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- Alberti, Leon Battista, On Painting. Translated with Introduction and Notes by John R.
Spencer,
- A Yale Paperbound, 1966. Paperback, 5x8, underlining throughout, 141 pp.
Reduce postage by 50% for this book. "For a thoughtful approach to the aesthetic and the attitudes
of the art of the Renaissance as it emerged, Alberti's ON PAINTING is clearly the one most valuable
source book. Indeed, perhaps in no other case has a major reorientation in painting found a
contemporary analyst who was at once an articulate writer and himself a member of the group.
Therefore the first English translation since the 18th century is a happy event." [from book cover,
review of "The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism"]. $2.50
- Baigell, Matthew, A History of American Paiting.,
- Praeger World of Art
Paperbacks, New York. Paperback, 5.75x8.25, cover bent and torn, extensive underlining, water damage,
beat up!, 283 pp. Postage reduced to $2.00 for book, or $0.25 if added to a larger order..
$1.00
- Clark, Kenneth, Civilization: A Personal View,
- Harper and Row, 1969.
Hardcover, dustjacket with beautiful bust of Charlemagne; 7x10; many, large and beautiful illustrations;
dustjacket worn, pages some discoloration, 359 pp. $6.00
- Edwards, Betty, Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing
Creativity and Artistic Confidence,
- Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., Distributed by St. Martin's
Press, Revised and Expanded, 1989. Paperback, 7.5x9, very good condition, 254 pp. "DRAWING ON THE
RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN is the most widely used and highly praised drawing instruction book in the
world. It has sold more than 1,250,000 copies and has been translated into ten foreign languages. ...
a new section on drawing in color, with full-color reproductions; additional information on how to use
lights and shadows to give the illusion of 3-dimentions in drawing; a new section on improving your
handwriting by using drawing techniques; new student examples of before-and-after drawings, new
exercises, and much more. Applying discoveries in brain research to the teaching of drawing skills, Dr.
Betty Edwards presents a set of basic exercises to release creative potential and tap into the special
abilities of the visual, perceptual right hemisphere of the brain. She is a full professor in the Art Dept
at Calif State University, Long Beach, and lectures widely on the relationship of drawing to brain
process." [from the book cover]. $7.00
- Feininger, Andreas, Light and Lighting in Photography,
- Prentice Hall,
New Jersey, Amphoto, American Photographic Book Publishing Co., New York. Hardcover, dustjacket
torn and smudged, 6.5x9, pages edges some stains, otherwise good condition, 294 pp, photos.
"Andreas Feininger says about this book: Every form of creative expression has its dominant medium,
and the dominant medium of photography is LIGHT. In view of this fact, it would seem only natural
to assume that photographers are conversant with the functions, qualities, forms, and uses of light ...".
$9.00
- Le Corbusier, The City of To-morrow And Its Planning, with 216 Illustrations,
- Dover Publications, New York, 1987. Paperback, 6x9, cover worn, bent at corners, name
written on front page, otherwise in good condition, no underlining, 301 pp.. $5.00
- Le Corbusier, Towards A New Architecture,
- Holt, Rinehard and
Winston, 1960. . $2.00
- Leatherman, Leroy (text), Martha Swope (photographs), Martha Graham: Portrait of the
Lady As An Artist,
- Alfred Knopf, 1966, First Edition. Hardcover, dustjacket, dustjacket
frayed on end, bookplate from previous owner glued on front inside cover, partly ripped off, otherwise
very good condition, 180 pp.. $15.00
- Martines, Lauro, Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy,
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1979, First Edition. Hardcover, dustjacket with some tears,
6.5x9.5, 367 pp. "The great Italian city-states: Venice, Florence, Milan, and the others. The particular
nature of their history and culture through the five centuries of their emergence, magnificent flowering,
and twilight is brilliantly explored in terms of the internal shifts of economic, social, and political power
-- by violence, by manipulation, by the gradual pressures of changing circumstance. And here are the
life and culture and works of imagination that were created as the merchants and guilds wrested
dominion from the ancient nobility, from the first struggles against the Holy Roman Empire in the 12th
century through the rich cultural blaze and political exhaustion of the 16th. ... Martines, ... has drawn
together and chronicled in a single fluent narrative all the explosive energies, the social strife, the civil
disorder, the political violence, the economic transformations, the crises of control, the religious fervor
and corruption, and the spectacular achievements of art and intellect that made and defined the
city-states. ...". $12.00
- Martines, Lauro, Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy,
- Vintage Books Edition, 1980. Paperback, 6x9, cover bent at corners, underlining with blue
highlighter in text, 367 pp. "The great Italian city-states: Venice, Florence, Milan, and the others. The
particular nature of their history and culture through the five centuries of their emergence, magnificent
flowering, and twilight is brilliantly explored in terms of the internal shifts of economic, social, and
political power -- by violence, by manipulation, by the gradual pressures of changing circumstance. And
here are the life and culture and works of imagination that were created as the merchants and guilds
wrested dominion from the ancient nobility, from the first struggles against the Holy Roman Empire
in the 12th century through the rich cultural blaze and political exhaustion of the 16th. ... Martines,
... has drawn together and chronicled in a single fluent narrative all the explosive energies, the social
strife, the civil disorder, the political violence, the economic transformations, the crises of control, the
religious fervor and corruption, and the spectacular achievements of art and intellect that made and
defined the city-states. ...". $4.00
- Mumford, Lewis, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its
Prospects,
- A Harbinger Book, Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961. Paperback, 5.5x8,
cover faded and extensive splotches, stains on page ends, text in very good condition, tremendous
illustrations, 657 pp.. $4.00
- Park, Edwards, Treasures of the Smithsonian,
- Smithsonian Books,
1983. . $20.00
- Pierce, James Smith, From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History,
- Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968. Paperback, 6x9, cover slightly worn, text in good condition, no
underlining, 131 pp. Reduce postage by 50% for this book.. $3.00
- Pierce, James Smith, From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History. Now Keyed to
Fourth Edition of Janson.,
- Prentice-Hall, Inc., Fourth Edition, 1991.. Paperback, 6x9,
cover barely worn, text in very good condition, no underlining, 202 pp. Reduce postage by 50% for this
book.. $4.00
- Reyna, Ferdinando, A Concise History of Ballet,
- Grosset and Dunlap,
Inc., 1965. Paperback, 5.75x8, cover worn and stained, text in good condition, heavy paper, 232
gravure illustrations, 16 in full color, name written in frontispiece, 255 pp. $4.00
- Rudofsky, Bernard, Street for People: A Primer for Americans,
- Anchor
Press, Doubleday, 1969. Paperback, 7x10, ink underlining in beginning, binding and cover worn, many
photos. 350 pp. "Bernard Rudofsky, a confirmed peripatetic, is singularly qualified to write about the
unexplored subject of streets. He has lived in the world's great cities while, literally, the going was
still good: in the Vienna of better days, Constantinople before its Westernization, Rio de Janeiro during
the 'thirties, six years in Italian towns, two years in Japanese ones, to mention only his prolonged
sojourns ... Arthitect, engineer, and critic; a Ford, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow, Dr. Rudofsky has
held professorships at Yale, and Waseda University of Tokyo." [from the book cover].
$6.00
- Venturi, Lionello, History of Art Criticism,
- A Doubleday Anchor Book,
1966. Paperback, 4x7, cover worn, text in good condition, 398 pp. Reduce postage cost to $2.00 for
this book, or $0.25 if added to a larger order.. $3.00