Grant Wood (1891-1942) is probably best known for his classic work "American Gothic." This biography offers a nice introduction to this American artist from Iowa. Measures 10x9.75 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Accordion book. Catalog for April 27-June 14, 2009 exhibition at the Carelton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario. This exhibition centered upon his large-scale drawings and wall paintings and is presented in the form of Ming Dynasty scrolls.
Curated by Sandra Dyck. Essay by Eily Falvey. Vancouver artist Howie Tsui (Tsui Ho Yan), born in Hong Kong in 1978), was raised in Lagos, Nigeria and Thunder Bay. He works in a variety of media. • • • View More...
Created in close collaboration with the artist, this publication includes work from his 2013 exhibition at David Zwirner in London, which featured three videos inspired by the game of chess; puppets and masks based on the characters; and drawings, collages, dioramas, paintings and sculptural works.
Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) is a contemporary artist from Canada. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Dust jacket over paperback with white covers. Catalog for exhibition at The Queens Museum of Art. 24p. Essay's by Christina Yang, Robert G. Edelman, and Deborah Drier. Color plates. Measures 8 inches square.
Greg Drasler (b. 1952) produced this series over 5 years. He says that "packing and unpacking of the suitcase is the operative interest in my Cave Paintings. • • • View More...
Directing his pointed wit at the upper echelons of 18th-century British society, William Hogarth (1697-1764), a painter, printmaker, and social critic, mocked the politics and customs of his day. Judy Egerton deciphers the visual cues and symbols Hogarth employs in his comic story of doubtful morals. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Foxed cover, with a spot. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. 35p. Measures 6.75x9.5 inches. Translated From the Dutch by C. De Dood.
Lucebert (1924-1994) was a Dutch artist who first became known as the poet of the COBRA movement, a European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951. • • •• View More...
Unmarked. Color poster measures 9.5x12 inches. Printed in color on card stock.
El Greco (1541-1614), born Domenikos Theotokópoulos, was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. Also includes an Annunciacion postcard (1567-1577) that measures 4x6 inches. Both the poster and the postcard are suitable for framing.
Unmarked. Accompanied exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, DC. (March 25 to July 1, 2018). The first exhibition devoted to the famed post-impressionist View More...
Unmarked. A few nicks on cover. Color Plates. Accompanied March 15-April 24, 1979 exhibition. 64p. Measures 8.5x11. Chronology.
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. • • • View More...
Unmarked. French flaps. Index. 112p. Measures 9x12 inches. 246 illustrations.
A study of the life and works of M.C. Escher. It shows many of the sketches, studies and diagrams which he made while creating his magical effects. His contribution to our understanding of perception and what we regard as possible or impossible is discussed and explained in this book. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Some tanning on cover. Translated from the Dutch by John E. Brigham. Biographical notes. Measures 8.25x11.75 inches. 75 images, primarily in black-and-white.
Originally published 1971. Topics include regular division of the plane, mirror images, inversion, polyhedrons, impossible buildings, and more. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Text in Dutch. Bumped corner on back cover. Catalog for 9-31 Oktober 1982 exhibition. 88p. Nicely illustrated. Measures 9.25x9.75 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. 183p. For the first time in book form, Blake's "Vision of the Daughters of Albion" are shown in full color with six essays that are at the forefront of Blake criticism.
Contributors include Joseph Viscomi, Anne K. Mellor , David Bindman, Tilottama Rajan, Morris Eaves, W.J. T. Mitchell, and Robert N. Essick. • •• View More...
Unmarked text. Ink smear on first page (does not obscure text). Price sticker shadow on cover. Reprinted from the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1955, pp483-528 (plus a section of 35 B/W reproductions).
George Catlin (1796-1872) was an American painter, author, and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Dust jacket under clear archival mylar cover. Exhibition catalog. 121 color plates. 109 black-and-white images. Contributors: Hilarie Faberman, Bill Berkson, and Vincent Katz. Yvonne Jacquette (b. 1934), is an American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, pointillistic technique. Bibliography. Index. Chronology. 176p. Measures 9.25x12.25 inches.
Unmarked text. "Thank you" stamped twice on title page. Lavishly illustrated. Notes. Lists of videotapes, films, work in public collections. Bibliography. Index. Dust jacket under clear protective cover. Foreword by Ann-Sargent Wooster. 136p. View More...
Unmarked. Paper clip indentation and slight rust marks on a couple of pages. Some age tanning. Five black and white plates. 24p. Exhibition checklist. Introduction by Dennis Farr. Biographical table. Bibliographic notes.
William Etty (1787-1849) was an English artist best known for his history paintings containing nude figures. He was the first significant British painter of nudes and still lifes. Measures 7.75x9.75 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Previous owner's information on front end page. Slight sun fading at spine with a touch of shelf wear on edges.
A selection of 36 paintings completed during the decade 1939-1949, reproduced in black and white, with an introduction by James T. Farrell.
Will Barnet is an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds. • • • View More...
Factory sealed. Color illustrations. 263p. Measures 8.75 x 11.75 inches. Entropy is from the Greek 'entrope', which means the action of transforming itself at random. This book presents Alexandre Farto's work. He carves portraits of anonymous persons on the degraded walls of our modern cities to not only to give a second life to these abandoned mural supports but also to bring to light ordinary citizens roughly treated by a society progressing at a fast speed and leaving them out. Alexandre Farto (b. 1987) is a Portuguese street artist known for his groundbreaking carving technique. He uses th... View More...
Unmarked. Text in English and Hungarian. Color plates. Large french flaps. Measures 8x10.75 inches. Unpaginated.
Laszlo Feher (b. 1953) is is a Hungarian painter and visual artist. He is a representative of hyperrealistic painting whose attributes he has modified to include current topics: reflection on social themes, Jewishness etc. In 1990 he participated in the Venice Biennale. • • • View More...
