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Paul Smith

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Jean Dubuffet

by Jean Dubuffet

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Contemporary

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Jean Dubuffet

Jean Dubuffet

by Dubuffet, Jean

The High Appreciation of the Cultural Relics of the Zeng Hou Yi Tomb

The High Appreciation of the Cultural Relics of the Zeng Hou Yi Tomb

by Li Ling and Hu Weiqing (Editors)

Wuhan, Hubei Province, China: Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House, 1995. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 102 pages exhibiting 125 items from the 1978 excavation of the Zeng Hou Yi Tomb in the northwest of Suizhou City in the Hubei Province: Bronze Wares; Musical Instruments; Lauerwares; Weapons, Chariots and Harness Articles; Goldwares and Jadewares; Bamboo Slips; Chu Wang Bo Bell; Bronze Zun and Pan; Bronze Jian and Fou; and the Coffin of the Tomb Owner. A written article for each of these items precedes the... Read more about this item
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£10.01
Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality

Jean Dubuffet: Towards an Alternative Reality

by Jean Dubuffet

Abbeville Press, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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£120.12
Happening & Fluxus: Materialien

Happening & Fluxus: Materialien

by Koelnischer Kunstverein

Unpag (thick). prof. illus. b&w (Koeln: Koelnischer Kunstverein, 1970). Stiff Wraps. German text. Stiff Wraps. As New. Rare.Please Note: Insurance is required for this item.
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£76.08
Melecio Galván

Melecio Galván

by Leila Driben

Cubierta con desgastes del tiempo.
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£96.10
In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair

In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair

by Ryan, Zoë, editor

Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Tall 8vo. 236 pp. Bound in full gray cloth stamped in orange on covers and spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Illustrations throughout. Includes checklist of plates, selected reading list for each artist, and index. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Art Institute of Chicago from September 6, 2019 to January 12, 2020 and featuring works by Clara Porset, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa,... Read more about this item
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£240.24
Dwellings

Dwellings

by Oliver, Paul

Some wear on rear top corner of paperback cover; otherwise like new; pages are clean and unmarked.
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£11.17
Louis Sakalovsky: The Reverse Side, Sculptures 1978-1999

Louis Sakalovsky: The Reverse Side, Sculptures 1978-1999

by Sakalovsky, Louis

Self Published, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Couple of edge tears at the head of the jacket's spine, otherwise about fine. For this book, Sakalovsky has chosen art works (Bohemian crystal glass sculptures created in Ajeto, Czech Republic)created over the previous 20 years (previous to 1999), in nine different countries, which relate to his school years and the fact that he had a reading disability. 121 pages, illustrated with color photos. Accompanying autobiographical text in both English and... Read more about this item
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£40.04
Yves Tanguy

Yves Tanguy

by Tanguy, Yves ; Penrose, Roland

New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1983. Paperback. Very Good +. Small 4to. 21 pp. Bound in stapled, illustrated wrappers, full-color cover illustration. Black and white illustrations throughout. Catalog from the 1983 exhibition organized by the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Museé National d'Art Moderne, Paris. Includes a list of the 125 works and 5 books and magazines in the exhibit. Very Good+, minor age-toning and wear to wrappers, otherwise clean copy.
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£52.05
American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of Edgar Williams and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

American Naive Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of Edgar Williams and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

by Walker, John (Foreword), Lloyd Goodrich (Preface), and Albert Ten Eyck Gardner (Introduction)

The american Federation of Arts, 1969. Book. Good. Soft cover. Light foxing to covers, corner crease to the front cover. 159 pages with representations of naive paintings in both color (55) and black and white (56). The paintings by known and unknown artisans, sign and house painters, farmers, frontiersmen, and itinerant portraitists range from the 1700s to the last quarter of the 19th century..
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£6.41
Playing With Fire: European Terracotta Models, 1740-1840

Playing With Fire: European Terracotta Models, 1740-1840

by Draper, James David and Guilhem Scherf

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 328 pages, including Artist's Biographies, Bibliography, Index, and Photograph Credits. Numerous color photos. This publication offers the first comprehensive overview of Neoclassical modeling in the years from 1740 to 1840. From the jacket: "The catalogue, numbering 142 objects, analyzes modeling at every stage, from the brusque, preliminary impulse of the artist to the highly finished statuettes that were... Read more about this item
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£32.03
James Howell--Gradient Intervals: Series 6.4

James Howell--Gradient Intervals: Series 6.4

by Naomi Specter (Essay), Edited by D. Joy Howell

Santa Fe: Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Printing. Light crease the length of the front cover. Exhibit catalog. First printing of 1,000 copies..
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£8.01
Fronteras

Fronteras

by VVAA

Encuadernación en pasta dura. Artistas y curadores: Grace Quintanilla, José Luis Barrios Lara, Eusebio Bañuelos, Ricardo Rendón,
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£32.03
Photology

Photology

by Aldobranti (as editor)

Western philosophy has always privileged the visible, relying on Light to reveal certainty and truth over Darkness, doubt, and the unknown. The photographic image — built of Light — accesses this privilege and is considered truthful but moreover, its technology allows for recording transience, intangibility, and the liminal. The open-minded photographer can deploy the metaphorical force of Darkness to explore feelings and uncertainties.
A starting point for these photographers was to study the cast... Read more about this item
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£18.00
Disobedient Objects

Disobedient Objects

by FLOOD, Catherine; GRINDON, Gavin (eds) [GRAEBER, DAVID]

London: V&A Publishing, 2014. First edition. Softback. Very good. Sm 4to (25cm). In the stitched spine binding, printed wraps. pp. 144, profusely illus, with essays from several contributors including David Graeber, On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets, and Anna Feigenbaum, The Disobedient Objects of Protest Camps. A bright, sound copy, with just faint rubs to tips and minor fade to margin adjacent to spine.
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£69.30
Aaron Copland's America: A Cultural Perspective

Aaron Copland's America: A Cultural Perspective

by Levin, Gail and Judith Tick

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing. Jacket has slight rubbing and wear at the head of the spine. An examination of Copland's music and career from a perspective of his interest in the visual arts and literature. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York.176 pages, with Notes and Index and numerous illustrations..
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£12.01
Sin Nombre

Sin Nombre

by Nunn, Tey Marianna

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. 8vo. xiv, 192 pp. Bound in full blue cloth in illustrated dust jacket. Full-color and black and white illustrations throughout. Includes bibliography and index. Very Good+, some light fading to extremities particularly tail of spine in Very Good dust jacket with scuffing, particularly to rear cover.
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£24.02
Impressions and Realities: An Exhibition of British, French and Irish Paintings from 1850 - 1930 - Pyms Gallery, London, Tuesday 5th November to Friday 6th December 1985

Impressions and Realities: An Exhibition of British, French and Irish Paintings from 1850 - 1930 - Pyms Gallery, London, Tuesday 5th November to Friday 6th December 1985

Londop: Pyms Gallery, 1985. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Thin line of foxing at the fore-edge of the half-title (first) page. Scratch and small corner crease to the rear cover. Nice, clean copy. 83 page exhibition catalog with black and white and color illustrations. An eclectic collection of realist, naturalist, and impressionist art from 1850-1930..
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£10.01
Dialogues

Dialogues

by Roditi, Edouard

San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1990. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. xviii, 156 pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Fine, bright, clean copy.
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£20.02
Contemporary Photoworks II. January 9-February 12, 1983.

Contemporary Photoworks II. January 9-February 12, 1983.

by Downtown Center for the Arts

Albuquerque, NM: A Project of Albuquerque United Artists, 1983. . 4to. 18 pp. Softcovers. Color Plates. Very Good.
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£40.04
Suburban Escape

Suburban Escape

by Wolfe, Ann M

Santa Fe, NM: Center for American Places, 2006. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Oblong 8vo. xvi, 120 pp. Perfect-bound in illustrated wrappers. Illustrated throughout in full color and black and white. Catalog for the exhibition held at the San Jose Museum of Art, Sept. 24, 2006-Mar. 5, 2007. Near Fine, light shelfwear to wrappers, otherwise clean and bright.
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£24.02
Spanish Serviettes

Spanish Serviettes

by ATKINSON, Craig

Café Royal Books, 2016. Second edition. Staplebound Wraps. New. CRB336. Edition of 100, after the first edition of 50 in 2007. 20 p. Photographic images of serviettes from Spanish restaurants and cafes.
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£7.10
Dekorativnoe iskusstvo [Decorative Art], no. 5 (402), 1991

Dekorativnoe iskusstvo [Decorative Art], no. 5 (402), 1991

Moscow: Sovetskii Khudozhnik, 1991. Illustrated wrappers. Book measures: 33 x 23 cm. 48 pages: illustrations. Text in Russian. A very good copy with light wear to wrappers. <br /> <br /> The publication, formerly known as "Decorative Art of the USSR," later renamed "Decorative Art," played a pioneering role in the late 1980s by being one of the earliest Russian magazines to delve into contemporary art. Beginning in 1989, it featured a section called "Rakurs,"... Read more about this item
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£184.18
Bulletin of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Volume X, Number 4,  October 1939

Bulletin of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Volume X, Number 4, October 1939

by Siple, Walter H

Cincinnati, Ohio: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1939. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 7 X 9 Inches. Stapled booklet, pages numbered 98-123. Staples are rusted otherwise a fine copy. Includes the following: A Rediscovered Painting by Jan Steen, by Walter H. Siple (with photos); The Benefactors (thank you to donors and aerial photo showing the museum's recent growth); Museum Notes, Art Museum Library, membership and donor listings, classes and activities offered, and continuing exhibitions.
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£28.03
Sip! Indonesian Art Today

Sip! Indonesian Art Today

by Arndt, Matthias, Ed

4to. 151(1)pp., prof. illus. color. Bio's & CVs. Pictorial Boards. New.
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£35.24
Jean Dubuffet: Recent Paintings: Paysages Sastillans, Sites Tricolores; Sept. 20 - 18 oct. 1975
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£60.06