Anchor, October 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain--the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery. Gregory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings.....
Time Warner Books UK, January 2004. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
British Library, June 2008. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. This volume explores the creative transformation which shook the foundations of European culture during the first four decades of the twentieth century--a revolution which encompassed fields as wide-ranging as visual art, theatre, literature, photography, design.....
Phaidon Publishers, Inc., January 1969. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
New York Review Books, November 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-century art world. Józef Czapski (1896-1993) lived.....
Controluce, 2017. Hardcover. 259 pages. 8-3/4 by 9 inches. 'The Recurrent Actuality of the Baroque is a book about visual art. It deals with the broken continuity in time from the historical Baroque to the contemporary one. The text follows a comparative method of study based upon recent research in.....
Oregon State University Press, 2013. Trade Paperback. 326 pages. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author to the previous owner. Here on the Edge answers the growing interest in a long-neglected element of World War II history: the role of pacifism in what is often called.....
Academia Reale Delle Scienze, 1885. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 33 pages. Discorso per la Inaugurazione degli Studii nella R. Universita di Napoli. Text in Italian First edition (first printing). Very good in soiled gray wrappers (paperback). Covers with split along spine.
Penguin Books, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present. As.....
Harper Perennial, May 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's Intellectuals as "a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind." Now the celebrated journalist and historian offers Creators, a companion volume of essays that examines a host of outstanding and prolific.....
J. Paul Getty Museum, November 2011. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. This captivating biography reveals the previously untold love story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both were photographic artists at the center of the bohemian cultural scene in Los Angeles during the 1910s.....
Martinus Nijhoff, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 240 pages with 45 B/W plates. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in dark blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket.
PublicAffairs, 2006. Hardcover. 379 pages. B/W photographs. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The story begins, as all stories do in good crime thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apulian vases, of the fourth century BC, were discovered in the.....
Stuart Art Gallery, 1952. Pamphlet. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Dover Publications, June 1976. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This is the first paperbound edition of a standard reference volume long familiar to students of China and Chinese culture. The work of a scholarly English resident of China, it is an illustrated encyclopedia with hundreds of concise, clear.....
Oxford Univ Pr, November 2004. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. A true genius whose talents embraced painting, engineering, anatomy, and flight, Leonardo da Vinci was--and remains--an extraordinary human being, indeed one of the most intriguing figures in world history, as the recent success of.....
Raccolta Vinciana, 1960. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. Estratto da 'Raccolta Vinciana,' Fascicolo XVIII, pp. 53-63. Text in Italian. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
1868. Ephemera. Single sheet folded to create 4 pages 3.9 x 6.25 inches when folded. Written on 3 sides. John Rogers Herbert (1810-1890 was an English painter and notable precursor to Pre-Raphaelitism. ALS, headed Ramsgate, June 22, 1868, addressed 'My dear Sir' thanks adressee for the invitation which he cannot.....
n.d. Ephemera. Single sheet 5.1 x 8 inches. In French. Paul DelaRoche (1997-1856) was a French painter famous for his scenes from French and English history. ALS in French, not dated, addressed 'Monsieur' approximately 40 words, signed Paul DelaRoche. Letter previously folded in half.
Eos Music Inc, July 1997. Hardcover. Published in conjunction with a 1997 New York concert program at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, this collection of essays and visual materials examines the affinities between Bach-era Baroque and such minimalists as John Adams, Steve Reich, and John Cage. John Adams does not.....
Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. 112 pages. Frontis illustration with tissue guard. 60 additional illustrations in B/W on coated paper. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in green cloth covers with leather label on spine with title in gilt. Label is scuffed. Edge and corner wear.....
Yale Center for British Art, 1981. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 7 page essay; 62 works in the exhibit; 11 are illustrated in B/W. First edition (first printing). Very good in white wrappers (paperback).
Rachel Adler Gallery, 1987. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, 4 page essay with 28 illustrated works, 4 in color. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, 1977. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 133 pages. Interesting catalogue of works reflecting the literary world of Paris in the early 20th century. Text in French. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Mild edge wera to wrappers.....
Verlag Karl W. Hiersemann, 1906. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 209 pages plus ads. Kunstgeschichtliche Monographien III. B/W illustrations. Text in German. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in wrappers (paperback). Tanning to spine.