FS: New Arrivals, 19th Cent. Art, Part 4 -- ARTEXT
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19th Century Art -- New Arrivals
(Part 4 of 4 for rec.arts.books.marketplace)
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ARTEXT has the following new arrivals in 19th Century Art. Our entire
19th Century, 20th Century and Film Studies catalogues are available
online at: http://www.webcom.com/artext/
GENERAL BOOKS ON 19TH CENTURY ART -- New Arrivals, Part IV:
(ADLER #A3349)
ADLER, KATHLEEN. Unknown Impressionists. 128 pp., 104 illus.,
100 in color, brief bibliog., index. Focus on Cals, Felix and Marie
Braquemond, de Nittis, Zandomeneghi, Forain, et al. 4to, cloth, d.j.
Oxford, Phaidon, 1988. As new. $36.00.
(ARMSTRONG #A3852)
ARMSTRONG, NANCY. Fans. 175 pp., 89 illus., 40 in color,
extensive bibliog., index. Small 8vo, wrps. Reprint of 1984 ed.
Souvenir Press, 1990. As new. $18.00.
(BERGMAN-CARTON #A3300)
BERGMAN-CARTON, JANIS. The Woman of Ideas in French Art,
1830-1848. 261 pp., 108 b&w illus., notes, index. A groundbreaking
discussion of images of women in the popular press as well as the
paintings of Ingres, Delacroix and Corot, and a thoughtful study of
larger cultural issues. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First edition. New Haven,
Yale Univ. Press, 1995. New. $30.00.
(CALLEN #A2654)
CALLEN, ANTHEA. Women Artists of the Arts & Crafts Movement:
1870-1914. 232 pp., richly illus., biog. notes, bibliog., index.
Major study of an important piece of modern art history. Chapters on
design education for women and on the various media: ceramics,
handprinting, bookbinding and illustration, embroidery and needlework,
jewellery and metalwork, woodcarving, furniture and interior design
4to, wrps. First U.S. edition. New York, Pantheon Books, 1979. V.g.+.
$36.00.
(CASSON #A3279)
KASSON, JOY S. Marble Queens & Captives: Women in
Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture. 293 pp., 103 illus., notes,
bibliog., index. A combination of gender studies and social history
approach to the neo-classical idealization of women in American
Victorian era sculpture. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. New Haven and
London, Yale Univ. Press, 1990. New. (Pub. at $40). $36.00.
(CROUTIER #A3853)
CROUTIER, ALEV LYTLE. Taking the Waters: Spirit, Art,
Sensuality. 224 pp., over 150 illus., 79 in color, list of spas,
bibliog., index. An excellent survey of our relationship to water;
myths, traditions of bathing, the rise of spas, imagery of water
nymphs, etc. 8vo, stiff wrps. New York, Abbeville, 1992. New. (Pub. at
$35.) $28.00.
(CUNNINGTON #A3336)
CUNNINGTON, PHILLIS. Costumes of the Nineteenth Century. 80
pp., numerous line drawings, one half-tone illus. 8vo, laminated
pictorial bds. Boston, Plays Inc., 1970. Near-fine. $12.00.
(EASTON #A3712)
EASTON, MALCOLM. Artists and Writers in Paris: The Bohemian Idea,
1805-1867. 205 pp., a few plates, notes, index. Study of the
emergence of the idea of the artist as "Bohemian" in nineteenth
century Paris. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. New York and London, St.
Martin's, 1964. Near-fine/Near-fine. $30.00.
(GARB #A3500)
GARB, TAMAR. Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late
Nineteenth-Century Paris. 207 pp., 62 illus., notes, bibliog.,
index. Well-researched contextual study on women artists, feminism,
and female 'genius' late 19th century Paris. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First
ed. New Haven and London, Yale Univ. Press, 1994. As new. $36.00.
(GERHARDUS #A3591)
GERHARDUS, MALY and DIETFRIED. Symbolism and Art Nouveau. 104
pp., 73 nice quality color plates, bibliog., biogs. Fifty artists
represented including numerous lesser-known figures such as
Gallen-Kallela, Lechter, Mehoffer, Petrow-Wodkin, Ranson, Schmithals,
Segantini, Strathmann, Thorn Prikker. Square 4to, laminated pictorial
boards. No d.j. (as issued). Oxford, Phaidon, 1979. Lower corners
lightly bumped. Near-fine. $25.00.
(GLANVILLE #A3057)
GLANVILLE, PHILIPPA and JENNIFER F. GOLDSBOROUGH. Women
Silversmiths 1685-1845: Works from the Collection of The National
Museum of Women in the Arts. 176 pp., 176 illus, 99 fine color
plates, many full-page, biographical list, glossary, index. An
important reference work. 4to, cloth, d.j. London, Thames & Hudson,
1990. Mint. $45.00.
(HUXTABLE #A3688)
HUXTABLE, ADA LOUISE. Classic New York: Georgian Gentility to Greek
Elegance. 142 pp., bibliog., index. 8vo, wrps. First ed. New York,
Anchor Books, 1964. Near-fine. $10.00.
(LANGEWIESCHE #A2799)
LANGEWIESCHE, KARL ROBERT. Danische Maler von Jens Juel bis zur
Gegenwart. 107 pp., over 130 b&w illus. Brief biogs. of 66 Danish
artists from late 18th thru 19th century. Brief text in German. Small
4to, flexible blue cloth, sewn, decorative embossed design with gilded
title, decorative printed endpapers. Leipzig, 1911. Edges rubbed, very
slight fraying to head and foot of spine, two small soil spots rear
cover, else clean VG+. $32.00.
(LONDON #A2678)
LONDON. Royal Academy of Arts. Post-Impressionism: Crosscurrents in
European Painting. 301 pp., richly illus. in b&w and color,
extensive multi-national chronol., bibliog. Important exhib. cat. with
texts by John House, MaryAnn Stevens, Norman Rosenthal, Anna
Gruetzner, Sandra Berresford et al. 4to, wrps. 1979. Near-fine.
$36.00.
(MARSH #A2661)
MARSH, JAN. The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. 408 pp., 49 illus.,
1 cover colorplate, index. Critical text covers Elizabeth Siddall,
Giorgiana Burne-Jones, Emma Brown, Annie Miller, Fannie Cornforth,
Jane Morris -- artists and poets as well as the models for the
well-known images of the Pre-Raphelite Brotherhood. Small 4to, cloth,
d.j. First U.S. edition. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1985. Fine, in
VG+ d.j. with one closed short tear and edges rubbed. $40.00.
(MARSH #A3558)
MARSH, JAN. Pre-Raphaelite Women. 160 pp., 130 illus., most in
excellent color, notes, bibliog., index. A discussion of the lives and
work of the women of the Pre-Raphelite circle as well as the
construction of Victorian "woman" in the work of Holman Hunt,
Burne-Jones, Rossetti and others. 4to, cloth, d.j. Reprint of
Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1987 ed. London, Artus Books, 1994. Mint.
$30.00.
(MONGAN #A3542)
MONGAN, AGNES, ed. 100 Master Drawings. 208 pp., 100 fine
illus., mostly full-page, bibliog., glossary of materials, index of
artists. Catalogue entries for each work are by such luminaries as
Jakob Rosenberg, Millard Meiss, Agnes Mongan, Charles Kuhn, et al. A
timeless classic. 4to, cloth. First ed. Cambridge, Harvard Univ.
Press, 1949. No d.j., else near-fine. $38.00.
(NEW YORK #A2081)
NEW YORK. Acquavella Galleries. Four Masters of Impressionism.
Unpag. exhib. cat with 70 color plates of work by MONET, PISSARRO,
RENOIR and SISLEY. Short intro. 4to, wrps. 1968. V.g. $20.00.
(NOCHLIN #A3469)
NOCHLIN, LINDA. The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of
Identity. 64 pp., 39 illus. The focus is on nineteenth-century
French art from the Revolution through Rodin. 8vo, cloth, d.j. New
York, Thames & Hudson, 1995. New. (Pub. at $24.95) $22.50.
(NOCHLIN #A3238)
NOCHLIN, LINDA. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism 1874-1904,
Sources and Documents. 222 pp. text. A noteworthy selection. 8vo,
wrps. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1966. Fine. $25.00.
(PEARCE #A4237)
PEARCE, LYNNE. Woman, Image, Text: Readings in Pre-Raphaelite Art
and Literature. 151 pp., 8 color plates, extensive bibliog.,
index. The textual politics of gendered reading, with interesting
multi-disciplinary approach. 8vo, wrps. Toronto and Buffalo, Univ. of
Toronto Press, 1991. Near-fine (Tiny soil spot free endpaper and side
edge), else crisp, bright copy. $20.00.
(POINTON #A3492)
POINTON, MARCIA. Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting
1830-1908. 160 pp., 48 illus., notes, bibliog., index. A variety
of approaches to a reading of images of the body as expressions of
gendered power relations. 8vo, wrps. New York, Cambridge Univ. Press,
1990. Near-fine. $16.00.
(ROGER-MARX #A3525)
ROGER-MARX, CLAUDE. La Gravure Originale au XIXe Siecle. 255
pp., 170 illus., approx. 17 in color, index. Excellent survey of
nineteenth-century European printmaking with focus on the various
techniques as well as practitioners. Stout 8vo, cloth, d.j. Paris,
Amery Somogy, 1962. Tiny stain side edge, else near-fine, in near-fine
d.j. with lightly scuffed edges. $27.50.
(ROSEN #A2997)
ROSEN, CHARLES and HENRI ZERNER. Romanticism and Realism: The
Mythology of Nineteenth Century Art. 244 pp., index. A classic
redefinition of the of 19th century European art. 8vo, wrps. London,
Faber and Faber, 1984. As new. $16.50.
(SELZ #A3694)
SELZ, PETER and MILDRED CONSTANTINE, eds. Art Nouveau: Art and
Design at the Turn of the Century. 192 pp. exhib. cat. of 304
items, richly illus. in b&w, 1 colorplate. Articles by Selz, A. Fern,
G. Daniel, H.R. Hitchcock, bibliog., biogs., index. Important
catalogue. Small 4to, cloth. The attractive original edition. New
York, MOMA, 1960. Near-fine clean crisp copy. No d.j. Tiny bump lower
edge of front board. $45.00.
(SMITH #A3114)
SMITH, BERNARD. European Vision and the South Pacific. 370 pp.,
222 b&w illus., 32 color plates, notes, bibliog., index 4to, wrps. 2nd
ed. Second printing. New Haven and London, Yale Univ. Press, 1988.
Covers creased, corner bump, else v.g. $16.50.
(SMITH #A3284)
SMITH, PAUL. Impressionism Beneath the Surface. 176 pp., 122
illus., 95 in color, bibliog., index. Includes a chapter on
Impressionist women and women Impressionists. 8vo, wrps. New York,
Abrams, 1995. New. $16.95.
(TAYLOR #A1881)
TAYLOR, JOSHUA C. Nineteenth Century Theories of Art. 563 pp.,
some illus. A comprehensive collection of writings from Reynolds and
Wackenroder thru Seurat. Thick 4to, cloth, d.j. Berkeley, Univ. of
California Pr., 1987. Fine/Near-fine. (Pub. at $50.). $45.00.
(TYLER #A3691)
TYLER, RON. Visions of America: Pioneer Artists in a New Land.
208 pp., 178 illus., 57 in color, map, bibliog., notes on illustrated
works, index. Predominantly 19th century painting thru c.1870,
organized by region. 4to, cloth, d.j. London, Thames and Hudson, 1983.
Fine/Fine. $45.00.
(WEISBERG #A2679)
WEISBERG, GABRIEL P., et al. JAPONISME: Japanese Influence on
French Art 1854-1910. 220 pp. exhib. cat., 308 items fully illus.
in b&w, 6 tipped-in color plates. Important scholarly text covering
availability of Japanese work as well as aesthetic influence on French
printmaking, painting and decorative arts. 4to, wrps, d.j. Original
edition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Rutgers Univ. Art Gallery & The
Walters Art Gallery, 1975. Near-fine/Near-fine. $50.00.
(WEST #A3454)
WEST, W. RICHARD, Jr., intro. Robes of Splendor: Native North
American Painted Buffalo Hides. 143 pp., 72 mostly full-page color
plates, bibliog. A beautiful book with text contributions by George P.
Horse Capture, Anne Vitart, Michel Waldberg, and W. Richard West, Jr.
Small square 4to, cloth, d.j. English lang. edition. Second printing.
New York, The New Press in collab. with the Musee de l'Homme, Paris,
1993. New. (Pub. at $40.) $25.00.
(WICHMAN #A2650)
WICHMANN, SIEGFRIED. Japonisme: The Japanese Influence on Western
Art in the 19th and 20th Centuries. 432 pp., 1105 illus., hundreds
in fine color, notes, bibliog., artist biogs., index. A mammoth
knowledgable tome. Far beyond the usual Monet-Van Gogh account. For
ex.: Klimt, Schiele, Rorstrand porcelains, contemp. ceramics,
Lalique's hair combs, W. Bradley's book illus., Van der Rohe, Neutra,
Kline, Mathieu, Long, images of cranes, dyer's stencils, grilles, etc.
Stout square 4to, cloth, d.j. First U.S. ed. New York, Harmony Books,
1981. Near-fine with very slightly warped front board, in fine d.j.
$100.00.
(WOLF #A3692)
WOLF, BRYAN JAY. Romantic Re-Vision: Culture and Consciousness in
Nineteenth-Century Painting and Literature. 272 pp., 63 illus.,
notes, index. Analysis (using contemporary critical vocabulary) of the
early painting of Washington Allston, John Quidor, Thomas Cole. 8vo,
wrps. (Paperback ed. 1986) Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1982.
Corner rubbed, else fine. (Pub. at $16.95) $15.00.
(YELDHAM #A3658)
YELDHAM, CHARLOTTE. Women Artists in Nineteenth-Century France and
England. 2 Vols. 574 pp. text, and appendix with 194 b&w illus. A
very useful reference work for information on less well-known artists.
Stout 8vo, cloth, no d.j. (as issued). New York and London, Garland,
1984. Fine. (Pub. at $125.). $112.50.
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