Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 21

"Wedgwood, a Living Tradition" an Exhibition Catalogue from the Brooklyn Museum

About the Item

Wedgwood, a Living Tradition by John Meredith Graham II and Hensleigh Cecil Wedgwood. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Brooklyn Museum, 1948. Limited first edition hardcover with no dust jacket. 118 pp. An exhibition catalogue of Wedgwood showcasing a visual history of the accomplishments of ten generations of a single family. The work represents a cross section of more than three hundred years of the history of the whole English ceramic industry. A special emphasis is placed on the great period from 1759-1795 during which Josiah Wedgwood was making his strides in ceramic art. NPT Books a division of N.P. Trent Antiques has a large collection of used and out of print books on art, architecture, decoration and antiques with a focus on 1st editions, signed and limited editions.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 10.25 in (26.04 cm)Width: 7.5 in (19.05 cm)Depth: 0.25 in (6.35 mm)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1948
  • Condition:
    one corner has slight wear.
  • Seller Location:
    valatie, NY
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: NP-821-1st1stDibs: LU2605111350611

More From This Seller

View All
Treasures from the Kremlin, An Exhibition from State Museums of Moscow 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Treasures from the Kremlin; An Exhibition from the State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York; May 19-September 2 1979; and the Grand Palais Paris...
Category

Vintage 1970s American Books

Materials

Paper

Exhibition Catalogue of Chinese Glass from the Hope Danby Collection
Located in valatie, NY
An Exhibition Catalogue of Chinese Glass from The Hope Danby Collection. London: S. Marchant and Sons, 1999. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 44 pp. A beautiful catalogue fo...
Category

20th Century English Books

Materials

Paper

Jimmy DeSana: Submission, 1st Ed Exhibition by The Brooklyn Museum 11/22-4/23
Located in valatie, NY
Jimmy DeSana: Submission, Exhibition by The Brooklyn Museum 11/22-4/23. 1st Ed hardcover published by DelMonico Books and The Brooklyn Museum, 2022. immy DeSana: Submission is the first museum survey of work by a significant yet overlooked figure in the histories of photography, New York City, and LGBTQ artists. From his time photographing suburban landscapes in Atlanta, Georgia, to his role in the New York punk scenes, Jimmy DeSana (American, 1949–1990) conveyed the radical spirit of his era through an irreverent critique of the American Dream and its images. The exhibition traces his brief yet prolific career through nearly two hundred works on view (some for the first time) and over twenty years that bridged mail-art networks, New York’s 1970s and ’80s subcultures, the illuminating image-play of the “Pictures Generation,” and various responses to HIV/AIDS. As part of punk aesthetics and its symbolic forms of resistance, DeSana and his peers sought to forge art communities outside of official institutions. The exhibition showcased his extensive involvement in zines, artist collectives, performance art, experimental film, and club culture. In his major series—101 Nudes (1972), Submission (1977–79), and Suburban (1979–84)—DeSana photographed himself and friends (often nude and faceless) in and around bland suburban homes, creating an interplay among sexual liberation, queer aesthetics, and consumerist conformity. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, DeSana was heavily involved in New York’s punk and No Wave scenes and photographed prominent creatives for album covers and alternative publications. This exhibition will be the first to feature his portraits of art and music luminaries such as Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Kenneth Anger, Patti Astor, David Byrne, John Giorno, Debbie Harry, and Richard Hell. Accompanying these works are DeSana’s more abstract efforts from the late 1980s, after he contracted HIV, that show an artist who resisted dominant narratives about the body and sexuality in the early years of the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic. Some graphic nudes...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Books

Materials

Paper

The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: Catalogue of Exhibition Held at the Met in 1909
Located in valatie, NY
The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Two volumes), by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1909. 1st Ed 2 volume set, hardcovers. Volume I: Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings by Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century by W. R. Valentiner, 149 paintings are described and illustrated on 162 pages; Volume II: Catalogue of an Exhibition of American Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Other Objects of Art, 1625--1825 by Henry Watson...
Category

Antique Early 1900s American Books

Materials

Paper

American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Met Museum of Art Book
Located in valatie, NY
‘American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ by Albert TenEyck Gardner. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1965. First Edition, 1st printing...
Category

Vintage 1960s American Books

Materials

Paper

Gainsborough by Michael Rosenthal, Exhibition Catalogue, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Tate’s Gainsborough show (24 October-19 January 2003). 1st Ed softcover exhibition catalog was the most comprehensive ever held on the artist. Loans came from far and wide, inclu...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary English Books

Materials

Paper

You May Also Like

High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection
Located in North Hollywood, CA
High Style Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Softcover by Jan Glier Reeder. 256 pages 358 illustrations New York Book Show Awards Special Trade, General Award, Winner (2011) Independent Publishers Book Awards, Silver Medal (2011) Costume Society of America Millia Davenport Publication Award, Runner-Up (2011) Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010 - 256 pages. Published in conjunction with an exhibition on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 5-Aug. 15, 2010, and at the Brooklyn Museum, May 7-Aug. 1, 2010. High Style is the first comprehensive publication on the Brooklyn Museum's remarkable collection of costumes and accessories. This lavishly illustrated volume presents more than two hundred examples drawn from its nearly twenty-four thousand women's and men's garments, accessories, hats, and shoes. Brooklyn's collection was founded in 1903 to provide inspiration for America growing fashion industry. Through its Department of Industrial Design, Design Lab, and Department of Costumes and Textiles, the Brooklyn Museum became one of the most important centers for the study of fashion. As a result, the holdings are rich in clothing by American designers and the great French couturiers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The museum is also fortunate to have assembled what is considered the definitive group of works by the great couturier Charles James. Organized in chapters that represent the collection's strengths, High Style presents Brooklyn's masterworks and provides brief histories of how they were collected. Included are historical costumes from the 1760s to the 1890s; sumptuous gowns by Charles Frederick Worth; custom designs by the important French nineteenth-century couture houses; examples from the early twentieth-century houses, including those of Lanvin, Chanel, and Poiret; iconic Surrealist- based designs by Schiaparelli; the incomparable sculpted ball gowns of James of the 1940s and 1950s; ensembles from postwar phenomenon Dior, his successor, Saint Laurent, and Givenchy. American designers of the 1920s to the 1980s are well represented. Among the women are Valentina, McCardell, Cashin, and Maxwell; among the men, Mainbocher, Norell, Beene, and Halston. Augmenting this survey is a unique selection of regional costumes and historic French fashion...
Category

2010s American American Classical Books

Materials

Paper

Yayoi Kusama Sogetsu Art Museum 1992 (Rare Kusama exhibition catalogue)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Yayoi Kusama Sogetsu Art Museum Tokyo / Committee of the Exhibition of Yayoi Kusama, 1992: A rare early 1990s Kusama exhibition catalog marking the turning point of Kusama’s interna...
Category

1990s Japanese Bohemian Books

Materials

Paper

Pop Art Exhibition Catalogue 1964 Stockholm Museum of Modern Art
By (after) Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Unique catalogue of an exhibition in the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1964. Amazing cover with the iconic artwork of Roy Lichtenstein. 106 works of: Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Ro...
Category

Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Books

Materials

Paper

Marcel Baugniet - 2 Exhibition Catalogues (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
The first is a 32 page catalogue which was published in a very small number of only 50 copies in 1942. Text is in French and includes 19 black and white photographs and one page of s...
Category

20th Century Books

Materials

Paper

The Genius of Charles James 1982 Exhibition Catalogue Book
By Charles James
Located in Stamford, CT
The Genius of Charles James exhibition catalogue by Elizabeth Ann Coleman. Book accompanied the 1982 Brooklyn Museum show. Soft cover first edition.
Category

Late 20th Century American Modern Books

Materials

Paper

Catalogue of the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg Florida
Located in Bradenton, FL
Catalogue of the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg Florida. Softcover book, published in 1994. Printed and bound in Hong Kong, illustrated, 368 pages.
Category

1990s Books

Materials

Paper

Recently Viewed

View All