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

Buenos Aires: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, 1998. b/w and color plates, portraits, color folding pictorial wrappers. ISSN: 0329-9481. Journal published in association with the Universidad de Palermo and the Centro de Arte y Comunicación and edited by Jorge Glusberg, to promote works by Argentina's artists in the international art scene. Only four volumes were published. Highlights: La angustia como liberación de lo finito por Jorge Glusberg; Elógio de Carlos Alonso por Pacho O'Donnell; Jesús Rafael Soto - Retrospectiva 1950-1996 por María José Herrera; Oscar Bony: Disparos para una nueva dimensión por María Pía Landro; Así en Córdoba como en París por Ana María Battistozzi. In the first issue we find a magnificent dossier on Xul Solar (Argentina 1887-1963), with articles by Jorge Glusberg who makes a detailed review of his artistic and philosophical career. An article by Jorge López Anaya that also covers the aesthetic biography of Xul and all its elaborate symbology;… Read More

São Paulo: Editora C4, 2012. color & b/w plates, diags., ports., meas. draws., color pict. fldg. wrps. OCLC: 814693325. Modern Brazilian design has a long history, which has produced many classics - classics, that made Brazilian Design world famous. This monograph is about the work of one of Brazil's most noted designers, Vacaro Baba. Baba does furniture and fixture design and also writes, teaches and lectures, curates, and was one of the creators of the Brazilian House channel.. Fourth volume of the collection "Design & Process" which addresses each volume a particular theme, exploring the most diverse facets of Brazilian design, such as urban, industrial, automotive, shipbuilding, aerospace, furniture, jewelry and objects. ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE TEXT.

1994. 2 color linocut by the artist Joel Rendón showing caotic downtown Chicago. Inspired by his work at Chicago's the El Taller de Mexicano Grabado in 1992 . Joel Rendón is from Mexico City. Born in 1967 he studied at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, UNAM and with graduate work at the Academia de San Carlos. Illustrated editions include La invención de los canibales, El nombre del juego es Posada, and La busqueda del Espíritu. NUMBER 11/215, SIGNED, DATED, AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST.

Bermuda: Bermuda National Gallery, 2008. (1 copy has small tear on upper spine). b/w and color plates, ports., cat., bios., color pict. wrps. The Bermuda National Gallery and Bacardi Limited are proud to present the 2008 Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Bermuda Art. The 8th Biennial, features 86 works by 41 local artists, selected by an international jury from more than 250 submissions from 68 artists. The Biennial comprises of work completed by Bermudian and resident artists between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2007. The exhibition was open to all Bermudian artists on the Island or overseas as well as foreign nationals who were resident in Bermuda for at least six months during the competition period. The distinguished international jurors for this year's Biennial were Mark Krisco, Artist, Curator, and instructor, Art Institute of Chicago and Franklin Sirmans, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.

Curitiba: CR Design, 2004. duo tone and color plates, draws., illus., bio/chron., cat, color pict. wrps. Solo exhibition of sculptor Moreira (b. Brazil 1942) and a collection of installations using styrofoam to create a feeling of dilacerated and carbonized pieces of flesh and expanded polyurethane to recreate skin, suggesting humankind's capacity of destruction, sacrifice and redemption. Her installation explores the qualities and potential of plastic materials to express the brutality of the new geopolitical and economic contexts and the reconciliation between ecology and culture. ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE TEXT.

Monterrey, Nuevo León: Comisión Estatal para la Conmemoracón del Bicentenario del incio de la Independencia Nacioanl y el Centenario de la Revolución Mexicana; Bicentenar100 [i.e. Bicentenario 100] 2010; Nuevo León Unido Gobierno para todos, 2010. frontis, b/w, color and duo tone plates, ports., plans, facs., bibls., pict. fdlg. wrps. A revision of the architecture of the period of the first industrial revolution in Nuevo Leon, México and under the governor, Bernardo Reyes (1885 - 1909) which led to one of the most significant transformations in the history of Nuevo León. Contents: Presentación -- Introducción -- Arquitectura y paisaje urbano a mediados del siglo XX -- La Junta de Mejoras Materiales -- Transporte masivo -- El nuevo Palacio de Gobierno del Estado de Nuevo Leon -- Las escuelas normales para maestros -- Equipamiento urbano monumental -- Infraestructura urbana -- La consolidación del paisaje urbano -- Expresiones del cientifismo decimonónico -- Créditos. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000.

Buenos Aires; Barcelo: Mundo Nuevo; Libros del Zorro Rojo, 2009. b/w plates, ports. illust. ind. d.j.

París: Gallimard, 2001. (Fine in Fine DJ). b/w plates, cat., bio/chron., b/w pict. d.j. Handsome presentation of photography of life in Brazil by noted French-born photographer François-Marie Banier. Marginality in street and beach scenes from primarily Salvador but also São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Extensive large b/w plates. "Brazil, to which François-Marie Banier has devoted an impressive book. This Brazil is a country of flesh and of sunlight, of luminous faces lit by joie de vivre, and of supple, sensual bodies which invite us to physical contact. The different races which make up its population - and which in the United States are in conflict - fuse in Brazil into one single type whose main characteristic is a love of life in common. "Blacks, whites, masks: who or what is shadow, who or what is light?" asks Banier. "In this kingdom of music and dance that is Brazil, even shapes have the ability to love and to be loved." Poverty is greater here than in India, for example, but it is… Read More

Curitiba: Editora Universidade Federal do Paraná, 2002. b/w and color plates, bio/chron., iconography, bibl., color pict. fldg. wrps. A study of artist Tarsila do Amaral (b. Brazil 1886-1973) focusing on her role in an emerging Brazilian identity and modernity in the first half of the 20th century. ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE TEXT.

Caracas: Galeria de Arte Nacional, 1994. b/w and color plates, ports., cat., chron., color fldg. pict. wrps. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000. Texts by Anita Tapias, Francisco Da Antonio, Miguel von Dangel, William Niño Araque. Anthology of this famous Venezuelan artist into 3 sections: religious themes, customs, landscapes and the third, figurative and self portraits.

Buenos Aires: Edics. Fundación Antorchas, 1989. b/w plates, ports., plan, maps, bibl., wrps. Early documentary photography of Bariloche, Argentina, during it's pioneer days from the late 1800's to the early 1900's. Numbered ENGLISH edition of 1000.

Roma: Insitituto Italo-Latino Americano, 1980. b/w and color plates, fldg wrps. Baroque achitecture across Latin America. Italian Texts.

Caracas: Fundación Bigott, 1990. color plates, ports., illus. endpapers, pict. d.w. Marvelous book on colored clay miniatures in Venezuela.

Rio de Janeiro: Artes Gráficas e Editora Ltda, 1977. (Title page slightly loose).. b/w plates, wrps.

México: Rayela Edits, 1993. color and b/w plates, advts., wrps. New magazine dealing with arts and society of Oaxaca. Articles include: Tierra de colores: los pintores oaxaqueños, El canto de las aves. ENGLISH, FRENCH AND SPANISH TEXTS.

Rio de Janeiro: Fundaçao Joao Pinheiro, Fundaçao Roberto Marinho, 1979. b/w and color plates, glos., bibl., diags., draws., plans, appen., fldg. pict. wrps. First edition of basic reference on Brazilian baroque architecture.

Belo Horizonte: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 1972. b/w plates, facs., bio., bibl., color pict. wrps. Serial with contributions on Brazilian baroque art and architecture. Number published as part of the VI Festival de Inverno Ourou Prêto celebrated in 1972. Highlights include: OS Passos dp Alejadinho em Congonhas (fotos de Mauricio Andres e Daniel Ribeiro de Olivera), La Muerte de Clarin y Apuntes sobre la Tragedia Calderoniana (Cesareo Bandera), Os Sonetos Filosoficos-Morais de Gregório de Matos e Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Christopher C. Lund) and Bibliografia Mineiriana - Periodo Colonial - 1711-1753 (Hélio Gravatá) among others. PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH TEXT.

Rio de Janeiro: Fundaçao Joao Pinheiro, Fundaçao Roberto Marinho, Companhia Editora Nacional, 1980. (Shelf wear). b/w and color plates, gloss., bibl., diags., draws., plans, appen., color fldg. pict. wrps. Reprint of glossary of baroque architecture in Brazil. Basic reference.

Santo Domingo, República Dominicana: Arzobispado de Santo Domingo; Patonato de la Ciudad Colonial; Centro de Altos Estudios Humanisticos y del Idioma Español, 2011. b/w and color plates, ports., maps, facs., plans., chron., bibliographical references (pages 573-588), color pict d.j. OCLC: 855429268. MAJOR work that documents the history, architecture, restoration works initiated in 2007 and the extraordinary artistic treasures guarded and protected for five centuries (1504-2011) in the monumental Basilica Cathedral of Santo Domingo. The well-documented texts are from members of the Centro de Altos Estudios Humanísticos y del Idioma Español of the Patronato de la Ciudad Colonial and comprises 5 major sections featuring the most important historical events of the past and present and future of the monumental colonial 16th century building. Includes the specific components of the "Plan Catedral II" separated into 12 items that conclude with a projection into the future, correcting electrical and… Read More

Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Banco Atlantida, 1995. color and b/w plates, bibl., ind., color pict. d.j. Survey of Honduran painting with an emphasis on 20th century. Good reference.