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New York: Westview Press; HarperCollinsPublishers, 1984. 284 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. IN-138. Originally published: Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1923. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiration for those to whom the happiness to be found through all the arts is important.No other American painter attracted such a large, intensely personal group of followers as Henri, whose death in 1929 brought to an end a life that has been completely devoted to art. He was an inspired artist and teacher who believed that everyone is vitally concerned in the happiness and wisdom to be found through the arts. Many of his paintings have been acquired by museums and private collectors. Among them are the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National… Leer más

New York: Westview Press; HarperCollinsPublishers, 1984. 284 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. IN-138. Originally published: Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1923. Good+. Tight, clean copy. One leaf dogeared, browning. Another copy available. "In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiration for those to whom the happiness to be found through all the arts is important.No other American painter attracted such a large, intensely personal group of followers as Henri, whose death in 1929 brought to an end a life that has been completely devoted to art. He was an inspired artist and teacher who believed that everyone is vitally concerned in the happiness and wisdom to be found through the arts. Many of his paintings have been acquired by museums and private collectors. Among them are the Baltimore Museum of Art,… Leer más

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers; Icon Editions, 1976. xv, 265 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Originated as 7 lectures delivered at Cooper Union in March and April of 1974. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear, age toning. CONTENTS: I: Introduction: dimensions of cause; 1. On overdetermination; 2. Minds in history; 3. From id to ego; II: Manet: the primacy of culture; 1. An obsession with sincerity; 2. The cutting edge of wit; 3. A stroller in Paris; III: Gropius: the imperatives of craft; 1. The cathedral of the present; 2. On individuality and collaboration; 3. The informed intuition; IV: Mondrian: the claims of privacy; 1. In solitary company; 2. The assault on nature; 3. Shapes of reticence.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Cloth, 160 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Profusely illustrated with scenes of London by English artists, from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. An attractive copy.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Munich and Florence: Galleria del Levante; Centro Di, 1968. 1 volume, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Text in German and Italian. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Galleria del Levante, Munich, from September 1968. Good+. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. Light foxing/endpapers. On the New Objectivity in Weimar Germany. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York and Milan: McCall Publishing Company; Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1970. Pictorial boards, 91 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards, mild staining/paste-down endpapers (inside covers) & facing flyleaves, else fine. No owner's marks. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Noortman & Brod Ltd., 1982. [50] pages, [50] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Exhibition held 4 November 1982 to 8 January 1983. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Beverly Hills, CA: Galerie Michael, 1989. 24 pages, color illustrations; 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Includes: Jacque, Rousseau, Diaz de la Pena, Harpignies, Lhermitte, Veyrassat, Dupre, Breton, Raffaelli Petitjean, Ziem. A wonderful, gritty portrait of The Vagabond Chimneysweep (1879) by Jean-Francois Raffaelli is the most striking work in the show.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Santa Barbara, CA: Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Westmont College, 2016. Cloth, 159 pages, colour illustrations; 26 x 34 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A lavish production. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Santa Barbara-based philanthropist Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree was a notable collector of French landscape paintings by Corot and members of the Barbizon school.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Oblong. Collectible.

Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, 1983. 111 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Text in French/Texte en francais. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Galeries contemporaines, Musee national d'art moderne, 8 June to 3 October, 1983. TRES BON ETAT. Legerement use. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York and Milan: McCall Publishing Company; Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1970. Pictorial cloth boards, 91 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, light edgewear to boards. Mild staining/paste-down endpapers (inside covers) & facing flyleaves, else fine. No owner's marks. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xiii, 183 pages, [88] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. The Art of Realism begins with a highly original investigation of the artists studio practices. In subsequent chapters, Varriano discusses Caravaggio's response to the material culture of his day, his use of gesture and expression, and his eroticism and violence as well as other issues central to the painter's legendary realism. Caravaggio: The Art of Realism will appeal to students and the general reader as well as to specialists in the field. Varriano has a gift for presenting complex scholarship in a clear, accessible way. The book contains numerous color illustrations that will help readers experience Caravaggio's art and follow the author's informative discussion of such famed paintings as Love Victorious and David with the Head of Goliath." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Biographical conspectus; Myths of the… Leer más

Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine River Museum, 1980. 64 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Printed by Consolidated/Drake Press, Philadelphia. Exhibition held at the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, January 12 through March 9, 1980. Firm binding, clean text. Oversize wrappers with light handling-storage soil. Previous owner's signature/front flap, otherwise unmarked. Amanda K. Berls and Ruth A. Yerion are collectors of American 19th- and 20th-century painting, particularly in the Realist vein. Everything from trompe l'oeil still-life paintings of Harnett & Peto to Andrew Wyeth's illustrational realism. Includes an Appreciation by Stuart P. Feld, Director of Hirschl & Adler Galleries.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Boston and Philadelphia: New York Graphic Society in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1981. Cloth, 255 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Published in connection with the exhibition opening at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, September 18, 1981. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Stated First edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Contemporary American Realism: a contemporary definition; Portraits, nudes and the figure outdoors; Narrative painting: its purpose is to edify; The new landscape: rural and urban America; Still life: objects that delight the eye; The realist alternative in American sculpture.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Boston and Philadelphia: New York Graphic Society in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1981. Cloth, 255 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Published in connection with the exhibition opening at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, September 18, 1981. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Contemporary American Realism: a contemporary definition; Portraits, nudes and the figure outdoors; Narrative painting: its purpose is to edify; The new landscape: rural and urban America; Still life: objects that delight the eye; The realist alternative in American sculpture.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Boston and Philadelphia: New York Graphic Society in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1981. Cloth, 255 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Published in connection with the exhibition opening at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, September 18, 1981. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Library marks/tail edge. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Compulsory reading for anyone interested in Realist and Photo-Realist painting and sculpture of the 1970s. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1978. Cloth, 93, [2] pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Price-clipped dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1930. 42 pages, 87 pages of plates, illustrations portraits; 26 cm. Addenda/Errata slip laid-in. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, October 16 to November 23, 1930. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light handling soil/wraps. One page has a short tear/foreedge, taped. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Vintage MoMA catalogue.. Paperback. Good. 4to.

London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1997. 351 pages, illustrations (some colour), map; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: Introduction: Realist and Visionary; 1. The Desperate Man: Identity Crisis in Bohemian Paris; 2. Gutter Art: The Stonebreakers and Political Upheaval; 3. Down-to-Earth Death: Realism Defined by A Burial at Ornans; 4. Mirrors of the People: Realist Series and Meeting Independence; 5. Autobiography and Social Vision: World Prophecy from the Studio; 6. Realism as Language and Attitude: A Manifesto and its Contexts; 7. Manhood and Women: Models and Mistresses, Prostitutes and Wives; 8. Truth to Nature and to Home: The Outdoors and its Consumers; 9. Courbet Non Grata: The Vendome Column, Prison and Exile; 10. The Example of Courbet: Courbetism's Legacy and the Avant-Garde. . 1st.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Viking Press; Art in Context Ser., 1973. Cloth, 98 pages, 1 folded leaf, illustrations (including 1 colour), portraits; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. The artist's studio in art. An in-depth analysis of Courbet's famous painting. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.