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.
University of California Press, November 1997. Trade Paperback. The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogation of authorship.....
The MIT Press, July 1986. Trade Paperback. Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally.....
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.....
Scribner, November 2016. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" (The Economist), the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined.....
Tuttle Publishing, April 2006. Trade Paperback. This fourth revised edition of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs, first published in Shanghai in 1941, features an introduction by Dr. Terence Barrow, has been completely reset and now uses the Pinyin pronunciation of Chinese names and words. The Eight Immortals, the five elements.....
Ticknor & Fields, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 468 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light fading to the spine. Toning to page edges. Publisher's prospectus laid in, along with a black-and-white captioned press photo of the author.
Midmarch Arts Press, January 1992. Trade Paperback.
Harcourt, May 1993. Hardcover.
Univ California State Pr at, June 1964. Trade Paperback. Paul Klee was endowed with a rich and many-sided personality that was continually spilling over into forms of expression other than his painting and that made him one of the most extraordinary phenomena of modern European art. These abilities have left.....
Alpine Fine Arts Collection Ltd., 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 224 pages. Including monograms and symbols. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Presents alphabetically facsimiles of the signatures of European painters who flourished between the fifteenth century and the present.
Akademie der Kunste, 1666. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 15 pages. Text in German. First edition (first printing). Very good in yellow wrappers (paperback) with orange band. Library call numbers under band.
The MIT Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 476 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The artist Francis Picabia -- notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist -- has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of.....
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. 96 pages. Illustrated in color and B/W. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in illustrated paper over board covers. An insightful study of Joseph Cornell's fascination with the Cubist painter Juan Gris, shedding new light on the work of both artists.....
University of Michigan Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 105 pages plus 93 figures on plates in B/W. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
City Lights Books, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 223 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback). Spine and outer margins are tanned.
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.
Gallimard, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 424 pages. Illustrations in color and B/W. Text in French. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in brown silk cloth covers with bright gilt lettering on front cover and spine. In very good illustrated dust jacket. Slight soiling.
T. C. & E.C. Jack/ Frederick A. Stokes, n.d., ca. 1910. Unknown. 80, 77, and 80 pp. Each artist illustrated with 8 color plates. From the series 'Masterpieces in Color' edited by T. Leman Hare. A very good copy in red cloth covers with gilt decorations and lettering on front.....
Editions Territoires, 1979. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 140 pages. Contibutors include Clement Greenberg, Leo Steinberg, Barbara Rose; Don Judd and Frank Stella, Robert Morris, Mel Bochner, Robert Pincus-Witten and Rosalind Krauss. B/W illustrations. Text in French. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in white wrappers (paperback). Slight soil.....