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HARLEQUIN ON THE MOON: COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE AND THE VISUAL ARTS.

By: Lawner, Lynne.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams: 1998

Seller ID: 25561

ISBN: 0810911949

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

208 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. "Commedia dell'arte is the first modern theater - inspiration to Shakespeare, Moliere, Goldoni, Mozart, and Balanchine and forerunner of the modern stage comedy. Since its invention as a popular entertainment in Renaissance Italy, commedia, with its stock characters, its absurd and witty plots, and its utterly charming personalities, has captivated audiences high and low, from the street fairs where Punch and Judy reigned to the exquisitely refined court of the Sun King. This book traces the history of commedia from its...
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BAROQUE IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL AND ITS ANTECEDENTS.

By: Lees-Milne, James.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford: 1960

Seller ID: 24781

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

224 pp, large 8vo (9" H). B&w photographs, reproductions, floor plans/elevations. "(S)tarting in the sixteenth century, author and reader begin their survey of Iberian Baroque with the Plateresque in Spain and the Manoeline in Portugal, and continue it until, two hundred or so years later, they reach the High Baroque conclusion of Castile, Seville and Granada, and the Rococo decadence of eighteenth-century Portugal. On the way they will have examined some architectural and sculptural masterpieces of astonishing quality and individuality: the palaces or houses of Mafra, Queluz and La G...
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BAROQUE IN ITALY.

By: Lees-Milne, James.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford: 1959

Seller ID: 24780

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

216 pp, large 8vo (9" H). B&w photographs, reproductions, floor plans. "(Lees-Milne writes about) the development of building in Italy from the Mannerist period, that is, the later sixteenth century, to the emergence of Rococo in the early eighteenth century. (He) believes that Baroque in Italy was a religious manifestation, Latin, Catholic and primarily Roman and his book deals largely with ecclesiastical architecture in Rome itself. Piedmont was the next most important influence in the style, and so, after introducting the colossal personalities of Bernini, Borromini and their disci...
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DESMOND MORRIS: 50 YEARS OF SURREALISM.

By: Levy, Silvano.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins, (London, 1997), Ist edition.:

Seller ID: 23447

224 pp, 4to, hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0712672982 Illustrated in color. "(T)races the principal themes in (Morris's) paintings and discusses their significance within the context of Surrealism, the movement with which Morris has identified for over fifty years." Very light edge at corners and top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wear. Very Good+/Very Good+
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WHAT HAVE THE GREEKS DONE FOR MODERN CIVILISATION? THE LOWELL LECTURES OF 1908-09.

By: Mahaffy, John Pentland.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, NEw York, 1910, 2nd printing.:

Seller ID: 18155

263 pp + ads, 8vo (8 7/8" H), hard cover (maroon cloth with gold lettering/banding on spine) - no dust jacket. Top edge gilt. Contents: Preface; Introductory; Greek Poetry; Greek Prose; Greek Art - I: Architecture and Sculpture; Greek Art - II: Pa inting and Music; Science: Grammar - Logic - Mathematics - Medicine; Politics - Sociology - Law; Higher Thinking, Philosophy, Speculative and Practical Theology. A few pages with light wrinkle, light browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block, light edge wear, light wrinkling to top/bottom of spine, one slight corner bump, a few very faint...
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DREAMQUESTS: THE ART OF DON MAITZ.

By: Maitz, Don, foreword. Introduction by Raymond E. Feist. Afterword by Janny Wurts.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Novato, California, Underwood-Miller: 1993

Seller ID: 21894

ISBN: 0887331750

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

98 pp, 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated in color. "Since his professinal debut nearly 20 years ago, artist Don Maitz has been giving form to the fantastic in a way that has won him widespread recognition by both his professional peers and an enthusiastic public. Following up on the success of 'First Maitz', this volume is a lavishly produced collection of some of Maitz's most popular works, as well as some never-before-published paintings. Exhibiting a fanatical attention to detail, the paintings apply surrealist technique to surreal situations. Maitz likes to mix modern imagery w...
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PAUL MANSHIP.

By: Manship, John.

Price: $195.00 USD

Publisher: Abbeville, New York, 1989, first edition.:

Seller ID: 21776

216 pp, folio (13 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1558590021 Beautifully illustrated in color and b&w. "From his sexy little bronze nymphs to his soaring golden 'Prometheus' at Rockefeller Center, the sculptures of Paul Manship have begu iled the public through much of this century. This dazzling monograph - as elegantly sophisticated as the artist's own oeuvre - celebrates the life's work of America's master of Art Deco.....As close to a jet setter as one could be in an e r a o f o c e an travel, Manship spent much of the early 1920s in Paris, where he was one of two Am...
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BERNINI.

By: Martinelli, Valentino, a cura di.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Italy, 1953.:

Seller ID: 20577

Condition: Very Good -

186 pp, 12mo (7 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in b&w and color with photographs, reproductions. ITALIAN TEXT ONLY. Biblioteca Modern Mondadori CCCLII. "Il nome di Gian Lorezo Bernini chiama subito alla mente una ser ie di opere famose: sculture, monumenti e complessi architettonici che hanno dato a Roma nel Seicento un aspetto fastoso, aulico, barocco. Bernini e infatti uno dei creatori dello stile barocco, l'inventore d'una nuova visione delle arti f i g u r a t i v e , in cui pittura, scultura, architettura, rompendo le leggi armoniose della tradizi...
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IL MANIFESTO ITALIANO.

By: Menegazzi, Luigi.

Price: $175.00 USD

Publisher: Milano, Electa: 1995

Seller ID: 21306

ISBN: 8843552414

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

285 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket and slipcase. Colour reproductions. **ITALIAN TEXT ONLY.** Looks at the incredible Italian advertising art of the end of the 19th and first few decades of the 20th centuries. Sommario: Premessa; Origine della grafica cartellonistica; Il manifesto storico italiano; Dagli anni Trenta alla caduta del fascismo; Manifesti italiani; Apparati; Notizie biografiche; Bibliografia. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling, very minor rubbing. Slipcase has light rubbing to glossy surfaces, very light wear on bottom surface.
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THE COLOUR OF PARIS. HISTORIC, PERSONAL & LOCAL.

By: Messieurs les Academiciens Goncourt. M. Lucien Descaves, editor. Introduction by M.L. Benedite. Essay by Yoshio Markino.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Musson:

Seller ID: 30537

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

264 pp, 9 1/2" H. No date, but c1908. Medium brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board, black illustration on front board, top edge gilt. Preface in French, all other text in English. 48 colour plates (including tissue-covered frontispiece) plus 12 sepia drawings - all present. Chapter headings: Of the Colour of Paris; Of Open Spaces; Of the Faubourgs: The Working Class; Of Politics and the Political World; Of the Theatre; Of Women in Paris; Of Journalism; Of Military Paris; Of Paris Finance; Of Education and the Paris Schools; Index. Small light mark from old label? and ...
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MIRO: SELECTED PAINTINGS.

By: Millard, Charles W. Foreword by Abram Lerner. (Miro)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington, D.C., 1980.:

Seller ID: 23053

94 pp, small 4to (10 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0874746388 Colour and b&w reproductions. The catalogue of the exhibition. "Referring primarily to works from American collections, Charles Millard comments critically on the nature a nd evolution of Miro's style, showing his indebtedness to the early medieval frescoes of his native Catalonia, as well as the work of Van Gogh, Cezanne, the Cubists and Matisse. The eventual assimilation of these influences freed him to pur s u e h i s own path. Forty-five large colour reproductions in addition to sixteen in black and w...
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ARTIST AND BOTANIST: THE LIFE & WORK OF ESMOND ATKINSON.

By: Moore, John L., ed.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, N.Z., nd.:

Seller ID: 176

96 pp., lg 8vo., HC Tribute to the work of a notable New Zealander. Illustrated with 16 col. plates, halftone plates & botanical drawings. Small area of fading at top of spine and light corner wear. Dj has several closed tears up to 1 1/2", smal l chips/holes, light soiling and scuffs. VG/G+
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ART DIRECTOR'S INDEX TO PHOTOGRAPHERS 7. VOLUME 1. EUROPE. (I)

By: N/A

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Geneva, RotoVision: 1980

Seller ID: 20071

ISBN: 2880460182

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

398 pp, 4to (12 1/2" H). Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. "As the world of the photograph increases and spreads so must the authoritative book. This volume of European photography contains the work of some 260 top professional photographers throughout the continent and is printed by Roto-Sadag in Geneva, Switzerland, to the high standards demanded by the quality of their work." Trilingual text (English/French/German). Countries covered: Austria, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Slight wa...
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ARMENIAN ART TREASURES OF JERUSALEM.

By: Narkiss, Bezalel, editor, in collaboration with Michael E. Stone. Historical survey by Avedis K. Sanjian.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: New Rochelle, New York, Caratzas Brothers: 1979

Seller ID: 19016

ISBN: 0892410957

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

174 pp, folio (13 1/8" H). Map endpapers, color and b&w photographs. "(U)nveils a dazzling variety of art objects - sumptuous medieval illuminated manuscripts, printed books, mosaic pavements, painted tiles and ritual objects. The book contains 194 illustrations, of which 131 are in color. A full description of the Armenian art treasures of Jerusalem and their background has been written by Professor Bezalel Narkiss, head of the Department of Art at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His collaborator, Professor Michael E. Stone, of the Department of Armenian Studies of the same Univer...
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THE FEMALE NUDE: ART, OBSCENITY AND SEXUALITY.

By: Nead, Lynda.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: London, Routledge: 1994

Seller ID: 23221

ISBN: 0415026784

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

133 pp, 9 3/16" H. B&w illustrations. "(B)rings together, in an entirely new way, analysis of the historical tradition of the female nude and discussion of recent feminist art, and by exploring the ways in which acceptable and unacceptable images of the female body are produced and maintained renews recent debate on high culture and pornography. It represents the first feminist survey of the most significant subject in western art, revealing how the female nude is now both at the centre and at the margins of high culture. At the centre, and within art historical discourse, the female ...
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PICASSO ET SES AMIS.

By: Olivier, Fernande. Preface de Paul Leautaud.

Price: $350.00 USD

Publisher: Paris, Libraire Stock: 1954

Seller ID: 30229

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good+

237 pp, 7 3/8" H. 16 b&w illustrations (including 2 page reproduction of letter by Picasso). Bound in full salmon pink leather by A. & R. Maylander, with gilt lettering/date on spine, all edges gilt. Leather, moire (watered) silk and gilt doublures (stamped A. & R. Maylander in gilt on front doublure), moire silk free endpapers, gold ribbon bookmark - over original paper wraps. Pink paper-covered slipcase with matching leather fore edges (also stamped by binder in gilt), white felt lining. *French text.* Reprint of the 1933 first edition. Light browning on spine, previous owner's chop...
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THE ART OF WILLIAM S. PHILLIPS: THE GLORY OF FLIGHT.

By: Park, Edwards. Introduction by Stephen Coonts.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Shelton, Connecticut, Greenwich Workshop: 1994

Seller ID: 22239

ISBN: 0867130229

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

172 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H). Profusely and beautifully illustrated in color and b&w with reproductions of the artist's work. "William S. Phillips is a triple threat in the aviation art world. Not only is he a painter who can portray aircraft with exemplary precision, but he can also place that aircraft in a panorama that rivals the work of the finest landscape artist. To top it all off, he is a master of in-flight action; his detail-ed, soaring work communicates the glory of flight. From the thrill of lift-off, the speed of low-level flying, the power of high level bombing, and the dang...
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GRAPHIS DESIGN 98. THE INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL OF DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION.

By: Pedersen, B. Martin, creative director. Graphis.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Graphis, (New York, 1997).:

Seller ID: 7110

248 pp, 4to, HC in dust jacket. More than 600 full-color images. "...the international showcase or the best work produced in all areas of contemporary graphic design. More than six hundred full-color examples of creative excellence and innovation in graphic design are featured here. The best of international design is categories ranging from annual reports, corporate identity and brochures, to products, promotions and packaging design fill these pages. Insightful commentary b y a r e n o w n d esign historian and case studies of the works of twelve leading design firms are also pr...
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DUNCAN PHILLIPS CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. JUNE 14 TO AUGUST 31, 1986.

By: Phillips, Laughlin, foreword. Introduction by Eliza E. Rathbone. (Law B. Watkins, Erika Pasantino, Sarah Martin.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1986, second edition.:

Seller ID: 20593

48 pp, 11" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Illustrated in b&w and color with photographs, reproductions. The catalog of the exhibition. Contents: Foreword; An Introduction to the Exhibition; Duncan Phillips and Color; Chronology; Major Gifts of Duncan Phillips to Other Institutions. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light wear on spine. Very Good+
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DEAR M: LETTERS FROM A GENTLEMAN OF EXCESS.

By: Pollock, Jack.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1989

Seller ID: 28948

ISBN: 0771070276

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

308 pp, 9 1/4" H. "Until 1983 Jack Pollock (please note - NOT Jackson Pollock the American artist) was the owner of The Pollock Gallery in Toronto, where he exhibited new Canadian artists. Then, abruptly, he lost both his business and his health. Twenty years of a flamboyant lifestyle had led to drug addiction, open-heart surgery, bankruptcy, and to a profound spiritual and psychological malaise. A broken man, he retreated to the south of France, expecting to die. He didn't die. Instead, he began to come to terms with himself and his life, in part by confiding his deepest feelings in ...
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Category: Art - General