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The Reality of Appearance: The Trompe L'oeil Tradition in American Painting
by Alfred Frankenstein
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0821203576
- ISBN 13
- 9780821203576
- Seller
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About This Item
University Art Museum, Berkeley / New York Graphic, 1970-02-14. Paperback. Good/Acceptable. University Art Museum, Berkeley / New York Graphic Society Ltd [Published Date: 1970]. Hardcover, 156 pp. The catalogue of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 21 - May 3, 1970, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 19 - July 5, 1970, the University Art Museum, Berkeley (and) California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, July 15 - August 31, 1970, and The Detroit Institute of Arts, September 15 - October 31, 1970. With 8 color plates and 105 black and white illustrations. In good+ condition with acceptable dust jacket. Light brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light bumping, scuffing and fading to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1.5" tear to the paper over the top edge of the front cover near the spine that has been taped up with clear tape and several other small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Moderate overall scuffing and light soiling to jacket as well with the color scuffed off in several places and more heavily scuffed along edges and spine. NOT price clipped, Now in an archival-quality Brodart Cover NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks.
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- Bookseller
- Epilonian Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20171106014
- Title
- The Reality of Appearance: The Trompe L'oeil Tradition in American Painting
- Author
- Alfred Frankenstein
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0821203576
- ISBN 13
- 9780821203576
- Publisher
- University Art Museum, Berkeley / New York Graphic
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970-02-14
- Keywords
- Art, Exhibition Catalog
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