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Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. HARDCOVER EDITION. Foxing/tanning to edges and/or ends. No dust jacket. Photograph available on request.
Publication Date: 1942
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. A penguin first edition.
Published by Methuen
Seller: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. 1952. Hardcover. Fine copy. Very good, clean condition. Minor shelf wear on dust jacket. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Publication Date: 1963
Seller: Cocksparrow Books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: VG++/VG+/ND. y 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st* Imp: 1st* Date of Publication: 1963* Publisher: Country Life Limited* Binding and cover condition: Dull blue cloth, gilt title to spine & face No bumps Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges, corners and to head & tail of spine VG+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY Small neat book plate to front paste-down Pale blue end papers, clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no other visible faults VG++* Illustrations: Five full plate colour plates & numerous monochrome photos, prints and line drawings throughout* Pages: 142 pp text xv pp index & blank pages at rear* Description: Just over half a century ago, many judges in Europe and America considered Whistler to be one of the major artists of the age His influence was certainly widespread; and in 1905 he was posthumously honoured by two comprehensive retrospective exhibitions held in Paris and London, while no less a sculpture than Rodin was commissioned to undertake a statue in his honour Yet within a quarter of a century, his reputation had suffered a severe eclipse It was his fate to be remembered as a brilliant, if hard hitting, wit, and a characteristic figure of the 1890?s but his art, though his art, though still retaining some staunch admirers, was barely studied This collected edition of his work celebrates his progress and illustrates the broad spectrum of his interests and skills* A VG+ copy of the 1st/1st thus with some minor wear and no dust jacket* 1963-01-01. n.
Published by Methuen, 1952
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Condition: Very Good. 1952. Hardcover. Fine copy. Very good, clean condition. Minor shelf wear on dust jacket. . . . .
Seller: Wissenschaftliches Antiquariat Mayrhofer, Pürbach, Austria
Die artige Kunst sich Feinde zu machen. Mit einigen unterhaltenden Beispielen, wie ich die ernsthaften dieser Erde zuerst mit Vorbedacht zur Raserei und dann in ihrem falschen Rechtsbewusstsein zu Unanständigkeit und Torheit gebracht habe. Berlin, B.Cassirer, 1909. E.-A. 4 Bl., 284 S., goldgepr.OHln., dieses fleckig u.berieben, vord.Vorsatz etw.braunfleckig, unbeschnitten; sonst gutes Expl. - Whistler (1834-1903) war US-amerikanischer Maler. - Er verklagte John Ruskin, als dieser eines seiner Bilder kritisierte "Whistler habe es nicht nur gewagt dem Publikum einen Topf Farbe ins Gesicht zu schleudern, sondern auch die Frechheit besessen, dafür 200 Guineen zu verlangen". Auch wenn er den Prozess gewann, musste er wegen der schlechten Presse u.der hohen Prozesskosten Insolvenz anmelden. Hier einiges zur Verhandlung, Whistlers Briefe u.Kritiken u.a.
Published by Leipzig [u.a.] : Kiepenheuer, 1984
ISBN 10: 3783364027ISBN 13: 9783783364026
Seller: Der-Philo-soph, Viersen, NRW, Germany
Book
8° Pappband mit Schutzumschlag. mit einigen unterhaltenden Beispielen, wie ich d. Ernsthaften dieser Erde zuerst mit Vorbedacht zur Raserei u. dann in ihrem falschen Rechtsbewußtsein zu Unanständigkeit u. Torheit gebracht habe. Gutes Exemplar mit altersgemäß geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Stichworte: Kunstgeschichte ; Kunstwissenschaft ; Kunstkritik 255 S. Deutsch 999g.
Published by Methuen, 1952
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear. Colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.