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2017ref. 163247San Francisco: Fine Art Museums of San Francisco 2017. Hardcover. Mild bumping to head of spine otherwise As New. Terracotta spine with white lettering color-illustrated cover with french flaps. 296 pp. Profusely illustrated chiefly in color. Filled with beautiful works by Edgar Degas Mary Cassatt and other Impressionist painters this richly illustrated book showcases artistic portrayals of France’s millinery trade during the Belle Époque. Amazon Published in conjunction with the exhibiton of the same name which ran at St. Louise Art Museum from February-May 2017 and at Legion of Honor San Francisco from June-September 2017. Fine Art Museums of San Francisco hardcover books
1960ref. 161023New York: Grove Press Inc 1960. Hardcover. G DJ mylar cover has missing material and it did not prevent one of the main diecuts from being damaged at the top edge with material missing here too; book has average age overall with page edges tanning lightly and light foxing to block edges; clean text and illus. Black and decorated cloth BW pictorial dust jacket with several diecuts and mylar cover; 383 pp. 350 BW illus. and 36 color illus. "Covers the complete creative history of surrealist art from its earliest precursors to the present day. The first definitive history of surrealist painting it relates in detail the exciting story of one of the stormiest periods in art its struggles its periodicals its feuds and friendships the ideas and political adventures." dj Translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor. Grove Press, Inc hardcover books
2016ref. 161332London: Gazelli Art House 2016. Softcover. VG. Color pictorial wraps 88 pp. many color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2016 exhibition of artwork by English artist Kalliopi Lemos b. 1951. With essays by Simon Critchley Nadja Millner-Larsen and Marilena Zaroulia. Features views of a variety of art pieces. Includes an exhibitions history. A nice introduction to an artist you may not know. Scarce. Gazelli Art House paperback books
1976ref. 161428New York: James Yu Gallery 1976. Ephemera. As new but with a hint of age toning to margins. Folded white card with black line drawing and lettering. 2 internal pages; back panel blank for mailing use. Catalogue from the exhibition held October 1976 at the James Yu Gallery. Includes a cover image by guest curator Rita Simon Atirnomis and a brief essay by her. Lists the 22 artists with works in the exhibition including Arakawa Arnold Belkin William Copley CPLY Lucas Samaras Niki de Saint-Phalle Jean Tinguely and others. James Yu Gallery unknown books
1977ref. 161427New York: Pace University 1977. Signed by the artist. Ephemera. Good all three items very nice but with small coffee stains. Ivory card folded in two with bw image and maroon/black lettering; blank on reverse. Ivory invitation card with black lettering. Both housed in a Pace University mailing envelope. An announcement card for Rita Simon's Atirnomis show of November 1977 and an invitation signed by her with a note to a party at her loft in Manhattan following the opening reception of the exhibition. Pace University unknown books
2015ref. 160698Milan: 5 Continents 2015. Hardcover. New; in shrink wrap. Illustrated boards with salmon/white lettering. No dust jacket as issued. 110 pp. 62 color illustrations. Catalogue from the exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Canada and presented in Ottawa from 30 October 2015 to 15 February 2016. English and French text. "French painter Claude Monet 1840-1926 is one of the most popular artists of all time. His series of water lilies hay fields cathedrals and many other masterpieces are loved and admired by everyone. For the first time this volume explores a new aspect of Monet's paintings: his fascination with bridges in the 1870s. After settling in Argenteuil a small town on the Paris outskirts Monet became interested in a bridge over the Seine not far from his home The Pont de bois of 1872. The book begins with this picture and examines how Monet was able to exploit the theme of the bridge between 1872 and 1877 after the Franco-Prussian War and beyond. Magnificently illustrated the volume examines both how Monet set himself to be the leader of the avant-garde and the prime role that bridges represented in this context. Focused on Monet's main works the catalog also examines Impressionists in a changing environment and the transformation of Paris and its periphery at the end of the nineteenth century." - from the publisher's web site. 5 Continents hardcover books
1945ref. 157293New York: The Printed Arts Co 1945. first. Hardcover. VG but dustjacket has tears and rips with miniscule loss. Blue paper covered boards with color-pictorial dustjaket. Color lithographed wndpapers 81 pp. profusely illustrated. Small envelope with 1 one stamp of 24 supplied with the book inside on ffep below signatory box. Apparently quite rare wqith the dustjacket. A nice copy! by Robert V. Masters illustrated with full-color lithographs by Howard Simon. The Printed Arts Co hardcover books
1999ref. 17971New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1999. Hardcover. VG/VG Small tears to dj at top and bottom of spine. Pages edges slightly tanned. Otherwise clean and tight. Brown cloth/bronze pictorial dj. 747 pp. 352 color & bw plates;. More than three centuries after his death Rembrandt remains the most deeply loved of all the great masters of painting his face so familiar to us from the self-portraits painted at every stage in his life yet still so mysterious. As with Shakespeare the facts of his life are hard to come by: the Leiden miller's son who briefly found fame in Amsterdam whose genius was fitfully recognized by his contemporaries who fell into bankruptcy and died in poverty. So there is probably no painter whose life has engendered more legends nor to whom more unlikely pictures have been attributed a process now undergoing rigorous reversal. Rembrandt's Eyes about which Simon Schama has been thinking for more than twenty years shows that the true biography of Rembrandt is to be discovered in his pictures. Through a succession of superbly incisive descriptions and interpretations of Rembrandt's paintings threaded into this narrative he allows us to see Rembrandt's life clearly and to think about it afresh. But this book moves far beyond the bounds of conventional biography or art history. With extraordinary imaginative sympathy Schama conjures up the world in which Rembrandt moved -- its sounds smells and tastes as well as its politics; the influences on him of the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain of the extreme Calvinism of his native Leiden of the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries; the importance of his beloved Saskia and after her death Rembrandt was later forced to sell her grave so complete was his ruin of his mistress Hendrickje Stoffels; and above all the profound effect on him of the great master of the immediately preceding generation the Catholic painter from Antwerp Peter Paul Rubens: 'the prince of painters and the painter of princes' with whom Rembrandt was obsessed for the first part of his life and whose career was the shaping force that drove Rembrandt to test the farthest reaches of his own originality. " from inside dj. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1980ref. 10764London: Studio Vista/Eastview Editio 1980. Hardcover. VG dustjacket torn. Black cloth. 151 pp. 28 color 125 bw plates. Extensive notes to text; bibliography; brief chronology. Ten chapters of detailed essays. Studio Vista/Eastview Editio hardcover books
1986ref. 101629London: Victoria and Albert Museum 1986. Hardcover. VG/VG some light wear to dust jacket edges beginning to yellow. Brown cloth with color illustrated dustjacket. 93 pp. 32 large bw plates. 11 different makers are featured in this informative book. Victoria and Albert Museum hardcover books
1989ref. 16237New York N.Y.: Hirschl & Adler Modern 1989. Softcover. VG tanning to spine from sun. Blue wraps with silver lettering on front and back blue lettering on spine 116 pp. 63 bw plates. Catalog of an exhibition held at Hirschl & Adler Modern New York N.Y. Nov. 2-Dec. 2 1989. Hirschl & Adler Modern paperback books
1993ref. 150947New Haven and London: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press 1993. Hardcover. VG-/G wear scuffs to board edges. speckled foxing to upper textblock edges. pgs will have occasional spots of moderate foxing to edges. dustjacket has light edgewear & light foxing/smudging; back cover has toning to edges. Crimson cloth gilt letters on spine white & color illus. dust jacket illus. flyleaves 283 pp. color & BW illus. Why did Henry VIII have sixty houses How did he feed his court Why did his later houses lack great halls and chapels This vigorous and original book investigates the social history of the Tudor court and the life of Henry VIII through the king's own buildings and interprets these structures through an examination of his public and private activities. . Lavishly illustrated with photographs and plans this intriguing book will delight readers interested in architectural and social history." dj. The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press hardcover books
1979ref. 150142Bucaresti: Editura Meridiane 1979. Hardcover. VG clean and tight contents but with light rubbing to covers and age toning to bottom edge. Art museum ex-lib. book plate and pocket inside front/back covers. White paper/boards. Black lettering on spine. Decorative end papers. 11 pp. with over 40 bw line drawings and 104 color and bw plates. Missing dust jacket. All text in Romanian except for a summary in French of the title essay. Vasile Lupu was ruler of Moldavia from 1634 to 1653. The book shows beautiful iconography textiles altar pieces eucharist vessels and other religious wares and architectural drawings of various churches. Editura Meridiane hardcover books
1994ref. 150690New York: Rizzoli 1994. Hardcover. VG-/Good overall shelfwear to dust jacket with small tears. Black boards with gilt letters on spine black & color illustrated dust jacket illustrated flyleaves 424 pp. 420 color illustrations. Presented here are thirty-two notable buildings and their estates that represent a characteristically English combination of architectural splendor and domestic comfort. This chronological selection presents a panoramic history of the evolution of the great house from Elizabethan through Edwardian times and up to the present ongoing battle for preservation. Acknowledged architectural masterpieces as well as lesser-known houses represent the work of Inigo Jones Sir John Vanbrugh Nicholas Hawksmoor and Robert Adam among many other celebrated architects. The photographs specially taken for this volume show the familiar as well as the unexpected. In addition to splendid state rooms grand exteriors and gardens there are photographs of private rooms and servants' quarters. These illuminating photographs offer access to the houses from an insider's point of view presenting contemporary homes rather than museum interiors. The informed text combines architectural and social history with the individual stories of the great families and the houses they created where their descendants in many cases still live today. Full of memorable characters and anecdotal insight this book is a glorious tribute to what Evelyn Waugh in his preface to Brideshead Revisited called "Britain's chief national artistic achievement."- dust jacket. Rizzoli hardcover books
1985ref. 27741London: Chatto & Windus 1985. Hardcover. VG- Page margins are tanning lightly. Olive-brown cloth gilt letters on spine color pictorial dust jacket. 352 pp. 19 color plates numerous bw illus. Surveys English aristocratic buildings architectural details and the personalities of people who lived in the estates. "A stunning combination of architectural and social history . providing us with the first full account of a rich and unjustly neglected corner of English life." dj. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
2001ref. 150753New York: The Vendome Press 2001. Hardcover. NF/VG. Navy cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Color-photographic dj with white lettering on blue spine. Oversize and heavy. 256 pp. with 300 color illus. Covers 40 manor houses each one beautifully photographed and accompanied by text describing the families that created these marvelous homes centuries ago and in most cases whose descendants still inhabit them. Full of history architectural ideas and decorative details. Includes a list of the houses an introductory essay and a helpful glossary of terms. The Vendome Press hardcover books
2014ref. 148169Sharon CT: The Granary 2014. Hardcover. As New. Grey cloth/boards with color-illustrated paste-downs to front and back; red lettering. 238 pp. with color illus. throughout. Catalogue resulting from an exhibition of the same title which opened at The Granary in 2013. "The catalogue is not only about an exhibition but also about a shared passion that has become central to our lives together. The Granary the gallery in which The Distaff Side is displayed is but an extension of our home allowing us to keep our collection close by and to visit it and enjoy it in moments of "mutual" solitude. This exhibition is Melva's homage to her sisters in art. It is a very personal message a statement of celebrations and of respect for their artistic achievement and it reflects a shared lifetime of collecting their wondrous work." Melva Bucksbaum and Ray Learsy With contributions by Ryan Frank Steven Learner Joan Simon Caitlin Smith Elisabeth Sussman and a poem by Maya Angelou. The Distaff Side: work/art by women. Curated by Melva Bucksbaum. The Granary hardcover books
1933ref. 32966London: English Wine and Spirit Trade Defense Fund 1933. Softcover. VG-- book in very nice condition nice and tight but with age-toned cover. Off-white illus. wraps with black lettering. 91 pp. 135 bw plates. Title above taken from cover; title on title page: Loan Exhibition of Drinking Vessels Books Documents etc. etc. etc. Catalogue from the exhibition held at Vintners' Hall in London June-July 1933. Vessels in the exhibition include with those of Tudor Elizabethan and Jacobean times made of pottery leather silver glass and more even Ostrich eggs!. Uncommon and comprehensive a delightul reference. Most examples are English but others are included as well. Includes information about documents books and more. With advertisements in the back equally entertaining. English Wine and Spirit Trade Defense Fund paperback books
1995ref. 143560Gainesville Georgia: Brenau University Galleries 1995. Softcover. VG. Beige stapled wraps with color plate affixed to front cover; 28 pp.; 7 sepia photos 10 color plates. Accompanied a 1995 exhibition at Brenau University Galleries in Gainesville Georgia. Essays by Simon and Princenthal. Brenau University Galleries paperback books
2013ref. 140388Lawrence Kans: Spencer Museum of Art The University of Kansas 2013. Softcover. G- Whole book is bent slightly; spine has a small surface tear; interior surfaces are clear. Illus. wraps 160 pp. 127 BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2013 exhibition of works by two artists affiliated with the University of Kansas: Ann Hamilton b. 1956 and Cynthia Schira b. 1934 once student and teacher. With many illustrations of artwork and several artist interviews conducted by Joan Simon. Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas paperback books
1985ref. 140704New Haven: The New Haven Colony Historical Society 1985. Softcover. VG-. Cream stapled wraps with bw cover image. 64 pp. with a few bw images. Entire issue and main article about public art including murals sculptures and more at post offices schools etc. The New Haven Colony Historical Society paperback books
2013ref. 140834Saint Louis Mo: Saint Louis Art Museum / The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 2013. Softcover. VG Corners slightly bumped otherwise As New. White & color illus. wraps maps on flyleaves 312 pp. many BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with several 2013-2014 exhibitions. "Between 1850 and 1880 Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished within the arts in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era painters and photographers composed competing visions of France as modern and industrialized or as rural and anti-modern. Impressionist France explores the resonances between landscape art and national identity as reflected in the paintings and photographs made during this period examining and illustrating in particular the works of key artists such as Édouard Baldus Gustave Le Gray the Bisson Frères Édouard Manet Jean-François Millet Claude Monet Charles Nègre and Camille Pissarro." publisher With essays by Simon Kelly April M. Watson Neil McWilliam and Maura Couglin and a substantial catalogue. A great introduction to impressionism. Saint Louis Art Museum / The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art paperback books
ref. 141822London: Arts Council of Great Britain. Softcover. VG- Light wear to extremities; Small label and ink stamping at rear cover. Color illus. wraps;. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of films toured by the Arts Council of Great Britain; Includes text by Simon Field as well as by the artist himself. Arts Council of Great Britain paperback books
2011ref. 142312New York: Phillips de Pury & Company 2011. Softcover. NF. Glossy over-size blue-themed wraps with white lettering. Unpaginated with maybe 200 pp. and illustrations throughout. Auction catalogue from the sale of 14-15 November 2011. 141 works pictured and described. List of artists in back. Contains lengthy interview and essay material about several artists represented within. Photos included. Phillips de Pury & Company paperback books
1926ref. 142850Leipzig: Karl Robert Langewiesche 1926. Softcover. NF/VG. Dark blue illustrated card wraps. Grey/blue illustrated wraps with grey lettering. 127 pp. with bw and occasional color images throughout. Text in German. Includes a 6-page introduction by Simon. Old German figurines made of a variety of materials; mostly people and animal. Delightful subjects beautifully rendered. From the Blauen Bucher series. Karl Robert Langewiesche paperback books
