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DAVIES, DIANA [ED.]: Harrap's Illustrated Dictionary of Art and Artists
Book Number: 49168
Chambers October 25, 1990 8vo hardcover 512pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. In over 3000 entries, the dictionary provides definitions of the specialist terms, techniques and classifications used in the art world, as well as information on painters, sculptors, movements, major works of art and influential figures. Also substantial entries on the artistic contributions of past civilizations and non-Western cultures. Over 200 Illustrations.
Keywords: Harrap's Illustrated Dictionary of Art and Artists DAVIES DIANA [ED ]
Price: $22.00 |
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Speed, Harold: Oil Painting Techniques and Materials
Book Number: 49180
Dover Publications December 1, 1987 8vo softcover 352pp very good. Illustrated. Stimulating, informative guide by noted teacher covers painting technique, painting from life, materials (paints, varnishes, oils and mediums, grounds, etc.), a painter's training, more. Expert analysis of work of Velasquez, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Hals, Rembrandt, etc. 64 photos. 5 line drawings.
Keywords: art tutorial painting harold speed art history figure painting criticism animation dvd representational art Oil Painting Techniques and Materials Speed Harold
Price: $18.00 |
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Sugimura, Yuzo - Selected by, English Adaption Burton Watson: Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes and Jades in Japanese Collections
Book Number: 49194
East West Center Press, Honolulu 1966 4to. Hardcover in d/w with slight shelf wear, copy clean and new looking. Colour tipped in frontispiece and 152 mostly full pages of plates. Introduction and Commentaries on the plates giving the history and background on the various figures.
Keywords: Tomb Sculpture, Buhhhist Figures in Bronze and Stone, Bronzes and Jade
Price: $65.00 |
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Roe, Sue: The Private Lives of the Impressionists
Book Number: 49382
Vintage 6 Sep 2007 8vo softcover 352pp very good. Illustrated with colour plates. This intimate, colourful, superbly researched account takes us into their homes and their studios and describes their unconventional volatile and precarious lives as well as the stories behind the paintings.
Keywords: The Private Lives of the Impressionists Roe Sue
Price: $12.00 |
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Mackler. Andreas: Helnwein
Book Number: 49433
Benedikt Taschen, Germany 1992 4to. softcover. 96pp. colour & b/w illus. Very good. Text in English, Greman & French.
Keywords: Helnwein
Price: $28.00 |
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Salvini, Roberto.: The Hidden Michelangelo.
Book Number: 49467
Bay Books, Sydney, 1978 4to. hardcover. 191pp. indexcolour & b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: Michelangelo art sculpture paintings
Price: $25.00 |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N. Y.): Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries
Book Number: 49475
Bulfinch Pr November 1990 4to. Hardcover. 480pp index, colour illus. very good / very good d/w. To accompany an exhibition, opening October 1990 in New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has put together a volume that celebrates the significant achievements of Mexico's cultural heritage. More than 400 sculptures, paintings and objects illustrates this survey on the arts of Mexico. With the collaboration of the Mexican government, five specially commissioned teams of photographers were dispatched to photograph the art as well as the archaeological sites. In addition, the book includes authoritative texts covering each artistic era and an introductory essay. Its scope encompasses the four major periods of Mexican Art: Pre-Columbian, Colonian, 19th-century art produced after the Wars of Independence and the 20th century.
Keywords: Mexico Splendors of Thirty Centuries York N Y ) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New
Price: $85.00 |
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Morris, Desmond; intorduction by Philip Oakes: The Secret Surrealist: The Paintings of Desmond Morris
Book Number: 49490
Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1987 4to. hardcover. index, full page colour illus. Very good+, owner's inscription on half-title. / Very good+ d/w.
Keywords: Surrealism Surrealist art paintings desmond morris
Price: $22.00 |
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O'Brian, Patrick: Picasso
Book Number: 49612
Harvill 1994 8vo softcover 512pp very good. His appetite for sex and money, eating and drinking, friends and quarrels, comedy and tregedy are legendary. No artist of the first rank has been so awe-inpiringly productive. No artists of any rank has made so much money. A few artists have rivalled his life-span of 90 years but none as attracted so insatiable a public interest. This biogrpahy gives full weight to the distinctly Mediterranean origins of Picasso's character and art.
Keywords: Picasso O'Brian Patrick
Price: $15.00 |
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Roethal, Hans K. in collaboration with Jean K. Benjamin: Kandinsky
Book Number: 49643
Phaidon Press Ltd February 7, 1980 Folio. Cloth hardcover 160pp index, colour plates, b&w illustrations. very good, tape marks on end pages and po name on fep. / very good d/w. Traces the full story of the artist's life, focusing especially on the extraordinary cross fertilization that continued for decades between Kandinsky's art and his philosophy. Each colour plate ( all the key works in Kandinsky's oeuvre are reproduced) is discussed in detail in a separate commentary, and illustrated biographical outline, a select bibliography and a list of Kandinsky exhibitions are also provided.
Keywords: Kandinsky Roethal Hans K, Landscapes, Art Nouveau, Expressionist, Abstract, Bauhaus,
Price: $60.00 |
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