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The Power Of Limits
by Gyorgy Doczi
György Doczi practiced architecture in Hungary, Sweden, Iran, and the United States. He initiated a permanent exhibit on form in nature and art at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, and was a founder of the Friends of Jungian Psychology Northwest. He died in 1995.
Things I Didn't Know
by Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes was born in Australia in 1938. Since 1970 he has lived and worked in the United States, where until 2001 he was chief art critic for Time, to which he still contributes. His books include The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, Nothing if Not Critical, Barcelona, and Goya. He is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes for his work.
Aesthetics Books & Ephemera
Art & working life; cultural activities in the Australian trade union movement 1983
by Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Community Arts Board of the Australia Council
n.pl: Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Community Arts Board Publication, 1983. Pamphlet. 20p., small drop of soil on front wrap, else very good condition.
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€11.34
Die Ästhetik der Deutschen Frühromantik
by Reiff, Paul
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946. Hardcover. 305p., navy blue boards stamped in gilt, lacking dustjacket if issued, minor edge-wear, corners bumped, else in very good condition. Illinois Studies in Language and Literature Vol XXXI, No. 1-2.
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€18.90
Calling Beauty February 17-April 10, 2010, Canzani Center Gallery
by Voorhies, James, curator; Susan Sontag, Preface. Artists include Thorstein Brinkman, Ellen Harvey, Myra Davey et al
Columbus, OH: Columbus College of Arts and Design, 2010. Paperback. 96p., introduction by the curator Voorhies, essay by the late Sontag, catalog of the young artists' works in the exhibition accompanied by bios, CV, photos in b&w and color, very good 8x5 inch trade paperback exhibition book in wraps with a stylized cover design. Most works shown here pit painting and photography in each singular work, and legitimize pretty pastels as avant garde. Sontag's prefatory essay runs eleven pages.
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€16.07
The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
by Louden, Sharon (Edited by)
Bristol: Intellect, 2017. 402 pages, colour illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "When 'Living and Sustaining a Creative Life' was published in 2013, it became an immediate sensation. Edited by Sharon Louden, the book brought together forty essays by working artists, each sharing their own story of how to sustain a creative practice that contributes to the ongoing dialogue in contemporary art. The book struck a nerve how do artists really make it in the world today? Louden took the book on a...
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€27.88
Rug Making Becomes an Art. Circular 195, December 1937, Revised May 1941
by Morton, F. Edith
State College PA: School of Agriculture, Agricultural Extension Service, The Pennsylvania State College, 1941. Pamphlet. 16p., numerous b&w photoillustrations and a diagram, softbound in 9x6 inch decorated self-wraps, later printing. Staples a tad rusted with migration, a light corner-crease to entire pamphlet, else sound, and quite clean and unmarked. Techniques of hooked and braided rugs (and mats) with tools shown, and how to make wooden frames that speed construction. Zero homage to The Antiquity of...
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€14.18
Art Issues No. 9
Los Angeles: Art Issues, 1990. Pamphlet. 34, [2] pages, illustrations, wraps. 10.5 x 8 in. Very Good. Edited by Gary Kornblau. Opens with a reprint of John Dewey's "Art as Experience;" other essays include "Vexed Sex" by David Pagel, "The Collector on the Couch" by Bruce Altshuler, and "Hair Piece" by David Humphrey. Also, reviews of 9 art exhibitions, and an overview of the redevelopment of Chicago's museums and cultural heritage institutions. Numerous ads, from galleries to art movers.
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€18.90
The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
by Neer, Richard
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. Hardcover. xiv, 262p., numerous b&w plates and vignettes, and a few images in colorphoto; hardbound in 11.5x8.5 inch black cloth boards lettered in silverfoil and enclosed in the dust jacket. An as-new copy, entirely sound, square, clean and unmarked.
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€33.08
Token Takai
[San Francisco?]: [Northern California Japanese Sword Club?], 1977. Paperback. [4], 191, [1]p., illustrations, wraps. 10.75 x 8.25 in. Small stains on front cover; minor edge wear. Good. Essays on the art and aesthetics of Japanese sword and armor-making, warfare, and pre-19th century society. Proceedings of the 1976 Token Takai conference in San Francisco. Not in WorldCat (October 2023).
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€33.08
Windows in Art
by Masters, Christopher
London and New York: Merrell, 2011. Cloth, 191 pages, colour illustrations; 24 x 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates."Windows in Art is a unique new survey of an intriguing but overlooked subject in art across the centuries. Featuring 90 works by such eminent artists as Caravaggio, Dali, Hammershoi, Hockney, Hopper, Matisse, Titian and Vermeer, the lively and...
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€20.32
The Sociology of Art
by Hauser, Arnold; Northcott, Kenneth J. (Translated by)
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982. xxi, 776 pages; 24 cm. Translation of: Soziologie der Kunst. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First edition thus. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear/sunned spine (bold & legible titles), protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Art historian Arnold Hauser was a disciple of the great Hungarian Marxist philosopher Gy rgy Lukacs.. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.
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€18.43
The Language of Ornament
by Trilling, James
New York: Thames & Hudson; World of Art Series, 2001. 224 pages, illustrations (some colour); 21 cm.. Tight, clean copy. "Ornament, the art of decorative patterning, has given rise to some of the most spectacular creations of human imagination and skill. Although the modernist emphasis on unadorned form pushed ornament to the margins of Western taste in the twentieth century, an ornamental revival is now under way. James Trilling presents a variety of ornament from the Paleolithic age to the...
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€10.87
Art Criticism in Argentina; Organizational Aspects of Art; Theory of Institutions
by Safons, Horacio, and Fevre, Fermin, and Glusberg, Jorge
Buenos Aires: Argentine Association of Art Critics, 1978. 31 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Text in English. Edition of 3000 copies. Published on the occasion of XIII Congress of the International Association of Art Critics, AICA, Switzerland, August to September 1978. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Includes: "Art Criticism in Argentina" by Horacio Safons; "Organizational Aspects of Art in Argentina" by Fermin Fevre; and "Theory of Institutions" by Jorge Glusberg.. 1st....
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€23.16
Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art
by Miller, Arthur I
New York: Copernicus, 1996. xxii, 482 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Top right corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Since the Enlightenment, science has been seen as an objective, true method of explanation for the physical and mathematical laws which govern the universe. This book examines what and how we know about the world, discussing current ideas about the nature of scientific...
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€23.16
Table Decoration, Illustrated and Compiled from Most Authentic Sources. The Table Decoration Book, From the International Cooking Library
by Hoff, A.C., compiler and editor
Los Angeles: International Book Publishing Co, 1914. Pamphlet. 62p., text and b&w photos printed on alkaline coated paperstock, small booklet or pamphlet in decorated 6.5x5 inch wraps with yapp (overlapping) edges; the yapp margins are worn with little tears and the acidic cover-stock is toned, otherwise sound; a clean unmarked copy.
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€18.90
Porter: Beauty, Utility & Durability, from Wood, Stone & Metal
Menlo Park CA: Porter Bathroom, 2010. Paperback. 208p., a small elaborate catalogue of bath wares, cabinets and lighting, tubs and containers, but curiously no toilets. Includes color swatch, overlaid imagery, an internal cloth backstrip, color exhibit photography, a special info-card laid in, all bells and whistles in good shape, pace a slight misfolding of front cover margin, and a hand-lettered spine title in bold inkpen. Sound, clean, and otherwise unmarked. Example of wares: one may comission a...
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€28.36
Zapantera negra; an artistic encounter between the Black Panthers and Zapatistas
by Leger, Marc James, David Tomas, editors; with Emory Douglas, EDELO (Mia Eve Rollow and Caleb Duarte Piñon), Rigo 23, and Saul Kak
New York: Common Notions, 2022. Paperback. xvii, 204p., pictorial wraps, as New.
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€14.18
Pre-Columbian Jade from Costa Rica, by Elizabeth Kennedy Easby; with photographs by Lee Boltin
by Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy
New York: Andre Emmerich Inc, 1968. Paperback. 103p., illustrated with doublespread map on monochrome leaves, numerous color and b&w exhibit photos with a few explanatory diagrams, all pix and text printed on high-gloss alkaline paperstock and softbound in 9x6 inch color cardstock wraps. Covers mildly edgeworn with a minute corner-tip turn, plus sun-lines along the margins. A sound copy, clean and unmarked within.
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€28.36
Grupo de arte Callejero; thoughts, practices, and actions
New York: Common Notions, 2019. Paperback. xxi, 320p., wraps; profusely illustrated, as New. On the art movement in Argentina's past.
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€11.34
![Esse. Renewed by Gilbert and recolored by Beatrice Santiccioli. Beatrice Santiccioli, the world-renowned colorist who has created spectrums for Swatch, Nike [&c &c], developed the new versatile palette for Esse](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/222/612/1499612222.0.b.jpg)
Esse. Renewed by Gilbert and recolored by Beatrice Santiccioli. Beatrice Santiccioli, the world-renowned colorist who has created spectrums for Swatch, Nike [&c &c], developed the new versatile palette for Esse
Appleton WI: Fox River Paper Co, 1990. Paperback. Unpaginated, a substantial gathering of different papers, different weights and tints, with numerous diecut peep-holes to tantalize and inform. A bit over the top, but the firm's "pearlized" tone (see below) is indeed attractive. Large softbound in 11.5 square pearlized wraps, bears corner-tip creasing and some offset smudges, but easily handleable and entirely clean and unmarked within. "Esse Texture, the original finish: a plane of delicate squares...
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€28.36
Atmospheric Disturbances
by Schwalb, Susan
Long Island City, NY: Susan Schwalb, 2006. Paperback. [20]pp., color illustrations, wraps. 8.5 x 11 in. Artist's presentation inscription on title page, to Mari Marks Fleming, with a one-page print out of email correspondence between Fleming and Schwalb. Very good. Self-published exhibition catalog for a show of metalpoint paintings of the same name that opened at the Winfisky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA, September 26 - October 19, 2006. Essay by Lilly Wei.
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€18.90
Joseph Beuys, Diverging Critiques
by Thistlewood, David, editor
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press :: Tate Gallery Liverpool, 1990. Paperback. viii, 214p., wraps; b&w photos., in very good condition. Tate Gallery Liverpool Critical Forum Series, Volume 2.
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€42.53
Creative Photography; Aesthetic Trends 1839-1960
by Gernsheim, Helmut
Boston: Boston Book & Art Shop, 1962. 258p., first American edition (so stated) from British plates, high-gloss alkaline paperstock throughout, b&w period photography coordinated with a running text, hardbound in lovely gray buckram boards with blue and silver spine labelling, and an intact, unclipped dust jacket. Book's front free endpaper bears a photographer's ownership stamp, jacket's top edge is worn with tiny losses at the head rim, a generally sound clean copy of a clever approach to the history...
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€23.63
Le Livre du Caillou. Avec trente illustrations de l'auteur - Preface et postface de Franco Renzulli
by Sagault
Digne les Bains: Paul Keruel - Editions de Haute-Provence, 1993. Paperback. 124p., whimsical b&w artwork, most "plates" show a facet (one or another) of a common stone. Softbound with presswork on very good paperstock, has all the ingredients of a dynamite artist's book excepting visual interest (that may be a the joke), 9.5x6.5 inch glossy white wraps. Mild external signs of handling, a very good copy. All texts, by the way, are in the French language.
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€18.90
Late imperial culture
by De La Campa, Roman, E. Ann Kaplan [and] Michael Sprinker, eds
London: Verso, 1995. Paperback. 226p., softbound in decorated wraps, very slightly edgeworn, very good condition.
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€11.34
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory
by Santayana, George
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1955. ix, 275 pages; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.
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€5.20
