Category: Art - General

THE FISHERMEN'S CHAPEL, SAINT BRELADE, JERSEY: ITS ARCHAEOLOGY, ARCHITECTURE, WALL PAINTINGS AND CONSERVATION.

By: Rodwell, Warwick. Sections/contributions by Ursula Fuhrer, Gottfried Hauff, Sven Mieth, Margaret Finlaison, Juliet Rogers.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Societe Jersiaise and The Rector and Churchwardens of Saint Brelade : 1990

Seller ID: 16662

ISBN-13: 9780901897190

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

171 pp, small 4to (10 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, plans, drawings (some fold-out), maps, reproductions, colour plates. "Externally, the Fishermen's Chapel is a plain, rectangular structure with no sign of ornamentation or suggestion of the glory that it holds within. But once inside, the visitor is confronted with an experience of unparalleled delight: the walls and the stone-vaulted ceiling are covered with Old and New Testament scenes, executed in bright colours. For more than six hundred years these medieval paintings have survived the ravages of time and man, and ...
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MONTAGNE PARADIS OU LE REVE ROMANTIQUE.

By: Samivel. Documentation et photographies S. Norande.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Paris, Arthaud : 1988

Seller ID: 21850

ISBN-13: 9782700307108

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

207 pp, square small 4to (10 1/16" H). Profusely illustrated in colour. FRENCH TEXT. Table: Introduction; Sublimes horreurs; Le Simplon ou la merveille des Alpes; L'Honorable voyage aux glacieres; Les Bonheurs du haut pays; La Galerie des amateurs; Les Enfances du fleuve; Adieux aux ames sensibles; Fioretti des demoiselles; Remerciements; Notes; Bibliographie; Notes biographiques; Table des illustrations. Minor soiling on bottom of textblock. Dust jacket has wrinkling and tiny tears (archivally taped) at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, minor rubbing, slight edge curling, one small tear wi...
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VOYAGE INTO MYTH: FRENCH PAINTING FROM GAUGUIN TO MATISSE FROM THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM, RUSSIA.

By: Silver, Kenneth E.; Parke-Taylor, Michael; Blondil, Nathalie; Kostenevich, Albert. Prefaces by Matthew Teitelbaum, Guy Cogeval, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Robert Kaszanits.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario : 2002

Seller ID: 20215

ISBN-13: 9781894243230

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good+

224 pp, 4to (11" H). Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. The catalogue of the exhibition. "This book demonstrates how two strains of influence - the resurgence of Classicsim and the impact of 'primitivism' on Western culture - provide links between Symbolism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and the birth of Modernism. Certain polarities generated by these two different strains - tradition versus innovation, Western versus non-Western culture, the timelessness of myth versus the experience of modern life - were driven by ideas that developed formalist parallels. This can be seen in the strugg...
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GLASGOW IN THE "FORTIES".

By: Simpson, William, R.I. Revised, with Notes and Biographical Sketch by A.H. Millar.

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: Glasgow, Morison Brothers : 1899

Seller ID: 30888

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

Unpaginated, 13 1/8" H x 10 1/2" D. Medium green cloth covered bevelled boards (spine faded to brown), with dark green lettering and gilt decoration on spine and front board, top edge gilt. Dark brown endpapers. From a limited edition of 500 copies, this one with "Review" written in place of a number and the initials "M.B." (Morison Brothers?). 48 b&w/mono plates, including 8 photogravures - all present. The photogravures have tissue-guards and are printed on a parchement-effect stock that has tanned lightly with some darkening at the very edges. The other plates are printed on the same coated...
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ASIAN ART. VOLUME II, NUMBER 4. FALL 1989.

By: Singh, Raghubir; Koloff, Max; Wescoat, James L., Jr.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. : 1989

Seller ID: 27140

ISBN: 0894234X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

79 pp, 11" H. Colour and b&w photographs, reproductions, maps. Contents: Photography and the Geographical Culture of India; An Interview with Raghubir Singh; A Certain Sweep: The India of Raghubir Singh; Portfolio (Raghubir Singh); Picturing an Early Mughal Garden. Interior - corner crease on page leaves 61/62 & 63/64 otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - soft crease on bottom half of rear cover - migrates into last few pages, small bump/scuff on bottom of book.
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LATVIESU PASTELIS / LATVIAN PASTEL PAINTING.

By: Smagre, Rita.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Liesma, Izdevnieciba : 1990

Seller ID: 21745

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Unpaginated, 4to (11 5/8" H) - hard cover in clear plastic dust jacket and publisher's plain cardboard slipcase. Profusely illustrated in colour. Trilingual section at rear (Latvian/Russian/English) giving Introduction, Biographies of Painters, List of Plates. Presents the work of Latvian artists, including: Janis Rozentals, Peteris Kalve, Peteris Krastins, Uga Skulme, Voldemars Irbe, Erna Geistaute, Fridrihs Milts, Aleksandra Belcova, Felicita Pauluka, Rita Valnere, Edvins Kalnenieks, Indulis Landaus, Valdis Licitis, Baiba Vegere, Irena Luse, Anita Kreituse, Boriss Berzins, et al. Dust jacke...
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PORTRAITS FOR A KING: THE BRITISH MILITARY PAINTINGS OF A-J DUBOIS DRAHONET (1791-1834).

By: Spencer-Smith, Jenny. (A-J Dubois Drahonet). Foreword by Ian G Robertson. Note by Keith Laing.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, National Army Museum : 1990

Seller ID: 19257

ISBN-13: 9780901721211

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

96 pp, 4to (11 11/16" H). Colour and b&w reproductions. "In 1831 the French society painter, Alexandre-Jean Dubois Drahonet, was commissioned by King William IV to paint a series of pictures illustrating recent changes in the uniforms and weapons on the British Army. This catalogue details the 92 pictures in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen, normally housed in the Private Apartments at Windsor Castle, with six other British military works by Drahonet seen together for the first time. Known on the Continent as a portrait painter to elegant society, Drahonet was unusual in taking portrait...
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BAROQUE SCULPTURE.

By: Stech, V.V. Translated by Roberta Finlayson Samsour.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Spring Books, London, nd.

Seller ID: 676

195 pp, large square 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour plates. "One of the most fascinating periods in European art history, the Baroque marks a triumphant break with the rules and restrictive for mulas of the Renaissance. Its genius was Bernini, whose sustained imaginative powers and incredible technical skill brought the Baroque style to its fullest maturity. In lesser hands, where the mastery of technique was not so assured and the cr e a t ive imagination not so well disciplined, the pitfalls are all too obvious. No style perhaps has ...
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THE SCULPTURE OF THE WEST. THE TEMPLE PRIMERS SERIES.

By: Stegmann, Hans, Dr. Translated by Marian Edwardes.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Dent : 1907

Seller ID: 3288

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

162 pp, 6" H - maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, embossed front board. B&w plates. Chapters: Greece; Roman Sculpture; The Christian Era to A.D.1000; The Early Middle Ages; The Later Middle Ages; The Italian Renaissance; Germany - Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century; France From the Close of the Fifteenth Century. Endpapers browning, light wear at top/bottom of spine/corners, darkening to edges of text block.
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EDWARD BURRA: TWENTIETH-CENTURY EYE

By: Stevenson, Jane

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape : 2007

Seller ID: 25910

ISBN-13: 9780224078757

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

496 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w plates. "The first full-scale biography of one of Britain's most important twentieth-century painters. Edward Burra never followed fashion: in the thirties, when modern art was dominated by abstraction and landscape, he painted people; in the sixites, when landscape was completely out of fashion, he started to find it interesting. His life was an unusual one: profoundly disabled, he lived with his parents, and was in constant pain. Only when he was painting could he forget his body. At the same time he was a man with a rich and full life. He was a lette...
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TRAVELING ACROSS NORTH AMERICA 1812-1813. WATERCOLORS BY THE RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT PAVEL SVININ.

By: Svinin, Pavel. Introduction by Evgenia Nikolaevna Petrova.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams : 1992

Seller ID: 13449

ISBN-13: 9780810938557

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

192 pp, oblong 16mo (6 3/4" H x 8 1/4" D), hard cover in dust jacket. "...a facsimile of a sketchbook filled with drawings and watercolors made by the Russian diplomat Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787-1839) durng a stay in America in 1811-13, the years he served in the Russian consulate in Philadelphia...Among the sites he recorded so deftly are Niagara Falls; George Washington's home, Mount Vernon; views of New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Richmond; and many other subjects, such as steam boats, Indians, sea, river, and townscapes, plantations and mountainous terrrain...Also included are ...
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ASIAN ART. VOLUME III, NUMBER I. WINTER 1990.

By: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro; Cort, Louise Allison; Stinchecum, Amanda Mayer.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. : 1990

Seller ID: 27141

ISBN: 0894234X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

64 pp, 11" H. Colour and b&w photographs, reproductions, map. Contents: In Praise of Shadows; Map of Japan; Japanese Ceramics and Cuisine; A Common Thread: Japanese Ikat Textiles; Glossary and Chronology. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very small bump at bottom corner of rear cover - migrates into last few pages, very light rubbing on rear cover.
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COLLECTIONS DES MUSEES D'ETAT DU QUEBEC.

By: Tremblay, Jean-Noel, Preface de.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, Gouvernement du Quebec : 1967

Seller ID: 30004

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

13" H, beige cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, gilt fleur de lis on front board. Pictorial endpapers. Unpaginated - short preface in French only, followed by two page introduction in French, repeated in English. 108 illustrations - b&w plates and tipped in colour illustrations on heavier stock, followed by 10 page catalogue of artists. Page 1 coloured plate has a series of very small areas of colour loss along top edge with colour offset on adjacent page, light colour fading and light browning at edges of boards, area of light colour loss and some faint foxing marks on rea...
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AMERICANS IN PARIS (1921-1931). MAN RAY, GERALD MURPHY, STUART DAVIS, ALEXANDER CALDER.

By: Turner, Elizabeth Hutton. With essays by Elizabeth Garrity Ellis, Guy Davenport.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Counterpoint / Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1996.

Seller ID: 14788

171 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Paris welcomed Gerald Murphy, whose billboard-sized cubist icon dominated the 1924 Salon des Independants and launched a brief but brilliant career; Stuart Davis, who explored the continuity between cubist painting, lithography, and jazz at the atelier Desjobert,; Man Ray, who abandoned oils to begin 'painting with light' in his movies and rayographs; and Alexander Calder, whose wire circuses and portraits inspired critics to acknowledge art's inherent playfulness. (This book) documents the work an...
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MYTHOLOGIES: THE SCULPTURE OF HELAINE BLUMENFELD.

By: Upson, Nicola. (Helaine Blumenfeld.)

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Woodstock, New York, Elephant's Eye / Overlook Press : 1998

Seller ID: 16787

ISBN-13: 9780879518806

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

160 pp, 4to (12" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs. "(T)he first comprehensive exploration of Blumenfeld's work, (this book) forms a uniquely detailed study of her development. Dividing her sculpture into eight themed chapters, it concentrates on the major ideas and technical concerns that have preoccupied the artist from the beginning: Two Sides of a Woman; Creation; Metamorphosis; Options; Shadow Figures; Dreams; Souls; and, finally, Mythology. Early and recent works are illustrated side by side, highlighting the aesthetic and conceptual growth which has earned her r...
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ZORAN MUSIC. QUADERNI DELLA SOPRINTENDENZA AI BENI ARTISTICI E STORICI DE VENEZIA 10.

By: Valcanover, Francesco (presentazione). Jean Clair.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Venezia, Luglio, Stamperia di Venezia : 1980

Seller ID: 27877

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

79 pp, 9 7/16" (24 cm) H. Colour and b&w reproductions of the work of the Slovenian-born artist, (Anton) Zoran Music (1909-2005). ***Italian text only.*** Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - spine very slightly twisted, small indentation on front hinge, 5 line ink notation at top of rear cover.
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LA FERRONNERIE. REPERTOIRE DE L'ARCHITECTURE MODERN.

By: Virette, Jean, introduction.

Price: $375.00 USD

Publisher: Paris, Editions S. de Bonadona / Librairie Nouvelle de l'Architecture et des Beaux-Arts : 1930

Seller ID: 29752

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

12 3/4" H. Portfolio with grey boards, red cloth spine, black lettering and red banding on front board, cloth ribbon ties (faded from red?). French text only. Includes four-page introductory pamphlet (title page, copyright page, one page Introduction by Jean Virette and Table des Planches) and 56 b&w photographic plates on heavy stock (collated) showing decorative ironwork of the Art Deco era. Staircases, doors, radiator grills, balconies, light fixtures, etc. by Bagues, Bergue, Societe Centrale de Constructions et de Materiaux, Edgar Brandt, Szabo, Paul Kiss, Manchelle et Peltier, Piguet, ...
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Image for NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA, OTTAWA, BULLETIN 26/1975. A POLENBURGH IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA / THE MONUMENTAL STYLE OF FONTAINEBLEAU AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: ANTOINE CARON AND "THE SUBMISSION OF MILAN" / "CHRIST WITH SAINTS ALEXANDRA AND AGATH

NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA, OTTAWA, BULLETIN 26/1975. A POLENBURGH IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA / THE MONUMENTAL STYLE OF FONTAINEBLEAU AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: ANTOINE CARON AND "THE SUBMISSION OF MILAN" / "CHRIST WITH SAINTS ALEXANDRA AND AGATH

By: Waddingham, Malcolm; Johnson, W. McAllister; Galvaris, George.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1975.

Seller ID: 20604

40 pp, 10" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w illustrations. Contents: A Polenburgh in the National Gallery of Canada; The Monumental Style of Fontainebleau and its Consequences: Antoine Caron and "The Submission of Milan"; "Christ and Saints Alexander and Agatha": A Russian Icon in the National Gallery of Canada. The main text is in English with 'Resumes' in French, captions in English and French. Small gallery shop label on inside of front cover, light to moderate soiling, large corn er crease on rear cover, minor edge wear. Good+
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THEATRE D'AMOUR: COMPLETE REPRINT OF THE COLOURED "EMBLEMATA AMATORIA" OF 1620.

By: Warncke, Carsten-Peter, essay and texts.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Koln, Taschen : 2004

Seller ID: 31052

ISBN-13: 9783822835722

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

352 pp, 10 1/4" H, integral ribbon bookmark, reproduction marbled endpapers. "The album with the reavling title 'Theatre of Love' or 'Jestings on Love' brings together 143 magnificent copperplate engravings - from elaborately conceived love emblems and allegories to illustrations of proverbs, the Muses and the Virtues and Vices. The pictures, all of them devoted to the theme of love, are accompanied by explanatory lines of verse. The album was compiled around 1620 by an unknown collector, who probably presented it to his beloved as a token of his romantic affection. The engravings themselves ...
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A DIAL MISCELLANY.

By: Wasserstrom, William, edited and with introduction by.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press : 1963

Seller ID: 12569

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

372 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H). B&w plates. "This Anthology is tangible evidence that 'The Dial' printed more original and influential work than any other journal in America or England. Here are many of (its) now-famous contributors, not always as we know them best. Included are letters from 'The Dial's' international correspondents: Thomas Mann (Germany), T.S. Eliot (London), Ezra Pound (Paris), Jose Ortega y Gasset (Spain). D.H. Lawrence writes a book review, William Carlos Williams discusses Marianne Moore, Gilbert Seldes reviews 'The Great Gatsby', and Paul Claudel gives us 'A Glance at th...
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Category: Art - General