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Berrin, Kathleen (Edited by), with Benson, Elizabeth P, et al (Essays by)Biblio.com

The Spirit of Ancient Peru: Treasures from the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera

1997réf. 220130New York: Thames and Hudson 1997. Cloth 216 pages illustrations some colour; 29 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco M. H. de Young Memorial Museum 17 May to 10 August 1997 and the Knoxville Museum of Art Knoxville Tennessee 26 September 1997 to 4 January 1998. Firm binding clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A large-format coffee-table book. Profusely illustrated. "This book includes works from all of ancient Peru's major cultures - pieces that have long been considered icons of Peruvian art. Spectacular ceramics from Moche Chimu and other cultures portray scenes of ritual drama shamanism mythology and warfare. The working of precious metals reached its zenith in ancient Peru and stunning gold and silver jewelry headdresses and ceremonial vessels are featured. A fearsome copper mask of a fanged deity exquisite mosaic earplugs with inlays of precious shell and stone an intricate Lambayeque textile featuring elaborate beings - these are just a few of the masterworks that are illustrated and described." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The spirit of Rafael Larco Hoyle: an introduction by Kathleen Berrin; Rafael Larco Hoyle 1901-1966 by Clifford Evans; Life and afterlife in pre-Hispanic Peru: contextualizing the masterworks of the Museo Arqueologico Rafael Larco Herrera by Richard L. Burger; The coastal islands of Peru: myths and natural resources by Maria Rostworowski de Diez Canseco; Moche art: myth history and rite by Elizabeth P. Benson; Deer hunting and combat: parallel activities in the Moche world by Christopher B. Donnan; Andean aesthetics by Esther Pasztory; Catalogue of objects by Elizabeth P. Benson and others. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible. Thames and Hudson hardcover

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Maisel, David, with essays by Geoff Manaugh, Terry Toedtemeier and Michael S RothBiblio.com

Library of Dust; The West Shore January 1889

2008réf. 352975San Francisco California: Chonicle Books 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. David Maisel. This is a lot of two 2 items the second being a Very Good condition copy housed in a Mylar sleeve of The West Shore magazine for January of 1889 and that features duotone illustrations of both "Salem Oregon - Asylum of the Insane" and "Oregon - State Penitentiary Salem" and suffuse with articles and news about Oregon and especially the Willamette Valley and the Oregon Coast. Simple brown printed wraps chipping at spine bottom stapled prior dealer's For Salem card inside front flap. News about the genealogy of the State of Oregon and of Oakland Newberg Baker Salem McMinnville and other Oregon towns and villages. Library of Dust is one of "those" books that will dent your psyche in a good way. "Dust is a peculiar substance. Less a material in its own right with its own characteristics or color dust is a condition . . . Dust is a potpourri of ingredients varied to the point of indefinability. Dust includes 'dead insect parts flakes of human skin shreds of fabric and other unpleasing materials'" Geoff Manaugh quoting Joseph Amato. Library of Dust is a somber sobering fascinating photographic right-thinking rumination in humane terms on a non-human perhaps even inhumane collection: the decomposing copper canisters that carried the cremated remains of the former Oregon State Hospital inmates that had gone unclaimed. Library of Dust is comprised of four stellar essays and arresting full color full page photographs of the copper-coated tins oceanic of appearance encrusted in unique patinas of color and texture that somehow invoke perhaps the former human beings captured inside them. Bound handsomely in illustrated black pictorial boards in folio hardcover format measuring 17 1/2" x 13 1/4" in height and width respectively. Note: what appear to be scuffings of and rubbings to tips and extremities are in fact not so but rather a faithful mimesis of the burnishings of the canisters themselves according to a publisher rep. Miniscule faint title font at front cover slightly larger at spine and at endpapers is just as meaningful--barely there but necessary. The heavy black card stock endpapers however feature a sort of typographic constellation: each tiny number from a single number to four numbers appears in dark space so as to denote a former human being. Assembled jointly by David Maisel and three interlocutors and with apparent editorial freedom from the publisher. Essays by Geoff Manaugh "Mineral Kinship" Terry Toedtemeier "The Soul Remains: a mineralogical account of the remarkable transformation of the cremation canisters at the Oregon State Hospital" and Michael S. Roth "Graves of the Insane Decorated" then Maisel's "The Library and its Self-Contained Double." Most of them being being larger at their bases than at their heads the copper canisters are not unlovely but have instead a worker-like handmade quality to them. Some are burnished brightly; others are depressingly dull. From some of them bloom colorful corrosion and some of the seams are well-nigh unto splitting. Some have numbers stamped into them like shotgun shell casings and yet others have abraded paper labels still affixed to them. The lowest number registered is 01 and the highest is 5121. Uncommon in this fine state.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Chonicle Books hardcover

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Prina, Stephen; Porter, Jenelle (Text by), with Meyer, James, and Schurmann, Wilhelm (Essays by)Biblio.com

We Represent Ourselves to the World: Stephen Prina Galerie Max Hetzler

2004réf. 211467Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer Museum UCLA Dept. of Art Critical and Curatorial Studies 2004. 224 pages illustrations some colour; 23 cm. Tight clean copy. Another copy available. "The first 176 pages of this book are devoted to the presentation of a single artwork Stephen Prina's installation Galerie Max Hetzler made in 1991. In its installed form it consists of the following elements: 163 sepia-toned gelatin silver prints over-matted with ivory-colored rag board and finished with walnut-stained mahogany wood frames; 163 acrylic labels screenprinted with text; 9 architectural models made from ivory-colored rag board encased in acrylic and mounted on walnut-stained mahogany veneer plywood pedestals; and an enormous graphic painted in ivory latex on the wall floor to ceiling that reads 'We represent ourselves to the world.' Galerie Max Hetzler was created as a site-specific installation for the art gallery of its title located at that time in Cologne.1 It presents by way of photography and architectural models a history of the gallery's exhibitions and locations filtered through Prina's highly devised and analytical interpretative system. As an installation it has a specific physical existence one governed by the space it inhabits and the time the history it documents. This book allows yet another form of time and space for its 'installation': a re-presentation of the work for the page a location that allows a renewed consideration of its rich contents and ideas. This essay is structured around three themes as introduced by Prina's own words that are critical to the work: photography art in architecture and site-specificity. Finally the operation of Galerie Max Hetzler in a book as a site for 'installation' will be considered." - Publisher. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible. UCLA Hammer Museum, UCLA, Dept. of Art, Critical and Curatorial Studies Paperback

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Prina, Stephen; Porter, Jenelle (Text by), with Meyer, James, and Schurmann, Wilhelm (Essays by)Biblio.com

We Represent Ourselves to the World: Stephen Prina Galerie Max Hetzler

2004réf. 220085Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer Museum UCLA Dept. of Art Critical and Curatorial Studies 2004. 224 pages illustrations some colour; 23 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the artist Stephen Prina with a personalized inscription. A fine copy. "The first 176 pages of this book are devoted to the presentation of a single artwork Stephen Prina's installation Galerie Max Hetzler made in 1991. In its installed form it consists of the following elements: 163 sepia-toned gelatin silver prints over-matted with ivory-colored rag board and finished with walnut-stained mahogany wood frames; 163 acrylic labels screenprinted with text; 9 architectural models made from ivory-colored rag board encased in acrylic and mounted on walnut-stained mahogany veneer plywood pedestals; and an enormous graphic painted in ivory latex on the wall floor to ceiling that reads 'We represent ourselves to the world.' Galerie Max Hetzler was created as a site-specific installation for the art gallery of its title located at that time in Cologne.1 It presents by way of photography and architectural models a history of the gallery's exhibitions and locations filtered through Prina's highly devised and analytical interpretative system. As an installation it has a specific physical existence one governed by the space it inhabits and the time the history it documents. This book allows yet another form of time and space for its 'installation': a re-presentation of the work for the page a location that allows a renewed consideration of its rich contents and ideas. This essay is structured around three themes as introduced by Prina's own words that are critical to the work: photography art in architecture and site-specificity. Finally the operation of Galerie Max Hetzler in a book as a site for 'installation' will be considered." - Publisher. . SIGNED. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible. UCLA Hammer Museum, UCLA, Dept. of Art, Critical and Curatorial Studies paperback

LEFT COAST BOOKS · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 134,26 €

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