Lives of the Artists (Classics)
Penguin Classics, January 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. Signigicant damp-staining on the bottom and top of the first half of the book. More
Art
Complete Color Index: Color Index/Color Index 2
North Light Books, September 2008. Box. With over 2600 color combinations, this set is all you'll need for solutions to your color problems! It contains the original best-selling Color Index and Color Index 2, and together they comprise the most comprehensive color-selection tool out there. Providing multiple palette possibilities for..... More
Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images
University of Chicago Press, June 2007. Hardcover. Barbara Maria Stafford is at the forefront of a growing movement that calls for the humanities to confront the brain's material realities. In Echo Objects, she argues that humanists should seize upon the exciting neuroscientific discoveries that are illuminating the underpinnings of cultural..... More
The Passive Vampire (Art Lit)
Twisted Spoon Press, March 2009. Paper Back. Originally published in 1945 in Bucharest, The Passive Vampire caught the attention of the French Surrealists when an excerpt appeared in 1947 in the magazine La part du sable. Luca, whom Gilles Deleuze referred to as one of the greatest poets, attempts here..... More
The History of Bones: A Memoir
Random House, August 2021. Hardcover. The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie "A picaresque roller coaster of a story, with staggering amounts of sex and drugs and the perpetual quest to retain some kind of artistic integrity."--The..... More
Staff Pick
Pliny: A Selection of his Letters (Translations from Greek and Roman Authors)
Cambridge University Press, January 1979. Trade Paperback. More
As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2022. Hardcover. The story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy, insight, and firsthand observations of her meteoric life. As It Turns Out is a family story. Alice Sedgwick Wohl is writing to her brother Bobby..... More
Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History
Thames & Hudson, January 2002. Reprint. Cloth. In art as in music, literature, philosophy, and political economy, the nineteenth century was a period of questioning, experimentation, discovery, and modernization. From Goya to Blake, from David to Delacroix, from Courbet to Cezanne, artists explored the links between perception and history, and..... More
From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early netherlandish painting
Phaidon, January 1965. Reprint. Cloth. {7 & 1/2' x 10 & 3/4') Beige cloth covered boards with brown lettering on spine and front panel. Darkened board edges. Dust stained textblock edges. Revised reissue. Previous owner's name in ink ffep. Same previous owner's small address sticker also affixed to ffep. [425..... More
Self-Organised
Open Editions/Hordaland Art Centre, September 2013. Paper Back. The current economic situation and society's low confidence in its institutions demands that artists become more imaginative in their self-organization. If labels such as 'alternative, ' 'non-profit' and 'artist-run' dominated the self-organized art scene of the late nineties, the separatist position implied..... More
The book of Job (Masterpieces of the illustrated book)
Paddington, January 1976. Paper Back. Quarto. Clean, sound. Damp staining. [52pages plus 16 pages of illustration]. More
William Blake
Tate Gallery, January 1978. Paper Back. Quarto. Clean, sound with light foxing. [164 pages]. More
Cats, Cats, Cats
Bulfinch, October 1994. Hardcover. Fashion lovers rejoice! These swank little books showcase Andy' Warhol's inimitable pictures and pronouncements on shoes and style -- and make ideal gifts for serious shoppers everywhere. Shoes, Shoes, Shoes collects a closetful of high heels, loafers, mules, boots, and sandals, including iconic images from Warhol's..... More
Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
Crown, July 2022. Hardcover. A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world--and Picasso the most famous artist alive--in the shadow of World War II "Fascinating, eloquent, wonderfully lucid, Picasso's War will change whatever we thought we knew about..... More
Prints & Drawings of the Danube School: Exhibition of South German & Austrian Graphic Art of 1500-1560 Prepared by a Graduate Seminar…under…Charles Talbot & Alan Shestack, Oct. 9, 1969-March 24, 1970
Yale University Press, January 1969. Paper Back. {7' x 10'} Cover is darkened at margins. Spine sun tanned and worn with superficial tears & chipping. Previous reader's name and a date in ink on title page. {109 pages plus 61 pages of black & white illustrations]. More
Albrecht Durer: Schriften, Tagebucher, Briefe
W. Kohlhammer, 1961. Cloth. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} In dustjacket with sun tanned spine. Mild edgewear. Mild foxing & soiling to cover. Flap is not clipped. End pages tanned/foxed. Previous readers' names & a date inked ffep. Dust staining of textblock edges. [244 pages] In German. More
Northern Renaissance Art, 1400-1600. (Sources and Documents in the History of Art Series.)
Prentice-Hall, 1966. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Trade paperback with darkened margins to cover and interior pages. Underlining & side notes in inks (black & red). Complete number string. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. [187 pages]. More
The History Of Impressionism. Fourth Revised Edition
MOMA, January 1973. Reprint. Cloth. {9' x 10'} In very good dustjacket. Grey cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering. {672 pages]. More
Hogarth to Cruikshank: Social Change in Graphic Satire
Walker & Company, January 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. {9' x 12'} In edgeworn dustjacket. Large tear top edge of rear DJ panel. Flap is not clipped. Cream colored boards with black lettering along spine and black illustration (by Hogarth) printed on front panel. Marginal foxing & darkening to boards &..... More
The Northern Renaissance A&I (Art and Ideas)
Phaidon Press, September 2004. Paper Back. This book comprises a rigorous and enchanting exploration of a highly innovative and exciting period of art following the careers of artists such as Van Eyck, Dürer and Holbein. Jeffrey Chipps Smith analyses key conceptual aspects of that period, such as the Protestant Reformation..... More
Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art
Penguin (Non-Classics), 199. Paper Back. Why are the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes, and Marcel Duchamp's ready-made urinal all considered works of art? Why, strictly speaking, is a Cindy Sherman photograph more art-like than a Da Vinci portrait? How did the painters and sculptors of the Renaissance..... More
Malerei der Donauschule
F. Bruckmann, January 1964. Oversized Hardcover. {10' X 11'} Turquoise blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering. No jacket. Soiling/dust staining to front and rear boards. Discoloration/staining to spine. Tanned/foxing to end pages front and rear. Previous reader's name is in ink upon ffep. Foxing textblock edges. Text is in..... More
Rembrandt, Life and Work -- Revised Edition
Phaidon Publishers, Inc., January 1964. Cloth. UK edition. Quarto in edgeworn dustjacket with foxed verso. Flap is not clipped. Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Foxing/tanning to end pages. Hinge between front pastedown and ffep is cracked by remains intact. Previous reader's name and a date in ink on..... More
Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
Crown, July 2022. Hardcover. A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world--and Picasso the most famous artist alive--in the shadow of World War II "Fascinating, eloquent, wonderfully lucid, Picasso's War will change whatever we thought we knew about..... More
