Umbilical Cord of History: Paintings of Zhang Xiaogang
Hong Kong: Hanart T Z Gallery, 2004. First Edition. Softcover (Outsized). Additional handling charge for heavy item. More
Art & Architecture
Creating Your Home With Style
Vienna, Austria: Metroverlag, 2013. First English Edition. Hardcover. Adolf Loos was an eloquent voice against the squandering of fine materials, ornamentation and unnecessary embellishments. The rational underpinnings of his later assertion that ornament is crime first appear in these polemical thrusts at the stylized work of the Viennese secessionists. Few..... More
Rights of Future Generations: Conditions
Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. Catalogue of the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennal. The present state of environmental crisis is not an accident of history, but rather the result of a war waged along social, technical, and mental lines—a war against future generations. Climate change is the symptom..... More
Poor But Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West
Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2014. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 24 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is as divided as ever. The passengers of the low-budget airlines go east for stag parties, and they go West for work; but the East stays East, and West stays West..... More
Where Time Turns Black
Hong Kong: Asia One Books, 2017. Agnes Shuk-mei Ku (photographs). First Edition. Hardcover (Outsized). "This book begins with personal experience and points to our common future. Through images and words, it expresses my care and love for my mother and allows me to share my observations, feelings and ideas about..... More
According To What?
Tokyo: Mori Art Museum, 2009. Softcover. Ai Weiwei is one of the most provocative figures in contemporary Chinese art. He has been active in a wide variety of creative endeavors, not only in art but also architecture, landscape design, publishing and exhibition design. Published in conjunction with his first exhibition..... More
The Architecture of Happiness
London: Penguin Books, 2014. Cat Johnston (cover illustrations). Reissued Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture..... More
Classic Essays on Photography
New Haven: Leete's Island Books, 1980. Fifth Printing. Paperback. This anthology gathers into a single volume 30 essays which embody the history of photography. Contributors include : Niepce, Daguerre, Fox Talbot, Poe, Baudelaire, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, Weston, Abbot, Barthes, and others. Their writings encompass the technical origin and development of..... More
Painting of Central Asia (Treasures of Asia series)
Geneva: Skira, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover (cloth). Stock image shown. More
The Landscape of Waste
Milan: Skira Editore SpA, 2011. First Edition. Softcover. The first book ever published to survey waste as a building material. Focusing on the projects, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the language and forms of a new architectural language and offers scientific and non-biased overviews to..... More
Perfect Strangers (Issue One)
San Francisco, California: Perfect Strangers, 2018. Softcover. Delve into our first issue to read about Korean dramas in Panama. Or English literature in Tehran. Or how an Argentinian-Thai couple work together to create locally-inspired desserts in Shanghai. Or how about a Turkish entrepreneur’s global vision for streaming movies? Or the..... More
Japan: The Art of Living (A Sourcebook of Japanese Style for the Western Home)
Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1991. Shin Kimura (photos). First Edition, 3rd printing. Hardcover (Outsized). More
Turner in the British Museum: Drawings and Watercolours
London: British Museum Publications Limited, 1976. First Paperback Edition. Second Printing. Paperback (Outsized). More
A Guide To Buying Antiques, Arts & Crafts in Singapore
Singapore: Times Books International, 1988. Softcover. More
Disasters of War: Callot, Goya, Dix
London: The South Bank Centre, 1998. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. series of etchings from three artists are the subject of this dramatic book. Jacques Callot's Miseries of War, published in 1633; Goya's The Disasters of War, rendered between 1810 and 1820; and Otto Dix's War, last issued in 1924, are..... More
Buying and Understanding New Oriental Rugs
Philadelphia: Running Press, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. More
Dreams of a Toad (蟾蜍夢多)
Hong Kong: Arts and Culture Outreach, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. “A mosquito barges into your sweet dreams, a gecko hides itself at home, a whale sweeps the town, a wild boar intrudes a kid’s wear shop in a mall, a bat feasts on apples in a supermarket…to these underwhelming animals..... More
Creative Planning of Educational Facilities
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co, 1969. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. More
Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception
London: Thames & Hudson, 2018. Reprint. Paperback. During the 1870s and 1880s, a loose group of French artists, including Pissarro, Monet, and Renoir, adopted a style of painting and subject matter that challenged the art prompted by the Academie Francaise and the Salons where "official" assumptions about the meaning of..... More
Urban Portraits, New York 1986 - 1992
Oxford: Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 1992. Paperback (Outsized). Signed by the artist. Includes a large color slide (20 x 25 cm) of Jacklin's painting, Sun and Rain Over Sixth Avenue, in a clear plastic protective folder that is affixed to the binding between front cover and first page. Published..... More
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House : Writings 1973 - 1994
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995. Trade Paperback. Chosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized internationally for his work in video and sound installations. This book brings together a selection of essays, notebook..... More
'Views' a.k.a. 'The Quintessence of Dust'
Hong Kong: 2018. Digital Print. Medium: Graphite pencil on drawing paper. Following the successful launch of Hong Kong Noir (Blacksmith Books 2018), a collection of dark fictional stories set in various places in Hong Kong, Bleak House Books asked some local artists to pick their favorite stories from the book..... More
American Masters: The Voice and the Myth
New York: Ridge Press / Random House, 1973. Hans Namuth (photos). First Edition, First Printing (stated). Hardcover (Outsized). Photographic essays on Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Andrew Wyeth, Joseph Cornell. More
A Picture History of Archeology
London: Thames & Hudson, 1958. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Cloth. 310 illustrations in photogravure, 16 plates in full colour Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. More
The Art of Calligraphy & Lettering: Master techniques for traditional and contemporary handwritten styles (Collector's Series)
Irvine, CA: Walter Foster, 2011. First Edition. Paperback (Outsized). In a world saturated by computer-generated fonts, more and more artists and crafters are turning to the organic art of hand lettering. The Art of Calligraphy & Lettering offers a broad scope of instruction, starting with basic calligraphic alphabets and moving..... More
