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.
Pantheon Books for the Bollinger Foundation, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 224 pages. Illustrations in B/W and with tipped-in color plates. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
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.....
Slough Press, 2009. Trade Paperback. 113 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. 'Archives of the precursor to performance poetry by the original 'performance poet' in the history of slam.' Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Stuart Art Gallery, 1952. Pamphlet. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
University of Nebraska Press, 1988. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 102 pages. First edition thus. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Review copy with card requesting copies of published review. Published in 1922 and modeled on Fenelon's seventeenth-century epic of the samename, Aragon's work parodies its heroic.....
George Braziller, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 282 pages. B/W illustrations. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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.....
Basic Books, March 2007. Trade Paperback. Gathers the essential beliefs and theories of the great teacher and American artist. "I would give anything to have come by this book years ago. It is . . . comparable only to the notes of Leonardo and Sir Joshua. . . . One.....
Vintage, March 2015. Trade Paperback. National Bestseller The true story that inspired the movie Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O'Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt's 1907 masterpiece--the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish socialite, Adele.....
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.....
Wittenborn Art Books, 1983. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 115 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Minor edge wear.
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).
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 382 pages. Illustrations in color and B/W. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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.....