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

Bogotá; Buenos Aires: Ediciones Dipon; Ediciones Gato Azul, 2004. sepia illus., plus postcard size reproduction of portrait of Frida Kahlo, pict. boards. Personal history of Frida Kahlo as told by her niece.

Berkely, CA: Aris Books, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc, 1989. b/w plates, b/w map frontis., illus., recipes, bibl., ind., color pict. d.j.

Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Carólica del Perú, 2004. b/w and color plates, maps, draws, plans, illus., tbls., bibl., wrps., ISSN: 1029-2004. Third part of a 3 volume set containing the complete proceedings of the VII Simposio Internacional de Arqueología held in Peru that gather national and international experts from 14 countries. The main topic of the event was focused on defining the multiple identities of the Pre-Columbian Inca Cuzqueña (from Cusco) society and those ethnias living in their political dominance and its impact in their relation with the Spanish conquering government. The papers were interdisciplinary and covered the areas of archaeology, ethnohistory and linguistics. This third part includes the following participations: La influencia Wari en el incario y las peregrinaciones (María Rostworowski de Diaz Canseco), Aproximación a la imagen real de los "incas de privilegio" (Hidefuji Someda), La identidad de las diez penacas en el Cuzco Incaico (R. Tom… Read More

Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2008. b/w and color plates (1 fldg.), tbls., chts., maps, bibls., wrps. , ISSN: 1029-2004. 14 contributions. Contents are: Bog voices and little voices of public forums in Andean discourse / Tom D. Dillehay -- Fractal exchange in a canibal cosmology: dynamics of oppisition and amity in amazonian festivals / Beth A. Conklin -- Ritual persistence among hunter and gatherers of the Pampean Llanura of Argentina / Gustabo Politis -- Ritual and consumption in the construction of public spaces during the later archaic period: the case of cerro lampay site / Rafael Vega-Centeno -- Feasting and social integration in the formative period: new evidence from Cerro Blanco, lower Nopeña Valley / Hugo Ikehara & Koichiro Shibata --Sunken courts, ritual encounters and Tiwanaku's rise as a panregional religious center / John W. Janusek -- Who were invited? temporal and functional changes in public spaces as a reflection of shifting leadership… Read More

Lima: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Carólica del Perú, 2003. plus 6p, some fldg. b/w and color plates, maps, draws, plans, illus., tbls., bibl., wrps., ISSN: 1029-2004. Second part of a 3 volume set of the complete proceedings of the VII Simposio Internacional de Arqueología held in Peru that gather national and international experts from 14 countries. The main topic of the event was focused on defining the multiple identities of the Pre-Columbian Inca Cuzqueña (from Cusco) society and those ethnias living in their political dominance and its impact in their relation with the Spanish conquering government. The papers were interdisciplinary and covered the areas of archaeology, ethnohistory and linguistics. This second part includes the following participations: Prácticas funerarias incaicas en Sacsayhumán (Monica Paredes), La Serpiente de Oro y los inkas: la ocupación inka en el alto Marañon y el puerto balsero de Pogtán (Alexander Herrera), La transformación socioeconómica… Read More

Rio de Janeiro: Aprazível Edições, 2008. b/w and color plates, frontis., facs., ports., cat., bios/chrons., color pict. d.j. The book represents a panoramic view of Brazilian contemporary art with a selection of artistic creations from the holdings of the João Manuel Sattamini Collection. The publication examines the historical and artistic atmosphere in Brazil of the last 5 decades of the 20th century, through the collection Sattamini, one of the most important art collections of Brazil. João Manuel Sattamini was a former director of the defunct Subdistrito Gallery in São Paulo who collected more than 1200 art pieces that includes works by Lygia Clark, Antonio Dias, Volpi, Hélio Oiticica, Amilcar de Castro, Iberé Camargo, Leonilson and Eduardo Sued amongst other names and presently in loan in MAC Niterói. The book is divided in 5 chapters, each one is dedicated to decade (1950-1990), and following a sequence that considers each historic period and critical texts on the artists as… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. illus., bibliographical reference (v. 1, pages 385-405) and index. Contents: I. Text.-- II. Illustrations.

Zurich: Daros-Latinamerica AG, 2002. b/w and color plates, cat., bios/chrons., cloth spine bound, embossed card boards with 5 cut-out holes in right lower edge. Exhibition of 5 space-filling interactive installations by Bruce Nauman (b. USA 1941), Barbara Kruger (b. USA 1945) and Alfredo Jaar (b. Chile, 1956), 3 artists that have experimented with multimedia artworks that directly confronts the viewers with images of various forms of violence and violent behavior. ENGLISH AND DUTCH TEXT.

New Mexico: Univ. of New Mexico, 1950. (Tears to edges and spine of d.j. with a 3 inch piece missing along spine; o/w vg). illus., endpapers map, d.w. Travel in Peru during 1940's.

Washington, U.S.: Government Printing Office, 1952. 33 plates, 69 figures, 18 maps (some fldg.), 21 tbls., ind., wrps.

Berkeley: Univ. of Calif, 1930. fldg. illus., tbls., wrps.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. color and b/w plates., gloss., bibl., ind., color pict. d.j. Guidebook to 38 sites and 25 museums.

New York; Philadelphia: D. Appleton; George S. Appleton, 1851. Hand colored print (1), matted and framed with UV conservation glass. Hand-colored lithograph and elaborated by Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot (b. France 1810-1866) based on paintings by Carl Nebel (b. Germany 1805-1855). Heightened with gum arabic by Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot after Carl Nebel): "Nebel's version of Scott's entrance sticks closer to the truth and is packed with psychological drama. There is no doubt here that the war is still on. Loaded cannons are posted to sweep the streets, while a body of dragoons in the foreground gathers tensely with drawn sabers near General Scott and his staff. In a particularly effective narrative detail, one of the dragoon officers, on a white horse in the center foreground, glares at a lepero on the left who is preparing to throw a stone. From the street or from doorways and partially closed windows, other citizens watch with fear, curiosity, apprehension, indignation, and in the case of the… Read More

Los Angeles: Univ. of Calif, 1981. b/w plates, plans, apen., bibl., wrps.

São Paulo: Nomuque Edições; Pirajui, 1975. b/w plates, facs., diags., visual poetry, color pict. fldg. wrps. COVER READS "Arte-ria 1. Mammy o mammy dad is dead" 1st edition of the original magazine "Artéria". Poets, publishers and collectors Omar Khouri and Paulo Miranda have edited and coordinated the publication in its four decades of existence. Omar Khouri is internationally noted visual poetry, professor and author who has written extensively on visual poetry and experimental art in Brazil. . Participating artists include: Arnaldo Caiche (Pássaro) D´Oliveira -- Augusto de Campos -- Carlos Alberto de Figueiredo -- Décio Pignatari -- Ênio Aloísio Fonda -- Gabriel Emídio Silva -- Haroldo de Campos -- Iumna Maria Simon -- Luiz Antônio de Figueiredo -- Omar Khouri -- Paulo José Ramos de Miranda -- Waldeyr de Oliveira -- Zéluiz. CONTENTS: Ar7éria = Arteria set = Artéria 7 / Os editores. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000. Complete sets are rare, with only one library in OCLC holding this number.

Porto Alegre, Brazil: Editora Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo Ritter dos Reis, 2001. b/w plates, plans, draws., bibl., color pict. wrps. ISSN 1516-6163. Numerous essays presented at conference on the theory, history, practice and criticism of urban architecture held in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1995. b/w and color plates (some facs.), ports., maps, color pict. wrps.

Buenos Aires: Capuz Uarela Editores, 1997. color plates, ports., map, tbl., bibl., fldg. pict. wrps. Photographic guide to the local festivals in Northwestern region of Argentina. SPANISH AND ENGLISH TEXT.

Buenos Aires: Germano Artes Graf, 1980. wrps.

São Paulo: s.n., 1983. (small tear in front d.j.). b/w and plates, ports., sig., color pict. boards, translucent d.j. FRONT COVER READS: Zaragoza: retratos imaginários. OCLC: 12666947. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY AUTHOR of catalogue featuring the "imaginary portraits" of noted artist Zaragoza (b. Spain 1930).