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

Rio de Janeiro: Museu de Arte Moderna, 1999. color plates, cat., plus loose 4p. English translation, fldg. wrps. Exhibition on 20 books by the Brazilian artist, created over a period of years since the beginning of his career in the late 1960s. Caldas won respect at both the Sao Paulo and Venice biennials, and has also had numerous individual exhibitions. PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH TEXT.

Rio de Janeiro: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 2001. b/w and color plates, catalogue, biography/chronology, bibliography (pages 244-253), color folding pictorial wrappers. Fifteen years in the trajectory of one of the most important names in Brazilian contemporary art. CONTENTS:É = Um véu = Is = A Veil / Waltercio Caldas -- Apresentação do CCBB = CCBB's Introduction -- Texto da curadoria = Curator's Text / Ligia Canongia -- Seleção da crítica = Critical texts a selection / Paulo Venancio Filho, Nina Rodrigues Pereira do Valle, Guy Brett, Ronaldo Brito, Ilse Kuijken, Paulo Sérgio Duarte, Lorenzo Mammi, Sônia Salzstein, Adolfo Montejo Navas, José Thomaz Brum -- Escultura Software = Software Sculpture -- Escultura públicas = Public Sculpture -- Escritos do artista = Artist's Texts -- Desenhos = Drawings -- Mar nunca nome = Sea never name / Waltercio Caldas -- Cronologia = Chronology -- Versão dos textos para o inglês = English Translation -- Bibliografia selecionada = Selected… Read More

Belo Horizonte: Editora C/Arte, 2006. b/w and color plates, draws, ports., cat., bio/chron., bibls., color pict. fldg wrps. The edition reveals a rarely seen facet of artist Caldas' (b. Brazil 1946) production, his notebooks with drawings and annotations where the artist registers ideas, projects, and sketches of potential future sculptures or installations and that reflect the creative process and inspiration elements of one of the most remarkable artists of Brazil's contemporary art.

São Paulo: Annablume Editora; FAPESP, 2005. tbls., bibl., wrps. At the end of the 19th was a tremendous boom in "São Paulo that attracted a numer of foregin migrantes and immigrants to the Mogiana district. The author writes of this dynamic atmosphere of change when studying the beginning of the career of Washington Luis, who led the great push for modernization in architecture and planning. He invested and developed the urban infrastructure.

Lanzarote, Islas Canarias: Fundación César Manrique, 2003. b/w and color plates, port., bio/chron., bibl., color pict. fldg. wrps. A retrospective exhibition on Barcala (b. Uruguay 1920, immigrated to Spain in 1974, d. 1993), of selected pieces from his different creative periods: figurative (1946-1950), abstract (1961-1964) and the most fertile part of his career, where the artist develops the style "organic constructivism" . The last includes his series titled Chatarras (scrap metal) temperas of flowing strokes and his Cajas (boxes) tridimensional objects assembled with the leftovers thrown away by a consumer society. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXTS.

São Paulo: EdUSP; Alameda, 2005. b/w and color plates, ports., tbl., bio/chron., bibl., fldg. pict. wrps. The present monograph is the result of more than twenty years of research and ample documentation gathered by the author on the life and work of internationally recognized artist Wesley Duke Lee (b. Brazil 1931). It analyzes in detail the artist's creative process and the many taboos he faced related to art and sexuality, art politics and criticism. A good reference on one of the major Brazilian contemporary artists. Winner of the prestigious "Prêmio Jabuti 2006" for best project, editorial production and cover design.

Bogotá: Villegas Editores, 2002. 49 b/w plates, maps, bibl., ind., bio., wrps. Biography of Amerigo Vespucci. ENGLISH TEXT. ALSO AVAILABLE IN SPANISH, please specify.

Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1967. (water stains in lower margin of last 8 pages, not afeccting text or plates, o/w very good copy). color and b/w plates, ports., cat., bibl., b/w pict. wrps. with one color postcard mounted in front cover. Catalogue of exhibition held in Sweden of Wiferdo Lam (b. Cuba 1902- d. Paris, France 1982). Includes one portrait photograph by Man Ray in T.p. and critical texts in Swedish by Lasse Söderberg, Ingemar Leckius, José Pierre and Alejo Carpentier. SWEDISH TEXT.

Philadelphia; London: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1904. Green cloth, with gilt spine titles and decorations. Twenty-two volumes complete set. LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000. An attractive set.

[San Juan, PR: The author, 2004. b/w and color plates, facs., ports., cat., bio/chron., color pict. d.j. Catalogue of young artist Carmona (b. Cuba 1964, lives and works in Puerto Rico since 1991). A talented artist strongly influenced by artists Leonora Carrington and Salvador Dali, he has created his unique "tropical surrealism" style, a painting style that is a reflection of his life experiences and cultural heritage. The edition presents his series of painted frying pans, bronze sculptures, painted sculptures and his drawings. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT.

New York: Brewster Arts Limited, 1999. color plates, bio./chron., wrps. Exhibition held November 18 - December 17 (1999) of Puerto Rican born artist.

Coral Gables, FL: North-South Center University of Miami, 1987. b/w plates, ports., bibl., wrps. Photographic essays on Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Peru, Yucatan, etc.

Lima: Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, ICPNA, Galería Germán Krüger Espantoso (Miraflores), Centro Cultural PUCP 15 de Marzo - 16 de Abril, 2006; Viena, Leopold Museum 12 de Mayo - 7 de Agosto, 2006, 2006. b/w and color plates, port. frontis., ports., facs., cat., bio/chron., bibl., color pict. fldg. wrps. Anthological 3 venue exhibition celebrating painter, teacher and stained glass artist Winternitz' (b. Austria 1906- d. Peru 1993). The retrospective includes paintings, drawings and watercolors from his first exhibition in Florence (Italy) in 1932 to his last pieces produced in Perú in 1992, a collection deeply inspired by the artist's mystic-religious world. The exhibition in Perú was presented simultaneously in two cultural spaces: the Centro Cultural PUCP (pieces created from 1932 to 1956) and in the ICPNA of Miraflores (pieces created from 1956 to 1992) and later traveled integrated as one to Austria under the title: "Adolfo Winternitz: un austriaco en Perú"

Caracas: Galería de Arte Nacional, 1981. b/w plates (1 color), bibl., fldg. pict. wrps.

Bogotá: Villegas Editores, 2003. color plates, cat., chron., ports., color pict. d.j. When late bloomer painter Mauricio Gómez lost movement in his right hand, he changed from oil painting to other techniques and new media: collage, new pigments and drawing, more suitable for the use of his left hand, creating excellent pieces of art, full of texture, volume and color and where his great talent is more than obvious.

Paris/Tiburon, CA: Filipacchi/Harold Allen Parker, 1980. b/w and color plates, bio./chron., d.j. Major retrospective on surrealist who had a profound influence on Mexican art while he lived in Mexico during the Second World War. He helped to organize the first exhibit of surrealist art in Mexico. Over 70 reproductions of his work. ENGLISH AND FRENCH TEXT.

Trinidad: Women in art Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago, 2000. color plates, ports., bios., color wrps.

Berlin: Argobooks, 2009. visual poetry, bibliographical references (pages 60-61), wrps. bound with two loop-staples. First issue of the artist magazine published by THE OFFICE, Berlin 2009. Artist book seeks to challenge an artist to work in an unfamiliar way: using any source other than his own work, he or she develops an idea, a concept, a subject or a vision which can only be realized on paper. On 64 blank pages, he creates a special project by collecting images, texts, graphs, and/or by inviting artists, friends, family-members to generate content and to contribute to it. With a regard for the aesthetics and the conceptual practices of the 1960s and 1970s, Iñaki Bonillas' (*1981) work is an investigation of photography, the photographic medium and the possibilities of the construction of the image. For the first issue of "The world according to", each piece of text is a citation as he opens his personal library for us. From William Blake to Roberto Juarroz and Georg Christian Lichtenberg. Texts… Read More

Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1981. frontis, b/w plates, illus., maps, plans, plus 8 color plates, ind., d.j. Good overview.

São Paulo: Pinacoteca, 1996. b/w and color plates, b/w ports., bio/chrons., fldg. pict. wrps. First of a projected series on Brazilian artists from the same family. Bertha Worms (mother) and Gastao Worms (son) spanned the 19th and 20th centuries. Bertha (1868-1937) was known as one of the most significant women artists during the 19th century Sao Paulo. Her son (1905-1967) is best known for his portraiture and landscape work during the 1920's-1950's. LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000.