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Art Now, An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture by Read, Herbert - 1954

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Art Now, An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture by Read, Herbert - 1954

Art Now, An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture

by Read, Herbert

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Faber & Faber, London, 1954. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographs. Second-hand copy, dust jacket chipped with loss of the head and tail of the spine, and bottom left-hand corner of the rear panel, price clipped. Original bookseller's name sticker at the bottom right-hand corner of the front paste down. Colour frontispiece, and the first 144 pages is the text, giving a background, and then looking at the breakup of the academic tradition, moving on towards expressionism, and then abstraction, super realism. Indexed. The remainder of the book is 192 black-and-white plates reproducing artwork. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 144, 192 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Sculpture & Ceramics. Inventory No: 0280803. .
  • Bookseller Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 AU (AU)
  • Illustrator Photographs
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good Condition
  • Jacket Condition Good
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition Reprint
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Faber & Faber
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1954
  • Keywords BZDB2 NOISBN Art sculpture painting theory Art & Design; Sculpture & Ceramics. Art Now An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture

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ART NOW. An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture.

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London, Faber and Faber, reprinted 1950.. 144pp +192 plates. 8vo. Original cloth . A very good copy.
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Art Now. An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture

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London: Faber & Faber, 1968. Originally published in 1933, and considered an important and standard work on modern aesthetics. This is a Very Good copy of the new and enlarged edition (First Edition Thus).Illustrated with 196 plates, including four in colour. Gray cloth binding with black and red lettering on the spine. Text is clean; 144 pages, indexed, with the illustrations following. Some offset from the dustwrapper to the endpapers, and the gutters a bit weak. The dustwrapper is Good only, with several large chips. In an archival plastic protector. A serviceable copy of this famous book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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Art Now. An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture

Art Now. An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture

by READ, Herbert

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London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1934.. Second impression. 8vo. 160 pp. Publisher's black cloth, stylised white and russet lettering to the spine, contemporary book label to the front free endpaper. 128 black and white plates. Mild rubbing to the covers, a little spotting to the endpapers, very good overall. First published the previous year.
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