Search Results: Art and Architecture from Focloir

France 86as19 Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis. A Symposium. Edited by Paula Liber Gerson.New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986, 304 pages, many black and white illustrations, plans. The front bottom cover of the dust jacket is missing the tip. Overall, very good in dust jacket. $22.50 Box A 2
Contents: Foreword / Philippe de Montebello -- Preface / Paula Lieber Gerson -- Introduction: Suger's life and personality / John F. Benton -- Suger's monastic administration / Giles Constable -- Suger, theology, and the Pseudo-Dionysian tradition / Grover A. Zinn -- The liturgy at Saint-Denis: a preliminary study / Niels Krogh Rasmussen -- Suger's views on kingship / Andrew W. Lewis -- Suger and the Capetians / Eric Bournazel -- A note on Suger's understanding of political power / Michel Bur -- Good words, social ties, and the hope for salvation / Abbot Suger and Saint-Denis / Clark Maines -- Suger and the symbolism of royal power: the seal of Louis VII / Brigitte Bedos Rezak -- Suger's church at Saint-Denis:… Read More

Art hgad Hellemo, Geir, 1950- Adventus Domini: eschatological thought in 4th-century apses and catecheses. (Series:
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, v. 5). Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill. 1989, xxiv, 309 pages, [37] pages of plates: illus., bib, index. Fine copy of the hardcover in blue cloth and gilt lettering. $110.00 Box A118
Note: Translated of Kristus på keisertronen from the Norwegian by Elinor Ruth Waaler.

Africa 1015 Africa in antiquity: the arts of ancient Nubia and the Sudan. Two volumes. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Museum, 1978, I: The Essays: 143p, bib, maps, charts, illus, many colored. Ten essays by different scholars. II: The Catalogue: 366p, bib, index, bib, maps, charts, illus, mostly black and white. Edited by Steffen Wenig. (Catalog of the exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, September 30-December 31, 1978 and other places. Some minor shelf wear, good, clean tight copies. $50.00

Africa 101 African folktales & sculpture. Selected and edited by Paul Radin with the collaboration of Elinore Marvel; sculpture selected with an introduction by James Johnson Sweeney. (Bollingen Series XXXII) New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 1952, xxi, 355p., 187 pages of black and white plates, illus. Bound in tan canvas, black cloth spine, good plus copy. Gift inscription on front free endpaper from 1953. First edition. There was a later edition published in 1966. Large, heavy volume, nicely done.

Ancient world 818 Lamb, Winifred. Ancient Greek and Roman bronzes. Enlarged edition with a foreword and reference bibliography by Lenore Keene Congdon. Chicago: Argonaut, 1969, xliii, 261 pages, 97 plates, index, illus. Reprint, with additions, of the 1929 edition, published under title: Greek and Roman bronzes. Fine copy, clean tight, no marks. $20.00

Ancient world 1278Talbot Rice, Tamara. Ancient arts of Central Asia. New York: Praeger, 1965, 288 p, bib, notes, index, illus. (part col.), maps. Some shelf wear, good to very good in dust jacket, which is good. $15.00
Contents: The world of the Transcaucasian and Central Asian nomads -- The smaller kingdoms of Transcaucasia and the Persian highlands during the first millennium BC -- Soghdia, Ferghana and Chorasmia form Achaemenid to Islamic times -- Bactria and North-Western India from Achaemenid to Islamic times -- Eastern Turkestan in the Roman and Buddhist periods -- Armenia, Georgia and Caucasian Albania in early Christian times.

Ancient world 604Erim, Kenan T. Aphrodisias: city of Venus Aphrodite. Introduction by John Julius Norwich. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1986, 200p, bib, index, illus. (some col.). Good clean tight copy in dust jacket. Larger volume, 9" x 12". $25.00

Ancient world 968 (Egypt). Badawy, Alexander. Architecture in Ancient Egypt and the Near East. Cambridge: Massachusets Institute of Technology (M.I.T.Press), 1972, x, 246p, index, illus. Second printing, first published in 1966. Very good in dust jacket. DJ has small blemish to front panel. $15.00

Ancient world 826Lauter, Hans. Architektur des Hellenismus. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1986, xii, 329 p., notes, index, [128] p. of plates: illus. Very nice copy, clean, tight, no marks.
$17.50

BYZ 1075 Connor, Carolyn. Art and Miracles in Medieval Byzantium: The Crypt at Hosios Loukas and Its Frescoes. Princeton University Press, 1991, xiii, 132p, bib, index, 100 photographic plates. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. $25.00

Ancient world 1439 Pollitt, J. J. (Jerome Jordan). Art in the Hellenistic Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1986), 329 pages, bib, notes, index, maps, 300 black and white illustrations. Paperback, quarto size. A previous owner has highlighted in pink with pen marginalia up to page 31 -first page of Chapter One. Guess the reader ran out of steam. Except for the highlighting and marginalia, a good to very good copy of a fine scholarly work. Pollitt was a professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at Yale University. $16.50
Hellenistic period from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the establishment of the Roman Empire at the end of the first century B.C.

Art 1000 Anker, Peter and Aron Andersson. The Art of Scandinavia. Two volumes. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1970, 457 pages, bib, index, illus; 399 pages, bib, index, fine copies in dust jacket. Covers the period from A.D. 400 to approximately A.D. 1200. It is chock full of beautiful photographs and illustrations. The photos of the stave churches are especially interesting. Very attractive set. The set: $25.00

Ancient World 105jka Jettmar, Karl. Art of the Steppes. Translated from the German. Revised edition. (Series: Art of the World). New York: Greystone Press, 1967, 278 pages, illus (some colored), maps, bib, index. The top paper edge was once a little dusty, very good clean, tight copy in like dust jacket. Interesting. $9.50 Box A 105

Native Americans 001 Josephy, Alvin M. Jr. Artist Was A Young Man The Life Story Of Peter Rindisbacher.
Fort Worth Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1970, vi, 102 pages, illus, notes, bib, index. Hardcover, very good to fine in like dust jacket. $8.50 Box A 71
This gifted Swiss immigrant artist chronicled many aspects of Native American life. Sadly, he died at the age of 28 in 1834.

Ancient world 987 (Assyria). Parrot, André, 1901-1980. Assur. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée. [Paris]:Gallimard, [1969], xii, 426 p, bib, index, illustrations (some color), folded maps. Revised and enlarged edition. A large and heavy book. (8 3/4" x 11" x 1 1/2", 5 pounds). Good copy in dust jacket. Book is in French. $25.00

Ancient world 809Kroll, John H. Athenian bronze allotment plates. (Loeb classical monographs). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972, xv, 352 p. illus, 318 figures, index. Good, clean, tight copy. Signature of former classics professor on front free endpaper. $10.00

Ancient world 986Parlama, Liana and Nicholas Stampolidis. Athens: The City Beneath the City. Antiquities from the Metropolitan Railway Excavations. Athens, Greece/New York: N.P. Goulandris Foundation, Museum of Cycladic Art, Harry N. Abrams, 2001, 413 pages, bib, illustrated with 500 plates in full color, diagrams and charts. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "The City Beneath the City" held at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 29 February 2000 to 31 December 2001. Filled with lavish full-color photos that show the finds that were uncovered during the construction of the Athens Metroplitan Railway, including the Kerameikos cemetery and beneath modern-day Syntagma Square. Includes articles and essays, a chronological chart, and bibliography. Large, heavy volume. Very good to fine in dust jacket. $35.00

Ancient world 1108 Richter, Gisela M. A. Attic Red-Figured Vases: A Survey. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958, xxvii, 209p, bib, notes, illus, plates, index. Revised edition of classic 1946 edition. Good, clean solid copy. No dust jacket.

Ancient world 1372Walters, Elizabeth J. Attic grave reliefs that represent women in the dress of Isis. Princeton, N.J.: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1988, xvi, 134 p, bib, 52 pages of plates: illus, map. Paperback. Like new copy. $15.00

Art 1357 (O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986). Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Becoming O'Keeffe: the early years. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991, 399p, notes, bib, index. illus. Fine in dust jacket. $12.50 Box A 88
A beautifully produced book which examines the early years of the artist from 1915 to 1930.