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Subtitled “The Anatomy of a Legend,” this is a stimulating book on the life, art and legacy of Leonardo Da Vinci by a Professor of Fine Arts. First UK edition published by Papermac in 1995. 23.5cm x 17.5cm, 268 pages, with black and white illustrations. Condition: Some wear and soiling with age to covers and…
Catalogue of UK touring exhibition 1983-84 organised by the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford and the Arts Council of Great Britain. 27cm by 22cm grey wraps, 85 pages, includes colour and black and white photos of McComb’s work plus a piece on the artist by Richard Morphet. The exhibition visited London, Oxford, Sussex, Manchester and…
Published by Artists’ Agency and Diamond Twig Press, 1995. 29.5cm by 21cm, 24 pp. Subtitled A Collaborative Work, this was produced by Chilean artist Gonzalo Diaz, Julia Darling and Ellen Phethean from The Poetry Virgins and the North Shields People’s Centre Photography Group. Edited by Dr Stephanie Brown from Newcastle University. Colour and black and…
First paperback edition, 2008. Published by The Public Catalogue Foundation. 28.5cm by 23cm, 368 pages, illustrated throughout with 2,500 of colour photos of paintings from the Tyne and Wear Museums Service, many of which have never been illustrated in print before. The Public Catalogue Foundation was set up to record the nation’s entire collection of…
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1980. 21cm by 15cm cream wraps, 28 pages with eight black and white plates. The 56th Charlton Lecture on Art delivered in the University of Newcastle on the 30th November 1978 by John White , Durning- Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at University College, London. The Charlton Lecture…
Exhibition catalogue, 29.5cm by 21cm, 24 pages, illustrated wraps. Designed by Ingrid Swenson. Subtitled “A Group of Women Artists” this was published by Red Mare for their first exhibition at the Newcastle Arts Centre, May 26 to June 17 1989. There are nine artists featured: Sam Ainsley, Annette Chevallier, Marcia Ley, Joanna Greenhill, Suzanne Montgomery,…
Clarke & Sherwell, Gravure Printers, [1956]. 21.5cm by 14.5cm, 48 pages. Includes 70 illustrations (photogravure images) of works of art added to the permanent collection between 1933 and 1956. Includes work by Harold Knight, Madeline Wells and Dorothea Sharp. Condition: Wear to spine and some browning to covers.
An examination of Cubism inside and beyond France featuring Braque, Picasso, Gris, Delaunay and more. Third impression published by Phaidon Press, six years after first edition. Paperback 24.5cm by 17.5cm, 320 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white and colour images. Condition: Spine sunned, cover edges a little worn, ownership bookplate inside front cover. Overall…
Exhibition catalogue. Published by Hatton Gallery, 2001. 24.5cm by 21cm, 31pp in card wraps. Illustrated with colour and black and white photos of artworks in the exhibition juxtaposed with artworks by James Ramsey, Lowry, Turner and others. Subtitled ‘New Work by Margaret Harrison’ with introduction by Dr Stephanie Brown, lecturer in Art History at Newcastle…
Dobson, 1969. First edition. 29cm by 21cm blue boards illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman. It might have been published by a children’s publisher but this is a title for adults to read, digest and act on. Richard “Private Eye” Ingrams wrote this messed up fairy tale of greed, capitalism, and environmental concerns. Ralph Steadman provided…
PRESS & The Photographers’ Gallery. Published to accompany the exhibition Idle Times by Mari Mahr, Correct Distance by Mitra Tabrizian at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, January 1986. 21cm by 15cm white wraps 36 pages. Includes black and white images throughout plus article Diderot, Barthes, Hieroglyph by Victor Burgin written January 1985. Condition: Contents clean but…