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The art of sculpture: The A.W.Mellon lectures in the fine arts,1954,National Gallery of Art,Washington
by Read, Herbert
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GD++/GD++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 1199478350
- ISBN 13
- 9781199478351
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HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. UK.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1955* Publisher: Faber & Faber ~ London.* Binding and cover condition: Grey cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine on yellow spine label. Spine rubbed and worn. Minor bumps to corners, some shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. Both hinges shaken. GD++* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Minor spotting & offsetting to end papers. Top edge age-darkened. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to fore & bottom edges. Rear hinge split, now re-inforced. GD++.* Illustrations: Copiously illustrated with b/w photos in a block of 224 pages.* Pages: 123 pp. text. xvii pp., index & blank pages at rear.* Description: With a text block of 123 pages based on the A.W.Mellon lectures in the Fine Arts given in 1954 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The purpose of the book is to give, with appropriate illustrations, an aesthetic of the art of sculpture. This branch of the arts has always had some measure of difficulty in establishing its individual identity due to the lack of any clear formulation of the requisite autonomous laws. Many artists of renown have developed skills as a sculptor in addition to their main field of endeavour and vice versa. It is important that the independence of each of the arts in modern civilisation should be maintained however common it may be for them to combine in some works of art. These lectures deal with these matters in some detail.* A NEAR VG text copy of the 1st/1st thus. with some age and wear but no dust jacket.*
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- Title
- The art of sculpture: The A.W.Mellon lectures in the fine arts,1954,National Gallery of Art,Washington
- Author
- Read, Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GD++/GD++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 1199478350
- ISBN 13
- 9781199478351
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 140
- Date Published
- 1956-01-01
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