J. Paul Getty Museum, 2020. Hardcover. A richly illustrated, comprehensive introduction to the visionary British artist William Blake. Celebrated for his boundless imagination and unique vision, William Blake (1757-1827) created some of the most striking and distinctive imagery in art, often combining his poetry and visual images on the page.....
Berkeley: The Center for Environmental Structure, (2002). Hardcover. Tall 4tos, blue cloth, x, 476pp, xviii, 636, xi, 697pp, x, 355pp, fully illus. Book One: The Phenomenon of Life; Book Two: The Process of Creating Life; Book Three: A Vision of a Living World; Book Four: The Luminous Ground. A revolutionary.....
Bozeman: Christina Z. Anderson, 2013. Softcover. Quarto, stiff pictorial wrappers, 336pp, 500 illustrations from over 100 photographers. Instruction on digital negative process co-written by Ron Reeder, followed by a comprehensive treatment and history of two dichromated colloid processes (gum and casein) with pigment and troubleshooting charts. A survey of other.....
Scribner Book Company, 2019. Hardcover.
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ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019"I practically snorted this book, stayed up all night with it. Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately intensifies Eve's singular irresistible glitz." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker"The Eve Babitz book I've been waiting.....
Scribner Book Company, 2019. Paperback. Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world--a movie factory, a music factory, a dream factory. Eve Babitz was the ultimate factory girl, a pure product of LA, and Vanity Fair writer "Lili Anolik decodes, ruptures, and ultimately.....
London: The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1988. Softcover. 7-1/2 x 10-1/4", stiff pictorial wrappers, fully illus. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum, 10 May - 19 June 1988 by the Oriental Ceramic Society in London. A survey tour of iron-bearing pottery in China from the pigments of the.....
London: Laurence King Publishing, 2011. First Ediiton. Hardcover. Thick quarto, 10-5/8 x 11-7/8", green cloth, xv, notes, biblio., chronology, index, over 1400 illustrations. First Edition. Monograph on Sam Bass (1920-1996) whose graphic design work includes iconic film titles and posters for works such as Hitchcock's "Vertigo" and Preminger classics "Anatomy.....
Pomegranate Communications, 2016. Hardcover. Gustave Baumann (1881 1971) began his career as a commercial artist in Chicago. A craftsman by nature, in 1905 he turned his hand to traditional woodcut printmaking. Five years later he joined other artists in the hill country of Brown County, Indiana, where he pursued his.....
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1967. First Edition. Quarto, 9-3/8 x 11-3/8", blue cloth, 210pp, yellow endpapers, biblio., fully illustrated. First Edition. A compete chronological retrospective including over 200 color and black and white reproductions of the artist's paintings, architectural projects, exhibition and graphic designs, which also contains his findings.....
Bogota: Ediciones Lerner LTDA, 1979. Softcover. Small 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, fully illustrated with black & white photographs and the artist's renderings, one color plate. Signed by the artist on title page in Medellin, 1979. Catalogue of the retrospective expedition of the work of Colombian sculptor Rodrigo.....
Prestel Publishing, 2016. Hardcover. This sumptuously illustrated book brings together the work of Henri Matisse and Richard Diebenkorn as never before, illuminating unexpected resonances that connect the two artists across time and space. Featuring stunning pairings of more than 80 paintings and drawings, this book charts the evolution of Matisse's.....
Picador USA, 2019. Paperback. The first comprehensive biography of Weegee--photographer, "psychic," ultimate New Yorker--from Christopher Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid. Arthur Fellig's ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he renamed himself "Weegee," claiming that he functioned as.....
Aperture, 2019. Hardcover. "From Beyoncé to Barack Obama, it's hard to think of a black figure who does not owe their prominence, in some measure, to the ethos of 'Black is Beautiful'" --Ekow Eshun, Financial Times In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to.....
Berlin: Jovis, 2012. Flexible boards. Thick large octavo, 7-1/2 x 9-1/4", white paper over flexible boards, 606pp, biblio., fully illus. A discussion of the work and careers of significant female designers who have managed not only to work actively and successfully in a male-dominated field, but have achieved public acclaim.....
London: Unit Editions, 2017. Unit Editions. Paperback. Small thick quarto, 8x10-1/4", stiff pictorial wrappers, 506pp + end matter (project details and credits, index, fully illustrated. A monograph of the work and postmodernist graphic artist Paula Scher from her early days in the music industry as an art director with CBS.....
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth / Thomson Learning, 2004. Third Edition. Softcover. 8x10", stiff pictorial wrappers, v, 266pp, endnotes, glossary, index, appendices on becoming your own best critic and drawing tools and materials, fully illustrations, 8 full-color full-page plates. A manual on drawing the human form. With sections on The Fundamentals (learning.....
New York: Phaidon, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, brown printed paper over boards, 10-1/4 x 11-7/8", notes, index, credits, fully illus. First Edition. Monograph of 20th-century architect and industrial designer Eliot Noyes (1910-77), whose classic designs include the IBM Selectric typewriter and the Mobil Oil Company logo. Includes archival and.....
Vintage, 2020. Paperback. A captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. New York, 1921: acclaimed photographer Alfred Stieglitz celebrates the success of his latest exhibition--the centerpiece.....
Taschen, 2020. Hardcover. Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks--the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixtures in.....
New York: Scott Hanson Gallery, 1990. Softcover. Octavo, 6x9", stiff grey wrappers, in printed paper slip-case, illustrated in monochrome throughout, with forewords by Tricia Collins & Richard Milazzo. Seven volume slip-cased edition published in a limited edition of 1000 sets. Exhibition catalogue of shows which took place January through March.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. Paperback. In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke--then a struggling poet in Germany--went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and.....
New York: Universe Books, 1971 - 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quartos, 7-1/2 x 10-3/8", brick-colored cloth, 390pp total, 540 illustrations, 158 of which are in color. Graphic Designers in the USA/1: Louis Danziger, Herb Lubalin, Peter Max, Henry Wolf; Graphic Designers in the USA/2: R. O. Blechman, Chermayeff &.....
San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1988. Illustrated by the author/aritst. First Edition. Hardcover. 9-3/4 x 12-1/4, green cloth with color plate by the artist pasted on front board, continuous accordion fold. First Edition. Folding accordion book with 11 double-page full color spreads. The artist’s note on the work: “This Pictorial Journal.....
Picador USA, 2011. Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller An Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award) Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots--which are then sold, collected.....
Picador USA, 2016. Paperback. An extraordinary blend of narrative history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with Amber Eyes In The White Road, artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate portrait of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or "white gold." A......
