Bengo, John

The Theory of Effect: Embracing the Contrast of Light and Shade, of Colour and Harmony

Philadelphia, J.W. Moore, 1851. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards, blind stamped design, gilt lettering on front and spine; VI, 8-144 pp; bw illustrations. "Isaac Ashmead, printer"--Title page verso. Includes 15 illustrations by Hinckley. Good+ (light shelfwear to boards, worn spine & gutter, title page stamped "S.J. Sedgwick", light age toning and foxing spots throughout, pages are otherwise clear) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 189519

Katalog: Art Instruction/ Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction/ Technique ; Light and Shade; Color; Drawing; Color in Art ; ;

Bouvier, P.L. and Johan Coenraad Beijer

Handboek Voor Jonge Beoefenaars & Liefhebbers Der Schilderkunst, of Volledige Aanwijzing Ter Vervaardiging Van Allerlei Soorten Van Schilderwerken

Breda, Broese en Comp, 1831. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 brown leather and marble illustrated paper boards; XII, 637 pp, VII fold out bw plates. Text in Dutch. Manual For Young Practitioners & Painting Enthusiasts, or Complete Instruction For The Manufacture Of All Kinds Of Painting Works. Inside front cover includes a bookplate from C.F. Louis de Wild, a long time painting conservationist and restorer of great paintings, who was trained by his father. His restorations are now in the Met Museum, the National Gallery of Art, Frick Collection and many other places. Good (overall shelfwear to boards, leather heavily worn, expected age toning throughout but binding is secure and pages are otherwise clear. Bookplate of previous owner inside front cover) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 189956

Katalog: Art Instruction/ Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction/ Technique ; Painting Instruction ; ;

Cox, David

A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours; from the First Rudiments to the Finished Picture: With Examples in Outline, Effect, and Colouring

London, S. & J. Fuller, 1841. Hardcover. Oversized green cloth boards with gilt lettering; 8 text pages and 16 bw plates. This is the 1841 reprint edition not the original 1814. Good (shelfwear to boards with most of cloth spine missing, corners heavily bumped, pages are lightly age toned but clear. there is no list of plates so it's unsure if book is complete with the 16 plates present, text pages start at page 13) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 189480

Katalog: Art Instruction/ Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction/ Technique ; Landscape Painting ; ;

Gabosh, Karl

The Collector's Black Light Guide: A Structured Introduction to Longwave Ultra-Violet Examination

N. Princeton, MA, K. Gabosh, 1984. Softcover. Tan portfolio folder with burgundy lettering. Inside covers have 8 mounted samples and a pocket holding 8 loose pages (double sided) of text. Includes a description of The Samples, a list of Suppliers, Additional UV Information. Also includes The Collector's Blacklight Guide on th first page (front and rear of page). VG- (the mounted samples are unglued but present and tucked inside the pocket. The text pages have some age toning along top but text is otherwise clear.) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 183110

Katalog: Art Instruction and Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction and Technique ; Painting Technique ; ;

Gentele, J.G.

Lehrbuch Der Farbenfabrikation: Anweisung Zur Darstellung, Untersuchung Und Verwendung Der IM Handel Vorkommenden Malerfarben, Zum Gebrauche Fur Farbentusch-, Und Tapeten- Fabrikanten, Chemiker, Techniker, Kaufleute, Maler, Coloristen, Anstreicher, Und Andere Consumenten Von Farben

Braunschweig, Friedrich Viewig und Sohn, 1880. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 brown leather and marble paper boards; xviii, 601 pp; bw illustrations. Text is in German. Paint-making textbook; Instructions for the representation, examination and use of the painters' paints found in the trade, for use by paint, ink and wallpaper manufacturers, chemists, technicians, merchants, painters, colourists, painters and other paint consumers. Good- (heavy wear to boards, most of leather missing, front and rear covers are loose, pages are age toned but otherwise clean and clear) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 189613

Katalog: Art Instruction/ Art Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction/ Art Technique ; Paint ; ;

Houston, R.A.

A Treatise on Light

London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1919. Hardcover. Green cloth boards, stamped lettering on front cover, gilt spine lettering; color illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard; xi, 478 pp, 328 bw illustrations. "This book is intended for students who have been through a first year's physics course and who are proceeding further with the study of light. It differs from other books on light by a more systematic treatment, also by dealing with the full scope of the subject and incuding the results of recent investigations.. Of the 328 figures more than 270 have been specially drawn for the book."- preface excerpts. Divided into 4 parts: Geometrical Optics; Physical Optics; Spectroscopy and Photometry; and Mathematical Theory. Good+ (heavy wear to boards, age toning to end pages, pages are otherwise clean and clear.) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 182886

Katalog: Art Instruction and Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction and Technique ; Ophthalmology, Light ; ;

Jacobs, Michel

The Art of Colour

Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt design and lettering, green and tan dj, color illustrated color illustrated frontispiece, XIV, 90 pp, (24) leaves of color plates. Signed, dated and inscribed by the author to previous owner on the title half page. This third edtion has an added appendix, containing footnotes, for this edition. Includes a list of the illustrations. Good+/Good- (light foxing spots mainly to beginning pages along inside edges not affecting text or plates, pages are otherwise clean. DJ has overall shelfwear and small tears. Signed by author on title half page) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 190238

Katalog: Art Instruction/ Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction/ Technique ; Art Technique ; ;

Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection

The Artist's Assitant, in the Study and Practice of Mechanical Sciences: Calculated for the Improvement of Genius. Illustrated with Copper Plates

London, G. Robinson, 1788. Leather bound. Bound in full brown leather with black bordering, 5 raised bands on spine; all edges red tinted; marble illustrated end papers; 288, IV pages; bw illustrations (several fold-out). English text. Good (scuiffing and overall wear to leather, expected age toning but text and illustrations are otherwise clear, missing 2 folding plates, frontis and title page, handwritten notes along top of 2nd page of index) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 189631

Katalog: Art Instruction/ Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction/ Technique ; Art Technique ; ;

Perl, Jed

Magicians & Charlatans: Essays on Art and Culture

New York, Eakins Press Foundation, 2012. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering; black dust jacket with white lettering; 358 pp, illustrated throughout with 24 color and 5 duotone illustrations. "The Eakins Press Foundation is proud to announce the publication of Magicians & Charlatans, by the art critic Jed Perl. In this collection of 26 essays, Mr. Perl writes with great urgency about the art scene of the past decade. The poet John Ashbery has said that "For years Jed Perl has been covering the art world with tremendous empathy and unsparing accuracy. His ability to recognize the traditional forms of art behind their continual transmutation has made his an almost solitary, essential voice." The essays range from highly controversial critiques of the painter Gerhard Richter, the art dealer Leo Castelli, and the Museum of Modern Art, to appreciations of the art of Bernini and Chardin, and the writings of Edmund Wilson and Meyer Schapiro."--Publisher's description. Chapters include: Our Dadaist : Robert Gober -- Summer madness : Balthus and "Encounters" at the National Gallery in London -- The variety show : Tony Oursler, Bill Viola, and contemporary art -- Saint Gerhard of the sorrows of painting : Gerhard Richter -- Firings : Noguchi, Ken Price, and ceramics -- The beauty trap : notes on the return to beauty -- MoMA, Inc. : the Museum of Modern Art since reopening in 2004 -- Peep shows for poets : Jeremy Blake and experimental cinema -- Postcards from nowhere : new museums in Los Angeles and New York -- Private lives : the recession and the art world -- The opportunist : a life of Leo Castelli -- Extreme sensibility : Christian Marclay's The clock -- Ecstasy : reflections on Bernini -- Ordinary magic : Chardin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Lyricist and empiricist : Gustave Le Gray at the J. Paul Getty Museum -- Philosophical furnishings : Thomas Hope and Jean-Michel Frank -- Everyday symbolist : Vuillard at the National Gallery of Art -- Apollo and Dionysus : Cézanne and Picasso -- Spiritual matters : Rouault and Chagall -- A defense of Dada : anti-art revisited -- The writer's eye : Edmund Wilson and the visual arts -- Maker and shaper : the life and literature of Lincoln Kirstein -- From Alabama to Manhattan : remembering David Daniel -- Half tame : Roger Shattuck from The banquet years to Forbidden knowledge -- Varieties of artistic experience : Meyer Schapiro on medieval and modern art. VG/VG .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 180171

Katalog: Art Instruction and Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction and Technique ; Modern Art ; ;

Smith, John

The Art of Painting of Oyl. Wherein Is Included Each Particular Circumstance Relating to That Art and Mystery, Containing the Best and Most Approved Rules for Preparing, Mixing, and Working of Oyl-Colours: The Whole Treatise Being So Full Compleat, and So Exactly Fitted to the Meanest Capacity, That All Persons Whatsoever, May Be Able by These Directions, to Paint in Oyl-Colours All Manner of Timber-Work... In Which Is Also Particularly Laid Down, All the Several Circumstances Required in Painting of Sun-Dials, Printed Pictures, Shash Windows, Etc in Oily Colours

London, Samuel Crouch, 1687. The second impression with some alterations, and many useful additions. Leather bound. Bound in brown leather, five raised bands on spine; title page, (6) 100 pp. Edition: The second impression with some alterations, and many useful additions. Errata on last page before the main content. Chapters cover: "How to order colours for working after they are ground; The practice of working oyl-colours, and painting of Timberwork, after the manner of volgar painting; Painting sun-dials; The Practice of Painting Sun-Dials; How to guild with Gold on an Oily Size, either Letters or Figures; How to scour, refresh and preserve all manner of Oyl Painting; How to preserve all bright iron-work from rust and other injuries of a moist and corroding air, by an Oily Varnish; and many others. Fair (Bookplate of previous owner, Geo. Drummond inside front cover; covers not attached, expected age toning, text is otherwise clear. Appears the first page of the table of contents is missing and 1-2 pages of "To the Reader" inside front also missing. ) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 186609

Katalog: Art Instruction/ Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction/ Technique ; Industrial Painting; Early Works to 1800 ; ;

Sollner, B.

B. Sollner's Farbenkunde Fur Kunstmaler in Olfarben, Aquarell, Tempera Und Pastell

Leipzig/ Vienna, Seeman/ A. Ebeseder, 1892. Hardcover. Tan paper boards with black lettering, black spine, 74 pp. No illustrations. Text is in German. B. Söllner's color theory for artists in oil paints, watercolours, tempera and pastels. "With a description of all the colors listed in the manufacturer's price lists according to their chemical value, information on their durability based on many years of experience, the causes of any changes that occur and the method of preventing spoilage."- translated from title page. Good (shelfwear to covers, publisher's stamp on bottom of title page, age toned pages) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 190251

Katalog: Art Instruction/ Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction/ Technique ; Color Guides; Painting Techniques ; ;

Twining, Henry

On the Philosophy of Painting: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise; Comprising Aesthetics in Reference to Art, the Application of Rules to Painting, and General Considerations on Perspective

London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1849. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards, stamped illustrated on front and rear, gilt spine lettering; xxviii, 443 pp; bw illustrations, plates and diagrams. Errata slip included in front of page xxv. Divided into 3 parts: Aesthetics Considered With Reference to Art; Subjects Practically Connected With Imitation in Painting; Linear Perspective, Projected Shadows, and Reflection on Polished Surfaces. Good (overall wear to boards, foxing spots throughout pages, cloth covers are loose at spine) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 182825

Katalog: Art Instruction and Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction and Technique ; Aesthetics, Painting ; ;

Wright, Willard Huntington

The Future of Painting

New York, B.W. Huebsch, Inc, 1923. Hardcover. Tan paper over boards with blindstamp lettering; 54 pp. Good- (heavy wear to boards, part of spine missing, pencil marks throughout pages.) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessionelle Verkäufer

Buchzahl: 187623

Katalog: Art Instruction and Technique

Sonstige Stichworte: Art Instruction and Technique ; Painting; Color ; ;