MFA Publications, February 2019. Oversized Clothbound. Iturbide is modern Mexico's subtlest, most profound chronicler Graciela Iturbide, best known for her iconic photographs of Mexican indigenous women, has engaged with her homeland as a subject for the past 50 years in images of great variety and depth. The intensely personal, lyrical..... More
Museum of Modern Art, November 2017. Oversized Clothbound. Organized into 60 thematic sections, this magisterial volume provides a complete overview of Shore's career--from the early portraits of Warhol's Factory to his latest Instagram images One of the most influential photographers of our time, Stephen Shore has often been categorized as..... More
Atria Books, January 2022. Hardcover. In this genre-defying work of cultural history, the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton's unique creative genius in the context of his time. Born the same year as the film industry in 1895, Buster Keaton began his career..... More
Exit Zero Press, June 2010. Oversized Hardcover. Cape May, at the tip of the Jersey Shore, goes from boom to bust and back again in this compelling almanac of lavishly illustrated and meticulous researched regional history. Beginning with an advertisement in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1801, city dwellers soon descended..... More
Atria Books, December 2021. Hardcover. The definitive biography that unlocks the remarkable story of Vivian Maier, the nanny who lived secretly as a world-class photographer, featuring nearly 400 of her images, many never seen before, placed for the first time in the context of her life. Vivian Maier, the photographer..... More
Duncan Baird, October 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Chinese characters captivate as much with their artistic expressiveness as with their fascinating layers of meaning: they are written reflections of a unique and beguiling culture. Drawing upon the latest scholarship, this book gathers 100 of the most significant sinographs, placing them within..... More
Seven Stories Press, December 2021. Hardcover. A thrilling, eye-popping look at true crime in the billion-dollar art world. The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual..... More
Yale University Press, February 2002. Oversized Hardcover. Expressing the anxieties of the late nineteenth century and the uncertainties of the modern world, Edvard Munch (1862-1944) often depicted in his works dangerously seductive fin de siecle women, sickly figures, and isolated characters in barren landscapes. These powerful, haunting paintings are widely..... More
Flame Tree Publishing, January 2007. Oversized Hardcover. More
Thames & Hudson, October 1997. Oversize Softcover. It is both startling and disconcerting, producing some of the most powerful and moving visual images to have appeared in the last thirty years. Freud--once dubbed the Ingres of existentialism--has almost single-handedly redefined the figurative painting of our time. No other living artist..... More
Chronicle Books Llc, August 1993. Oversize Softcover. Mexican author Martha Zamora captures the essence of one of Mexico's most prolific and talented painters in a single comprehensive volume. Seventy-five of Frida Kahlo's paintings, reproduced here in lavish color, accompany numerous historical photographs and the author's descriptive text, chronicling the significant..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, June 2000. Hardcover. Pablo Picasso is the most brilliant and influential artist of this century, but attempting to get an intimate sense of the protean Picasso appears almost impossible. Who better than Norman Mailer to enter inside this enigmatic man's mind? Closely integrated throughout the text are..... More
Te Neues Publishing Company, October 2013. Reprint. Leather. The purity of humanity exists. It is there in the mountains, the ice fields, the jungle, along the rivers and in the valleys. Photographer Jimmy Nelson found the last tribesmen of the world's most threatened communities and photographed them. Whether in Papua..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, November 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. In Conversations with Wilder, Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work. Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs..... More
Taschen, November 2014. Hardcover. One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous paintings, this scientist, artist, philosopher, inventor, builder, and mechanic epitomized the great flowering of human consciousness that marks his era. As part..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, December 2021. Hardcover. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2021 Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her..... More
Knopf, January 2022. Hardcover. From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts--musical, literary, and visual--and their unique and unparalleled power to excite, disturb, and inspire us. As people look to the arts to promote a particular..... More
Harper Wave, September 2017. Trade Paperback. 2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose--a visionary in urban development and renewal--champions the role..... More
Phaidon Press, August 1998. Oversize Softcover. Pieter Bruegel (c.1525-69) was perhaps the greatest sixteenth-century Flemish painter and he is certainly the most popular today. Surprisingly, fewer than fifty of his works have survived, though his episodes from peasant life, landscapes and religious paintings are familiar to all. To each of..... More
Phaidon Inc Ltd, March 1993. Oversize Softcover. The paintings of the Belgian Surrealist Rene Margritte (1898-1967) have exerted an extraordinary fascination, particularly since the enormous increase in awareness and popularity of his work during the 1960s. Margritte shows us a world of silence and isolation in which familiar objects are..... More
Phaidon Press, September 1995. Oversize Softcover. Cubism was one of the most influential movements in Western art this century. Beginning with the revolutionary experiments of Picasso and Braque in Paris between 1906 and 1908, Cubism gathered momentum and soon spread to the rest of Europe and America. The movement's rejection..... More
Phaidon Press, August 1998. Oversize Softcover. Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) is acknowledged as one of the great masters of modern art, following in the tradition of the Impressionists. He is best known as a painter of intimate, domestic interiors, but he was also a highly accomplished draughtsman who produced a wealth..... More
Dodd Mead, January 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Quarto. {8 & 1/2 x 11 & 1/4'} In dustjacket with mild edgewear & darkening of margins & spine. Red paper covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Tanned end pages with foxing. Dust staining textblock edges. [224 pages.). More
Doubleday, January 1955. First Edition. Cloth. In tattered, torn, chipped, darkened dustjacket. Heavily darkened DJ verso. Flap is clipped. Black cloth covered boards with grease stains & fingerprint marks highly visible in bright light. Gold lettering on spine. Board edges worn, especially at bottom. Sound binding. Excellent black & white..... More
EXHIBITIONS INT'L, August 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. {10' x 11 & 1/2'} Black pictorial boards with white lettering. No jacket as issued. Like new overall. [192 pages.]. More
