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	BOYLE, RICHARD. Double Lives: American Painters As Illustrators, 1850-1950. New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain: 2009. Softcover. Brand new book. A compelling catalogue documenting the work of American illustrators and painters who practiced painting as an art unto itself and as a means to tell a story. The catalogue explores the often uneasy relationship between the art of painting and the art of illustration, featuring American artists who practiced both styles of painting between 1850 and 1950. The catalogue charts the development of both types of art through the eyes of a select group of artists who engaged in both fine art and illustration. Richard J. Boyle, former director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, is an art historian and author of numerous publications on American art. Inlcudes 34 illustrations in color. ¶ 84 pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 65271X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROUDE, NORMA; GARRARD, MARY D. The Expanding Discourse: Feminism And Art History. HarperCollins Publishers, New York: 1992. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. ¶ 518 pages. USD 64.00 [Appr.: EURO 42.5 \| £UK 38.75 \| JP¥ 5504] Book number: 41484X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	CASSIDY, DONNA M. Marsden Hartley: Race, Religion And Nation. University of New Hampshire Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. A provocative new reading of the great American avant-garde arist Marsden Hartley's late work. At the vanguard of renewed interest in Maine's influential early modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), author Donna M. Cassidy brilliantly appraises the contemporary social, political, and economic realities that shaped Hartley's landmark late art. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Hartley strove to represent the distinctive subjects of his native regionÑthe North Atlantic folk, the Maine coast, and Mount KatahdinÑproducing work that demands an interpretive approach beyond art history's customary biographical, stylistic, and thematic methodologies. Cassidy, sensitive to the psychological and gender analysis traditionally central to interpretations of Hartley, becomes the first scholar to reassess his late work in light of contemporary American perceptions of race, ethnicity, place, and history. This remarkable new book resonates not only as a seminal Hartley study and a complex art and cultural period history, but as a superb example of applied early twentieth-century American intellectual history informed by an impressive command of primary and secondary interdisciplinary literature. Numerous and rich illustrations, as well as transcriptions of several key essays by Hartley, some never before published, including This Country of Maine (1937-38), round out this insightful, nuanced, and revolutionary treatment. Donna M. Cassidy's Marsden Hartley will engage general readers as well as scholars and students. Despite his reputation as an aesthete unaffected by social concerns, Cassidy argues, Hartley's late paintings look like works by a savvy operator who reinvented himself as a native-born painter in order to take advantage of the newfound popularity of a state that had added the 'Vacationland' slogan to its license plates in 1936. Traveling to scenic parts of Maine he'd never visited before, Hartley drew inspiration for the expressionist paintings of lighthouses, Mount Katahdin, and the like that he painted before his death in 1943 from the postcards and brochures he picked up.ÑBoston Globe [H]ighly readable, thoroughly researched, and thoughtfully conceived . . . Highly recommended.ÑChoice This study represents a decade-and-a-half of the author's meticulous research, as she carefully reconstructs the social and cultural bases underpinning the representational strategies that Hartley adopted as he purposefully crafted his own artistic identity during the later phase of his career, circa 1934-43. Cassidy's text is itself an impressively multi-layered, composite work that is a product not only of modernist art history but of rigorous cross-disciplinary inquiry in American Studies and New England Studies. This book represents the product of the sustained thought and probing inquiry Cassidy has devoted to these fascinating and complicated subjects. Cassidy has produced an archivally solid and conceptually powerful account of Hartley that suggestively extends the familiar parameters of the artistic monograph, just as she critically repositions Hartley's paintings, writings, and rhetoric within an expandedÑand evermore complexÑCollege Art Reviews Donna Cassidy offers us the most complete portrait we have of Marsden Hartley as an artist. Without ignoring the recent scholarship on Hartley's sexuality, Cassidy returns him to his own sense of himselfÑone he arrived at with great struggle, to be sureÑas a native of Maine, an artist who said what he had to say through the means of his local landscape and neighbors. Building on a decade of her own work, Cassidy convincingly presents Hartley not as an isolated, tortured genius, but someone fully aware of the art world he is operating in, an arena that after the early 1920's was not 'modernist' but 'Americanist.' The larger issue the book tackles is modernism itself: it is a very welcome addition to the state of that question.ÑBruce Robertson, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Chief Curator, Art of the Americas, and Deputy Director, Art Programs, Los Angeles County Museum of Art This is a fresh and forceful study. Cassidy places Hartley's writings and paintings of the late 1930s and early 1940s within the discourses of New England tourism, primitivism, Regionalism, and Nazism, giving us a complex picture of the aging artist seeking to become the 'painter from Maine.' Lucidly written, this book integrates art history and cultural studies in exemplary fashion.ÑWanda M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History, Stanford University The Table of Contents of this book is as follows: Beyond Hartley the Modernist ¥ I. Painting and Marketing Region ¥ The Painter from Maine and New England Regionalism ¥ Consumerism, Tourism, and Regional Art ¥ II. Inventing the Past ¥ Autobiography: Creating the Self, Region, and Nation ¥ The Lincoln Portraits: Between Autobiography and Public History ¥ Autobiography and Public History ¥ Artifacts and the Historical Landscape ¥ III. Representing the Folk ¥ The Folk and the Modernist Primitive ¥ The Working-Class Male Body: Masculinity, Homosexuality, and Nation ¥ The North Atlantic Folk and Racial Discourse ¥ Appendixes: Essays by Marsden Hartley - A New England on the Trapeze ¥ B The Six Greatest New England Painters ¥ C On the Subject of Nativeness - A Tribute to Maine ¥ D This Country of Maine ¥ George Fuller ¥ The Nordica Homestead ¥ Fanny [sic] Hardy Eckstorm - Penobscot Man ¥ Notes ¥ Bibliography ¥ Index. Donna M. Cassidy is Professor of American & New England Studies and Art History at the University of Southern Maine, and the author of Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910-1940 (1997). Cassidy has written a courageous book . . . show[ing] how Hartley integrated his prejudices into his artistic program. Hartley's art and life hold important lessons about the value of studying art in cultural context and the danger of the self-censorship that kept earlier generations of Americans from studying Nazi art and recognizing . . . uncomfortable links.ÑNew York Times Book Review ¶ 410 pages. USD 39.95 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3435] Book number: 52611X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	CHIPP, HERSCHEL B. WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY PETER SELZ & JOSHUA C. TAYLOR. Theories Of Modern Art. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1968. Softcover. Fair condition. Cover has slight scratches and chips. A rich feast of letters, manifestos, reviews, interviews, and other writings relating to the study of modern art, carefully searched and methodically selected... book fills a need often cited by art historians and students to put the study of modern art on a sounder ideological basis. - Library Journal Includes an Index. ¶ 664 pages. USD 19.75 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1698] Book number: 23690X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	CHIPP, HERSCHEL B. WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY PETER SELZ & JOSHUA C. TAYLOR. Theories Of Modern Art. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1968. Softcover. Good condition. A rich feast of letters, manifestos, reviews, interviews, and other writings relating to the study of modern art, carefully searched and methodically selected... book fills a need often cited by art historians and students to put the study of modern art on a sounder ideological basis. - Library Journal Includes an Index. ¶ 664 pages. USD 20.75 [Appr.: EURO 14 \| £UK 12.75 \| JP¥ 1784] Book number: 23690X2 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	CLAY, JEAN. From Impressionism To Modern Art. Chartwell Books, Secaucus: 1980. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. The history of modern art from the death of Vincent van Gogh in 1890 to the end of World War I in 1918 has been organized by the French art critic and teacher around the six subjects that he considers to be the keys to the understanding of the revolutionary art of that lively period. Going beyond the traditional narration of events and the usual nominative and chronological divisions of art history, the techniques used in this book are based chiefly on a generous visual presentation of the works of the period, an incisive and penetrating analysis of each work reproduced, and the systematic employment of primary documents, many of them never before published. The six keys to understanding the art of the period 1890-1918, as identified by Jean Clay and used as the structure of this volume are color, distortion, the pulverized object, frontality, the real object, and movement. These themes reveal a lively and revolutionary age whose art was dominated by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Robert Delaunay, Paul Klee, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, and Wassily Kandinsky. ¶ 320 pages. USD 78.25 [Appr.: EURO 52 \| £UK 47.25 \| JP¥ 6729] Book number: 27402X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	DERRIDA, JACQUES; BENNINGTON GEOF; MCLEOD, IAN ( TRANSLATED BY). The Truth In Painting. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1987. Softcover. Good condition. The front cover is dogeared. In order to make a disturbance in the philosophy of art which still dominates discourse on painting, we will take a glimpse into the origins of painting. Includes an Index. ¶ 386 pages. USD 41.00 [Appr.: EURO 27.25 \| £UK 24.75 \| JP¥ 3526] Book number: 20003X2 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	GAUGUIN, PAUL; DENVIR, BERNARD (SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY). Gauguin: Letters From Brittany And The South Seas, The Search For Paradise. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York: 1992. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. I am leaving to Tahiti where I shall hope to end my days. My art . . . I regard as no more than a tender shoot, though one that I hope to develop into a wild and primitive growth. . . . The European Gauguin has ceased to exist and nobody will ever see any of his works here again. With these words,Paul Gauguin set off on a voyage that would not only irrevocably change his own life and work, but also the entire course of modern art. This volume combines for the first time the artist's public expressions of his world - his paintings - with his private correspondence - to his estranged wife,his agent, and his illustrious contemporaries such as Strindberg and van Gogh. Gauguin vividly describes his creative movements as well as the details of his daily life, most poignantly his consuming worries about health and finances. The book is illustrated throughout with many of Gauguin's most ambitious and beautiful canvases. Watercolors and pencil sketches illuminate the early stages of these major works,and illustrated journal pages and rare vintage photographs reveal the people and places he knew. ¶ 160 pages. USD 17.70 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 \| £UK 10.75 \| JP¥ 1522] Book number: 38529X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	GAUNT, WILLIAM. The Golden Age Of Flemish Art. Greenwich House, New York: 1983. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. The author of this book, well known as an art and and social historian, tells the story of the artistic legacy left by the cities of the Southern Netherlands, now part of modern Belgium. He singles out four cities of art for main consideration-Bruges, Ghent, Brussels, and Antwerp-but deals with the whole artistic development of the southern Netherlands from the later 14th century to the early 18th century. Includes 98 illustrations, 46 of which are in color, notes on the principle artists, bibliography, and index. ¶ 160 pages. USD 47.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.25 \| £UK 28.5 \| JP¥ 4042] Book number: 14510X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	IVINS, JR., WILLIAM M.; VIATOR ( PELERIN). On The Rationalization Of Sight: With An Examination Of Three Renaissance Texts On Perspective. Da Capo Press, New York: 1975. Softcover. Good condition. Imaginatively constructs a forceful argument concerning the role that perspective played in the development of Western thought. Perspective, he asserts provided a simple but logical scheme for representing th3e relationship between people's perception of objects and the location of those objects in space. But beyond the creation of a system for accurate pictorial representation, Ivins demonstrates that the theories of Alberti, Durer, Pelerin (the Viator) enabled people to symbolize mathematically their sensuous awareness of nature and to classify phenomena which could not be adequately encompassed by verbal symbols alone. In this application of mathematics to the perseption of the p;hysical world, Ivins finds the basis of modern scientific thought. ¶ Unpaginated. USD 40.38 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24.5 \| JP¥ 3472] Book number: 65907X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	MYERS, BERNARD S. Modern Art In The Making. McGraw-Hill, New York: 1959. Hardcover with dustjacket. Reading copy. Chips and tears to DJ. From the French Revolution and its Neoclassicism to the Abstract Expressionist movement after World War Two, every stylistic transition and the changes from one period to the next are described in a coherent narrative, free from jargon. Includes an Index. ¶ 486 pages. USD 15.55 [Appr.: EURO 10.5 \| £UK 9.5 \| JP¥ 1337] Book number: 3339X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ONIEVA, ANTONIO; O'NEILL, PATRICIA MAY ( TRANSLATED BY); FINKELMAN, NYRIAM ( A NEW EDITION REVISED BY). A New Complete Guide To The Prado Gallery. Editorial Mayfe, Madrid: 1976. Softcover. Fair condition. Cover has scratches and chips. Binding is worn. In Spain, there existed a great art-collecting tradition that was rooted in the Catholic Kings (Reyes Cato-Licos, Isabel y Fernando), especially in Queen Isabel of Cascessors, Carlos V, the Emperor, Felipe Ii and III and above all IV, were great protectors of the arts. Includes an Index and floor guides to the museum. Well illustrated. ¶ 271 pages. USD 14.75 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1268] Book number: 22271X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	WOLF, JAY BRYAN. Romantic Re-vision: Culture And Consciousness In Nineteenth- Century American Painting And Literature. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1982. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition has slight chips tp dustjacket. Jay Bryan Wolf seeks to revise our understanding of the nature of American Romantic painting- its remarkable complexity, modernity, and expressive power- and help redefine the enterprise of criticism so as to recapture that artistic heritage. Includes an Index. ¶ 272 pages. USD 121.25 [Appr.: EURO 80.5 \| £UK 73.25 \| JP¥ 10427] Book number: 19998X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	WOLFFLIN, HEINRICH. The Art Of Albrecht Durer. Phaidon Publishers, London: 1971. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Universally recognized as a classic of art history. Albrect Durer's work is known everywhere through his engravings, his woodcuts, his magnificent drawings and watercolors, and finally through his altarpieces and portraits. Translated into English from the German by Alastair and Heide Grieve. Includes an Index. ¶ 311 pages. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6450] Book number: 2434X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.

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	BOYLE, RICHARD. Double Lives: American Painters As Illustrators, 1850-1950. New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain: 2009. Softcover. Brand new book. A compelling catalogue documenting the work of American illustrators and painters who practiced painting as an art unto itself and as a means to tell a story. The catalogue explores the often uneasy relationship between the art of painting and the art of illustration, featuring American artists who practiced both styles of painting between 1850 and 1950. The catalogue charts the development of both types of art through the eyes of a select group of artists who engaged in both fine art and illustration. Richard J. Boyle, former director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, is an art historian and author of numerous publications on American art. Inlcudes 34 illustrations in color. ¶ 84 pages. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 65271X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	BROUDE, NORMA; GARRARD, MARY D. The Expanding Discourse: Feminism And Art History. HarperCollins Publishers, New York: 1992. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. ¶ 518 pages. USD 64.00 [Appr.: EURO 42.5 \| £UK 38.75 \| JP¥ 5504] Book number: 41484X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	CASSIDY, DONNA M. Marsden Hartley: Race, Religion And Nation. University of New Hampshire Press / University Press of New England, Hanover: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. A provocative new reading of the great American avant-garde arist Marsden Hartley's late work. At the vanguard of renewed interest in Maine's influential early modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), author Donna M. Cassidy brilliantly appraises the contemporary social, political, and economic realities that shaped Hartley's landmark late art. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Hartley strove to represent the distinctive subjects of his native regionÑthe North Atlantic folk, the Maine coast, and Mount KatahdinÑproducing work that demands an interpretive approach beyond art history's customary biographical, stylistic, and thematic methodologies. Cassidy, sensitive to the psychological and gender analysis traditionally central to interpretations of Hartley, becomes the first scholar to reassess his late work in light of contemporary American perceptions of race, ethnicity, place, and history. This remarkable new book resonates not only as a seminal Hartley study and a complex art and cultural period history, but as a superb example of applied early twentieth-century American intellectual history informed by an impressive command of primary and secondary interdisciplinary literature. Numerous and rich illustrations, as well as transcriptions of several key essays by Hartley, some never before published, including This Country of Maine (1937-38), round out this insightful, nuanced, and revolutionary treatment. Donna M. Cassidy's Marsden Hartley will engage general readers as well as scholars and students. Despite his reputation as an aesthete unaffected by social concerns, Cassidy argues, Hartley's late paintings look like works by a savvy operator who reinvented himself as a native-born painter in order to take advantage of the newfound popularity of a state that had added the 'Vacationland' slogan to its license plates in 1936. Traveling to scenic parts of Maine he'd never visited before, Hartley drew inspiration for the expressionist paintings of lighthouses, Mount Katahdin, and the like that he painted before his death in 1943 from the postcards and brochures he picked up.ÑBoston Globe [H]ighly readable, thoroughly researched, and thoughtfully conceived . . . Highly recommended.ÑChoice This study represents a decade-and-a-half of the author's meticulous research, as she carefully reconstructs the social and cultural bases underpinning the representational strategies that Hartley adopted as he purposefully crafted his own artistic identity during the later phase of his career, circa 1934-43. Cassidy's text is itself an impressively multi-layered, composite work that is a product not only of modernist art history but of rigorous cross-disciplinary inquiry in American Studies and New England Studies. This book represents the product of the sustained thought and probing inquiry Cassidy has devoted to these fascinating and complicated subjects. Cassidy has produced an archivally solid and conceptually powerful account of Hartley that suggestively extends the familiar parameters of the artistic monograph, just as she critically repositions Hartley's paintings, writings, and rhetoric within an expandedÑand evermore complexÑCollege Art Reviews Donna Cassidy offers us the most complete portrait we have of Marsden Hartley as an artist. Without ignoring the recent scholarship on Hartley's sexuality, Cassidy returns him to his own sense of himselfÑone he arrived at with great struggle, to be sureÑas a native of Maine, an artist who said what he had to say through the means of his local landscape and neighbors. Building on a decade of her own work, Cassidy convincingly presents Hartley not as an isolated, tortured genius, but someone fully aware of the art world he is operating in, an arena that after the early 1920's was not 'modernist' but 'Americanist.' The larger issue the book tackles is modernism itself: it is a very welcome addition to the state of that question.ÑBruce Robertson, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Chief Curator, Art of the Americas, and Deputy Director, Art Programs, Los Angeles County Museum of Art This is a fresh and forceful study. Cassidy places Hartley's writings and paintings of the late 1930s and early 1940s within the discourses of New England tourism, primitivism, Regionalism, and Nazism, giving us a complex picture of the aging artist seeking to become the 'painter from Maine.' Lucidly written, this book integrates art history and cultural studies in exemplary fashion.ÑWanda M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History, Stanford University The Table of Contents of this book is as follows: Beyond Hartley the Modernist ¥ I. Painting and Marketing Region ¥ The Painter from Maine and New England Regionalism ¥ Consumerism, Tourism, and Regional Art ¥ II. Inventing the Past ¥ Autobiography: Creating the Self, Region, and Nation ¥ The Lincoln Portraits: Between Autobiography and Public History ¥ Autobiography and Public History ¥ Artifacts and the Historical Landscape ¥ III. Representing the Folk ¥ The Folk and the Modernist Primitive ¥ The Working-Class Male Body: Masculinity, Homosexuality, and Nation ¥ The North Atlantic Folk and Racial Discourse ¥ Appendixes: Essays by Marsden Hartley - A New England on the Trapeze ¥ B The Six Greatest New England Painters ¥ C On the Subject of Nativeness - A Tribute to Maine ¥ D This Country of Maine ¥ George Fuller ¥ The Nordica Homestead ¥ Fanny [sic] Hardy Eckstorm - Penobscot Man ¥ Notes ¥ Bibliography ¥ Index. Donna M. Cassidy is Professor of American & New England Studies and Art History at the University of Southern Maine, and the author of Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910-1940 (1997). Cassidy has written a courageous book . . . show[ing] how Hartley integrated his prejudices into his artistic program. Hartley's art and life hold important lessons about the value of studying art in cultural context and the danger of the self-censorship that kept earlier generations of Americans from studying Nazi art and recognizing . . . uncomfortable links.ÑNew York Times Book Review ¶ 410 pages. USD 39.95 [Appr.: EURO 26.5 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3435] Book number: 52611X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	CHIPP, HERSCHEL B. WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY PETER SELZ & JOSHUA C. TAYLOR. Theories Of Modern Art. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1968. Softcover. Fair condition. Cover has slight scratches and chips. A rich feast of letters, manifestos, reviews, interviews, and other writings relating to the study of modern art, carefully searched and methodically selected... book fills a need often cited by art historians and students to put the study of modern art on a sounder ideological basis. - Library Journal Includes an Index. ¶ 664 pages. USD 19.75 [Appr.: EURO 13.25 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1698] Book number: 23690X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	CHIPP, HERSCHEL B. WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY PETER SELZ & JOSHUA C. TAYLOR. Theories Of Modern Art. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1968. Softcover. Good condition. A rich feast of letters, manifestos, reviews, interviews, and other writings relating to the study of modern art, carefully searched and methodically selected... book fills a need often cited by art historians and students to put the study of modern art on a sounder ideological basis. - Library Journal Includes an Index. ¶ 664 pages. USD 20.75 [Appr.: EURO 14 \| £UK 12.75 \| JP¥ 1784] Book number: 23690X2 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	CLAY, JEAN. From Impressionism To Modern Art. Chartwell Books, Secaucus: 1980. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. The history of modern art from the death of Vincent van Gogh in 1890 to the end of World War I in 1918 has been organized by the French art critic and teacher around the six subjects that he considers to be the keys to the understanding of the revolutionary art of that lively period. Going beyond the traditional narration of events and the usual nominative and chronological divisions of art history, the techniques used in this book are based chiefly on a generous visual presentation of the works of the period, an incisive and penetrating analysis of each work reproduced, and the systematic employment of primary documents, many of them never before published. The six keys to understanding the art of the period 1890-1918, as identified by Jean Clay and used as the structure of this volume are color, distortion, the pulverized object, frontality, the real object, and movement. These themes reveal a lively and revolutionary age whose art was dominated by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Robert Delaunay, Paul Klee, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, and Wassily Kandinsky. ¶ 320 pages. USD 78.25 [Appr.: EURO 52 \| £UK 47.25 \| JP¥ 6729] Book number: 27402X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	DERRIDA, JACQUES; BENNINGTON GEOF; MCLEOD, IAN ( TRANSLATED BY). The Truth In Painting. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1987. Softcover. Good condition. The front cover is dogeared. In order to make a disturbance in the philosophy of art which still dominates discourse on painting, we will take a glimpse into the origins of painting. Includes an Index. ¶ 386 pages. USD 41.00 [Appr.: EURO 27.25 \| £UK 24.75 \| JP¥ 3526] Book number: 20003X2 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	GAUGUIN, PAUL; DENVIR, BERNARD (SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY). Gauguin: Letters From Brittany And The South Seas, The Search For Paradise. Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York: 1992. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. I am leaving to Tahiti where I shall hope to end my days. My art . . . I regard as no more than a tender shoot, though one that I hope to develop into a wild and primitive growth. . . . The European Gauguin has ceased to exist and nobody will ever see any of his works here again. With these words,Paul Gauguin set off on a voyage that would not only irrevocably change his own life and work, but also the entire course of modern art. This volume combines for the first time the artist's public expressions of his world - his paintings - with his private correspondence - to his estranged wife,his agent, and his illustrious contemporaries such as Strindberg and van Gogh. Gauguin vividly describes his creative movements as well as the details of his daily life, most poignantly his consuming worries about health and finances. The book is illustrated throughout with many of Gauguin's most ambitious and beautiful canvases. Watercolors and pencil sketches illuminate the early stages of these major works,and illustrated journal pages and rare vintage photographs reveal the people and places he knew. ¶ 160 pages. USD 17.70 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 \| £UK 10.75 \| JP¥ 1522] Book number: 38529X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	GAUNT, WILLIAM. The Golden Age Of Flemish Art. Greenwich House, New York: 1983. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. The author of this book, well known as an art and and social historian, tells the story of the artistic legacy left by the cities of the Southern Netherlands, now part of modern Belgium. He singles out four cities of art for main consideration-Bruges, Ghent, Brussels, and Antwerp-but deals with the whole artistic development of the southern Netherlands from the later 14th century to the early 18th century. Includes 98 illustrations, 46 of which are in color, notes on the principle artists, bibliography, and index. ¶ 160 pages. USD 47.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.25 \| £UK 28.5 \| JP¥ 4042] Book number: 14510X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	IVINS, JR., WILLIAM M.; VIATOR ( PELERIN). On The Rationalization Of Sight: With An Examination Of Three Renaissance Texts On Perspective. Da Capo Press, New York: 1975. Softcover. Good condition. Imaginatively constructs a forceful argument concerning the role that perspective played in the development of Western thought. Perspective, he asserts provided a simple but logical scheme for representing th3e relationship between people's perception of objects and the location of those objects in space. But beyond the creation of a system for accurate pictorial representation, Ivins demonstrates that the theories of Alberti, Durer, Pelerin (the Viator) enabled people to symbolize mathematically their sensuous awareness of nature and to classify phenomena which could not be adequately encompassed by verbal symbols alone. In this application of mathematics to the perseption of the p;hysical world, Ivins finds the basis of modern scientific thought. ¶ Unpaginated. USD 40.38 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24.5 \| JP¥ 3472] Book number: 65907X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	MYERS, BERNARD S. Modern Art In The Making. McGraw-Hill, New York: 1959. Hardcover with dustjacket. Reading copy. Chips and tears to DJ. From the French Revolution and its Neoclassicism to the Abstract Expressionist movement after World War Two, every stylistic transition and the changes from one period to the next are described in a coherent narrative, free from jargon. Includes an Index. ¶ 486 pages. USD 15.55 [Appr.: EURO 10.5 \| £UK 9.5 \| JP¥ 1337] Book number: 3339X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	ONIEVA, ANTONIO; O'NEILL, PATRICIA MAY ( TRANSLATED BY); FINKELMAN, NYRIAM ( A NEW EDITION REVISED BY). A New Complete Guide To The Prado Gallery. Editorial Mayfe, Madrid: 1976. Softcover. Fair condition. Cover has scratches and chips. Binding is worn. In Spain, there existed a great art-collecting tradition that was rooted in the Catholic Kings (Reyes Cato-Licos, Isabel y Fernando), especially in Queen Isabel of Cascessors, Carlos V, the Emperor, Felipe Ii and III and above all IV, were great protectors of the arts. Includes an Index and floor guides to the museum. Well illustrated. ¶ 271 pages. USD 14.75 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9 \| JP¥ 1268] Book number: 22271X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	WOLF, JAY BRYAN. Romantic Re-vision: Culture And Consciousness In Nineteenth- Century American Painting And Literature. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1982. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition has slight chips tp dustjacket. Jay Bryan Wolf seeks to revise our understanding of the nature of American Romantic painting- its remarkable complexity, modernity, and expressive power- and help redefine the enterprise of criticism so as to recapture that artistic heritage. Includes an Index. ¶ 272 pages. USD 121.25 [Appr.: EURO 80.5 \| £UK 73.25 \| JP¥ 10427] Book number: 19998X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.
	WOLFFLIN, HEINRICH. The Art Of Albrecht Durer. Phaidon Publishers, London: 1971. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Universally recognized as a classic of art history. Albrect Durer's work is known everywhere through his engravings, his woodcuts, his magnificent drawings and watercolors, and finally through his altarpieces and portraits. Translated into English from the German by Alastair and Heide Grieve. Includes an Index. ¶ 311 pages. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6450] Book number: 2434X1 Click here to order or inquire at Ad Infinitum Books.