Barely a trace of some moisture drops on the fore-edge of the page block, otherwise a fine copy. Four issues comprising Volume 3, 1977-1978, hardbound in red leatherette with gilt stamping. Ceramic arts, basketry, turquoise, conservation, Pawnee cradleboards, effigy pipes, Plains Indians riding quirts, and much more are topics for articles in these publications. View More...
Decorated paper-covered boards with a bit of shelf wear and rubbing. 47 pages. No date indicated, but nine editions of this title were published between 1933 and 1935 in German. Minnesingers, in Medieval Germany, were poets who performed a genre of song and lyrics called Minnesang. Manessischen Handschrift refers to the manuscript of illuminated poetry or songs (Codex Manesse) created for the Manesse family, with each illustration depicting a poet. This little book (5 by 7 in., 12 by 18 cm.) presents a sampling of 24 illustrations. View More...
Bump or small indent to bottom edge. Bookplate removal from the front free endpaper resulting in some paper loss. The dust jacket has some scratches and rubbing wear on the rear panel. Protecetyd now in a Mylar sleeve. 400 pages with Index. Oversized book that will require extra postage for expedited or international delivery. View More...
Spiral-bound, about 8.5 X 10 inches. Edge wear, toning, and rubbing to the covers. Several pages have some staining or spotting. Composed of weekly calendar pages, each followed by a double-sided page of examples (52 in all) of the nude figure in art history as depicted in paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photography. View More...
Hardbound collection of the first three years (12 issues) of this quarterly publication from the Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The emphasis is on Western art. Green leatherette with gilt lettering and just a trace of wear at the extremities. View More...
240 pages, References, Bibliography, Photographic Acknowledgements, and Index of Personal and Place names. A comprehensive discussion of all art made in Hong Kong during the decolonization period--painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation art. View More...
Five centuries of art and history from the collection of one of Italy's largest financial and banking corporations, Gruppo Sanpaolo IMI. This volume is the first of a planned series of books about the collections of sister banks in Italy and other institutions' collections throughout Europe, owned by Gruppo Sanpaolo IMI. This volume focuses on the art collection held by Sanpaolo. Contents include: Art, Collecting, and Patronage: The Sanpaolo Collections, by Ana Coliva; The Oratory of the Compagnia di San Paolo (descriptive entries by Arabella Cifani and Franco Monetti); The Sanpaolo Collection... View More...
135 pages, illustrated. The first publication in an anticipated series dealing with the Menil Collection's Byzantine holdings and Russian icons. View More...
Lower corners bumped and lower corner of the jacket's front panel has a long, closed tear and associated creasing. Protected now in a Mylar archival sleeve. 129 pages plus List of Illustrations. Introduction by Frances Borzello, followed by Author's Note and 121 color plates/ The book's layout mimics the reclining position of the subjects in the paintings presented. From the jacket: "Sensuous, voluptuous, provocative - the female form has inspired artists for centuries, making it perhaps the most popular subject in the history of painting. Since Venetian painter Giorgione's Sleeping Venus, the... View More...
Just a trace of shelf wear at the tail of the spine. The jacket has a tiny scratch on the front panel and slight fading to the spine. An examination of the aesthetic approach to art, the idea of works of arts being purely aesthetic objects. The focus is on the philosophy and art history of the eighteenth century, a period known for the aesthetic replacing the sacred. 99 pages, with Notes and Index. View More...
The book bows ever so slightly, otherwise a fine, solid copy. Couple of short edge tears to the dust jacket, else fine in a Mylar archival sleeve. 638 pages with Bibliography. Numerous illustrations. The best of Hungarian folk art from the seventeenth century to present day. Large, heavy book that will require extra postage for expedited and international delivery. View More...
A few bumped corners and slight wrinkling to top portion of the jacket's front panel. No tears or chips. A nice, clean copy profusely illustrated with black and white photos and color plates. View More...
Black cloth with pictorial paper on the front cover. Edge-worn and the gilt title on the spine is fading. An inscription on the blank page facing the half-title page has a blank piece of paper pasted over it, the moisture from which affecting the next page in the corresponding area at the top of the page. 167 pages, the first 40 of which are in Russian. A few pages of English text, including a description of the book and the art. Illustrated with 40 color plates with Russian and English titles. There's also a list of the illustrations in English as well as Russian at the back of the book. The ... View More...
Rubbing wear to the extremities and a few scratches to the rear cover. Clean copy, no writing. 40 pages, illustrated. This issue contains two articles: A "very peculiar" picture: Martin Johnson Heade's Thunderstorm over Narragansett Bay (pictured on front cover) and "I am right and you are wrong" - Letters of Advice to an Artist of the 1840s. There are four lengthy book reviews: The Art of Thomas Cole, Ambition and Imagination, by Elwood C. Parry, III; Frederic Edwin Church and the National Landscape, by Franklin Kelly; Frederic Edwin Church, by Franklin Kelly & others; and Perpetual Motif: Th... View More...
Very mild handling wear to book and price-clipped dust jacket. Small tear at the head of the jacket's spine. 78 pages followed by 160 pages of full color plates. Contents include List of Color Plates, An Introduction to Modern Japanese-Style Painting, Notes to the Color Plates with Introductions to the Artists, Glossary, and The Plates. Masterworks by 22 representative twentieth-century artists. View More...
Very mild wear. 390 pages with Glossary, Index of Names, and Bibliography. A collection of nearly four hundred Japanese woodcuts from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries is accompanied by technical and biographical data on the artist. Oversized book that will require extra postage for expedited and international delivery. View More...
Considering the faces portrayed by portrait painters through the centuries, the author considers the face and how it changed through different eras, dictated by the standards of beauty that existed in each era. A survey of 500 years of the relationship between artist and sitter and of the portraits that resulted. 356 pages with Bibliography, References, and Index. Numerous black and white illustrations. View More...
140 pages with Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated with color plates and black and white figures. A title in the American Studies Series, edited by William Goetzmann. View More...
