Artesania Mexiquense la Magia de Nuestra Gente
Gobierno del Estado de México. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good box.
History
Unpublished Correspondence of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Phaidon Publishers, Inc., January 1969. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski
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.....
Eyewitness Art: Watercolor
DK ADULT, March 1993. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Step through the canvas with the Eyewitness approach to the world's greatest artists and movements. Each volume is filled with wonderful full-color reproductions, and packed with background information on the lives of artists, their times.....
The Recurrent Actuality of The Baroque
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.....
Here on the Edge: How a Small Group of World War II Conscientious Objectors Took Art and Peace from the Margins to the Mainstream
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.....
Le Opera Scientifiche di Leonardo da Vinci
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.
The Creative Act (The Pyschology of Art)
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.
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
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.....
Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
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.....
Artful Lives: Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather, and the Bohemians of Los Angeles
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.....
Rembrandt and His Critics: 1630-1730
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.
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums
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.....
Intoxication: Heathcliff on Powell Street
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).
Cezanne's Place In Art
Stuart Art Gallery, 1952. Pamphlet. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
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.....
The Art Spirit
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.....
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustave Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (Vintage)
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.....
Leonardo
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.....
Visiting Cards of Painters: From the Collection of F.C. Schang
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.
Un Inedito di Leonardo a Bayonne
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).
Autograph Letter Signed (ALS)
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.....
Autograph Letter Signed (ALS)
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.
Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel
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.....
Perceptible Processes: Minimalism and the Baroque
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.....