Appleton Viviane Editor (4 results)

Condition: very good. 1st edition. Since 1948, Canadian Inuit artists have produced a brilliant art in carvings of stone, ivory, antler and whalebone and in ceramics "The 155 prints reproduced in this widely acclaimed catalogue, 12 of them in full colour, constitute a retrospective survey of the first twenty years of Inuit printmaking in the Canadian Arctic." Text is in French and English spine slightly faded. paperback with stiff folded covers.…

Portfolio. Condition: Very Good. Good Only. Two soft cover volumes and a collection of plates inserted into a portfolio. Portfolio wear includes uneven fading, edge chips and tears, and rub marks; contents are not damaged or blemished. A study of the work of Gertrude Stein and Picasso Juan Gris, with plates displaying their work, and a short textual outline. Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. SUBTITLED : `Profiles in Canadian Indian Art '. These 204 pages bring together a series of cultural artifacts that were recently (1973) repatriated from a private collection in Germany. The beauty of the collection is very few pieces were made after 1850. The German collector and his father had spent a lifetime gathering the artifacts from other European collectors. Read more about : Paul Kane, Captain W. Andrew Bulger, Lisa's Post, Chesterfield House, capotes, moccasins, pouch, sash, Arthur Speyer Collection, war club, drum, calumet, twined basswod, burden strap, and quill warapping. Most photographs in b/w. Front end-papers show a map of the Great Lakes region. Back end-papers have a map of the Hudson Bay drainage. Cond : Paper wrapper is white with black lettering. Image on front cover is of Sir John Caldwell wearing First Nations garb he acquired in Canada in the 1778 period. Binding sound. Name of p/o stamped on first page. Covers rubbed. Light general wear. Excellent reference !! Quote (p. 33) : " In the dawn of the new era for the aboriginal population, the traumatic spread of disease frequently loomed larger than the introduction of all kinds of new products. Unwittingly, the Europeans introduced measles, smallpox, typhus, and many other diseases, to all of which the native population lackedimmunity. Now here ._._._. . ' (Original till receipt from the Museum tipped-in .) Size: Folio (small). B/W Photographs (illustrator).…

Softcover. Quarto (27cm); photographic paper wrappers; map illustrations to verso of wrappers; [ii],[3],4-208,[2]pp; colorful and black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Modest shelf-wear and -soil, with light rubbing to wrapper edges, and trace foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Exhibition catalogue from the first major art exhibition focused on Indigenous individuals of Alaska and northwestern Canada, with contributions by William E. Taylor Jr., Dale Idiens, Barrie Reynolds, and A. McFadyen Clark. [87866].…