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Chicago, IL: Pascal Covici, 1927. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Arichival Photographs. Text/AS New & Bright. Sienna-orange linen boars/NF w/rubs to corner tips & trace dent to lower back leading edge. DJ/None. PO name to front cover verso. 1927 vintage analysis & critic of Modern Art. Indiana-born journalist, Clarence Joseph Billiet (1883 - 1952), with a most diverse educational background, began his newspaper career w/the Louisville Herald, then joined the Indianapolis Star as a police reporter to become its drama critic. From 1924 to his death in 1952, Bulliet was the most important art critic in Chicago. His judgments are admirable. Here's an quote: "Matisse and Picasso are the two painters since Cezanne of assured position high in the Pantheon of the Modern Renaissance - the greatest movement in art history since the Italian awakening. Gauguin, Van Gogh and Renoir were contemporaries of the arch revolutionist of Aix." Keen-eyed & confident early…
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APPLES & MADONNAS: EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION IN MODERN ART
by C. J. Billiet
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CHINESE AND JAPANESE ART : With Sections on Korea & Vietnam (English Edition, Anchor A 554)
by Jean Buhot; (Translated from French to English by Remy Inglis Hall; Charles McCurdy (Editor)
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1967. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Claude Abeille (Drwings); Hnri Jacquinet & Pierre Simonet (Maps). Text/NEW & Bright. English translation from French. Softcover VG/strong w/edge rubs & surface wear. Originally published as "Extreme Orient" in "Encyclopedia de la Pleiade: Histoire de L'Art, I" of the Librairie Gallimard (1961); this is the 1967 English translation from the French. In depth study of centuries of Chinese and Japanese art w/supplementary coverage of adjacent regions. 428 pages w/maps, archival photos in 4 parts: Part I, Chinese Art; II, Korean Art; III, Japanese Art; and IV, Tonkinese & Annamese Art, followed by handy Chronological & Analytical Tables.
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E AKROPOLIS: KAI TO MOUSEIO TES
by Donta, Georgiu
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Athena: Ekdoseis Kleio, 1979. Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace edge rubs. 4-fold pull-out perspective rendering of the Acropolis and its pre-Philippan surroundings (also BRAND NEW) to rear. A most handsome and professional guidebook. Contains some 40 pages of illustrated Greek text, and about 95 pages of color plates. About 5/8 of the book covers the Acropolis, and the balance, the exhibits, grouped by aithousa, in the Acropolis Museum. 135 glossy pages, with Frontispiece., and 16 3/4 x 24" (approximate) 4-fold pull-out perspective rendering of the Acropolis and its pre-Philippan surroundings. Covers are slightly rubbed at upper edge, otherwise clean and sound; text is strong and clean.
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JAPANESE PAINTING: A BRIEF HISTORY
by Kenji Toda
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Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1965. First Editon, First Printing . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Archival Illustrations. BRAND NEW COPY. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear. A Graphic review of the history of Japanese painting from the 7th to the 19th centuries. 36 b/w b/w Illustrations selected to illustrate evolutions in both techniques & styles. 102 pages, b/w illustrations, 36 chapters in 3 parts: I, Buddhist Schools; II, Japanese Schools; and III, Chinese Schools.
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MUSIC AS AN ART: A GUIDE TO ENDURING ENJOYMENT THROUGH CONSCIOUS LISTENING - FROM GREGORIAN CHANT TO THE SCORES OF STRAVINSKY
by Herbert Weinstock
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New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1953. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Blue linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; sound, price-clipped, w/light wear; under mylar. Historical survey of Western music by Herbert Weinstock (1905 - 1971), author of "Chopin: The Man and his Music," "Handel," and "Tchaikovsky." On what to hear patterns & structure, or, language used when listening to music. 334 pgs, in 21 chapters followed by Postlude. The composers & their works are placed within the context of the times in which composed & the evolutions brought about by new techniques and instruments are discussed.
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PROBLEMY IZUCHENIYA PAMYATNIKOV DUKHOVNOI I MATERIAL'NOI KULTURY: Materialy nauchnoi konferentsii 1989, Vypusk I
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Moskva: Istoriko-kul'turnyi musei-zapovednik "Moskovskii Kreml', 1992. Printed Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 1/4"; 20.96cm. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/ligh edge wear, and rubs to surfaces. Papers 1, 5, and 9 -- representative of the 13 in this volume -- are: "Stikhirar'" Yakova-Tvorimira -- pamyatnik novgorodskoi pis'mennosti kontsa XII veka (Kalugin); Materialy gerol'dmeisterskoi kontoy o privlechenii rossiiskogo dvoryanstva k gosudarstvennoi slushbe v XVIII veke (Faizova); and Simbolika izobrazhenii na vizantiiskom serebryanom kuvshine V veka iz sobraniya Muzeev Kremlya (Markina). 159 pages, with illustrations, and Spisok sokrashchenii.
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TARAS SHEVCHENKO STATE MUSEUM: Derzhavnii Musei T. G. Shevchenka; Gosuddarstvennyi Muzei T. G. Shevchenko
by Shevchenko, Taras: Vnuchkova Lybov' Ivanovna; et al. [Eds.]
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Kiev: Mistetstvo, 1989. Hardcover. New/New. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace where to dustjacket. This volume contains much of the best pictorial work of the Ukrainian author and painter Shevenko (1814-1861) who, born a serf, became a national cultural figure (and a free man) through force of talent, energy, and character. The literary works are mentioned briefly, and the author's Pan-Slavism goes unremarked. What is included are 150 color plates of works by Shevchenko, his contemporaries and his admirers, drawn from the museum in Kiev. The major text is in Ukrainian cyrillic, but there are satisfactory Rezume/Summary, and Perechen' Illustratsiiin/List of Illustrations (with subjects, sizes, dates) in Russian and in English at the end of the volume. 167 pages; decorative endpapers.
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UNA TROUBRIDGE : The Friend of Radclyffe Hall
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New York, NY: Carroll & Graf, 1985. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. B-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace edge wear. PO embossed stamp to title page. Biography of British painter and scupltor (the only scultor of Nijinsky), and translator (French, Italian & Russian), Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (1887 - 1963). Best remembered as the long-time lesbian partner of Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (author of The Well of Loneliness); theirs is a compelling love story of nearly 30 years. Richard Ormrod's sensitive biography is in 19 chapters, 4 parts: I, Introduction; II, Life Together: The First Years (1917-26); III, The Well... and After (1926-34); IV, Life Together: The Last Years (1934-43); and V, "Widowhood" 1943-62). 340 (+ x unnumbered) pages, illustrations, Notes, and Index.
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VASSILIKI FALKEHAG
by Barilleux, René Paul; & Doubilet, Susan
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Lund [Sweden]: Lunds Konsthall, 1999. Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace edge & surface wear. This volume was prepared to accompany Ms. Falkehag's exhibition at the Lund Art Gallery in the summer of 1999. Not an exhibition catalog per se, but a review of the South Carolinian's work, which incorporates natural materials, including live plants (mushrooms, chestnuts, grasses, tobacco) in sculptural contexts and settings. 84 pages, with numerous illustrations, Selected Exhibitions, and Bibliography.
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VZPOMINA : Na detstvi, domov a mlada Leta
by Zrzavy, Jan
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Praha: Svoboda, 1971. First Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/stitched. Very Good/Fair. Jan Zrzavy (Author-Illustrator). Text/As New; English text. Illustrated blue linen boards/NF. DJ/Fair; intact w/closed tears, rubs, faint creasings to edges & surface discoloration. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece: Photo portrait of author. Part memoir & part critical appreciation the Czech modernist painter, graphic artist & illustrator Jan Zrzavý (1890 - 1977), who was honored as the National Artist of 1965. Title sometimes translated as: Jan Redhead Remembers the Home, Childhood and Teenage Years... Chapters, author illustrated (4 color plates), are: 1, U nas doma; Detske roky na vsi; Putovani po skolach; 2, Za prvnim obrazem; 3, Znameni Leonardovo; and 4, Malirem. Also included are Ke vzniku vzpominek (Dagmar Maxova); Jan Zrzavy -- clovek a tvurce (Vladimir Fiala), and Seznam vyobrazeni. 107 pages.
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