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Gift quality 1st edition hardcover in rust cloth covered boards with silver dog silhouette on frt cover. Book has sharp tips and spine ends, 120pp text is crisp, clean and fresh, no names tears or soil. The dog, as viewed in paintings, watercolors, drawings, photographs, architecture, and sculpture, with comments by an art historian. Seller Inventory # 49256
In paintings, photographs, architecture, and as sculpted in bronze and marble, readers take a dog's-eye view of the world at large for a history of ourselves as told by our most loyal friend. 35 full-color and 26 duotone illustrations.
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The title pretty much says it all. This 1988 volume contains 61 illustrations of painted canines from the classics to postmodernism, including works by Picasso, Gauguin, Lautrec, and others.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Title: The Dog in Art: From Rococo to Post-Modernism
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition.