A catalogue of Anat Beter's works: Three, Two, One; Sea-Shore; David: It's true. Richter," ; With Love to Dad and Mom; Dr. Sound; Anana; Sister within a Brainstorming; Men at Home.

This book presents a wide range of images, showing the principal aspects of Jewish artistic traditions across two millenia. Introduction by Bezalel Narkiss.

From the Hashmonean period marking the awakening of the national consciousness until the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E., Jewish official art remained non-figurative. The priestly class ruled the nation and were primarily concerned with the purity of the religion and the cult as a whole.

Book #5 in Cassell's Introducing Archaeology Series. This volumes is a brief but comprehensive survey that includes most of the famous mosaics of antiquity, with notes on the technical processes involved and the problems of preservation. The mosaics described in the book include mosaics found in the land of Israel and in synagogues.

The muses - the nine companions of Apollo - were Greek deities of poetry, literature, music and dance, and later also of astronomy, philiosophy and various intellectual pursuits. Also no particular Muse was associated with mosaic art, it is from their name, paradoxically, that the word "mosaic" was originally derived.

Catalogue. 15 drawings by Anna Ticho: The Road to Jerusalem, Thistles, Large Flower Piece, Judea, Mountainous Landscape, Stony Landscape, Silent Landscape, Grey and Yellow, Village Near Jerusalem, and more.

Embroidery patterns collected from the central and southern regions of Israel - from villages and Bedouin tribes.

This album presents a comprehensive selection of works by the Israeli sculptur Arie Resnik: Mother and Child, Prey, Heron, Gazelle and Fawn, Leopard, Flute-Player, Lovers, Motherhood, and more. Foreword by Arie Lerner.

The work and life of Israeli painters and sculptors. Includes 55 colour plates, 96 two tone photographs, and 48 pages of introductory text. Among the artists included in this book: Reuven Rubin, Nahum Gutman, Haim Gliksberg, Aaron Avni, Menahem Shemi, Chana Orloff, Mordechai Levanon, Israel Paldi, Mordecai Ardon, Marcel Janco, Joseph Zaritzky, Yehezkel Streichman, Arie Aroch, Avigdor Steimatsky, Dov Feigin, Moshe Mokadi, Jitzhak Danziger, Avigdor Arikha, Yosl Bergner, Castel, Agam, Siona Shimshi, Raffi Lavie, Ygael Tumarkin, and more.

200 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, oblong 21X18cm, good condition: some age marks, some rubbing to jacket.

The Land of Israel has a long history but a short immediate past. The story of Israeli art only really begins in 1906, when Professor Boris Schatz - past Court Painter to the King of Bulgaria - established the "Bezalel" Academy of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem.

When the philatelic Service commemorated the signature of the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty with the issue of first-day covers, a number were sent to Israeli artists. Those covers returned and donated to the Israel Security Fund ("Libby"), and bought ar auction by the Fischer family. This envelopes were presented in an exhibition at the Postal and Philatelic Pavillion at the Eretz Israel Museum, and this its catalogue. The preface and captions are in English, Hebrew and Arabic.

Elsa Polak was deported to Auschwitz in April 1944. This book is an album of sculptures that were created during the artist's long years of recollection.

Exhibition catalogue. Includes 40 of Avigdor Arikha's works, among them: The Library, Peppers, Anne Reading, Self-Portrait Drawing, Mourning for Alix, books, Suzanne, The Square in June, Mirror on the Wall, Mount Zion: Cemeteries, and more.

Pictures of the murals that cover three walls of the Brachman Community Center in Kfar Uriah and are the creation of Avraham Ofek.

Exhibition catalogue with 32 of Yosl Bergner's paintings. The catalogue also Includes biographical notes, a short preface by Nissim Aloni, and an introduction by Carmela Rubin. All texts and captions are in both English and Hebrew.   

43 color paintings of Marc Chagall with an iintroduction about his life and work.

"When Chagall paints, one is not sure if he is asleep or if he is awake. He must have an angel somewhere in his head." It was no one less than Pablo Picasso who attempted to describe the phenomenon Chagall in this way, and his words correspond to what Chagall once said of himself. "I am a painter and an unconsciously conscious painter so to speak."
 

12 drawings that show Ghetto children and other Ghetto figures.

A catalogue presenting paintings that were made by Lea Grundig in 1941 in the camp of the British army in Atlit. In the grotesque paintings, Lea Grundig shows the grotesque scenary of lifw in the camp, in a community of suffer of 30 wifes, living together in a barrack. Captions are in German only.

28 pages, paperback, 29.5 cm tall, brand new. ISBN 978-3-00-030003-5.

Dr. Freund tells the story of the famous Jerusalem windows which were designed by Marc Chagall, the renowned artist. His birth in the Russian town of Vitabsk, his devotion to the Bible, and his travels through Egypt, Syria, and the land of Israel and countries of the Bible are recalled; the five steps preparatory to making the design and the selection of colors are discussed; and the process involved in making the glass and achieving the desired shades is explained. Thus are given the art, science, and interpretation of the windows, which are based on the Biblical account of the twelve sons of Jacob. The book is particularly dedicated to young people. Illustrated with 13 plates.

64 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition.

Der grosse franzosische Maler Marc Chagall liess seine Staffelei plozlich stehen, kniete auf dem Boden nieder und began, seltsam geformte, bunte Stoffstucke, Papierfetzen und andered Material auf ein grosses weisses Blatt Papier zu werfen.

24 line drawings of different animals.

Potraits of Israeli artists as seen in the photographs of Avraham Hay. The artists are photographed in their studios. The photographed artists include Yigal Tumarkin, Yehezkel Streichman, Buky Schwartz, Tamar Rikman, Menashe Kadishman, Ofra Zimbalista, Avigdor Steimatzky, Marcel Janco, Yoseph Zaritsky, Moshe Gershunni, Avigdor Arikha, Micha Ullman, and more. Introduction and captions are in both English and Hebrew.