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American Art Deco furniture by Ric Emmett After four years of research and writing this book has become a Reality! It has become a part of...

Steel Canvas The Art of American Arms Hardcover Book by Robert Lawrence Wilson.Wilson offers the first book on the extraordinary spectacle of America's ...

American Painting by Donald Letcher Goddard Hardcover Book 1990. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hugh Lauter Levin Assc; First Edition (January 1, 1990). Language ‏ : ‎ English. Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 319 ...

Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America by Kendall H. Brown, author & David M. Cobb, photographer This extraordinary, award winning 176 page hard cover book details hist...

A late 19th century to circa 1900 red velvet photo book with twenty seven old photos of American Indians. The engraved silver ornament on front was added at a later date to give a No...

Villa By John Saladino hardcover large coffee table book. The story of Saladino’s restoration of a stone house, originally designed by Wallace Frost, and its garden in California ov...

Collection of Original Artwork by Arthur Weaver. A large collection of original artwork for the Morton & John Olman book "St. Andrews & Golf". It includes the concept for the dust c...

This is a large hardback book of just over 550 pages featuring over 150 full-scale colour reproductions as well as 2,000 additional black and white illustrations of the work of the B...

By Australian novelist and journalist John Brosnan, who was a regular columnist with the popular UK film magazine Starburst. Opening with a short chapter which analyses the great pop...

John Baeder’s Road Well Taken By: Jay Williams Echoing Paul Gauguin’s momentous decision of a century earlier, John Baeder, in 1972, suddenly made up his mind to forgo the growing riches of a career on Madison Avenue to become a full-time painter. With little more to bank on than an offer by the legendary Ivan Karp of a future show at his New York gallery, Baeder bravely gambled his livelihood on Karp’s evaluation of his first four efforts at serious painting: a diner, a motel, a gas station, a tourist camp. “They were works of cultural consequence, . . . works of visual power.” Based on color-postcards in his growing collection of roadside memorabilia, John had made blow-ups of the cards “to see what they’d look like as paintings.” It was a bold, inventive move, but typical Baeder as he continued to lay the groundwork for what soon became known, through his efforts, as “Diner Culture.” And his masterful technique inevitably put him at the forefront of the growing photo-realist movement, along with Ralph Goings and Richard Estes. Baeder’s paintings, particularly of vintage diners...

American Impressionism Hardcover Book by William H. Gerdts. American Impressionism Book by William H. Gerdts Hardcover Book. Lavishly illustrated with more than 400 paintings by 125 different artists, this volume contains documentary photographs of the artists and quotations from their private letters and journals complementing the text. Good copy bound in cloth with an equally fine dust wrapper. 336 pages; Beginning with a brief prelude discussing the roots of Impressionism in America and its relationship to French Impressionism, Gerdts recounts the early adventures of American artists in Claude Monet's village of Giverny, evaluates Impressionism's progress from an avant-garde aesthetic to its triumph during the 1813 Chicago World Fair and its replacement by the radical styles of Cubism and Futurism. Also studies how Impressionism flourished across the United States and includes an exhaustive bibliography. Among the masters reproduced are Childe Hassam, John Twachtman...

These are the first four James Bond continuation novels which were commissioned in 1981 by the Ian Fleming Estate to revive Bond in a brand new series of novels. The author served in...