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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1976. 768, 772-1552 and 1157-2322 pages. 7-3/4 by 10-1/4 inches. One of 1000 numbered copyes signed by the author of the introduction. The books that invented the genre of Art History; by the sixteenth century Italian painter, architect and historian. First published in 1550. English translation of the 1568 edition. Introduction by Kenneth Clark. Illustrations annotated by Michael Sonino. ISBN: 9780810905344.
A nearly fine 3-volume set in like slipcase. Each volume quarter bound with leather spine stamped with gilt, and gold image of the author on brown cloth cover. Marbled endpapers. Scuffs to gilt on covers. Slipcase lightly bumped and cracked along one edge. Previous owner's blindstamp in all volumes. Signed by Kenneth Clark on the limitation page. Copy number 650. A large, heavy set.
Book ID: 254838More details Price: $150.00 -
Fiction and Reality in Painting
First Edition
Munchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. Pp. 225-237. An offprint from Poetik und Hermeneutik, volume X (1983), of Podro's essay on Ernst Gombrich. Poetik und Hermeneutik was an annual meeting from 1963-1994 to discuss art theory. ISBN: 281AIB1024527.
First edition (first printing). Inscribed on the front cover by the author, "For Kitaj with love, Michael." R. B. Kitaj was a well-known British American artist whose portrait of Podro was called The Jewish Rider.
Book ID: 108326More details Price: $125.00 -
The World Painted: The Aesthetics of Visual Art
First Edition
Carnegie-Mellon University: (the author), 1975. 178 pages. Photocopied typescript of an unpublished book that explores art beginning with Duchamp's urinal and then looks at representation, expression, Baudelaire's theory of modern art, formalism, psychoanalytic approaches, the copying of paintings, and other topics.
Carrier earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1972 and has had a distinguished academic career in art criticism. ISBN: 281AIB1043496.
First edition (first printing)? Sheets staple-bound into a manila folder as a binding. This copy inscribed to a painter, "To R. B. Kitaj, with many thanks. David Carrier." Kitaj, who also wrote about art, is thanked in the introduction "for trying to make me a bit skeptical about formalism; although not skeptical enough ... I am sure." Presumably this was printed in very small numbers for distribution to friends and colleagues.
Book ID: 219943More details Price: $125.00 -
Picasso: Painter and Engraver
First Edition
San Francisco: (Adrian Wilson, printer), 1952. 33 pages. 6 by 8-7/8 inches. From a lecture delivered at the University of California, Berkeley. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of Picasso's work. One of 75 copies. ISBN: B0006S4PSE.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy; no dust jacket. Foxing to endpapers and page block, toning to spine. [JSP04]
Book ID: 206938More details Price: $75.00 -
Vasari's Florence: Artists and Literati at the Medicean Court
First Edition
(New York): Cambridge University Press, 1998. 320 pages. ISBN: 9780521580885.
First edition (first printing). Previous owner's blindstamp in three places, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88415More details Price: $50.00 -
1st International Symposium on Art Museum Education
First Edition
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1999. 204 pages. Illustrated. Text in English and Chinese. ISBN: 9789570253689.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 84962More details Price: $40.00 -
Postminimalism
First Edition
(New York): Out of London Press, (1977). 198 pages, [32] pages of plates. 6 by 8-3/4 inches. Essays on the history of American art, 1966-1976. Illustrated with 45 black-and-white plates. Pincus-Witten is "credited with coining the term Post-Minimalism to describe a range of ideas and practices that began emerging in the late 1960s in response to the cool, dispassionate Minimalism that had prevailed" according to his New York Times obituary. ISBN: 9780915570072.
First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Short tear to rear spine corner.
Book ID: 206940More details Price: $40.00 -
In Other Los Angeleses: Multicentric Performance Art
First Edition
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 407 pages. ISBN: 9780520229532.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a cloth covers with silver lettering on spine. No dust jacket, as issued.
Book ID: 140185More details Price: $37.50 -
The Passion in Art (Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts)
First Edition
Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2004. 154 pages. The focus of the book is the Crucifixtion of Christ from its earliest depiction in Christian art through to our time. Over 30 full-page plates, many in color. ISBN: 9780754650119.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 140449More details Price: $31.25 -
Still Looking: Essays on American Art
First Edition
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 222 pages. 8-3/8 by 10-1/4 inches. Collects into one volume eighteen previously published essays beginning with early American artists and working through the twentieth century. Includes the work of Alfred Stieglitz, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. With 223 illustrations in color. ISBN: 9781400044184.
First edition (first printing). A bit of shelf wear, thus near fine; in a dust jacket with a small closed tear to rear corner, thus near fine. A large, heavy book.
Book ID: 170152More details Price: $25.00 -
Velazquez' Las Hilanderas: An Explication of a Picture Regarding Structure and Associations
First Edition
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1972. 206 pages, 20 plates, and more than 200 illustrations. Text in English. The author examines this painting from the point of view of the properties of color, shape, magnitude, position; and change as transformation and movement. ISBN: B00125W4AQ.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in wrappers (paperback). Minimal edge and corner wear to covers.
Book ID: 64546More details Price: $25.00 -
Du spirituel dans l'art: et dans la peinture en particulier
Paris: Editions de Beaune, 1951. 108 pages. About 5-1/2 by 9 inches. The abstract painter's spiritual approach to art. First pubilshed in 1912. Text in French. ISBN: 281AIB1031775.
Very good in wrappers (paperback). Spine faded with a short closed tear at the head.
Book ID: 143472More details Price: $25.00 -
Claude Monet and Some Other Impressionists
N.Pl: n.d. 9 pages. Max Kitaj is the son of R. B. Kitaj and Sandra Fisher. ISBN: 281AIB1047964.
This project was submitted as part of a class assignment. Text printed in blue ink. Illustrated artistic cover sheet. Note from professor/instructor on sticky-note at end.
Book ID: 262851More details Price: $25.00 -
The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
Oxford University Press, USA, 2007. ISBN: 9780195128789.
Very Good
Book ID: 73199More details Price: $20.00 -
Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century Ameria
Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521776011.
Very Good
Book ID: 95642More details Price: $20.00 -
Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files
First Edition
(New York): Thames & Hudson, 2000. 479 pages. Writings illustrated with black-and-white examples of the artist's work. ISBN: 9780500282434.
First paperback edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback) with moderate wear at the edges and corners.
Book ID: 126453More details Price: $20.00 -
Lichtenberg's Commentaries on Hogarth's Engravings
First Edition
London: Cresset Press, 1966. 297 pages. ISBN: B001NMZLAI.
First edition thus. Price clipped jacket. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 85775More details Price: $20.00 -
Art: A New History
First Edition
Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 2005. 777 pages. 8 by 10-3/8 inches. Illustrated with color reproductions of art. A large heavy book. ISBN: 9780297829287.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 231067More details Price: $20.00 -
Collecting the New (Museums and Contemporary Art)
Princeton University Press, 2007. 195 pages. ISBN: 9780691133737.
Second printing. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 177022More details Price: $18.75 -
Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Counterpoint, 2019. ISBN: 9781640092006.
NEW
Book ID: 258777More details Price: $17.95