New York and London: Abrams, 2009. Hardcover. Gray boards with lighter gray lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 223 pp. Mainly color illustrations. In this fascinating juxtaposition of science and art history, ophthalmologists Michael Marmor and James Ravin examine the role of vision and eye disease in art. They...
London: Reaktion Books, 1992. Paperback. Black and color-illustrated wraps with white lettering. 208 pp. BW and some color illustrations. "Since his death in April 12 Francis Bacon has been acclaimed as one of the very greatest of modern painters. Yet most analyses of Bacon actually neutralize his work by discussing...
Nuremberg, Germany: Verlag W. Tummels, 2000. Hardcover. Gray boards with black lettering. Black and color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 478 pp. BW and color illustrations. Catalog of the exhibition held at Stadtmuseum Fembohaus Nürnberg, July 23-Sept. 17, 2000. Text in German.
New York: Newsweek, 1971. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt design and lettering. Decorated endpapers. Black illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 172 pp. Filled with BW and color plates. Part of the series Wonders of Man. Includes sections on the Notre Dame in history and in literature.
New York: Vendome Press, 2008. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with stamped spine lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. 271 pp. Mainly color illustrations. "American painter, sculptor, and print maker Donald Sultan rose to prominence in the electrified atmosphere of New York's downtown art renaissance in the late 1970S and...
Zurich: Santiago Calatrava Valls, 2000. Hardcover. Illustrated boards with white and cream lettering. 131 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Includes drawing list and artist biography.
Tuscon: Nazraeli Press, 2001. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with stamped lettering. BW-photographic dust jacket with black and white lettering. 203 pp. Illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from June 10 to September 23, 2001 at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Geneva: Skira Rizzoli, 1981. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with white stamped lettering. Illustrated dust jacket with brown lettering. 278 pp. 86 color and 252 BW illustrations. "The origins of printmaking in Western Europe go back to the fifteenth century. The earliest were woodcuts, probably made in Upper Bavaria and Austria;...
London: New Cavendish Books, 1992. Hardcover.
1955. Softcover. White stiff wraps enclosed in a red velvet-covered slipcase. 153 pp. appx. 117 bw repros. Includes sections devoted to Cecilia Beaux, G.C. Bingham, T.P Anshutz, T. Birch, A.S. Calder, A.B. Carles, M. Cassatt, W.M. Chase, C. Demuth, T. Eakins, W.J. Glackens, C. Grafly, W. Harnett, R. Henri, G......
Santa Fe: Radius Books, 2011. Hardcover. Gray boards, white and BW-photographic dust jacket with black and gray lettering. 129 pp. Illustrations. In 1950s America there were neither likely nor logical paths for a photographer. Family man, optician, photographer and avid reader, Ralph Eugene Meatyard found himself in the midst of...
Yale University Press, 1996. Hardbound. Red cloth in color illustrated dustjackets. Volume 1: Text: xxiii, 234 pp. Volume 2: Plates: xxv pp, 250 color, 837 bw 'plates' (perhaps an average of two to a page). A beautiful set, virtually new. John Constable, one of the most beloved of British painters...
Lebanon, PA: Esperanza Pub. Co., 1883. New ed., with ill. and additions. Paperback. Sewn, salmon wraps with bw line ingraved illustration. 39 pp., appx. 38 illustrated pages. "More for good than glitter series No. 1." Quite scarce. worldcat locates 1 copy. Solid a clean except for noted faults.
Ferrara: Ferrara Arte, 2008. Hardcover. Color-illustrated boards with blue lettering. 255 pp. Color illustrations. Text in Italian. Catalogue of an exhibition from November 16, 2008 to February 22, 2009.
Los Angeles: Dilettante Press, 1998. Paperback. Black and color-illustrated wraps with red, gray, and white lettering. 191 pp. 160 color and 40 duotone illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the American Visionary Art Museum.
Boston: MFA Publications / Brooklyn Museum, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Stamped slate gray cloth, light green & color illus. dust jacket, 247 pp., 175 color illus. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2013-2014 exhibitions of watercolor paintings rendered by American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Illustrated essays address his...
New York: George Braziller, 1965. Hardcover. Persian Blue cloth over boards; gilt lettering. Color-illus. dj with blue lettering on white spine. 288 pp. 404 illus. with 33 in color. When published, this was the first work to present "all the riches of Persian architecture in a single volume." It follows...
New York: Thames and Hudson, Inc, 1996. Hardcover. Black cloth, grey ill. DJ. 272 pp. 100 bw plates and 344 color plates. Our good friends at Ursus Books have described this volume as such: "This volume is a catalogue raisonne of the years 1909-1941, the period when Lipchitz lived and...
Antique Collectors' Club, 1990. Hardbound. Olive cloth with white, color-illustrated dustjacket. Top edge gilt. 500 pp., 937 color and bw plates. Wow, what a well-illustrated reference! You'll really enjoy leafing through this or reading it from cover-to-cover.
NY: Frederick Keppel & Co., 1905. Softcover. Tiny, blue wraps. 54 pp. 19 BW plates.
Hardcover. Original printed and glued wraps 131 pp. 34 collotype plates (2 in color monochrome), with additional color plate mounted on cover. This catalogue includes only the portraits described by William S. Baker in his work on the engraved portraits of Washington. The repros have red lines printed through them...
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. Hardcover. Off-white cloth. 62 pp. 13 color plates, installation view, several bw ills. Beautiful exhibition catalogue that includes large color plates of Twombly's paintings. Essays by Kirk Varnadoe and Richard Howard. Published to accompany the exhibition held in New York, NY: Gagosian Gallery, January 19...
Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, 1985. Softcover. Blue wraps. 288 pp. 192 bw plates. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Chicago, IL: Art Institute of Chicago, May 10 to July 14, 1985, two other dates. Contents as follows: Andre Kertesz: the years in Paris / Sandra S. Phillips...
Tokyo, Japan: National Museum of Modern Art, 1991. Softcover. White wraps. 332 pp. 70+ color & bw plates. Includes foreword, catalogue of 70+ works, biography, bibliography, and 3 essays: by Koji Takahashi, "Introduction: Forming Space-An Attempt to Trace the Development of Motifs in the Works of Shusaku Arakawa"; by Charles...
NY: American Federation of Arts, 1980. Softcover. Blue wraps. 248 pp. 14 color, 321 bw plates. Essay "Collaboration as Self-transcendence" and 12 interviews by Stephanie Terenzio, catalogue raisonne (234 works) by Dorothy C. Belknap, appendix of 28 additional works, chronology and exhibitions, and bibliography. A large volume.
