Published by Thames & Hudson, London & new York 1971, 1970
ISBN 10: 0500181136 ISBN 13: 9780500181133
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
21.0 x 15.0cms, 216pp, 128 b/w & 28 colour illusts, very good paperback & cover Raine argues that Blake saw the arts as expressing his vision of the spiritual srama of the English national being, as he saw it enacted in the 'dark Satanic mills' and mechanistic philosophies.
Published by Thames & Hudson London & New York 1971, 1971
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Very Good, Prev. Owner's Sign. F'cap 4to, 144pp, 117 b/w & 14 Colour Illusts Very Good Hard Cover Harvey focuses on the role of the designers of Europe's Gothic style. He details their rise in status, their methods of drawing plans, the risks they took and the spread of their ideas.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1971, 1970
ISBN 10: 0500220107 ISBN 13: 9780500220108
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
21.0 x 22.0cms, 86pp, 42 b/w & 9 colour illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper (foxed aper) This book ses Lindner's work as an entirely personal blend of big-city garishness, cruelty and a series of erotic obsessions'.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1971, 1971
ISBN 10: 0151768250 ISBN 13: 9780151768257
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
21.0 x 14.0cms, 252pp, 147 b/w & 31 colour illusts, very good hardcover & dustwrapper The section headings are: origins & early development; late Quattrocento style; the high renaissance & mannerism in Florenc & Rome; the high renaissance in Venice & The North.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1971, 1972
ISBN 10: 0500620059 ISBN 13: 9780500620052
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
21.0 x 14.0cms, 252pp, 147 b/w & 31 colour illusts, very good hardcover & dustwrapper The section headings are: the ars nova & the waning of the Middle Ages; from Renaisssance to Mannerism; (in France England Spain. the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Holy Roman Empire).
Published by Thames & Hudson London & New York 1971, 1971
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Very Good Demy 8vo, 160pp, b/w Illusts Very Good Soft Cover Kahnweiler discusses his association with Picasso, Braque, Derain, Vlaminck etc etc with Cremieux, the French journalist. These are the memoirs he did not have time to write when he was supporting Cubism and publishing Apollonaire's and Andre Masson's work.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1971, 1971
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
27.0 x 21.5cms, 332pp, 298b/w & 24 colour illusts, hardcover, no dustjacket and endpaper creased otherwise good+ The essays are: representational art & abstraction; figurative sculpture; expressionism & the Cobra movement; surrealism; the imaginary & the fantastic' pop art, new realism & assemblages; English op atrt; jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg; American pop art; the New Realism; everyday mythologies, narrative figuration & political painting: is the future an outdated concept? Can art be anything but a thing of the past? Will the future abolish art?.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1971, 1971
ISBN 10: 0500340463 ISBN 13: 9780500340462
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
21.5 x 15.5cms, 216pp, 159 illusts, very good hardcover & dustwrapper (owner's inscription) The chapters are: new worlds & old; American apprenticeship; the Years with Frank Lloyd Wright; California in the '20s; theories in practice; the making of a persona;l style; Shindler's de Stijl; the depression; living space'; modern versus moderne; business commissions; the uses of wood; the final phase; Shindler's place in history.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1971, 1971
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
27.0 x 21.5cms, 332pp, 298b/w & 24 colour illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper (short archivally sealed tears) The essays are: representational art & abstraction; figurative sculpture; expressionism & the Cobra movement; surrealism; the imaginary & the fantastic' pop art, new realism & assemblages; English op atrt; jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg; American pop art; the New Realism; everyday mythologies, narrative figuration & political painting: is the future an outdated concept? Can art be anything but a thing of the past? Will the future abolish art?.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1971, 1971
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
32.0 x 24.0cms, 304pp, 175 b/w & 204 colour illusts, very good hardcover & dustwrapper (owner's bookplate) This book explores the development and decline of folk art; the limners' portrait paintings; naive motifs and subject matter; landscapes and portraits; religion; fantasies; Eros etc.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York, 1971, 1971
ISBN 10: 0500231389 ISBN 13: 9780500231388
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
28.5 x 20.5cms, 256pp, 56 b/w photos, 37 b/w drawings & 100 colour illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper This book covers: the recovery of ancient Egyptian jewelry (jewellery); the uses of ancient Egyptian jewelry; the materials, the craftsmen and their tools; techniques for working metals & non-metals; the forms of head, torso and limb ornaments.
Published by Thames & Hudson London & New York 1971, 1971
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Very Good Roy 4to, 504pp, 430 b/w Illusts Very Good Hard Cover This book covers the prehistory of Japan, the beginnings of Imperial Japan; the Konin & Jogan eras; the Fujiwara regents; the Kamakura period; the Muromachi period; the Momoyama dictators; the Tokugawa regime. Each chapter covers the period's political sociological and cultural aspects including its architecture, sculpture and painting styles.
Published by Thames & Hudson, London & New York 1985 (a concise edition of Preston's 1971 book), 1985
ISBN 10: 0500080232 ISBN 13: 9780500080238
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Édouard Vuillard (illustrator). 31.0 x 23.0cms, 128pp, 64 b/w & 40 colour illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper Preston argues that Vuillard, the Nabis artist, turned bourgeois life into 'an exquisite and subtle dream', creating a nostalgia for bygone Paris. Each colour plate has an extended caption.