Pittura e disegno

Ancient Egyptian Art in the Brooklyn Museum

FAZZINI, RICHARD A.; ROBERT S. BIANCHI; JAMES F. ROMANO; DONALD B. SPANEL · 1989 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

The Brooklyn Museum. 1989. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 12" x 9". xv pages followed by 100 mostly color plates of objects in the collection. Introductory essay by Mr. Fazzini on the history of gifts and acquiitions that came to the collection. Previous owner's name on the f...

The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (the New Version)

ARNHEIM, RUDOLF · 1988 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Berkeley, University of California Press. 1988. (ISBN: 0520062426). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 8vo. 239 pages; more than 150 b&w illustrations. Bibliography; Index. "What determines the overall organization of visual form in works of painting, sculpture, and architecture?...

The CIVIL War: The Artists' Record

WILLIAMS, HERMANN WARNER, JR. · 1961 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Boston, Beacon Press. 1961, First Edition. quarter cloth / paper boards, 10" x 7". Exhibition Catalogue, 251 pages followed by the Catalogue listing all the 236 artworks with full descriptions and the Index of Artists. The exhibition was mounted at the Corcoran Gallery of Art,...

Rayyane Tabet / Alien Propertyt

BENZEL, KIM; RAYYANE TABET; CLARE DAVIES · 2019 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2019. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 11" x 8.5". 48 pages; well illustrated. The Met Art Bulletin, Fall 2019. The story of the archaeological site Tell Halaf beginning in the Sixth Millennium B.C. through to early Twentieth Century wh...

A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (3 Volumes)

DUNLAP, WILLIAM; JAMES THOMAS FLEXNER (INTRODUCTION); RITA WEISS (EDITED BY) · 1969 · Ultramarine Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

New York, Dover Publications. 1969, Reissue. (ISBN: 0486216950). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 8vo. Vol.I 435 pages; Vol. II, Part One 1- 275 pages; Vol. II, Part Two 275 - 513 pages. 394 b&w illustrations. Three volumes, all clean throughout except for previous owner' s rub...

Gilbert Stuart, a Great Life in Brief

FLEXNER, JAMES THOMAS · 1955 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1955, First Edition. 7" x 5". 197;viii. pp. Of the Great Lives in Brief series by Borzoi Books. Clean throughout; tight binding; green boards bright and clean. Dustjacket price clipped. mild wear at head and tail; age toned. Very Good/Very Good.

In the Fullness of Timw: Masteroieces of Egyptian Art from American Collections

ROMANO, JAMES F.; JOHN OLBRANTZ (INTRODUCTION) · 2002 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Illamette University, Hallie Ford Museum of Art. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 1930957521). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 11" x 8.5". Exhibition Catalogue, 94 pages; illustrated throughout, mostly in color. A gathering of important works of Egyptian art that lies shelved in Am...

Gateways to Art; Understanding the Visual Arts - Second Edition

DEWITTE, DEBRA J.; RALPH M LARMANN; M. KATHRYN SHIELDS · 2015 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Thames & Hudson. 2015, Second Edition. (ISBN: 9780500981573). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 11" x 8.5". 720 pages; 1706 illustrations, including1478 color. The appreciation of the arts textbook, including a broad range of eras and forms. Clean throughout; tight bin...

New Orleans As It Was: Episodes of Louisiana Life

CASTELLANOS, HENRY C. ; CHARLES L. DUFOUR (FOREWORD) · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Gretna, Pelican Publishing Company. 1990. (ISBN: 088289787X). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8v. 352 pages. "an exhilarating journey through the Crescent City's turbulent past." First published in 1895. The author was lawyer, teacher and journalist. He had been planning a seri...

Terence Conran's New House Book

CONRAN, TERENCE · 1985 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Villard Books. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-394-54633-4). Cloth, 4to. 367 pages; hundreds of color illustrations; ideas; checklists; fixtures; options. One of the best coffee table books: never tiresome looking through it. Clean and tight throughout; the dustjacket ...

Van Gogh in Arles

PICKVANCE, RONALD · 1984 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams. 1984. (ISBN: 0-87099-376-3). Cloth, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 272 pages; 152 color plates; additional b&w illustrations. The catalogue of one of the famous Van Gogh exhibitons at the Metropolitan. Fine/Fine.

Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey, 1761-1898

FELCONE, JOSEPH J. · 2012 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Princeton, New Jersey, Morven Museum & Garden. 2012, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780615666464). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 11" x 8". Exhibition Catalogue, 75 pages; 119 color illustrations. From the Collection of Joseph J. Felcone, collector and bibliographer. "Meticulously do...

Image Snd Spirit in Sacred and Secular Art

DILLENBERGER, JANE; DIANE APOSTOLOS-CAPPADONA (EDITED BY) · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

New York, Crossroad. 1990. (ISBN: 0824510364). Cloth, 8vo. 217 pages; b&w illustrations. Images of women in Western Art; Northern European vs. Southern European Sensibilities in art;; appearance and disappearance of God in Western Art; image of Evil. Clean throughout; tight bi...

Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy

SENIE, HARRIET F. AND SALLY WEBSTER (EDITED BY) · 1998 · Ultramarine Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press. 1998. (ISBN: 1560987693). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 8vo. 315 pages; b&w illustrations. American monuments, murals, memorials; politics and patronage; public response. Twenty-two artists, architects, historians, critics, curators...

American Works on Paper III / Winter 1989

(SPANIERMAN) · 1989 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Spanierman / Drawings. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-945936-05-2). Printed Wrapper (softcover), Oblong 8vo. Gallery Catalogue - ex-library, 74 works, color illustrated on full pages with full catalogue entries on the opposite page (verso). Price list loosely inserted...

Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944, a Revolution in Painting

DUCHTING, HAJO · 1991 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Koln, Benedikt Taschen. 1991. (ISBN: 3822805424). Pictorial Card Wrappers, 12" x 9". 96 pages; numerous color illustrations. Illustrated chronology. Clean throughout; tight binding. Fine.

Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century

HARRISON, CHARLES; FRANCIS FRASCINA; GILL PERRY · 1993 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

New Haven, Yale University Press. 1993. (ISBN: 0300055161). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 10" x 7.5". 270 pages; 230 illustrations, color and b&w. Second in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Cl...

Asher B. Durand, an Engraver's and a Farmer's Art

FLEXNER, JAMES THOMAS; BARBARA D. GALLATI · 1983 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Yonkers, NY, The Hudson River Museum. 1983. Printed Wrapper (softcover), Small 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 94 pages; 129 works catalogued; 49 illustrated. "The founder and for a generation the leading figure in the Hudson River School.". Engravings, drawings paintings; 129 work...

Images of American Living, Four Centuries of Architecture and Furniture As Cultural Expression

GOWANS, ALAN · 1964 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company. 1964, Second Printing. Black cloth, 4to. 498 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. The development of style in American architecture and furniture design from the 17th to the 20th century. The author views these developments as expression of...

Italian Villas and Their Gardens

WHARTON, EDITH; MAXFIELD PARRISH (ILLUSTRATED BY) · 2008 · Ultramarine Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

New York, The Mount Press / Rizzoli. 2008, First Thus. (ISBN: 139780847831159). Decorated embossed green cloth, 10 1/2" x 7". 270 pages. A facsimile of the first edition published in 1904, "including twenty-six original paintings by Maxfield Parrish" - color and b&w - and a br...