Christensen, Thomas

Bridge to Understanding: The Art and Architecture of San Francisco's Asian Art Museum

San Francisco, California, Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Bridge to Understanding is a fine and due homage to the Art and architecture in a leading San Francisco art museum. Penned by Thomas Christensen and augmented with many hundreds of black-and-white and full-color illustrations and photographs. Bound handsomely in black cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. From the publisher's blurb, "'Bridge to Understanding,' commemorating the opening of the new Asian Art Museum in the spring of 2003, is a comprehensive introduction to the museum and its collections. The book traces the history of both the museum and its new home, the former main public library in San Francisco's Civic Center; discusses architect Gae Aulenti's transformation of the dark, gloomy library into a bright, dynamic modern museum; and leads the reader on a unique exploration of the galleries, featuring room-by-room discussions of some of the museum's most intriguing (and until now most seldom displayed) works, presented here in high-quality, full-color, full-page reproductions." 223 pp. and with full notes, bibliography and index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 355298

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Thomas Christensen Asian art history Asian American art history

Germaine, Christiane and Paul Haim

Michel Seuphor, Une Vie ã  Angle Droit

Paris, Editions de la Difference, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. to the flexible softcovers, printed in black and red. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated with a photograph in black and white of Stazewski, Grabowski, Choumof, Zamoyski, Seuphor, Madame Grabowska, Madame Fernand Meger, Brzekowski, Mondrian, Florence Henri), showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. French language text. [8], 9-193 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Near Fine,

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Book number: 346780

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Michel Seuphor|Christiane Germain|Paul Haim|French language

Germaine, Christiane and Paul Haim

Michel Seuphor, Une Vie ã  Angle Droit

Paris, Editions de la Difference, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. to the flexible softcovers, printed in black and red. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated with a photograph in black and white of Stazewski, Grabowski, Choumof, Zamoyski, Seuphor, Madame Grabowska, Madame Fernand Meger, Brzekowski, Mondrian, Florence Henri, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. French language text. [8], 9-193 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Near Fine,

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Book number: 347156

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Michel Seuphor|Stazewski|Grabowski|Choumof|Zamoyski|Seuphor|Madame Grabowska|Madame Fernand Meger|Brzekowski|Mondrian|Florence Henri

Lin Hsiu-chuan

God Is Embroidering

Taiwan, Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. Unique in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, of a loving and due homage to the embroidery artistry of Taiwanese artist, Change Mei-yun, and penned by Lin Hsiu-chuan. No discernible wear to the handsomely bound black sailcloth boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering, also trilingual, to front cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, heavy, thick, sumptuously illustrated with a depiction of God. Professor Chang Mei-yun is the Director of the Embroidery Center with a worldwide reputation as an embroidery artist and repair specialist. This work shows her complete 52-piece collection of hand embroideries titled "God is Embroidering." Foreword by Tu Cheng-Sheng, the Minister of Education, R.O.C., and a second Foreword by Fan Su-lu, Pastor Wesley Wang, and several others. Trilingual texts, in Mandarin, English and a Romanized Mandarin. 123 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Book number: 355193

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Lin Hsiu-chuan Chang Mei-yun

Ciardi, Roberto Paulo

Volterra: La Cappella Della Croce in San Francesco

Burresi/ Caleca / Lessi, Fotoimmagine Volterra, 2000. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Exceedingly scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line currently. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Stated Second Edition, brilliantly glossy white cloth over boards. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Many, many score full-color illustrations, many being full-page, depicting largely 14th century Italians and scenes including religious and pilgrimage-related. Preface by Prof. Giovanni Brunale and Prof. Maurizio Maggi and Prof. Renato Bacci, then an Introduction by Fotoimmagine Volterra, then another by Roberto Paulo Ciardi. 79 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 357582

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Italian Roberto Paulo Ciardi art history Italian art history

Cirlot, Juan-Eduardo

Picasso: The Birth of a Genius

New York, Praeger Publishers, 1972. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Quite handsomely produced copy bound in rust-colored cloth, sunning to front and rear endpaper edges, else a clean, structurally sound copy bound in quarto hardcover format, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Several hundred fine illustrations in both black-and-white and full color. Seven chapters plus an Introduction and Conclusion, a Chronology, a Select Bibliography, a catalogue of paintings and drawings from the period (1881-1917), a ist of illustrations, and a full index. [5], 6-288 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 346057

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Pablo Picasso|art history|painters|Spanish art history

Wilcox, Claire and Circe Henestrosa

Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

Mexico City, Mexico, V & A Publishing, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright red pictorial paper over boards, bright red cloth-backed, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering over spine. From the publisher's blurb, "a unique window into the artist's life. Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), as an artist and a woman, has a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognizable work draws extensively on her life and her extraordinarily personal reflections upon it. On Kahlo's death, her husband, Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957), ordered that her most private possessions be locked away until 15 years after his death. The bathroom in which her belongings were stored in fact remained unopened until 2004. Through this incredible archive, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up focuses on the personal, combining her prosthetics, jewelry, and clothes with self-portraits, diary entries, and letters to build an intimate portrait of the artist through her possessions, setting this in the context of her political and social beliefs." Hundreds of illustrations. 207 pp., with full notes, index and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 358179

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Claire Wilcox Circe Henestrosa Frida Kahlo artist monograph Mexican artists

Clapp, Anne F.

Curatorial Care of Works of Art on Paper: Basic Procedures for Paper Preservation

New York, Lyons and Burford, 1987. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, less to text-block beyond a lengthy gift inscription at first free endpaper, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. The author devotes three sections (Factors Potentially Harmful to Paper, Procedures, Requirements for the Care of Paper) to evince her expertise in curatorial work on works of art on paper. Complete in 191 pp. including a full bibliography and index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 353418

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Anne F. Clapp curation art history art works curatorial care book preservation

Fell, Christine E.; Cecily Clark and Elizabeth Williams

Women in Anglo-Saxon England / the Impact of 1066

London, Basil Blackwell, 1986. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition Thus state, combining two long bellwether essays, the major from Christine Fell, first published in 1984, then also Cecily Clark and Elizabeth Williams' on "the impact of 1066." From the personal library of the feminist art historian extraordinaire, Dr. Whitney Chadwick, a giant across many fields. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, less to text-block, but with some foxing to fore- and bottom-edges. Perfectly readable, usable copy.A fine and probing reexamination of "a range of source materials on the position of women in Anglo-Saxon society." Black laminated card stock cover, with an intriguing image of the Pentney Brooch. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [7], 8-208 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 353708

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Anglo-Saxon Britain 1066 Women's Studies Women's art history Christine Fell Cecily Clark and Elizabeth Williams

Clarke, John R.

Exploring the Sixties: Selected American Paintings from the Michener Collection Archer Huntington Gallery June-July, 1988

Austin, Texas, University of Texas, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Previous owner's ink-stamp to front cover, else with a near pristine interior. Foreword by Eric S. McCready, essay by John R. Clarke, and then Robert Indiana, Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Al Held, Brice Marden, Elmer Bischoff, Stirling Spadea, Will Barnet, and many others. Glossy pictorial wraps, staple-bound, 25 pp. plus a list of works and exhibitions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 350483

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Eric S. McCready|John R. Clarke

Courtney-Clarke, Margaret

Places in the Sand

New York, The Monacelli Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Paper belly-band around rear board chipped and worn a bit. Courtney-Clarke's photograph of the remote and seldom-seen landscapes of Africa's magnificent and delicate environments are evocative and crisp. Bound handsomely in gray cloth with tipped-in color photo to front board. Unpaginated, but roughly 80 pp. Each slender photograph at right is captioned, opposite.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 360549

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Margaret Courtney-Clarke artist monograph

Cleave, Jane

La Belle Epoque: The Elisabeth Dean Collection

Fresno, California, Fresno Arts Center Museum, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the brightly illustrated card stock wraps, illustrated with a painting by Pierre Bonnard. First Edition; First Printing. Numerous illustrations including full-page color plates. Preface by Robert Barrett. Foreword by Lawrence Baldwyn, then a long essay by Jane Cleave. Augments the exhibition that was held January 19 through April 17, 1986. Measures nearly 11" x 8". Sections devoted to art historical movements, printmaking, technical terms, full bibliography and artist biographies, from Toulouse-Lautrec to Pierre Bonnard, painters to engravers. 88 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 350446

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: La Belle Epoque|The Elisabeth Dean Collection

Cliff, Stafford

The French Archive of Design and Decoration

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Three hundred years of patterns, samples, and original sketches of furniture, textiles, wallpapers, glass, ceramics, and more. Over 600 illustrations. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely bound in an illustrated tri-tone, brown, bluish-gray and white cloth cover, with lettering to match at Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Special focus on designers such as Kent, Chippendale, Hepplewhite, Adam, Sheraton, Pugin, Morris, Voysey, Liberty and others. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [8], 9-255 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 348189

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Stafford Cliff|design|interior design|French architecture|French design

Clisby, Roger D.

Aspects of Abstract: Recent West Coast Abstract Painting and Sculpture

Sacramento, California, Crocker Art Museum, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Staple-bound white wraps, blind-stamped device to front cover. Introduction by Roger Clisby and then over 40 black-and-white plates in 24 pp. Focus on Bengston, Bischoff, DiSuvero, Fine, Francis, Moses, Smith, Yokomi, Wudl, Willis, and more. The exhibition ran from October to November of 1979.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 348221

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Crocker Art Museum|Roger D. Cllisby|abstract art|Bengston|Bischoff|DiSuvero|Fine|Francis|Moses|Smith|Yokomi|Wudl|Willis

Clisby, Roger D.

Aspects of Abstract: Recent West Coast Abstract Painting and Sculpture

Sacremento, California, Crocker Art Museum, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy, with a vertical crease to front cover. Staple-bound white wraps, blind-stamped device to front cover. Introduction by Roger Clisby and then over 40 black-and-white plates in 24 pp. Focus on Bengston, Bischoff, DiSuvero, Fine, Francis, Moses, Smith, Yokomi, Wudl, Willis, and more. The exhibition ran from October to November of 1979.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 350461

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Crocker Art Museum|Roger D. Cllisby|abstract art|Bengston|Bischoff|DiSuvero|Fine|Francis|Moses|Smith|Yokomi|Wudl|Willis