Search Results: Authors starting with S from Ultramarine Books

P.E.A.C.E. Programa Español de Accion Cultural en el Exterior, 1984. 115 pages; 57 color plates. 24 artists represented. Essays by M.a Elena Gómez Moreno, Joaquín de la Puente, Francisco Calvo Serraller, A.M. Campoy. B&W photos of the artists in studio or in social settings; biographies of the artists. Clean: no marks, writing or names are found. English text.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

Wien: Künstlerhaus, 1984. 240 pages; more than 170 full-page reproductions, color and b&w. Beckmann, Dix, Feininger, Heckel, Kirchner, Mueller, Nolde, Pechstein, Schmidt-Rottluff. Bibliography and descriptive entries at the back. Previous owner's name on the half-title page. German text.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Square 4to.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. 262 pages; 222 plates, all duo-tone. Chapters are organized in 'schools', e.g. "Cézanne and Post-Impressionism", or, "Italy". Sachs offers and essay on each school then selects a number of images with which he attaches comments. Technical processes are described and displayed. Biographies and Bibliography at the back.Clean, tight binding. First Edition. quarter-cloth w/ paper boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983. 56 pages with 72 illustrations. Summer, 1983 MMA Bulletin. Casters, bowls, sword hilts, candlesticks, teapots, tankards, and more. Clean and tight; light bend to the bottom corner.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good.. 4to. 3.

New York: Questroyal Fine Art, 2005. 52 works reproduced on color plates, full-page; 42 artists are represented. Bierstadt, Bricher, Cole Cropsey, Corot, Daubigny, Hartley, Gifford, Herzog, Inness, Kensett, Kent, Moran, Moran, Richards, Rockwell, Sears, Shinn, Sully, Wiggins. Clean throughout.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. Slim 8vo. Gallery catalogue.

New York: Questroyal Fine Art, 2001. 40 works reproduced in color, full-page; 32 artists are represented. Bierstadt, Blakelock, Bricher, Cole, Colman, Dewey, Gifford, Gignoux, Heade, Inness, Kensett, Martin, Richards, Stieglitz, Suydam, Whittredge, Wiggins, others. Clean throughout.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. Gallery catalogue.

New York: Questroyal Fine Art, 2013. 34 paintings; 28 artists represented.. Printed Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Oblong 8vo. Gallery exhibition catalogue.

New York: Questroyal Fine Art, 2007. 38 beautifully reproduced color images, many full-page. Clean throughout; tight binding.. First Edition. Printed Wrapper (softcover). Fine. Oblong 4to. Exhibition/Sale catalogue.

Fort Worth / New York: Amon Carter Museum / Harry N. Abrams, 1991. 335 pages; 103 plates plus many equally fine text illustrations, 226 images in all. Beautifully produced with essays by six contributors. Red cloth boards with gilt titles; red pictorial fold-over jacket.. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York: L' Antiquaire & The Connoisseur, 2000. 226 pages; 80 boxes of diverse sort dating from the 13th- to the early 19th-centuries with comprehensive text, illustrated in color.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. Oblong 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue.

The University of Chicago Press, 1955. 340 pages. Galileo versus the Inquisition. Galileo revealed as a man with "an excess of gifts ... extraordinary literary capacity, his brilliant repartee, his eloquence and charm ....", while the telescope was the key to his success. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper.. First Edition. quarter-cloth and paper boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957. 318 pages. Six chapters or wings: exploration and education; mathematics and astronomy; physics, chemistry, and technology; natural history; anatomy and medicine; Leonardo da Vinci. Extensively footnoted.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York / Tokyo: Weatherhill / Heibonsha, 1981. 255 pages; 48 color plates, 328 b&w illustrations. Map, charts, appendix. A publisher's error has caused the endpapers to pull away at the hinge, or gutter, and open one-and-a-half inches. Otherwise the book and jacket are in fine condition.. First English Edition. Cloth. Good/Fine. 8vo.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988. 212 pages; 74 color, full-page; 76 black and white illustrations: the full C.R. Smith Collection. Essays that address the history and the collection of western art precede the plates. The collection includes 19th and 20th century paintings and sculpture. The book is a beautiful production. Bibliography.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 12"x10". Collection catalogue.

Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1971. 91 pages; b&w illustrations. A reissue of the first edition published in 1949 by The Philosophical Library.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

New York: George Braziller, 1996. 277 pages; numerous b&w illustrations, 11 color plates. A most admired author: a collection of his essays into the form and meanings of modern art.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 8vo.

New York: George Braziller, 1997. 359 pages. Schapiro explores Impressionism and its relationship to contemporary cultural events and features, including photography, the railroad, urban life, science, and literature. An expansion of Schapiro's 1961 Pattin lectures at Indiana University, this volume was published posthumously following Schapiro's death in 1996.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: George Braziller, 1995. 99 pages; organized chronologically (1925-1995) and by subject (46). Clean throughout; tight binding; sticker removed on front endpaper... First Edition. Red cloth. Fine/Fine. Thin 8vo.

New York / Fort Worth: George Braziller with Kimball Art Museum, 1986. 336 pages. 123 color plates; 50 b&w illustrations; 200 drawings. Color plates: excellent photography. This history of Maya culture makes use of the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphics which record Maya civilization from about 50 B.C. Chapters include The Royal Person; Courtly Life; Bloodletting; The Ballgame; more. Clean throughout; tight binding; no tears.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Square 4to.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945. 80 pages; b&w illustrations throughout. A series of essays examines artists' imagery of Arthur, his court, the Holy Grail, tournaments, Lancelot and Guenevere, Tristan and Iseult, Castles; painting, illumination, drawing, sculpture, tapestry, etc. Clean throughout; tight binding. Wrappers toned and lightly soiled.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to.