Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion by Paul Grushkin & Dennis King

The Book of Takes, by Paul Zelevansky, Signed and Ltd 1st Ed. From the Preface, by Lynn Hurwitz "The Book of Takes is a personal account of the process of extracting art from life. T...

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art by Leah Dickerman and Anna Indych-Lopez. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011. 1st Ed hardcover with no dust jacket as published. From the personal library of Herbert Kasper. Herbert Kasper was an American fashion designer known as "Kasper." He studied English and advertising at New York University and fashion at The Parsons School of Design in New York from 1951–53 and l'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in 1953. He left NYU to serve in the US Army in Europe. After WW II he enrolled at Parsons, where he became a protégé of milliner Fred Frederics. After graduating, he returned to Paris for two years developing his skills in design while working for Jacques Fath, Christian Dior, and Marcel Rochas. When he returned to the US, he worked for Frederics at Mr. John. He was an avid art collector with a famous art collection, and in 2011, the Morgan Library and Museum devoted an exhibition, called “Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs,” to the designer. In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set new attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the show's opening and gave him on-site studio space. There he produced five “portable murals” --large blocks of frescoed plaster...

The Architecture of Additions: Design and Regulation by Paul Spencer Byard. W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. 1st Ed softcover. The Architecture of Additions considers the ways in which ...

The Gentle Art of Faking Furniture by Herbert Cescinsky. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1967. Unabridged and unaltered re-publication edition from original published in 1931, so...

The Art of Paul Gauguin from the exhibition which ran at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Art Institute of Chicago, and Grand Palais, Paris between May 1988 and April 198...

Art Treasures of the World by Paul Hamlyn. Hardcover book with dustjacket, published in 1968 by Hamlyn Publishing Group of Middlesex, United Kingdom. Pri...

This is very scarce WWI recruiting poster for the Army Air Service. The poster dramatically features a two-man open cockpit biplane with American and French markings flying against a red sky background. In the foreground, two uniformed spotters look on. The poster reads "Join the Air Service...

The Art Glass of Louis Comfort Tiffany By: Paul Doros Photography by David Schlegel Foreword by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen Louis Comfort Tiffany considered his Favrile glass, produc...