The Shock of the New
Knopf, August 1991. Oversize Softcover. More
Knopf, August 1991. Oversize Softcover. More
Dover Publications, February 1971. Paper Back. Quarto. {8 & 3/8' x 11 & 1/4'} Shelf worn. [117 pages + iv]. More
Dover Publications, September 1984. Paper Back. The famous French art dealer s chatty, anecdotal memoirs reveal the man behind the masterpieces: his life in Paris and Aix, his tumultuous friendship with Emile Zola, extraordinary passions and eccentricities. Includes 20 painstakingly reproduced paintings; excerpts from the critics. " Octavo., Clean, sound..... More
Harper Perennial, January 1991. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Naifeh and Smith, authors of The Mormon Murders, The Lawyers in America, and Why Can't Men Open Up?, offer the bestselling controversial biography of the notorious genius of modern art, Jackson Pollock--alcoholic, abusive, and sexualy dysfunctional, yet a hugely creative talent--the quintessential..... More
Harper & Row, June 1985. Reprint. Paper Back. A selection of texts by T.J. Clark, Michael Fried, Clement Greenberg and others debating the strengths and weaknesses of Modernist history. The book includes a resource for students interested in postwar American and European culture. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} Sun bleached..... More
Thames & Hudson, January 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in clean, bright jacket. Flap not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine and on front panel border in gold line. Black end papers front and back. First/first. [64 pages]. More
Black Dog Pub Ltd, January 2003. Soft Cover. What is it really like to live in the rocky mountains in Western Canada or to take part in the world's largest carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil? Find out about tense political situations, famines, religious festivals and other social issues and..... More
University of California Press, April 1988. First Edition. Cloth. First edition with full numberline. Bound in heavy chocolate brown cloth lettered in gold along the spine. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. Underlining and marginalia in pencil. Mylar wrapped tp preserve. More
Random House Trade, February 2004. Trade Paperback. In this mesmerizing examination of Delacroix's crowning masterwork, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, and of Saint-Sulpice, the grand church that houses it, Jean-Paul Kauffmann reveals the city of Paris in an entirely new way. With the same insight and understanding he brought to..... More
Penguin Group, July 1979. Paper Back. More
State University of New York Press, August 1993. Paper Back. This is the first sustained, critical examination of the work of Edward Hopper, a major twentieth-century American painter. It is a sequence of meditations on his painting A Woman in the Sun. Each meditation, informed by Derrida's conception of the..... More
University of California Press, January 1971. Cloth. Quarto in dustjacket, very heavily edgeworn with terrible wear to top and base of jacket. Heavy cardstock boards covered in beige cloth with gold lettering along the spine. Majority of lettering is framed by a rectangle of dark brown. Front flap is not..... More
Chambers Fine Art, January 2007. Hardcover. More
Menil Foundation, May 2007. Oversize Softcover. One of the leading proponents of the Pop Art movement, Jasper Johns culled his source material from popular culture with a preoccupation for the enigmatic character of everyday objects, language and numeric systems. This modest volume reviews the artist's broad career via his works..... More
Univ of Washington Pr. Paper Back. {7' X 8 & 1/2'}. Paperback with French folds. [80 pages]. More
University of Chicago Press, March 1991. Trade Paperback. More
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
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
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
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
Princeton Univ Pr, August 1974. Trade Paperback. The description for this book, The Vision of Landscape in Renaissance Italy, will be forthcoming. More
Oxford University Press, December 2007. Trade Paperback. About the Series: Oxford's Very Short Introductions offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, and Literary Theory to History. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced..... More
ABRAMS, October 1996. Hardcover. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts, this is a study of the Renoir collection assembled between 1916 and 1951 by the American collector, Robert Sterling Clark, and his wife, Francine. Based on Clark's extensive, previously unpublished diaries, the book..... More