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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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 &.....
