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Origins, Invention, Revision: Studying the History of Art and Architecture

By: Ackerman, James S.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press : 2016

Seller ID: 31534

ISBN-13: 9780300218718

Binding: Hardcover

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Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear archival mylar cover. Beautifully illustrated in color and black-and-white. Measures 7x10 inches. 232p. An illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theory
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What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art

By: Adams, Henry

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Hudson Hills Press : 2009

Seller ID: 30538

ISBN-13: 9781555954031

Binding: Paperback

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Factory sealed. Unmarked. Paperback with color illustrations. 147p. Measures 10x10.5 inches. Henry Adams, author of definitive biographies of Thomas Hart Benton and Thomas Eakins, examines 60 important works from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Includes works of John Singleton Copley, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keefe, and others.
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Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe

By: Adler, Tracy L.

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Prestel : 2016

Seller ID: 31207

ISBN-13: 9783791355634

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. Features Beijing-born Yun-Fei Ji 's (b. 1963) acclaimed scrolls, sculptures, and drawings. In his stunning impressionistic works, Yun-Fei Ji takes on the thousand-year-old practice of Chinese scroll painting, employing ink on paper as his primary medium, and landscape as his central subject. Rather than adopting the idealism characteristic of traditional scroll painting, Ji presents the gritty reality of life in contemporary China.
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Mas Cine Mexicano / More Mexican Films: Sensational Mexican Movie Posters 1957-1990 (Bilingual Edition)

By: Agrasanchez, Rogelio Jr.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Chronicle Books : 2007

Seller ID: 31036

ISBN-13: 9780811854498

Binding: Paperback

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Unmarked. Color illustrations. 131p. Measures 8x10.5 inches. French flaps.

Culling more than 150 of the most colorful and sometimes unbelievable posters from 1957-1990. Includes an illuminating bilingual essay discussing the posters' creation, the role of cinema in Mexican popular culture, and the ups and downs of its film industry.
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Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II

By: Alexander, Julia Marciari; MacLeod, Catharine (editors)

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press : 2008

Seller ID: 31195

ISBN-13: 9780300116564

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. Color and black-and-white illustrations. 268p. Measures 7.5x10.25 inches. Ten distinguished scholars of history, literature, music, theatre, and art to explore the political and cultural implications of the court's transgressive new character with the return of Charles II to the English throne.
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Watteau, Music, and Theater

By: Baetjer, Katharine

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 2009

Seller ID: 23366

ISBN-13: 9780300155075

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. 160p. 70 illustrations, 66 in full color. Accompanying an exhibition in honor of Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this engaging book examines the influence of music and theater on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Fifteen major paintings and a number of drawings by Watteau that illustrate the connections between painting and the performing arts in Paris are explored. In addition, drawings and prints by other 18th-century artists featuring musical or theatrical subjects and objects and musical instruments are included. Inclu...
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Tea and Immortality: Contemporary Chinese Yixing Teapots from the James T. Bialac Collection

By: Baker, Janet

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Phoenix Art Museum : 2010

Seller ID: 30540

ISBN-13: 9780984408108

Binding: Paperback

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Factory sealed. Unmarked text. Catalog for February 20, 2010 through April 25, 2010 exhibition at the Phoenix, Arizona Museum.

Illustrates 65 contemporary Chinese teapots from a collection plus 200 other items (in miniature). The teapots are from Yixing where the local purple clay deposits are used by skilled potters to make unglazed teapots in very varied styles.
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Cubist Picasso

By: Baldassari, Anne; Lavin Irving; Leo Steinberg; Daix, Pierre; Karmel, Pepe

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Flammarion : 2008

Seller ID: 31242

ISBN-13: 9782080300485

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. Illustrated in black-and-white and color. 368p. Measures 11x10 inches. To celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of Picasso's seminal work Les Demoiselles d'Avigon, leading Picasso scholars and art historians assess its legacy and the extraordinary influence of Picasso's Cubism on the development of 20th-century art.
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Eugene Atget (In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum)

By: Baldwin, Gordon

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: J Paul Getty : 2000

Seller ID: 31931

ISBN-13: 9780892366019

Binding: Paperback

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Factory sealed. Eugene Atget (1857-1927) spent nearly thirty years photographing details of often-inconspicuous buildings, side streets, cul-de-sacs, and public sculptures in his beloved Paris. This volume presents more than fifty of the Getty Museum's two hundred ninety-five pictures by Atget, with commentary on each image by Gordon Baldwin, associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Also a chronology and an edited transcript of a symposium on his career. 144p. Measures 6x7.75 inches.
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Facture Volume 2: Conservation, Science, Art History; Art in Context

By: Barbour, Daphne; Gifford, E. Melanie (editors)

Price: $26.00 USD

Publisher: National Gallery : 2015

Seller ID: 30509

ISBN-13: 9780300217087

Binding: Paperback

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Shrink wrapped. Research on masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, DC. Seven essays are illustrated with outstandingly detailed photography.

Examines works such as Giotto's Madonna and Child, bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin, watercolors by John Marin, early paintings by Andy Warhol, and Mark Rothko's multiforms, which mark the birth of his abstraction. 170p.
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Wim Delvoye at the/au Louvre

By: Bernadac, Marie-Laure; Mercatorfonds, Jean-Pierre Criqui

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press : 2012

Seller ID: 31197

ISBN-13: 9780300188684

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. Unmarked. Color illustrations. 79p. Measures 10x12 inches. Text in English and French. As guest artist at the Louvre, Belgian conceptual artist Wim Delvoye (b. 1965) created new, site-specific art for the museum that responded to the Louvre's collections with subversive and ironic reinterpretations of older styles, including Baroque crucifixes and Gothic motifs.
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Lucian Freud: Portraits

By: Blau, Daniel (editor)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Hirmer Publishers : 2011

Seller ID: 32936

ISBN-13: 9783777439716

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. 35 color plates. Measures 9.5x11 inches. 71p. Introduction by Norman Rosenthal.

Presenting an exceptional overview of Freud's works on paper over his more than six-decade career, this oversized volume highlights the artist's unconventional approach to etching.
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Modern Times: Photography in the 20th Century

By: Boom, Mattie; Rooseboom, Hans

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Rijks Museum : 2014

Seller ID: 32189

ISBN-13: 9789462081765

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. Catalog for 1 November 2014 through 11 January 2015 exhibition on 20th century photography showcasing the Rijksmuseum's collection. Based on over 300 highlights from the Rijksmuseum's photography collection, celebrated photographers include William Klein, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Ed van der Elsken, Jacques Henri Lartigue and less well-known practitioners.

Overall, the book provides an overview of 20th century photography in all its facets, from pure documentary to autonomous art.
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Antoine Watteau: Masters of French Art

By: Borsch-Supan, Helmut

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Ullman Publishing : 2013

Seller ID: 29640

ISBN-13: 9780300155075

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French rococo artist whose charming and graceful paintings show his interest in theater and ballet,

This volume showcases the artist's oeuvre, and authoritative texts illustrate the decisive stages in the artist's life and in the development of his work. Measures 8.75x10.25 inches.
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Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV

By: Bremer-David, Charissa

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: J Paul Getty : 2015

Seller ID: 31958

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. This lavishly illustrated catalog accompanied an exhibition of fourteen marvelous examples of the former royal collection that were displayed exclusively at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from December 15, 2015, to May 1, 2016. 168p. Measures 12x12 inches.
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William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography (Studies in British Art)

By: Brusius, Mirjam; Dean, Katrina; Ramalingam, Chitra

Price: $31.00 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press : 2013

Seller ID: 31183

ISBN-13: 9780300179347

Binding: Hardcover

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Unmarked. Factory sealed. Illustrated throughout. Index. References. 308p. Drawing on Talbot's fascinating letters, diaries, research notebooks, botanical specimens, and photographic prints, distinguished scholars from a range of disciplines, this book uncovers connections between his innovations as a photography pioneer and his broader interests in optics, mathematics, science, and classical studies.
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Revelations: Art from the African American South

By: Burgard Timothy Anglin

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: DelMonico Books, Prestel : 2017

Seller ID: 32692

ISBN-13: 9783791357171

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. This volume celebrates the historic acquisition by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco of sixty-two paintings, sculptures, drawings, and quilts by twenty-two contemporary African American artists.

Contributors include Timothy Anglin Burgard, Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Joe Minter, and Lauren Palmor. 184p. Measures 9x10.5 inches.
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San Francisco Bay Bridge East Span Postcard (3)

By: California Department of Transportation

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: California Department of Transportation : 2013

Seller ID: 22815

Binding: Postcard

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Unmarked. Three pristine postcards. Pictured is a rendering of Complete Self-Anchored Suspension Bridge. Measures 5x7 inches. Back is description and space for message, stamp, address.
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Vendredi: A Surrealist Correspondence

By: Canonne, Xavier (editor)

Price: $104.00 USD

Publisher: Ludion : 2020

Seller ID: 33183

ISBN-13: 9789493039247

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. 1056p. Texts in French, Dutch and English. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published for the first time in this book, Vendredi includes all of the 100 issues of this unusual magazine produced by the Belgium Surrealists. The book thus offers a unique testimony to the versatility of Belgian Surrealism. It includes an introduction by Xavier Canonne, an inventory and biographies of all the participating artists. The Belgium surrealist movement was the second-largest after the French movement.
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The Delight of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist Discourse

By: Cast, David

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press : 2009

Seller ID: 32381

ISBN-13: 9780271034423

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. 16 color and 28 black-and-white illustrations. 272p. Measures 9x10 inches.

A highly original, erudite interpretation of Vasari's Lives, one of the most influential texts on the arts. Cast approaches Vasari's long, tripartite work as a complex rhetorical history rather than as an archival document mined for facts about the artists.
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Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection

By: Clark, Garth; Strauss, Cindi

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press : 2012

Seller ID: 31184

ISBN-13: 9780300169973

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. Unmarked. This comprehensive catalogue features the ceramics collection acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 2007.

These 478 works, produced by leading artists from more than twenty countries, range from functional wares and modern vessels to sculptural works and postmodern objects. 496p. 702 color illustrations throughout. Measures 10x12.25 inches.
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Scottish Artists 1750-1900: From Caledonia to the Continent

By: Clarke, Deborah; Remington, Vanessa

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Royal Collection Trust : 2015

Seller ID: 31651

ISBN-13: 9781909741201

Binding: Paperback

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Unmarked text. 210p. Measures 8.25 inches square. 150 color illustrations throughout. Survey of Scottish art from the Royal Collection. Brings together more than 100 reproductions of works from the Enlightenment to the 20th century. Highlights the importance and influence of this period while also sharing recent research on the subject. Artists include Allan Ramsay, Sir David Wilke, Sir Francis Grant, Alexander Nasmyth, John Giles, John Phillip and others.
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The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection

By: Coates, Victoria C. Gardner; Lapatin, Kenneth Lapatin; Seydl, Jon L.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Getty Publications : 2012

Seller ID: 30510

ISBN-13: 9781606061152

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. This lavishly illustrated volume--featuring the works of artists such as Piranesi, Fragonard, Kaufmann, Ingres, Chasseriau, and Alma-Tadema, as well as Duchamp, Dali, Rothko, Rauschenberg, and Warhol--surveys the legacy of Pompeii in the modern imagination under the three overarching rubrics of decadence, apocalypse, and resurrection.

Illustrated in black/white and color. 264p.
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The Local Bookstore: Cody's (June 2008 Event Schedule Booklet)

By: Cody's Bookstore

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Cody's Bookstore : 2008

Seller ID: 19398

Binding: Booklet (Saddle Stitched)

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Unmarked. Cody's bookstore opened in Berkeley, CA in 1956 and closed on June 20, 2008. This 12-page booklet outlines their event schedule for their last month, including those events that were cancelled due to the store's closure. There are 2 images of the last store (on Shattuck Ave).
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Yellow Cab: A French Filmmaker's American Dream

By: Cohen, Benoit

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Pointed Leaf Press : 2018

Seller ID: 31037

Binding: Hardcover

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Factory sealed. The journal of French filmmaker Benoit Cohen's research for the screenplay of a new movie, to become a taxi driver. Includes a directory of New York's most famous restaurants and eateries. 192p. Measures 6.25x9.25 inches.
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