Publication date: 1988
Price: $439.96
Review Die Fruhen Meister: Japanische Holzschnitte von 1650 bis 1750 : Museum fur Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt am Main / Das Museum:
Publication date: 1996-12-15
Dewey code: 745.67092
Price: $95.00
Review Bihzad, Master of Persian Painting / I. B. Tauris:Although Kamal al-Din Bihzad (1460-1535) is acknowledged to be one of the greatest masters of Persian painting, there has to date been no comprehensive study of his life and work. He flourished during the golden age of artistic achievement in the late Teimurid and early Safavid periods, working in Herat and then in Tabriz. This illustrated book traces the roots of the style developed by Bihzad, its heritage and its legacy in Iran, Mughal India and Ottoman Turkey. The author approaches the subject by attempting to relate the paintings to the stories and themes they portray, thus enabling us to appreciate Bihzad's work in a way that has generally been neglected by Western art historians. Bahari has examined Bihzad's paintings in libraries and collections all over the world and this study brings together a huge body of the work.
Creator: Nina Weiner
Edition: Box Set Limited
Publication date: 2008-10-01
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $700.00
Price: $441.00
Review Arts & Architecture, 1945-54: The Complete Reprint / TASCHEN America Llc:Ten years, ten boxes, 118 issues, 6,076 pages!The seminal architecture journal resurrected in facsimileThe first part (1945-1954) of our facsimile edition of John Entenza's groundbreaking magazine, which launched the Case Study House Program; in ten boxes, each containing one year's worth of magazines"A&A was instrumental in putting American Architecture on the map. ""A legendary West Coast magazine. " Newsweek, New York From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture: emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that infused low-cost materials and modern design. This trend was most notably incarnated in the famous Case Study House Program, which was championed by the era's leading American journal, Arts & Architecture. Focusing not only on architecture but also design, art, music, politics, and social issues, A&A was an ambitious and groundbreaking publication, largely thanks to the inspiration of John Entenza, who ran the magazine for over two decades until David Travers became publisher in 1962. The era's greatest architects were featured in A&A, including Neutra, Schindler, Saarinen, Ellwood, Lautner, Eames, and Koenig; and two of today's most wildly successful architects, Frank Gehry and Richard Meier, had their debuts in its pages. A&A was instrumental in putting American architecture and in particular California Modernism on the map. Other key contributors to the magazine include photographers Julius Shulman and Ezra Stoller, writers Esther McCoy and Peter Yates, and cover designers Herbert Matter and Alvin Lustig, among many luminaries of modernism. This collection comes with ten boxes, each containing a complete year s worth of Arts & Architecture magazines from 1945-1954. That s 6,076 pages in 118 issues reproduced in their entirety beginning with Entenza s January 1945 announcement of the Case Study House program. [+]Also included is a supplement booklet with an original essay by former A&A publisher David Travers, translated from the English into German, French, and Spanish; all the covers and contents; and a selected index to articles. Arts & Architecture 1945-54 will be followed in the future by a second volume, 1955-1967, bringing together all the existing issues of the modern era. This new TASCHEN publication, limited to 5000 copies, provides a comprehensive record of mid-century American architecture and brings the legendary Arts & Architecture back to life after forty years.
Creator: Dian Hanson
Publication date: 2007-11-01
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $700.00
Price: $440.00
Review Robert Crumbs Sex Obsessions / Taschen:Randy Robert: Crumb's secret fantasies revealed They have little to do with the standard procreative urge, Mr. Crumb admits. He has also said he finds nothing more boring than someone else's sexual obsessions, and yet through his long career the world's most famous underground cartoonist has felt compelled to include his own sex fantasies in his art. He explains it as a compulsive catharsis, while fans call R. Crumb's erotic fantasies the Master at his best. Now Crumb has selected his most intimately revealing comic strips and single page drawings to create a 256 page encyclopedic trip through his sexual psyche. All images were created between 1980 and 2006, and all strips are colored for a lush vibrancy never seen in his comic books. In total the book features 14 complete stories, including My Troubles With Women II, If I Were a King, A Bitchin' Bod and How To Have Fun With a Strong Girl, as well as 62 single page drawings. This signed, slipcased, limited edition of 1,000 copies is a work of art in itself, with every part of the book-case, front and back covers, spine, introduction and pre-introduction pages-created for this project by Robert Crumb. Each book also comes with a print on mould-made age-resistant hahnemuehle paper pulled from an original watercolor by Robert Crumb. [+]The artist admits it's a little scary to see his most fevered obsessions collected and to end like this, but fans will find R. Crumb's Sex Obsessions a fascinating peek inside an often tortured, always brilliantly talented mind, as well as an unparalleled collector's item.
Creator: Hannah Higgins
Publication date: 2007-10-01
Dewey code: 701
List Price: $150.00
Price: $450.00
Review Great Bear (The Great Pamphlet Series) / Primary Information:During the glory days of Something Else Press (1964-1974), its founder, the poet, editor and scholar Dick Higgins created the Great Bear imprint to publish pamphlets that were quickly printed and easily disseminated, guaranteeing wide distribution and accessibility. Ranging in length from 16 to 32 pages, saddle-stitched and printed on varying color stock, the Great Bear pamphlets showcased the work of some of the most innovative writers and artists across the twentieth century: the likes of Jackson Mac Low, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Robert Filliou, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, Dieter Roth, David Antin and Claes Oldenburg appeared alongside predecessors such as the Italian Futurist composer Luigi Russolo and John Cage's seminal Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse). All pamphlets have been out of print since their original publications in the 1960s. Great Bear: The Complete Collection comes housed in a wooden box and contains a complete facsimile reproduction of each of these fabulous pamphlets, along with essays by Alison Knowles, Hannah Higgins and others.
Publication date: 1969
Review Rembrandt as an etcher: A study of the artist at work / A. Zwemmer Ltd:In this updated edition of his highly praised book, Christopher White provides the definitive account of Rembrandt's etchings and their significance within the larger body of the artist's work. With eloquence and deep insight, White analyzes the technical, stylistic, and iconographic features of selected etchings, traces their close relationship with the artist's drawings, and reveals how Rembrandt made the medium his own. Rembrandt was one of the first artists to experiment with the media of etching and drypoint, submitting his plates to numerous reworkings, drawing on impressions, and varying the inking of his plates and his papers. In a detailed discussion of Rembrandt's methods, White shows that the changes and variations Rembrandt introduced often provide a unique opportunity - not afforded by paintings and drawings - to observe the artist at work. It is timely that Christopher White has chosen to revise his study of Rembrandt's etching 30 years after it was first published. This second edition of what quickly became an authoritative text incorporates critical reaction to its predecessor as well as the continuing scholarship of the Rembrandt Research Project. There have been 16 catalogues raisonnés of the artist's prints and innumerable exhibition publications, making his etchings the most catalogued works of art in the world, but few other books have considered "how" as well as "what" and set the works in a historical and personal context. White, a leading authority on 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art who edited Rembrandt by Himself, is the ideal man for the job. The line "Would you like to see my etchings?" has never sounded so appealing. White divides his attention into six considerable chapters: technique, history, portraiture, genre, nudes, and landscape. [+]The most valuable, and groundbreaking, is the first, in which his explanations of Rembrandt's working methods and techniques give the illusion of peering over the artist's shoulder, such is the vividness with which details of biting, drypoint, and choice of papers come alive in his accessible and learned prose. The patient care invested in not just assembling but attractively presenting the images mirrors the attentions of the etcher, who undertakes a painstaking process with a slow-burning excitement, always with the uncertainty of the end product-something for which Rembrandt's temperament seemed entirely suited. In his later life he abandoned his habit of careful pre-planning and allowed the means to influence the ends. This flexibility was entirely characteristic of Rembrandt as an artist across the board; never afraid to experiment, he had reasons for working that were as pragmatic as they were visionary, and prints were the most successful reproductive propagandists for their maker's art. White's book, as luxurious to handle as to study or peruse, is still the definitive standard by which evaluation of Rembrandt's etchings and their relationship with his drawings and paintings must be judged. It is definitively art history at its most rewarding and enthralling. -David Vincent, Amazon. co. uk.
Publication date: 1984-12-31
Review Esaias Van De Velde (1587-1630) (Aetas Aurea : monographs on Dutch & Flemish painting) / Davaco Publishers:
Edition: Sgd Ltd
Publication date: 2006-03-06
Dewey code: 759.13
List Price: $149.50
Price: $455.00
Review Barlowe's Inferno / Morpheus International:Hailed for his vivid depictions of life in hell's inferno, Wayne Barlowe fills his paintings with sprawling landscapes and bizarre inhabitants. More than just a collection of eye-popping paintings, Barlowe's work comprises a visionary world, complete with commentary and a foundation in the myths and beliefs of multiple cultures. Limited to just 150 copies individually signed and numbered by the artist himself, Barlowe's Inferno collects these amazing depictions of hell inside of a splendid cloth slipcase and includes a signed print, suitable for framing.
Authors
- Line Vautrin
- Patrick Mauries
Dewey code: 739.27092
Price: $35.00
Review Line Vautrin: Sculptor, Jeweller, Magician / Thames & Hudson:
Publication date: 1979
Review George Grosz: D. druckgraph. Werk / Propylaen-Verlag:
Publication date: 2002-01
Dewey code: 760
Price: $85.00
Review Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal / Delano Greenridge Editions:Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal is a generously illustrated book that represents the culmination of more than a decade of research into the enigmatic artist's life and work by world renowned outsider art expert John MacGregor. The long awaited monograph is MacGregor’s first English-language publication on Henry Darger and the most comprehensive critical investigation of Darger’s writings and illustrations available in any language. Henry Darger was born in Chicago in 1892. Shortly before his death in 1973, his landlord, Chicago artist Nathan Lerner, made a startling discovery in his tenant’s room: the history of another world in fifteen volumes, In the Realms of the Unreal—at 15,145 type-written pages, possibly the longest work of fiction ever written. In startlingly vivid detail, Darger’s Realms recounted the role of seven sisters, known as the Vivian Girls, in a violent conflict over child enslavement on an unnamed planet. Amidst the refuse, Lerner also found three huge bound volumes of brightly colored illustrations for the work, many painted on both sides and some over twelve feet in length. In the decades since his death, Darger’s alternate universe has attracted the intense interest of collectors, critics, and scholars around the world. His illustrations and writings have been the subject of major museum exhibitions in Europe and North America.
Publication date: 1988
Price: $439.96
Review Auguste Lepere: 1849-1918 / ACL Edition/Societe Crocus:
Publication date: 1983
Review Paul Landacre, a life and a legacy (Los Angeles miscellany) / Dawson's Book Shop:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1970
Review Picasso 347 / Random House:
Creator: Japan Typography Association
Publication date: 2001-09
Dewey code: 760
Price: $80.00
Review Applied Typography II (Applied Typography) / IPS:
Publication date: 1989-06
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $150.00
Price: $444.06
Review The Complete Etchings of Adriaen Van Ostade: New Illustrations and First English Translation of the Catalogue Raisonne, Together With a Reprint of the Original French Edition / Alan Wofsy Fine Arts:
Creator: Kevin Reagan
Edition: Limited collector's ed
Publication date: 2009-03-01
Dewey code: 760
List Price: $500.00
Price: $452.15
Review Alex Steinweiss: Creator of the Modern Album Cover / Taschen:This title discusses about music for the eyes; the man who revolutionized record packaging; and, the golden age of album cover design: the first ever in-depth retrospective of the work of Alex Steinweiss, inventor of the record album cover. This collector's edition contains the full range of his output including hundreds of previously unpublished sketches, mock-ups, and comps from his personal archive. Limited to 100 individually numbered copies, each signed by Alex Steinweiss in his trademark 'Steinweiss Scrawl', printed on archival-quality paper and packaged in a custom slipcase, this Art Edition comes with an original signed artwork. In 1939, Columbia Records' newly hired art director, then 23-year-old Alex Steinweiss, pitched a novel idea to management: why not replace the standard plain brown album wrapper with an eye-catching package? The fledgling record company initially balked at the expense, but decided to take a chance on Smash Song Hits by Rodgers & Hart, performed by the Imperial Orchestra, a risk that paid off. Within months of Steinweiss' repackage of their line of 78-r. p. m. records - with abstract and sophisticated illustrations, and novel typography influenced by European poster artists of the 1930s like Joseph Binder - sales increased by as much as 800 per cent and the album cover as we know it was born. A decade later, he invented the paperboard jacket to contain the new 33-1/3 inch long-playing record, the LP, which remains the industry standard to this day. For three decades, Steinweiss created thousands of original artworks for jazz, classical, and popular record covers not only for Columbia, Decca, London, and others, as well as designing logos, labels, adverting material, even his own typeface named the Steinweiss Scrawl. [+]He defined the golden age of album cover design and influenced generations of album designers to follow. Less well known, but also highly influential, was his work outside of the record industry: posters for the U. S. Navy during World War II, print ads for ladies' footwear, packing and label design for liquor companies, and film title sequences; as well as his personal fine art which included paintings, drawings, and ceramics. This text includes an original essay from renowned design historian and Steinweiss expert Steven Heller, Alex Steinweiss' personal recollections from his years in the business, detailed captions, and extensive bibliographic information. Also featured in this in-depth retrospective are hundreds of sketches, mock-ups, and comps from Steinweiss' personal archive, most of which have never been published before.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-10-14
Dewey code: 346.730484
Price: $85.00
Review Using Design Protection in the Fashion Industry / John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (UK):The fashion industry has been phenomenally successful in the UK and has created internationally recognized designers and training schools. However, little attention has been paid to intellectual property protection and rights, although piracy and copying can put small companies out of business. Lack of industry awareness means that problems tend to be identified too late for effective action. The most important rights in this area are the automatic rights - copyright and design right, and registered protection rights - patents and trade marks. This text represents a guide to the concerns of the industry. The text is clear and concise with illustrations and numerous case studies, including Debenhams, Next, Lycra, and Marks and Spencer's.
Creator: Michael Semff
Publication date: 1998-07
Dewey code: 709
Price: $95.00
Review Brice Marden: Work Books 1964-1995 / Richter Verlag:
Creator: Ward Greene
Edition: Limited
Publication date: 1998-09
Dewey code: 741.580973
Price: $100.00
Review Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp (The Sketchbook Series , No 6) / Applewood Books:
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Die Fruhen Meister: Japanische Holzschnitte von 1650 bis 1750 : Museum fur Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt am Main, Bihzad, Master of Persian Painting, Arts & Architecture, 1945-54: The Complete Reprint, Robert Crumbs Sex Obsessions, Great Bear (The Great Pamphlet Series), Rembrandt as an etcher: A study of the artist at work, Esaias Van De Velde (1587-1630) (Aetas Aurea : monographs on Dutch & Flemish painting), Barlowe's Inferno, Line Vautrin: Sculptor, Jeweller, Magician, George Grosz: D. druckgraph. Werk, Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal, Auguste Lepere: 1849-1918, Paul Landacre, a life and a legacy (Los Angeles miscellany), Picasso 347, Applied Typography II (Applied Typography), The Complete Etchings of Adriaen Van Ostade: New Illustrations and First English Translation of the Catalogue Raisonne, Together With a Reprint of the Original French Edition, Alex Steinweiss: Creator of the Modern Album Cover, Using Design Protection in the Fashion Industry, Brice Marden: Work Books 1964-1995, Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp (The Sketchbook Series , No 6)Top headlines: Video: Designers try hand at Michelle Obama's party dress: Dec. 4: Women's Wear Daily enlisted major designers including Marc Jacobs and Oscar de la Renta to sketch potential Inauguration dresses for the incoming first lady. 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