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Men Of Art
Craven, Thomas · New York
- Author
- Craven, Thomas
- Date
- 1936
- Place
- New York
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo. (9 3/8" x 6 1/4") Full dark, dark blue morocco, 5 compartments with gilt, 2nd panel and title & author in 3rd panel, remaining panels with parallel gilt rule on all edges, marble covers & endpapers, top edge gilt
- Format
- Bookplate of William Byford Taylor, Jr.
- Category
- Architecture, Art & Craft
- Record
- S.I.2956
Men of Art
Author: Craven, Thomas
8vo.(6" x 9.125") 1936. Craven, Thomas. New York: Simon and Schuster. half dark blue morocco with generous corners, blind stamp rule to all leather edges, over blue moire boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title in gilt framed second compartment, gilt author to gilt framed third compartment, double gilt rule frames to all others, single gilt rule to head and foot of spine. Bark blue printed endpapers, top edge gilt. Bookplate to of William Byford Taylor, Jr. to front pastedown. Forty photographic illustrations. A beautifully bound book. Seventh Edition.
Chapters include: The World before Giotto, Giotto, Florence, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Venice The Courtesan City, Titian, The Early Flemings, Rubens, The Dutch, Rembrandt, Three Spaniards, El Greco, Velasquez, Goya, Englishmen, Hogarth, Blake, Face-Painters and Artists, Turner, An American Master, The French, Delacroix, Daumier, Impressionism, Cezanne, Modernism, Hopes and Fears for Americans.
From Wiki: Thomas Craven (January 6, 1888 - February 27, 1969) was an American author, critic and lecturer, who promoted the work of American Regionalist painters, Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, among others. He was known for his caustic comments and being the "leading decrier of the School of Paris."
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