johnson rare books & archives, ABAA (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. "As a successful actor, Anthony Quinn could easily have lived a life of mindless pleasure. This lavish record of his artistic endeavors shows he did just the opposite. Compiled largely by his second wife, Katherine, who wrote the foreword and some of the photo captions, the book shows the extensive collections Quinn built up over the years and gives an excellent overview of his own artwork. He had carvings from South Asia, a large collection of painted and carved eggs, and assorted 'found' items such as giant old oxen yokes and interesting rocks or branches. Quinn was also a tireless painter and sculptor, constantly sketching while on sets or at home. Though Katherine was only with him toward the end of his career, she is clearly a knowledgeable guide to Quinn' s world, and her insights into how he saw things are revealing." Quarto: 224 p. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 75307

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. "Among the more remarkable crosscurrents affecting the development of European painting in the 19th and early 20th centuries was the influence of the exotic cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Initiated by Napoleon's incursion into Egypt in 1798, European artists (both visitors and stay-at-homes) seized on this non-European world to enrich their imaginations and palettes. Peltre's scintillating overview of Orientalism concentrates largely on the French response but also reaches out to an equally telling but briefer consideration of English, German, Italian, and American work. Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 75928

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. With a typed signed letter (TLS) by the author laid in. Between 1843 and 1922, American artists travelled to the Near East and North Africa, painting all that they witnessed. Edwin Lord Weeks and Frederick Bridgman are amongst the most famous but there was also Francis Bacon, Samuel Colman, Swain Gifford, and many others who specialized in Oriental compositions. Through their biographies, activities, and travels, the author has endeavoured to let the artists speak for themselves, narrating their adventures and explaining their objectives, aided by correspondence, travel journals, and various articles and books. The tenth volume in The Orientalists series. Quarto 288 p. with numerous illustrations (most color). Original gray cloth binding, with silver titles and a ribbon marker. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a minor crease to the rear flap. Housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Seller Inventory # 75894

Wraps. Condition: Fine. Volume I: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages; Volume II: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque; Volume III: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism; [and] Volume IV: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age. "First published in 1951, Arnold Hauser's commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the 'Film Age'. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the frameworks within which visual art is produced." Octavo, four volumes. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine set, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Seller Inventory # 77045

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. "Filled with a wide array of illustrations, this book offers a fresh perspective on surrealism as it spotlights the important role that North American women artists played in the movement. The surrealist movement in art is most often identified with male artists, many of whom objectified women in their paintings, casting them as sexual or symbolic ideals. Conversely, the female artists of the movement delved primarily into their own subconscious and dreams. This volume features the work of 48 Mexican and U.S.-based women artists whose contributions to the surrealist movement span more than four decades and whose work was both influential and radical in its own right. Thematically arranged, it includes more than 250 full-color images along with several essays exploring the effects of geography and gender on the movement." Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 77224

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Signed by Gyorgy Kepes on the front flyleaf. In this anthology, a biophysicist, a biologist, psychologist, educators, anthropologists, and artists examine the use and impact of signs, images, and symbols in the visual arts, architecture, films, industry, and advertising. Kepes (1906-2001) was a Hungarian-born painter and photographer who taught design at the New Bauhaus in Chicago and founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A volume in the Vision + Value Series. Quarto: [vi], 281, [1] p. with 150 illustrations. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A few very faint spots along the edges. The dust jacket is moderately edgeworn, with a crease to the front flap; otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 77213

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. "Bibliophile, scholar, founder of what would become the Warburg Institute, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) ranks as one of the most original and brilliant art historians of this century. Warburg looked beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation, and in particular he contemplated the meaning of the re-use of ancient motifs. His scholarship - published in German in 1932 in two volumes encompassing all of his published essays along with manuscript notes in his working copies - has had a crucial influence on the work of twentieth-century art historians. Now, with the publication of this new translation of The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity, these seminal volumes are available in their entirety in English for the first time." Introduction by Kurt W. Forster. Translation by David Britt. Thick royal octavo: [868] p. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. Near fine.

Seller Inventory # 76606