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Paperback:
9780500292532 | Thames & Hudson, November 15, 2016, cover price $24.95
Product Description: The Belgian painter René Magritte (1898-1967) was one of the outstanding--and most enigmatic--figures of the Surrealist movement. Since the 1960s, his work has had an enormous and continuing influence, not only on art, but on culture at large...read more
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9789061538561 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2010, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The Belgian painter René Magritte (1898-1967) was one of the outstanding--and most enigmatic--figures of the Surrealist movement.
9780810936355 | Rei sub edition (Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1994), cover price $145.00 | About this edition: A book on the works of Rene Magritte, the Belgian surrealist painter.
Product Description: The young Jasper Johns stands atop a small ladder to smooth one of the gridlines on his silver "Numbers" painting of 1964. He is wearing an oddly coordinated padded silver jumpsuit, mindless of the camera that captures him mid-gesture...read more
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9780978998714 | Knoedler & Co, December 15, 2007, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The young Jasper Johns stands atop a small ladder to smooth one of the gridlines on his silver "Numbers" painting of 1964.
Product Description: At thirty-two, Jenny Saville has had a career most artists twice her age would envy. In 1992, the year she completed her studies at Glasgow School of Art, her graduation exhibition sold out. Most notably, one painting was bought by Charles Saatchi and, since then, her international reputation has grown at a rapid and steady pace...read more
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9780847827572 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, November 1, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: At thirty-two, Jenny Saville has had a career most artists twice her age would envy.
Paperback:
9780712616058 | New edition (Vintage Uk, January 6, 2005), cover price $25.35 | About this edition: The eminent art critic and author always managed to catch the unexpected angle when he interviewed or analysed his contemporaries.
Paperback:
9788497596473 | Debolsillo, May 31, 2003, cover price $9.95
Hardcover:
9780701173340 | Vintage Uk, November 7, 2002, cover price $16.55 | About this edition: Art critic David Sylvester, who died in June 2001, achieved fame with his work on Cezanne but also because of studies of personal artist friends: Giacometti, Henry Moore and Francis Bacon.
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Hardcover:
9780300092042 | Yale Univ Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $42.00
Product Description: David Sylvester here muses on key artists of the twentieth century and their nineteenth-century forebears. In the process, he offers profound insights into their practice of art. Focusing on the spectator's instinctive emotional and physical response to paintings by such artists as Picasso, Matisse, de Kooning, Newman, and Warhol, Sylvester brings an inspiring sense of the relevance and importance of art to life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780300092028 | 2 sub edition (Yale Univ Pr, January 1, 2002), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: David Sylvester here muses on key artists of the twentieth century and their nineteenth-century forebears.
Hardcover:
9781880154472 | Gagosian Gallery, July 1, 2001, cover price $40.00
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Hardcover:
9780500019948 | Thames & Hudson, September 1, 2000, cover price $50.00
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9780065171020, titled "Go Read" | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1980, cover price $9.12 | also contains Go Read
Product Description: For his recent series of work entitled Easy Fun-Ethereal, Jeff Koons employs new computer technology to merge populist icons into desktop collages, which he then transforms into traditional oil paintings rendered with photorealist precision...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780892072385 | Guggenheim Museum Pubns, July 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: For his recent series of work entitled Easy Fun-Ethereal, Jeff Koons employs new computer technology to merge populist icons into desktop collages, which he then transforms into traditional oil paintings rendered with photorealist precision.
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Hardcover:
9780853317678 | Rev sub edition (Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, May 1, 1999), cover price $120.00
Paperback:
9781854372802 | Tate Gallery Pubn, September 1, 1999, cover price $25.00
Product Description: Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest British artists of this century. For over fifty years the intense emotions conveyed in his works have shocked and enthralled an ever-growing audience. David Sylvester, a leading Bacon scholar, brings together many of the artist's best paintings involving the human figure, the central subject of his work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780520215399 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest British artists of this century.
Product Description: Jeff Koons (born 1955) has remained constantly in the public eye since he first showed his Equilibrium works--basketballs floating in tanks of water, framed Nike ads and a cast bronze lifeboat--at the influential East Village gallery International with Monument in 1985...read more
Hardcover:
9780810968936 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1998, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Jeff Koons (born 1955) has remained constantly in the public eye since he first showed his Equilibrium works--basketballs floating in tanks of water, framed Nike ads and a cast bronze lifeboat--at the influential East Village gallery International with Monument in 1985.
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Hardcover:
9780952745365 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, February 1, 1998, cover price $50.00
Product Description: This is the fifth and final volume of the critically acclaimed catalogue raisonne of the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte, edited by David Sylvester. This volume is the essential supplement to the series, including a 57 page index, a 155 page annotated bibliography (about 3,000 items), an exhibition list, a catalogue of commercial works and important revisions to the four earlier volumes, written by Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn...read more
Hardcover:
9780856674792 | Philip Wilson Pub Ltd, November 1, 1997, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: This is the fifth and final volume of the critically acclaimed catalogue raisonne of the Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte, edited by David Sylvester.
Gathers essays about modern artists and their exhibits, including Klee, Pollock, Dubuffet, Rothko, Picasso, Kandinsky, Cezanne, Arp, Moore, Ernst, Goya, De Kooning, Twombly, Warhol, and Johns
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Hardcover:
9780805044416 | Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1997, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Gathers essays about modern artists and their exhibits, including Klee, Pollock, Dubuffet, Rothko, Picasso, Kandinsky, Cezanne, Arp, Moore, Ernst, Goya, De Kooning, Twombly, Warhol, and Johns
Briefly traces Giacometti's life and career, puts his work in context with that of his contemporaries, and discusses his approach to creating art
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Hardcover:
9780805042108 | Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1996, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Briefly traces Giacometti's life and career, puts his work in context with that of his contemporaries, and discusses his approach to creating art
Paperback:
9780805041637 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1997), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Briefly traces Giacometti's life and career, puts his work in context with that of his contemporaries, and discusses his approach to creating art
Product Description: This revision of Volume 6 of Moore's sculptures includes previously unpublished materials. Detailed catalogue information is provided on every work of sculpture produced during Moore's final era.The plate section features large format illustrations of the major works, often from several view points...read more
Hardcover:
9780853318798 | Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, February 1, 1997, cover price $600.00 | About this edition: This revision of Volume 6 of Moore's sculptures includes previously unpublished materials.
Paperback:
9780947564704 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $30.00
Paperback:
9781858940243 | Perseus Distribution Services, February 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The first publication devoted to the artist's works for twenty-five years.
Hardcover:
9780856674273 | Philip Wilson Pub Ltd, May 1, 1995, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: The five volume work presents an authoritative survey of the artist's oeuvre, from 1916 to his death in 1967.
Hardcover:
9780853316602 | Rev sub edition (Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, November 1, 1994), cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Incorporating the latest research on Moore's work, the revised edition of this sixth and final volume of the official Henry Moore catalogue covers the last period of the sculptor's working life.
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