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

Buenos Aires: Instituto Científico Judio Iwo, 1978. ```. wrps. Clonist Cooperator general index. q1a~Yiddish text. Bibliographic data on publications 1917-1967 etails of numbers published, indice of authors and thematic indice.

Montevideo: Dos Puntos, 1999. b/w plates, plans, anex, inds., plus fldg. color map, pict. fldg. wrps. Guide to the architecture found in the towns of Carrasco and Punta Gorda in Uruguay. Most of the buildings featured were built during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Buenos Aires: Taller Gaite FADU.UBA, 2003. b/w plates, plans, elevations, meas. draws., tbls., bibl., bio/chron., color pict. wrps. The book presents 70 examples of diverse housing projects along with essays on the present culture of design offering a brief understanding of the concept of architecture as a biological instrument, relating the creative activity of design to the way of life and social traditions and rituals of the meant subject. All research notes were designed to be dictated in different faculty courses during a workshop.

Buenos Aires: Diseño, 2014. (4 cm tear to cover alongside spine). b/w plates, ports., plans, elevetions, maps, facs., bibliographical references (pages 303-313), color pict wrps. "This publication illustrates the historical development and evolution of the Argentinean architecture from its origins to the construction of the Kavanagh Tower, constructed in the city of Buenos Aires in the year of 1936, and considered an emblematic symbol of Buenos Aires and of the gap between the architecture of two epochs: between the extraordinary fact of an opulent and unrepeatable past already in the twilight of the powerful Argentine oligarchy and the arrival of important economic, social and political changes in the country." (Our translation) -Verso Cover. CONTENTS: Prólogo / Roberto Alifano -- Introduccón -- Reseña hisórica preliminar -- Fundación de Buenos Aires -- Los aborígenes -- Relación de España con sus colonias -- Las ciudades hispanoamericanas -- Población de las Indias -- Barroco y… Read More

Santiago de Chile: ARCIS; Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2007. b/w plates, facs., ind., fldg. wrps., OCLC: 218561475. The first part of a larger project to reconstruct the informal groups and collectives of Chilean artists the local art community during their epoch and in their world for contemporary art. The first volume focus is on the artistic production and texts from the period of the end of the 1960s until the publication in 1986 "Márgenes e Instituciones." Some of the contributors include: informalismo: Gracia Barrios, José Balmes, Alberto Pérez and Eduardo Martínez Bonati as opposed to the first group of "arte efímero" and object art (Brugnoli, Errázuriz, Langlois Vicuña), an epoch that closed with the military dictatorship and let to the "Escena de Avanzada". Key artists of the last period of the book: Gaspar Galaz, José Balmes, Francisco Brugnoli, Virginia Errázuriz, Justo Pastor Mellado, Eugenio Dittborn, Gonzalo Díaz, Nelley Richard, Diamela Eltit, Pablo Oyarzún, Adriana Valdés y… Read More

Mexico City: Secretaria de Educacion, Cultura y Bienestar Social del gobierno del Estado de Mexico, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, INAH, 2001. (marginal wear, o/w good solid copy). b/w plates, cat., ind., bibliographical references (pages [1883]-[1884]), plans., map., tbls., b/w pict. wrps. OCLC: 908842972.

Caracas: Ediciones Sancho, 2005. b/w plates, facs., draws, color pict. wrps. Compilation of political caricatures by "Sancho" published in different local newspapers and magazines during a 50 year period in the 20th century that ironically represent or are allusive to the main protagonists of the Fourth and Fifth Republics, from the dictatorship regime of General Marcos Pérez Jiménez to the presidency of General Hugo Chávez. Each full-page caricature includes brief commentaries that clarify their interpretation.

London, México: British Council, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, 2003. b/w and color plates, facs., draws., ind., bio/chrons., color pict. fldg. wrps. Explores traditional artistic genres, takes a broad look at many of the themes and ideas implicit the subject of still life in the 21st century by 16 contemporary British artists. The travelling exhibition presents various frameworks of everyday objects in different scales of installation, digital and video art, paintings, drawings and photography. Includes the works of : Bank, Anna Barriball, Martin Boyce, Emma Kay, John Riddy , Rebecca Warren and Richard Wentworth among others. 12 artists from and/or living in Mexico, present their creations using by graphic and digital art, mixed techniques, installation and video in a modern version of the "Still Life" (Bodegón) style. Another module of 12 artists from or working in Mexico was added to this travelling show of 16 artists from the U. K. See the separate catalogue issued for the Mexican module.

New York: David McKay Co, 1959. (A few stains to foredge, not affecting the text). b/w plates, bibl., ind., map endpapers., color pict. d.j. An illustrated book about the rise and decline of the Maya civilization.

México: Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, IIE-UNAM, 1994. 36 color slides, bibl., color pict. boards. Text plus 36 color slides in plastic sleeves pict. boards. High quality slides on 19 century portraits. Excellent for teaching purposes. Explanatory texts accompany slides.

Buenos Aires: Vortice Argentina, 2003. b/w and color plates [some tipped-in], collage, hand colored or illustrated plates, lithography, xerography, spiral wrps. Presented at the "II International Meeting of Publications", December 5, 2003, Mail art with the theme of war by 24 artists in an edition of 70. Compilation of mail artists' original works that have contributed to VORTICE begun by four Argentine mailartists: Edgardo A. Vigo, Juan Carlos Romero, Hilda Paz and León Ferrari. ARTISTS PARTICIPANTS:María José Abeijón . Rada Tilly, Chubut;Jaquelina Abraham . La Plata, Bs. As.;Luis Abraham . Gral. Pico, La Pamp;Silvia Aquiles . Pergamino, Bs. As;Rosa Audisio . Gral. Pico, La Pampa;Sebastian Bellver . Buenos Aires;Dominique Breard . Buenos Aires;Dini Calderón . Santa Rosa, La Pampa;Oscar Ciancio . Buenos Aires;Lucrecia Clémen . Buenos Aires; Fernando Davis . Buenos Aires;Pablo Delfini . Buenos Aires;Diego Egli . Buenos Aires;Laura Cristina Fernández . Mendoza;María Luján Funes . Buenos Aires;… Read More

Buenos Aires: Vortice Argentina, 2001. b/w and color plates [some tipped-in], collage, hand colored or illustrated plates, lithography, xerography, spiral wrps. Compilation of mail artists' original works that have contributed to VORTICE begun by four Argentine mailartists: Edgardo A. Vigo, Juan Carlos Romero, Hilda Paz and León Ferrari. The fifth volume includes 22 artists, all women. This book was presented at the show "4 knocks to one impact!" ar Barraca Vorticista, on October 26, 2002. SIGNED, STAMPED, MOST NUMBERED. NUMBERED EDITION OF 70, depending on issue. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXTS.

Buenos Aires: Nobuko, 2006. b/w plates, draws., color pict. wrps. The book is an anthology of humorous and innovative sketches by two young Argentinean cartoonists and comic book creators.

México, D.F.: Talleres Gráficos de la Nación, 1934. (Missing bottom right corner of front cover 2 1/2 inches, o/w good copy). plus 75 b/w plates, map, wrps. Spanish, English, French text.

Toluca: Inst. Mexiquense de Cultura, 1993. color plates, tbl., facs., pict. d.w. Documents one of the oldest architectural monuments in the city of Toluca. The residential house was constructed at the end of the 18th century and restoration was begun in 1990.

Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores; Museo de MALBA Fundación Constantini, 2011. b/w illus., bibliographic references (p. 258-287), color pict. wrps. OCLC: 758612947. "By the mid 1950's, abstract art became a dominant trend in Latin American cultural scene. Many artists found in his vocabulary rigorously expression elements, while the representation of lines and geometric structures boxes overflowed and seeped into everyday life through posters and murals. This book lays out a careful and thorough analysis that articulates the emergence in the context of avant-garde magazines like Arthur, Joaquim, and publications invencionistas-with the process of institutionalization and modernization of the imaginary hegemony that regional trying to promote in both countries. The profusion of artistic and institutional exchanges between Argentina and Brazil through trips, exhibitions and innovative Sao Paulo Biennial, and the coincidence of aesthetic cuts linked to abstraction in the work of artists such as… Read More

México: INAH, Dirección de Monumentos Prehispánicos, 1982. b/w illus., wrps.

Barcelona: Plaza y Janes, 1975. d.w. FIRST EDITION (March, 1975). Near fine copy with wrap-around band present.

Río Piedras, PR: Edics. Huracán, 1993. b/w plates, ports., bibl., ind., pict. wrps. Second edition with many photographs. Some higlights:1. De los orígenes.2. Desde Méndez Vigo hasta San Ciriaco. Siglo XIX.3. Del machete a la m quina. Siglo XX.4. La fotografía entre las dos guerras mundiales.

Queretaro: Gold Rain Books and Editorial, 2018. b/w plates, facs., wrps., sig. SIGNED AND NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION 46/60. Artist book using archival pigment print from 120 mm film. Printed on enhanced matte paper 200 g. "This is a compilation of advertisements (money lenders advertisement flayers) collected in the streets of Querétaro by Osvaldo García during the years 2017-2018, in street poles, bus stops, windshields, walls, vacant lots, shopping plazas, telephone booths and in the floor." (HKB Translation) --Colophon.