp on the inside cover page signfigying previous ownership. Black pictorial jacket has slight chipping along the bottom edge and minor bending in the corners. View More...
Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated paper-covered boards with black lettering on spine. There is foxing along the extremities, and the endpapers. minor waviness to the pages. Matching photo-illustrated dust jacket has closed tear on the upper right corner of the front panel foxing to the extremities, light wriinkling on the rear panel of the jacket.in mylar sleeve. Includes 15 pages of text by Diane Arbus edited from tape recordings of a series of classes Arbus gave in 1971 as well as from interviews and her writings. FIRST EDITION includes the photo of "Two Girls in Identical Rai... View More...
unpaginated. White pictorial cloth. (Twins) Light nicks at the lower corners, toning to the extremities, otherwise clean and unmarked. Unclipped pictorial jacket (Twins) has a 1/4" closed tear on the upper edge, toning. in mylarsleeve. "This anniversary edition celebrates one of the most important photographic books in history on the work of a single artist. Every image in this edition has been printed from new three-hundred-line-screen duotone film, bringing to the reproductions a clarity and brilliance unattainable until now. A quarter of a century has done nothing to diminish the riveting i... View More...
250pp. Chocolate Brown cloth, embossed black lettering. 332 illustrations, including 116 plates in full color. Toning to the extremities, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has a touch of edgewear, otherwise fine. in mylar sleeve.This second, revised edition adds another 75 illustrations which didn't appear in the first edition,including never-before-reproduced studio views, early works that have come to light , and new works done since 1975. Motherwell was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York Sc... View More...
564pgs. Navy Blue Cloth. Gilt lettering on the spine.This illustrated work highlights one of the most important and creative periods in the history of art: a time marked by the appearance of the city states of the Sumerians, the citadel of Troy, the splendid royal tombs at Ur, and the monumental cities at Mohenjodaro and Harappa. The volume examines the cultural achievements of these first urban societies, placing them in a historical context. Topics covered include the emergence of the first city states, the birth of written language, and trade and cultural interconnections between the Ancien... View More...
279pgs.Decorative endpapers, Blue fabric boards, the extremities have an attractive purple tint from toning. Internally fine, unmarked copy. Hundreds of full color photographs. Unclipped pictorial jacket. When built, the world of Versailles seemed so grandiose that guides and descriptions appeared from the very first years of its construction. This perfect expression of absolute monarchy, every detail of which was overseen by Lois XIV, became the model for European royal palaces thereafter.Full-color photographs taken throughout the year reflect the beauty of Versailles in all four seasons; i... View More...
458pp. Beige Cloth, black lettering. 382 color plates and 64 halftones. New in New Jacket, in pictorial slipcase. "Between 1494 and 1498, Leonardo da Vinci painted one of the great Western masterpieces directly onto the wall of the refectory of the Santa Maria Della Grazie church in Milan and it immediately started to deteriorate. Leonardo: The Last Supper documents the process by which, after nearly 500 years and various 'restorations,' conservators attempted to get the work as close as possible to its original state." View More...
176pgs. black boards. white lettering.color photos throughout. light wear to the extremities. Unclipped pictorial jacket has light wear as well. "Famous for his obsessive hand-drawn alphabets and glyphs, Fella creates work with the power and spontaneity of raw art that nonetheless is born from a great knowledge of the theory and technique of typography and graphics." Size: Quarto View More...
263pp.Black Boards, silver lettering on the spine. A hint of wear to the corner tips, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy.320 color and black and white illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. Unclippied pictorial jacket like new.At the turn of the 20th century, Glasgow was the centre for an avant-garde movement of art and design innovation in Europe, which we now refer to as The Glasgow Style. While the "Glasgow Boys" group of painters has been widely written about, their female contemporaries have received far less attention. In this work, the editor redresses this imbalance, bring... View More...
345pp. Blue boards. gilt lettering on the spine. illustrated endpapers. 350 works reproduced in full color. Light wear to the bottom edge, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket is like new. This richly illustrated survey of the history of Irish painting encompasses the entire span from the middle ages to the mid-twentieth century. The book includes both well-known and virtually unknown artists, Irish artists who worked abroad as well as in Ireland, and major foreign artists who came to Ireland and worked there for extended periods. Drawing on the unique combined experienc... View More...
