Arti decorative e design

Schatzkammer Der Residenz München - Katalog

1970 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

München, Bayerische Verwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser. 1970. Cloth, 8vo. 390 pages followed by 80 full-page b&w plates; 1258 catalogued items. A few notes in margins, otherwise clean and tight. Very good/No Jacket.

Manet: The Execution of Maximilian - Painting, Politics, and Censorship

WILSON-BAREAU, JULIET; JOHN HOUSE; DOUGLAS JOHNSON · 1992 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

London, National Gallery Publications. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-691-03209-2). Cloth, 4to. 138 pages; 115 illustrations, color and b&w; Provenance and Exhibition History of the Maximilian Paintings; Chronology 1821-84 (global historic events); Bibliography. An exhibition o...

Textiles in the Metropolitan Museum of Art/ the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

1995 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1995. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Art periodical, 80 pages; well illustrated in color. MMA Bulletin Winter 1995/96. Very Good.

North of the Apennines: Sixteenth-Century Italian Painting in Venice and the Veneto - the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

BAYER, ANDREA · 2005 · Ultramarine Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2005. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Museum Bulletin, 48 pages; color illustrations throughout; Sources. MMA Bulletin Summer 2005. Fine.

Design for Life

YELAVICH, SUSAN · 1997 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and Rizzoli. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-910503-64-8). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 192 pages; filled with color illustrations. Published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the museum. Fine.

The Decorative Art of Today

LE CORBUSIER; JAMES I DUNNETT (TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED) · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press. 1987. (ISBN: 0-262-12118-2). Cloth, 8vo. 214 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. "The first English translation of Le Corbusier's densely illustrated polemic against the crafts tradition and superfluous ornament in interior decoration."-...

The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art

RATCLIFF, CARTER · 1996 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-374-15381-7). quarter-cloth and paper boards, 8vo. 352 pages; 4 color plates; 93 b&w illustrations; endnotes; Illustration Credits; Index. Fine/Very Good.

Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist

LUDINGTON, TOWNSEND · 1998 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Ithaca, Cornell University Press. 1998. (ISBN: 0-8014-8580-0). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 327 pages; color and b&w reproductions. The author has written another book on Hartley and a biography of John Dos Passos. Very Good.

Towards Post-Modernism; Decorative Arts and Design Since 1851

COLLINS, MICHAEL · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Little, Brown. 1987, 1st U.S Edition. (ISBN: 0-8212-1687-2). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 176 pages; 16 color, 149 b&w illustrations; A-Z of Artists and Designers. Fine.

Worlds of Art: Painters in Victorian Society

GILLETT, PAULA · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-8135-1459-2). Cloth, 8vo. 299 pages ; illustrations in color and in b&w. Broadening the understanding of English social and cultural history to include the role of contemporary art and artists, ...

Phillips de Puy & Luxembourg 20th - 21st Century Design Art

PHILLIPS · 2001 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg. 2001. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Auction Catalogue, 261 pages; 237 items/lots of designer furniture and decorative arts illustrated in color with full description including designer/manufacturer, materials, size, often provenan...

The Contemporary Decorative Arts from 1940 to the Present Day

GARNER, PHILLIP · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

London, Park Lane. 1990. (ISBN: 1-85627-071-8). Cloth, 4to. 224 pages; numerous illustrations in color and in b&w. Includes "Evolution of Style" followed by sections on design of furniture, fashion, textiles, graphics, industrial , ceramics, glass, jewellry, film and photograp...

The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent

ATIL, ESIN · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. 1987. (ISBN: 0-89468-098-6). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 356 pages; 210 items illustrated in color, additional b&w and color illustrations; 4 appendices; glossary, bibliography; concordance; index. Wrapper...

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence

EDWARDS, BETTY · 1979 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Los Angeles, J. P. Archer. 1979. (ISBN: 0-87477-088-2). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 208 pages; b&w illustrations. Very Good.

Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up

COLACELLO, BOB · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, HarperCollins Publishers (harper collins). 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-06-016419-0). quarter-cloth and paper boards, 8vo. 514 pages; b&w illustrations. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper, otherwise clean throughout; tight binding. Very Good/Very Good.

The Eye in the Text: Essays on Perception, Mannerist to Modern

CAWS, MARY ANN · 1981 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. 1981. (ISBN: 0-691-01377-2). Printed Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 204 pages followed by 62 b&w plates. A scrape to the front cover near author's name; corner bumped, otherwise clean and tight. Very Good.

Painting and Sculpturen in Europe 1880-1940

HAMILTON, GEORGE HEARD · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

London, Penguin. 1990. (ISBN: 0-14-056129-3). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 610 pages; illustrations. ".. the best available grounding in its huge subject." Occasional underlining; tight binding. Good.

The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read

KING, JAMES · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-297-81042-1). Cloth, 8vo. 364 pages with b&w illustrations. Biography of Read (1893-1968) a man of many skills and the leading promoter of Modernism in the English-speaking world. Fine/Very Good.

California Design Eleven

1971 · Ultramarine Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum. 1971. (ISBN: 0378-06081-3). Decorated paper-covered boards, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 176 pages; numerous illustrated products. A triennial exhibition of manufactured products and the work of California's artist craftsmen. Very Good.

Art of the Arab World

ATIL, ESIN · 1975 · Ultramarine Books

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Washington, D.C. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. 1975. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 154 pages; 80 objects, including ceramics, glass, brass, manuscripts, bindings, jewelry illustrated in color. The wrappers, which wrap around ...