Author: John Canaday Title: Metropolitan Seminars in Art, Portfolios 1-12 & Great Periods in Painting, Portfolios a-L
Description: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. Hardcover. 24 vols w/ color prints. Oversize. Ex-library hardcover books in original binding. Labels on spines and front covers. Corners of boards and tips of spines are visibly rubbed. Stamps and card pockets on endpapers. Corner of page 27 in Portfolio A is torn. Otherwise a set of clean, tight books in good reading condition. LACKS prints 6, 16, 34, 35, 93, 97, 98, 117, A11, B4, L1, and L5. A course of illustrated lessons in art appreciation. Each volume measures approx. 13" x 10" and contains a sleeve of color prints and review question pamphlets. The portfolios' titles are WHAT IS A PAINTING?; REALISM; EXPRESSIONISM; ABSTRACTION; COMPOSITION AS PATTERN; COMPOSITION AS STRUCTURE; COMPOSITION AS EXPRESSION; FRESCO; TEMPERA AND OIL; WATER COLOR, PASTEL, AND PRINTS; THE ARTIST AS A SOCIAL CRITIC; THE ARTIST AS A VISIONARY; GLORY AND GRANDEUR; EARTH, HEAVEN, AND HELL; THE WORLD REDISCOVERED; VENUS REVISITED; THE WORLD IN ORDER; THE WORLD TRIUMPHANT; THE WORLD DIVIDING; THE WAR OF ILLUSIONS; THE QUICK AND THE DEAD; SUMMER IDYL; PAINTING IN TRANSITION; and ACTAEON AND THE ATOM. Fair .
Keywords:
Price: US$ 100.00 Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd.
- Book number: 315249
See more books from our catalog:
Art