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Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art
de Staniszewski, Mary Anne
New York: Penguin Books, 1995. x, 308 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Why are the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes, and Marcel Duchamp's ready-made urinal all considered works of art? Why, strictly speaking, is a Cindy Sherman photograph more "art-like" than a Da Vinci portrait? How did the painters and sculptors of the Renaissance see their creations? And who decides what art is today? In the tradition of Marshall McLuhan and...
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Perception
de Rock, Irvin
New York: Scientific American Library; W. H. Freeman, 1984. Cloth, x, 243 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Stereopticon in pocket. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Out of the ever-changing stimuli that is projected onto our retinas, how do we fashion coherent images of the world, perceiving constancy in the shape, shading, size and...
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Illustration
de Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis)
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Cloth, 168 pages, 45 illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Positioning himself in the slippery divide between two highly charged critical approaches--deconstruction and cultural studies--J. Hillis Miller explains why the split occurred and offers, for the first time, an eloquent analysis of the goals and methods of cultural studies. Miller's Illustration is...
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American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the Twentieth Century
de Kammen, Michael G
New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1999. xxvii, 320 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially in the past century, and the shifting perceptions that have accompanied them. Professor Kammen...
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Artists and Writers
de Schwartz, Sanford
New York: Yarrow Press, 1990. xii, 322 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Miscellaneous essays and reviews on Alex Katz, William Barrett, Giorgio de Chirico, Heinrich von Kleist, Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Beuys, David Hockney, William Wegman, John F. Peto, John Updike, David Salle, Watteau, Cartavaggio, Glenn Gould, Stubbs, Gilbert & George, Sigmar Polke, Philip Taaffe, Eric Fischl, Viennese Actionists, Clement Greenberg, Van Gogh, Julian...
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The Art of Artificial Silk
de LINCOLN, Maxine
Nottingham: Courtaulds Ltd, 1925. First Edition. Enchanting catalogue of 1920's women's fashion and textiles for home furnishings and interiors. "Beautiful frocks, like pictures, need an appropriate frame to set off their loveliness, and Courtaulds, whose marvellous development of Artificial Silk has resulted in the existence of the beautiful materials I hve endeavoured to describe to you in this little book, have also brought their years of experience in the manufacture and perfecting of this...
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The Invisible Masterpiece
de Belting, Hans
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Cloth, 480 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. English translation by Helen Atkins. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The 'invisible masterpiece' is an unattainable ideal, a work of art into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. Using this metaphor borrowed from Balzac, Hans Belting explores the history of 'the masterpiece' and how its status and...
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Art and Technique in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
de Francastel, Pierre; Bois, Yve-Alain (Foreword by), and Cherry, Randall (Translated by)
New York: Zone Books, 2003. 331 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. First published, 1956. Translated from the French. Tight, clean copy. "Although the work of Pierre Francastel has long carried the label 'sociology of art,' it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. For too long, Francastel has been unavailable to English-language readers and hence known only through erroneous and second-hand characterizations. The translation of Art and Technology should open the way for...
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H. W. Janson and the Legacy of Modern Art at Washington University in St. Louis
de Eckmann, Sabine; Fratello, Bradley, and Speer, George V., and Janson, H. W. (Contributions by)
St. Louis, MO, and New York: Washington University Gallery of Art; Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 2002. Pictorial boards, 115 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, March 12 to April 6, 2002, and at Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, August 30 to December 6, 2002. A good reading copy with notes on the endpapers & a few light marks in the text. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special...
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Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings
de Stiles, Kristine, and Selz, Peter (Edited by)
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. xxii, 1,003 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Tight, clean copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "Ambitious and interdisciplinary, this long-awaited collaboration is a landmark presentation of the writings of contemporary artists. These influential essays, interviews, and critical and theoretical comments provide bold and fertile insights into the construction of visual knowledge. Featuring a wide range of leading and...
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The Artist in America
de The Editors of Art in America (Compiled by); Goodrich, Lloyd (Introduction by)
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc.; An Art in America Book, 1967. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, lightly rubbed, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: "What is American?," by Lloyd Goodrich; "Self-Portrait of the Artist," by Russell Lynes; "Origins of Native American Art," by Wayne Andrews and...
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Man from Babel
de Jolas, Eugene; Kramer, Andreas, and Rumold, Rainer (Edited by)
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. Cloth, xxxix, 326 pages, illustrations, map; 24 cm. Henry McBride series in modernism and modernity. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The autobiography of Eugene Jolas, available for the first time nearly half a century after his death in 1952, is the story of a man who, as the editor of the expatriate American literary magazine transition, was the first publisher of James Joyce's Finnegans...
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Del bello e del sublime,
de Martignoni, Ignazio (1757-1815)
Milano: Tipografia Mussi, 1810. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (23 cm); 142, [2] pages. Bound in nineteenth-century green straight-grain morocco, ruled in gilt on both boards within a surround of gilt-tooled scallop shells; spine highly decorated in gilt with delicate interlocking circles set off by Greek key horizontal borders. GIlt turn-ins; marbled endleaves. Binder's ticket of Lodigliani. All edges gilt. Spine faded to brown, not affecting gilding. Five globular water spots, some with satellites,...
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![Joseph Ishill & the Oriole Press. Translated from the French by Rose Freeman-Ishill. [With comments by Georg Brandes, Elie Faure, Havelock Ellis & Sophie Kropotkin. Frontispiece woodcut by Louis Moreau, pen and ink drawing by Cezanne]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/398/447/205447398.0.b.2.jpg)
Joseph Ishill & the Oriole Press. Translated from the French by Rose Freeman-Ishill. [With comments by Georg Brandes, Elie Faure, Havelock Ellis & Sophie Kropotkin. Frontispiece woodcut by Louis Moreau, pen and ink drawing by Cezanne]
de Mesnil, Jacques
Berkeley Heights, NJ: The Oriole Press, 1958. Pamphlet. 9p., wraps, letterpress frontis portrait, Cezanne vignette, 4.125 x 6.25 inches, first Oriole Press edition with original string binding; traces of edgewear else fine condition.
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Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: An Introduction
de Stecker, Robert
Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005. viii, 255 pages; 24 cm. Elements of Philosophy Series. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: Part I: Aesthetics; Environmental aesthetics: natural beauty; Conceptions of the aesthetic: aesthetic experience; Conceptions of the aesthetic: aesthetic properties; Philosophy of art; Part II: What is art?; What kind of object is a work of art?; Interpretation and the problem of the relevant intention; Representation: fiction and depiction; Expressiveness in...
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Kenneth Clark: A Biography
de Secrest, Meryle
New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1986. xvii, 310 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 23 cm. First published, 1984. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. A biography of the English art historian and tv presenter Kenneth Clark (1903-1983).. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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EUR 10.95
The State of the Art
de Danto, Arthur C
New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1987. x, 228 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Top right corners lightly bumped, age toning. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Another copy available.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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How to Read Contemporary Art
de Wilson, Michael
New York: Abrams, 2013. 395 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Todays artists create work thats challenging, complicated, and often perplexing, and this book offers a guide to understanding--and enjoying--the wide range of works on display in museums and galleries worldwide. How to Read Contemporary Art provides a thoughtful, accessible, and lavishly illustrated look at the ever-changing world of art at the beginning of the 21st century. Organized alphabetically, the...
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Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science
de Preziosi, Donald
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989. Cloth, xvi, 269 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "A general overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history. Refuting the image of art history as a discipline in crisis, Preziosi asserts that many of the dilemmas and contradictions of art history today are not new but can be traced back to problems surrounding the founding of the...
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Interieurs Rustiques
de CHARLES-BRUN
Paris: Charles Moreau, 1920. A series of illustrations of provincial interiors. Folio, loose plates in the original portfolio.
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Beyond Modern Art
de Gottlieb, Carla
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1976. xiii, 434 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Avant-garde (Aesthetics).. 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.
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EUR 7.14
The Subversive Imagination: The Artist, Society and Social Responsiblity
de Becker, Carol (Edited by)
New York and London: Routledge, 1994. xx, 256 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. "In The Subversive Imagination, professional writers, artists and cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors look beyond censorship and free speech issues and instead emphasize the subject of freedom. More specifically, the contributors question the ethical, mutual responsibilities...
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Dr. Panofsky & Mr. Tarkington: An Exchange of Letters, 1938-1946
de Panofsky, Erwin, and Tarkington, Booth; Ludwig, Richard M. (Edited by)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1974. xvii, 133 pages, [4] leaves of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. No DJ Issued [?].. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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EUR 18.56
The Undressed Art: Why We Draw
de Steinhart, Peter
New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2004. 259 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Combining the scientific, the historical, the anecdotal and the personal with marvelous ease, Steinhart asks some provocative questions: Why do drawings often speak to us more eloquently than paintings? What is the mind doing when we draw? Why is so much drawing of the face and of the nude figure? What is...
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Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul : Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
de Gilman, Sander L
Durham and London: Duke University Press. 1998. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. xii, 179 pages. A cultural history of the connections between beauty of the body and happiness of mind. Entertains an array of philosophical and psychological questions that underlie the more practical decisions made vy doctors and potential patients. Robust, professional...
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EUR 21.41
