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Lot 324

Esoteric and Academic Art Books

Estimate: $300 - $500

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25 books in total; A) Art and a City: A History of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts. Joy Hakason Colby. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1956. First Edition with DJ, 84pp. B) Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing. Bernice Rose. Museum of Modern Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York,1992. Softcover, 128pp. C) Cubism and Twentieth-Century Art. Robert Rosenblum. Abrams, New York. Softcover, 1966 revised edition, 328pp. D) Michelangelo and his Influence, Drawings from Windsor Castle. Paul Joannides. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996. Softcover, 213pp. E) Frank Stella: Working Space. The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1986. Softcover, 177pp. F) KiKi's Paris: Artists and Lovers, 1900-1930. Kluver and Martin. Abrams, NY, 1989. Softcover, 264pp. G) American Impressions: Prints since Pollock. Riva Castleman. Knopf, New York, 1985. Hardcover with DJ, 195pp. H) Fantastic Images: Chicago Art Since 1945. Franz Schulze. Follett Publishing Company, Chicago, 1972. Hardcover, 223 pp. I) The Art of Rebellion 2: World of Urban Art Activism. Publikat, Mainaschaff, 2006. Hardcover, 208pp. J) Mutter Museum. Historic Medical Photographs. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Edited by Lindgren. Blast Books, NY, 2007. Hardcover with DJ, 223pp. K) Art Nouveau. Otto Lorenz. Bartley & Jensen, NY/London, 1987. Hardcover with DJ, 96 illustrations, 160pp. L) American Art Deco. Alastair Duncan. Abrams, NY, 1986. Hardcover with DJ, 285pp. M) The Academy. Art News Annual XXXIII. Edited by Hess and Ashbery. The MacMillan Company, NY, 1968. Hardcover with DJ, 176pp. N) Painting the Conquest: The Mexican Indians and the European Renaissance. Serge Gruzinski, Flammarion, Paris, 1992, Hardcover with DJ, library copy. O) Pictured in My Mind: Contemporary American Self-Taught Art, from the collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen. Birmingham Museum of Art, University Press of Mississippi, 1995. P) Contemporary AMerican Realism since 1960. Frank H Goodyear, Jr. New York Graphic Society, Boston in association with Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1981. Softcover, 255pp. Q) Arabic Geometric Pattern & Design. J. Bourgoin. Dover Publications, New York, 1973. Softcover, 200 plates. R) Hawaiian Journey. Joseph G. Mullins. Mutual Publishing Co. Honolulu, 1978. Softcover, 124pp. S) Painting People: Figure Painting Today. Charlotte Mullins. DAP, NY, 2006. Hardcover with DJ, 192pp. T) French Prints in the Era of of Impressionism and Symbolism. Colta Ives, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988. Softcover, 56pp. U) Masters of Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Painting, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984. 400pp. V) Pompei AD79: The Treasure of Rediscovery. Richard Brilliant. Clarkson Potter, NY, 1979. Hardcover with DJ, 305pp. Ex library. W) American Watercolors. Christopher Finch. Abbeville Press, NY, 1986. Hardcover with DJ, 312pp. X) Pop Art 25. Tilman Osterwold, Taschen, Koln, 2007. Hardcover, no DJ, 240pp. Y) Artoday. Edward Lucie-Smith. Phaidon, 2003 edition, softcover with DJ, 512pp.

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