Search Results: Authors starting with V from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Budapest: Vadnai Gallery, 2002. 1 volume (unpaged), colour illustrations, portraits; 28 cm. Text in Hungarian and English. Firm binding, clean inside copy. A review of seven exhibitions at the Vadnai Gallery in Budapest during 2002 featuring works by: Bak Imre - Trombitas Tamas, Bullas Jozsef, Gabor Aron, Cseke Szilard, Bikacsi Daniela - Galhidy Peter, Wolsky Andras, Mata Attila.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2020. 298 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Leonardo da Vinci was a revolutionary thinker, artist, and inventor who has been written about and celebrated for centuries. Lesser known, however, is his revolutionary and empowering portrayal of the modern female centuries before the first women's liberation movements. Before da Vinci, portraits of women in Italy were still, impersonal, and mostly shown in profile. Leonardo pushed the boundaries of female depiction having several of his female subjects, including his Mona Lisa, gaze at the viewer, giving them an authority which was withheld from women at the time. Art historian and journalist Kia Vahland recounts Leonardo's entire life from April 15, 1452, as a child born out of wedlock in Vinci up through his death on May 2, 1519, in the French… Read More

New York: Broadway Books, 1999. viii, 470 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dogeared a couple of times. Age toning. Lost Generation couple, painter Gerald and Sara Murphy. Gerald was a remarkably good artist and stage designer, who created proto-Pop cubist still-lifes akin to Stuart Davis and Charles Sheeler. "Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate Americans, they were at the very center of the literary scene in Paris in the 1920s. In Everybody Was So Young--one of the best reviewed books of 1995--Amanda Vaill brilliantly portrays both the times in which the Murphys lived and the fascinating friends who flocked around them. Whether summering with Picasso on the French Riviera or watching bullfights with Hemingway in Pamplona, Gerald and Sara inspired kindred creative spirits like Dorothy Parker, Cole Porter, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender is the… Read More

New York: Broadway Books, 1999. viii, 470 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly bowed. Browning. Another copy available. Lost Generation couple, painter Gerald and Sara Murphy. Gerald was a remarkably good artist and stage designer, who created proto-Pop cubist still-lifes akin to Stuart Davis and Charles Sheeler. "Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate Americans, they were at the very center of the literary scene in Paris in the 1920s. In Everybody Was So Young--one of the best reviewed books of 1995--Amanda Vaill brilliantly portrays both the times in which the Murphys lived and the fascinating friends who flocked around them. Whether summering with Picasso on the French Riviera or watching bullfights with Hemingway in Pamplona, Gerald and Sara inspired kindred creative spirits like Dorothy Parker, Cole Porter, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (Nicole… Read More

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books; Pelican History of Art Ser., 1965. 363 pages, illustrations; 18 cm. Good+. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning.. 2nd. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo.

Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2017. xii, 239 pages, illustrations, maps; 23 cm. History of Communication Series. Tight, clean copy. "In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution. Drawing on a broad range of American and French archives, Derek Vaillant joins textual and aural materials with original data analytics and maps to illuminate U.S.-French broadcasting's political and cultural development. Vaillant focuses on the period from 1931 until France dismantled its state media system in 1974. His analysis examines mobile actors, circulating programs, and shifting governmental and other institutions shaping international radio's use in times of war and peace. He explores the extraordinary achievements, the miscommunications and failures, and the limits of… Read More

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005. 96 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour); 25 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 10 December, 2004 to 12 March, 2005. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "This book features the works of Pu Songshuang from an exhibition that was held in Oxford, which included paintings from all periods of his career, documenting a change in style from traditional gongbi birds and flowers to landscapes in ink. Pu Songchuang (1913-1991) was born into the last generation of the Qing imperial family, a cousin of the last emperor Pu Yi. An exhibition of his work was held at the Ashmolean from December 2004 to March 2005 and included paintings from all periods of his career, documenting a change in style from traditional gongbi birds and flowers to sweeping landscapes in ink. Some early paintings are executed on Ming dynasty silk from the imperial treasury, while several of the later landscapes in ink on paper depict scenery from the… Read More

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999. 368 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. The critics include: Jas Elsner, MIchael Kauffmann, Paul Hills, Sharon Fermor, J. Douglas Stewart, Paul Taylor, Adelheid Gealt, Christopher Riopelle, Richard R. Bretell, Jill Lloyd and Marco Livingstone.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston; A William Abrahams Book, 1982. Cloth, 192 pages, [4] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1990. Cloth, 128 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First edition thus. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Examines the Bulgarian-born artist's major works, such as Surrounded Islands, Running Fences, and the Pont Neuf Wrapped, which are catagorized as both sculptures and performance art." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Florence: Casa Editrice Bonechi, 1997. 170 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. English Edition. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Guidebook.

Florence: Casa Editrice Bonechi, 1990. 125 pages, color illustrations; 28 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Paperback. Good. 4to. Guidebook.

Florence: Bonechi, 2006. 94 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. A guidebook to the Sicilian hilltop town Taormina.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

Florence: Casa Editrice Bonechi, 1998. 124 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Guidebook.

Saint-Paul: Fondation Marguerite et Aime Maeght, 2006. 125 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Text in French and English. Exhibition held 26 March to 11 June, 2006. COMME NEUF. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

San Francisco: RE/Search, 1984. 171, [5] pages, illustrations; 29 cm. RE/Search; no. 8/9. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Lillehammer, Norway: Gjovik, 1958. 126 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps lightly soiled, age toning.. Paperback. Good. 8vo. Handbook of the Collection.

New York and Boston: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1975. xii, 251 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. . Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1999. 159 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps, plans; 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Slight fading around the spine.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Cologne: Taschen, 1998. 176 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Text in English, French and German. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.