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

Garza García, N.L., México: Galería Ramis Barquet, 1994. color plates, bio., chron., bibliographical references (p. 125-132), pict. wrps. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000. English only. Text by Dan Cameron on Chilean artist (b. 1958) who moved to New York in 1981. Tacla's synthesized landscapes borrow from different stylistic influences. This is his second major solo show in Mexico, the first was in 1993 at the Museo de Monterrey. $75.00 Hardbound Edition. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXTS.

Montevideo: Libreria Linardi y Risso, 1995. b/w and tinted b/w plates, ports., plan, facs., maps, bibl., pict. d.j. in pict. slipcase. LIMITED, NUMBERED EDITION OF 1,500.

Makti City, Philippines: Ayala Foundation, 2004. Color photos, bibl., color pict. wrps. This books describes and colorfully illustrates its magnificent collection of dioramas of Philippine history executed in 1967 and completed in 1971.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Nova Buenos Aires, N.d.. b/w illus., map, tbls., ind.,bibl., wrps.

Buenos Aires: Manrique Zago Ediciones, 1996. color plates, bibl., pict. d.w. Highlights the holdings and history of some of the major art museums in Buenos Aires. EXCELLENT REFERENCE.

Buenos Aires: La Marca Editora, 2006. ind., b/w plates, facs., illus., ind., color pict. wrps. OCLC: 148781295. Visual dictionary of the sign speech of the Argentineans, Without words. Argentine Gestiario, an essential tool with more than three hundred images. Divertida guía de las diferentes formas de usar las manos y la cara para hacer gestos que tienen un significado particular en la Argentina. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT.

Buenos Aires: La Marca Editoria, 2004. b/w and color plates, bibl., chron, ind., color pict. wrps. Exploration of all things stencil--from stencil art's first appearance in Argentina in 10,000 B.C., to the ways in which stencils are used today: as a reaction to a socio-political situation, as an artform, as poetic terrorism. Contains a significant documentation of contemporary stencil graffiti from the city of Buenos Aires. Texts by Kalil Llamazares, Hakim Bay and the artist noted political art activist, Juan Carlos Romero. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT.

Buenos Aires: La Marca Editora, 2006. ind., b/w and color plates, facs., color pict. wrps. OCLC: 71200589. Compilations of graphic material, posters, books, magazines, political campaign material related to Peron and the epoch. Compilación de material gráfico proveniente de artículos comerciales, libros y campañas políticas, que muestran la influencia del peronismo en la vida argentina. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT.

Buenos Aires: La Marca Editora, 2006. ind., b/w and color plates, facs., chron., color pict. wrps. OCLC: 124066720. Anthology of left wing grapics, especially posters and magazines, in Argentina from 1890-2001. A helpful chronology is included. Antología de gráficas utilizadas por diferentes movimientos de izquierda en Argentina en varios lugares, objetos, como propaganda política o manifestación de simpatias. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT.

La Serena, Chile: Ediciones del Museo Arqueológico de la Serena, 1970. b/w illus., plans, maps.,ind., wrps.

Santiago de Chile: Velcro Ediciones, 2021. hand-made accordion-fold structure of double-sided pages with a collage of illuminated prints, tipped-in color pieces of paper, sewn motifs, red strings and texts. Sheets connected with red strings. Includes 1 half fold leaf with typed text and artist bio/statement, tipped-in artist stamp, loose as issued. Front cover with cut-out square and red paper ribbon as wrps. Exposed sewing hand binding. Domestic printing, machine sewing on paper, graphite pencil and collage. bone paper and leporello format. Together in printed and stamped brown bag. EDITION OF ONE. Hand made artist book by artist Magdalena Isaacson Labarthe. Velcro Edicones created by Magdalena Isaacson Labarthe and Luis Navarro Figueroa, in 2017 to cross the photographic and audiovisual document, design and the visual arts "We imagine new languages that open active reflections for the creation of a binding society, aware of its environment and restorer of its past". Drawings using weaving and… Read More

Santiago de Chile: Velcro Ediciones, 2022. b/w and color plates, frontis., ports., facs., draws., QR codes, saddle stich bound, b/w pict. wrps., exposed stitched binding (Japanese bookbinding), hand bound, digital printing. The Memory of Objects. Expansions of the popular uprising in Chile _ October 2019.This traveling work of the 5th of 6 mail art projects is currently in transit. and the publisher developed a pocket edition to support its dissemination. This project has us flying and sharing different experiences and activities thanks to its "custodies" who take care of and transfer the work accompanied by our follow-up. It is a postal work and collective archive that has been traveling for a year now and strengthening a platform of records available on its website. This work is born from our experience of collection and poetic-political resistance in the Plaza de la Dignidad and its surroundings during the 2019 revolt and from the desire to put the resistance of other territories and communities… Read More

Queretaro: Poder Ejecutivo del Estado de Querétaro, 2010. color & b/w plates, (some fldg.), maps, diags., chts., grphs., plans, elevations, bibliographical references (pages 219-227), color pict. d.j. OCLC 811267703. Detailed survey of indigenous culture, patrimony, including art, rituals and festive events, traditional craftsmanship and architecture. "I am pleased to present the second edition of the Technical Report that was presented to UNESCO, in September 2008, for its nomination as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity. This work was the result of the combined effort of the indigenous communities of the semi-desert of Queretaro, the support of the inhabitants of San Sebastián Bernal and the intervention of a multidisciplinary and inter-institutional team integrated since 2005 by the Government of the State of Querétaro." (HKB Translation) --Page 7. CONTENTS: Las culturas indígenas mexicanas en la mirada del mundo / por el Dr. Miguel León Portilla -- Relatoría histórica del… Read More

México: Ediciones Mexicanas, 1950. b/w and color illus., wrps. Documents the murals created by Leal in his famous modernist style.

México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2001. (As new). b/w plates, maps, draw., plans, appens., bibl., plus fldg. maps, plans, color pict. wrps. LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000. Photographic and documentary look at the urban development and the colonial patrimonial architecture of the city of Tacámbaro, Michoacán. Monograph includes several fold-out maps and plans of the city.

México: RM Editores, 2003. color plates, bibls., ind., color pict. boards. A posthumous exhibition of the lifetime works of unique Mexican artist Alberto Gironella (1929 - 1999), with texts written by Octavio Paz, Ramón Xirau, Mercedes Iturbe, Guadalupe García Miranda and Fernando Arrabal. Includes a recompilation of texts from the personal archives of Gironella.

México, D.F.: Troconi-Letayf & Campbell, 2020. Maple wooden container box that has a cover of a self-portrait of the artist, framed in the same material and protected with True Vue Museum Glass. Contents: A work portfolio with 9 photographs signed by the artist printed in archival quality digital print on Fine Art Rag paper of 295 grams, 100% cotton, at a size of 30 x 31.5 cm, bound in cartoné with Japanese stitching. A text by Guillermo Sheridan printed on Awagami Washi paper accompanies the work. An artist's book with portraits and testimonies of the artist, printed on Matt Fiber paper, 100% cotton of 200 grams, from Hahnemühle and Japanese paper Washi from Awagami, made in Japanese binding. The box also contains a certificate of authenticity signed by the author and a security seal from the publisher. SIGNED AND LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES. Graciela Iturbide (Mexico, 1942) Recognized by Hasselblad Foundation with its prestigious International Photography Award in 2008. Iturbide has… Read More

Valparaiso: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso; Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseño, 2005. b/w and color plates, maps, plans, elevations, draws, meas. draws, diags., tbls., graphs., bibl., color pict. boards. OCLC: 71781439. A logbook of the research, design process and construction of the experimental ship Amereida that began in 1994 and was completed in 2004 by the School of Architecture and Design of PUC. The ship was designed as a floating workshop equipped with the needed infrastructure to do construction work in the most desolated places of the Patagonia. The ship has 25 beds and the living spaces needed to live, study and work for long periods of time; measuring 19 mts long, 5.50 mts (and extendible) wide and can carry 40 tons. LIMITED EDITION OF 500.

Santiago de Chile: Banco Central de Chile, 2004. b/w and color plates, ports., cat., bios/chrons., color pict. fldg. wrps. In celebration of the 80 anniversary of the National Bank of Chile, the institution published a book that presents a significant part of the painting collection the bank has been acumulating since its creation in 1925. The collection comprises mainly works of the 19th and 20th centuries, coming to a halt in the 1940's, coeval with the Generation of the 40's, represented by the works of Carlos Pedraza, Fernando Morales Jordán who together with others continued the views and techniques of the French Impressionists painters. The collection only timidly insinuates the following years with some names such as: Nemesio Antúnez, Roser Bru, Gracia Barrios, Patricia Israel or Mario Toral. ENGLISH ANS SPANISH TEXT.

Rio de Janeiro: Sextante Artes, 2000. color plates, ind., bios., color boards w/color pict. d.j. TEXT IN ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE with photographic essay on landscape of Rio de Janeiro.