Search Results: Authors starting with P from Diatrope Books

ArtPace, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Beautifully illustrated. Includes illustrations of all the works created at ArtPace since its inception, an essay by art historian Eleanor Heartney, short essays on selected artists by the guest curators, including Cuauht

Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1952. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Acceptable. Unmarked text. Foxed cover. Thirty black-and-white plates. Essay by Otto Pacht.

Hewlett Packard, 2000. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Quick reference guide in multi languages, for install and quick review. 20p. Index.

Smithsonian Institution, 1951. Staplebound Wraps. Very Good. Unmarked text. Previous owner's name on cover. From the Smithsonian Report for 1950, pp 165-172, with 4 plates. Publication 4026. An address given before the Cleveland Astronomical Society on November 4, 1949. Also published in Popular Astronomy, vol 57, No. 10, December 1949.

Marlborough Chelsea, 2009. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Catalog of a March 26-April 25, 2009 exhibition. Introduction by David Pagel. Color illustrations. 13 color plates. 28pp. Oblong. Measures 9.5x12 inches. A leading figure of abstract art from Spain.

Sacramento: Pamela Skinner, Gwenna Howard Contemporary Arts, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Exhibition catalog. Color illustrations, including foldout pages. Essay by David Pagel Michael Bishop (1946-2016), a gifted artist and photographer, created photographs that challenged the viewer's perception, often with a wry sense of humor. Measures 6x9.25 inches.

Ameringer McEnery Yohe, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good. Unmarked text. Accompanied Markus Linnenbrink exhibition at Ameringer, McEnergy, Yohe in New York from October 13 through November 12, 2016. Color plates, some foldouts, throughout. 65p. Essay by David Pagel titled "Gestural Abstraction in the Information Age." Markus Linnenbrink (b. 1961) is a German artist.

Vintage, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. 189p. Bibliography. Notes and references. Examines the controversies that racked the early church as it confronted the riddles of sexuality, freedom, and sin as embodied in the story of Genesis.

New York Academy of Science, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. Measures 6x9 inches. 288p. Index. Proceedings for a late 20th century discussion on the scientific, intellectual, and social impact of the computer. Contributors include Daniel Dennett, Gerald Edelman, Marvin Minsky, John Searle, Edward Feigenbaum, Joseph F. Traub, and others.

Simon & Schuster, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. Unclipped dust jacket. Pagels emphasizes astronomical discoveries gained through the use of radio telescopes. He is best known for his popular science books The Cosmic Code (1982), Perfect Symmetry (1985), and The Dreams of Reason: The Rise of the Sciences of Complexity (1988).

Primary Information, 2019. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated throughout. An artist book that features new photographs and text by Trevor Paglen centered on the archive of Peter Merlin--a historian, technical writer, and leading expert on classified aircraft. Paglen has selected fifty-nine objects from Merlin

Nevada Publications, 1978. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Worn corner on back cover. Photographs and maps. 16p. This community began circa 1900 with the discovery of silver-rich ore by prospector Jim Butler.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, no date. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked booklet. 19 plates and a one page overview. Measures 4x6 inches.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, no date. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked booklet. Smudge on cover. 40p. 20 B/W images and a color postcard of Maitreya, Gilt-Bronze printed by Arthur Jaffe Heliochorome Co., NYC.

US Geological Survey, 1991. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated throughout with maps, photographs, and diagrams. Part of a series to provide information about the earth sciences, natural resources and the environment. Covers the history of earthquakes, locations, measurement, prediction, etc.

Electra, 2017. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Unmarked text. Dust jacket over paperback. Measures 5.5x8.25 inches. 112p. Text in Italian. Explores over a century of history of Italian and international art. The greatest masterpieces of the museum collections are shown in a display that is strongly coherent with the architecture of Mario Botta.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Dust Jacket. Beautiful exhibition catalog. Includes glossary, index, bibliography, Index. 194p. Assembles nearly 150 leaves, cuttings and illuminated manuscript fragments from the collection of Robert Lehman, one of the 20th century's leading collectors of medieval and Renaissance Italian manuscripts.

Walter Foster, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. 64p. Amply illustrated in colour. Easy-to-follow instructions.

New York: Craig F. Starr Gallery, 2013. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. French flaps. 21 beautiful plates. Catalog for June 7-August 9, 2013 exhibition. The exhibition showcased eighteen drawings from 1974 and 1981, as well as three of Samaras’s densely embellished boxes. Lucas Samaras (b. 1936), born in Greece, participated in Kaprow's "Happenings," and posed for George Segal's plaster sculptures.

Los Angeles: Herbert Palmer Gallery, 1995. Ephemera. Very Good. Three unmarked pieces of ephemera for Gordon Onslow-Ford exhibitions at the Herbert Palmer Gallery in Los Angeles. (1) One four-sided folded piece for an exhibition "Paintings of the Inner World: An Exhibition of Color in Space." It has two small thumbnails and short texts by Fariba Bogzaran and Herbert Palmer. (2) The second piece is a 3.75x9 inches exhibition card for Lee Mullican and Gordon Onslow Ford paintings, with on images. (3) The third piece is a postcard for the "Inner-Word Images of the Unconscious" exhibition, which included Onslow-Ford, Mullican, Paalen, Matta, Banks, and others. The card has no images and there is some mailing label residue on the back. Onslow-Ford (1912-2003), a British-born artist, was the youngest and last surviving member of the original Surrealist artistic group, led by the poet Andre Breton. Also included in the group were Matta, Joan Miro, Marcel Duchamp, Yves Tanguy, Jean Arp,… Read More