O'Keeffe, Stieglitz and the Critics, 1916-1929 (Univ of Chicago Pr)
University of Chicago Press, March 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Art & Architecture
The inner eye of Alfred Stieglitz
University Press of America, January 1982. Trade Paperback. Negligible toning. Crisp copy of a scarce university press title. More
Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin
Columbia Univ Pr, March 1985. Reprint. Paper Back. The Intimate Journals of Paul Gaugui, depicts the experiences of the French artist while living on a Polynesian island and discusses the culture of the natives of the island. Underlining and marginal markings. [139 pages]. More
Gauguin's Letters from the South Seas
Dover Publications, July 1992. Paper Back. 64 letters offer portrait of Gauguin's struggles to live and work in Tahiti and the Marquesas during last 12 years of his life. Passionate, revealing document. {5 & 3/8' x 8 & 3/8'} [110 pages +12 catalogue of Dover titles]. More
Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
Dover Publications, June 1985. Paper Back. Paul Gauguin fled what he called filthy Europe in 1891 to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise, Tahiti. He painted 66 magnificent can vases during the first two years he spent there and kept notes from which he later wrote Noa Noa..... More
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
Vintage, July 2023. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his..... More
The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear
Citadel, July 2023. Hardcover. Since 1973, The Exorcist and its progeny have scared and inspired half a century of filmgoers. Now, on the 50th anniversary of the original movie release, this is the definitive, fascinating story of the scariest movie ever made and its lasting impact as one of the..... More
Chinoiserie: The Vision of Cathay
Icon, January 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. {7' x 9'} First Icon edition. Edgewear and soiling to cover. Cover design by Janet Halverson. [295 pages]. More
A Kentucky Album: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935-1943
University Press of Kentucky, July 1986. Cloth. Sulky races at the Mercer County Fair, church suppers, sorghum making, shooting marbles in the school yard, housing tobacco, loafing at the courthouse -- here are 129 beautifully reproduced images of who we were as Kentuckians not so long ago -- during the..... More
Art in the Seventies
Cornell University Press, January 1980. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto in edgeworn jacket. Front flap clipped at bottom corner. Previous owner's name written in blue ballpoint upper right corner of front pastedown. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. [128 pages]. More
Japanese Design Motifs
Dover Publications, June 1972. Paper Back. The over 4,000 individual designs collected here represent the 900-year-old tradition of Japanese family crests. Through constant variation and invention over the centuries, this has become one of the richest graphic art traditions in the world. The graphic artist, textile designer, pattern-maker, advertiser, and..... More
Masters of the Poster, 1896-1900: Les Maitres de l'Affiche
Images Graphiques, Inc., November 1977. Oversize Softcover. More
Who's Who in Architecture: From 1400 to the Present
Henry Holt & Company, September 1977. Hardcover. More
Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists (Aperture Ideas)
Aperture, June 2023. Paper Back. Debut essay collection by a prolific, Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and longtime contributor to Aperture, Paris Review, and Vogue Bengal's incisive writing on photography breathes new life into the work of a range of artists, from the iconic to the iconoclastic Newest title in the recently..... More
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard
Ecco, July 2023. Hardcover. An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and inspired both because of his work and his legendary..... More
Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
Random House, November 2022. Hardcover. PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - "A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life."--MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography and the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing - Finalist for the National Book Critics..... More
Visualizing Density
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, January 2007. Oversize Softcover. This best-selling and richly illustrated book by landscape architect Julie Campoli and aerial photographer Alex S. MacLean helps planners, designers, public officials, and citizens better understand how residential density can help save energy, dollars, and the environment. This best-selling and richly..... More
Architecture of New York City: Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols (Revised)
Wiley, April 1994. Oversize Softcover. Gives historical, artistic descriptions plus original photographs of more than 90 major structures, sites and symbols--from Indian coves and trails and Dutch canals to contemporary skyscrapers. Contains a comprehensive analysis of the major architectural styles that have helped create the New York City skyline. More
The Earth, the Temple and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture
Yale UP, January 1962. Cloth. Quarto. {8 & 1/2 x 11 & 1/4'; }In much chipped & worn jacket with dust stains and creaes. Beige cloth covered heavy-boards with red lettering . Darkened board edges. Textblock top edge is dust stained with foxing. Review copy with review slip laid in..... More
Pigeon Hill - Then & Now
Kehrer Verlag, March 2017. Oversized Hardcover. DAS AUF AMAZON.DE ANGEGEBENE ERSCHEINUNGSDATUM BEZIEHT SICH NUR AUF USA. DER TITEL IST IN EUROPA AB NOVEMBER 2016 LIEFERBAR, AUCH DURCH AMAZON.DE / THE PUBLICATION DATE INDICATED HERE IS ONLY FOR USA. THIS TITLE IS AVAILABLE IN EUROPE FROM NOVEMBER 2016, ALSO ON AMAZON.DE..... More
John Szarkowski: Photographs
Bulfinch Press, February 2005. First Edition. Oversized Clothbound. - Accompanying the photographs will be excerpts from a life-time's correspondence giving a glimpse of Szarkowski's perspective on life and photography. Curator Sandra Phillips contributes an introductory essay. - The exhibition will open at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in..... More
Mad Men: The Illustrated World
Perigee Trade, October 2010. Oversize Softcover. As swingin' as the 1960s-an officially licensed tie-in to the wildly popular hit television series "Mad Men" By turns fun, sophisticated, and celebratory, this is an eye-popping and inventive companion to the hit show "Mad Men," as well as a salute to the era..... More
Ed Ruscha
Phaidon Press, October 2003. First Separate. Oversized Hardcover. Restlessly inventive, Ruscha has remained a step ahead and apart from the art trends and movements of his time. Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Surrealism, Photo-Realism, and today's renewed focus on painting resonate in a body of work that ultimately defies categorization. moved..... More
