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The Art of the July Monarchy: France 1830 to 1848

By: (Bezucha, Robert J.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Columbia, University of Missouri Press: 1990

Seller ID: 003833

ISBN: 0-8262-0721-9

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

314 pages; 48 color plates, 225 b&w illustrations. Considered within the historical context are history painting, landscape painting, portraiture, caricature, book illustration, and the advent of realism. A handsome book; condition as new.
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Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872-1927

By: Albright, Daniel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press: 2015

Seller ID: 004813

ISBN: 1421416441

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

328 pages; b&w illustration. Among movements of the time, (Expressionis, Cubism, Dadaism, Impressionism, etc.) searching for the core of that creativity. Clean throughout; tight binding; as new.
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Abstract Expressionism

By: Anfam, David

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Thames and Hudson: 1990

Seller ID: 002594

ISBN: 0500202435

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

216 pages; 169 illustrations, 28 color.
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The Painter as Historian. Mythological, Religious, Secular: Paintings of the XV to XIX Centuries

By: Anonymous

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Wildenstein: 1962

Seller ID: 003788

ISBN: no

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Good

69 pages; 42 b&w plates. Preceding the plates an essay on each places the painting (i.e. the subject of the painting) in its historical context. The exhibition was for the benefit of two French-American organizations. Wrappers worn and soiled; clean throughout within; lengthwise fold down the middle of the catalogue.
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The History of British Art, 600-1600

By: Ayers, Tim (Edited by)

Price: $55.00

Publisher: London, Tate Publishing: 2008

Seller ID: 005177

ISBN: 1854376500

Binding: Green Cloth

Condition: Fine

295 pages; more than 150 color illustrations but the text is the thing: 32 contributed essays in this series. This is the first in a 3-volume, History of British Art series. Clean and bright throughout.
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Modernism and Beyond: Women Artists of the Pacific Northwest

By: Brunsman, Laura and Ruth Askey (Edited by)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New Y1993, Midmarch Arts Press: 1993

Seller ID: 002629

ISBN: 187767513x

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

190 pages; b&w illustrations.
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Artists in War and Peace; Alfred F. Hardiman, R.A.

By: Cahill, Holger; F.G. Mories

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, The Sudio Limited: 1945

Seller ID: 003815

ISBN: no

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

32 pages; 10 pages advertisements. 8 color illustrations; many b&w illustrations. Articles as in the title, also, Edvard Munch, Norway's Genius; The Cook Collection; London Commentary; A Goodwill Exhibition of American Art. Clean, tight binding; small chip on the front cover.
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Principles of Art History Writing

By: Carrier, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University Park, The Pennsylvania State University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 002643

ISBN: 0271009454

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

249 pages; b&w illustrations. "... traces the changes in the way in which writers about art represent the same works."
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New Orleans as It Was: Episodes of Louisiana Life

By: Castellanos, Henry C. ; Charles L. Dufour (Foreword)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Gretna, Pelican Publishing Company: 1990

Seller ID: 005292

ISBN: 088289787X

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

352 pages. "an exhilarating journey through the Crescent City's turbulent past." First published in 1895. The author was lawyer, teacher and journalist. He had been planning a series of books on Louisiana history but had completed only this when he died. His obituary in the New Orleans Picayune is printed on the final two pages. Previous owner's name on the title page. Otherwise clean and bright throughout; tight binding.
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Women, Art, and Society

By: Chadwick, Whitney

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Thames and Hudson: 1990

Seller ID: 003162

ISBN: 0-500-20241-9

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

384 pages; 243 illustrations, including 50 color. Women as artists from the Middle Ages to the present; the aesthetics and ideology that have shaped their relationships to the visual arts.
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George Washngton: A National Treasure

By: Christman, C.S. and Ellen G. Miles; Marc Pachter (Foreword); Richard Brookhiser (Inroduction)

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C. / Seattle, National Portrait Gallery / U. of Washington Press: 2002

Seller ID: 005283

ISBN: 0295982373

Binding: Pictorial Wrappers (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

103 pages; numerous color illustrations of Washington, his portraits, his contemporaries, the various owners of the Landsdowne portrait and others. This book was motivated by the celebrated purchase of the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait which was given as a gift to Marquis of Landsdowne, a British aristocrat. The portrait ever since known as the Landsdowne portrait. Informative history of Washington and Washington's portrait. Previous owner's name, otherwise in fine condition: clean throughout, tight binding.
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The World of Michelangelo: 1475-1564

By: Coughlan, Robert

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 002776

Binding: quarter-cloth w/ paper boards

Condition: Fine

202 pages; numerous color and b&w illustrations. Well done, enjoyably readable primer on the subject; one of the series Time-Life Library of Art in a paperboard slipcase with applied color illustration: book and slipcase "as new".
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages - Eighth Edition

By: Croix, Horst de la; Richard G.Tansey

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Fort Worth, Harcourt Brace: 1976

Seller ID: 002562

ISBN: 0155037633

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

1008 pages; numerous illustrations in color and b&w; Glossary; Bibliography by chapter. Occasional highlighting.
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Helen Gardner's Art Through the Ages

By: Crosby, Sumner McK. (Editorship)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace & World: 1959

Seller ID: 005199

Binding: Pictorial Cloth Boards

Condition: Very Good

840 pages; more than 500 illustrations. Clean throughout; tight binding. Light wear to the dustjacket edges; price clipped.
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Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries

By: Deak, Gloria-Gilda

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Kennedy Galleries: 1981

Seller ID: 005234

ISBN: 0-87920-003-0

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good.

163 pages; b&w illustrations, usually portraits. Profiles of 75 artists represented by this very fine gallery that specialized in representing American artists. Includes a selected bibliography, "Readings in American Art". Clean and tight, nearly unblemished.
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Post-Impressionism

By: Denvir, Bernard

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Thames and Hudson: 1992

Seller ID: 002592

ISBN: 0500202559

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

216 pages; 148 illustrations, 24 color.
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the way beyond ' art' - the work of herbert bayer

By: Dorner, Alexander

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Wittenborn, Sschultz, Inc: 1947

Seller ID: 005186

ISBN: no

Binding: Printed Card wrappers

Condition: Good

244 pages; more than 150 illustrations, color and b&w. The author says this study might be called " the decline of the species of visula communication called "art" and the origin of a new species of visula comminication". Hence, beyond "art". Clean and bright throughout; one gathering loosened but the sewn binding is tight; one illustration on p. 132 has been clipped-out; front panel of the wrappers has been repaired at the joint and along the spine.
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Western Art and the New Era, An Introduction to Modern Art

By: Dreier, Katherine S.

Price: $325.00

Publisher: New York, Brentano's: 1923

Seller ID: 005189

ISBN: no

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

139 pages. 60 b&w text illustrations; color frontispiece with glassine cover. Boards and text clean, bright and tight throughout. The dustjacket repaired at the joints; loss of material at head and tail of the spine; darkened at spine and edges; now in a Brodart protective cover.
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The World of Giotto: c.1267-1337

By: Eimerl, Sarel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc.: 1967

Seller ID: 002775

Binding: quarter-cloth w/ paper boards

Condition: Fine

200 pages; numerous color and b&w illustrations. Well done primer on the subject; one of the series Time-Life Library of Art in a paperboard slipcase with applied color illustration: book and slipcase "as new".
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The New Frontier: Art and Television 1960-65

By: Farmer, John Alan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas, Austin Museum of Art: 2000

Seller ID: 002554

ISBN: 0967095220

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

102 pages; numerous illustrations. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name. Inscribed by the curator on the title page: "much love ! John".
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Category: Art History