Search Results: Authors starting with B from Howard Karno Books Inc

São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, Editora EDUSP, 2011. b/w and color plates, chron., pict. wrps. OCLC: 809789772. A transfigured city, urban characters, animals, objects, mannequins, toolboxes, housewares, female nudes and their interpretations in plaster and wax, self-portraits etc. comprise the graphic production of Francisco Maringelli (b. Brazil 1959) since the early decade of 1980, sometimes gathering in the form of named series, while others, such as albums or in the form of advertisment posters and flyers with the same graphic content their own exhibitions. This book presents a collection of woodcuts and linoleum prints produced by the artist over the course of nearly thirty years of work, accompanied by text by Luiz Armando Bagolin and a lengthy interview with the author, in which he comments his career and his artistic process, and stated its concern with the formal synthesis in his graphic work. CONTENTS: Apresentação / Luiz Armando Bagolin -- Entrevista / Luiz Armando Bagolin --… Read More

Salvador: Secretaría de Cultura de la Presidencia, Dirección de Publicaciones e Impresos, 2012. color plates, bibliographical references (p. 375-379), ind., color pict. wrps. OCLC: 786443423. Marks the troubled relationship between artists and the power in a survery of art and artists in El Salvador from 1821 to the 1990s. An important reference for the history of art. "The central objective of this book is to give the reader a closer look on the artwork of Salvadoran artists that have been protagonists in the development of plastic arts in the 20th century, a time period immersed in chronological, aesthetic, generational and thematic strains (...) and the prevalence of the phenomena that defines the paradigms of our modern visual culture"--P. 1. Contents: Prologo / Ricardo Lindo - Introducción -- Capítulo 1. Precedentes decimonónicos (1821-1900) -- Capítulo 2. Inicios del siglo XX (1900-1921) -- Capítulo 3. En búsqueda de identidad (Los años 20) -- Capítulo 4. La impronta mexicana --… Read More

Buenos Aires: Secretaría de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Técnica, FADU, UBA, 1995. b/w plates, plans, bibl., indices, wrps. ISSN: 0328-2252.

Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia Facultad de Artes, 2007. b/w plates, illus., cat., bibls., fldg. wrps. The book cover wraps around the text and folds over it to close into a book that is 17 cm. Results from a three year (2004-2007) study on Colombia's Indian design that utilize serpent imagery. The author noted that the serpent is a recurring motif and that the way this animal is represented is closely related to each complex ideology and cosmographic universe of each culture and difficult to understand. Thus the author will only intention on this number is to show the graphic interpretations of the serpent in the different ethnic cultures of Colombia, an icon that reflects the anatomical characteristics of the ophidian. La presente edición es parte de la investigación sobre el diseño indígena colombiano, que se desarrolla con el propósito fundamental de dar a conocer su inmensa riqueza gráfica. En la etapa de recopilación de información se notó que un motivo recurrente es el de la… Read More

Hidalgo: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, 1999. color plates, color illus., diags., plans, bibliographical references (p. 139-143), pict. d.j. A historical and architectural description of the murals in the Actopan Convent.

Rio de Janeiro: Fundaçâo Pierre Verger, Museo de Arte Moderna, 2006. b/w plates., ports. The book presents the 1940's and 1950's Brazilian popular culture as celebrated by the photographer and ethnologist Verger (b. France 1902-1995) and especial selected to reflect the Brazilian reality of the post-war period while making evident the profound contrast between rural and urban life. The earliest pictures are dated 1946 and revel the cultural diversity and the social contrasts of Brazil through black images of everyday life, traditions and specially the poverty and social differences reflected in images that include the festivities of Bahia Todos os Santos in northeastern Brazil, the carnival of travesties, folklore, the architecture of the city of São Paulo in the 1950's, the various Afro-Brazilian ceremonies and rituals, the cordel (popular pamphlets) tradition along with others selected from the collection of the archives of the Fundação Pierre Verger. The book accompanies an exhibition.… Read More

La Paz: Fundación Cultural Quipus, 1994. b/w and color plates, ports., illus., facs., diags., maps., chron., bibl., color pict. d.j. Photographic essay of the Jesuit missions of the Chiquita region by photographer McFarren while traveling around the region with his family with a section devoted to the festivity of San Ignacio de Moxos a extraordinary example of religious syncretism between Pre-Columbian and Christian traditions. Includes an introductory text with the history of the Jesuits in Bolivia during 2 centuries until their expulsion of Spanish territories, highlighting the region's evangelization process and their cultural and social contributions in Bolivia and Paraguay.

México, D.F.: Revista Musical Mexicana, 1942. b/w plates, mus. nots., advts., pict. wrps. Many woodcuts by artist Abelardo Avila who was also an artist at the TGP (Taller de Gráfica Popular).

Holguín, Cuba: Casa Editora Cuadernos Papiro, 2017. handmade book with linotype text prints in stab-bound wrps. with thick soft silver cord in zig-zag pattern, front cover handpainted with water-color wash over printed text and design. Illustrations are hand-signed limited edition linoleum prints. Inserted one certificate of authentication with publisher stamp in red and number of volume written by hand in black ink. NUMBERED AND LIMITED EDITION OF 30/80 COPIES of poetry book printed on handmade paper. "La Casa Editores Cuadernos Papiro, especializada en libros-arte, ubicada en Holguín, Cuba, hace constar que Usted posee el ejemplar No. "30" de una tirada de 80 ejemplares del libro-arte "Testamento del pez", de Gustavo Baquero, impreso sobre papel hecho a mano. En cada hoja de papel se utilizaron técnicas tradicionales de elaboración, sin aditamentos químicos. Cada ejemplar fue ilustrado mediante la técnica del grabado sobre linóleo por José Emilio Leyva Azze. La impresión de textos se… Read More

México, D.F.: Pintarrayas; ENAP Xochimilco, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico UNAM, 1983. duo tone plates, draws., wrps., sig., FRONT COVER READS: Pintarrayas, 1: Aceves Navarro. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY AUTHOR OF LIMITED AND NUMBERED EDITION 127/500. Artist book with a collection of erotic drawings by artist Gilberto Aceves Navarro (b. México, 1931). "Pintarrajas es una coedición de Rafael Barajas y Felipe Leal con la Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas / UNAM"

Caracas: Consejo Nacional de la Cultura, 1999. b/w and color plates, chron., ports., bibl., color fldg. pict. wrps. A collection of works in ceramics by prominent contemporary artists from Venezuela. Text by influential art critic includes information on the works of the artists as well as a comprehensive study of the history of contemporary ceramics in Venezuela. Some of the artists featured include: María Pont, Esther Alzaibar, Augusto Lange, Gisela Tello, Tecla Tofano, Colette Delozanne and others.

México, D.F.: Casa Juan Pablos; Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, 2008. b/w plates, ports., bibl (p. 161-175), Plus color plates, color pict. fldg. wrps. A study on the new feminine consciousness in the visual arts in Mexico. The book looks feminist art, the artists, history of women in the visual arts. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000. Contents: El significado de la crítica feminista en las artes visuales -- Impacto cultural del feminismo en el arte de mujeres en México -- El arte feminista en México "El surgimiento del feminismo de la nueva ola constituyó un hecho sin precedentes que influyó sustancialmente en el ámbito de la cultura. La gestación de una nueva conciencia femenina en las artes visuales, plasmada en el discurso visual de las creadoras involucradas con el arte feminista, deviene un mérito histórico y artístico en la plástica de mujeres en México. Por primera vez, las creadoras utilizaron el arte como herramienta de concienciación y denuncia de la condición femenina… Read More

São Paulo: Fundo Educativo Brasileiro; Braintec, 1983. color plates, maps, ind., wrps. Guide to the historic colonial buildings in Olinda and Recife.

Mérida: Menta Ediciones, 2011. Impresión digital / papel de algodón. Encuadernación acordeón japonés con pastas de tela + piedra. LIMITED EDITION OF 7. "For a while I was interested in photographing the singular, which made me stop my pace for an instant. Afterwards the routes were more erratic, I went out to look for what I imagined. The desire to explore the relationship between text and image has led me to construct narratives; Figures that are derived with intertwined tenses. I've been looking for a rope for now, almost never decisive moments. My work needs a set, multiple projections, that follow one another and that are simultaneous at the same time. To do this, I use the disciplines of photography, literature, a bit of computer graphics and editorial design. I'm interested in exploring tangible and intangible territories from the usual and infraordinary, finding micro-histories that create space-time ruptures and with it... new territories. So, I'm interested in continuing to set up… Read More

Mérida: Menta Ediciones, 2017. Libro de artista con 10 Impresión digital / papel de algodón Hahnemühle + Caja archivero forrada en papel de algodón. LIMITED EDITION OF 5. "For a while I was interested in photographing the singular, which made me stop my pace for an instant. Afterwards the routes were more erratic, I went out to look for what I imagined. The desire to explore the relationship between text and image has led me to construct narratives; Figures that are derived with intertwined tenses. I've been looking for a rope for now, almost never decisive moments. My work needs a set, multiple projections, that follow one another and that are simultaneous at the same time. To do this, I use the disciplines of photography, literature, a bit of computer graphics and editorial design. I'm interested in exploring tangible and intangible territories from the usual and infraordinary, finding micro-histories that create space-time ruptures and with it... new territories. So, I'm interested in… Read More

Mérida: Menta Ediciones, 2011. Impresión digital / papel de algodón. Encuadernación japonesa sin tapas + caja de madera forrada. LIMITED EDITION OF 5. "For a while I was interested in photographing the singular, which made me stop my pace for an instant. Afterwards the routes were more erratic, I went out to look for what I imagined. The desire to explore the relationship between text and image has led me to construct narratives; Figures that are derived with intertwined tenses. I've been looking for a rope for now, almost never decisive moments. My work needs a set, multiple projections, that follow one another and that are simultaneous at the same time. To do this, I use the disciplines of photography, literature, a bit of computer graphics and editorial design. I'm interested in exploring tangible and intangible territories from the usual and infraordinary, finding micro-histories that create space-time ruptures and with it... new territories. So, I'm interested in continuing to set up… Read More

São Paulo: Perfeitura de São Paulo; Gobierno do Estado São Paulo; Museu da Casa Brasileira, 2011. color plates, plans, maps, elevations, grphs., color pict. wrps. Paper slipcase. OCLC: 778202573. The informal city constitutes the central body of this exhibition held at the Museu da Casa Brasileira and the presentations at the two seminars. Detailed blueprints, architecture, statistical data and definitions of social, political and spacial characteristics are shown. in reference to the policies developed in recent decades by the municipality of São Paulo (Brazil) to deal with the situation of slums in the city. - of that part of the city which does not have legal urbanization - where subdivision of the land is uncontrolled and the buildings have no planning, resulting in so called spontaneous settlements, having little or no nfrastructure and services. PORTUGUESE, ENGLISH AND ITALIAN TEXT. Contents; Introduction, Marisa Barda / The Formal and Informal City in the 21st Century, Marta Lagrecca,… Read More

São Paulo: Edizioni del Milione, 1959. b/w and color plates, frontis. port., pict. d.w. Slipcase. Fine book on Argentine Jewish artist. FRONT COVER READS: "LASAR SEGALL: PAINTER, ENGRAVER, SCULPTOR"

Brazil: Banco Sudameris Brasil, 1987. b/w and color plates, ports., cloth boards, color pict. d.j. Interesting work on art of photography in Brazil- past and present.

São Paulo: SUDAMERIS--Banco Francês e Italiano para a América do Sul, 1978. color and b/w plates, illus., ind., d.w. Basic work on subject. First Edition.