London, Adam & Charles Black, 1904. G. Blue binding with gilt lettering & decoration with damp staining along bottom & top edges of binding, owner name. Author sought out exhibitions of pictures, sculpture & drawings wherever he traveled.
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Utopia, One World, One War, One Army, One Dress....
Boston, Institute Contemporary Art, (2008). VG lg sz PB. An exhibition saying anyone who wears camouflage clothing puts himself in the place of a soldier who risks being killed.
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Greenwich, CT, New York Graphic Society, (1971). VG in G DJ. One of Austria's three greatest modern artists. Behind his dazzling facade lay a passionate commitment not only to the. progress of painting but to its relevance for society. Hofmann's analysis of Klimt's art is only historical but from a social context. DJ edge wear.
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NY, Viking Studio, (1979). VG in VG DJ. Illustrated history of the fire-breathing flying monster who has fascinated humans since the dawn of civilization. Endpapers show alphabet letters with dragon designs. DJ price clipped.
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London, Heinemann, (1971). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Signed by author. Tumultous years of experiment and discovery before WWI. As King of British Bohemia, John held court in. the Cafe Royal and in the Dorset and Hampshire countryside. Laid in article on John as a prodigious progeny, and an article on Gwen John (1876-1959)by Mary Tuabman. DJ edge wear.
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London, Taschen, (2000). VG lg sz PB. Some of his most famous art work plus some biographical info. "Contradictions seem to have been his life's elixir, the veiling. of biographical and other personal facts the means he used to create a mystery around himself. He had been trained as a commercial artist - he saw himself as a 'pure' artist. Slight scratching to cover surface.
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Making the Mummies Dance: inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NY, Simon & Schuster, (1993). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Owner's name & stamp front endpaper. Hoving transformed the museum "into the most vital cultural presence in the country.".
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Oil Pastels Workstation (includes 16 oil pastels and eraser).
Los Angeles, Price Stern Sloan, (1993). VG. A new concept comprising all the elements needed to start drawing with oil pastels plus top quality paper to draw on.
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