Unmarked text. Pieces missing on edge of rubbed dust jacket. Jacket under clear, archival mylar. Back of jacket lists the "complete list of Modern Library books". Corner tear on one page and a corner crease on a few others. 516p. Measures 5x7.25 inches. The autobiography of Henry Adams, grandson of John Adams. • • • View More...
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Extensively illustrated with a map of the countryside of Constable's boyhood and over 25 reproductions of paintings. 24p. Measures 8.5x7.25 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Black-and-white illustrations. Accompanied exhibition commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud, May 6, 1856--May 6, 1956 presented at the Hotel Morrison in Chicago and the New York Academy of Medicine in NYC. •• • View More...
Unmarked. Ruth Weisberg's Unfurled presents three decades of painting and printmaking by celebrated Los Angeles artist Ruth Weisberg. It features the complete ninety-four-foot long mixed-media drawing The Scroll, in addition to more than thirty works from throughout Weisberg's career. Together the works highlight the artist's extraordinary depictions of her life story and its convergence with art history and Jewish memory. They also illuminate the parallels Weisberg draws between the contemporary and biblical worlds, her desire to memorialize those who perished during the Holocaust, and her fe... View More...
Unmarked. Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. It covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857.
No translation of the entire volume has previously been available. This volume was translated by Edward Schneider with Stefano Castelvecchi. Edited by Stefano Castelvecchi. Index. 304p. 1 table Measures 6x9 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket with slight edge wear. Interviews with 20 cognitive scientists, with a photograph of each. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. 352p.
Includes Patricia Smith Churchland, Paul M. Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Hubert Dreyfus, John Haugeland, John Searle, Herbert A. Simon and others. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Notes. Filmography. Bibliography. Index. Section of black and white illustrations.
Traces the choices that carried the unique director from poverty in Vienna to power in Hollywood, including his eventual ostracism in Japan. • •• View More...
Unmarked. Edge wear and a closed tear on dust jacket. 239 color and 101B/W illustrations. Measures 8.5 x 10.4 inches. 208p.
Essays by Raymond Bellour, Tony Conrad, Constance DeJong and Tony Oursler. With interviews by Dan Graham and Mike Kelley.
The intelligent irony that resonates through the video and projection installations of American artist Tony Oursler results from a subtle combination of sound, language and pop culture images. These elements are thoroughly explored in this monograph, the most extensive publication on Oursler and his work. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Worn dust jacket with chipping under clear mylar cover. Foxed end papers. Third printing. 461p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches.
The war diaries of Bernard Berenson cover 1941-1944. Berenson (1865-1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. 168 illustrations in photogravure, 3 in color. Chipping, bends, and tears on dust jacket. Notes. Index. 200p. Preface by Raymond Mortimer.
Berenson records on excursions to Rome, Venice, Sicily, Tripoli and Leptis Magna, Calabria, The Romagna, and Florence. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Corner crease on back cover. Illustrated 175p. Measures 7.5x9.25 inches.
Full length study of Robert Morris (b.1931), an American artist. Traces his career, discusses the philosophical foundations of the work, and presents examples of his sculptures, installations, and environments. Morris was one of the central figures of Minimalism and has used a range of materials in his works • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Dust jacket, with Chatto price sticker on flap, under clear mylar cover. Edited, with an introduction, by Robert Giroux. 278p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches.
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was an American poet and short story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Illustrated throughout. The book includes a brief introduction to the artist's life, followed by a series of activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in Blake's work.
Featuring beautiful reproductions of key artwork and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, the artist's daughter, Rose Blake. Age range: 5-7 years. 32p.
Peter Blake (1932) is an English pop artist, best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and for two of the Who's albums. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Index. Illustrated in B/W. Bibliography. A sympathetic portrait of one of Canada's gifted writers and visual artists. 331p. • • • View More...
Unmarked. No dust jacket. Front and back end maps locate the places mentioned in the book. Preface by Christopher Morley. Prepared, with intro and notes by Frederick A. Pottle. 370p. Index.
First Published from the Original Manuscript (Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell). James Boswell's London Journal is a published version of the daily journal he kept between the years 1762 and 1763 while in London. • •• View More...
Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket under clear, archival mylar cover. Sun fading on back of dust jacket near spine. Black-and-white illustrations. Notes. Index. 609p.
Examines Boswell's life from 1769 until his death in 1795. This includes his encounters with English figures during the Age of Reason (Samuel Johnson, Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, etc). The narrative includes critical commentary on Boswell's work. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Extensively illustrated. 96p. Timeline. Includes postcard of Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine, ca 1490. Index. Glossary. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Text in German. Red dust jacket over unmarked paperback. A farewell to Rudolf Alexander Schroeder. 17p. Small bump on bottom edge.
Rudolf Alexander Schroeder (1878-1962) was a German translator and poet. Much of his work is Christian lyrical verse. He was a member of the Confessing Church which resisted Nazi Germany. • •• View More...
Unmarked text. Some edge wear on dust jacket and bumped edges on board. Beautifully illustrated with 58 plates in full color and 58 black-and-white thumbnails. Edgar Degas (1834-1917) often chose his subjects from the cultured society life of Paris in which he was a well known figure. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Dust jacket with some bends, tears, and small pieces missing under clear archival cover. Price printed on back flap. Centennial edition of the 1953 publication. Illustrated throughout.
Emily Carr (1871-1945) was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. 148p. 6.25x9.5 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Emily Carr (1871-1945) was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Originally written in 1942, Small is the embodiment of Emily Carr's childhood in Victoria BC. 168p. • • • View More...
Examines the life and work of the renowned poet Charles Olson (1910-1970). He was a second generation modern American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets. • • • View More...
