Search Results: Titles starting with C from Howard Karno Books Inc

Caracas: Museo Jacobo Borges, 1997. color plates (many tippedin), ports, plus fldg. rice-paper, wrps., with hammered metal spine. Catalogue that verges on an artists' book. Unique exhibit based on the jail "Reten -Caballo de Troya" near the Museum which was considered to be one of the most inhumane in Venezuela. Much of which is installation art. Shortly after the exhibit the jail was demolished and the prisoners were moved to a new, modern facility. LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES.

La Habana: Ediciones La Memoria; Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, 2005. b/w plates., facs., bio/chron., appens., bibl., color pict. wrps. The present edition offers through interviews, critical texts, prints and drawings (including the series "Top hat" and "Todavía") a general view of the life and artwork of artist Posada (b Spain 1929 - d. Cuba 2002). The book includes many full page images of his sarcastic surrealist prints, cartoons and ink drawings where he denounces imperialism power, war, corruption, and other social injustices of modern society.

2 blocks variation of same cartoon: 5.5 x 6.5". With printed color cover of plate. Known as "El Chango," ("the monkey"), García Cabral was for several decades one of Mexico's premiere political cartoonists and caricaturists. Born in 1890, he studied art at Mexico's San Carlos Academy, began doing commercial work at the outset of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, and spent the WWI years in Europe, furthering his studies and making a name for himself as a cartoonist. He returned to Mexico in 1918 and soon emerged as one the country's best-known commercial artists, illustrating covers for such national magazines as Revista de Revistas and Siempre. He also designed and illustrated hundreds of movie posters during the 1940s and 1950s and did work in book illustration. García Cabral died in 1968.

Buenos Aires: MNBA, Facultad de Arquiectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, 2002. b/w and color plates, bio/chron., cat., color pict. fldg. wrps. Anthology of architecture drawings produced in the course of thirty years by Argentine architect Oscar Francisco "Cacho" Soler (b. 1946). This series of drawings represent a fragment of what is know as the Buenos Aires School. The book is divided in tow sections "Los Dibujos" and "Después del Dibujo" which contains photographs of the actual buildings sketched and drawn by Soler. Includes critique essays by Bernardo Dujovne, Jorge Glusberg and Thomas Dagnino. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT.

Belo Horizonte: Pontifìcia Universidade Catôlica de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Geografia, 2004. illus., grphs, tbls., chrts., plans, meas. draws, bibls., wrps. ISSN: 0103-8427, ISSN: 0103-0427. Highlights: "Mapeamento das Potencialidades Espaciais do Sul de Minas e "Entorno" no Ano de 1999"; "Articulações Socioespaciais do Mercado Central de Belo Horizonte"; "Clima, Paisagem e Turismo"

São Paulo: Instituto Moreira Salles, 2004. b/w,color and sepia plates, maps, bibls., b/w pict boards, ISSN: 1677-8502. Second volume in the series on photography. Commemmorative edition for the 450th anniversary of the city of São Paulo. A history of photography in and of São Paulo, which can be documented back to 1848 . Extensive texts by many leading authorities such as: Sergio Burgi, Ricardo Mendes. ESSENTIAL REFERENCE.

São Paulo: Lusco Fusco, São Paulo, Galeria Luisa Strina, 1993. 9 color plates, bio., bibl., pict. fldg. wrps. LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000. Text by Tadeu Chiarelli on this young (b. 1964) Brazilian artist that uses jungle imagery.

São Paulo, Salvador: Paço das Artes, São Paulo;Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, 2002. color plates, bio/chron., color pict. wrps. Exhibition of installation art with audience participation. You can hear the statements from patients in a psychiatric hospital and protitutes on the streets of Salvador, Bahia. Includes some of his recent work of video, tridimensional works, and photography.

Santiago de Compostela, Spain: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1999. illus., facs., indices, b/w illus boards. Facsimile edition of a popular illustrated humor magazine, "Café con Gotas" (the series from 1886-1892) produced in Santiago de Compostela in Spain. With political satire and caricatures throughout each issue. Illustrators include Beltrán, Montenegro, Ppe, and J. Pando. Prologue is in both Gallego and Spanish.

Caracas: Goethe-Institut, 2006. b/w and color plates, illus., ports., tbls., facs., filmography, bibls., illus. endpapers, color pict. fldg. wrps. Catalogue of the 2005 cultural and artistic activities of the Goethe Institute of Caracas organized around the contemporary social phenomenon of immigration and identity, especially in Venezuela and Germany. The institute reflects on the assimilative qualities of immigration and the marked influence left in Venezuela's cultural manifestations (visual arts exhibitions, cinema, theater, music and symposiums). LIMITED EDITION OF 700.

São Paulo: Landmark, 2004. b/w and color plates, facs., ports., sigs., plans, elevations, chron., illus., ind., bibl., color pict. fldg. Wrps. The book presents the history of the São Paulo (Brazilian) Railway Company through the analysis of the architecture of their train stations constructed by engineer William J. Sheldon and architects Charles Henri Driver and Victor Duburgas. These buildings, considered technological architecture patrimony were inspired in the metallic structures of the Victorian British railway stations designed during the Industrial Revolution and are part of the extensive 19th century railroad net through the mountains that transported the agricultural production from a region once isolated.

Bogotá: La Cimbra Laboratorio, 2020. folded accordion style, with b/w plates, unbound, loose as issued, all in black box. LIMITED EDITION OF 115 COPIES. "Caída Libre", a project of La Cimbra Laboratorio is a series of collectively assembled narratives built by means of the exquisite corpse technique where 33 Colombian illustrators were presented with the challenge of giving continuity to an illustration of someone other illustrator, knowing only a small part. Many Afro-Colombian artists are included. Each artist contributed with drawings that represent ways of seeing the decline, the fall, the uncertainty, the all or the nothing. "A book made in the middle of a pandemic that exposed the fragility of our certainties. Pablo Guerra" (HKB Translation) --Box. Participating artitis incude: Pilar Berrio, Julián Velázquez, Cristhian Contreras, Cocoa Fooxua, Lorena Álvarez, Pedro Villafrade, Jorge Lewis, Nathaly Cuervo, Soma Difusa, Andrezzinho, Luisa Uribe, Eva Bracamontes, Wilson Borga, Julián de… Read More

Bogotá: Contraloria General de la República, 2001. color pict. fldg. wrps.

Lima: Antares, Artes& Letras; Minera Yanacocha, 2002. b/w plates, facs., bibl., glos., color pict. fldg. wrps. Photographers from the Cajamarca region of Peru from 1850-1950 that includes important travelers and explorers.

Madrid, Bilbao: Tf. Editores, 2003. b/w and color plates, ports., chron., cat., bibl., ind., d.j. Exhibition catalogue of Calder's (b. U.S.A. - 1898, d. 1976) organized by the Museo Guggenheim de Bilbao and coproduced by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, that gathers 69 sculptures produced by Alexander Calder throughout five decades and an important selection of photographs at his studio performed by Ugo Mulas, Man Ray, André Kertés and Pedro Guerrero. Alexander Calder, one of the greatest figures of Contemporary Art, captured the motion of a series of structures that offered radical alternatives to the existing notions of current times sculptures.

Caracas: Fundación Bigott, 2003. color plates, bibl., color pict wrps in spiral metal binding. Calendar of popular festivals and traditions in Venezuela, including solstice and equinox dates and Christian events. Organized chronologically presents dates and names of festivals celebrations, dances and the name of its location, with numerous illustrations that include costumes and masks.

Lima: Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Perú, 2003. b/w and colo plates, facs., illus., tbls., indice, bibl., color pict. fldg. wrps. Calendar orgaznied by month of folk festivities all over Peru, featuring detailed descriptions and illustrations of each celebration. includes much on ethnography, folklore, folkart, costume, dance and music.

México: Tip. de la Viuda e hijos de Murguia. illus., tbls., wrps.

Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Artes, 2007. frontis, maps, tbls., chts. bibl. (p.177-181), ind., wrps. An analysis of the rented homes and the quality of these residences in Colombia. The author develops a daring hypothesis that for the middle and low income population offers a level quality that represents an alternative for the housing deficit, Includes a comparative study of the 2 types of tenancy: proprietor and rented. El presente texto incursiona en un campo de investigación poco explorado como es el análisis de los hogares arrendatarios y la calidad de la vivienda en alquiler, como una forma de tenencia posible que no implica la propiedad privada y en ello radica su mayor valor. El tema se enmarca dentro de otros estudios que han trabajado los aspectos físicos de la edificación y su entorno y los aspectos socioeconómicos de los habitantes, fortaleciendo la línea de investigación sobre formas de producción de vivienda y suelo, en el marco de la Maestría en… Read More

Guayaquil-Ecuador: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1961. (Ex-lib. mkgs.).. plus b/w plates, wrps.