Search Results: Art and Artists from Cat's Cradle Books

Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1955. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wraps have heavy edge wear, some fading and creasing at spine. ; Abstracts of studies in general literature; museology; materials, construction, and conservation of objects; and technological examination of objects and analysis of materials. Index. ; 9.25" tall; 408 pages.

Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages that are slightly rippled throughout. Paper over boards is edge worn with chip at upper spine, bumped corners, overall shelf wear, tanning and soiling. ; Contents: Seven senses of a room. Clean and organic: a study in architectural semantics. Architecture and the poet. Recent poets on man and his place. A spatial configuration in five recent poets. Recent Catholic views on art and poetry. The relation between aesthetics and art-critcism. Art: reminder and delight. Katharine Everett Gilbert: a bibliography (compiled by Lulu C. Erwin). ; 8.75" tall; 145 pages.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Abbeville Press, Incorporated, 1990. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New with no dust jacket. First Edition. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps clean with extremely slight edge rubbing. Square, tight copy with immaculate wraps. Book has not been used. Interior is clean and bright. 135 pp. Representative works from the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with an essay accompanying each. Printed on high-quality glossy paper; color plates of works included. Created to accompany a traveling exhibit of the same name. ; Color Plates; 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 135 pages.

Scottsdale, Arizona: American Indian Art Magazine, 2008. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Slight shelf wear on wrappers. ; Contents: Brownstone, Reverend John McLean and the Bloods. Lanmon and Harlow, The potters of Zuni pueblo of the 1920s and 1930s. Penney, New Native American Art Galleries at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Rushing, Manifest Sovereignty: "Diversity and Dialogue" at the Eiteljorg Museum. Regular features. 11.0" tall; 120 pages.

New York: American Art Journal, 1978. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear, some fading at spine. Contents: Groseclose, Painting, Politics, and George Caleb Bingham. Fennimore, Religion in America: Metal Objects in Service of the Ritual. Pilgrim, The Revival of Pastels in Nineteenth-Century America: The Society of Painters in Pastel. Fink, The Innovation of Tradition in Late Nineteenth-Century American Art. Hallam, Houdon's Washington in Richmond: Some New Observations. Marks, An Eighteenth-Century American Landscape Painter Rediscoverd: John Taylor of Bath. Stewart, The AMerican Empire Style: Its Historical Background. Book reviews. Index. ; 10.5" tall; 114 pages.

Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ faded at spine with general light edge wear. ; Chapters on Thomas Eakins, American orientalists and classical idealists. Chapters on accomodating academic ieals to American imagery and the academic armature of American impressionism. Roster of Gerome's American pupils, 1864-1903, included. ; The Anne Burnett Tandy Lectures in American Civilization; Vol. 5; 10.25" tall; 112 pages.

Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has light edge rubbing, overall light shelf wear. ; Armchair tour of 119 scenic and historic lights along the east and west coasts of the United States, as well as the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. 11.0" tall; 110 pages.

Santa Fe, New Mexico, U. S. A.: Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 1988. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is sound. Pages have occasional underlined passages in pencil. Wraps have light shelf wear. ; Essays illustrated in black and white with representative Navajo art. Contents: Bertha P. Dutton, Foreword. Bernstein and McGreevy, The Navajo Nation: An Introduction. Bernstein and McGreevy, Continuity and Innovation in Recent Navajo Arts: An Introduction. Bernstein and McGreevy, The Arts. Chuck Rosenak, Pottery Arts. Shonto W. Begay, The View from the Mesa: ASource of Navajo Creativity. Luci Tapahonso, What I Am: A Multi-generational story. Exhibition object list. Selected bibliography and references. End notes. ; 10.0" tall; 47 pages.

Paris: Artheme Fayard & Cie, 1930. Softcover. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. Illustrated by Morin-Jean. Book is in the French language. Heavily worn, stitched binding sound, wrappers edge worn and chipped with most of spine missing. Pages tanned with edge wear. Handling wear to exterior. Wood block prints reproduced by galvanotype by Morin-Jean throughout. ; Volume in series designed to bring the work of contemporary artists to the reading public. The text, by Louys was originally published in 1896 as a description of a courtesan in Alexandria. ; Le Livre de Demain; Wood block prints; 9.25" tall; 126 pages.

Jerusalem: Cultural Relations Department, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 1965. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Wraps have small tear at top of spine, overall light soiling and shelf wear, faint spine crease. Pages clean, slightly age-darkened. Illustrated with color, black and white photographs. Contents: Sandberg, "The Message of Human Creativity"; Mansfeld, "Unity in Diversity"; Kiesler and Bartos, "The Shrine of the Book"; Yadin, "The Scrolls in the Shrine"; Kahane, "The Biblical and Archaeological Museum"; Amiran, "Science in the Serivce of Archaeology"; Noguchi, "A Sculpture Garden in Jerusalem"; Ardon, "Whither Israel Art?"; Katz, "A Tabernacle in the Wilderness"; Roth, "Jewish Ceremonial Art": Gordon, "The Museum's Junior Wing"; Frankfurter, "Art Based on the Old Testament."; 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 75 pages.

New York: College Art Association, 1992. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Branham, Sacred space under easure in ancient synagogues and early churches. Neagley, Elegant simplicity: the late Gothic plan design of St.-Maclou in Rouen. Paoletti, Michelangelo's masks. Goldberg, Velázquez in Italy: painters, spies, and low Spaniards. Corbett, "The third factor": modernity and the absent city in the work of Paul Nash, 1919-36. Bergstein, Lonely Aphrodites: on the documentary photography of sculpture. Lachman, "The image made by chance" in China and the West: Ibk Wang meets Jackson Pollock's Mother. Reviews. ; 11.5" tall; 162 pages.

New York: College Art Association, 1991. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Minor soiling on title page and contents page; all other pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Bal and Bryson, Semiotics and art history. Hamburger, A Liber Precum in Sélestat and the development of the illustrated prayer book in Germany. Colantuono, Dies Alconiae: the invention of Bellini's Feast of the Gods. Siry, Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple and architecture for liberal religion in Chicago, 1885-1909. Collins, Life magazine and the abstract expressionists, 1948-51: a historiographic study of a late Bohemian enterprise. de Caso, A phillogical imposture: Henri Jouin, interpreter of David d'Angers. Brown, Two new Degas letters in New Orleans. Reviews. ; 11.5" tall; 174 pages.

New York: College Art Association, 1995. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: McWilliam, Monuments, martyrdom, and the politics of religion in the French Third Republic. O'Connell, Redefining the past: revolutionary architecture and the conseil des bâtiments civils. Eichberger and Beaven, Family members and political allies: the portrait collection of Margaret of Austria. Miller, Miraculous childbirth and the Portinari altarpiece. Polzer, Andrea di bonaiuto's Via Veritatis and Dominican thought in late medieval Italy. Randolph, The Bastides of southwest France. Weiss, Architectural symbolism and the decoration of the Ste.-Chapelle. Reviews. American and Canadian dissertations, 1994. 11.5" tall; 188 pages.

New York: College Art Association, 1996. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages clean and bright. Wrappers have handling wear, light soiling. Handling wear on table of contents. ; Contents: Rethinking the canon (Michael Camille, Zeynep Celik, John Onians, Adrian Rifkin, Christopher B. Steiner). Ostrow, Cigoli's Immacolata and Galileo's moon: astronomy and the Virgin in early seicento Rome. Wilson-Chevalier, Sebastian Brant: the key to understanding Luca Penni's JUstice and the Seven Deadly Sins. Hegarty, Laurentian patronage in the Palazzo Vecchio: the frescoes of the Sala dei Gigli. Kupfer, The lost wheel map of Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Valdez del Alamo, Lament for a lost queen: the sarcophagus of Doña Blanca in Nájera. Pittman, The white obelisk and the problem of historical narrative in the art of Assyria. Reviews. American and Canadian dissertations, 1995. Abstracts of articles. 11.5" tall; 185 pages.

New York: College Art Association, 1996. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Stein, Amédée Van Loo's Costume turc: the French sultana. McClellan, Watteau's dealer: Gersaint and the marketing of art in eighteenth-century Paris. Coheen, Body as "character" in early eighteenth-century French art and performance. Solkin, Samaritan or Scrooge? The contested image of Thomas Guy in eighteenth-century England. Courtright, Origins and meanings of Rembrandt's late drawing style. Honig, Country folk and city business: a print series by Jan van de Velde. Koch, The early Christian revival at S. Miniato al Monte: the Cardinal of Portugal Chapel. Reviews. ; 11.5" tall; 183 pages.

New York: College Art Association, 1994. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Kellum, The construction of landscape in Augustan Rome: the garden room at the villa ad Gallinas. Bergmann, The Roman house as memory theater: the house of the tragic poet in Pompeii. Ortiz, The poeti structure of a twelfth-century Chinese picctorial dream journey. Burkus-Chasson, Elegant or common? Chen Hongshou's birthday presentation pictures and his professional status. Farago, Leonardo's battle of Anghiari: a study in the exchange between theory and practice. Staller, Babel: hermetic languages, universal languages, and anti-languages in Fin de Siècle Parisian culture. Reviews. American and Canadian dissertations. 11.5" tall; 182 pages.

New York: College Art Association of America, 1981. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Contents: Carr, Two manuscripts by Joasaph in the United States. Kenseth, Bernini's Borghese sculptures: another view. Bernstock, Brnini's memorials to Ippolito Merenda and Alessandro Valtrini. Berger, Bernini's Louis XIV Equestrian: a closer examination of its fortunes at Versailles. Rosand and Rosand, "Barbara di Santa Sofia" and "Il Prete Genovese": on the identity of a portrait by Bernardo Strozzi. Bendiner, Wilkie in Turkey: The Tartar Messnger Narrating the News of the Victory of St. Jean d'Acre. Wright, Scott's historical novels and French historical painting, 1815-1855. Mower, Antoine Augustine Préault (1809-187). Moreno, Pontormo's passion cycle at the Certosa del Galluzzo. Features. ; 11.5" tall; 170 pages.

New York: College Art Association, 1996. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Contents: A range of critical perspectives: art history and its theories (Mieke Bal, Yve-Alain Bois, Irving Lavin, Griselda Pollock, Christopher S. Wood). Roque, Chevreul and impressionism: a reappraisal. Lovell, Picturing "A City for a Single Summer": paintings of the World's Columbian Exhibition. Miles and Reihardt, "Art concel'd": Peale's double portrait of Bnjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming; Pyne, Portrait of a collector as an agnostic: Charles Lang Freer and connoisseurship. Dean, Copied carts: Spanish prints and colonial Peruvian paintings. Liscomb, Social status and art collecting: the collections of Shen Zhou and Wang Zhen. Yegül, The thermo-mineral complex at Baiae and De Balneis Puteolanis. Reviews. Abstracts of articles. 11.5" tall; 182 pages.

New York: College Art Association, 1993. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Contents: Where's the poetry? Blier, Imaging otherness in ivory: African portrayals of the Portuguese ca. 1492. Halle, The audience for "primitive" art in houses in the New York region. Boime, Henry Ossawa Tanner's subversion of genre. Sund, Columbus and Columbia in Chicago, 1893: man of genius meets generic woman. Dwyer, André Thevet and Fulvio Orsini: the beginnings of the modern tradition of classical portrait iconography in France. Ernst, Frames at work: museological imagination and historical discourse in neoclassical Britain. Reviews. Abstracts of articles. 11.5" tall; 173 pages.

New York: College Art Association, 1993. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Contents: Hunter, Who is Jan van Eyck's "Cardinal Nicolo Albergati"? Rowoth, The evolution of history painting: Masaniello's revolt and other disasters in seventeenth-century Naples. Siegfried, Naked history: the rhetoric of military painting in postrevolutionary France. Ockan, Profiling homoeroticism: Ingres's Achilles Receiving the Ambassadors of Agamemnon. Clarke, The Warren Cup and the contexts for male-to-male lovemaking in Augustan and early Julio-Claudian art. Benjamin, The decorative landscape, fauvism, and the arabesque of observation. Reviews. Letters. American aand Canadian dissertations, 1992. Abstracts of articles. 11.5" tall; 148 pages.