Arti decorative e design

An Educated Taste: Neoclassicism at the Art Institute

WARNER, MALCOLM; [ET AL] · 1989 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago. 1989. (ISBN: 0-226-02815-1). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 90 pages. 6 essays on Neoclassicism. The centrepoint is Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces by Joshua Reynolds. Other essays focus on specific neoclassic masterpiec...

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory : The CIVIL War in Art

HOLZER, HAROLD, AND MARK E. NEELY, JR. · 1993 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, Orion Books. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-517-58448-4). 4to. 336 pages, hundreds of color illustrations. Both authors have extensive experience with Civil War history. ". unique blend of narrative and art appreciation makes the book a must.." (James McPherson). Incl...

Beyond the Frame : American Art 1960-1990

GUMPERT, LYNN (GUEST CURATOR); [ET AL] · 1991 · Ultramarine Books

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Tokyo, Committee for Beyond the Frame. 1991. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 211 pages. 91 works by about 30 contemporary American artists. Exhibited at three museums in Japan in 1991. Text simultaneously in Japanese and English. The catalogue, itself...

Australian Art of the Last Ten Years

MOLLISON, JAMES (INTRODUCTION) · 1982 · Ultramarine Books

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Np, Australian National Gallery. 1982. (ISBN: 0-642-88702-0). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 96 pages. Catalogue of 328 works by 117 Australian artists collected by Philip Morris and presented to the Gallery in 1982. About 100 of the works are illust...

An Opening View

(AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL GALLERY CANBERRA) · 1982 · Ultramarine Books

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Sydney, The Fine Arts Press. 1982. (ISBN: 0-86917-007-4). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 8vo. 116 pages. The collection of The National Gallery Canberra in its first year. A nicely produced catalogue. The collection includes fashion and textiles, theatre prints and illu...

Art of the Twenties

LIEBERMAN, WILLIAM S., (EDITED BY) · 1979 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, Museum of Modern Art. 1979. (ISBN: 0-87070-216-5). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Oblong 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue, 144 pages. An exhibition to mark MoMA's 50th anniversary. All the works were from MoMA's collection. Very Good.

Henri Rousseau: Portrait of a Primitive

ALLEY, RONALD · 1978 · Ultramarine Books

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Secaucus, NJ, Chartwell Books. (ISBN: 0-89009-756-9). 4to. (1978). 80 pages; 68 illustrations, 27 color. Alley was Keeper of the Modern Collection at The Tate Gallery, London. Small remainder mark on front edge. Very Good/Very Good.

From Poussin to Matisse: The Russian Taste for French Painting

KUZNETSOVA, IRINA; [ET AL] · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

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Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago. 1990. (ISBN: 0-86559-086-9). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 168 pages; 51 plates. Works from the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museums that traced Russian admiration for French art beginning with Catherine the Great and...

Winslow Homer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

SPASSKY, NATALIE · 1982 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1982. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Museum Bulletin, 48 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. The Metropolitan's works by Homer, including oils, watercolors, wood engravings, and drawings. The Met Bulletin, Spring 1982. Very ...

Another Light: Swedish Art Since 1945

GRANATH, OLLE · 1982 · Ultramarine Books

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Np, The Swedish Institute. 1982, Second Extended Edition. (ISBN: 91-520-0123-7). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 8vo. 223 pages. A survey of Swedish art from the post-war period through the '70's. Text in English, French and German. Very Good.

Dreadful Fire! Burning of the Houses of Parliament

(TURNER, J.M.W.) SOLENDER, KATHERINE · 1984 · Ultramarine Books

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Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art. 1984. (ISBN: 0-910386-74-9). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Oblong 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue, 80 pages; 4 full-page color plates; 51 b&w illustrations. A focus on two Turner paintings, each The Burning of the Houses of Parliament: one in The...

Max Beckmann

SELZ, PETER, [ET AL] · 1964 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, Museum of Modern Art. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 8vo. 160 pages. Published in 1964 on the eightieth anniversary of Beckmann's birth. Traces his life, training, and career, especially the period between the two world wars. Includes oils, graphic works, and ...

American Narrative Painting

Z · 1974 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1974. (ISBN: 0-87587-060-0). 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 191 pages. The exhibition included genre painting from the 18th through the 20th century that employed literary, religious, historical, and mythic themes as well as the stand...

Magic Worlds of Fantasy

DUNCAN, DAVID DOUGLAS · 1978 · Ultramarine Books

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New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-15-155102-2). Red Cloth, 4to. 112 pages. Photographic presentation of 4 amateur artists' work, each having an element of fantasy. Prefaced by an 8-page Picasso work: "Souvenirs of a Magic World". The author kne...

All Colour Book of Art Deco

KLEIN, DAN. · 1974 · Ultramarine Books

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London, Octopus Books. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-7064-0323-1). Decorative Cloth, 4to. Ill.: Photography By Angelo Hornak. 72 pages. Imaginative survey of Art Deco design illustrated with photographs. Clean and tight. Very Good/Good.

War Requiem & Aftermath SIGNED/Inscribed

Maggi Hambling, James Cahill · 2015 · Denton Island Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

Unicorn, 2015. First Edition, Softcover. Fine Condition. 9781910065228 Inscribed by Author. SIGNED and dated by Maggi Hambling, and inscribed to the previous owner. First edition, first printing. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages. A well-kept copy. This is an almost perfect b...

DeperoFuturista: Rome-Paris-New York 1915-1932 and more

Gabriella Belli · 1999 · Denton Island Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

Skira Editore, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9788881185849 Firmly bound, light soiling to flyleaf,top corner snipped from following page, clean unmarked pages; rubbing and light wear to jacket extremities. Catalogue published on the occasion of the 1999 Deper...

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Woollaston, M. T. (Mountford Tosswill 1910 – 1998) a.k.a. Toss · 1966 · Syber's Books

A$110.00 (€67.62 | $74.53 | £56.40 | ¥11,902)

Blackwood & Janet Paul, Auckland, 1966. First Edition, Softcover (Spiral Bound). Very Good Condition. a folio of 48 drawings, limited-edition, this being number 455 of 1000. On the inside of the front cover previous owner's name. No other annotations. The edges of the pages ar...

Design and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain: The Britain Can Make It Exhibition of 1946

MAGUIRE, PATRICK J. MAGUIRE AND WOODHAM, JONATHAN M. (EDS) · 1997 · The Glass Key

£23.00 (€27.57 | $30.39 | ¥4,854)

London, Leicester University Press, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. First edition - 8vo paperback. Pp xv + 255 illustrated with b&w photographs throughout. Previous owner's initials neatly in ink on the half-title else a clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Light diagonal...

Traditional Chinese Clothing in Hong Kong and South China, 1840-1980

GARRETT, VALERY M. · 1994 · The Glass Key

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1994. Later printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pp vii + 87 + 8pp colour plates. B&w illustrations in the text. Glazed printed paper boards. Initials of ownership on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy without d...