Search Results: Media / Ceramics from LEFT COAST BOOKS

London: Spring Books, 1967. 242 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket with a slightly faded spine & light edgewear. "For over two centuries the name Meissen - often miscalled Dresden China - has been synonymous with that of the world's finest porcelain, the work of the Meissen factory near Dresden in Saxony being the inspiration for much of the best English and European porcelain of the 18th century." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Claremont, CA: Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, 2001. 32 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Exhibition held at the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, January 20 to April 1, 2001. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Includes: Kate Blacklock; Kathy Butterly; Marek Cecula; John De Fazio; Joel Otterson; Annabeth Rosen; and Arnie Zimmerman.. 1st.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York and Syracuse: Rizzoli; Everson Museum of Art, 1989. 400 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Preface, by Barbara Perry; Ancient American ceramics, by Barbara Perry; American Ceramics 1700-1880: part I: early pottery and porcelain, by William C. Ketchum, Jr.; Part II: early potters of Syracuse and Onondaga county, by Richard G. Case; Art pottery 1880-1920, by Ulysses G. Dietz; American ceramics 1920-1950, by Barbara Perry; American ceramics since 1950, by Garth Clark.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York and Syracuse: Rizzoli; Everson Museum of Art, 1989. 400 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Preface, by Barbara Perry; Ancient American ceramics, by Barbara Perry; American Ceramics 1700-1880: part I: early pottery and porcelain, by William C. Ketchum, Jr.; Part II: early potters of Syracuse and Onondaga county, by Richard G. Case; Art pottery 1880-1920, by Ulysses G. Dietz; American ceramics 1920-1950, by Barbara Perry; American ceramics since 1950, by Garth Clark.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990. 255 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. A catalogue of the Palevsky/Evans Collection and related works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. CONTENTS: Setting the stage: Europe; Myths and realities of the American arts and crafts movement; Catalogue; Furniture; Metalwork; Ceramics; Glass; Miscellaneous mediums; Appendix of marks.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1987. 148 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. With photographs by Schector Lee. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. "This comprehensive guide to yellowware and spongeware features more than one hundred photographs of such objects as bowls, pie plates, jelly jars, gravy boats, and tooth brush holders." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1987. 80 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Exhibition held at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, April 8 to June 28, 1987; American Craft Museum, New York, NY, July 31 to October 18, 1987; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, November 21 to December 27, 1987; De Cordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA, January 14 to March 12, 1989; Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH, April 12 to May 24, 1989; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, June 15 to August 15, 1989; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, September 6 to November 15, 1989. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York and London: American Craft Museum; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986. Cloth, 327 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Exhibition held at the American Craft Museum, New York, and other museums. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Craft today: poetry of the physical by Paul J. Smith; Craft today: historical roots from contemporary perspectives by Edward Lucie-Smith; Plates; The object as statement; The object made for use; The object as vessel; The object for personal adornment; Checklist; Chronology: American Craft, 1851-1986; Chronology: Major craft exhibitions, 1851-1986; Biographies of the artists.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Westerville, OH: American Ceramic Society, 1998. Cloth, xi, 180 pages, illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio. Collectible.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1973. New Shorter Edition. 147, [4] pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Paducah, KY: Collector Books, 1998. Pictorial boards, 272 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "This attractive book provides histories and information from 48 companies. In addition to the more than 50O color photos, there are hundreds of original ads and postcards from these companies. " - Publisher.. Hardcover. Fine. 4to.

Shanghai: Shanghai gu ji chu ban she = Shanghai Museum, 1995. [128] pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 29 cm. Text in Chinese and English. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1986. [55] pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 21 cm. Exhibition held May 1 to 30, 1986, Andre Emmerich Gallery. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981. 271 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: The Art of Ancient Iran, by P. R. S. Moory; Ancient Art of Central Asia, Mongolia, and Siberia, by Emma C. Bunker; Stamp and Cylinder Seals of the Ancient Near East, by Edith Porada; and, Ancient Art of Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, by Glenn Markoe.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; DelMonico Books - Prestel, 1993. 56 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, 2 June through 15 August 1993. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corner lightly bumped. Survey of works by Northern California artist Robert Arneson (1930-1992), known for his ceramic figurative sculptures conceived in a bold, colourful, cartoonish style that came to be known as "Funk Art." This exhibition examines his caustic wit in relation to politics. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. 205 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Arguably the best introduction to the art of Classical Greece, c. 480-320 BC.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1984. 112 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. An exhibition of the Olympic Arts Festival. Catalogue of the exhibition, July 24 to August 26, 1984, at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, organized by Betty Warner Sheinbaum. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

South San Francisco, CA: Long River Press, 2006. Pictorial boards, 251 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: The art of Chinese ceramics; Ancient painted pottery: primitive, innocent, ingenious; Primitive porcelain: ancient wisdom; Ceramics of the Qin and Han Dynasties: the age of realism; Ceramics in the Three Kingdoms, the Western and Eastern Jin Dynasties, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties: Rich Buddhist Association; Ceramics in the Sui and Tang Dynasties: a glorious time; Porcelain in the Northern Song and Southern Song Dynasties: profound and elegant; Five famous kilns; Six major porcelain schools; The unique attraction of non-imperial kilns; The Yuan Dynasty porcelain: graceful, poised and imposing, dominated by blue and white porcelain; The Ming Dynasty porcelain: elegant and… Read More

Tokyo and Oakland: Kodansha International in collaboration with the Oakland Museum, 1995. 191 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Exhibition held at the Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, 22 July to 12 November 1995; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, 8 December 1995 to 25 February 1996; and the American Craft Museum, New York, New York, 21 March to 9 June 1996. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Arguably America's leading ceramic artist. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Dennis M. Power; Acknowledgments, by Karen Tsujimoto; Introduction: The Dynamics of Duende, by Rose Slivka; The Artist and His Work: Risk and Revelation, by Rose Slivka; Peter Voulkos: The Wood-fired Work, by Karen Tsujimoto.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1972. Cloth, 496 pages, illustrations; 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Pt. 1. H. A. Groenewegen-Frankfort. Egypt; Mesopotamia; Crete and Mycenae; Pt. 2. Bernard Ashmole. Introduction to Greek art; The Protogeometric and Geometric Periods (1000-700 B.C.); Orientalizing art and the formation of the archaic style (700-600 B.C.); The Archaic Period (600-480 B.C.); The early Classical Period (480-450 B.C.); The Classical Period (450-330 B.C.); Hellenistic art (330-146 B.C.); Pt. 3. Bernard Ashmole. Cyprus; Etruscan art; Roman art.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.