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Art Theory Books & Ephemera
Creative Camera, July 1974, number 121
by Colin Osman (editor) ; Tom Drahos ; Marion Faller ; William Klein ; Geri Della Rocca de Candal ; Helene Hoppenot
London: Coo Press Ltd., 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes works by Tom Drahos ; Marion Faller ; William Klein ; Geri Della Rocca de Candal ; Helene Hoppenot. 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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SGD 18.89
Problemy Teorii I Praktiki Russkoj Sovetskoi Rezhissury 1917-1925 = Problems in the Theory and Practice of Russian Soviet Directors 1917-1925.
by Alekseeva, E
Leningrad, Russia: Leningradskij Gosudarstvennyj Institut Teatra Muzyki I Kinematografij 1978. . 8vo. 160pp. Decorative Hard Covers. Good. Some Yellowing. Text in Russian.
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SGD 68.94
Constructivism origins and evolution
by Rickey, George
George Braziller, 1969. Second Printing. Hardcover. Clean pages, tight binding, clea/Illustrated dust jacket over clo. Clean pages, tight binding, clean boards, original dust jacket shows bumping and tatter, Illustrated dust jacket over cloth boards
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SGD 36.80
Paragone; A Comparrison of the Arts by Leonardo da Vinci
by Irma A. Richter
London : Geoffrey Cumberlege at the Oxford University Press, 1949. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Endpapers foxed.
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SGD 25.87
Art Revolution: Alternative Approaches for Fine Artists and Illustrators
by Cyr, Lisa
North Light Books, 2009-07-28. Paperback. Clean pages, tight binding, clea. 8x0x10. Clean pages, tight binding, clean gloss soft boards
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SGD 19.98
AA Files 52, Summer 2005
by Architectural Association (Great Britain). School of Architecture ; David Terrien (editor)
London: Architectural Association, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Includes an essay on Asger Jorn, CCTV London, Hinzert Museum and Document Centre. 88 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. 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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SGD 25.79
Camerawork, no. 19, July 1980
by Half Moon Photography Workshop ; Edith Tudor-Hart ; John A. Walker ; Jenny Matthews ; E.P. Thompson ; Peter Kennard ; Gen Doy
London: Half Moon Photography Workshop, 1980. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Radical British photography magazine. Contents include: Edith Tudor-Hart ; Context by John A. Walker ; Observers of Man by Jenny Matthews ; State of the Nation by E.P. Thompson and Peter Kennard ; Women, History and Photographic Imagery by Gen Doy. 15 pages, illustrations. Stapled binding, size A3 folded to A4. First edition, first printing. Slight shelf wear to edges, no...
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SGD 37.86
Creative Camera, February 1974, number 116
by Colin Osman (editor) ; Lewis Carroll ; David Grey ; John Benton-Harris ; Russ Anderson
London: Coo Press Ltd., 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes works by Lewis Carroll ; David Grey ; John Benton-Harris ; Russ Anderson. Paginated pages 37-72, 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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SGD 18.89
Precisions : On the Present State of Architecture and City Planning
by Corbusier, Le
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. One of Le Corbusier's most important books, it consists chiefly of 10 lectures given in Buenos Aires in 1929. This is the first English translation and reproduces the French edition first published in 1930 with the addition of his new introduction added by the author in 1960. xiii, 266 pages, illustrations. First US edition, first printing. Blue cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable...
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SGD 60.28
The Architectural Review, volume 118, number 708, December 1955
by J.M. Richards ; Nikolaus Pevsner ; H. de C. Hastings ; Hugh Casson (editors) ; Gordon Cullen (art editor) ; Reyner Banham ; Peter Womersley ; Luccichenti and Monaco
London: The Architectural Press, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Modern architecture magazine, this issue includes the seminal 'The New Brutalism' by Reyner Banham, house in Yorkshire by Peter Womersley, Horta, brewers' house styles, Luccichenti and Monaco, lettering by Nicolette Gray, Nigel Henderson mural at showrooms of William Mallinson & Sons, Hackney Road, London, plus many fascinating trade advertisements. Shelf wear to cover and edges, no...
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SGD 129.27
About Bridget Riley: Selected Writings 1999-2016
by Chalbi, Nadia ; Chassey, Eric De ; Cooke, Lynne ; Crary, Jonathan ; Elderfield, John ; Grisebach, Lucius ; Hentschel, Martin ; Hickey, Dave ; Kudielka, Robert
London: Ridinghouse, 2017. Soft cover. Fine. The present volume includes the vast majority of significant essays on Bridget Riley written since 1999. This was a particularly fruitful period in the reception of her work, as the discourse broadened and her reputation as one of the most important painters of her generation solidified. The essays range from biographical and career overviews to detailed analysis of specific aspects or themes that occur throughout Rileys career. 599 p. : col. ill ; 23 cm....
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SGD 20.61
Der Bergbau in der Kunst. In Zusammenarbeit mit Siegfried Lauffer, Christian Beutler, Walter Holzhausen, Erich Köllmann, Hanns-Ulrich Haedeke, Eduard Trier.
by Winkelmann, Heinrich u. a
Essen, Verlag Glückauf, (1971). . Mit Anhang. - Gutes, sauberes Exemplar
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SGD 29.54
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1000 Buddhas. [(Red. der dt. Ausgabe Klaus H. Carl) 1. Auflage].
by Rhys Davids, T. W. / Charles, Victoria (Bearb.)
New York, Parkstone International, (2009). . Über Buddha - Gautama - Sakya - Bodhisattva - Dewa. - Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843-1922) war ein englischer Indologe, Orientalilst u. Paliforscher. - Victoria Charles ist promovierte Kunsthistorikerin u. Autorin zahlr. Monographien über Künstler u. Kunstepochen. - Gutes, sauberes Exemplar
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SGD 36.93
Creative Camera, December 1973, number 114
by Colin Osman (editor) ; Richard Hurley ; Irina Ionesco ; Peter de Lory
London: Coo Press Ltd., 1973. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes works by Richard Hurley ; Irina Ionesco ; Peter de Lory. Paginated pages 393-428, 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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SGD 18.89
Artforum vol. IX, no. 8, April 1971
by Philip Leider (editor)
New York: Charles Cowles, 1971. Soft cover. Good. Iconic American art magazine, this issue includes Rosenberg on cubism, Davidson on Marin, and Jack Burnham on 'Unveiling the Consort part II'. 94 pages, illustrations (some colour). Slight shelf wear to cover and edges, small closed tear bottom edge of front cover, staples starting to rust, 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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SGD 22.34
Brunelleschi's Egg : Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy
by Garrard, Mary D
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Feminist historians of science and philosophy have shown that during the Italian Renaissance, the profound shift in the concept of nature--from an organic worldview to the scientific--was assisted by the gender metaphor that defined nature as female. In this provocative and groundbreaking book, Mary D. Garrard extends this analysis to the history of art and proposes that the larger shift was both anticipated and mediated by the...
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SGD 68.91
St. Mark's Rest: The History of Venice. Written for the help of the few travellers who still care for her monuments together with Mornings in Florence. Being simple studies of Christian art, for English travellers (Complete in 12 Volumes)
by John Ruskin
Kent: George Allen, 1875. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fair. Ex-library; usual stamps and markings. Full morocco leather library bindings are deteriorating to spines. Very rare in original parts. 12mo; 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches; 519pp + indices etc. John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and...
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SGD 258.72
The Home, Industrial Art : The Stockholm Exhibition 1930
by The Stockholm Exhibition 1930
Stockholm: The Stockholm Exhibition 1930, 1930. Soft cover. Very Good. Pamphlet in English setting out the main ideas behind the important Stockholm Exhibition of 1930 which did so much in promoting functionalism and modernism in architecture and design. 22 pages, illustrations ; 175 mm. Printed in Sweden by Nordisk Rotogravyr, Stockholm, 1930. Slight shelf wear to cover, staples starting to rust, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust...
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SGD 129.27
On the art of fixing a shadow : one hundred and fifty years of photography
by Greenough, Sarah ; Snyder, Joel ; Travis, David ; Westerbeck, Colin
Boston: Bulfinch, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, May 7-July 30, 1989 and travelling. Contents: Introduction -- Inventing photography, 1839-1879 / Joel Snyder -- The curious contagion of the camera, 1880-1918 / Sarah Greenough -- Ephemeral truths, 1919-1945 / David Travis -- Beyond the photographic frame, 1946-1989 / Colin Westerbeck -- List of works exhibited -- Artists' bibliographies / compiled by Megan Fox....
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SGD 30.96
Künstler, Clowns und Akrobaten. Der Zirkus in der bildenden Kunst. (Lizenzausgabe).
by Berger, Roland / Winkler, Dietmar
(Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer, 1983). . Darstellungen aus der Welt des Zirkus von der Antike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Mit Künstler- u. Abbildungs-Verzeichnis. - Gutes Exemplar
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SGD 29.54
Creative Camera, January 1975, number 127
by Colin Osman (editor) ; Guy Le Querrec
London: Coo Press Ltd., 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes works by young French photographers including Guy Le Querrec. Paginated pages 1-36, 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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SGD 18.89
Configuration 1910-1940, and seven Tatlin reconstructions
by Martyn Chalk
London: Annely Juda Fine Art, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. Catalogue of an exhibition 1 July-26 September, 1981, Annely Juda Fine Art. Includes : Missing, presumed destroyed: seven reconstructions by Martyn Chalk of lost works by V.E. Tatlin (previously at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull). 72, [23]p. : ill. (some col.), port. ; 24 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, reading crease to spine. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
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SGD 20.61
AA Files 53, Spring 2006
by Architectural Association (Great Britain). School of Architecture ; David Terrien (editor)
London: Architectural Association, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Includes essays Guangzhou TV and Sightseeing Tower and Simon Shaw-Miller on the architecture of music. 88 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. 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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SGD 20.61
Creative Camera, April 1972, number 94
by Colin Osman (editor) ; Aaron Sixx ; Henri Cartier-Bresson ; Hiroshi Nakanishi
London: Coo Press Ltd., 1972. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Includes works by Aaron Sixx ; Henri Cartier-Bresson ; Hiroshi Nakanishi. Paginated pages 109-144, 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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SGD 18.89
The Studio : International Art, January 1964, volume 167, number 849
by G. S. Whittet (editor) ; Herbert Read ; Joe Tilson
London: Prism Publications Ltd., 1964. Soft cover. Very Good. Cover painting by Jackson Pollock, also includes Herbert Read on 'The Limits of Painting', Dore Ashton on Richard Lindner, articles on Louis James, Albert Giacometti, Joe Tilson, Mersey 'Pop' at the Fourth John Moores exhibition. xv, 46 p. : ill. (some col.). Slight shelf wear and creasing 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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SGD 20.61
