Search Results: Latin American Art from Design Books

Sao Paulo, Brazil: Fotoline Ftda , 1987. This is an about very good hardcover copy with some wear to the corners. Signed and inscribed by the author to a friend on the front endpaper, dated May 19, 1987. Otherwise very clean inside and out. A bit smoky. Text completely in Portuguese. This catalog presents the work of 11 Brazilian painters. 10 men and one woman. The artists are: Blanco y Couto, Cazarre, Christina Motta, Elvio Santiago, Henry Vitor, Jorge Branco, Otoni Gali Rosa, Sarro, Sinval, Tomze, and Vilela. Each artist has a section of color plates and a short text about their work by the author. Biographical sketches of the artists, black & white portraits. 9" square, 99 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Curitiba, Brazil , 1980. This is a very good softcover copy with just light cover wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in PORTUGUESE. This catalog was prepared to accompany the 2nd Exhibition of Brazilian drawings, held in Curitiba in the summer of 1980 at the Sala de exposicoes do Teatro Guaira. Illustrated in black & white. 60 artists work included in the exhibition. Thumbnail biographical sketches of the artists + 1 black & white illustration. 9" high X 6" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Bogota, Colombia: Ministerio de Cultura, 1998. This is a very good hardcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Spanish. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. (No CD ROM). This was the 37th annual Salon in Bogota. There are over 130 artists included with over 250 works of art. Biographical sketches of the artists. Descriptions of works. Exhibition histories for each artist. Alphabetical artist index. Limited edition of 3000 copies. 11" high X 8" wide, 360 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Sao Paulo, Brazil: Fundacao Bienal, 1997. This is a very good hardcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Portuguese. This is the complete catalog for the 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura in Sao Paulo, Brasil in 1997. Exhibition curated by Luis Fisberg and Lucio Gomes Machado. Illustrated throughout in black & white with hundreds of photographs, drawings, plans, elevations, models, etc. 11" square, 363 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Bogota, Colombia: Chrysler Colmotores, 1978. This is a very good hardcover copy (with a clear mylar cover), but without dust jacket as issued. Front blank endpaper missing. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Spanish. Edited by Roberto J. Herrera and Maria Carrizosa de Umaña. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this copy unnumbered. 14" high X 10" wide, 321 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Limited Edition 1000 Copies. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Fundacion Alberto E. M. Robirosa, 1998. This is a fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket with no wear at all. Signed in ink, by the artist, A. Benavidez Bedoya and briefly inscribed, on the title-page, just below his printed name. Text in Spanish and English. A. Benavidez Bedoya (1951- ) is an Argentine printmaker known for his erotic prints. Illustrated in black & white with many plates. List of illustrations. Biographical sketch. Exhibition history. Limited edition of 2000 copies. 12" high X 10" wide, 116 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Signed by Artist.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Miami, FL: Durban Segnini Gallery, 2015. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in English and Spanish. This catalog was prepared to accompany an exhibition held at Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami, Florida, July 2015 on the occasion of the Gallery's XXIII anniversary. Artists featured: Carmelo Arden Quin -- Omar Carreño -- Carlos Cruz-Diez -- Fernando De Szyszlo -- Gyula Kosice -- Julio Le Parc -- Raúl Lozza -- Mateo Manaure -- César Paternosto -- Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar -- Omar Rayo -- Carlos Rojas -- Fanny Sanín -- Jesús Soto -- Manolo Vellojín. Illustrated throughout in color. 11" high X 9" wide, 127 pages. . Soft Cover. Fine.

Bologna, Italy: FMR/ Aletheia Editores , 2007. This is a fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket with virtually no wear. Completely clean. Text in English. Essay by Miguel Telles Antunes. The subject of the book is the Portuguese natural historian Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira. Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (1756- 1815) was a naturalist born in the Portuguese colony of Brazil. He undertook an extensive journey which crossed the interior of the Amazon Basin to Mato Grosso, between 1783 and 1792. During this journey, he described the agriculture, flora, fauna, and native inhabitants. Illustrated in color throughout. Bibliography. 12" square, 119 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2008. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. The spine is not creased, binding firm. This book is the third in the series, published by the International Program, for the Museum of Modern Art. Edited by Ariel Jiménez. Essays by Hugo Achugar, Roldán Esteva-Grillet, Elías Iturrieta, Marco Negrón, Luis Pérez-Oramas, Sandra Pinardi, Marco Pintó, Marta Traba, and Rafael Castillo Zapata, among others. Illustrated in color and black & white. Chronology. Bibliography. 10" high X 6" wide, 392 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Fine.

Mexico City: Paginas del Siglo XX, 1981. This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear, one soft vertical crease to the rear cover. Completely clean. Text in SPANISH. This is the second edition of 2000 copies published in 1981. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Bibliography. 9" high X 7" wide, 122 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . 2nd Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Zurich: Atlantis Verlag, 1971. This is a very good hardcover copy in black and white pictorial boards with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Binding firm. Slight wear to corners. Text in English and German. This survey covers all of the Americas, from the Arctic to the Antartcic. Sections on sculpture, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, etc. Selected bibliography. 173 black & white plates. Chronological tables and maps. 9" square, 427 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Latin Collector , 2005. This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean. Text in English. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at Latin Collector in New York from March 30 to May 13, 2005. Essays by Jose Roca and Julia P. Herzberg. Illustrated in color. Exhibition card invite and publicity sheets laid in. 11" high X 8" wide, 58 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.. Soft Cover. Fine.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art,, 1966. This is a very good hardcover copy bound in quarter black leather with gilt title on the spine, gray embossed linen cloth boards and a very good brown paper-covered hardshell slipcase with a printed paper title label. Completely clean. Top page-edge gilt. This is the limited edition of 500 numbered signed copies. Signed in ink, by the author, Alan R. Sawyer, on the colophon. Illustrated in black & white with some color. 11" high X 9" wide, 144 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Sao Paulo, Brazil: Editora Marca D'Agua, 1988. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket, the spine a little sunned. Very clean inside and out. Text in Portuguese. Texts by Margarida Contra Gordinho, and a few others. Georges Wambach, (1901-1965) was born in Antwerp and moved to Brasil in 1935. He was self taught, but became well known after his death, when galleries began collecting and showing his work in Rio de Janeiro in the 1980's. His subjects are landscapes and older buildings in São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, Ceará, Bahia, Amazonas, Acre, Pará, etc. About 79 color plates + a number of black & white vintage photographs of the artist and family, colleagues, etc. Most of the works are in the Banco Itaú collection. Bibliography. Brief exhibition history and museum collections. 9" high X 11" wide, 139 pages. Scarce. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very… Read More

Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1966. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear, a few short closed tears to jacket edges. Completely clean inside and out. Text and plates all completely clean, no tanning or yellowing to page edges. Text in Spanish. Stated first edition. Illustrated with several color plates + hundreds of black & white line drawings + photographs. 11" high X 8" wide, 262 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Philadelphia,PA: The Art Alliance Press, 1975. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. The jacket has some light foxing on the verso of the jacket, just barely visible at the lower edge of the white jacket flaps. Signed and inscribed by the author, Eleanor Ingalls Christensen, in ink on the half title-page. Also laid in an autograph letter from the author to a prominent New York gallerist who had helped with this book. The letter is dated March 1975 and in it the author says that she wanted the recipient to have it, before the actual publication date of April 30, 1975. Also a photocopied publisher's presss release for the book. Bibliography. Illustrated in color with 36 plates, and in black & white with 38 illus. 12" high X 10" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

La Paz, Bolivia: Printed Privately at the University Press, 1952. This is a very good softcover copy with only light wear in pictorial wrappers. Very clean inside and out. Signed and inscribed by the author to a well known art dealer who operated art galleries in New York and Washington, D.C. specializing in Latin American modern art. Text in Spanish. Illustrated with 2 color plates and 18 monochromes. This is a limited numbered edition of 1000 copies. Over 30 artists covered in this survey. 11" high X 8" wide, 131 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Signed by Author. Original Wraps. Very Good.

Italy: Olivetti, 1990. This is a very good hardcover copy in a good only dust jacket. The jacket is all there, but has several punctures or slits, mostly on the back panel of the jacket. The whole jacket has been repaired and is now in a mylar protector. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Spanish. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Palacio de Velazquez in Madrid from October of 1990 to January of 1991. Essays by about a dozen scholars including: Roberto Garcia Moll, Beatriz de la Fuente, Martha Carmona Macias, Sonia Lombardo de Ruiz, Clara Luz Diaz Oyarzabal, Federica Sodi Miranda, Felipe Solis Olguin, Marcia Castro Real, Amalia Cardos de Mendez, Carolyn Baus de Czitrom, Maria Dolores Flores Villatores and Jesus Narez. Checklist of the exhibition with 126 works catalogued, often with extensive entries. All works illustrated in color photographs. Bibliography. Maps. 12" high X 9" wide, 310 pages. Heavy item, foreign shipping extra. This book will be securely… Read More

Lima, Peru: Banco de Crédito del Per, 1991. This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket, just a little wear around the edges. Completely clean. Text in SPANISH. Illustrated in black & white and color.Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 169 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Sao Paulo, Brazil: Cia. Melhoramentos de Sao Paulo, 1998. This is a fine hardcover copy with a fine dust jacket in virtally as new condition. Completely clean inside and out. Text in Portuguese and English. 282 illustrations including 112 in color. Edited by Aracy Amaral. Essays by Adolpho Leirner, Maria Alice Milliet, Ana Maria Belluzzo, Ferreira Gullar, Paulo Sérgio Duarte and Alexandre Wollner. Chronology. Biographiical sketches of the artists. Bibliography.11" square, 364 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.