Search Results: Titles starting with J from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1972. 96 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Exhibition held May 5 to June 4, 1972, at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; June 20 to July 10, 1972, Columbus Museum of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and September 1 to October 1, 1972, at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. . 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

Storrs, CT: William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, 1991. 99 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, June 4 to August 18, 1991 and at the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, September 15 to November 3, 1991. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

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.

New York and London: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Tate Publishing, 2007. 272 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), maps; 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, October 1, 2007 to January 6, 2008; the Dallas Museum of Art, February 10 to May 28, 2008; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 24 to September 21, 2008. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Bent slightly lengthwise. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Foundations, by Matthew Imms; Confronting the sublime, by Leo Costello; The making of a modern master: painting with open eyes, by Nicola Moorby; Britain at war and peace: markets public and private, by Andrew Loukes; The triumph of colour: Turner's Britain, by Ian Warrell; New grand tours, by Andrea Fredericksen, Nicola Moorby, and Ian Warrell; Histories, ancient and modern, by Gillian Forrester; The burning of the houses of Parliament, by Sarah Taft; The abysmal… Read More

Cologne: Benedikt Taschen, 1993. 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. English translation by Michael Claridge. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: George Braziller, 1982. Cloth, 78 pages, 128 pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 23 x 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Oblong. Collectible.

New York: Tabard Press, 1979. 527 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Front free endpaper (blank) creased, age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1990. 103 pages, [79] pages of plates; 23 cm. Rizzoli essays on architecture, 3. Translated from the Italian. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. CONTENTS: Neoclassicism and architecture in France in the second half of the eighteenth century; A bourgeois career; Projects and buildings; Scientific thought and architectural language in Durand's theoretical work.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1990. Cloth, 144 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "A history of the growth of the J. P. Morgan collections and an examination of the quality of Morgan's eye and the impulses behind his purchases. More than 130 illustrations present a survey of Morgan's treasures, which include the Fragonard panels and Vermeer's A lady writing." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002. xxiii, 237 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "J. Paul Getty bought his first classical antiquity -- a small terracotta sculpture -- at auction in London in 1939. Over the next four decades, he became a passionate collector, and in the 1950s he created a trust for 'the diffusion of artistic and general knowledge.' Building on that early foundation, successive antiquities curators at the Getty Museum have amassed a collection that now contains more than fifty thousand ancient objects. In lively prose accompanied by a full-color photograph of each object, this handbook of the antiquities collection presents nearly two hundred of the Getty Museum's most important pieces. Spanning thousands of years as far back as the third millennium B.C. through the third century A.D.--the Getty antiquities collection encompasses Cycladic, Greek, Etruscan, South Italian, Roman, and… Read More

Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1991. Cloth, ix, 245 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Guidebook.

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. xv, 320 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. "This revised and updated J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections includes many major objects that recently have been added to the collections, as well as the more familiar masterpieces frequent visitors have become acquainted with over the years from the antiquities, drawings, manuscripts, paintings, photographs, and sculpture and decorative arts holdings. Among the notable new accessions is a major collection of modern and contemporary sculpture, a 2005 gift from the Fran and Ray Stark Trust. Moreover, the new edition of the Handbook marks the historic moment at which the Museum commences operating on two sites simultaneously--the dazzling Getty Center on a hilltop in Brentwood and the magnificently re-imagined Getty Villa in Malibu, devoted to Western antiquities. Readers who have not been among the millions of visitors to the two sites will find this Handbook an… Read More

Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1986. ix, 216 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning, droplet stain/top edge. Another copy available.. Paperback. Good. 8vo. Guidebook.

Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1986. ix, 216 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1988. 72 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. ix, 309 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. "This completely revised edition of the handbook highlights the collections at the new J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, including the newest acquisitions. Three hundred works are reproduced, each with information about content and style, to help enhance appreciation and insight for the general reader and museum visitor alike. An introduction by Museum Director John Walsh traces the fascinating history of the Museum through its move to its new location at the Getty Center." - Publisher.. Paperback. NEW. 8vo. Guidebook.

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. 288 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "In December 1997 the J. Paul Getty Museum will open its new home in the spectacular Getty Center, designed by the renowned architect Richard Meier, and dramatically sited in the Santa Monica Mountains above Los Angeles. This will constitute the third home for the Getty Museum collections, which were first displayed in J. Paul Getty's ranch house in Malibu and later were housed in the splendid reconstruction of an ancient Roman villa that Getty had built on the grounds of his Malibu estate. This book contains a lively text by the Director and Associate Director of the Museum along with archival and recently commissioned photographs to provide a biography of the Museum's benefactor. In addition, the book presents a history of the buildings that have housed his… Read More

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001. ix, 309 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "The rapid growth of the collections made possible by J. Paul Getty's bequest in 1976 could not have been imagined when the Getty Museum opened in 1954, or even when the Villa building opened in Malibu in 1974. Since the early 1980s hundreds of important new works of art have been acquired in the areas of the Museum's three traditional interests, antiquities, French furniture and decorative arts, and European paintings, and thousands more have been acquired to form four new collections - drawings, illuminated manuscripts, European sculpture, and photographs." - Publisher.. 6th. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Guidebook.

Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. ix, 309 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "This completely revised edition of the handbook highlights the collections at the new J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, including the newest acquisitions. Three hundred works are reproduced, each with information about content and style, to help enhance appreciation and insight for the general reader and museum visitor alike. An introduction by Museum Director John Walsh traces the fascinating history of the Museum through its move to its new location at the Getty Center." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Handbook of the Collection.

Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum, 2003. 126 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'JFK and Art,' organized by the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut, shown at the Bruce Museum, September 20, 2003 to January 11, 2004, and at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, February 7, 2004 to May 2, 2004. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.