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Search Results50 matches from BookLovers. Kandinksy: Complete Writings on Art by Kenneth C. Lindsay & Peter Vergo (£159.00)Publisher: Faber & Faber — 1982Binding: Hardback First Edition. [ISBN: 0571119352]Condition: Good+. Boards slightly sprung on both volumes. Edges of the textblock heavily tanned. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: 2 Volume Set: Volume 1 477pp, Volume 2 478-924pp with index. First British Edition.Notes: Size: 9¼" x 6". Red boards with Black titling to the Spine. In the Documents of Twentieth Century Art series. Tags: Exhibition neue kunstler-vereinigung munchen schoenberg blaue reiter schoenberg’s pictures eugen kahler understanding art arthur jerome eddy russia’s artistic spring artistic life russia museum the culture painting international art politics department fine arts pan-russian conference 1920 charles-andre julien writings art interviews lecture notes 709 n7425 new
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Art Crafts for Amateurs by Fred Miller (£133.00)Publisher: H. Virtue & Co. — 1901Binding: Hardback First Edition. Condition: Good. Gently bruised at head & tail of spine and corners. Leans. Edges of the textblock heavily tanned. Hinge starting at the front pastedown. Text bright and tight. A nice, if fragile, copy.Description: 4pp. Publishers advertisements to the rear. From the introduction: “The author’s aim has been to take the leading art-crafts, and to approach them, from two points of view that of the practice of them and that of scheming for and designing for them. Many useful hints and suggestions of a practical nature can be imparted by a practical worker in writing to those who have made a start, or even to those who are about to begin; while in the matter of design this can be dealt with in a yet more emphatic way by the help of illustrations, and the publishers have allowed the author to be prodigal in this matter, there being no less than 178 in the present work, gathered from many sources, and giving examples of craftsmen of very divergent tendencies.”Notes: Size: 8¼" x 5¾". Decorative boards with Black / Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. 248 pages. Tags: wood carving beaten metal work repoussé clay modelling metal work relief enamelling enamelled jewellery bookbinding leather work inlaying stained wood decoration gesso painting relief fret work needlework animal forms decoration stencilling poker work wood leather decorative painting rooms furniture craftsmen
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Naval Camouflage 1914-1945: A Complete Visual Reference by David Williams (£92.00)Publisher: Rochester: Chatham Publishing — 2001Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1861761546]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Very slight rippling to the last few leaves otherwise a very well presented copy. Description: Jacket illustration: The French cruiser, Gloire. . Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Tables;
From the cover: “This authoritative history of camouflage is undoubtedly the most comprehensive study of the subject to date. Visual and illustrative in its approach, it concentrates on the British and US navies, but the camouflage patterns of enemy navies (and selected allies) are covered as well.
Contrary to popular belief, naval camouflage at sea was not intended to ‘hide’ ships, and an in-depth commentary explains the theory and development of visual deception, and the different ways in which it was intended to work at sea.
The core of the book is a listing of all the major patterns and schemes, with their colours, characteristics and function. Wherever possible each is illustrated with at least one photograph providing the reader with a visual reference as well as a description; where there were variations, as many as possible are depicted.
This is a subject of immense importance and significance for all those with an interest in the warships of the two World Wars — this comprehensive reference book is simply the best available.”Notes: Size: 11¾" x 9¾". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 255 pages. Tags: warships camouflage history 20th century war naval operations marine engineering ships britain markings first schemes admiralty light disruptive patterns herzog visibility system mackay toch dazzle painting mountbatten pink purkinje effect
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The Cabinet Gallery of Pictures by the First Masters of the English and Foreign Schools: In Seventy-three Line Engravings with Boigraphical and Critical Dissertations by Allan Cunningham (£77.00)Publisher: London: George & William Nicol, Hodgson & Graves — 1836Binding: Hardback Condition: Poor. Need rebinding as boards worn, rippled, frayed and spines partially detached. Upper board detached on volume I. Top edge gilt faded. A little shaken. Fore and lower edges soiled. Some light foxing affecting plates. Text is bright and clean in both volumes.Description: Not so common in this particular edition although later than the 1834 edition from John Major.Notes: Size: 10¼" x 6½". Blind-stamped Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. 204/192 pages. Tags: cunningham artists paintings drawing masters painting reprodutions european narrative french portrait
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Glimpses of Old Japan from Japanese Colour Prints: Figure; The Geisha; Birds & Flowers; Landscape; by C. G. [Charles Geoffrey] Holme (£72.00)Publisher: The Studio Publications — 1936Binding: Hardback Condition: Poor. All volumes are heavily worn at the spine and edges of the boards. Pages lightly age-tanned but with notable spotting throughout. The pasted on plates, on different grade art paper, are well preserved. Binding copies or for reference only. Description: Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates [8 per volume, pasted on with tissue guards];Notes: Size: 12½" x 10". Pictorial boards. Tags: color prints japanese birds art landscape painting japan country life pictorial works edo period 1600-1868 kesai yeisen hiroshige the second and hokusai plants figure charles geoffrey holme
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S. R. Badmin and the English Landscape by Chris Beetles (£61.00)Publisher: London: Collins — 1985Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Signed by the Author.[ISBN: 0004120205]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Description: Signed by the author on the half-title page beneath his name — unverified and reflected as such in the lack of premium. Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates; Black & White Plates; Chronology Tables; Laid in publishers compliment slip and exhibition invitation.
From the cover: “S. R. BADMIN AND THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE is a celebration and appreciation of one of Britain’s foremost watercolour painters. The work of Stanley Roy Badmin is uniquely familiar and dear to the post-war generation. No other artist has had such consistent popular exposure: for forty years his beautifully detailed and romantic landscapes have graced nature books and travel guides, Puffin Picture Books, the covers of Radio Times and Reader’s Digest, and innumerable greetings cards and calendars.
S. R. BADMIN AND THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE is an authoritative and long-overdue survey of Badmin’s life and art. The text is lavishly accompanied by a selection of his book illustrations as well as a wealth of his sketches taken from over sixty years of careful work and loving observation of nature.
The text is followed by a catalogue raisonne of Badmin’s etchings, many of them reproduced here for the first time, together with full-colour reproductions of forty-four of Badmin’s best watercolours. The detailed captions to the plates are based on the artist’s own memories, giving a privileged insight into the technique and inspiration for each work. A list of exhibits and book illustrations and a full chronology complete this account of England’s most popular watercolourist.
Badmin teaches us to look again at nature, and share his pleasure in the landscape around us. His countryside is our countryside.”Notes: Size: 7¾" x 10¼". Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 157 pages. Tags: beetles 0004120205 badmin stanley roy landscape painters england painting 20th century watercolorists watercolor english watercolour paintings critical topography
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S. R. Badmin and the English Landscape by Chris Beetles (£61.00)Publisher: London: Collins — 1985Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Signed by the Author.[ISBN: 0004120205]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Description: Signed by the author on the half-title page beneath his name — unverified and reflected as such in the lack of premium. Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates; Black & White Plates; Chronology Tables;
From the cover: “S. R. Badmin And The English Landscape is a celebration and appreciation of one of Britain’s foremost watercolour painters. The work of Stanley Roy Badmin is uniquely familiar and dear to the post-war generation. No other artist has had such consistent popular exposure: for forty years his beautifully detailed and romantic landscapes have graced nature books and travel guides, Puffin Picture Books, the covers of Radio Times and Reader’s Digest, and innumerable greetings cards and calendars.
S. R. Badmin And The English Landscape is an authoritative and long-overdue survey of Badmin’s life and art. The text is lavishly accompanied by a selection of his book illustrations as well as a wealth of his sketches taken from over sixty years of careful work and loving observation of nature.
The text is followed by a catalogue raisonne of Badmin’s etchings, many of them reproduced here for the first time, together with full-colour reproductions of forty-four of Badmin’s best watercolours. The detailed captions to the plates are based on the artist’s own memories, giving a privileged insight into the technique and inspiration for each work. A list of exhibits and book illustrations and a full chronology complete this account of England’s most popular watercolourist.
Badmin teaches us to look again at nature, and share his pleasure in the landscape around us. His countryside is our countryside.”Notes: Size: 7¾" x 10¼". Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 157 pages. Tags: beetles 0004120205 badmin stanley roy landscape painters england painting 20th century watercolorists watercolor english watercolour paintings critical topography
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The Winter Queen: The Life of Elizabeth of Bohemia 1596-1662 by Rosalind K. Marshall (£53.00)Publisher: The Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland — 1998Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0903598795]Condition: Very Good+. A very nice copy of an uncommon title. Description: First in this, paperback, edition. Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Genealogical Tables; Published for the exhibition The Winter Queen - The life of Elizabeth of Bohemia held at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh 10th July – 4th October 1998.
From the cover: “The Winter Queen is the dramatic story of Elizabeth of Bohemia (1596-1662), daughter of James VI and Anne of Denmark. Regarded as one of the most romantic figures in the history of the seventeenth century, she was the crucial link between the Stewart kings and the House of Hanover. Elizabeth -was successively a royal princess in Linlithgow, then in London, an adored bride in Heidelberg, a Queen Consort in Prague, an impoverished exile in The Hague, and finally the respected aunt of Charles II in Restoration London. The author, the distinguished historian Dr Rosalind K. Marshall, has published widely on the Stewarts, including biographies of Mary of Guise and Mary, Queen of Scots.”Notes: Size: 9¾" x 6½". 111 pages. Tags: elizabeth queen bohemia 1596-1662 exhibitions consort frederick king queens czech republic biography princesses great britain portrait painting 17th century portraits royal scottish national gallery edinburgh catalogues british isles scotland autobiography 1500 1600 1700 architecture individual architect royalty historical women rosalind marshall 0903598795
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Flower Paintings from the Apothecaries' Garden: Contemporary Botanical Illustrations from Chelsea Botanical Garden by Andrew Brown (£49.00)Publisher: Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club — 2005Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 1851495037]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper slightly faded at the spine otherwise a very well presented copy. Description: Contains: Colour plates; Colour frontispiece; Illustrated endpapers and blanks; Title page vignette;
From the cover: “This book is a celebration of the work of the first ten years of Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society. The Society, founded in 1995, is a group of artists charged with the task of recording in watercolour paintings the flora of Britain’s second oldest botanic garden, founded in 1673 by the Society of Apothecaries. About 200 paintings by fifty-six artists have been accessed to the Physic Garden archives.
Flower Paintings from the Apothecaries’ Garden contains fifty-six colour reproductions of paintings, one by each artist. The plants depicted range from small alpines to magnificent trees and from food plants to those which yield life-saving drugs, for although the Physic Garden was founded for the teaching of apothecaries, it has always been a garden for the growing of the novel and the exotic. From its founding, throughout the eighteenth and earlier part of the nineteenth centuries, the Physic Garden was an international focal point for botanical endeavour.
Each of the colour plates is accompanied by information about the plant’s uses and, for some, the cultivation history at Chelsea, together with biographical details of the artist.
Also included are a short essay on the role of botanical illustration today, a brief history of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society and a listing of the complete archive to date, including paintings and ink drawings.”Notes: Size: 12" x 9¾". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. 135 pages. Tags: botanical illustration chelsea physic garden medicinal plants england london illustrated britain artists painting paintings art design graphic arts 1851495037
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Early Views of Indonesia: Drawings from the British Library / Pemandangan Indonesia Di Masa Lampau: Seni Gambar Dari British Library by Annabel Teh Gallop (£44.00)Publisher: The British Library — 1995Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0712304312]Condition: Very Good. Lightly rubbed at the tips of the wrappers. Text complete, clean and tight but small spot to the half-title and facing page. Description: First in this, paperback, edition. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Plates; Black & White Plates;
From the cover: “Early Views of Indonesia is a catalogue of the most important watercolour and pencil drawings from the British Library’s superb collection of more than 1,500 drawings of Indonesia dating from the early nineteenth century, most of which have never been published before.”Notes: Size: 9¾" x 9¾". 128 pages. Tags: asia south east asian archaeology drawings indonesia 1800 1900 art techniques painting drawing social science period region paintings annabel teh gallop 0712304312
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The Handyman In The Home: In 3 Volumes by Edited by Arthur W. Judge (£40.00)Publisher: Caxton Publishing Company — 1956Binding: Hardback Condition: Very Good. Pages lightly age-tanned otherwise a pleasant set.Description: September Reprint of the 2nd Edition. [First: 1930] Illustrated with black and white photographs & diagrams. From the preface: “As its title indicates, this work has been prepared expressly for the practical handyman desirous of undertaking a wide variety of jobs connected with the home, garden, garage and small workshop, including not only the domestic repairs and renovations that become necessary from time to time but also useful improvements and additions to the home and its contents. The keen home dweller, with a knowledge of the use of the simple tools and materials described in these volumes, can not only tackle most household repairs and additions expeditiously, but also avoid a good deal of expense. Apart from these considerations, there is always the satisfaction associated with the completion of a job that would otherwise have meant calling in someone else for the purpose. In addition to the extensive range of household repairs, fittings, furniture and other relevant items dealt with in this work, there are also a number of sections, including those on homecrafts, hobbies, sports accessories, outdoor constructions, etc., which will be found both useful and profitable to the handyman and housewife. Since many of the articles in these volumes deal with woodwork repairs and new constructions, it was considered desirable to include a comprehensive section, written by a well-known expert in such matters, on the subject of carpentry and woodworking tools, so that the reader who is not very well acquainted with the use of the latter can improve both his knowledge and experience.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 7". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 994 pages. Tags: examples ferranti temporal choosing rawlplug cleaners location formulas ragbolts fingered gate-leg concrete patterns stitches shunting tapestry frosting arterial seamless pressing imperial portiere employed schrader wireless utensils handsaws shooting ifailure trimming twaddell scissors dressing prufitol watering injector fastener grinding slater's bandages hammocks mandolin grafting lavatory ironwork basketry chenille grinders transfer fixtures charging
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Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts by George S. Keyes (£39.60)Publisher: Detroit, London: Detroit Institute of Arts, D. Giles Ltd — 2004Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1904832040]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates;Notes: Foreword or introduction by Graham W. J. Beal. Size: 12½" x 9½". Red boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 288 pages. Tags: detroit institute arts painting dutch 17th century painters netherlands michigan artists paintings history art design styles permanent baroque rococo european
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William Nicholson, Painter: Paintings, Woodcuts, Writings, Photographs by Edited by Andrew Nicholson (£39.00)Publisher: London: Giles de la Mare — 1996Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1900357003]Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper appears unevenly faded on the lower panel otherwise a very well presented copy. Description: Contains: Black & white photographs; Chronological tables [1]; Colour plates; Black & white plates; Black & white drawings; Colour frontispiece; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;
From the cover: “William Nicholson (1872-1949), who is known by many for his early woodcuts and the radical posters of the Beggarstaff Brothers in the 1890s, has become recognized as one of the foremost English artists of his time for the whole range of his work. His haunting downland landscapes, his remarkable still lifes, which capture light and colour in an entirely fresh way, and the varied portraits by which he mainly earned his living form the core of his output and have become greatly prized. This book, compiled by two grandsons, Andrew and Tim Nicholson, is with its representative selection of his pictures the first to do justice to the extraordinary diversity of William Nicholson’s oeuvre.
It provides at the same time a documentary account of William Nicholson’s life, using contemporary records, articles and reminiscences, and above all quoting extensively from the numerous letters William wrote to his family and friends, many of them to his son Ben Nicholson, and from the letters they wrote to him as well. The majority are from private sources and have never appeared in print before. What emerges in this unique and beautifully illustrated volume is a highly detailed and most appealing portrait of the man and the artist.
What he painted, why and for whom; what spurred him on to experiment and artistic adventure; how he fared in times of elation and anguish; how he combined the serious playfulness of his vision with a deep affection for nature; and how he collaborated with some of the leading men of his day, among them Rudyard Kipling, J. M. Barrie, William Orpen, Edwin Lutyens, his son-in-law Robert Graves, and Winston Churchill — all this is revealed, and much more.
William Nicholson, Painter includes 110 colour plates of his oil paintings and over 250 black and white reproductions and photographs.”Notes: Foreword or introduction by Alan Bowness. Size: 12" x 9½". Grey boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 292 pages. Tags: nicholson bowness criticism interpretation painters britain artists graphic arts art british 20th century england painting paintings illustration commercial united kingdom 1900357003 9781900357005
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Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation, Works 1914-1940 by Robert Kudielka with an essay by Bridget Riley (£36.00)Publisher: Hayward Gallery in association with Lund Humphries — 2002Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 1853322245]Condition: Very Good+. Description: From the cover: “Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation explores diversity as the mainspring of Klee’s creative practice. Drawing on Klee’s own classifications for his work, along with those of distinguished Klee scholars, this book traces the development of the artist’s rich visual language not as a single line of enquiry but as a series of movements, counter-movements and interconnections.
By the time of his death in 1940, Klee was an acknowledged modern master, his fame and influence both as an artist and a teacher recognized throughout the western world. However, his work lost prominence for
many years from the early 1960s, re-emerging into view only fairly recently. Today, taste and cultural climate appear to have changed and the breadth and significance of Klee’s work is once again heralded.
Featuring an essay by Robert Kudielka, Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the Universitat der Kiinste, Berlin, along with a personal response to Klee’s work by renowned British artist, Bridget Riley, this book brings to the fore the seminal role Klee had in the development of twentieth-century art and asserts the continuing relevance of his work today.”Notes: Size: 11¼" x 9". 204 pages. Tags: klee paul 1879-1940 catalogs exhibitions studies criticism and interpretation painting modern 20th century switzerland great britain modernism art painters german swiss design styles from 1960 individual artists monographs history robert kudielka with essay bridget riley 1853322245
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Pieter Bruegel: Complete Edition of the Paintings by F. Grossman (£36.00)Publisher: Phaidon — 1974Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 071481511X]Condition: Good+ - in Good+ DJ. Very slightly ruffled edges of DJ, DJ a little loose. Lightly bruised at head and tail.Description: Pieter Bruegel the Elder began his career in 1551, at a period when Michelangelo was painting his last frescoes; and when death took Bruegel in 1569, at the summit of his achievement, the youthful El Greco had just completed his first paintings. With 149 illustrations, 32 in colour 206pp. Index. Size: 4to Medium (11½" x 9" approx.)Tags: Bruegel Michelangelo Greco paintings 071481511X
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Shorts Aircraft Since 1900 by C. H. Barnes (revised By Derek N. James) (£36.00)Publisher: London: Putnam Aeronautical Books — 1989Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0851778194]Condition: Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper. Description: 2nd (revised) edition, 1st printing, [First Published: 1967] Jacket illustration: Keith Woodcock's original painting shows Short Sunderland MR 5 RN273 of No 201 Squadron, RAF, taking off one evening from Sullom Voe, Shetland, in September 1952. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Tables; Plans;
From the cover: “From the first spherical balloons made by Eustace and Oswald Short, the author traces the brothers’ progress as engineers to the Aero Club till Wilbur Wright’s arrival in France in 1908 and their consequent change-over from balloons to aeroplanes — a decision endorsed by their eldest brother Horace, who joined them to set up the world’s first aircraft production line.
Their rapid expansion as aircraft suppliers to the Royal Navy and their notable progress with deck-launching, folding wings, buoyancy bags and sprung floats led to enormous production of the famous Short Type 184 during World War I, in which period the firm also built rigid airships.
Oswald Short’s pioneering work with a successful series of metal hulled flying-boats is described and their operational histories recorded.
Appendices list all Shorts’ constructors’ numbers, serials and registration marks. The book contains specifications for all Short types and variants, and complete lists to date of type designations and preliminary designs.
For this new edition the section on unbuilt projects has been expanded and the post-1945 story of Rochester’s last days and Northern Ireland’s new industry has been carried down to the present. The Skyvan and Belfast chapters have been up-dated and the 330, Sherpa and 360 have been added to the aircraft coverage, as well as notes on the forthcoming Tucano.”Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XI] 560 pages. Tags: short airplanes history british flying-boats firm aeronautical engineering trade industry manufacturing britain aircraft aeroplanes aviation air types manufacturer aeroplane manufacture united kingdom shorts
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Great Book of French Impressionism by Diane Kelder (£34.00)Publisher: Abbeville Press — 1980Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0896591514]Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Very slightly ruffled edges of DJ with some light scratches to both panels. Bookplate to ffep. A pleasant copy that requires a concerted effort to lift…Description: From the cover: “In her thoughtful, cogent text, art historian Diane Kelder traces the development of Impressionism from its roots in landscape and Realist painting through its focus on modem urban life to its ultimate goal: to fix on canvas the fleeting moods and effects of nature in a world that stands still for no one. The author examines the lives and works of all the major Impressionists and Post- Impressionists in detail, including Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, and Cezanne, and shows how their work influenced others in the movement, ultimately giving rise to the new art of the twentieth century.”Notes: Size: 15¼" x 12". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 447 pages. Tags: edouard manet claude monet impressionist pierre-auguste renoir edgar degas henri toulouse-lautrec paul cezanne impressionism art france painting french painting modern 19th century france nd547.5.14k43 759.4 80-66527 vincent van gogh modern art
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Interpreting the Figure in Watercolor by Don Andrews (£34.00)Publisher: Watson Guptill Publications — 1988Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0823025489]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper which is slightly pulled at the head of the upper panel and has a light stain to the reverse of the same. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: A Later Printing. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs;
From the cover: “Figure painting is considered by many artists to be the most intriguing subject matter of all. But when forced to paint the figure from a laborious, anatomical point of view; artists often become discouraged. Well-known workshop artist Don Andrews advances the idea that the figure can be approached with the same creative attitude with which artists approach the landscape or still life. His emphasis is not on what you know, but on what you see. As demonstrated by Andrews in this book, the task of the painter is to organize, not report. Not only is this method easier, it results in better paintings as well.
Interpreting the Figure in Watercolor takes on a challenging subject: showing how the figure can be painted creatively and beautifully in watercolor through simplification, interpretation, and shape-making. In explaining how to capture the essence of the human figure, Andrews provides basic information about materials and discusses such techniques as gesture drawing and gesture painting; defining the figure with light and shadow and linking darks and lights for unity; introducing backgrounds; creating visual interest; edge quality; color granulation and temperature; middle value construction of the figure; using whites to “turn on the light”; and working from the model and photographs — but leaves readers free to make their own personal statements, to develop their own “how-to”. By carefully observing, interpreting, and then painting what you see, you can achieve very convincing and appealing likenesses of people.
Andrews’ unique approach to painting the figure is designed to teach artists at every level to overcome the obstacles of figure painting. His accessible style will help watercolorists improve their handling of the medium and rendering of the figure dramatically.”Notes: Size: 11" x 8¾". Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 144 pages. Tags: human figure art watercolor painting technique aktmalerei aquarell don andrews 0823025489
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Korean Music: Its History And Its Performance by Keith Pratt (£34.00)Publisher: London: Faber & Faber; Seoul: Jung Eum Sa Publishing Corporation — 1987Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0571100813]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Top edge of the dust wrapper slightly ruffled otherwise a very well presented copy. LACKS THE ORIGINAL BOX & CASSETTE TAPES.Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Colour Photographs; Colour Plates; Musical scores; Maps; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;
From the cover: “Korean music is one of the most splendid and distinctive of all the great East Asian arts. Varied in form and instrumentation, rich in texture and tone-colour, sophisticated in rhythm and mood, it is still little known in the West, though it is now attracting increasing attention. Keith Pratt, one of the few British scholars to have made an extensive study of it, gives an account of its development over the past fifteen hundred years. He explains the social importance of music and dance in both traditional and modern Korea, and discusses their links with Chinese music and their individual characteristics. At the core of his book is a unique collection of pictures and drawings showing the representation of music in Korean art. The 142 colour plates, many of them reproducing Korean works for the first time, constitute a remarkable survey of literati and folk art traditions. There are examples of painting, sculpture, metalwork, pottery and wood-carving.”Notes: Size: 10¼" x 7¾". Light Brown boards with Black titling to the Spine & Upper Board. 279 pages. Tags: music korea history criticism korean east asian arts chinese folk art traditions painting sculpture metalwork pottery woodcarving court religious vocal instrumental forms
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Water-colour Painting in Britain III: The Victorian Period by Martin Hardie (£34.00)Publisher: London: B. T. Batsford — 1968Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with a short, closed, tear to the head of the upper panel. Boards and spine mottled. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Contains: Black & white plates; Colour frontispiece; Addenda;Notes: Size: 12" x 9". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XVI] 398 pages. Tags: watercolor painting great britain history, painting, victorian england, romanticism england, first edition books, books written martin hardie, books edited dudley snelgrove with jonathan mayne basil taylor
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Onesto by Edited by Allan Szacher (£32.00)Publisher: Sao Paulo: Zupi Design — 2008Binding: Hardback First Edition. [ISBN: 9788561464004]Condition: Very Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Parallel English & Portugese language text. Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Black & White Drawings;Notes: Size: 10" x 6¾". Pictorial boards. 145 pages. Tags: szacher art graffiti artists street painting 9788561464004
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Pegasus and The Arts by Edited by Claudia Brink & Wilhelm Hornbostel (£31.00)Publisher: Munchen: Deutscher Kunstverlag — 1993Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 3422061118]Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper, with a short closed tear to the head of the upper panel. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Contains: Black & white photographs; Colour plates; Black & white plates; Colour frontispiece;
From the cover: “This volume, initially published in German to accompany the exhibition »Pegasus und die Kunste«, takes as its subject the many-sided history of the winged horse. It gathers together essays on the sources of the Pegasus myth in Antiquity, on astrology and on aspects of the artistic reception of the Pegasus motif from the 15th century to the 19th century. Pegasus, who came into being by springing from the severed neck of the snake-haired Medusa, is distinguished by two particular capacities, both of which have always exerted considerable fascination. Through physical strength and speed, he brought victory to both mythical heroes and earthly rulers; as the Muses’ steed, meanwhile, he possessed the gift of spurring the imagination of poets and artists. The selected examples — vase painting and sculpture from Antiquity, Renaissance and Baroque prints and paintings, works from the 19th century — offer new insights into the iconography of the winged horse and his particular significance for the arts.
This catalogue is a compendium of the iconography of Pegasus, and one that will prove indispensable for all those with an interest in this subject.”Notes: Size: 12" x 9". Black boards with White titling to the Spine. 286 pages. Tags: pegasus greek mythology art exhibitions, horses art exhibitions, art exhibitions, horses mythology exhibitions, art mythology exhibitions, pegasus art, pegasus iconography, mythology depictions, first edition books, books claudia brink wilhelm hornbostel
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Representative Painters of the XIXth Century by Mrs. Arthur Bell (£31.00)Publisher: London, New York: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, E. P. Dutton & Co. — 1899Binding: Hardback Condition: Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding with slight fraying to the spine ends. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Pages gently tanned with scattered spotting throughout. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Plates [50]; Top edge gilt;Notes: Jacket designed by Selwyn Image. Size: 11¾" x 8¼". Decorated Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. [X]199 pages. Tags: bell selwyn image painting 19th century art painters europe
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Who's Who in Christian History by J. D. Douglas (£31.00)Publisher: Tyndale Press — 1992Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 9780842310147]Condition: Very Good - in Good DJ. DJ snagged at the tail of the spine, ½" closed tear to the top corner of the upper panel. Previous owners inscription to ½-title page.Description: With over 1,500 biographical entries, this is a comprehensive resource, spanning the first through the twentieth centuries —from Jesus and the apostles to Billy Graham and Mother Teresa. Any reader will be fascinated and inspired by the lives of men and women — well known and obscure — who were influential in Christian history. This one-volume biographical dictionary is also a perfect resource for pastors, Bible teachers, Sunday school teachers, Bible students, and seminarians.Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¾". 747 pages. Tags: New World Thomas Carlyle music philosophy literature painting arts Christian biography Cicero Christian faith Jesus
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How To Make Clipper Ship Models by Edward W. Hobbs (£28.00)Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson — 1952Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good - in Poor DJ. Edges of DJ ruffled and chipped with some loss, also faded. Discreet inscription on ffep. Cover a little marked on front. Internally clean & bright.Description: Illustrated with B&W photographs. Pull out diagrams. 215pp. Index. Advertisements. Size: 8vo Large Post (8¼" x 5") Dust wrapper in protective, removable sleeve.Tags: transportation model-building bassett-lowke fashion-piece miscellaneous construction proportional impregnating sandpapering shipbuilding figure-head photographs correctness breast-hook four-masted eye-splice kensington crosstrees stonehouse varnishing california stanchions sharpening martingale components underwater waterplane simplified turnbuckle everything spokeshave chiselling sailmaking seamanship diagonally thompson's forecastle supporting assembling stretching topgallant modelmaker measuring contoured broadside completed footropes halliards stanchion materials underside
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The Art and Technique of Oil Painting: A Discussion of Traditional Oil Techniques For Use by the Contemporary Painter by Frederic Taubes (£28.00)Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul — 1948Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. Condition: Poor - in Poor Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with heavy spotting to both panels and loss at the head of the spine. Boards damp marked and spotted. Pages lightly age-tanned. Description: 8th edition, 1st printing, [First Published: 1940] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Plates [8]; Black & White Drawings;Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5½". Red boards with Black titling to the Spine. 82 pages. Tags: oil painting techniques technique gesso priming emulsion casein linseed poppy seed sun thickened paints the palette dammar varnishes siccative dryer tools underpainting imprimatura egg tempera causes cracking cleaning repairing
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The Forbes Collection of Victorian Pictures and Works of Art Thursday 20 February 2003 by Anon. (£27.00)Publisher: London: Christie's — 2003Binding: Paperback Condition: Near Fine — in Very Good Slip Case. Case a little rubbed at the corners otherwise a very well presented set. All three volumes lightly rubbed at the top corner of the upper wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: 3 volume set in slip case. Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates; Black & White Plates;Notes: Size: 10½" x 8¼". 964 pages. Tags: forbes christopher art magazine collection painting british 19th century victorian auctions england london
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Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings and Miniatures in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham by A. C. Sewter, A. Mclaren Young & Frank Simpson (£26.00)Publisher: Cambridge: At The University Press — 1952Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with heavier toning to the spine. Dust wrapper now protected in a removable mylar sleeve. Previous owners' name to the first blank. The pages are somewhat tanned, if tight, and a little musty, with a slight wrinkle to the top of the last 30 or so leaves. Description: Revised by Kenneth Garlick. Contains: Black & white plates;Notes: Foreword or introduction by C. D. Medley & Thomas Bodkin. Size: 13" x 10". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XI] 219 pages. Tags: simpson painting birmingham drawing university barber institute fine arts
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Jackson Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe with Pepe Karmel (£26.00)Publisher: London: The Tate Gallery — 1999Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 1854372769]Condition: Very Good. Lightly pulled at the head of the upper wrapper otherwise a very well presented copy. Description: Contains: Black & white photographs; Chronological tables; Colour photographs;
From the cover: “Jackson Pollock is widely considered the most challenging and influential American artist of the twentieth century. In his revolutionary paintings of the late 1940s, he dripped or poured paint into complex webs of interlacing lines, rhythmically punctuated by pools of colour. With their all over composition, seemingly total abstraction, and gestural but remarkably controlled handling of paint, these powerful works announced the emergence of Abstract Expressionism.
This sumptuously illustrated book accompanies the major Pollock exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Tate Gallery, London, in 1998-99. The Tate exhibition is the first full survey of Pollock’s work to be shown in Britain in forty years. An essay by Kirk Varnedoe explores Pollock’s life, the mythology that so quickly grew up around him as the prototypical “action painter”, and the critical interpretations of his legacy. It traces the development of his work from European and American models, and discusses his powerful impact on later artists. Pepe Karmel’s innovative study of Hans Namuth’s photographs and films of Pollock at work offers new insight into the genesis of Pollock’s paintings.
Jackson Pollock includes over 200 colour reproductions of paintings, drawings, and prints, including life-sized details and foldouts of major paintings. An illustrated chronology tells the story of the artist’s life.”Notes: Size: 9¾" x 11½". 336 pages. Tags: pollock artists united states museum art york tate gallery criticism interpretation abstract expressionism painting 20th century painters paintings usa history american theory 1854372769
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Modern French Painters by R. H. Wilenski (£24.50)Publisher: Faber & Faber — 1954Binding: Hardback Condition: Very Good. Boards gently faded and rubbed. Lower board very slightly sprung. Previous owners inscription to ffep. Text bright and tight.Description: 3rd Edition. Blue cloth with gilt on red title plate to the spine. Colour and B&W plates. This book is an attempt to tell the story of modem French painting as developed by the Impressionists and subsequent adventurers in the last seventy-five years in Paris. The story begins, properly speaking, with the foundation of the Salon des Independants in 1884; but it is preceded by a Prologue starting in 1863 when Napoleon III created the Salon des Refuses where Manet’s Dejeuner sur 1’herbe (now an object of respectful veneration in the Louvre) was described as an affront to decency and the work of a vulgar self-advertiser or a man afflicted with disquieting taints; and it continues to the present day though it does not end there, because the stream of modern French painting is still flowing and there must be, as the phrase goes, ‘as good fish in the water as ever came out of it’.Notes: Size: 11" x 7½". 424 pages. Tags: charles-antoine beaumetz.jeande biesta-monrival bourbon-vendome marie-madeleine charles-orlant louis-philippe louise-ulrique bernheim-jeune fontainebleau dandre-bardon chateaubriand dedreux-dorcy carolus-duran jacques-louis roucy-trioson malouel.jean diazdelapena antoine-jean valenciennes bartolommeo castiglione schlichting david-weill saint-albin largilliere rothschild meissonier desjardins jean-louis gaignieres bellechose collection lafontaine angiviller destouches caravaggio enguerrand perronneau penthievre parrocelj. chasseriau lieferinxe champaigne sauvageot corneille delaroche stosskopf blanchard allegrain richelieu
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An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art by N. C. [Newell Convers] Wyeth (£24.00)Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown & Company in association with the Brandywine River Museum — 1987Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 082121652X]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Previous owners' name to the pastedown. Description: Contains: Black & white photographs; Colour photographs;Notes: Size: 9½" x 11¼". Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XII] 209 pages. Tags: wyeth family exhibitions, realism art united states exhibitions, painting paintings, first edition books, books written wyeth, 082121652x
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Dampskibsselskabet "Norden" 1871-1996: 125 Years On the High Seas by Anon. (£24.00)Publisher: Unstated — 1996Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Very Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Gently faded at the spine of the dust wrapper otherwise a very well presented copy. Description: Jacket illustration: The Company's first steamship “NORDEN” from a painting by Vilh. Amesen, abt. 1895. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Colour Photographs; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;Notes: Size: 12" x 8½". White boards with Black titling to the Spine & Upper Board. 93 pages. Tags: denmark destruction property international claims nautical collisions
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Gardening with Shape, Line and Texture: A Plant Design Sourcebook by Linden Hawthorne (£24.00)Publisher: Portland & London: Timber Press — 2013Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 9780881928884]Condition: Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper. Description: Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs;
From the cover: “Gardening with Shape, Line and Texture bridges the gap between garden design books and plant reference encyclopaedias. Leading landscaper Linden Hawthorne looks at plants from a designer’s perspective, where colour is often a secondary consideration, and emphasizes the important roles of plant shape.
Part 1 reviews fine art principles and shows how they can be successfully applied to plant compositions by grouping plants into three heights: ground to knee, knee to navel, and navel to crown. She identifies different plant shapes — buns, mounds, tiers, fountains, uprights — and shows how the use of them contributes to the success of the finished design.
Part 2 is a plant sourcebook with plants listed alphabetically within their key plant shape categories. This innovative plant reference delivers plant information in a form that neatly dovetails with the garden design process and will inspire gardeners to look beyond colour and begin to appreciate the whole plant.”Notes: Size: 11¼" x 8¾". Green boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 280 pages. Tags: gardens design landscape gardening plants painting horizontals tiers verticals diagonals arcs fountains clumps mounds clouds transparents garden techniques handbooks planning 9780881928884
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Oskar Kokoschka 1886-1980 by Richard Calvocoressi & Katharina Schulz (£24.00)Publisher: New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation — 1986Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0892070595]Condition: Very Good. Single reading crease to the spine which is lightly knocked at the head, wraps a little age-toned. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Contains: Black & white photographs; Colour plates; Portrait to the frontispiece;
From the cover: “This volume has been published to accompany the centenary exhibition of Oskar Kokoschka’s work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, first seen in somewhat different form at the Tate Gallery, London, and the Kunsthaus Zurich. The great individualist of twentieths-century art, Kokoschka in his painting combines elements of Expressionism, Symbolism and the Baroque, resulting in portraits and landscapes characterized by heightened colour, emotional intensity and a strong sense of vitality and movement. Kokoschka is best remembered for his incisive portraits of the Viennese intelligentsia and bourgeoisie painted during the last years of the Habsburg empire, but also for a series of breathtaking views of European cities done mainly in the twenties and thirties. The catalogue has been written by Richard Calvocoressi of the Tate Gallery. With 184 full page colour plates, it is a complete record of the most comprehensive Kokoschka exhibition ever presented in the United States.”Notes: Size: 9¾" x 9¾". 246 pages. Tags: kokoschka oskar criticism interpretation artists painting portraits 20th century austria austro-hungarian empire english paintings catalogues exhibition 0892070595
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Studies Among The Painters by J. [Joseph] Beavington Atkinson (£24.00)Publisher: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge — 1874Binding: Hardback Condition: Good. Heavily faded at the spine with the titling now effaced. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards, slight fraying at the same. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Hinge strained at the plate facing page 71. Text complete, clean and tight otherwise. Description: Publishing date unstated, dated from references. Illustrated by way of: Engravings [17]; Consists mainly of collected papers written for the People's Magazine.Notes: Size: 10" x 7½". Bevelled Decorative Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. 197 [2] pages. Tags: atkinson painting european painters europe italian spanish school dutch figure seventeenth century landscape french hogarth reynolds gainsborough wilson constable schools art
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The Eye of Man: Form and Content in Western Painting by Selden Rodman (£24.00)Publisher: New York: Devin-Adair — 1955Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and gubby with rubbing to the spine ends and corners. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Pastedowns and endpapers browned with pencil doodles to the rear pastedown and blank. Pages lightly age-tanned. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black and White Photographs;
From the cover: “This is the book on modern art that a new generation has been waiting for.
In these pages, inflated artistic reputations are punctured, the heads of revered critics topple, and sacrosanct movements are exposed to the glaring test of their capacity for reflecting and creating life. But, most important, Mr. Rodman describes the achievements and aims of a new group of painters who express human and spiritual values without sacrificing the vital knowledge attained by the great formalists from Cezanne to Matisse.
The Eye of Man argues powerfully for that dynamic, expressive art which avoids the pretentiousness of purely formal painting without content, and which never is debased to the level of mere illustration.
Asserting that our age has carried private painting to extremes that have caused an almost complete lack of communication between artist and public, Selden Rodman passionately affirms the place of recognizable content and spiritual values in painting.
In the course of his argument, Mr. Rodman reassesses Western art from the Byzantines to the present and analyzes from a fresh viewpoint the works of the great pictorial spokesmen for humanity: Giotto, Gruenewald, El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, Daumier, Van Gogh, Orozco, Rouault, and Shahn — artists whose meaning and vitality have lately suffered from the rewriting of art histories by formalist aestheticians”Notes: Size: 10¼" x 7¼". Black Spine Strip over Grey boards with Red titling to the Spine & Upper Board. 182 pages. Tags: art painting quattrocento masacci renaissance michelangelo tintoretto classicism poussin realism millet corot manet impressionists byzantine romanesque gothic expressionism munch berenson totalitarianism primitivism artist society painters
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Wright of Derby by Judy Egerton (£24.00)Publisher: London: The Tate Gallery — 1990Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 1854370375]Condition: Very Good. Description: A catalogue of an exhibition held at the Tate Gallery, London, 7th February to 22nd April 1990; Grand Palais, Paris, 17th May to 23rd July 1990; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 6th September to 2nd December 1990. Contains: Black & white photographs; Colour photographs;Notes: Size: 11¾" x 9¼". 294 pages. Tags: derby english painter exhibitions, galeries nationales grand palais paris, france exhibitions, metropolitan museum art new york, tate gallery london exhibitions, 18th century painting history, painters history, derbyshire derby arts painting, wright derby, books written judy egerton, 1854370375
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The Book of Waistcoats by Jacqueline Farrell (£22.50)Publisher: Apple Press — 1996Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 9781850766865]Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Top edge of DJ slightlyl ruffled otherwise a very well presented copy.Description: Teaches you how to create your own exciting, decorative waistcoats. With a variety of easy-to-use techniques such as patchwork, embroidery, fabric painting and beading, you can create fabulous fashion even if you've never picked up a needle and thread before. You'll learn how to transform a plain, shop-bought waistcoat into a customised masterpiece, or how to update your old waistcoats to the latest fashions. More experienced craftspeople will also enjoy making their own waistcoats from scratch, and this book features a range of projects just for them. A gallery of examples serves as a sourcebook for patterns and motifs to inspire you to create your own unique designs.Notes: Size: 11¼" x 8¾". 128 pages. Tags: Farrell waistcoats patchwork embroidery fabric beading
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The Print Collector's Handbook by Alfred Whitman (£22.50)Publisher: E. P. Publishing — 1973Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0854098003]Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ.Description: Illustrated with B&W photographs. First published 1901 - this edition taken from the 1907 reprint of the third edition, published George Bell, London. With a new Introduction by H. F. B. Tregaskis.Notes: Size: 9" x 6½". 164 pages. Tags: Whitman prints art artists painting drawings
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Taking up Drawing and Painting by Guy R Williams (£22.00)Publisher: Taplinger — 1973Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Very Good - in Good DJ. Slight wear / rubbing at edges of DJ. Cover slighty rubbed at extremities.Description: This book, by an art teacher of more than nineteen years experience and author of more than forty books on the subject, provides an introduction to all the pictorial artist's basic materials. Jacket by Rus Anderson. Illustrated by Guy Williams. 128pp. Index. Size: Large Post Octavo
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Design and Decoration in the Home by Henry Stephenson (£21.50)Publisher: Blandford Press — 1962Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Good - in Good DJ. Unlaminated DJ edgeworn, faded with loss at head and tail and a small scuff at the top corner of the upper wrap. Previous owners inscription and name stamp to the ffep, complimented by a pasted on BP Oil "Stop, Look & Listen" sticker.Description: This useful handbook shows how to design and decorate the interior of a house or flat, whether it is a new one or already lived in. In clear and explicit text, aided by black and white drawings, takes the reader through the stages of developing a scheme for a bedroom, lounge, dining room, hall, kitchen, bathroom, and nursery. The final effect in each case is shown in a stimulating colour illustration.Notes: Size: 8¾" x 6". 80 pages. Tags: decorate design interiors wall paper decorating painting trims accessories furniture make overs
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Fauve Painting: The Making of Cultural Politics by James D. Herbert (£21.50)Publisher: New Haven & London: Yale University Press — 1992Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0300050682]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Occasional light pencil marginalia, easily erased. Security sticker to the rear pastedown not so easily removed. Description: Contains: Black & white photographs; Colour photographs;
From the cover: “In this provocative new account of Fauvism, James D. Herbert explores how the paintings of Henri Matisse, Andre Derain and Maurice Vlaminck engaged many of the pressing issues of their day, and simultaneously camouflaged that engagement. Fauve pictures depicted the landscape in a manner that facilitated the cultural expansion of sophisticated Parisians into the suburbs as residents and into the south of France and overseas as tourists. Matisse’s nudes attributed gendered roles to viewer and viewed, and later, at the close of the Fauve period, participated in the formulation of the colonial account of Africa. By combining the grande tradition of classical painting and the more recent legacy of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Fauve paintings fused tradition and innovation to produce an image of a national culture ostensibly unified, eternal and naturally French. In short, Herbert contends that these pictures made politics from culture.
Herbert’s major contribution to our understanding of Fauve painting, however, lies in his examination of how the myth of die Fauves’ artistic simplicity — cultivated by critics at the time as well as by art historians since — informed these political engagements. The manner of painting that came to be known as Fauve style constituted a new form of naturalism based on tactile rather than visual correspondences between pictures and depicted objects. As naturalist pictures, Fauve canvases affected to find (not make) the scenes they portrayed, and to treat their themes as simple artistic discoveries. Fauve painting thereby presented its formulations about land, about gender, about the colonies and about the national heritage as self-evident truths above the contingencies of politics and beyond the vagaries of history. The dissimulation of politics as art in this manner, Herbert’s book proposes, may be a primary political function of the aesthetic of modern painting — a function often replicated rather than explicated by the discipline of art history.
Herbert’s rigorous examination of a handful of Fauve paintings leads him to a broad-ranging investigation of a great number of related contemporary artefacts including polemical political tracts and contentious art-critical writings, tourist postcards and photographs of nudes, travel guidebooks and ethnographic treatises. The book will interest not only art historians and cultural historians of the period, but also scholars involved in the investigation of the politics of representation.”Notes: Size: 10¼" x 8". Green boards with White titling to the Spine. 224 pages. Tags: fauvism france, painting 20th century france, fauvism history painting, painting theory, post impressionism, history art design styles, painting paintings, art history, first edition books, books written james herbert
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Arts and Artists by Jeremy Kingston (£21.00)Publisher: Bloomsbury — 1989Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1870830386]Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Edges of DJ somewhat ruffled.Description: From the cover: “The aim of this book is to help the reader to explore and appreciate a wide range of arts, from painting to drama, sculpture to film making. In addition to chapters on each of these arts, other chapters describe the contributions of individual artists. Devoting a double-page spread to each of 70 artists, these chapters show the human aspect of the subject. 1. The book as a whole can be read as a study in some depth of the ways in which individual artists have developed techniques of self expression in a wide range of media over the centuries. 650 illustrations, 400 in full colour”Notes: Size: 11¾" x 8½". Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 336 pages. Tags: painting painters sculpture sculptors architecture building architects music great composers theater dramatists great film makers arts giotto jackson pollock monteverdi stravinsky d.w. griffith brunelleschi corbusier
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Piero Della Francesca by Birgit Laskowski (£21.00)Publisher: Könemann — 1998Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 3829002475]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with a small scuff mid-way to the spine. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Illustrated by way of: Chronological Tables; Colour Plates;
From the cover: “As the pioneer of a new conception of art, Piero della Francesca (ca. 1420-1492) had a lasting influence on the development of Italian art in the mid-15th century. The glowing colours and spiritual calm of his compositions, and the equally powerful and sublime figures in his pictures form a highlight of Early Renaissance painting, at the same time radiating an astonishingly modern atmosphere. He succeeded as scarcely any other artist before and since in harmonizing his own philosophy of life, characterized by devoutness and spirituality, with the artistic and scientific discoveries of his age. This made Piero one of the most important artists linking the Gothic and Renaissance eras, tradition and the modern age.”Notes: Size: 12½" x 10¾". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 120 pages. Tags: piero della francesca 1420-1492 1416 -1492 art instruction italy painters painting renaissance history individual artists european artist design styles birgit laskowski 3829002475 fiona hulsefirst editions firsts first printings 1st
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Solid Scale Model Aircraft by J. H. Elwell (£21.00)Publisher: Leicester: The Harborough Publishing Company — 1941Binding: Paperback Condition: Poor. Spine heavily worn, with tape repairs holding the rather grubby covers together and the staples near pulled out. Text block remains tight and clean. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Diagrams; Plans;Notes: Size: 11" x 8½". 88 pages. Tags: methods finishing fuselage wings tail surfaces assembly fillets struts undercarriages painting rigging boulton-paul defiant hawker hurricane supermarine spitfire heinkel model aircraft building aero-modeller
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Bonnard by Nicholas Watkins (£19.00)Publisher: London, New York, Sydney & Toronto: BCA — 1994Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good — in Poor Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper heavily faded at the spine and onto the margins of the panels. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Contains: Colour plates; Black & white plates;
From the cover: “Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) is acknowledged as one of the great masters of twentieth-century painting. Best-known as a painter of intimate, domestic interiors, he was also a highly accomplished draughtsman and graphic artist who produced a wealth of drawings and lithographs.
In fact Bonnard began his career as a graphic artist, producing posters and illustrations for such magazines as La Revue Blanche. Associated with Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard and other members of the Nabis group from 1890, his early work is characterized by a tendency towards broad, flat colour and asymmetrical composition derived from Gauguin and from Japanese prints. From 1900 his palette became richer and his subject-matter settled into a range of obsessive themes — principally landscapes, nudes and interiors — in which he explored ever more complex formal problems and developed an unparalleled mastery of colour and light. His mature work achieves a level of dazzling intensity which has ensured his enduring reputation as one of the twentieth century’s great colourists.
In this important reassessment of Bonnard’s life and work, Nicholas Watkins argues that Bonnard was not a sentimental survivor of Impressionism as some have claimed, but a highly demanding and innovative artist responding to new formal challenges. Paintings, graphic work and sketches are comprehensively reproduced and examined in depth, providing a definitive study of this highly influential but frequently misunderstood artist.”Notes: Size: 11¾" x 10". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 240 pages. Tags: bonnard pierre painter domestic interiors nabis group impressionism masters twentieth-century painting artists paintings drawing drawings prints printmaking history art design styles 20th century graphic arts vuillard criticism french painters france
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Capturing the Light in Pastel by Lionel Aggett (£19.00)Publisher: David & Charles — 1995Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0715302213]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Description: Notes: Size: 11¼" x 8". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. In the Paint Pastel series. 128 pages. Tags: aggett 0715302213 light art pastel drawing technique artificial influence colour tone capturing reverse natural execution painting can
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Hooker's Finest Fruits: A Selection of Paintings of Fruits by William Hooker (1779-1832) by Frederick A. Roach (£19.00)Publisher: London: The Herbert Press, in association with the Royal Horticultural Society — 1997Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 1871569052]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Contains: Colour plates;
From the cover: “William Hooker, perhaps the greatest of all fruit illustrators, was both an artist and a gardener. His knowledge of fruits, especially, was remarkable and, in the early nineteenth century, the Horticultural Society of London commissioned him to paint and describe about 150 of the most attractive and interesting varieties then being cultivated. Some of the paintings reappeared in his own engravings, and reproductions in anthologies and calendars have since made many of them world famous. The original paintings are among the most prized possessions of the Royal Horticultural Society, and here for the first time nearly 100 of the best, including a few engravings, have been brought together and published in a single volume. Faithfully reproduced in full colour almost to the original size, they portray with botanical accuracy and great beauty a magnificent assortment of favourite fruits — plums, apples, pears, peaches, strawberries, cherries, mulberries, nectarines and many more. Several varieties are no longer widely cultivated, which adds to the charm, fascination and horticultural importance of Hooker’s exquisite work.
A descriptive text by the botanical scholar and gardener Frederick Roach traces the origins and history of each fruit and discusses its horticulture and influence on modern varieties, and William T. Stearn contributes a stimulating introduction to the life and work of William Hooker.”Notes: Foreword or introduction by William T. Stearn. Size: 12¼" x 9". Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 222 pages. Tags: fruits plums apples pears peaches strawberries cherries mulberries nectarines fruit painting illustration horticulture horticultural society london botanical art history design styles vegetables english paintings 1871569052
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How To Paint And Draw by Bodo W. Jaxtheimer (£19.00)Publisher: Thames & Hudson — 1972Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0500230218]Condition: Very Good - in Good DJ. DJ appears oversize and is, therefore, loose to the book with double fold to the front flap. Some edgewear. Text bright and tight.Description: From the cover: “Those with the courage to try and learn to paint will find that this book gives them just the right stimulus and practical guide they need –practical because it is fully illustrated in a very striking and helpful way with 450 illustrations, 300 of which are in colour. Apart from the many pictures which show the beginner what he can achieve and how to achieve it, there are reproductions of well-known paintings to illustrate points of composition and technique, diagrams illustrating the relationships of colours to each other, anatomical studies, examples of such techniques as etching and engraving, and illustrations showing the best way to stretch and prepare canvases.”Notes: Size: 9" x 6¾". 408 pages. Tags: rhythm composition drawing technique anatomy landscape still life sgraffito mosaics batik printing watercolor oil painting tempera fresco perspective composition
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The Complete Home Makeover Book by Katie Millar (£18.50)Publisher: Index — 2000Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 1897730179]Condition: Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper.Description: From the flap: “This comprehensive guide will tell how to plan and successfully carry out improvements to every aspect of your home. Fully illustrated with hundreds of step- by-step diagrams. It offers advice on how to plan and start your home improvements, then provides detailed information and expert advice.”Notes: Size: 11¼" x 8¾". 304 pages. Tags: considerations preparation decoration renovation essentials renovating bathrooms laundries wallpaper framework practical furniture carpentry pointers workroom applying painters finishes kitchens planning painting bathroom building interior plumbing ceilings kitchen special achieve heating windows matters storage turning reality dangers design colour floors making stairs paint, simple ideas doors paint green works areas walls have plan take into some what look home pain hope you diy tos for and wet out the how
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