Media / Painting from LEFT COAST BOOKS

San Diego and Seattle: San Diego Museum of Art; University of Washington Press, 2005. Cloth, 303 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art, October 22, 2005 to January 22, 2006; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 20 to November 26, 2006; and the Dallas Museum of Art, November 18, 2007 to… Read more about this item

Long Beach, CA: Long Beach Museum of Art, 1958. 6 pages, illustrations, map; 23 cm. A good+ copy, bumped lower left. Unmarked. . 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1981. Cloth, 135 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Translated from the German, from an unpublished manuscript. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Viking Studio, 2001. Cloth, 296 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Come with David Hockney on a journey as he rewrites… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975. Cloth, 280 pages, colour illustrations; 35 cm. First published by Skira, Geneva. Translation of La peinture anglaise. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. First American Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover.… Read more about this item

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1967. 80 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. + [12] pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York and selected by Waldo Rasmussen, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum for showings at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, October 15-November 27, 1966… Read more about this item

New York: Independent Curators International, 2006. 176 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Published to accompany an exhibition held August 6 to October 15, 2006 at Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina; November 21, 2006 to January 21, 2007 at American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.; and February 13 to… Read more about this item

New York: Louver Gallery, 1990. Cloth, 39 pages, 7 colour illustrations; 19 cm. Ribbon bookmark. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Inconsolable," held at Louver Gallery, New York, June 29 to July 27, 1990. Essay by Dan Cameron. Tight, clean copy. Includes: Tony Bevan; Ross Bleckner; Chris de Boschnek; Marlene Dumas; Hubert Scheibl; Pat Steir; Juan Usle. . 1st.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1979. Cloth, 222 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. A Richard H. Childers Production. Design by Bob Zoell, Rick Probst, and W. Scott Griffiths. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust spotting/top edge, age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with… Read more about this item

Pasadena, CA: Pacific Asia Museum, 1987. 75 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Henry Kissinger; Introduction, by David Kamansky; The opening door of contemporary Chinese painting, by Richard E. Strassberg; New art from the new China, by Waldemar A. Nielson.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Cincinnati: North Light Books, 1995. Cloth, 135 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "An oil painting manual which demonstrates how to capture light in landscapes to convey different weather conditions and times of day, paint sunlit objects… Read more about this item

Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1996. 156 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Originally published: New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1973. Firm binding, unmarked. Moderate shelfwear. "Handy, well-written guide shows how to paint the nude figure in an easy-to-follow series of 24 fully illustrated projects. Materials and equipment; anatomy, proportion; utilization of hues, tones and values; plus how to paint major… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. Cloth, xiii, 249 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "This is the first comprehensive study of an important but largely unknown part of the history of American art: the materials and techniques used by American painters. It is based on extensive research into primary… Read more about this item

London and New York: Routledge, 1997. xxx, 241 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. "A critique of works of art dating from the early fifteenth century through to modern installations, Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how one can learn to… Read more about this item

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006. xxi, 179 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "From Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling novel What I Loved, comes this inspired collection of essays on painting. Here, Hustvedt concentrates her narrative gifts on the works of such masters as Francisco de Goya, Jan Vermeer, Jean-Baptiste-Sim on Chardin, Gerhard Richter, and… Read more about this item

Geneva and New York: Skira; Rizzoli, 1979. 135 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Translated from the Italian. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press; World of Art Ser., 1978. Cloth, 216 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A survey of Dutch painting from the Northern Renaissance to the present. CONTENTS: Invention and narrative style: the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; Virtue explained: genre painting in the seventeenth… Read more about this item

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1987. Cloth, 144 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First printing. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar cover. "Step-by-step instruction on the use of impasto - thick oil paint used to build up a surface as textured as a stucco wall. Addressed to beginners and advanced painters… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014. Pictorial boards, 477 pages, illustrations (mostly colour); 31 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820: From Conquest to Independence surveys the diverse styles, subjects, and iconography of painting in Latin America between the… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1981. Cloth, 4 volumes, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Issued in a slipcase. COMPLETE SET in fine condition. Slipcase in fine condition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Volume 1. Understanding art; Volumes 2-3. The history of art; Volume 4. Dictionary of artists and art terms.. Hardcover. Fine. Folio.