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Art Theory Books & Ephemera
Le Corbusier and the tragic view of architecture (The Architect and society)
by Jencks, Charles
London: Allen Lane, 1973. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Well-illustrated critical study on influential architect. 198 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm. First edition, first printing. Oatmeal cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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£38.95
Creative Camera, October 1971, number 88
by Colin Osman (editor) ; Andrew Lanyon ; Ruth Bernhard ; Marketa Luskacova ; Euan Duff
London: Coo Press Ltd., 1971. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes works by Andrew Lanyon ; Ruth Bernhard ; Marketa Luskacova (pilgrams) ; Euan Duff ('How we are'). Paginated pages 325-360, illustrations. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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£11.95
Blood: Art, Power, Politics and Pathology
by Bradburne, James M
Prestel, Munich, Germany, 2002. First Edition. Hardback. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Very Good. Near Fine/VG 1st edition 2002 Prestel hardback, unclipped DJ, profusely illustrated high quality edition, an acclaimed resource. Superficial creasing and waviness mainly along rear edges of jacket, near fine bright and unmarked otherwise. Size: 254\nx 311.15\nx 25.4mm. 280 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Art Theory; ISBN: 3791326007. ISBN/EAN:...
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£86.50£69.20
Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics
by Gibson, Ann Eden
Yale University Press, 1997. Paperback. Pages clean with a few minor col. 8x0x10. Pages clean with a few minor color marks to paper fore-edge, binding tight, softcovers clean with bumping to right corners
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£40.20
Creative Camera, May 1972, number 95
by Colin Osman (editor) ; Chris Steele-Perkins
London: Coo Press Ltd., 1972. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes works by Chris Steele-Perkins and images from 'New Photography USA' and 'Personal Views 1850-1970'. Paginated pages 145-180, illustrations. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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£10.95
The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate
by Bernard Shaw
London.: Constable and Company Ltd., 1911. First printing. . Hard with Dust Jacket. Very good in like dust jacket. 12mo.. Very good in like dust jacket.
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£12.00
AA Files 63, 2011
by Architectural Association (Great Britain). School of Architecture ; Thomas Weaver (editor)
London: Architectural Association, 2011. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Includes essays on John Winter, the Suburbanist, fashion models, stripes, and Margate sands. [120] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. Slight shelf wear to cover, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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£11.95
By Hand : The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art
by Hung, Shu ; Magliaro, Joseph (editors)
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. Soft cover. Very Good. In a response to the sleek forms and perfect angles of late 1990s objects, many of today's designers and artists are returning to handmade work, hand lettering, hand drawing, and hand sewing. This text features an international collection of the most noteworthy artists and shows their work in detail. 175 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on...
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£10.00
Creative Camera, July 1972, number 97
by Colin Osman (editor) ; Colin Curwood ; Felix H. Man ; Andre Gelpke ; Florence Henri ; Guy Borremans
London: Coo Press Ltd., 1972. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes works by Colin Curwood ; Felix H. Man ; Andre Gelpke ; Florence Henri ; Guy Borremans. Paginated pages 217-252, illustrations. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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£10.95
Creative Camera, May 1975, number 131
by Colin Osman (editor) ; Edward Miller ; Jack Yates ; Anthony Barboza ; Lloyd Philips
London: Coo Press Ltd., 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes works by Edward Miller ; Jack Yates ; Anthony Barboza ; Lloyd Philips. Paginated pages 145-180, illustrations. Slight shelf wear to edges, staples starting to rust, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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£10.95
Photography at MoMA : 1920 to 1960
by Quentin Bajac ; Lucy Gallun ; Roxana Marcoci ; Sarah Meister
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Contents: Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Modern photography at MoMA / Quentin Bajac -- American modernism, 1920-1940. Experience with reality / Quentin Bajac -- The new photographer, 1920-1940. The new photographer : propositions for the future / Roxana Marcoci -- Surrealism and the everyday, 1920-1940. Photography between reality and dream / Pepper Stetler -- America and the documentary style, 1930-1950....
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£64.95
Creative Camera, May 1973, number 107
by Colin Osman (editor) ; Marc Garanger ; Alexander Rodchenko ; Anton Guilio Bragaglia
London: Coo Press Ltd., 1973. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes works by Marc Garanger ; Alexander Rodchenko ; Anton Guilio Bragaglia. Paginated pages 145-180, illustrations. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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£10.95
Creative Camera, October 1974, number 124
by Colin Osman (editor) ; Nancy Hellebrand ; Tony Ray-Jones ; P.H. Emerson
London: Coo Press Ltd., 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes works by Nancy Hellebrand ; Tony Ray-Jones (America 1971) ; P.H. Emerson. Paginated pages 325-360, illustrations. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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£11.95
Creative Camera, August 1975, number 134
by Colin Osman (editor) ; Edward Grazda ; Anders Petersen ; Ave Pildas ; Judy Steiner
London: Coo Press Ltd., 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes works by Edward Grazda ; Anders Petersen ; Ave Pildas ; Judy Steiner. Paginated pages 253-288, illustrations. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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£10.95
The New Architecture and the Bauhaus
by Gropius, Walter ; P. Morton Shand (translator) ; Joseph Hudnut
New York ; London: Museum of Modern Art ; Faber & Faber, 1936. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Influential book about modern architecture and the Bauhaus. Translated from the German by P.Morton Shand, with a preface by Joseph Hudnut. Undated, 1936 date comes from date of preface by Hudnut (December 16, 1936). 80 p.,[16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. Yellow cloth boards, shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, binding a little shaken. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched...
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£29.95
Photography at MoMA : 1840 to 1920
by Quentin Bajac ; Lucy Gallun ; Roxana Marcoci ; Sarah Hermanson Meister ; Geoffrey Batchen ; Michel Frizot ; Shelley Rice ; Bonnie Yochelson
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Contents: Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- "Background material" : nineteenth-century photography at MoMA / Quentin Bajac -- The pencil of nature: Great Britain. Entirely modern : early British photography / Geoffrey Batchen -- Early photography in France. "The black clothing of things" : French photography under the Second Empire / Quentin Bajac -- Armchair travelers: around the world. Far away, so close : photography in the age of...
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£54.95
Beauty and the Beasts: On Museums, Art, the Law, and the Market
by Weil, Stephen E
Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1983. paperback. Clean pages, tight binding, clea. 8x5x0. Clean pages, tight binding, clean gloss soft boards
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£11.01
Principles of Neo-Plastic Art (A Bauhaus Book)
by Theo Van Doesburg
London: Lund Humphries, 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Includes an introduction by Hans M. Wingler and a postscript by H. L. C. Jaffé; translated from the German by Janet Seligman. x, 73 p. : illus. (incl. 2 col.) ; 26 cm. First UK edition, first printing. Originally published as Grundbegriffe der neuen gestaltenden Kunst (1925). Red cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to jacket, light...
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£17.95
Discourses on the Fine Arts delivered to the students of the Royal Academy
by Sir Josphua Reynolds
Edinburgh.: William and Robert Chambers, 1840. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fair. Bound in contemporary half levant leather and with marbled boards and endpapers. A couple of small contemporary library stamps of S. Taylors Academy, Manor House... Slightly toned and foxed and with a little damp-stain mark to bottom fore-edge corner. One of the quires has split at the gutter exposing spine verso.
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£30.00
Mary Kelly
by Mary Kelly Project ; Melissa Castegnetto ; Marina Vishmidt ; Jackie White ; Chloe Stewart ; Gunvor Nelson
London: Mary Kelly Project, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 'Mary Kelly' was an artist-led project that attempted to articulate the politics of site and self through a radical engagement with cinema. In this instance 'Mary Kelly' was used as a collective name. Includes essays by Melissa Castegnetto, Marina Vishmidt, Jackie White, Chloe Stewart, and an interview with Gunvor Nelson. 27 pages, illustrations. First edition, first printing. Slight shelf wear...
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Situation : an exhibition of British abstract painting
by Roger Coleman ; Gordon House
London: R.B.A. Galleries, 1960. Soft cover. Very Good. Catalogue of an important exhibition held at the Royal Society of British Artists (R.B.A. Galleries), London, September 1960. Introduction by Roger Coleman. Catalogue designed by Gordon House and printed by The Kynoch Press. Includes work by Ayres, Cohen, Denny, William Green, Ralph Rumney, Hoyland, Irwin, and Richard Smith amongst others. [20] : ill. ; 18 cm. Minimal shelf wear to cover, staples starting to rust, no inscriptions. Photographs...
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£115.00
Beauty
by Scruton, Roger
Oxford University Press, 2009. Early Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. VG+/VG+ 2nd print 2009 Oxford hardback, unclipped DJ. Light corner and spine-end bruising, a little edge-rubbing to jacket, VG+ bright and unmarked otherwise, no tears to jacket. Size: 5 x 0.75 x 7 inches. 223 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Art & Design; Art Theory; ISBN: 019955952X. ISBN/EAN: 9780199559527. Dewey Code: 111.85. The photos provided are of our own...
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£86.50£69.20
Roger Fry's Journey : From the Primitives to the Post-Impressionists (Watson Gordon lecture ; 2006)
by Elam, Caroline
Edinburgh : National Galleries Of Scotland, 2008. Hardcover. Fine. In association with The University of Edinburgh and VARIE." 48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm. First edition, first printing. Green printed boards, minimal shelf wear, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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£10.95
Meaning in the Visual Arts
by Panofsky, Erwin
Penguin Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. Collectable - Very Good Condition. VG- 1st impression 1993 Penguin edition, with photo section. Some fading to spine with very light spine creases, a little page tanning, tight and unmarked, secure binding. Size: 128\nx 198\nx 22mm. 416 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Art & Design; Art Theory; ISBN: 0140136223. ISBN/EAN: 9780140136227. The photos provided are of our own book,...
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£36.00£28.80
The Art of England 3/4 leather
by John Ruskin
George Allen, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages clean with light toning, t. Pages clean with light toning, text block solidly bound, leather and marble boards show heavy edge wear, splitting to front hinge, tape to top of spine
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£31.98
