Search Results: Titles starting with L from THE CROSS Art + Books

Newsouth / UNSW Press, Sydney 2013. 24.0 x 16.0cms, 284pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper Hall was the influential Director of the National Gallery of Victoria (1892-1935) and this book argues against the suggestion that he was conservative.

Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux 1988. 28 x 22cm, 48pp, colour ilust, softcover, text in French, good+ Catalogue for a travelling exhibition of Degas paintings & drawings.

Revue Francaise des Arts Plastiques, Paris 1953. 31.0 x 24.0cms, c 60pp, b/w & tipped in colour illusts, very good paperback & cover The essays are: la pensee de Leonardo appartient-elle a la Renaissance; la pwitnure de Leonard vue au laboratoire; le metier du peintre; chronologie de la vie de Leonard de Vinci; stude d'une tete de la Vierge; tete enfant; bombards explosives; l'Annonciation; etudie de draperie. French text only.

Editions Marcel-Didier VRAC, Paris 1998 (first published 1985). 28.0 x 21.0cms, 224pp, mostly b/w illusts, fine hardcover with decorated boards (no dustwrapper as issued) The sections are: maquettes et modeles; l'imagerie de marine; la bibliographie nautique; les instruments de la navigation; armes portatives pavillons et uniformes de la marine; l'rquipement du navire - accastillage, mobilier, decoration; l'artisanat du bord; la mer inspiratrice. French text only.

L'arca Edizioni Milano 1996 . Fine 33.5 x 24.0cms, 100pp, b/w & Colour Illusts Fine Soft Cover This issue profiles 20 buildings which Philippe Samyn has designed in France, England, Italy and Belgium between 1986-1996.

L'arca Edizioni Milano 1998 . Fine 33.5 x 24.0cms, 100pp, b/w & Colour Illusts Fine Soft Cover This issue profiles 17 buildings which European, American and architects have made out of wood between 1994-1998.

Mongrafie di Architettura / Mongraphies On Architecture, Milan c 1996. 34.0 x 24.0cms, 112pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good paperback & cover This issue covers 19 projects beginning with the Shel Research Centre Louvain-La Neuve (1986) through to the Erasme Hospital Metro Station, Brussels (1996)

Mongrafie di Architettura / Mongraphies On Architecture, Milan c 2000. 34.0 x 24.0cms, 112pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good paperback & cover This issue covers 12 projects beginning with the ESIEE Complex, Marne-la-Valleer (1987) & the Industrial Complex on Rue Berlier, Paris (1990) through to Berlin 2000 Sports Complex, Berlin (2000)

Mongrafie di Architettura / Mongraphies On Architecture, Milan c 1998. 34.0 x 24.0cms, 112pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good paperback & cover This issue covers 14 projects beginning with Lloyd's Building, London (1986) through to the Millenium Dome, London 1997)

Taschen, Koln 1994. 30.0 x 24.0cms, 240pp, colour illusts, very good paperback with French flaps. The chapters are: le jardin, esquisse d'un monde meilleur; le jardin, paysage d'idees; l'adieu au paradis (Renaissance & Manerisme): la construction de l'individualite (Baroque & Rococo): la geometrrie de l'absolu (jardins paysagers anglais); le theatre universel; emplacement des jardins en Europe.

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Florence 1999. 33.0 x 23...5cms, 576pp, colour illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper. This is heavy book so expect extra freight costs. The essya sare: il 'naturaloismo simbolico' a l'architettura nella Toscana medicea; case d'artista; lo spettacolo del potere ovvero il potere dello spettacolo; lo spazio del principe e la decorazione degli interni da Cosima I & Cosima III de'Medici; il convito degli dei, magnificenza e teatralita dei banchetti in Toscana tra manieriosmo e barocco; il trionfalismo dell'arredo tessile nella decorasione degli interni da Cosima I a Gian Gastone (1520-1737); la transformazioni del paesaggio e le grandi scenografia dei giardini: l'immaginario del principe e l'uso dell'antico; due episodi nella Firenze medicea tra manierismo e barocco; 'il mio maestro, che sono i libri'. fonti letterarie classiche e tradizione iconografica nella decoratione dello stranzino di Francesco I; i grandi progetti e la politica verso il territorio. Italian text only

L'Architecture D'Aujourd'hui, Paris 2005. 31.0 x 24.0cms, 140pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good paperback & cover This issue has articles about Claudio Libeskind & Sandra Llovet, Rosa Grena Kliass, Sergio Bernardes, Oscar Niemeyer. French text only

Pierre Fanlac, Paris 1992. 208pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good hardback with decorated boards (no dustwrapper as issued: some foxing on first pages) The chapters cover: le fondement; l'osature; l'appearance; l'habitat rural en Perigord: principes pour conduire une restauration; methodes anciennes de constuction, conception et techniques de mise en oeuvre; amenagements interieurs et elements de decoration; amenagements exterieurs et environnement. Scarce title. French text only.

Idea Books Milano 1992. 20.0 x 32.0cms ((landscape), 120pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good+ hardcover & dustwrappere (ex-library with 3 stamps and one small scar) This is a corporation's attempt to document the history of the foorhandle in Italy, Its introductory essay and designers' biographies anticipate a projected 'museum of the modern doorhandle'.

Flammarion for UNESCO Paris 1990. 28.0 x 26.0cms, 172pp, 102 b/w & 103 colour illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper The essays are: la naissance de l'art celtiquee; l'apogee de l'art celtique; les monnaies celtiques; la fin de l'art celtique; l'art celtique de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irelande; la chretiente celtique; l'unite de l'art celtique. French text only

Galeries Nationals Du Grand Palais, Paris 1984. 24.0 x 21.0cms, 166pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good paperback & cover (sealed tear across back cover) The essays are: la collection d'art cycladique; le 'maitre de goulandris'.

Hazan . Bibliotheque National de France, Paris 1997. 28.0 x 24.0cms, 200pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback & cover The section headings are: le nu academique: dans l'atelier; mutations de l'academie par la photographie scientifique; catalogues des oeuvres exposees. French text only.

Editions d'Art Lucien Mazenod, Paris 1974. 32.0 x 25.0cms, 636pp, lavish 158 full page colour & c 1027 b/w illusts, very good hardback (weak hinge) & very good dustwrapper (weighs 3.6kgs for postage) This book covers: la protohistoire Indienne; la terre et la peuple; deciffrements des langues anciennes; les dieux dans l'litteratre et dans l'art; union de ciel et de la terre; la rhetorique dans l'art; les premieres dynasties; l'apogee; l'expansion; l'elegance de l'art du haut moyen age; l'art tromphal des derniers dynasties; la chant du cyne; la synthese de deux cililisations (mogols). French text only. priced to sell

Le Castor Astral, 1984. 20.0 x 14.0cms, 153pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback & cover French text only. Scarce.

Phaidon, London, 1999. 22.0 x 16.5cms, unpaginated (xc 120pp), b/w illusts, very good paperback & cover Delahaye took/stole these 'illegal photographs' on the Paris metro between 1995 & 1997. In Baudraillard's words, these people are protecting their own sym,bolic space