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Williams, Sir Kyffin
Kyffin
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 46pp. The work of Welsh landscape painter Sir Kyffin Williams OBE RA, with illustrations of his paintings. All text in English and Welsh.
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Baneke, Joost; Groen-Prakken, Han; Ietswaart, Willem; Treurniet, Nikolaas (editors)
Dutch Art & Character
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly arched spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 220pp. Psychoanalytic perspectives on Bosch, Bruegel, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Mondrian, Willink and Queen Wilhelmina. Scarce.
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Golding, J. and Green, C.
Leger and Purist Paris: The Tate Gallery 18 November 1970 - 24 January 1971
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rub near top of spine and no bumping to corners. 108pp. Exhibition catalogue depicting the work and biography of Fernand Leger. Photographic illustrations mainly in black & white.
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Eisler, Steven
Space Wars: Worlds and Weapons
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to a few pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tear to lower rear corner, pen indenting, light creasing to upper edge and nicks to spine top. 96pp. A series of fantastic futuristic paintings of rockets, planets, worlds, weapons, explosions and destruction. The images are interspersed with very lengthy text, some being fantastic fiction and some relating to existing science fiction novels.
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The Editor
The Complete Drawing and Watercolour Book
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 120pp. A step-by-step course covering materials, techniques, composition, figures and portraits, plants and animals, landscapes and buildings plus tips and hints.
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Williamson, Hugh
Methods of Book Design : The Practice of an Industrial Craft
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly sunned spine and very minor bump to upper rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked but well-sunned and with some pieces missing. Now protected in a transparent sleeve. 433pp. A complete study of book manufacture from its starting point.
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Damiani, Giovanna
San Marco , Florence : The Museum and Its Art
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to lower edge. 95pp. The story of the former Domincan monastery of San Marco in Florence which was re-built under the architect Michelozzo from 1433. It is now a museum and a library whilst the building retains its old essence. This well illsutrated book describes San Marco's architecture as well as its history and the art within its walls.
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Lucie-Smith, Edward
Art in the Seventies
Small neat name inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 128pp. A survey of the decade of the 1970s, images of the art with associated text, which documents rather than judges. Very well illustrated.
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Menten, Theodore
Art Deco Cut & Use Stencils
No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to lower corner of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly rubbed sunned spine and no bumping to other corners. All fifty-one stencils intact and unused. pp. Fifty-one full-size stencils printed on durable stencil paper with full instruction on how to use them. Very scarce in the UK.
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The Editor
Private View : Contemporary Art in the Bowes Museum
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to lower corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 94pp. A temporary exhibition with over 100 works by 35 artists depicting British and German art at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle.
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Steadman, Ralph
The Big I Am
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to upper corners. Rubbed dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with evidence of storage and very lightly indented. Unpaginated. pp. Ralph Steadmans attempt to tell us what God is trying to say - through his unique fantastic artistry.
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Nelson, Raphael
Cries and Criers of Old London
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with well rubbed boards and corners, creases to end papers and bump to lower rear corner. 63pp. Full page woodcuts of the criers on thirty pages with descriptions and their cries on each opposing page.
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Sturgis, Russell
The Interdependence of the Arts of Design: A Series of Six Lectures Delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago : 1904
Inscription on front end paper. No other marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with dusty unmarked boards and page edges, well-rubbed ends of sunned spine and with bumping to corners. 227pp. A series of six lectures delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago, being the Scammon Lectures for 1904. Illustrated.
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Hockney, David
Hockney on 'Art' : Conversations with Paul Joyce
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked blue cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little rubbing to upper and lower edges and minor traces of storage. 263pp. Based on a series of revealing interviews which took place over the years from 1982 between David Hockney and Paul Joyce, a film maker, photographer and artist, which allows the reader to share the thought processes and the working life of a great artist. Very well illustrated with David Hockney's art. A heavy book.
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Holley, Sydney E. (editor)
Leisure Painter : April 1973
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 44pp. Features include Picture Making, Elusive Models (animals) - a Waiting Game, Brass Rubbings, A Dalesman's Approach to Water Colour - Angus Rands, Then & Now in an Oxfordshire Garden - WC Wilder, Juliet Pannett and her drawings of such as Churchill.
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Holley, Sydney E. (editor)
Leisure Painter & Craftsman : November 1973
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Crease to lower corner of front cover. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, tiny mark to front and no bumping to corners. 44pp. Features include Drawing with Oil Crayons, Why not Start your own Gallery?, Amateur Artist Antics - Barbara Hucker, Tinto's Palace of Art, Rembrandt in our Midst, Enamelling and Take a Few Related Objects.
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Sala, George Augustus
William Hogarth : Painter, Engraver and Philosopher
Tiny name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with nick to upper front edge and very minor traces of storage. 318pp. Originally published in 1866. Biographical account of William Hogarth and one which is very true to life setting him in the social environment of the mid-18th century. Illustrations from the original.
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Baldry, A. L.
Painting a Portrait by De Laszlo
Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with rubbed and tape-marked boards. Some glue remaining on spine where label has been removed. 79pp. 'How to Do It' Series 6. With thirty-three tipped-in plates, most showing the stages of creating the portrait including a few in colour and some examples of great portraits. First Edition, first reprint.
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Moy, Patricia
The Complete Guide to Miniature Painting
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 106pp. This work covers the history, colour theory, materials, preservation and care, and a variety of techniques of miniature painting and supports - from watercolour to oil, silhouettes to scraperboard and gold leaf to collage.
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Sotheby's
Sotheby's Chester Specialist Sales : October 1983
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Creasing to covers, none to spine. Very clean very tight pages with slightly marked/indented boards and no bumping to corners. 183pp. Catalogue for sales over 4, 5, 6, 7 October 1983 including silver, jewellery, ceramics, glass, carpets, furniture, works of art, paintings, drawings and watercolours.
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Van der Meer, Ron & Whitford, Frank
The Ultimate 3-D Pop-Up Art Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. All removable pieces present. Unpaginated pp. A wealth of miniature artworks and techniques and demonstrations. Pop-ups, lift-ups, pockets with removable pieces to demonstrate art principles About 80 examples in all. Plus an 18 page activity book in a pocket at the rear.
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Gray, Basil (introduction)
Persian Painting : From Miniatures of the XIII-XVI Centuries
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked card covers and no bumping to corners. An original extra translucent jacket covers the dust jacket. Twelve single-sided pages of plates plus text on 13pp. Summary history of Persia and of the development of miniature paintings during the 13th to 16th centuries. With twelve full-page colour plates. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Scarce in the UK. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Poulson, Christine
William Morris
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine and very tiny scratch to rear. 128pp. Biography of William Morris, his friendships, socialism, work and achievements in architecture, painting, textiles, wallpapers, poetry and furniture and influence on design.
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Adams, Christopher : Duranti, Massimo; Cremoncini, Roberta ; Miracco, Renato (Editors)
Piety and Pragmatism: Spiritualism in Futurist Art. Arte sacra futurista: spiritualitÓ e Pragmatismo
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 127pp. Catalogue from an exhibition by The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in London in 2007. Includes works by Giacomo Balla, Fillia and Gerardo Dottori. Text in English and Italian.
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Ayres, Gillian
Paintings and Works on Paper 2005 - 2007
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 48pp. An exhibition catalogue from 2007 with thirty-four full-colour reproductions of work from abstract painter Gillian Ayres and an introduction 'When Paint Dances' by Andrew Marr. Scarce.
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Upstone, Robert
William Orpen : Politics, Sex & Death
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. A highly illustrated monograph of Sir William Orpen, one of the great British artists of the first quarter of the 20th century from his nudes to his war paintings.
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Hitchens, Ivon
The Flower Paintings
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 54pp. Catalogue of the work of painter Ivon Hitchens to accompany the exhibition of flower paintings at the Jonathan Clark Gallery in 2007. With a mix of single page and fold-out double page large colour reproductions. Extremely scarce.
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Hoyland, John (& McEwan, John & Nevill, angela)
John Hoyland : Works from the 1970s & 1980s
Date inside front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 35pp. A catalogue of works exhibited in 2006 taken from the 1970s and 1980s by leading British abstract artist John Hoyland.
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Brown, David Blayney, Hemingway, Andrew, Lyles, Anne
Romantic Landscape : The Norwich School of Painters
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. A selection of paintings from the Norwich School of the 19th century with emphasis mainly on John Crome and John Sell Cotman including 115 reproductions mostly in colour with biographical descriptions of each.
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Nevitt, H. Rodney Jr.
Art and the Culture of Love in Seventeenth Century Holland
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with very minor creasing to upper and lower edges, small tear to upper front corner and light indenting . 302pp. This study looks collectively at pictorial subjects from the golden age of Dutch art in the 17th century, connecting them in the context of a contemporary culture of love. Scarce in the UK.
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Preston, Col. Rupert
Seventeenth Century Marine Painters of the Netherlands
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with gradual sunning towards upper edge and very minor traces of storage. 91 plates plus 101pp. The classic reference work for those interested in early marine painting. Artists are listed alphabetically with concise biographies and some specimen signatures for identification and each artist is repesented by a photograph of his work. Plus appendices on 17th century history, ship construction and flags.
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Adams, Marcus
The Rhythm of Children's Features
Ex-library book. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. Very clean pages with soiled rubbed boards. Whilst the boards are poor, this is a fantastic resource for an artist as it includes dozens of drawn images of parts of children's bodies. It concentrates on hands and fingers and then some images of feet, eyes, noses and mouths.
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Jerstorp, Karin & Kohlmark, Eva
The Textile Design Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. A guide to understanding and creating patterns using texture, shape and colour on fabrics.
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Friedman, Martin
Hockney Paints the Stage
No marks or inscriptions. Very tiny crease to upper corner of front cover, none to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 262pp. Catalogue from David Hockney's exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1985. Very well illustrated with feature articles mainly by David Hockney plus Martin Friedman, John Cox, Stephen Spender and John Dexter.
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The Editor
Art Directors' Index to Illustrators No 9
Appears unread. Ex college library book with marks to half title and copyright pages only. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked board, tiny rub to upper rear board and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 307pp. The work of some of the world's top illustrators, sourced from twenty-two countries, selected by the contributors themselves to portray the best, most exciting and innovative aspects of their talent.
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Fei Xiaotong , Pref.
A Collection of Paintings and Calligraphy Works in Praise of Wujiang By Celebrities Through the Ages.
pp.150, folio, hard cover, profusely illustrated in color, text mainly in chinese, as new
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The Changsha Warring States Period Silk Paintings (Changsha Qumu Bo Hua) Changsha Chu mu bo Hua
1 portfolio ([2] l., 3 plates (1 col.)) 35 cm. 4to format photographical reproductions (one in color, particulars in b&w. of a silk painting found in may 1973 in a warring states period tomb at tzetanku. with commentary in chinese, english and french. in chinese style original cardboard folder, as new. very scarce.
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Vasari, Giorgio
VASARI ON TECHNIQUE Being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture, and painting, prefixed to the lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and Architects
A reprint of the first English translation of Vasari's treatise on the materials and methods of the fine arts, originally printed in London in 1907, and still useful as English translations of the Lives tend to omit this valuable but lengthy introduction. 8vo. xxiv+(2)+328+(2)pp, photo frontis, 17 photo plates, photo text ills plus (16)pp of publishers adverts.
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Renda, Gunsel & Erol Turan & Turani, Adnan & Ozsezgin, Kaya & Aslier, Mustafa
A History of Turkish Painting
thick 4to. Cloth in dust jacket and slipcase. 444pp. Illustrated with 495 plates, most in color. With an introductory chapter to bring the reader up to speed with "Traditional Turkish Painting and the Beginnings of Western Trends," the book deals with 19th- and 20th-century Turkish artists. Includes 12 pages of notes and index. fine in like jacket and slipcase. extra shipping for international orders.
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McClatchy, J. D. (editor)
Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-century Poets
Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. Second Paperback Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An anthology of essays by such notables as W.B. Yeats, Gertrude Stein, and W.H. Auden offer their views on painting and works by such great painters as Picasso, Van Gogh, and Matisse. "By this century, poets and picture makers were as intimately associated as poets and musicians had been. This suberb collection of utterly characteristic, scintillant, and riveting writings.demonstrates how firmly cemented that intimacy is." {Ray Olson}.
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Shanghai bo wu guan.; Shanghai ren min mei shu chu ban she.
[Sung] Song ren hua ce / [bian ji zhe] Shanghai bo wu guan, Shanghai ren min mei shu chu ban She Sung Paintings in the Shanghai Museum
oversize folio, cloth in dj and case. 60 leaves of attached plates, [20] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 38 cm. Painting, Chinese - Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368. international customers please inquire on shipping.
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Huashi Peng; Dun huang wen wu yan jiu suo.
Zhong guo shi ku dun huang mo gao Ku Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in China 1
4to, Chinese : Di 1 ban in perfect state. magnificent color plates.
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Ater, Renee ; Morrison, Keith
Keith Morrison
Large green quarto ; x, 118 p. : illus (some color) ; 29 cm Morrison, Keith, 1942- -- Criticism and interpretation -- African American -- Art
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Alpers, Daniele ; Messagier, Jean
Messagier, les estampes et les sculptures : 1945-1974 prÈface de Jacques Putman.
Large quarto in blue and white stiff paper wraps; 210 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm; index, bibliographical references (p. 207-208) In French || Messagier, Jean.
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Hamilton, James ; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. ; Manchester City Art Gallery. ; Burrell Collection
Turner : the late seascapes New Haven & Williamstown, Mass.
Large quarto / small folio in color illus gold and blue hues DJ; xii, 162 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [141-151]) and index. "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Turner: the late seascapes, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 14 June-7 September 2003, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England, 31 October 2003-25 January 2004, Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Scotland, 19 February-23 May 2004." || Lenders to the exhibition -- Foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- A power supreme -- The multitudinous seas incarnadine -- Interlude : Turner the elderly traveler -- The deep -- Appendix : Contemporary accounts of Turner's seascapes -- Checklist of the Exhibition. || Sea in art -- Exhibitions. Zeegezichten. Schilderijen. Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 -- Exhibitions. Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.
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Homer, Winslow ; Beam, Philip C. ; University of Rochester.; Memorial Art Gallery
Winslow Homer in the 1890s : Prout's Neck observed
Large quarto in multi-color illus DJ; 54 p. : ill. (some col.), bibliographical references (p. 146-148) and index. ; 26 cm Catalog published on the occasion of an exhibition held Aug. 18-Oct. 21, 1990 at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 17, 1990-Jan. 13, 1991 at the Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Ill., Feb. 8-May 27, 1991 at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and June 22-Sept. 2, 1991 at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass. || Prouts Neck (Maine) dans l'art. Rochester, Memorial art gallery of the university of Rochester -- Expositions -- 1990. Chicago, Terra museum of american art -- Expositions -- 1990-1991. Washington, National museum of american art -- Expositions -- 1991. Rochester -- Expositions -- 1990. Chicago -- Expositions -- 1990-1991. Washington -- Expositions -- 1991. Named Person: Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 -- Exhibitions. Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 -- Homes and haunts -- Maine -- Prouts Neck. Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 -- Expositions. Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 -- RÈsidences et lieux familiers -- Maine -- Prouts Neck. Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) -- Catalogues d'exposition. Geographic: Prouts Neck (Me.) -- In art -- Exhibitions.
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Shanes, Eric. Turner, J. M. W.
Turner's England : a survey in watercolors
Oblong medium folio in red illus DJ; 288 p. : ill. (some col.), bibliographical references (p. 278-286) and index; 27 x 30 cm. Water colors. Landschaftsmalerei Aquarell Bildband Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 -- Catalogues raisonnÈs. Turner, Joseph Mallord William Geographic:England -- In art -- Catalogs. England
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Ginger Riley ; Ryan, Judith ; National Gallery of Victoria.
Ginger Riley
Large quarto in multi-color illus yellow wraps 104 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (41-42). Numerous high quality full color photo reproduction of this indigenous Australian's paintings. || Riley, Ginger, 1937? -- Exhibitions. Australian artists; Native Australian painters ; Indigenous artist, Aboriginal art. Riley, Ginger. Riley, Ginger.
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Hunter, Sam ; Vignelli, Massimo
Arnaldo Pomodoro [by] Sam Hunter ; [edited and designed by Massimo Vignelli].
Square-like folio in offwhite natural (unpolished) buckram cloth and color-illus black and blue DJ; 382 p. : illus in color and black & white, with many full-page images ; bibliographical references (p. 346-372) and index ; 31 cm. An impressively fresh copy of this massive work on the important sculptor. Text in English. || ** A very heavy, large book. For overseas shipping, extra postage costs apply. Please inquire for exact cost. Thank you. ***
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Ribettes, Jean Michel
FÈtiches & fÈtichismes : dans le dÈfaut de l'objet religieux, Èconomique & sexuel
xvi, 214, 19 p. : illus. ; 17 cm. In French. Chiefly illus and photos in b/w. Uncommon, "FÈtiches & fÈtichismes a ÈtÈ le sujet d'une exposition durant l'ÈtÈ 1998, au Passage de Retz"--P. 6. // Fetishism in art -- Exhibitions. Fetishes (Ceremonial objects) -- Exhibitions. Fetishism; Photography
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