Art Critic (119 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. A New York Times bestseller--a dazzling and inspirational survey of how art can be found and appreciated in everyday life Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, is known as a deep and graceful writer across the disciplines of art and music and also as a pianist who understands something about the artist's sensibility from the inside. Readers have come to expect him not only to fill in their knowledge about art but also to inspire them to think about connections between art and the larger world - which is to say, to think more like an artist. Kimmelman's many years of contemplating and writing about art have brought him to this wise, wide-ranging, and long-awaited book.It explores art as life's great passion, revealing what we can learn of life through pictures and sculptures and the people who make them. It assures us that art - points of contact with the exceptional that are linked straight to the heart - can be found almost anywhere and everywhere if only our eyes are opened enough to recognize it. Kimmelman regards art, like all serious human endeavors, as a passage through which a larger view of life may come more clearly into focus. His book is a kind of adventure or journey.It carries the message that many of us may not yet have learned how to recognize the art in our own lives. To do so is something of an art itself. A few of the characters Kimmelman describes, like Bonnard and Chardin, are great artists. But others are explorers and obscure obsessives, paint-by-numbers enthusiasts, amateur shutterbugs, and collectors of strange odds and ends. Yet others, like Charlotte Solomon, a girl whom no one considered much of an artist but who secretly created a masterpiece about the world before her death in Auschwitz, have reserved spots for themselves in history, or not, with a single work that encapsulates a whole life.Kimmelman reminds us of the Wunderkammer, the cabinet of wonders - the rage in seventeenth-century Europe and a metaphor for the art of life. Each drawer of the cabinet promises something curious and exotic, instructive and beautiful, the cabinet being a kind of ideal, self-contained universe that makes order out of the chaos of the world. The Accidental Masterpiece is a kind of literary Wunderkammer, filled with lively surprises and philosophical musings. It will inspire readers to imagine their own personal cabinet of wonders.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. A Hyatt King "The Importance of Sir George Smart" / Bernard Shaw (when a Music Critic) / Arthur Hutchings "Strauss's 'Four Last Songs'" / Wyn K Ford "The Art of J.S.Bach" / W R Anderson "Round about Radio" / Arthur Jacobs "Opera in London"/ St. Cecilia's Festival / The Bach Exhibition at Gottingen (M13).…

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Blue boards with silver titles. 220x145mm. 65pp. VG[Book- no inscsp. overalL paper creamed with tn fox spotting to last few pages & end-papers.Mild shelf wear.Light shelf wear. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for Further details and condition.…

Condition: Very Good. 2 pages, with illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 24 cms. Category: The Studio Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: Apollo Arts Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 5 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: Apollo Arts Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: Apollo Arts Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: Apollo Arts Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 8 pages, with illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: Burlington Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 7 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15.5 x 24.5 cms. Category: Journal of Aesthetics; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Richard Lowenthal "Our Peculiar Hell" / G F Hudson "The Wars of our Time" / John Davy "Monolith in the Melting Pot" / K W Gransden "Rebels and Timeservers" / John Wain "How it Strikes a Contemporary" / Jenny Nasmyth "The Crack-up" / Burms Singer "Open Letter to a Critic" /W W Robson "Mt Auden's Profession" / David Sylvester "What's Wrong with twentieth-century Art?" / T H Huxley "The Prince of Controversialists: Cyril Bibby" / Sir Charles Tennyson "The Idylls of the King". (SL#5).…

Condition: Good. Original gray portfolio with VIII pages with text in English and German and with 21 full page colour photograps, all loose (as issued), 4to.

Condition: Good. Mass market paperback in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8'' x 5''. Contains 168 pp. Tanning to the page margins and in Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. RUSSIAN [Literature].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. (ca 45 pages). circa 1985. 30.5 cm. Pictorial boards (color painting on boards). Illustrated end-pages (b/w photo of artist in his studio). Illustrated throughout with b/w and color drawings and paintings). Text in Dutch, French, English and German. Robert de Man gift's inscription (signed and dated) on front end-page. Art monograph introducing the artist's (Robert De Man) world and works. A bright, tight and crisp book. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original maroon cloth covers, faded gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xii] 258 printed pages of text Without any ownership markings and in Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [British].…

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorLaura CottinghamInhaltsverzeichnisForeword to the 2020 EditionA Career of DespairThe Theatre and its Anti-TeaterAn Imperfect RealismMirroring Douglas SirkThe Story of a M.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original powder blue cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 91 printed pages of text. A little wear to the spine ends. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubs to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. PLAYS (Theatre Performance).…

Hard Back. Condition: Good. Blue boards with gilt titles. 225x150mm. 76pp. Illustrated 26 Listed b/w plates. Good[Book- no inscsp. no annotation , clean throughout.Fading to boards & spine, shelf-edge-wear cloth rub & small crease top front corner. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. GEORGE MOORE: In 1886 Moore published Confessions of a Young Man, a lively and energetic memoir about his 20s spent in Paris and London among bohemian artists. It contains a substantial amount of literary criticism for which it has received a fair amount of praise, for instance The Modern Library chose it in 1917 to be included in the series as "one of the most significant documents of the passionate revolt of English literature against the Victorian tradition." BROWN LEATHERETTE, Spine #3, BL Logo of Monk at Desk on front, 109 Titles Listed at Back.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. Book is covered in GREEN BALLON CLOTH; has Kent Endpapers; green topstain; covered in green cloth with gold lettering and grapevine logo (1929-1930 only) on spine is bright; even though spine is faded.…

2pp., 12mo. The last two pages of a letter, numbered 3 and 4. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with short closed tears at edges of central fold. The item begins with part of a sentence regarding 'dramatization in Paris', before turning to Spielmann's desire to have her novel 'The Sterndales of Sterndale House' (1919) filmed. She praises the recipient's 'critical faculty', adding 'The points taken are seldom just the points.' She will let the recipient's 'good opinion' of her be known 'in one or two quarters'. Having met the recipient some time before, she desires a meeting on her return to town. She ends with a reference to 'the terrible undertaking of the search for a house, as we have been homeless these past years'.…

Part of page, 10 x 7cm, edges a little ragged, mainly good condition. Full text preserved: We have thought & spoken much of you music & of your kindness. | Your's obliged | Eliz. Eastlake".

12mo, 4 pp. Good, on lightly aged paper, but with a thin strip along the outer edge of the second leaf of the bifolium with glue staining from previous mounting, and a 3.5 x 0.5 piece missing at head causing damage to one word ('hers'). Otherwise text clear and entire. Cust's aunt has informed him 'that she has at present in her possession in London all the papers belonging to Sir John Cust that remain'. She does not however think that they contain much about Wilkes. Cust is 'tremendously busy' and will not be able to examine them 'for a week or two', so Bleackley might want to visit her himself ('The Lady Elizabeth Cust 13 Eccleston Square'). 'I have paved the way for you in a sense already.' Offers 'a small furnished house in town', belonging to 'my relatives, Mrs Gerald Talbot & her daughter'. Bleackley's biography of Wilkes appeared in 1917.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: In 1886 Moore published CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG MAN, a lively and energetic memoir about his 20s spent in Paris and London among bohemian artists. It contains a substantial amount of literary criticism for which it has received a fair amount of praise, for instance The Modern Library chose it in 1917 to be included in the series as "one of the most significant documents of the passionate revolt of English literature against the Victorian tradition." BLUE LEATHERETTE, Spine #2, BL Logo on Front; 108 Titles listed at back; slight spine lean.…

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original olive green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, top edge gilt, bevelled edges. Quarto. 10½'' x 8''. Contains paper-guarded mounted albumen photographic portrait frontispiece, red and black printed title, (xvi), 216 pp with 172 monochrome illustrations throughout. Foxing to the edges of the end papers, rubbing of the cloth across the spine ends and corners. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

12mo: 1 p. Good, on lightly creased paper, and with traces of previous mount adhering to reverse, and small central spike hole. In a variant hand, but certainly by Quilter. Twelve lines of text, for insertion in a journal or newspaper. Announces the unsuccessful 1886 candidacy by 'Mr. Harry Quilter M.A. Trin. Coll. Camb.' for the Cambridge Slade Professorship, 'recently vacant by the resignation of Professor Colvin'. Quilter 'will be known to our readers as the recent art-critic of the "Times," and the gentleman who has for many years past written upon art subjects in the "Spectator". Quilter is described as 'almost the only critic of any standing who exhibits oil pictures as well as writes [with 'exhibits pictures' and 'paints as well as writes' both crossed out].'.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition thus in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 6½'' x 4¼''. Contains 89 pp with monochrome wood-cuts throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original wire stitched blue card wrap covers (soft back) with pasted label to the front cover. 4to. 11½'' x 8¼''. Contains 8 pp colour illustrations, no text, just the illustrations. In Very Good condition. Blast was the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain. Two editions were published: the first on 2 July 1914 (dated 20 June 1914, but publication was delayed) and featured a bright pink cover, referred to by Ezra Pound as the "great MAGENTA cover'd opusculus"; and the second a year later on 15 July 1915. Both editions were written primarily by Wyndham Lewis. The magazine is emblematic of the modern art movement in England, and recognised as a seminal text of pre-war 20th-century modernism and originally cost 2/6. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [British].…

Condition: Very Good. First UK edition hard back binding in publisher's original terracotta cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6½''. Contains colour frontispiece, (xviii), 265 pp with more than 40 monochrome reproductions of paintings throughout. Erratum note to pp 188. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper rubbing to the corners, edges and spine ends, piece of paper absent across the top rear cover, not price clipped, 35s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Applied].…