Search Results: Authors starting with J from Diatrope Books

Yale University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Black-and-white illustrations. Focusing not on nature but on landscape-land shaped by human presence-Jackson insists in his writings that the workaday world gives form to the essential American landscape. This appealing anthology, illustrated with his own sketches and photographs. Notes. Bibliography. John Brinckerhoff (1909-1996) "Brinck" Jackson was a writer, publisher, instructor, and sketch artist in landscape design. Index. 400p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches.

Institute of Contemporary Art,, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. 48p. Catalogue for exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1991). Introduction by Patrick T. Murphy. Essay by Stephen Westfall and John Jackson. Biography. Bibliography. 8 plates. Charles Fahlen (1939

Winterthur Museum, 2018. Hardcover. Like New/as new. Factory sealed. Illustrated. 288p. Measures 9.75x12.5 inches. Introduces the striking achievements of cabinetmaker Nathan Lumbard (1777 1847) and a small group of craftsmen associated with him. Working initially in the village of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, these artisans fashioned an array of objects that rank among the most colorful and creative of Federal America.

The American Folklore Society, Inc, 1990. Paperback. Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. Articles include "Felling a Song with a New Ax: Writing and the Reshaping of ritual Song Performance in Upland Sulawesi" by Kenneth M. George, "The Sardana: Catalan Dance and Catalan National History" by Stanley Brandes, "Persuasive Suggestions and Reassessing Promises: Emergent Parallelism and Dialogic Encouragement in Song" by Corrine A. Kratz, Commentaries on H.A. Kelly and J. Edgar Hoover. pp.3-122. Reviews.

Yale University Press, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Black-and-white illustrations. 294p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches. Examines our beliefs about literary fame by asking how it actually comes about. Offers new and unorthodox accounts of the coming-to-fame of some of Britain's most revered authors (Jane Austin, Keats, etc) and compares their reputations and afterlives with those of their contemporary rivals.

American Folklore Society, 1986. Paperback. Good. Unmarked text. Soft crease on cover. This issue includes A Case Study of Individual Remarks by Turkish Romance Tellers by Ilhan Basgoz, The Origins of Korean Folklore Scholarship by Roger J. Janelli, Bullfighting: The Ritual Origina of Scholarly Myths, Narrative as Expository Discourse, "Hansel and Gretel" in Spain and Mexico, Swedish Folklife Research, and more. The Journal of American Folklore, the quarterly journal of the American Folklore Society since the Society's founding in 1888, publishes scholarly articles, essays, notes, and commentaries directed to a wide audience, as well as separate sections devoted to reviews of books.

American Folklore Society, 1986. Paperback. Good. Unmarked text. Some nicks on cover. Topics include South African Black Popular theater, Ethnic Identity in Illinois, Performance and Honor in 13th century Ireland, Redemption rumors, etc. Reviews. pp. 131-256pp.

Modern Konyvtar, 1968. Paperback. Very Good. Text in Hungarian. Pencil mark on end page.

Master Drawings Association, Inc, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Jacob Bean, a connoisseur of Italian and French drawings, was the curator of drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 31 years. This publication celebrated his 70th birthday and coincided with an exhibition on 16th century Italian drawings in New York collections at the Met. Contributors include Christopher White, J. A. Gere, Diane De Grazia, Keith Christiansen, Suzanne Boorsch, Arnold Nesselrath, David Ekserdjian, Roger Ward, Catherine Monbeig Goguel, Veronkika Birke, Miles Chappell, Peter Dreyer, Jennifer Montagu, and others. Bibliography complied by Helen Mules. Illustrated. pp 335-512. Advertisements. Editors: Linda Wolk-Simon and William M. Griswold.

MIT Press, 1987. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Good. Withdrawn from the SFMOMA photography library, with their stamp on front end page. Catalog for January 17-April 12, 1987 exhibition at MIT. Illustrated. Photographers include Karel Bartonicek, Anna Bohdziewicz, Jerzy Caryk, Karia Sachse, Rudolf Sikora, Antoni Zdeblak, Peter Zupnik, and others. 56p. Essays by John P. Jacob and Lynn Zelevansky.

University of Denver, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. Unmarked. Catalog for September 7-November 19, 2006 exhibition. Includes "Negotiating Reality: Fictions of the Real" by Jillian Desmond and Heather Gilland, and "Crossing Over: Contemporary Art and Popular Culture" by Francesca Fiorentino and Nicole Saint. Plates. Artists include Brian Alfred, Manfredi Beninati, Rebecca Campbell, Gajin Fujita, Kelly McLane, Paul Noble, Hiraki Sawa, Thomas Scheibitz, Zhao Bo, and others.

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Price sticker shadow on cover. Color and black-and-white plates. 102p. Measures 8.25x10.5 inches. Exhibition catalog. Jeanne Dunning (b. 1960) is an American photographer whose work is centered around corporeality and human physicality in abstract forms.

UC Berkeley Art Museum, 2003. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Catalog for the 33rd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduation exhibition. Artists: Joseph Arnold, Veronica De Jesus, Alexander Munn, Andrew James, Amanda Hughen, Heather Patterson, Ryan Reynolds. B/W illustrations. 12p.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Paperback. Very good. Unmarked text. Bumped corner. 120p. Includes "The Strange Case of the Hobbesian Man" by Norman Jacobson, "Republican Romance" by Elizabet Wingrove, "Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality" by David M. Halperin, "Sounding Serious: Cavell and Derrida" by Gordon C.F. Bearn, and "The Shrunken Head of Buchenwald: Icons of Atrocity at Nuremberg" by Lawrence Douglas.

Flintridge Foundation, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Essay by Lynn Zelevansky. Highlights grant winning artists: Adela Akers, Judy Cooke, Dewey Crumpler, Robbert Flick, Lauren Grossman, Ferne Jacobs, Heather Dew Oaksen, Ben Sakoguchi, Michael C. Spafford, Jamie Walker. Artist statements. Color reproductions. French flaps. 44p.

Remediation Associates, 1976. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Includes verbal sub-tests and performance sub-tests. 68p. A common assessment instrument used by psychologists to evaluate IQ.

Berkeley: UC Berkeley Art Museum, 2001. DVD. Very Good. In original jacket. Documents the 1999-2000 MATRIX season, which featured eight talented young artists from around the world: Doug Aitken, Anne Chu, Peter Doig, Teresita Fern

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. Index. Glossary. 368p. From the author of the bestselling Object-Oriented Software Engineering, this is the first book to combine object-oriented technology and business process engineering. Jacobson demonstrates how object technology can be used in the BPR model, how the requirements of a new software system can be captured as a result of business engineering, and much more.

National Gallery London and Apollo Magazine, 2003. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Some rubbing on cover. Color reproductions. Measures 9.5x12 inches. 16p. The Massacre of the Innocents is the subject of two paintings by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the episode of the biblical Massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem, as related in the Gospel of Matthew. This booklet looks at rediscovered version that was loaned to the National Gallery, London for a period before its transfer in 2008 to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, to whom Thomson had donated it.

Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, 1964. Paperback. Good. Unmarked text in English text. Some tanning of pages. Descriptive essay. Biography. and Bibliography. Plates in color(4) and black and white (20). Survey of his work. Kees Verwey (1900-1995), was a Dutch painter. He was a member of the Haarlem artist society "Kunst Zij Ons Doel", the "Kennemer Kunstenaarskring, and "Hollandse Aquarellistenkring.