Fry Roger Intro (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xxix, 370 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Contents: Art-history as an academic study Sensibility Vitality Egyptian art Mesopotamian and Aegean art Negro art American art Chinese art Indian art Greek art.

HEAVY 3 VOL SET- EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D! Sm folio, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt crest to front boards, teg, deckled page edges, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus, VG (minor bruising & rubbing to spines & extrems, sl chafing & soiling to spines & boards, light tanning & light to moderate foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedowns of each vol, occasional sl cracking to gutters, moderate foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & moderate chipping to edges- some archival tape repairs, light to moderate tanning & soiling/staining to spines & cover edges, light to moderate chafing, minor insect damage to rear cover of vol 2, minor surface loss to rear cover of vol 3).

First edition. Alongside Vanessa Bell, Grant and Fry were the key artists of the Bloomsbury group and co-directors of the Omega Workshops. Grant's "daring innovations quickly earned him a leading position among avant-garde artists in Britain. His eclectic sensibility derived ideas from many sources, which he employed with great imaginative freedom" (ODNB). It was intended as the first instalment in the "Living Painters" series, however no further volumes were published. Woolmer 31. Quarto. With 24 half-tone photographic plates reproducing Grant's paintings. Original light brown quarter cloth, paper spine label, light brown board sides with front cover lettered and decorated in black by Grant. Binding lightly toned, label rubbed affecting a couple letters, surface scratches to rear cover, wear to extremities, light foxing to edges, minor marks to contents. A very good copy.