New York & London: The Viking Press / A. Zwemmer LTD, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 7-3/8 x 10", blue cloth, xxxv, 156pp, 155pp, biblio, indexes each volume, 153 half-tone illustrations, 9 text-figures. Publisher's review copies, review slip laid in. Signed by the author on first free endpapers of both volumes.....
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.....
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. Hardcover. A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day. At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology-while craftspeople and handmade objects are relegated to a......
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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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.....
New York: Rizzoli, 2014. First U. S. Edition. 9-1/2 x 12-1/4", 1/2 burgundy cloth, vivid pictorial paper over boards, 274pp, over 200 color plates. The work of contemporary figurative painter Hernan Bas, focusing on his paintings, film stills, and illustrations and featuring 200 color plates and texts by Christian Rattemeyer.....
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 Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2", black boards, xi, 192pp, notes & texts, bibliography, index, 38 black & white text figures & illustrations, photograph credits, appended by 16 color plates. From the dust wrapper flap: Michael Baxandall draws on contemporary cognitive science, eighteenth-century theories of visual.....
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.....
University of California Press, 2019. Hardcover. This generously illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication devoted to the powerfully expressive work of David Park (1911-60). Best known as the founder of Bay Area Figurative art, Park moved from Boston to California at the age of seventeen and spent most of his.....
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.....
Munich: Hirmer Verlag / Kunsthalle Bremen / The Menil Collection, Houston, 2013. Hardcover. 9-3/4 x 12-1/4", pictorial cloth, list of exhibited works, biography, exhibitions, bibliography, index, colophon, fully illus. in vivid color. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held in Bremen (2013) and Houston (2014). With essays by Ewald Rathke.....
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.....
Washington & London: Smithsonian Books, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Light brown spine, brick orange paper over boards, pumpkin endpapers, 286pp, notes, references, index, fully illus. An interdisciplinary study of the Abakua Society, an Afro-Cuban men’s fraternal order developed in 1836 in urban Cuba by enslaved Africans and creoles.....
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.....
Atelier Editions, 2020. Paperback. Foraging for mushrooms with John Cage: writing, art, photography and ephemera from an idiosyncratic chapter in the composer's life Imagined as an extended mushroom-foraging expedition, John Cage: A Mycological Foray gathers together Cage's mushroom-themed compositions, photographs, illustrations and ephemera. Indeterminacy Stories and other writings by Cage.....
Newtown, Connecticut: Pembroke Press, 1987. Limited Edition. Stiff boards with accordion graphic. 8 x 5-3/8", printed boards with accordion fold graphic work on two sides, 14 continuous pages. #67 of a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Accordion fold graphic work in green and black with collage.....
Timber Press (OR), 2020. Hardcover. "Oregon contains multitudes, for this is a state that spans a tremendous range of people, cultures, and terrains. It's a range that this book seeks to illuminate, along with Oregon's spectacularly beautiful and varied landscape." --Nicholas D. Kristof, from the foreword. Oregon is a big, beautiful.....
Cambridge: The Cambridge Enchorial Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 9-3/4 x 13-1/4' embossed block cloth, xii, 268pp, introduction, timeline, notes, index, 800 illus. Helmut Krone’s first assignment as an art director in 1954 was The Volkswagen campaign. His pioneering use of small copy with large pictures became the industry standard.....
Chronicle Books, 2020. Hardcover. Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962. First. Hardcover. 7-1/4 x 10/14", red cloth, xxv, 449pp, 156 illlus., notes, app., index. An examination of the relationship between literature and pictorial art from 1485 to 1642 based on the author's collection and analysis of iconological evidence from the Renaissance dealing with the.....
