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Modern Art, 19th & 20th Centuries (Selected Papers)
by Meyer Schapiro
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0807608998
- ISBN 13
- 9780807608999
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About This Item
George Braziller, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 277 pages, with index. Essays by the art historian, written in 1937-1976, chiefly in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. II (of four) of Schapiro's Selected Papers, which are arranged by topic, rather than chronologically. Three essays on Cezanne, three on abstract art, others on individual artists, one on the 1911 Armory Show as the introduction of modern art in the USA. Eleven color plates (art reproductions), many b&w cuts. Medium 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, scant wear except small hole in cloth near heel, tan stain to rear end papers from laid-in newspaper clipping, in unclipped DJ with wear at extremities especially small tears (1/4") and creases at crown. Underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil (one mark in ink) by former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff on approximately 40 pages - his in an essay on Courbet, both in the section on abstract art. Bonus: the laid-in three-page clipping, a 1995 review by Willibald Sauerlaender of Vol. IV of Schapiro's Selected Papers, on Theory and Philosophy of Art, from the NY Review.
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- Berthoff Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-459
- Title
- Modern Art, 19th & 20th Centuries (Selected Papers)
- Author
- Meyer Schapiro
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0807608998
- ISBN 13
- 9780807608999
- Publisher
- George Braziller
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- ABSTRACT ART, ESSAYS, CEZANNE, SEURAT, CHAGALL, ROTHKO, PICASSO, MONDRIAN, THE ARMONY SHOW, PAINTING
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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