Felix De Rooy (4 results)

DVD. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. DVD MOVIE POLISHED FOR YOUR SATISFACTION with original art work withdrawn from the library collection. Some library marking. Enjoy this VALUABLE DVD MOVIE for your home and library. Ships in a new, cloth drawstring gift bag. Book.

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued; 176 pages; in English and Spanish; very good condition; except 2-inch square abrasion to inside rear cover from removed sticker; otherwise clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: New. The first Westerner to set eyes on Curaçao was Alonso de Ojeda; he registered the duality of the island with the words "Isla de los Gigantes" (Island of the Giants) at first sight, but later, "Isla inutil" (useless Island). This dual image of Curaçaoâ??on the one hand unique and on the other hand uselessâ??changed little during the colonial ages. More than a century later, the French, the English and the Dutch acknowledged the strategic importance of this otherwise â??uselessâ? island as a trading base for the lucrative transatlantic slave trade.The hybrid, multicultural, bastard culture of Curaçao to this day generates little respect from Western monocultural art policy. It is impossible to judge Caribbean art only from a Western perspective. The Westâ??s limited view of the Visual Arts of Curaçao hides its Caribbean approach, an approach which finds a mirror in the hybrid Caribbean spirituality. The proverb: "What you see is not always what you get" illustrates the complexity of the Caribbean image idiom.The artists who are spotlighted in this catalog are, on the one hand, "Yu di tera" (locals), and, on the other hand, foreign artists, migrants or passers-by who have left their mark on the cultural heritage of Curaçao. The multidisciplinary diversity of the Curaçao art panorama is an essential part of this manifestation and finds its reflection in the selection of the artists depicted in this volume.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition, first state: publisher's review copy with promotional material laid-in, along with two errata slips also loosely laid-in, and Jiri Weiss' black-and-white photograph of the author that was used for the jacket biography, loosely laid-in. Signed by Ntozake Shange directly on the title-page and directly on her black-and-white photograph; additionally, Shange corrected the error on the dedication page, adding the following commentary: "typesetters resist / modernization of / language;" finally, Shange also corrected the error on p.98 along with her initials. Scarce thus. Book with a light crimp to front corner boards and the cloth overlay at spine ends softly crimped, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a tiny closed tear/crease to bottom front cover and light wear to extremities, else fine. Jiri Weiss (Author photo); Deborah Daly (Jacket design); Felix de Rooy (Fontispiece/Jacket art); Andy Capenter (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…