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Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art
by Staniszewski, Mary Anne
New York: Penguin Books, 1995. x, 308 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Why are the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes, and Marcel Duchamp's ready-made urinal all considered works of art? Why, strictly speaking, is a Cindy Sherman photograph more "art-like" than a Da Vinci portrait? How did the painters and sculptors of the Renaissance see their creations? And who decides what art is today? In the tradition of Marshall McLuhan and...
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£11.80
Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
by Arnheim, Rudolf
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974. 64 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. First published, 1971. Tight, clean copy. Dogeared a couple of times. Browning. Another copy available. "Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand. Arrangements such as the layout of a city or building, a set of tools, a display of merchandise, the verbal exposition of facts or ideas, or a painting or piece of music are called orderly when an observer or listener can grasp their...
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£4.48
Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century
by Goldwater, Robert, and Treves, Marco (Compiled and Edited by)
New York: Pantheon Books, 1974. xii, 499 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. First published 1945. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear. "Excerpts from the writings of painters and sculptors over a period of seven centuries present a highly personal and authentic history of art." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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£7.73
Letters from His Youth
by Baudelaire, Charles; Morini, Simona, and Tuten, Frederic (Translated by), and Starkie, Enid (Introduction by)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. Cloth, xii, 143 pages; 22 cm. Translation of Lettres inedites aux siens. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket clipped on the front flap.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture
by Harris, Marvin
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1968. Cloth, 806 pages; 24 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. CONTENTS: Enlightenment; Reaction and recovery: the early nineteenth century; Rise of racial determinism; Spencerism; Evolutionism: methods; The evolutionists: results; Dialectical materialism; Historical particularism: Boas The Boasian milieu; The...
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£19.94
The Art of Artificial Silk
by LINCOLN, Maxine
Nottingham: Courtaulds Ltd, 1925. First Edition. Enchanting catalogue of 1920's women's fashion and textiles for home furnishings and interiors. "Beautiful frocks, like pictures, need an appropriate frame to set off their loveliness, and Courtaulds, whose marvellous development of Artificial Silk has resulted in the existence of the beautiful materials I hve endeavoured to describe to you in this little book, have also brought their years of experience in the manufacture and perfecting of this...
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£182.56
Kenneth Clark: A Biography
by Secrest, Meryle
New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1986. xvii, 310 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 23 cm. First published, 1984. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. A biography of the English art historian and tv presenter Kenneth Clark (1903-1983).. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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£9.36
The Domain of Images
by Elkins, James
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. xxi, 282 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "In the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This book calls upon art historians to look beyond their traditional subjects - painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking - to the vast array of "nonart" images, including those from science, technology, commerce, medicine, music, and archaeology. Such images, James Elkins asserts, can be as...
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Interieurs Rustiques
by CHARLES-BRUN
Paris: Charles Moreau, 1920. A series of illustrations of provincial interiors. Folio, loose plates in the original portfolio.
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£208.64
Art and Technique in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Francastel, Pierre; Bois, Yve-Alain (Foreword by), and Cherry, Randall (Translated by)
New York: Zone Books, 2003. 331 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. First published, 1956. Translated from the French. Tight, clean copy. "Although the work of Pierre Francastel has long carried the label 'sociology of art,' it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. For too long, Francastel has been unavailable to English-language readers and hence known only through erroneous and second-hand characterizations. The translation of Art and Technology should open the way for...
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£14.24
How to Read Contemporary Art
by Wilson, Michael
New York: Abrams, 2013. 395 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Todays artists create work thats challenging, complicated, and often perplexing, and this book offers a guide to understanding--and enjoying--the wide range of works on display in museums and galleries worldwide. How to Read Contemporary Art provides a thoughtful, accessible, and lavishly illustrated look at the ever-changing world of art at the beginning of the 21st century. Organized alphabetically, the...
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£32.15
Art Afterpieces
by Kimball, Ward; Kelly, Walt (Foreword by)
New York: Essandess Special Editions, 1964. np, colour illustrations; 22 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.
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£6.10
The Subversive Imagination: The Artist, Society and Social Responsiblity
by Becker, Carol (Edited by)
New York and London: Routledge, 1994. xx, 256 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. "In The Subversive Imagination, professional writers, artists and cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors look beyond censorship and free speech issues and instead emphasize the subject of freedom. More specifically, the contributors question the ethical, mutual responsibilities...
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The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
by Miller, Arthur I
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. xxviii, 399 pages, [4] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Today's computers are composing music that sounds 'more Bach than Bach,' turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative--or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers?...
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Art in Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935-1975
by Porter, Fairfield; Downes, Rackstraw (Edited with an Introduction by)
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1979. 288 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the editor Rackstraw Downes (Realist painter and ally of Porter) on the title page, no dedication. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear & a faded spine, protected in a mylar book cover.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Collectible.
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£203.48
Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries
by Kuspit, Donald
New York: Allworth Press, 2000. xxxii, 319 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge. Another copy available. "In essays culled from three decades of critical writing, Donald Kuspit explores the aesthetic developments of the twentieth century, from post-impressionism to the latest permutation of post-Modernism. Ranging from Willem de Kooning to Andy Warhol to Sue Coe, this provocative anthology chronicles the distinctive voice of a formidable art...
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£24.01
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World
by Dyer, Geoff
New York: Pantheon Books, 2016. Cloth, x, 233 pages, [4] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "From 'one of our most original writers' (Kathryn Schulz) comes an expansive and exacting book--firmly grounded, but elegant, witty, and always inquisitive--about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer's...
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Foucault for Beginners
by Fillingham, Lydia Alix
New York: Writers & Readers, 1993. 156 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. An accessible comic-strip format explanation of the theories of French philosopher Michel Foucault.. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Susser, Moshe. 8vo.
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£6.10
Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls
by Donoghue, Denis
New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1995. viii, 364 pages; 25 cm. Good+. Scattered pencil marks. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "A twentieth-century intellectual of the first rank presents the case for the nineteenth-century aesthetician whose elegant subversions delivered us to modernism. Walter Pater (1839-1894) was an obscure Oxford don until 1873, when his first book, The Renaissance, exposed his argument favoring sensation over thought and, in doing so, ignited a hard, gem-like flame....
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The Harold Letters, 1928-1943: The Making of a Young Intellectual
by Greenberg, Clement, and Van Horne, Janice (Edited by)
Washington, D.C. and New York: Counterpoint; Perseus Books, 2000. ix, 310 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Art critic Greenberg's correspondence with Harold Lazarus (1909-1983).. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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£10.17
Anthony Blunt: His Lives
by Carter, Miranda
New York: Picador; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. xviii, 590 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. The distinguished British art historian, it was later revealed, was part of the Cambridge spy circle.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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£7.73
Ethics vs. aesthetics; the 2013 BASTARD Conference, anarchist theory til the cows come home
Berkeley: BASTARD Conference, 2013. Pamphlet. [6p.], 5.5x8.5 inch wraps; illus., staple slightly rusted, else very good. Program for an anarchist conference that occurred on UC Berkeley campus.
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£12.21
Introducing Modernism
by Rodrigues, Chris, and Garrat, Chris
Cambridge: Icon Books; Totem Books, 2001. 175 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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£7.73
Still Looking: Essays on American Art
by Updike, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2005. Cloth, xv, 222 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "When, in 1989, a collection of John Updikes writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, 'He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.' In...
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£15.87
The Undressed Art: Why We Draw
by Steinhart, Peter
New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2004. 259 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Combining the scientific, the historical, the anecdotal and the personal with marvelous ease, Steinhart asks some provocative questions: Why do drawings often speak to us more eloquently than paintings? What is the mind doing when we draw? Why is so much drawing of the face and of the nude figure? What is...
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