Search Results: Art from House of Our Own Books

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Duffield & Company, 1923. Hard Cover; Very Good; No Dust Jacket; This is a study of the philosophical background, the intellectual life, and the art of the 11th century Chinese painter Li Lung-Mien; includes 20 full-page reproductions of Li Lung-Mien's paintings; the author was an influential journalist, translator and philanthropist (gray cloth with black Chinese characters on the front, black lettering on paper spine label, slight edge wear: otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy, 9" X 11 1/2"; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None. 9" X 11 1/2".

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996. This book is the catalog of an exhibition at the Whitney Museum from November 1996 to February 1997 whose intent was to show that, as important as Dada was to the growth of American modernism, the ferment of New York played an equally critical role in the evolution of Dada itself; New York Dada activity, reflected within a small but important community of artists, writers, critics, and patrons located in and around the Arensberg circle, was influenced by new technologies of photography and cinema, psychoanalytic theory of the subconscious mind, and the social tumult of massive waves of immigration; includes scholarly essays on New York Dada and many illustrations; contributors include Francis Naumann, the exhibition curator, Todd Alden, Steven Watson, Lauren Ross, Allan Antliff, Jay Bochner, Abraham Davidson, Lauren Dalrymple Henderson, Amelia Jones, Rosalind Krauss, Molly Nesbit, Robert Rosenblum, Dickran Tashjian, Beth Venn, Barbara Zabel… Read More

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: MIT Press Following a symposium held at ZKM / Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany in 2011, this collection of essays and artwork documents both the aesthetic and cognitive developments of the molecular revolution and demonstrates the links between molecular sciences, the visual arts, and music (laminated white pictorial cover with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment). Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. 7 1/8 X 9 7/8.

Paris, France: Musees et Monuments de France, 1992. This is an illustrated history of the one of the finest museums in France and its collections; includes many color reproductons of the paintings and other works of art in the museum (pictorial cover with detail from 15th century painting on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy). Paperback. As New. 8 1/4" X 11".

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Harvard University Press, 1982. Published for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., this is a two-volume boxed set, an extensively illustrated biography of Eakins by an important art historian, a curator and later the Director of the Whitney Museum of Art, who published an earlier biography of Eakins in 1933, based on research that included conversations with Eakins' widow and interviews with his friends and former students, many of whom were the subjects of his portraits, and access to Eakins' letters and notebooks; this new book takes into account the extensive research and literature on Eakins since 1930; includes 275 illustrations in both black & white and color; signed by author on front endpaper of Volume I (white & tan textured cloth with tan lettering, both volumes in near fine condition except that spines are foxed, slipcase in nearly perfect condition). Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9 1/4" X 11 1/4". Boxed Set.

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. This is a study of 19th century North American artists whose travels through Central and South America had a decisive influence on their own artistic careers; includes 100 black & white illustrations, 8 color plates, and an appendix with the biographies and itineraries of the artist-travelers (olive green cloth with gold lettering on spine is slightly sunned along upper edge; pictorial dust jacket with yellow & white lettering is enclosed in a mylar cover; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 9 1/4" X 10 1/4".

Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.: Perceval Press, 2009. This book consists of a series of 35 collages that combine maps, paint and text to form an atlas of imaginary future American states that is a satirical critique of American imperialism (brown covers with silver lettering and world maps on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstorre) . Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. 11 3/4" X 10 5/8".

Munich, Germany: Prestel Verlag, 2006. This is a magnificent volume on the renowned German biologist, naturalist, artist, and illustrator, who developed his science and his ideas about nature in both writing and images; this volume focuses on his images of nature, and places them in the context of his life and work; includes many of his drawings and watercolors (light orange covers with dark orange lettering on spine; decorative end papers; white pictorial dust jacket with orange & gray lettering in plain cardboad slipcase; this is a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/As New. 9 3/4 " x 13 1/2".