Beardsley John Essay (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 260 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May to September 1987, and other museums. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A large-format coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at Houston's Museum of Fine Arts in 1987, and in other museums, this volume presents some 200 paintings and sculptures by 30 contemporary Hispanic artists living and working in the United States. Beginning with a piece on what it means to be Hispanic and what in particular it means to be a Hispanic artist, the volume includes interpretive essays defining and illuminating the challenging variety of contemporary Hispanic art, ranging from folk-inspired religious carvings to politically-motivated satirical work, modernist abstraction, ethnically-infected Neo-Surrealism, and impassioned New Imagism. The authors also discuss the origins of Hispanic art and the influences that have shaped it, and provide biographical sketches of the artists." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Preface and acknowledgments; Art and Identity: Hispanics in the United States, by Octavio Paz; And/Or: Hispanic Art, American Culture, by John Beardsley; Recent Hispanic Art: Style and Influence, by Jane Livingston; Artists' Biographies; Artists' Bibliographies; General Bibliography; Index. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Abbeville Press, Houston / New York, 1987. Black Cloth. Book Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Profusely Illustrated in Color. (illustrator). First Edition. 12 1/4" Tall. 260 pp. Scarce hardcover edition. Artists' biographies.

Condition: Very Good. Pbk, square 4to, 260pp, lavishly illustr in color throughout, very faint reading crease to spine, prev ownerĠs name neatly on half-title page, otherwise a fine, clean, tight and unmarked copy.

Staple-bound Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 12 pp. including wrappers.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Color Illustrations (illustrator). NF/VG++++. Bright and attractive hardcover with dust jacket. Second printing. 1987. Light wear to dust jacket. Nice copy.

11.25 x 9.5 inches. 127 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original printed boards; pictorial dust jacket. "With artful composition and controlled framing--but no digital manipulation--Edgar Martins creates sublimely beautiful views of often unbeautiful sites. Minimalist nighttime beaches, forests ravaged by fires and Iceland's stark terrain have all served as subjects for his large-scale color photographs. He also explores the unexpected impact of Modernism on the landscape, including startlingly graphic airport runways and colorful highway barriers that, at first glance, read like abstract murals. Certain themes recur throughout Martins' work. A sense of place and alienation from it. A sense of mystery-vividly embodied in scenes such as a woman with a bouquet of balloons on a deserted shore. And a sense that something unsettling has just happened or is about to happen--a fire, an accident, a close encounter with some unspecified danger. As John Beardsley notes, "Some images are what we habitually expect photography to be--evidence of the world as we think we know it--while others obscure their subjects through an illusionism that borders on magic'" (the publisher). A near-fine copy First edition, signed by the photographer on the front flyleaf.

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Condition. 260 page hardcover catalogue, bound in black cloth covered boards with white text to the spine, wrapped in a pictorially printed paper dustjacket, and published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from May 2- July 26, 1987. Binding is tight and solid, pageblock is sharp and clean, with equally clean interior. Dustjacket is bright and crisp. Two gallery pamphlets are laid in--one from the main exhibition at the MFA,Houston, in both Spanish and English; and another from an ancillary show at the MFAH Glassell School of Art that featured the works of Houston artists Atanacio Davila, Frank Fajardo, Benito Huerta, and Philip Renteria.