Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd

Symbolist and Art Nouveau Prints

London, Matthiesen Fine Art, 1980. Softcover. Illustrated glossy wraps. 79 pages : illustrations. Sales catalog of an exhibition held at the Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd. November and December 1980. VG/G-, covers show wear and fade along edges. ex-library label on back. Pages are clean .

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Book number: 183005

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique; Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd. ; Art Nouveau ; Matthiesen Fine Art Ltd. ; Art Nouveau ; ; Museum Exhibitions - European Art

Myers, Denys Peter

Picture Book of Authentic Mid-Victorian Gas Lighting Fixtures; a Reprint of the Historic Mitchell, Vance & Co. Catalog, Ca. 1876, with over 1000 Illustrations

New York, Dover, 1984. Softcover. Color illustrated wraps. viii pages, 83 pages of plates : chiefly illustrations. with an introduction by Denys Peter Myers. Very Good. Cover has general wear, curling at corners. Sticker from previous owner. Inscription to previous owner on front end page.

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Book number: 190615

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique, Victorian, Lighting ; Lighting ; ;

Parton, James

Caricature and Other Comic Art: In All Times and Many Lands

New York, NY, Harper & Brothers, 1878. Hardcover. Dk. Green cloth over boards; gold lettering on front and spine; 334 pp; over 203 bw illustrations. This volume is a contribution to the amusement and curiosity of the public; never before has a single volume brought all the comic and satirical casts of the world and presented it in one extraordinary view. Good (Boards are edgeworn with some scratching/smudging; spine strip is more heavily frayed at the ends; inner hinge of front cover is beginning to crack; rear hinge has been reinforced with clear tape; textblock is cracked; interior is lightly toned with the occasional smudge.) .

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Book number: 200620

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique, Caricature, Comic Art ; Caricature and Comic Art ; ;

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 .

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Book number: 180171

Catalogue: Art Instruction and Technique

Keywords: Art Instruction and Technique ; Modern Art ; ;

Phillips, Walter J.

The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut

New York, Brown-Robertson, 1926. Hardcover. Gray and blue cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering. 63 pp. Color frontispiece, BW and color illustrations. tan dustjacket w/ light green design & red printing; protective plastic cover. Pages have instances of foxing. Foxing is light, but in moderate to heavy concentrations on pages & plates. Good. wear & foxing to cover edges; speckled wear to blue spine cloth. tanning to pastedowns & flyleafs from dustjacket. dustjacket has edge-wear w/ erroded sections; covers scuffed, marked, smudged & foxed.

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Book number: 178849

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique, Wood-Cuts ; Wood Engraving Technique ; ;

Pope, Arthur

An Introduction to the Language of Drawing and Painting (2 Volumes)

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1929. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards. Spines have paste on title block. Vol 1 157 pgs. Vol 2 121 pgs. Illustrations. G Both covers have significant fading and discoloration. Bookblocks have age toning, some damage to page edges. Previous owners name on interoir covers of volume 1.

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Book number: 189333

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique, Drawing, Painting ; Drawing ; ;

Rewald, John and Irene Gordon, et al.

Studies in Post-Impressionism

[London], Thames and Hudson, 1986. Hardcover. White and color-illustrated DJ with black and grey lettering; blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering and design; 295 pp.; 8 unnumbered pages of plates; richly illustrated (some color). Good (DJ is lightly edgeworn/toned/scuffed/smudged; boards are lightly edgeworn; interior is clean; binding is solid.) .

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Book number: 200158

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique, Post-Impressionism ; Post-Impressionism ; ;

Riddell, George L.

A Physico-Chemical Study of Certain Aspects of Lithographic Printing: A Thesis Submitted to the University of London for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Science

[London], The London School of Printing and Kindred Trades and Battersea Polytechnic, 1929. Hardcover. Grey and white boards with black lettering; [10], 82, [1] pp.; illustrations. Good (Boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean but lightly toned with occasional smudging or foxing; binding is solid.) .

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Book number: 200147

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique, Lithographic Printing ; Lithographic Printing ; ;

Robson, William

Grammigraphia; or, the Grammar of Drawing: A System of Appearance, Which, by Easy Rules, Communicates Its Principles, and Shews How It Is to Be Presented by Lines; Distinguishing the Real Figure in Nature from the Appearance, or Shewing the Appearance by the Reality; Rendering Visual Observation More Correct and Interesting; and Proposing the Pleasure, and Universality of the Science

London, W. Wilson, 1799. Hardcover. Original publisher's gray boards with taped spine; 150 untrimmed pages, several bw illustrations throughout, 2 folded leaves of plates. Includes a dedication page, a preface, followed by the contents, which are divided into two parts. The first part has 3 sections. The second part has 12 sections. Reading copy only in need of new binding, dampstained covers, dampstained along bottom of several pages. Text is legible and illustrations are clear.

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Book number: 181186

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique ; Handbooks and Manuals, Drawing-Study and Teaching ; ;

Rood, Ogden

Students' Text-Book of Color: Or, Modern Chromatics, with Applications to Art and Industry

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1892. Hardcover. Red boards with black and gilt lettering and illustrations; 329 pp.; illustrations. This book is volume XXVI in "The International Scientific Series. Good (Boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; reinforcement tape at the top of spine strip; personal bookplate ifc; light markings to endpapers, and a red stamp and a chip missing at the corner; interior is toned, as expected with age.) .

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Book number: 200628

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique, Chromatics ; Modern Chromatics ; ;

Roy, Ashok (editor)

Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics: Volume 2

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1993. Hardbound. Pictorial boards, 231 pp. bw and color illustrations throughout. Volume 2 only of a 4 volume set. Chapters include: Azurite and Blue Verditer; Ultramarine Blue, Natural and Artificial; Lead White; Lead-Tin Yellow; Smalt 113; Verdigris and Copper Resinate; Vermillon and Cinnabar; Malachite and Green Verditer; Calcium Carbonate Whites. Also includes an index. VG (stamp with previous owner's name and address on ffep.) .

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Book number: 187268

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique ; Pigments ; ;

Sachs, Paul J. 1878-1965

Modern Prints & Drawings : A Guide to a Better Understanding of Modern Draughtsmanship

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. Hardcover. Hard cover, embossed. Cover has fade marks. 261 pp. illus. throughout. quartercloth, corners bumped and worn. David and the great moderns of the past, Manet and the impressionists -- Cézanne and post-impressionism -- The school of Paris, Matisse, and the Fauves -- Cubism, surrealism, other movements -- Expressionism and abstract art in northern Europe -- Italy -- England -- Mexico -- United States -- Technical processes. Covers the creative history of prints and drawings from the time of David, Goya, Delacroix, Daunier, and Corot to that of the mid-twentieth century in Europe, the United States, and Mexico. Illustrated by over 200 reproductions to complement the text. VG/G, corners bumped and worn. Cover has fade marks .

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Book number: 179626

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique ; Art Technique ; ;

Salaman, Malcolm C.

Modern Colour-Print of Original Design, the

London, Bromhead, Cutts & Co. Limited, 1920. Hardcover. Light brown quarter-cloth binding with gray paper boards and printed label on front cover. Deckled edges. 28 pp. A brief guide to turning an original design into a finished print in color, focusing on woodblock but with some discussion of other techniques such as lithograph and intaglio. Printed by O. Anacker. VG, some shelf wear especially at corners, pencil marking on front pastedown, otherwise clean and tight.

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Book number: 177904

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique, Printing, Woodblock ; Printing ; ;

Salis, Arnold von

Kunst Des Altertums = Ancient Art - Six Book Series

Berlin-Neubabelsberg Akadem, Verlagsges. Athenaion, 1924. Hardcover. Green board covers, gilt artwork on cover. 128 pages illustrations, mounted plates. Text in German. Part of a Series of Art Lectures consisting of 6 Titles. Bind is intact but could be repaired or re-bound. Rare. G/Fair, covers are warped and show wear, spine has rubbed away but intact. Pages have yellowing around edges, some are dog-earred. Color plates are in good condition - tipped in. Stained on front cover.

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Book number: 181354

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Techniquel, Salis, Arnold Von ; Salis, Arnold Von ; ;

Salmon, William; Pierre-Jean Fabre

Polygraphice: Or, the Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming

London, T. Passinger, 1685. Hardcover. Brown full leather binding with blind debossing on spine. Marbled endsheets at back. 767 pp. Lacking frontispiece, engraved title, and several plates. I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber .. II. An abstract of choice chymical preparation, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies. The 5th edition. One of the most (if not the most) successful volumes by William Salman, empiric doctor and prolific writer of books on a broad range of topics from art to medicine to cooking. One of the earliest examples of a "printed academy. Fair, front board detached, leather cracking, foxing, very occasional marginalia from previous owner, pages missing as noted above .

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Book number: 177998

Catalogue: Art Technique

Keywords: Art Technique, Art Materials ; Art Materials ; ;