AMERICAN ORIENTALISTS
Paris: ACR Edition, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. With a typed signed letter (TLS) by the author laid in. Between 1843 and 1922, American artists travelled to the Near East and North Africa, painting all that..... More
Art History
johnson rare books & archives is on vacation from September 28, 2023 to October 28, 2023. It's book fair season! We'll be exhibiting at Rare Books LA - Union Station on October 7-8, the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair on October 14-15, the Western History Association conference on October 25-28, and the Boston Antiquarian Book Fair on October 27-29.
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NATURE'S HARMONIC UNITY: A Treatise on Its Relation to Proportional Form
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. A treatise on the laws governing proportional form in both nature and the arts and sciences, this well-illustrated volume amply demonstrates how a design's..... More
SATURN AND MELANCHOLY: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Rooted in the tradition established by Aby Warburg and the Warburg Library, this book has deeply influenced understandings of the interrelations between the humanities disciplines since..... More
ANTHONY QUINN'S EYE: A Lifetime of Creating and Collecting Art
New Haven: W.W. Norton, 2004. Hardcover. "As a successful actor, Anthony Quinn could easily have lived a life of mindless pleasure. This lavish record of his artistic endeavors shows he did just the opposite. Compiled..... More
IDEAL LANDSCAPE: Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Annibale Carracci, Nicolas Poussin, and Claude Lorrain were the masters of ideal, or heroic, landscape painting in the seventeenth century. In this original and..... More
ORIENTALISM IN ART
New York: Abbeville Press, 2005. Hardcover. "Among the more remarkable crosscurrents affecting the development of European painting in the 19th and early 20th centuries was the influence of the exotic cultures of the Middle East..... More
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