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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.
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.
Aesthetics Books & Ephemera
L'Amour de la Peinture: Goya, Picasso et Autres Peintres
by Roy, Claude
Paris: Gallimard; Nouvelle Revue Francais, 1956. 253 pages; 21 cm. Descriptions critiques / Claude Roy, 3. Text in French/Texte en fran ais. BON ETAT. Us . Firm binding, creased spine. Previous owner's signature/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Corner crease/back cover, browning. L'Amour de la Peinture: Goya, Picasso et Autres Peintre = The Love of Painting: Goya, Picasso and Other Painters. 3rd. Paperback. Good. 8vo.
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NZ$12.77
Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali & the Artists of Optical Illusion
by Seckel, Al Hofstadter, Douglas R. (Foreword by)
New York and London: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2004. Cloth, 320 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards & dust jacket. Protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Contains rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page, and butterflies that transform right before your eyes into two warriors with their horses. This work includes playful...
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How to Read a Modern Painting: Understanding and Enjoying the Modern Masters
by Thompson, Jon
New York: Abrams, 2006. 400 pages, colour illustrations; 25 cm. Cover title: How to Read a Modern Painting: Lessons from the Modern Masters. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Remainder mark/top edge. Another copy available. "Modern art, filled with complex themes and subtle characteristics, is a wonder to view, but can be intimidating for the casual observer to comprehend. In this accessible, practical guide, author and instructor Thompson explores more than 200 works, helping readers to...
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The Crisis of Criticism
by Berger, Maurice (Edited by)
New York: New Press, 1998. 172 pages; 18 cm. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: Introduction: the crisis of criticism, by Maurice Berger; Discussing the undiscussable, by Arlene Croce; Confronting head-on the face of the afflicted, by Joyce Carol Oates; Dance this diss around, by Homi Bhabha; Addressing the dress, by Richard Martin; The film critic of tomorrow, today, by Jim Hoberman; Why bully literature?, by Wayne Koestenbaum; Resisting the dangerous journey: the crisis of journalistic criticism, by Michael...
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History of Art: A Student's Handbook
by Pointon, Marcia
London and New York: Routledge, 1986. viii, 88 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Reprint, 1992. Tight, clean copy. "History of Art covers training and vocational aspects of Art History, providing a wealth of information on the different kinds of courses available on the relationship between, for example, museum and gallery work and academic Art History." - Publisher.. 2nd. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.
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NZ$7.66
Love, Life, Goethe: Lessons of the Imagination from the Great German Poet
by Armstrong, John
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. xv, 482 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "A fresh and perceptive new biography of Germany's greatest poet, whose life and times are a mirror for our own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often remembered only as a figure of literary genius, author of The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust. Yet Goethe was driven by much more than the...
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Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings
by Stiles, Kristine, and Selz, Peter (Edited by)
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996. xxii, 1,003 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Tight, clean copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "Ambitious and interdisciplinary, this long-awaited collaboration is a landmark presentation of the writings of contemporary artists. These influential essays, interviews, and critical and theoretical comments provide bold and fertile insights into the construction of visual knowledge. Featuring a wide range of leading and...
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
by Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. xxxi, 466 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Reprint. The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 5; Bollingen series, 35; Firm binding, clean inside copy. An important book, notable for bringing the insights of Gestalt psychology to the study of art.. 2nd. Paperback. Fine. 4to.
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Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s
by Conrads, Margaret C
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2002. xi, 252 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., February 18 to May 6, 2001; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif., June 10 to September 9, 2001; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga., October 6, 2001 to January 6, 2002. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First paperback edition....
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The Invisible Masterpiece
by Belting, Hans
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Cloth, 480 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. English translation by Helen Atkins. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The 'invisible masterpiece' is an unattainable ideal, a work of art into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. Using this metaphor borrowed from Balzac, Hans Belting explores the history of 'the masterpiece' and how its status and...
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NZ$84.26
The Psychology of Art, 3 Volumes
by Malraux, Andre; Gilbert, Stuart (Translated by)
New York: Pantheon Books, 1949-50. Cloth, 3 volumes, illustrations (part mounted colour); 29 cm. Bollingen Series XXIV. COMPLETE SET. All 3 copies are unmarked, with slight age toning to the leaves. No slipcase. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. CONTENTS: 1. Museum without walls; 2. The creative art; 3. The twilight of the absolute.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. 4to.
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NZ$170.22
Dr. Panofsky & Mr. Tarkington: An Exchange of Letters, 1938-1946
by Panofsky, Erwin, and Tarkington, Booth; Ludwig, Richard M. (Edited by)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1974. xvii, 133 pages, [4] leaves of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. No DJ Issued [?].. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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NZ$33.19
The Artist in America
by The Editors of Art in America (Compiled by); Goodrich, Lloyd (Introduction by)
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc.; An Art in America Book, 1967. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, lightly rubbed, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: "What is American?," by Lloyd Goodrich; "Self-Portrait of the Artist," by Russell Lynes; "Origins of Native American Art," by Wayne Andrews and...
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Heresies of Modern Art
by Rubert de Ventos, Xavier; Bernstein, J. S. (Translated by)
New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. Cloth, ix, 262 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. First published, 1974, under title: La est tica y sus herej as. Translated from the Spanish. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with moderate edgewear.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.
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NZ$16.17
Perception
by Rock, Irvin
New York: Scientific American Library; W. H. Freeman, 1984. Cloth, x, 243 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Stereopticon in pocket. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Out of the ever-changing stimuli that is projected onto our retinas, how do we fashion coherent images of the world, perceiving constancy in the shape, shading, size and...
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A Little History of Art
by Mullins, Charlotte
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. Cloth, vi, 330 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Why did our ancestors make art? What did art mean to them and what does their art mean for us today? Why is art even important at all? Charlotte Mullins brings art to life by focusing on those who made it, from teenage prodigies to nonagenarians. This little history introduces us to overlooked artists,...
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Man from Babel
by Jolas, Eugene; Kramer, Andreas, and Rumold, Rainer (Edited by)
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. Cloth, xxxix, 326 pages, illustrations, map; 24 cm. Henry McBride series in modernism and modernity. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The autobiography of Eugene Jolas, available for the first time nearly half a century after his death in 1952, is the story of a man who, as the editor of the expatriate American literary magazine transition, was the first publisher of James Joyce's Finnegans...
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Focus: Memoirs of a Life in Photography
by Newhall, Beaumont
Boston: Little, Brown and Company; Bulfinch Press, 1993. Cloth, viii, 264 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Tips mildly bumped. Remainder mark/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap. Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993) was the first curator of both the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art and at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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NZ$19.58
Art Matters
by De Bolla, Peter
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. ix, 157 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Erratum slip inserted. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Peter de Bolla is Fellow of King's College at Cambridge University." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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NZ$84.26
Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation
by Olkowski, Dorothea
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. 298 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. First paperback edition. "Dorothea Olkowski's exploration of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze clarifies the gifted French thinker's writings for specialists and nonspecialists alike. Deleuze, she says, accomplished the 'ruin of representation,' the complete overthrow of hierarchic, organic thought in philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and ethics, as well as in society at large. In...
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The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture
by Harris, Marvin
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1968. Cloth, 806 pages; 24 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. CONTENTS: Enlightenment; Reaction and recovery: the early nineteenth century; Rise of racial determinism; Spencerism; Evolutionism: methods; The evolutionists: results; Dialectical materialism; Historical particularism: Boas The Boasian milieu; The...
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Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art
by Miller, Arthur I
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2014. xxii, 424 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Top right corners bumped. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists utilize and illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their provocative creations--a live rabbit implanted with the fluorescent gene of a jellyfish, a gigantic...
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Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science
by Preziosi, Donald
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989. Cloth, xvi, 269 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "A general overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history. Refuting the image of art history as a discipline in crisis, Preziosi asserts that many of the dilemmas and contradictions of art history today are not new but can be traced back to problems surrounding the founding of the...
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NZ$67.24
Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things
by Bayley, Stephen
New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. xviii, 237 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing.. 1st.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.
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NZ$21.28
Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul : Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
by Gilman, Sander L
Durham and London: Duke University Press. 1998. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. xii, 179 pages. A cultural history of the connections between beauty of the body and happiness of mind. Entertains an array of philosophical and psychological questions that underlie the more practical decisions made vy doctors and potential patients. Robust, professional...
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