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Los Angeles and New York: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1988. Cloth, 288 pages (some folded), [24] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles Museum of Art, February 4 to April 24, 1988, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 18 to August 14, 1988, and the Tate Gallery, October 26, 1988 to January 3, 1989. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Hockney: Young and Older; Composite views: Themes and Motifs in Hockney's Art; A Moving Focus: Hockney's Dialogue with Picasso; Hockney's Photocollages; Hockney on Stage; A Visst with David and Stanley Hollywood Hills 1987.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams. New in New dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0870998161 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in new condition with no discernible wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "Surveying the depiction of the female form during Egypt's Amarna period (circa 1353-1336 BC), this is the catalogue of an October 1996 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. During the reign of Amenhotep IV, also known as Akhenaten, Egyptian art saw a brief flowering of expressive, intimate images. This period is especially interesting because many well-preserved pieces exist, including portraits of Queen Nefertiti and her six daughters. The book traces the evolution of the elegant image of Nefertiti during the reign of… Read More

Metropolitan Museum of Art & The Corning Museum of Glass, 2002. Brand new. Exhibition catalogue. Soft cover, 29x23 cm, 330 pp., 178 color and 97 B/W pictures. This book is about the techniques of producing and decorating glass in the Islamic world from the 7th to the 19th century. The publication was issued within the context of the exhibition of the same name that was held at the Benaki Museum and organised by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Corning Museum of Glass. It includes extensive scholarly descriptions, as well as an analysis of the chemical composition of Islamic glass. Detailed analyses are likewise made of undecorated blown glass, glass blown into a mould, thermally processed glass, mosaic glass, carved and incised glass, painted glass, as well as themes such as glass-making in the age of the emperors and imitations of Islamic glass pieces. // "La cristaleria de los Sultanes": El libro trata de las tecnicas de produccion y decoracion del cristal en el… Read More

New York and New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2016. 269 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour), portraits; 29 cm. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, July 12 to November 27, 2016, and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, January 21 to April 30, 2017. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time. This book is the definitive study of the artist's first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum's Diane Arbus Archive--a remarkable treasury of photographs, negatives, appointment books,… Read More

Yale University Press, 2003 4to (29 cm), 196 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The catalogue published in connection with the exhibition "Treasures of a Lost Art" held in Cleveland, San Francisco and New York in 2003-2004. 87 entries. "This book presents one of the finest private collections of Italian manuscripts ever assembled after the First World War. Comparable only to the legendary Cini Collection in Venice, it was formed by Robert Lehman to complement his fathers holdings of early Italian panel paintings. Included are works by the major schools of illumination in southern Italy, Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia, Lombardy, and the Veneto. Also represented are works by three of the principal artists in the history of Italian painting: Duccio di Buoninsegna, Stefano da Verona, and Cosimo Tura." (from the blurb)

Yale University Press, 2003 4to (29 cm), 196 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The catalogue published in connection with the exhibition "Treasures of a Lost Art" held in Cleveland, San Francisco and New York in 2003-2004. 87 entries. "This book presents one of the finest private collections of Italian manuscripts ever assembled after the First World War. Comparable only to the legendary Cini Collection in Venice, it was formed by Robert Lehman to complement his fathers holdings of early Italian panel paintings. Included are works by the major schools of illumination in southern Italy, Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia, Lombardy, and the Veneto. Also represented are works by three of the principal artists in the history of Italian painting: Duccio di Buoninsegna, Stefano da Verona, and Cosimo Tura." (from the blurb)

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams, 1984. 272 pages; 152 color plates; additional b&w illustrations. The catalogue of one of the famous Van Gogh exhibitons at the Metropolitan. . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. 658 pages; numerous color illustrations. A huge catalogue of faith art, Christian for a couple centries, then Islamic and Christain as the medieval period begins to grow toward the Renaissance. Icons, sculpture, liturgical implements, paintings, illumination, and more. Clean throughout; tight binding.. First Edition Paperback. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover). Fine. 12" x 9 ". Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. 325 pages. The sequel to the exhibition, Van Gogh in Arles. 89 works described with over 300 illustrations, including 90 color plates and comprehensive essays with chronologies. 4 appendices and bibliography.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007. Book. Fine Condition. Wrappers. 40 pages. Paperback exhibition catalogue, bound in stiff glossy illustrated paper French fold covers. There is the mildest of shelfwear rubbing to the covers, but still essentially a tightly bound, crisp, tight, and sharp edged condition copy, with a clean and unmarked interior. Text in English. 54 illustrations, with 27 in color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from May 1-July 29, 2007..

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harry N. Abrams, 1984. 176 pages, illustrations (51 colour); 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 29 to May 13, 1984. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. A monograph on the Polish-French painter Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, 1908-2001), known principally for his unsettling, erotic paintings of young girls. Although his paintings are executed in a realist, even academic manner, there is a surrealist flavour in his work. His older brother was the author Pierre Klossowski. MoMA held a retrospective of his work in 1956.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art , 1991. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 11" by 9". Various. A beautiful first edition copy of this collection of French architectural and ornament drawings, with colour plates. A first edition copy of this work that was published in conjunction with the exhibition French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in December 1991-March 1992.Exploring the intricate insight into eighteenth century life in France, this catalogue contains eighteenth-century French drawings selected from the Metropolitan's collection that testify to the efforts of the artists and craftsmen of France's Age of Enlightenment. With seventeen colour plates and richly illustrated throughout.Collated, complete. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is… Read More

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2006. Cloth, xiii, 262 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Catalogue to an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, held November 21, 2006 to May 20, 2007. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This beautiful book focuses on Laurelton Hall, Louis Comfort Tiffany's extraordinary country estate in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Beginning in 1902, Tiffany (1848-1933) designed every aspect of the immense home, which had eighty-four rooms and eight levels, and extensive grounds into which the house was carefully integrated. Tiffany's residential masterpiece was also a quasi-museum, for he filled it with his own works--windows, glassware, pottery, enamels, lamps, oil paintings, and watercolors--as well as with objects from his collections of Islamic, Asian, and Native American… Read More

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. First Edition. Fine catalogue from M.o.M.A.'s permanent collection (some published for the first time) of artists usually better known for their large-scale works. Individual essays cover the 19 artists featured, among them Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Theodore Rozsak and Elaine and Willem de Kooning. xi + 163 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy… Read More

NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 2003. 1st Edition. Second Printing. Hard Cover. 0300098839 . Publisher's full royal blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, blue endpapers. Profusely illustrated with 712 illustrations, including 535 in full color, maps, Chronology, Bibliography, and Index. This illustrated work highlights one of the most important and creative periods in the history of art: a time marked by the appearance of the city states of the Sumerians, the citadel of Troy, the splendid royal tombs at Ur, and the monumental cities at Mohenjodaro and Harappa. The volume examines the cultural achievements of these first urban societies, placing them in a historical context. Topics covered include the emergence of the first city states, the birth of written language, and trade and cultural interconnections between the Ancient Near East and outlying areas. More than 500 works of art, including sculpture, jewellery, vessels,… Read More

San Francisco, West Palm Beach, and New Haven: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Norton Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2009. Cloth, 263 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm + 1 DVD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) Firm binding, clean inside copy. CD (unused) in sealed envelope. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "With a searing body of work ranging from drawings and films to prints, tapestries, and sculptures, William Kentridge (b. 1955) has offered a fresh and distinctive glimpse of the daily lives of South Africans--both during the apartheid regime and after its collapse. This extraordinary catalogue, produced in close collaboration with the artist, investigates the five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the course of his career: Soho and Felix: works featuring Kentridge's best-known characters, the businessman Soho Eckstein and his alter ego, the anxiety-ridden Felix… Read More

NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997 Published in conjunction with the exhibition "The Four Seasons" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from April 8, 1997 to August 17, 1997. Unpaginated, printed on fine glossy paper, stapled bound book. COSTUME.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978. Hardcover. New. 151 pp; detaled catalogue and study of the extensive collection of Roman sarcophagi held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art; profusely illustrated with b & w photos; appendix of chronological sequence of the monuments; published without a dj in orange boards with gold stamping.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. New. 12.1x9.7x2.5in. in shrinkwrap in slipcase with remainder mark on bottom. The catalogue of 64 medieval tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, described and illustrated with multiple images. 189 black and white figures accompany the text. 688pp 8.90lb 12.1x9.7x2.5in EXTRA SHIPPING CHARGES NECESSARY

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. Hardcover. New, but one copy not in shrinkwrap.. Color-illustrated boards with white vertical lettering. 235 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition at The Met from September 13, 2017- January 14, 2018.