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Princeton University Press, 2006-10-29. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

Princeton University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Like New/Like New. First Edition, Second Printing. Not price-clipped ($45.00 price intact). Published by Princeton University Press, 2006. Quarto. Gray cloth boards stamped in white with purple endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf wear. 297 pages. ISBN: 9780691126784. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

Preinceton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "What is abstract art good for? What's the use―for us as individuals, or for any society―of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, asks these and other questions as he frankly confronts the uncertainties we may have about the nonrepresentational art produced in the past five decades. He makes a compelling argument for its history and value, much as E. H. Gombrich tackled representation fifty years ago in Art and Illusion, another landmark A. W. Mellon Lectures volume. Realizing that these lectures might be his final work, Varnedoe conceived of them as a statement of his faith in modern art and as… Read More

Princeton: Princeton University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 069112678X . The A. W. Mellon Lectures In The Fine Arts, 48; color photos and reproductions; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 320 pages; 2006 Princeton University Press. Oversize square format HC/DJ. 1st edition. Snugly bound and fresh in sharp edged and uniformly bright color pictorial dust jacket. Just trace shelf evidence to jacket extremities. Feels and appears generally unread. No marks. NF/NF ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. .

Princeton University Press, 2006-10-29. First Edition. hardcover. New. 9x1x9. Folio Sized. 1st Edition. A FINE Hardcover with a FINE dustjacket. AS NEW. All dustjackets wrapped in Archival protection, and delivery confirmation with all our orders!

Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4to 297 pages + ads, cloth; prior owner's emboss on endpaper. The 2003 A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts; Bollingen Series XXXV:48. Illustrated.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 9x1x9. First Edition. 4to. xvii, 297 pp. Grey cloth lettered in white at spine. Minor bump to top corner of front board. Examination Copy ink-stamp to bottom edges. Illustrated dust jacket. Near Fine in Fine jacket. In archival Mylar sleeve.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. hardcover. fine/fine. Foreword by Earl A. Powell III, preface by Adam Gopnik. Illustrated in color and in black and white. xvii + 297 pages, square 4to, silver cloth, d.w. Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2006). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> Bollingen Series XXXV: 48<br/> <br/>

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. hardcover. fine/very good(+). Illustrated in color and in black and white. xvii, 297 pages. Square 4to, silver cloth, d.w. (lightly stained, small tear at rear). Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2006). A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>

Princeton University Press, 2006-10-29. Hardcover. New.

Princeton University Press, 2006-10-29. Hardcover. Like New.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006. Hardcover. VG (ex-museum copy w/ square black stamps to upper & lower textblocks. black scuff to upper board edge. dustjacket has light wear, small foxing or coffee-like spot to front cover). Grey cloth over boards; White illus. dj.; 297 pp.; approx. 250 color and bw figures. Remains a nice, sharp and bright copy. "48th volume of The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, delivered annually at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; Number XXXV in the Bollingen Series; Includes foreword by Earl A. Powell III and preface by Adam Gopnik; Covers minimialism, post-minimalism, satire, irony, and abstract art, and abstract art in the present day. "With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction -- showing us that more than just pure looking is… Read More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 297 pages, illustrated throughout. Spotless and tight copy. Record # 456465

Princeton University Press, 2006-10-29. First Edition. hardcover. Used:Good.

Princeton:: Princeton University Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 069112678X . Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First printing. About fine in like dust jacket. .

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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 297 pages. The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 2003 Bolligen Series XXXV 48. Foreword Earl A. Powell III. Preface by Adam Gopnik. Note to the reader by Judy Metro. Includes numerous color illustrations. A clean near fine copy in gray cloth boards and with the ownership signature of photographer to the front pastedown and in a very near fine dust jacket. A very nice copy with an interesting provenance.

Princeton University Press,, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. fine/fine. Octavo. 23cm x 23cm) 297pp. A fine copy in dust jacket.

Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2006. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 300 pages with 127 illustrations in color. Square format. Foreword by Earl A. Powell III. Preface by Adam Gopnik. Index..

Princeton University Press, 2006-10-28. hardcover. New. 9x1x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing