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Ann Hamilton

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: La Jolla, Calif., San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art: 1991

Seller ID: 022757

ISBN: 0934418373

Binding: Paperbound with Stiff Covers

79p. A fine copy.
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Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930. Edited By William Ayres

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: N.Y., Rizzoli in Association with Frances Tavern Museum: 1993

Seller ID: 022229

ISBN: 0847817458

Binding: Cloth

256p. A near fine copy, the spine of which is very slightly cocked, in a fine d.j.
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Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog

By: Alexandra Munroe; Sandra Phillips; Daido Moriyama

Price: $95.00

Publisher: D.A.P./San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 1999

Seller ID: 029479

ISBN: 0918471508

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

160pp. Black boards, siver lettering on the spine. Pictorial endpapers. Black and white photographs throughout. Laid in is a pamphlet on the exhibition. The hinges are exposed and shaky, otherwise the text and photographs are clean and undmarked. A crucial overview of an artist whose pioneering work prefigures much current cutting-edge photography. Influenced early on by William Klein and Andy Warhol, Moriyama stands as one of Japan's central postwar photographers.
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Versailles: Absolutism and Harmony

By: Babelon, Jean Pierre

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Vendome Pr: 1998

Seller ID: 026872

ISBN: 0865651507

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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...
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Belgian Art, 1880-1914

By: Brooklyn Museum

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Brooklyn, N,Y., Brooklyn Museum, Division of Publications: 1980

Seller ID: 021945

ISBN: 0872730786

Binding: Paperbound with Stiff Covers

256p. A fine copy.
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American Art to 1900: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

By: Brown, Milton W

Price: $30.00

Publisher: N.Y., Abrams: 1977

Seller ID: 022744

ISBN: 0810902079

Binding: Cloth

628p. A fine copy, in a very good d.j. with a little wear. 829 illustrations, including 93 in full color.
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Ireland's Painters, 1600-1940 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

By: Crookshank, Anne, The Knight of Glin

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New Haven and London, Paul Mellon Centre BA/Yale University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 028647

ISBN: 0300097654

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

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...
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Spirit and Vision: Images of Ranchos de Taos Church. Foreword By George Kubler

By: D'Emilio, Sandra and Others

Price: $64.00

Publisher: Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Press: 1988

Seller ID: 017112

ISBN: 0890131694

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

xvi, 127p. A fine copy, in a fine d.j.
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Photography at The Bauhaus

By: Fiedler, Jeanine

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass, The MIT Press: 1990

Seller ID: 028315

ISBN: 0262061260

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

362pgs. Light Gray boards, black lettering on spine. Over 400 black and white, color illustrations. Light wear to the corners, otherwise an unmarked, as new copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket is like new. in mylar sleeve. This book contains texts on the Bauhaus masters Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Umbo, T. Lux Feininger, Florence Henri, Herbert Bayer, Walter Peterhans, and Moshe Raviv. These are followed by essays covering the various phases of the development of the medium at the Bauhaus, architectural and product photography, applied photography and "typofoto," the egg in 1920s ph...
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The Americans

By: Frank, Robert and Jack Kerouac (Intro.)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon: 1968

Seller ID: 028872

ISBN: 0394549775

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

174pgs. Black cloth, blindstamped lettering on front panel, bright silver lettering on the spine. As new in pictorial jacket that is fine except for a closed tear on the rear panel. in mylar sleeve. "In this volume of 83 deeply moving and unconventional photographs, Robert Frank portrays the shops, funeral parlors, and Fourth of July jamborees, of picnics, newsstands, crap tables, cocktail parties, jam sessions, and the drive-in movies. Here is the face of America illuminated by an unusual talent".
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The Americans

By: Frank, Robert and Jack Kerouac (Intro.)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Aperture/Museum of Modern Art.: 1968

Seller ID: 028407

ISBN: 067011619x

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

unpaginated. Pictorial wraps. Crease, minimal closed tear on the lower right corner, and a larger crease on the rear panel. Internally fine, unmarked. This copy states "Museum of Modern Art Edition 1968" "In this volume of 83 deeply moving and unconventional photographs, Robert Frank portrays the shops, funeral parlors, and Fourth of July jamborees, of picnics, newsstands, crap tables, cocktail parties, jam sessions, and the drive-in movies. Here is the face of America illuminated by an unusual talent".
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Re-Used Blocks from the Pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht (Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition, V. 20)

By: Goedicke, Hans (editor)

Price: $90.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1971

Seller ID: 026680

ISBN: 0870991078

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

162pgs. Teal Cloth, gilt lettering on the spine. light wear to the corner tips, otherwise as new. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos, drawings. The limestone reliefs termed "Lisht Blocks" presented in this volume were found by the Metropolitan Museum's Egyptian Expedition, which was active at Lisht from 1906 to 1934. They had been removed from earlier, probably already dilapidated, buildings by Amenemhet I, founder of the XII Dynasty, and used in the construction of his own pyramid and funerary temple. With the passage of time both pyramid and temple fell into disrepair;...
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Brodovitch (Masters of American Design)

By: Grundberg, Andy

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New Ork, Harry N Abrams Inc: 1989

Seller ID: 028456

ISBN: 0810907240

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

159pgs. Black Cloth, blindstamped front panel. 340 illustrations, 70 in full color. The book, save a lightly bumped corner is an unmarked, as new copy. The unclipped pictorial jacket is bright with minute wear at the extremities. in mylar sleeve. A study of the life and work of the graphic designer who created a new look in fashion publications and whose teaching inspired the design profession.
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H.R. Gigers Necronomicon By Giger, H. R.

By: H. R. Giger

Price: $395.00

Publisher: California, Morpheus International: 1994

Seller ID: 027830

ISBN: 0962344729

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

78pgs.foldouts. illustrated endpapers are an homage to Giger by Salvador Dali. Black Boards, Embossed silver lettering. Blindstamp on the front endpaper, otherwise a fine, unmarked copy. Unclipped glossy pictorial jacket light curling on the upper edge, otherwise as new. . Fantastic, futuristic drawings throughout. " A startling milestone on the darkly lit road once traveled by the likes of Bosch, Brueghel, Lovecraft, Poe and Kafka. Giger's remarkable book of the dead gives us some of the most powerful images ever an artist drew from the well of the imagination."
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Zen and the Fine Arts. Translated By Gishin Tokiwa

By: Hisamatsu, Shinichi

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Kodansha International: 1974

Seller ID: 022708

ISBN: 0870111507

Binding: Cloth

400p. A fine copy, in a good d.j. which has a 1 1/2" tear at the top of the spine and a 1/4" tear at the bottom of the front panel.
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Andy Warhol's Interview The Fashion Book 5, Volume 1: Best of the First Decade 1969-1979

By: John, Elton (Author), Sandy Brant (Editor), Ingrid Sischy (Editor), Andy Warhol (Artist),

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Edition 7L: 2004

Seller ID: 028470

ISBN: 3865210236

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Like New

172pgs. Pictorial boards. illustrated endpapers, black and photographs, illustrations throughout. As new, unmarked copy. In 2004, Steidl published a facsimile edition of the complete first decade of Interview magazine. Founded by Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga in 1969, and celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2009, Interview magazine has developed from the newsletter of the Studio 54 set into the definitive guide to the stars of today and tomorrow. Interview's brilliant conception was to invite celebrities who might be fans of one another's work to interview each other, eliciting often inti...
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Art of Ancient Egypt

By: Michalowski, Kazmierz

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N Abrams: 1966

Seller ID: 026682

ISBN: 0810900130

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

599pgs.Brown Cloth, 904 illustrations, including 145 in full color, many with gold, plus 135 plans, elevations, sites and diagrams, and 15 maps and charts. gilt lettering with tipped in Mummy on the front panel. Would be new except for dampstain only on the lower spine which runs to the lower corners of the covers. Gorgeous color jacket has light toning to the edges near the spine, otherwise as new. Housed in a sturdy pictorial slipcase with minor rubs. An exhaustive work covering all aspects of the Art of Ancient Egypt. It covers the area, the artifacts, the pyramdis, temples and the historic...
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Harry Devlin: A Retrospective. Introduction By Thomas H. Kean

By: Mitrick, Barbara

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Morristown, N.J., Morris Museum: 1991

Seller ID: 018617

ISBN: 0961304642

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

68p. A very good copy, with a one-quarter inch tear at the top of the front panel at the spine and a two-inch crease at the top forecorner of the back panel.
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The History of Surrealism

By: Nadeau, Maurice

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press: 1989

Seller ID: 027030

ISBN: 0674403452

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

351 pp. Stiff wraps illustrated with a Dali painting. Translated by Richard Howard. Clean, square and tight throughout. Remnant of price label inside front cover, slight diust soiling to page edges. Originally published in French in 1944 and published in English in 1965, this book is now a classic. Nadeau traces the evolution of Surrealism, bringing to life its many internal debates about politics and art, and relates the movement to its intellectual and artistic environment.
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The Prints of Leroy Neiman: A Catalogue Raisonne of Serigraphs, Lithographs, and Etchings.

By: Neiman, LeRoy

Price: $120.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Knoedler Publishers: 1980

Seller ID: 025420

ISBN: 0937608009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

362pgs. White Buckram with tipped in color illustration of elephants on front panel, embossed gilt lettering on the spine. Author signature, date on half-title page. toning to the edges, otherwise fine, unmarked copy. Unclipped pictorial jacket has toning, superficial wear. 219 color plates, and 75 black and white illustrations. This beautifully produced book contains four color reproductions of every serigraph, lithograph and etching that Neiman has published since he began making prints to 1980. Says "Book-of-the-Month-Club Selection on front flap of DJ, though the quality of the book ap...
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Category: History