shipping is $1 per book if you get at least 4, otherwise it goes by weight,
starting at $3.50.
UNDERSTANDING ART FROM ANCIENT EGYPT TO CHAGALL AND PICASSO: PEOPLE, THINGS,
IDEAS, hb, "A new and fresh approach to art appreciation, aimed primarily at
young readers, this book will deepen our appreciation of art and beauty.... the
ability of an artist to reveal character, to dramatize moods, and also to
express his own individuality ... informative biographical sketches of over 30
great painters.... key movements in art history also discussed with clarity,
such as Renaissance, Italy, France in the 19th century, modern day America..."
83 beautiful illustrations, 58 in full color, exc cond, $15
DEGAS, 9 x 11 hb, Includes 53 color and 20 B&W plates, and a bibliography.
Colorfully illustrated dust jacket. Degas' work is beautiful, much text too, vg
cond, "One of a QLP Art series of profusely illustrated monographs on 19th and
20th century artists. Degas perfected a distinctive technique of breaking up
open spaces into new planes, placing objects squarely on the canvas with the
immediacy of contemporary camera." $8
RENOIR, 9 x 11, hb, "In this new work about Auguste Renoir the author traces
the life of the great impressionist year by year, the development of his ideas
and emotions, and their effect on his work." QLP Art series of monographs, and
includes 44 full color plates and 24 reproductions of red-chalk and black and
white drawings. vg cond, name inside cover, $9
PICASSO, 9 x 11 hb, QLP Art series of monographs and includes 43 illustrations
in color and 32 illustrations in black and white and picture on DJ is detail
from "Italian Girl." "There are dozens of striking illustrations in full color
and dozens more monochromes by the master of Cubism, a spectacular visual treat
able to make painters of us all, for among modern painters the Spaniard Pablo
Picasso's ever-evolving stylistic development put him in a class all his own.
His works of art have the rare quality of beauty because they engage, entertain
and amuse the mind by an almost 'musical' arrangement of forms and colors of a
very distinctive quality." $12
THOMAS KINKADE, PAINTER OF LIGHT, beautiful 12 x 13 calendar of 12 of Kinkade's
paintings, no marks or writing on calendar, still in original cover, 1998, $12
VAN GOGH, His Life and His Works, hb, exc cond, 45 of his works in full color ,
many are a two page spread! text also, $8
ANDREW WYETH, 10 x 10, Temperas, Watercolors, Dry Brush, Drawings, 1938 to
1966, includes the artist, his life and works,111 pp, over 50 of his works, $10
THE WORLD OF LEONARDO 1452- 1519, 10 x 13 hb in a cardboard jacket too, 192 pp,
includes the mists of youth, beginning with an angel, master in Milan, grandeur
and tragedy, reaching for the universe, a sunbust of greatness, city of
disillusion, and the myth and the man, chronogology of artists, 3 controversial
madonnas and more, Time Library of Art, beautiful book, exc cond, $20
WILLIAM SIDNEY MOUNT, PAINTER OF RURAL AMERICA, HB, 10 x 12, this is a great
book that asks questions and gives activities with each painting to engage the
young reader, It is a very creative way to teach art! close-ups and details, $9
ARCHITECTURE, THE NATURAL AND THE MANMADE, 388 pp,Includes America, Mesopotamia
Egypt and Aegean, Greek Temple, Olympia, Acropolis of Athens, Hellenistic and
roman, Gothic Cathedral structure and experience, Italian urbanism, town and
garden, French Classic
Garden, Pourtraiture, shape of France, Gardens, Fortifications, and modern
urbanism, Palladio, the English Garden and the modern age, vg cond (early pp
show slight waves from a water spill but totally fine, just left over waves on
some early pp), many photos, b &
w and color, $7
THE KEY TO BAROQUE ART, Identify, understand, appreciate, 80 pp, 7 x 8 pocket
guide, exc cond, $5
GREAT PAINTERS AND GREAT PAINTINGS, Reader's Digest Family Treasury of, 12 x 14
hb, includes art of our time, the age of greatness, masters of Old Europe,
Satirists, Modern Art, guide to painters and paintings, Cezanne, Gauguin,
VanGogh, Seurat, Rousseau, Picasso, Uccello, Gentile and Giovanni Bellini,
Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione, Titan, Bosch, Holbein,
El Greco, Rubens, VanDyck, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hogarth, Reynolds,
Gainsborough, Copley, goya, Constable, Delacroix, Corot, Daumier, anet, Degas,
Whistler, Homer, Renoir, Monet and many more! over 190 pp, $24
NORMAN ROCKWELL, A SIXTY YEAR RETROSPECTIVE, 10 x 13, hb, exc cond, over 150
pp, some pages open up to be larger, over 75 color plates, beautiful book,
understand the early 20th century much better by studying these paintings of
every day life in the USA, $20
A HISTORY OF PAINTING Through the Eighteenth Century, hb,xlib,192 pp, exc cond,
Classical, Byzantine, Roman Elegance, The East, Gothic Dreamworld, Classicism,
Low Countries Legacy, Art's Apotheosis, Baroque's Long Shadow, Rococo, the
lives of the painters, chronology of painting, and more, "This history of
painting, part of the World of Culture series, traces the art from its earliest
beginnings up to 1800, and includes 160 illustrations of which many are in full
color, bibliography and index. Red hardback with gilt illustration of two
fingers touching (after Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam) on the front, and
gilt lettering on spine." $10
A SHORT HISTORY OF ART, large hardback, 9 x 12, this is a recent 2006 edition
in like new condition, and it sells for $80 in stores, it includes Art from the
Ancient World( Egyptian, Ancent near Eastern, Aegean, Greek, Etruscan, Roman),
Middle Ages (Byzantine, Early Christian, Romanesque, Gothic), Renaissance
through Rococo (Early Renaissance, High Renaissance Late Renaissance, 15th
century and 16th century, Baroque in Italy and Spain, Flanders,Holland, France
and England, Rococo), the Modern World (newclassicism, romanticism realim,
impressionism, post-impressionism, symbolism, art nouveau abstraction, post-war
to post modern 20th century architecture), and more, timelines, beautiful color
art and text, 681 pp, does not seem "short" to me in any sense- very
thorough!k, $24
MASTERS OF PAINTING, THEIR WORKS, THEIR LIVES, THEIR TIMES, 9 x 14 hb, exc
cond, in slipjacket,includes Giotto, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael,
Michelangelo, Bellinis, Giorgione, Titian, Caravaggio, Guardi, van Eyck,
Memling, Bruegel, Rubens, Van Dyck, Durer, Schongauer, Grunewald, Holbein,
Hals, Vermeer, Terborch, Hooch, Steen , Rembrandt, El Greco, Velasquez, Goya,
Poussiin, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Hogarth, Blake, Constable, Turner, David,
Ingres, Delacroix, Millet, Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Manet, Monet, Sisley,
Pissarro, Degas, Morrisot, Cassatt, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Seurat, Van Gogh,
Gauguin, Cezanne and more, 185 pp, exc cond, 231 illustrations with 55 of them
in color, $18
THE STORY OF AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY, An Illustrated History for Young People,
large hb, 11 x 14, 318 pp, "Traces the development of photography in the United
States." fascinating book, includes Lincoln and Lee, and loads of other
photographs. $20
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ACTIVITY BOOK, Crafts, models, toys, games,
puzzles, and mazes inspired by treasures in the museum's collection, 10 x 12,
includes Japanese paper dolls, weather vane, stained glass, tapestry, birds
galore, optical toys, zoetrope, Versailles, Mosaic, masks, paper theater,
panpipe, morse code, temple of Dendur and much more, great book for teaching
about art in a hands on manner, 88 pp, exc cond,unused, $9
ART TREASURES OF THE LOUVRE, coffee table size, oversized large hb, includes a
brief history of the Louvre, Western, Italian, Fleish, Dutch, English, Spanish,
German and French Painting, 175 pp, 100 color plates- many are full page size,
cover shows wear on edges but great book, $12
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