Castro, Jan Garden,

The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe.

NY, Crown, (1985). VG lg sz PB. O'Keeffe has become a legend in her own time, yet the origins of the myths about her have never been explored. A closer. study of the visual aspects of her art, her way of seeing, her deep appreciation of nature synthesized in works of art is unique. Includes index, bibliography, notes.

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catalogue by, preface by Arthur W. Heintzelman,

Doctors and Medicine in the Works of Daumier.

Boston, MA, Boston Book and Art Shop Inc, (1960). G in G DJ. Translated from French by C. de Chabanne. By bringing together this selection of satirical and analytical illustrations that. concentrate on the practice, and practitioner, in medicine, a new interest is created in Daumier's oeuvre for the manners and habits of today resemble, in many ways, those of Daumier's time." from the preface. Daumier had the power to grasp life in terms of its eternal and unchanginging verities. His style and humor can never be confused with the work of another. DJ edge wear, hinges cracked.

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Cather, Willa,

Miracles of Perception: the art of Willa Cather.

Charlottesville, Alderman Library, 1980. VG pamphlet enclosed in library covers ex-library. Library publication enclosed in library boards. Library markings.

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Book number: BOOKS051690I

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Center,

Walt Kuhn: an imaginary history of the west.

np, Colorado Springs Fine Arts, (1964). VG lg sz PB. Color painting on ft cover. Gallery stamp to back cover, some soiling.

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Book number: BOOKS045357I

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Cernuschi, Claude,

Jackson Pollock: maning and significance.

NY, Harper Collins/Icon, (1992). 1st ed. VG. Survey of Pollock's life and work and an understanding of his paintings - their origins, meanings, and influence. Broadly interpretive with discussion and explanation of his concerns and meanings. A survey of his work with particular attention to his intentions and the interpretation of abstraction plus issues raised by his art above and beyond his intentions and how these issues interact with his contemporaries' work and with other intellectual currents. The final chapter discusses Pollock's influence and the importance of criticism in shaping this influence. and the problems of defining modernism and postmodernism. Remainder mark.

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Book number: BOOKS053487I

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Chamoux, Francois, preface by Professor Andre Chastel,

Greek Art: The Pallas Library of Art.

London, Barrie & Rockliff, (1966). G Hardback in G DJ. Full color presentation of the arts of Greece from early Mycenaean to the late Hellenistic period including sculpture,. architecture, ceramics, metalwork, coins and jewelry, mosaics and frescoes. with illuminating text and detailed notes for each illustration. He explains the role of the artist in Greek society and discusses he essential ontinuity as well as the variety and range of style and expression of Greek Art.

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Book number: BOOKS056847I

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Cheney, Sheldon,

A Primer of Modern Art.

NY, Liveright, (1929). 5th ptg. VG. Decorative binding, black spine overlay with gilt lettering. Fading around edges of covers.

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Chi-Yuan, Wang with Ruth Martin,

Oriental Brushwork.

NY, Pitman Pub Corp, (1964). VG PB.

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Chiba, Reiko, introduction & commentary by,

Japanese Screens in Miniature: six masterpieces of the Momoyama period.

Rutland, VT, Tuttle, (1960). 1st ptg ss. VG. Fold-out book in fabric binding with gilt & ivory like toggle. Holder for toggle missing. Binding has some wear.

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Institute of Chicago,

The Nathan Cummings Collection of Ancient Peruvian Art (formerly Wassermann-San Blas Collection).

Chicago, Nathan Cummings, (1954). G lg sz PB. Forms a vivid document on the customs, religion & daily life of the civilizations that created them. Sl discoloration ft cover.

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Book number: BOOKS037136I

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Childs, Caro,

Scary Faces and Other Arty Face Paintings.

Bath, UK, Paragon, (2001). VG. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be someone else or even how it would feel to be an animal? Face painting can. take you there.

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Book number: BOOKS047898I

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Chomicky, Yar G.,

Watercolor Painting: media, methods and materials.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, (1968). 4th printing. G. Binding spotted and soiled.

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Christiansen, Keith,

Fourteen-Century Italian Altarpieces.

NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1982). VG lg sz PB. Readers of Edith Wharton may recall the protagonist of False Dawn, Lewis Roycie, who brought home such painters as Giotto,. Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, and Carpaccio. He opens a gallery of Christian art. Only two generations later is it realized what a treasure Lewis had acquired.

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Cleve Gray, essay by Thomas B. Hess, foreword by Robert T. Buck, Jr.,

Paintings 1966-1977.

Buffalo, NY, Albright Knox Art Gallery, (1976). VG lg sz PB. Begining photo shows Gray seated in the Threnody installation at the Neuberger Museum, SUNY at Purchase. Gray paints on raw cotton duck roughly 8 feet square. He graduated from Princeton Summa Cum Laude in 1940 and is now in the position of owning the most extensive collection of his own paintings.

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Clifton, Claire,

The Art of Food: culinary inspiratinon from the paintings of the great masters.

Secaucus, NJ, Wellfleet Press, (1988). VG in G DJ. Painters from a wide range of culture & periods examined by author, a food historian, with an appropriate recipe for each. painting. DJ chipped.

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Book number: BOOKS034210I

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