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Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: the art of identity.

Danly, Susan, introduction by Barbara Buhler Lynes, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

New Haven, Yale Univ Press/Portland Mus, (2008). VG lg sz PB. Laid in note cards on Steiglitz and O'Keeffe, "her work a manifestation of her sexuality". "One of first Americans to explore abstraction as a mean of expressing personal ideas & feelings.something looked the way sh...

The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe.

Castro, Jan Garden, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Crown, (1985). VG lg sz PB. O'Keeffe has become a legend in her own time, yet the origins of the myths about her have never been explored. A closer. study of the visual aspects of her art, her way of seeing, her deep appreciation of nature synthesized in works of art is un...

Seven Days in the Art World.

Thornton, Sarah, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Norton, (2008). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A time capsule of a remarkable period in which contemporary art became a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description. and for some a kind of alternative religion. Based on hundreds of hours of participant observation an...

Full Bloom: the art and life of Georgia O'Keeffe.

Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Norton, (2004). 1st PB ptg. VG PB. One of the most successful American artists of the 20th century, O'Keeffe made enormous contributions to modern art and. in her seminal paintings of intimately rendered flowers, desert landscapes, and stark white cow skulls where she appl...

Leonardo the Last Supper.

by Harlow Tighe, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1999). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ in original slipcase (no defects noted). One of the most important works of the Renaissance was painted between 1494 and 1498 in the refectory of Santa Maria della. Grazie in Milan. It has endured centuries of ...

The Paintings of George Bellows.

Bellows, Emma, · 1929 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

NY, Knopf, 1929. 1st ed limited. G. Foreword by George Bellows from letter written by himself on what is good painting, how does subject matter relate to art,. of what importance is art to society? Photo of Bellows (1882-1925). Color frontis of his wife Emma and author of this...

The Scandal of Pleasure: art in the age of fundamentalism.

Steiner, Wendy, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Chicago, University of Chicago, (1995). VG in VG DJ. A report from the battleground of contemporary culture, a landscape littered with the remains of vilified artworks and. discredited orthodoxies. This book offers a liberal aesthetic for our times.

The Art of the New Yorker 1925-1995.

Lorenz, Lee, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Knopf, 1995. 1st ed. G in G DJ. Published to celebrate the New Yorker's 70th anniversary and illustrated with more than 400 drawings and paintings including. 32 pages in full color. First comprehensive exploration of the magazine's cartoons, covers, spots, illustrations, c...

The Art of Chinese Landscape Painting in the caves of Tun-Huang.

de Silva, Anil, · 1968 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Greystone Press, (1968). Revised ed. VG in G DJ. In western China, on the great silk road, lies the ancient city of Tun-Huang, famous for its great Buddhist shrine with 469. caves carved out of a sandy cliff. Founded in the 4th century A.D., its wealth of wall paintings an...

Picasso in collaboration with Edward Quinn.

by John Russell, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Felicie, (1974). 1st Amer ed. G. What fire is burning in Picasso's eyes? Picasso knows no other light than the light he casts which lasts as long as the. creation of his works. Some edge wear. Front flyleaf shows the contract he signed with his French publisher.

A Chinese Garden Court: the Astor Court at the Metropolitan Museum.

Murck, Alfreda and Wen Fong, Metropolitan Museum of Art, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1980). VG lg sz PB. By the 8th century reclusion had become a noble alternative to precarious presence at court. The lure of a simple solitary. life in harmony with nature was one impetus toward the building of walled garden complexes. Wang Wei...

Andrew Wyeth, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

foreword by Perry T. Rathbone, Director, Museum of Fine Arts, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, (1970). VG lg sz PB. Chock full of Wyeth paintings. Slight soil on binding.

A Century of Japanese Photography.

Japan Photographers Association, introduction by John W. Dower, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Pantheon, (1980). VG in G slipcase. From beginning of the century to the war records and atomic attacks. Slipcase edge wear, scrape on ft cover, book slightly. faded at edges, slipcase beginning to separate at bottom corner to center on bottom.

Words and Images.

University of Southern Maine, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Portland, ME, University Southern Maine, (2004). VG PB. Interviews with Richard Brown Lethem, Sharon Olds, Carolyn Chute. Slight edge wear.

Van Gogh: critical study by Charles Estienne.

Skira, Albert, collection planned and directed by, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Crown, (1972). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Color self-portrait frontis, Van Gogh's work color tipped in plates. Lives and works of the great masters series.

Ensor.

Haesaerts, Paul and James Ensor, preface by Jean Cassou, · 1957 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Abrams, (1957). G. Yellow pictorial binding, soiling on cover, tanning spots on endpapers.

Renoir in the Art Institute of Chicago.

Bridaham, Dorothy, Art Institute of Chicago, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, nd (ca 1970). G ex-library. 8 beautiful color plates. Front cover has piece missing from upper corner, library markings, edge wear.

Bestiaire: l'animal dans l'Art (in French).

Comte, Hubert, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Belgique, RL, (2001). VG in VG DJ. Beautiful representations of animals in various art forms.

Sketching Outdoors in Autumn.

Arnosky, Jim, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Lothrop Lee & Shepart, (1988). 1st ed 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Hiking in the forested mountains north of his home, Aronsky communicates his unique approach to the natural world. Library markings.

Perez on Medicine: the whimsical art of Jose S. Perez.

Spence, Wayman R., M.D., · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, WRS Publishing, (1993). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Great satirical art using humans and animals from differemt periods of history in a whimsical way.