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

México, D.F.: Editorial Patria, 1952. (marginal foxing on wrappers, o/w very good and clean copy). b/w plates, port., ind., fldg. wrps. COVER READS "Cincuenta años de arquitectura mexicana (1900-1950)" Well illustrated presentation of the architectural history and movements of the first 50 years of the century. Excellent reference by one of the pioneers of modern architecture in Mexico. Contents: Preámbulo -- I. -- Antecedentes históricos -- El México del Siglo XIX -- Fin del Siglo -- Principios del Siglo XX -- El Porfirismo -- La Revolución -- II. -- Entre dos épocas -- Urbanismo -- La Arquitectura como Medio de Mejoramiento Social -- III. --- Buscando una Arquitectura -- Tradicionalismo - Funcionalismo -- Moderno - Preciosita-Formalista-de Moda -- IV. -- Arquitectura Contemporánea -- Progreso y Detención -- Hacia una Arquitectura Mexicana.

México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filólogicas, Centro de Estudios Literarios, 2005. bibliographical references, illus. endpapers, gold stamping on boards and spine. Volume 8 of series covering the Mexican writers active during the 20th century. The dictionary includes pseudonyms, chronological bibliography and hemerography of life works, and critical references made of their works, classified alphabetically by name of critics. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000.

México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filólogicas, Centro de Estudios Literarios, 1993. bibliographical references, illus. endpapers, gold stamping on boards and spine. Volume 3 of series covering the Mexican writers active during the 20th century. The dictionary includes pseudonyms, chronological bibliography and hemerography of life works, and critical references made of their works, classified alphabetically by name of critics. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000.

México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filólogicas, Centro de Estudios Literarios, 1988. bibliographical references, illus. endpapers, gold stamping on boards and spine. Volume 1 of series covering the Mexican writers active during the 20th century. The dictionary includes pseudonyms, chronological bibliography and hemerography of life works, and critical references made of their works, classified alphabetically by name of critics. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000.

México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filólogicas, Centro de Estudios Literarios, 2002. bibliographical references, illus. endpapers, gold stamping on boards and spine. Volume 6 of series covering the Mexican writers active during the 20th century. The dictionary includes pseudonyms, chronological bibliography and hemerography of life works, and critical references made of their works, classified alphabetically by name of critics. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000.

México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filólogicas, Centro de Estudios Literarios, 1992. bibliographical references, illus. endpapers, gold stamping on boards and spine. Volume 2 of series covering the Mexican writers active during the 20th century. The dictionary includes pseudonyms, chronological bibliography and hemerography of life works, and critical references made of their works, classified alphabetically by name of critics. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000.

México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filólogicas, Centro de Estudios Literarios, 2004. bibliographical references, illus. endpapers, gold stamping on boards and spine. Volume 7 of series covering the Mexican writers active during the 20th century. The dictionary includes pseudonyms, chronological bibliography and hemerography of life works, and critical references made of their works, classified alphabetically by name of critics. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000.

México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filólogicas, Centro de Estudios Literarios, 2007. bibliographical references, illus. endpapers, gold stamping on boards and spine. Volume 9 of series covering the Mexican writers active during the 20th century. The dictionary includes pseudonyms, chronological bibliography and hemerography of life works, and critical references made of their works, classified alphabetically by name of critics. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000.

Buenos Aires: SUR, 1931. (uncut pages; ex-libris former owner). b/w plates, illus., advts., illus. endpapers, marble boards. Most noted literature serial founded by author and intellectual Victoria Ocampo in 1931 that included the collaboration of famous 20th century authors like: Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, William Faulkner, Gabriela Mistral, Salvador de Madariaga, José Ortega y Gasset, Waldo Frank, Walter Gropius, Octavio Paz, Jaime Torres Bodet, Jean Paul Sartre, Alfonso Reyes Ochoa, among others. Contents: Perspectivas Sudamericanas / Conde de Keyserling - Contestación a un epilogo de Ortega y Gasset / Victoria Ocampo -- Pecho en tierra / Jaime Torres Bodet - Riverismo / Ramón Gómez de la Serna - Sumersión / Eduardo Mallea -- El Martín Fierro / Jorge Luis Borges - Excusas por mi salud / Gerld Sykes - Los problemas del compositor americano / Ernest Ansermet -- Tres Poemas / Langston Hughes - De un epistolario / Ricardo Güiraldes.

Rio de Janeiro: Versal Editores, 2009. (as new). b/w and color plates, facs., ports., tbls., plan., draws., bibl. (p. 457-465), illus. endpapers, color pict d.j., slipcase. OCLC: 535680799. Detailed, finely printed edition on the history, architecture and religious art of the Franciscan 18th century church and convent of São Francisco da Bahia (historical downtown of Salvador) with it's impressive Portuguese-Brazilian Baroque gilt woodwork art (talha dourada) that makes it a perfect example of the "golden church" (igreja dourada). The temple, built between 1708 and 1723, also houses paintings in illusionistic perspective by José Joaquim da Rocha, along with invaluable sculptures, furniture, carvings and blue-white tile (azulejo) panels created by Bartolomeu Antunes de Jesus and imported from Lisbon, that cover the lower parts of the walls of the main chapel and transept. The publication was the research work of a team of scholars coordinated a by Maria Helena Ochi Flexor, professor at the Federal… Read More

Morelia, Michoacán: Gobierno del Estado de Michoacán, Secretaría de Cultura; Fondo Editorial Morevallado, 2009. color, duotone & b/w plates, ports., meas. draws., chts., grphs., bibls., facs., color pict. wrps. OCLC: 671239589. Architect Catherine Ettinger said that the contribution of this publication is that it offers a holistic view of heritage, that need to be preserved with involvement from communities and government agencies. Martín González de la Vara, Atanasio Linares and Linares, Schöndube Otto and Jesus Ernesto Lopez Arguelles are some of the researchers working on the issue. The book's content is divided into three main sections and identifies buildings, sites, murals, from the Pre-Columbian period through the 20th century that are located in the northern central part of the State of Michocán. Contents: Hasta verlo perdido? -- Nuestra cultura -- Los Chorros del Varal / Atanasio Linares -- Una cascada para tres reyes / Enrique Riva Paniagua -- La ruta de la petroglifos en el… Read More

New York: Dutton Studio Books, Museum of American Folk Art, 1992. color pict. frontis., ind., color plates, ports., map, bibl.,appen., bio., color pict. wrps. Important new work on folk art, by leading expert and curator of Rockefeller Collection at San Antonio Museum of Art.

San Antonio, Texas: San Antonio Museum of Art, 1989. color frontis., b/w and color plates, maps, wrps.

São Paulo: Senac São Paulo; SESC (Serviço Social do Comércio) SP, 2011. color plates, facs., plans, maps, bibliographical references (pages 232-235). OCLC: 758847116. Architectural and landscape history of the famous garden in São Paulo. Includes information on structures, buildings, landscape, monuments, art, as well as the restoration. Organized in chronological order. A história do Jardim da Luz, de sua concepção a sua restauração, e um pouco da história de São Paulo em fotos, desenhos, pinturas, postais e outras imagens.

São Paulo: Publifolha, 2007. b/w plates, port., bio./chron., bibl., pict. wrps., OCLC: 181901183. The book follows 100 years of prolific life of noted architect Niemeyer covering from his initial works before the complex of Pampulha - pioneer project in world architecture - the Park Ibirapuera, the creation of Braslia in 1960 to his most recent creations like the Sambódromo, the Memorial da América Latina and the museum of Niterói. Contents: Introdução -- 1. Até Pampulha -- 2. Os grandes conjuntos -- 3. Brasília -- 4. Trabalhando na europa -- 5. De volta ao brasil -- 6. Variedade e renovação -- Cronologia -- Bibliografia.

Rio de Janeiro: Beco do Azougue; Fund. Itau, 2011. b/w and color plates, ports., visual poetry, ind., duo tone boards. OCLC: 796210125. Largest retrospective ever organized on Hélio Oiticica, covering all the different time periods in his production with close to 90 artworks, films, photographs and documents. The multi-venue exhibition was held in four Brazilian cities: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, and Belém). "The present book is more than a catalogue, features critical texts on the concepts of Hélio Oiticica through all his life, becoming a fundamental reference for a better understanding of his art production." (Our translation)"--P. 7. Catalogue of the exhibition held in 4 different cities (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and Belém). This retrospective exhibition of Hélio Oiticica won the prize of the best exhibition of the year 2010 by the Associação Brasileira de Criticos de Arte (ABCA). Contents: Apresentação / César Oiticica Filho -- Introdução / César Oiticica… Read More

Bogotá: Ediciones Arte Dos Gráfico, Galería Sextante, 2004. color plates, cat., bio/chron., color pict. wrps. An exhibition where (b. Venezuela 1953) installations of elliptical and repetitive elements are inspired in the DNA structure and represent a metaphorical denunciation of the industrial society whose toxins are responsible for the deaths of women worldwide. LIMITED EDITION OF 500.

Region del Biobío, Chile: Almacén Editorial, 2021. color plates, maps, tbls., recipes, wrps., hold with paper band. In the winter of 2018, Natascha de Cortillas Diego and Rebeca Olea Pietrantoni held four meetings of local cuisine developed in the cove of Llico, on the coast of Arauco, and in the rural locality of Poduco Alto in Santa Juana. Their experiences are reflected in this book. This project links the practices and knowledge of a group of seven cooks and a shellfish diver, who make visible a way of doing and thinking about the inherited and localized culinary experience, validating and recognizing the role of cooks within their local environment, as well as the social and cultural contexts that determine them, seek to establish local production processes such as the relationship between the resources of each territory and its consequent environmental balance, they show us nuances that attend in a transversal way to this territorial identity. "The recipes that make up this recipe book were… Read More

San Francisco, CA: Malulu Editions, 2014. 20sleeved pigment prints (13" x 19") issued in a custom etched aluminum box. The portfolios have an accompanying 6-page illustrated booklet with a visual index in English or Spanish. These photos, taken by John O'Leary S. over the course of 10 years (1980-1990), show the deep human drama in all its highs and lows of "freestyle wrestling" (the term used in Mexico for professional wrestling), and offers a rare insight into Mexican culture. Includes a booklet with an essay by Alejandro Murguia, poet laureate of San Francisco. Includes a visual index in English or Spanish. Malulu Editions publishes artistic works of unique cultural significance and aesthetic significance, focusing on works from late 20th century and contemporary North and Latin America. CONTENTS: Title of essay: The ritual of mask and blood : wrestling in the provinces of Mexico : the photographs of John O'Leary S. = El ritual de mascara y sangre : Lucha Libre en la provincia mexicana :… Read More

Lima: Antares, Artes y Letras, 2003. duotone and color plates, b/w illus., recipes, gloss., maps, facs., ports., bibl., color pict. fldg. wrps. Cajamarca, a region in northern Peru, has always been renown for its fine folkart. A population of talented men and women artisans working in family workshops manufacture beautiful and a variety of popular art products like: cinchos, ponchos, alfarjas, ikates and muñecas de pan, dolls, decorated sweets, with techniques as old as the ones used in pre-Columbian times. Included is a list of plants, recipes and a brief glossary of terms on the preparation of colors to dye different textiles. VERY GOOD REFERENCE. Spanish language only.