The Art-Makers of Nineteenth-Century America
by Lynes, Russell
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Atheneum, 1970. Cloth, xii, 514 pages, illustrations, portraits; 27 cm. Topstained red. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, lightly nicked at the crown/spine, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. An attractive copy. CONTENTS: A point of departure; Art in a cold climate; Parthenons for the people; The end of a beginning; The statue-makers; The age of Downing; Little people in big places; Big people in little places; Convention and invention; Bronze was for heroes; The eye on the object; A quartet of romantics; The art-makers as tastemakers; Palaces, palaces, palaces; A point of arrival. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.
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Details
- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012997
- Title
- The Art-Makers of Nineteenth-Century America
- Author
- Lynes, Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Patronage / Individual Collectors; American / 4. Late 19th Century; American / 3. Neo-Classical & Romantic;
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