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No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud
by Bradnock, Lucy
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. Cloth, vii, 232 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Proposing an original reassessment of art from the 1950s to the 1970s, No More Masterpieces reveals how artistic practice in postwar America was profoundly shaped by the work of the rebellious French poet and dramatist Antonin Artaud. A generation of artists mobilized Artaud's countercultural ideas to imagine new forms of...
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SGD 47.59
Sinister Side: How Left-Right Symbolism Shaped Western Art
by Hall, James
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Cloth, xvi, 489 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The Sinister Side is the first book to detail the richness and subtlety of left-right symbolism since the Renaissance, and to show how it was a catalyst for some of the greatest works of visual art from Leonardo and Michelangelo to Rembrandt and Picasso. Traditionally, the left side was regarded as evil,...
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SGD 24.14
Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives
by Williams, C. A. S. (Charles Alfred Speed)
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976. xxi, 472 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Age toning. "Standard reference long familiar to students of Chinese culture emphasizes historical, legendary, or supernatural persons, animals and objects as symbols in art and literature. 402 illustrations." - Publisher.. 3rd. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.
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SGD 10.34
The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
by Louden, Sharon (Edited by)
Bristol: Intellect, 2017. 402 pages, colour illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "When 'Living and Sustaining a Creative Life' was published in 2013, it became an immediate sensation. Edited by Sharon Louden, the book brought together forty essays by working artists, each sharing their own story of how to sustain a creative practice that contributes to the ongoing dialogue in contemporary art. The book struck a nerve how do artists really make it in the world today? Louden took the book on a...
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SGD 40.69
Le Livre du Caillou. Avec trente illustrations de l'auteur - Preface et postface de Franco Renzulli
by Sagault
Digne les Bains: Paul Keruel - Editions de Haute-Provence, 1993. Paperback. 124p., whimsical b&w artwork, most "plates" show a facet (one or another) of a common stone. Softbound with presswork on very good paperstock, has all the ingredients of a dynamite artist's book excepting visual interest (that may be a the joke), 9.5x6.5 inch glossy white wraps. Mild external signs of handling, a very good copy. All texts, by the way, are in the French language.
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SGD 27.59
Image and Insight: Essays in Psychoanalysis and the Arts
by Spitz, Ellen Handler
New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xii, 273 pages, [4] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.
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SGD 13.10
The Sociology of Art
by Hauser, Arnold; Northcott, Kenneth J. (Translated by)
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. xxi, 776 pages; 24 cm. Translation of: Soziologie der Kunst. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First edition thus. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear/sunned spine (bold & legible titles), protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Art historian Arnold Hauser was a disciple of the great Hungarian Marxist philosopher Gy rgy Lukacs.. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.
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SGD 26.90
Citadel Culture
by Werckmeister, O. K
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 210 pages; 21 cm. Translation of: Zitadellenkultur. Tight, clean copy. First U.S. Edition. Fine DJ. "'Citadel' evokes a rich mixture of associations--from images of urban centers of commerce and culture to war and the need to defend what is fortified within. Preserving its layered meanings, O. K. Werckmeister plucks the word from its usual moorings and employs it as a compelling metaphor in a brilliant retrospective of contemporary Western...
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SGD 17.24
The Language of Ornament
by Trilling, James
New York: Thames & Hudson; World of Art Series, 2001. 224 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm.. Tight, clean copy. "Ornament, the art of decorative patterning, has given rise to some of the most spectacular creations of human imagination and skill. Although the modernist emphasis on unadorned form pushed ornament to the margins of Western taste in the twentieth century, an ornamental revival is now under way. James Trilling presents a variety of ornament from the Paleolithic age to the...
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SGD 15.86
Windows in Art
by Masters, Christopher
London and New York: Merrell, 2011. Cloth, 191 pages, colour illustrations; 24 x 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates."Windows in Art is a unique new survey of an intriguing but overlooked subject in art across the centuries. Featuring 90 works by such eminent artists as Caravaggio, Dali, Hammershoi, Hockney, Hopper, Matisse, Titian and Vermeer, the lively and...
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SGD 29.65
Adorno
by Jay, Martin
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. 199 pages; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.
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SGD 33.79
Art Criticism in Argentina; Organizational Aspects of Art; Theory of Institutions
by Safons, Horacio, and Fevre, Fermin, and Glusberg, Jorge
Buenos Aires: Argentine Association of Art Critics, 1978. 31 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Text in English. Edition of 3000 copies. Published on the occasion of XIII Congress of the International Association of Art Critics, AICA, Switzerland, August to September 1978. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Includes: "Art Criticism in Argentina" by Horacio Safons; "Organizational Aspects of Art in Argentina" by Fermin Fevre; and "Theory of Institutions" by Jorge Glusberg.. 1st....
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SGD 33.79
Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art
by Miller, Arthur I
New York: Copernicus, 1996. xxii, 482 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Top right corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Since the Enlightenment, science has been seen as an objective, true method of explanation for the physical and mathematical laws which govern the universe. This book examines what and how we know about the world, discussing current ideas about the nature of scientific...
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SGD 33.79
Making It New: Essays, Interviews, and Talks
by Geldzahler, Henry; Hockney, David (Foreword by), and Sischy, Ingrid (Interview by)
New York: Turtle Point Press, 1994. 368 pages, facsimile; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. Essays written over a period of thirty years. "For the past 35 years, Henry Geldzahler, controversial first curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Twentieth Century Art, has been at the center of America's lively and vital art scene. Making It New is the first collection of his essays,...
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SGD 47.59
Meyer Schapiro: His Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture
by Schapiro, Meyer; Esterman, Daniel, and Schapiro, Lillian Milgram (Edited by), and Russell, John (Preface by)
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2000. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. With 203 illustrations, including 53 in full color. Includes 3 essays by Schapiro: "On Representing and Knowing," "Color as Expressive," and "Art Schools: Drawing from the Figure." "Admirers of the late, legendary art historian Meyer...
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SGD 20.00
Image and Symbol in the Renaissance: A Special Issue of Yale French Studies, no. 47
by Winandy, Andre (Edited by)
New Haven, CT: Yale French Studies, 1972. 290 pages, illustrations, music; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps a little age toned/slightly soiled.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Serial.
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SGD 17.24
Moments of Vision
by Clark, Kenneth
London: John Murray, 1981. Cloth, 191 pages; 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, partly sunned, protected in a mylar cover. "These eleven essays treat such topics as the vividness of heightened perception of artists, art criticism, and the work of Bernard Berenson and Walter Pater" - Publisher. CONTENTS: Moments of vision; The blot and the diagram; Iconophobia; Provincialism; Art and society; Art history and criticism as literature; The...
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SGD 24.14
Avant-Garde and After: Rethinking Art Now
by Taylor, Brandon
New York: Harry N. Abrams; Prentice Hall, Inc., 1995. 176 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated. "Offering a critical perspective-rather than a traditional survey, this provocative text explores the art of the last twenty years-the latter 1970s, the 1980s, and the first half of the 1990s-in both a thematic and chronological fashion. Using an engaging and approachable style-and an abundance of color illustrations, it takes a long look at dominant...
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La Philosophie de la Nature dans L'Art d'Extrême-Orient
by PETRUCCI, Raphael
Paris: Henri Laurens, 1910. First Edition. Folio, full-page plates including four woodblocks in colour; marbled endpapers, contemporary cloth foxed, in lovely unmarked condition throughout. 'C'est sans doute par un effet de la mentalité particulière des Extrême-Orientaux que ~ le monde leur est apparu, non point comme un élément incomplet, soumis à leur orgueil par un créateur absolu, mais comme un ensemble frémissant dont la vie s'écoulait, avec ses subtilités, ses beautés et ses douleurs,...
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SGD 442.00
The Structure of Art
by Burnham, Jack
New York: George Braziller, 1973. xii, 195 pages, illustrations, facsimiles; 24 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. A good reading copy, marked on a couple of pages. An early attempt to adapt Claude Levi-Strauss' strcuturalist anthropology to the study of visual art.. Paperback. Fair. 8vo.
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SGD 10.34
Portrait of a Marriage: V. Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
by Nicolson, Nigel
New York: Atheneum, 1973. Cloth, xi, 249 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Topstained purple. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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SGD 13.10
Life in the Slow Lane: Observations on Art, Architecture, Manners and Other Such Spectator Sports
by Lynes, Russell
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers; A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book, 1991. xii, 254 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket slightly faded.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.
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SGD 13.10
The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
by Neer, Richard
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. Hardcover. xiv, 262p., numerous b&w plates and vignettes, and a few images in colorphoto; hardbound in 11.5x8.5 inch black cloth boards lettered in silverfoil and enclosed in the dust jacket. An as-new copy, entirely sound, square, clean and unmarked.
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SGD 48.28
The Shape of Content
by Shahn, Ben
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. 131 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1956-1957. Tight, clean copy. "American painter Ben Shahn sets down his personal views of the relationship of the artist--painter, writer, composer--to his material, his craft, and his society. He talks of the creation of the work of art, the importance of the community, the problem of communication, and the critical theories governing the artist and his audience." - Publisher.....
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SGD 17.24
Practical Hints on Colour in Painting. Illustrated by examples from the works of the Venetian, Flemish and Dutch schools
by Burnet, John
London: James Carpenter, 1843. Fifth edition of this beautifully produced but practical guide to colour in painting, which uses works by old masters such as Titian, Van Dyck and Rubens as a guide. The author, John Burnet (1784 - 1868) was a Scottish engraver and painter who exhibited with the Royal Academy and was awarded a fellowship with the Royal Society. The intelligence and confidence of his writing reflects more than Burnet's heightened distinction as an artist and a craftsman. Much inspired by...
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SGD 221.00
