2000, ISBN: 9780847857951

Paperback, Hardcover

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1955]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting a comprehensive collection of the writings of … More...

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1955]. Hardcover. A Modern Library edition presenting a comprehensive collection of the writings of the acclaimed 19th Century American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Includes all of his essays, and representative portions of his poems, addresses, biographical sketches and miscellaneous works. Edited, and with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson, and with a foreword by Tremaine McDowell. --- In Toledano spine 11 / blue cloth / ML hex torchbearer device blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / tan Kent endpapers / jacket style l, verso blank. Likely published c.1966 (though 1950 date appears in book). ML #91.3. --- With plentiful soiling to all textblock edges (but not to interior of volume), inked gift inscription to verso of front free endpaper, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Dust jacket with religious sticker covering flap price area, and with dampstains and small chips & tears to edges, else intact and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xxvii, 930 pages ., The Modern Library / Random House, 3, New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2000. Following the generations of view painters who recorded Rome for their time, Steven Brooke's collection of seductive and timeless images provides an extraordinary documentation of Rome in the late twentieth-century. He believes in the myth of Rome. The intensity of his gaze and the poetry of his visual expression are unusual among artists who have worked in the Eternal City. The photographs that comprise his 'Views of Rome' transcend the experience of any particular moment. Like the Rome of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the eighteenth-century printmaker, Brooke's Rome is ultimately a Rome of the imagination. His elegant monochromes bear witness to an enchantment with the past. The most memorable Roman views have always sprung from an intoxication of the senses. Brooke's work is cooly analytical, yet infused with wonder. Inspired by the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch and Italian vedutisti, Steven Brooke emulates rather than imitates his artistic predecessors. His goal is to acknowledge the vedute tradition while reshaping and extending it to accommodate the qualities of the photographer's art. Views of Rome is a unique guide to the most significant sites of ancient, Christian, and modern Roman architecture. Steven Brooke produced the work--the first collection of its kind in over one hundred years--during his tenure as a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. For this book, he has written detailed captions that provide the history, location, and, often, directions to each site. Contents: I). Donna Daix Wescoat: The authority of Roman architecture. II). John Varriano: Rome and the viewmaker's imagination. III). Malcolm Campbell: The vedute tradition. IV). Steve Brook: A photographic Vedute di Roma. V). Further readings. VI). Views of ancient Rome. VII). Views of christian Rome. VIII). Views of modern Rome. IX). Index. 86 fotos in black-and-white. 112 pag.. 1st edition. Paperback / flaps. Very good condition/Cover illustrated. 17,5cmx24cm oblong., Rizzoli International Publications, 2000, 3<

2000, ISBN: 9780847857951

Paperback

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1965). Oblong 4to; original coarse oatmeal cloth, lettered in black on spine and upper cover; housed in original box; unpaginated; one hundred and twenty-four full-… More...

(Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1965). Oblong 4to; original coarse oatmeal cloth, lettered in black on spine and upper cover; housed in original box; unpaginated; one hundred and twenty-four full-page monochrome photographs, with captions to facing pages. Some fox spots. Very good to near fine, in a foxed and sunned box. "Mr. Newall is an artist; consequently the lens of his camera is a seeing lens: it perceives not merely the facts of the Cape countryside but its essence and its emotions. In some of the magnificent plates he interprets almost clairvoyantly the sombre undertones which many observers are too sun-bedazzled to perceive. Some of the scenes and buildings here illustrated have already been ruined, or totally destroyed. This book is a valuable record of the Cape's visage in this decade; and I am happy that the Cape Tercentenary Foundation was able in a small way to help Mr. Newall bring this work to fruition." - Dudley R. D'Ewes, Chairman, Cape Tercentenary Foundation ., (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1965), 0, New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2000. Following the generations of view painters who recorded Rome for their time, Steven Brooke's collection of seductive and timeless images provides an extraordinary documentation of Rome in the late twentieth-century. He believes in the myth of Rome. The intensity of his gaze and the poetry of his visual expression are unusual among artists who have worked in the Eternal City. The photographs that comprise his 'Views of Rome' transcend the experience of any particular moment. Like the Rome of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the eighteenth-century printmaker, Brooke's Rome is ultimately a Rome of the imagination. His elegant monochromes bear witness to an enchantment with the past. The most memorable Roman views have always sprung from an intoxication of the senses. Brooke's work is cooly analytical, yet infused with wonder. Inspired by the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch and Italian vedutisti, Steven Brooke emulates rather than imitates his artistic predecessors. His goal is to acknowledge the vedute tradition while reshaping and extending it to accommodate the qualities of the photographer's art. Views of Rome is a unique guide to the most significant sites of ancient, Christian, and modern Roman architecture. Steven Brooke produced the work--the first collection of its kind in over one hundred years--during his tenure as a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. For this book, he has written detailed captions that provide the history, location, and, often, directions to each site. Contents: I). Donna Daix Wescoat: The authority of Roman architecture. II). John Varriano: Rome and the viewmaker's imagination. III). Malcolm Campbell: The vedute tradition. IV). Steve Brook: A photographic Vedute di Roma. V). Further readings. VI). Views of ancient Rome. VII). Views of christian Rome. VIII). Views of modern Rome. IX). Index. 86 fotos in black-and-white. 112 pag.. 1st edition. Paperback / flaps. Very good condition/Cover illustrated. 17,5cmx24cm oblong., Rizzoli International Publications, 2000, 3<

2000, ISBN: 9780847857951

Paperback, Hardcover

Richmond: Garrett and Massie Incorporated, 1931. First edition thus. Bound in original burnt orange cloth with spine lettering and decoration in black. Printed entirely on gloss stock. Wi… More...

Richmond: Garrett and Massie Incorporated, 1931. First edition thus. Bound in original burnt orange cloth with spine lettering and decoration in black. Printed entirely on gloss stock. With an introduction by Douglas S. Freeman. Illustrated with over 125 full page monochrome photographs. A very nice copy of this title in near fine condition.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Garrett and Massie Incorporated, 1931, 3, Paris: Arthaud, 1959. Black cloth w/o dust-jacket. Texts by Cocteau, Read, Parrot, et al., 215 pp., 182 heliogravure monochrome plates by Beny, title caption sheet laid in. A stunning photographic study of the architectural remains of the classical world. Text in French. Size: Folio. Cloth. Very Good., Arthaud, 1959, 3, New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2000. Following the generations of view painters who recorded Rome for their time, Steven Brooke's collection of seductive and timeless images provides an extraordinary documentation of Rome in the late twentieth-century. He believes in the myth of Rome. The intensity of his gaze and the poetry of his visual expression are unusual among artists who have worked in the Eternal City. The photographs that comprise his 'Views of Rome' transcend the experience of any particular moment. Like the Rome of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the eighteenth-century printmaker, Brooke's Rome is ultimately a Rome of the imagination. His elegant monochromes bear witness to an enchantment with the past. The most memorable Roman views have always sprung from an intoxication of the senses. Brooke's work is cooly analytical, yet infused with wonder. Inspired by the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch and Italian vedutisti, Steven Brooke emulates rather than imitates his artistic predecessors. His goal is to acknowledge the vedute tradition while reshaping and extending it to accommodate the qualities of the photographer's art. Views of Rome is a unique guide to the most significant sites of ancient, Christian, and modern Roman architecture. Steven Brooke produced the work--the first collection of its kind in over one hundred years--during his tenure as a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. For this book, he has written detailed captions that provide the history, location, and, often, directions to each site. Contents: I). Donna Daix Wescoat: The authority of Roman architecture. II). John Varriano: Rome and the viewmaker's imagination. III). Malcolm Campbell: The vedute tradition. IV). Steve Brook: A photographic Vedute di Roma. V). Further readings. VI). Views of ancient Rome. VII). Views of christian Rome. VIII). Views of modern Rome. IX). Index. 86 fotos in black-and-white. 112 pag.. 1st edition. Paperback / flaps. Very good condition/Cover illustrated. 17,5cmx24cm oblong., Rizzoli International Publications, 2000, 3<

2007, ISBN: 9780847857951

Paperback, Hardcover

NY: Smithsonian Institution, 2007. Hardbound. VG. Hardcover (Black cloth, illustrated DJ). 360 pp. Gilt edges. Color and BW plates, some full page. Published in conjunction with a major… More...

NY: Smithsonian Institution, 2007. Hardbound. VG. Hardcover (Black cloth, illustrated DJ). 360 pp. Gilt edges. Color and BW plates, some full page. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Piranesi as Designer explores the far-reaching impact of Piranesi's modernist style on three centuries of architecture and design., Smithsonian Institution, 2007, 3, New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2000. Following the generations of view painters who recorded Rome for their time, Steven Brooke's collection of seductive and timeless images provides an extraordinary documentation of Rome in the late twentieth-century. He believes in the myth of Rome. The intensity of his gaze and the poetry of his visual expression are unusual among artists who have worked in the Eternal City. The photographs that comprise his 'Views of Rome' transcend the experience of any particular moment. Like the Rome of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the eighteenth-century printmaker, Brooke's Rome is ultimately a Rome of the imagination. His elegant monochromes bear witness to an enchantment with the past. The most memorable Roman views have always sprung from an intoxication of the senses. Brooke's work is cooly analytical, yet infused with wonder. Inspired by the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch and Italian vedutisti, Steven Brooke emulates rather than imitates his artistic predecessors. His goal is to acknowledge the vedute tradition while reshaping and extending it to accommodate the qualities of the photographer's art. Views of Rome is a unique guide to the most significant sites of ancient, Christian, and modern Roman architecture. Steven Brooke produced the work--the first collection of its kind in over one hundred years--during his tenure as a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. For this book, he has written detailed captions that provide the history, location, and, often, directions to each site. Contents: I). Donna Daix Wescoat: The authority of Roman architecture. II). John Varriano: Rome and the viewmaker's imagination. III). Malcolm Campbell: The vedute tradition. IV). Steve Brook: A photographic Vedute di Roma. V). Further readings. VI). Views of ancient Rome. VII). Views of christian Rome. VIII). Views of modern Rome. IX). Index. 86 fotos in black-and-white. 112 pag.. 1st edition. Paperback / flaps. Very good condition/Cover illustrated. 17,5cmx24cm oblong., Rizzoli International Publications, 2000, 3<

2000, ISBN: 0847857956

Paperback

[EAN: 9780847857951], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 14.95], [PU: Rizzoli International Publications, New York], ITALIA GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI VEDUTISTI VEDUTE DONNA DAIX WESCOAT… More...

[EAN: 9780847857951], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 14.95], [PU: Rizzoli International Publications, New York], ITALIA GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI VEDUTISTI VEDUTE DONNA DAIX WESCOAT JOHN VARRIANO MALCOLM CAMPBELL, Following the generations of view painters who recorded Rome for their time, Steven Brooke's collection of seductive and timeless images provides an extraordinary documentation of Rome in the late twentieth-century. He believes in the myth of Rome. The intensity of his gaze and the poetry of his visual expression are unusual among artists who have worked in the Eternal City. The photographs that comprise his 'Views of Rome' transcend the experience of any particular moment. Like the Rome of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the eighteenth-century printmaker, Brooke's Rome is ultimately a Rome of the imagination. His elegant monochromes bear witness to an enchantment with the past. The most memorable Roman views have always sprung from an intoxication of the senses. Brooke's work is cooly analytical, yet infused with wonder. Inspired by the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch and Italian vedutisti, Steven Brooke emulates rather than imitates his artistic predecessors. His goal is to acknowledge the vedute tradition while reshaping and extending it to accommodate the qualities of the photographer's art. Views of Rome is a unique guide to the most significant sites of ancient, Christian, and modern Roman architecture. Steven Brooke produced the work--the first collection of its kind in over one hundred years--during his tenure as a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. For this book, he has written detailed captions that provide the history, location, and, often, directions to each site. Contents: I). Donna Daix Wescoat: The authority of Roman architecture. II). John Varriano: Rome and the viewmaker's imagination. III). Malcolm Campbell: The vedute tradition. IV). Steve Brook: A photographic Vedute di Roma. V). Further readings. VI). Views of ancient Rome. VII). Views of christian Rome. VIII). Views of modern Rome. IX). Index. 86 fotos in black-and-white. 112 pag. Size: 17,5cmx24cm oblong, Books<