Sverige : flygbilder från Skåne till Lappland
Sweden: Lantmäteriverket, 1998. Hardcover. Glosy pictorial dj; blue covers. 203 pp, color illustrations. Text in German. Wonderful pictures. More
New Arrivals
The miracle of analogy, or, The history of photography
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2015. Softcover. Pictorial glossy dj. Volume 1 : illustrations (some color). The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that..... More
The Sicilian Colony Dates
Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1970. Hardcover. neon yellow boards w/ black spine printing. 287 pgs w/ tables & figures. olive dustjacket w/ white printing & black illustration. Pages clean and bright. More
Drawing Babar : early drafts and watercolors
New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2008. Hardcover. Illutrated dj; brown cloth covers. (xi), 150 pages : illustrations (some color). "A comprehensive study of the composition of the first book by each of Babar's two authors - father and son Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff - complete with over two..... More
Discovering The Present: Three Decades In Art, Culture & Politics
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago University Press, 1973. Hardcover. navy boards w/ copper printing. illustrated flyleafs. 336 pgs. black & brown illustrated dustjacket w/ protective plastic cover. First 70 pages have instances of pencil check-marks and symbols to page edges. Remainder of pages appear clean. A nice copy. More
The Sculptures Of The Parthenon: Aesthetics And Interpretation
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2000. Hardcover. green cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing & emblem. 204 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. dustjacket w/ illustration & green printing. A sharp, clean copy. More
The Frick collection : an illustrated catalogue / Vol. III-IV, Sculpture (2 vol. set)
New York/[Princeton NJ ]: The Frick Collection/distrib. by Princeton University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Illustrated glossy dj; green cloth with gilt lettering. 2 dl., ( XXXII, 254, 177 p.) : ill. by John Pope-Hennessy ; assisted by Anthony F. Radcliffe en Terence W.I. Hodgkinson. Sculpture in the Frick collection./ III: Italian..... More
The English House
London: Crosby, Lockwood, Staples, 1979. Hardcover. Mylar covered black dj, green cloth wit golt lettering. (xxii), 246 pages : illustrations. Translation of Das englische haus./ Includes bibliographical references (pxxi-Includes index) and index. More
Spellbound in Darkness: A History of the Silent Film
Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1973. Softcover. silver wrappers w/ illustration; purple & black printing. 548 pgs w/ bw illustrations. A wonderful compendium for the silent film aficionado. Instances of smudging or spotting, otherwise pages clean. More
Thomas Struth, 1977-2002
Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2002. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with blue lettering, color illustrated dust jacket with white lettering, 189 pp; profusely illustrated in bw and color. "Photographer Thomas Struth (b. 1954), one of the most intriguing, challenging, and gifted artists to emerge from Europe in the past two..... More
The Language of Forms: Lectures on Insular Manuscript Art
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 2005. Softcover. Black wraps, color illustrated, white and peach letterintg; vii, 199 pp; illustrated throughout in color and bw. Foreword by Charles E. Pierce, Jr. ; introduction by Jane E. Rosenthal. Contents include: Frame, field, and figure -- The carpet page and the giant initial..... More
The Swedish Country House
New York: Monacelli Press, 2010. Hardcover. Gray boards with silver spine lettering, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated flyleaves, 224 pp, illustrated in color throughout. "Swedish country houses are one of Europe's best-kept secrets. Little known outside Sweden and rarely published, they survive in surprisingly large numbers, often with their..... More
Photographers on photography : a critical anthology
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. ... in collaboration with the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, 1966. Softcover. Glossy illustrated wrap covers. 190 pages, 62, [2] pages of plates : 62 illustrations. Contents as follows: It has to walk alone ; Photography at the crossroads / Berenice Abbott --..... More
Esthetics of the Moment: Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with silver spine lettering; black dust jacket, color illustrated and white lettering; viii, 294 pp, bw illustrations. Contents include: 1. Versions of the Moment -- 2. Lahontan and the Moment Between Cultures -- 3. Diderot and the Epicurean Moment --..... More
Rooms with a view : the open window in the 19th century
New York/New Haven, Conn: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2001. Softcover. Pictorial wrap covers. (xiii), 190 pages : color illustrations. During the first half of the 19th century, the open window emerged as a consistent motif in German, Danish, French, and Russian painting and drawing. "Rooms with a View"..... More
Magicians & Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture
New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 2012. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering; black dust jacket with white lettering; 358 pp, illustrated throughout with 24 color and 5 duotone illustrations. "The Eakins Press Foundation is proud to announce the publication of Magicians & Charlatans, by the art critic Jed..... More
Francis Bacon in the 1950s
New Haven [Conn.]/London: Yale University Press/Norwick [UK] : in association with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, 2006. Softcover. Pictorial wrap dj. (xi), 200 pages : illustrations (some color). "From the screaming heads and snarling chimpanzees of the late 1940s to the anonymous figures trapped in..... More
The Harley psalter
Cambridge [England]/New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Mylat covered illustrated dj. black cloth covering, gilt lettering on spine. (xvii), 231 pages : illustrations. A study of the making of the Harley Psalter at Christ Church Canterbury c.1020-1130. Contents as follows: A note on the Psalm texts --..... More
Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Hardcover. Half tan boards with gray cloth spine, silver spine lettering; color illustrated dust jacket; xvi, 314 pp, 16 unnumbered pages of plates; illustrated in bw and color. "With a wide-ranging yet richly detailed interdisciplinary approach, Rebecca Zorach examines the visual culture of the..... More
Catalogue of Italian sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum
London: H.M. Stationery Off. 1964. Hardcover. Grey pictorial slipcase. Pictorial dj, red covers gilt lettering sone spine. 3 volumes plates; v. 1-2. Text.--v. 3. Plates. Includes bibliographical references. 3 volume set. More
Ephemeral bodies : wax sculpture and the human figure
Los Angeles, Calif. Getty Research Institute, 2008. Hardcover. Mylar covered pictorial dj; maroon convers. (vii), 327 pages : illustrations (some color). The material history of wax is a history of disappearance--wax melts, liquefies, evaporates, and undergoes innumerable mutations. Wax is tactile, ambiguous, and mesmerizing, confounding viewers and scholars alike. It..... More
Lartigue: Photographs 1970-1982
London: J.M. Dent, 1983. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with silver spine lettering; bluish-gray dust jacket with bw illustration on front cover, 107 pp, profusely illustrated throughout in bw. "Jacques Henri Lartigue is without doubt one of the great photographers of all time... This volume of photographs shows the contemporary side..... More
The Picturesque Garden in France
Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1978. Hardcover. green cloth boards w/ gilt spine printing. 137 pgs w/ approx 44 unpaginated pgs of bw illustrations. Dora Wiebenson offers new insight into the picturesque garden as a general type and extends our knowledge of a significant but elusive art form.--Jacket. More
City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics
New York / Hanover: The Morgan Library & Museum / The University Press of New England, 2016. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, color frontispiece, 207 pp, profusely illustrated throughout in bw and color. "Rome, described by Byron as the City of the..... More
The Parthenon Frieze
Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Softcover. illustrated & burnt orange glossy wrappers w/ white printing. 294 pgs w/ bw illustratons. sealed CD to back cover pastedown. "The Parthenon frieze, one of Western civilization's major monuments, has been the subject of intense study for over two hundred years..... More