Mellor David Edited By (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour), 1 map, facsimiles, portraits (some colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Lower right corner lightly bumped. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. Profusely illustrated. *** "Presents a collection of the works of English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre, Cecil Beaton (1904-1980). Beaton is best known for his fashion photographs and society portraits. He worked as a staff photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue, during the 1930's and 40's, in addition to photographing celebrities in Hollywood. Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother was his favorite Royal subjects, in addition to taking the famous wedding pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Included are articles on various aspects of Beaton's art. The essay writers discuss Beaton's love of theatricality and artifice and its evidence in his style: subjects posed in period costume, shot against or reflected in mirrors, the photographer's own reflection visible in a photo, ironic and sometimes severely unflattering angles. Even his wartime photos have the oddly displaced quality of a stage set." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Beaton's beauties: self-representation, authority and British culture, by Dr David Mellor; Chronology: snapshots in time: a working life, by Terence Pepper; A fly in amber: Beaton as diarist, by Hugo Vickers; An instinct for style: the fashion photography of Cecil Beaton, by Philippe Garner; Landscape, nation and ideology: the role of the garden in Cecil Beaton's art, by Ian Jeffrey; Eggie's pupil: Beaton as artist, by Michael Parkin; The tyranny of the eye: the theatrical imagination of Cecil Beaton, by Ian Jeffrey and Dr. David Miller; Open secrets: identity, persona, and Cecil Beaton, by Stuart Morgan; [1.] Colour plates; [2.] The catalogue; Bibliography of Cecil Beaton's works; General bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photographic acknowledgements; Index of lenders; General index. Size: 4to.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Firmly bound paper cover with a plain black cloth spine, general light hndling wear.

Near very good Paperback. Covers yellowed and grubby, spine cocked, corners creased, pages slightly yellowed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition, very minor wear to jacket. Not common.

paperback. Condition: Good.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1986. First edition. Hardback edition. Barbican Art Gallery in association with Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1986. First edition. Hardback edition. Hardback, quarto; grey cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 256 pages. Illustrated in colour and b&w. English. 285x235mm. 1.5kg. Very good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear to jacket, tear along the lower forecorner of rear panel, slight yellowing to white jacket, not price-clipped; very slight spotting to endpapers. The catalogue for the expansive retrospective of Beaton's work at the Barbican in 1986. The exhibition, which featured some 700 objects, looked at Beaton's photography, fashion work, theatre and film designs, literature, paintings, drawings and objects. It recreated the creative world of the artist. The well illustrated catalogue includes essays by leading experts on Beaton. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller.…

Condition: Very Good. Reprinted, 4to., pp.144, pictorial wrappers, colour and b/w illustrations; sunning to spine, lightly rubbed, else very good indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Published: 1990. 257 pp. A rare, hard-to-find, out-of-print, collectible gem! A wonderful copy and dust jacket! A great, almost spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy and dust jacket with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Dust jacket shows minimal wear around edges. Essentially solidly bound copy with minimal external wear. Clean text on bright, crisp pages. Mild warping at center of book. Dust jacket shows very minor wear around places. Slightly slanted spine. Synopsis: Ramsey was the greatest of the remarkable generation of Cambridge philosophers and logicians which included G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Maynard Keynes. Before his tragically early death in 1930 at the age of twenty-six, he had done seminal work in mathematics and economics as well as in logic and philosophy. This volume, with a new and extensive introduction by D. H. Mellor, contains all Ramsey's previously published writings on philosophy and the foundations of mathematics. The latter gives the definitive form and defence of the reduction of mathematics to logic undertaken in Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica; the former includes the most profound and original studies of universals, truth, meaning, probability, knowledge, law and causation, all of which are still constantly referred to, and still essential reading for all serious students of these subjects. David Deadman (Jacket Design); Lettice (Photo of Frank Ramsey by) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. MELLOR, Dr. David [edited by] [256] pp. Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1986 11 3/8" x 9 3/8" The work of Cecil Beaton, best known for his photography of fame and fashion, is being shown in copious quantity in a lavish exhibition in London's Barbican Center. Visitors wander through 20 galleries, each with its own decor, that display 700 photographs, paintings, costumes, drawings and other items created by this extraordinarily imaginative and keen-eyed figure, who died in 1980 at the age of 76. Beaton's artistic genius projected a special cachet to portraits of British kings and queens, of Picasso, Dali, Joe Louis, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, to name only a few of the people who dropped by to face his cameras. His infatuation with the Edwardian age into which he was born was translated into costumes for both the stage and the film hit versions of the musical, ''My Fair Lady.''.…