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1989rif. x-0849345804CRC Pr I Llc 1989. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 267 pages. 10.50x7.25x0.75 inches. CRC Pr I Llc hardcover
rif. 40780showing her full length in court dress with jewels a tiara and a fur stole seated in a carved throne 7½" x 5" Madrid Christian Franzen 1864-1923 was a Danish-born and trained photographer. In 1896 he established a studio in Madrid and became one of Spain's leading photographers. Among other things he was royal photographer for King Alfonso XIII's court. unknown
1798rif. 45354London: Printed for Mr. Hodges Pall Mall and sold by C. Mason 1798. Second edition but the first printed leaves with new preliminary matter. 8vo pp. iii-xi i 281 1. AEG bound in full 19th century polished calf couple of minor spots but a very nice copy. Rare. Although well represented in ESTC not listed in ABPC nor offered on the Internet. Eugenia Stanhope 1730-86 is best remembered for her publication of Lord Chesterfield's letters to his sonsee above. The letters were supposed to be private and Eugenia was attacked for being greedy and immoral. The present work "partly endorses partly rebuts Chesterfield. It argues that husbands are ordained superior that wives should be financially dependent and the world conformed to. Blain. She no longer defends extra maritial sex but does call for freedom of marriage choice. Printed for Mr. Hodges, Pall Mall, and sold by C. Mason unknown
1798rif. 45354London: Printed for Mr. Hodges Pall Mall and sold by C. Mason 1798. Second edition but the first printed leaves with new preliminary matter. 8vo pp. iii-xi i 281 1. AEG bound in full 19th century polished calf couple of minor spots but a very nice copy. Rare. Although well represented in ESTC not listed in ABPC nor offered on the Internet. Eugenia Stanhope 1730-86 is best remembered for her publication of Lord Chesterfield's letters to his sonsee above. The letters were supposed to be private and Eugenia was attacked for being greedy and immoral. The present work "partly endorses partly rebuts Chesterfield. It argues that husbands are ordained superior that wives should be financially dependent and the world conformed to. Blain. She no longer defends extra maritial sex but does call for freedom of marriage choice. Printed for Mr. Hodges, Pall Mall, and sold by C. Mason unknown books
1774rif. SET57-E-3London: J Dodsley 1774. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5". None. A second edition collection of letters from the Earl of Chesterfield This collection of letters provides a wealth of information of the lives of the upper-class in the eighteenth century. The letters are mostly instructive detailing such subjects as geography history and classical literature. Later letters written when the author had become an established minor diplomat deal largely with political matters. In the letters epitomise the restraint of the polite 18th century society. The work contains over three hundred and ninety letters along with miscellaneous pieces on the government of the republic of the seven united provinces maxims of the Earl of Chesterfield a translation of Cardinal De Retz's political maxims and much more. Stanhope was a British statesman and man of letters known for his administration of Ireland his essays and skills as an orator. In a calf binding. Externally sound with some marks to boards and bumping to corners and head and tail of spine. Joints are starting but firm. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedowns and ink inscriptions to front free end-papers. Internally firmly bound with very light spotting to pages. Very Good J Dodsley hardcover
1923rif. 182347Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company 1923. Eugenics grows in America First editions of both volumes of the papers from the second international eugenics congress; from the library of the American Eugenics Society with their stamp to the front free endpapers. The three international eugenics congresses were the central forum for the worldwide eugenics movement to share papers and propose policies. Britain hosted the first congress in 1912 at the University of London. The second congress took place at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in September 1921. Henry Fairfield Osborn presided Alexander Graham Bell was the honorary president and the key guest speaker was Leonard Darwin the son of Charles who advocated measures to eliminate the unfit. The third congress met in 1932 at the same venue. The American Eugenics Society was founded in 1922 in the aftermath of the second congress and only dissolved in 2019. It was the main American body promoting eugenics in the 1920s during which eugenic policies were introduced in numerous American states and immigration quotas were set to limit immigration from outside western and northern Europe. The papers of the congress show the breadth of the movement which was at the forefront of scientific research at the time. Some are reputable studies of heredity traits but most include panic-stricken notions of national decline due to the increase of undesired races and peoples:. The papers include "Some Notes on the Jewish problem" "Negro-White Intermixture and Intermarriage" and "The War from the Eugenic point of view". 2 vols octavo. With frontispieces and 45 plates. Original blue cloth spines lettered in gilt. Faint shadow of removed label to spines. Light rubbing and very light wear at extremities contents clean and unmarked save for trivial notations on contents pages. A very good copy. hardcover
2003rif. 49515London: Chris Boot 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Initialed "CL 21/100" on imprint page and verso of pigment print 7 x 14 3/4" on glossy paper 11 1/2 x 16 1/4". Original brown cloth with blind-stamped and yellow lettering on cover housed in matching clamshell box with the pigment print. Design by SMITH. "History is a series of monumental panoramas moving from the streets of Baghdad to Ground Zero the embattled landscapes of Afghanistan and the Milosevic trial in the Hague. Evoking 19th Century war photographs and the tradition of history paintings." Science Media Museum. Chris Boot hardcover
2003rif. 49515London: Chris Boot 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Initialed "CL 21/100" on imprint page and verso of pigment print 7 x 14 3/4" on glossy paper 11 1/2 x 16 1/4". Original brown cloth with blind-stamped and yellow lettering on cover housed in matching clamshell box with the pigment print. Design by SMITH. "History is a series of monumental panoramas moving from the streets of Baghdad to Ground Zero the embattled landscapes of Afghanistan and the Milosevic trial in the Hague. Evoking 19th Century war photographs and the tradition of history paintings." Science Media Museum. Chris Boot hardcover books
1869rif. 0001361PROCTORSVILLE VERMONT VT. Good. 1869. On offer is the original 1869 manuscript diary in Eugenia A. Goodrich of Proctorsville Vermont. Researchers and collectors of Vermont ephemera will be hard pressed to find a more detailed retelling of local history and genealogy as this young woman does a super job keeping a careful record of the events in her life her family and the doings of her small village along the Black River in central Vermont. That said we find life is hard and brutal sometimes. It a cold region and a cold year and she and the family are frequently snowbound. Genie her nickname records the events as dear Ella grows weaker and then dies. February is a bad month with several deaths of friends and family. Genie sews for local ladies. She records the active visiting that people did in the days before automobiles and telephones except when the roads are filled with snow. Things look up in April when the sugaring starts. One day her brother boils off "done off" 57 pounds of sugar. She records murders and fatal accidents in nearby towns and writes about fear in the village that the reservoir will break and they'll all be drowned. She writes about one beau: "he is splendid" but others annoy her. The Fourth of July is "Glorious"; it's quite an honor when President Grant visits Proctorsville in August. There's a bad flood in October that takes out all the local bridges across the river and carries away Mr. Atherton's house. There's a smallpox scare in the village. Proctorsville celebrates Christmas and Genie writes about a merry Christmas at home; her brother receives a box of collars. This is a fine view of life in New England just after the Civil War. Here are some general notes and snippets: Jan. 1 1869: It has snowed all day and Genie is all alone and feeling lonely as she faces the New Year. She notes that this time last year brother Johnnie was with her so full of life and now he is gone to a better world. Genie lives in a village near Cavendish on the Black River in central Vermont. It's cold there's lots of snow. She sews for herself and for others in the village. There are lots of visits back and forth. On Monday Jan. 18 she writes about Mr. Oliver Perry visiting and taking her to Chester about 10 miles away. Then she writes "He is splendid." On Tuesday Jan. 19 she writes about a shocking murder in nearby 20 miles Claremont New Hampshire. A man was murdered by his nephew. "Murders are so common one doesn't know when they are safe these days" she writes. No doubt this refers to the murder of George Woodell by William Kenney on the night on Jan. 18 as reported by the Boston Post. Genie and her mother take turns caring for Ella. Genie notes on Tuesday Feb. 2 that Ella has failed very fast within a few days. Feb. 3 others come to visit Ella. Genie doesn't think she will live till morning. Feb. 4 Ella is about the same. Genie thought Ella was near death several times but she hangs on. Friday Fed. 5 Dear Ella left us this p.m. at twenty minutes to four to join that angel choir in our heavenly home. Dear Ella we mill thee but hope some day to meet you when our life's work is over. Saturday Feb. 6 spent all day at Mrs. Spaulding's helping to prepare for the funeral. It's Joseph's birthday today-he's 17. I would like to go see him tonight. Sunday Feb. 7 very cold. Joseph carried me up to help Viccie make a wreath. Uncle Wheeler Spaulding died this morning. Quite unexpected. Another life is ended and another home made lonely by the "Grim Monster" death! Monday Feb. 8 Ella's funeral today. Genie will stay at Mr. Spaulding's tonight. Tuesday Feb. 9 Uncle Wheeler's funeral today. Also Mr. Gibson's. Monday Feb. 15 we learned that Hale Spaulding was dead. He dies last night. Wed. Feb. 17 Miss Damon the Woman preacher preached at Hale's funeral. P.H.O. was here this morning. Genie received an invitation for a sleigh ride but had to decline. Sunday Feb. 21 Mother and Russell went to church all day but I didn't go. We heard today that was a woman in Andover VT murdered yesterday. 15 mi. south. Feb. 24 the murder was all a hoax. Thursday April 1. Joseph and the hired man commenced to make sugar today. Tuesday April 6. We done off 57 pounds of sugar today. Thursday Apr. 15. Saw a most remarkable display of Aurora Borealis this evening the like of which I have never seen before. Its rays illuminated the whole heavens converging with wonderful brilliancy. Sunday Apr. 18. Didn't go to church-bad travelling. Done off more sugar may be the last this spring. Wed. Apr. 21. Considerable excitement downtown. They are afraid the reservoir is giving out and they will be drowned. We hear that George sanders and Katie Mitchell were married. A "baby wedding" we should call it-both are so young. Sun. Apr. 25. Rev. J.S. Little preached his farewell sermon today at Proctorsville. Wed. Apr. 28. Mother quilting a bedspread. Saturday June 26. This would have been sister Hattie's birthday she'd be 20. Sunday June 27. I got all fixed up expecting a Bo beau but nary a one came only that hateful Adams fellow. Humph. Wish he knew enough to stay at home some of the time. Tuesday June 29. Mr. Elijah Bemis was killed this morning at Springfield and his wife was seriously injured. They were thrown from a carriage. Wed. June 30. Did not go strawberrying because Albert played me false. Thursday July 1. I went out and picked enough strawberries for one cake. Mother went strawberrying over in Parkers. I tried to sew some but did not accomplish much. "Albert bothers me so." Sunday July 4. Well this has been the Glorious fourth and is the ninety-third anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in this broad free land. I have celebrated it in a becoming manner. We stayed at Mr. Whitney's until after dinner then we came down to Warrens and called there a while and then came home. Sat. July 10. Little brother Johnnie would have been twelve years old today. Sat. Aug. 28. President Grant was at Proctorsville this afternoon. Quite an honor for our little town. Monday Oct. 4. It has been a continual pouring of rain all day. Cavendish never see such a __ before. The damages are immense. The bridges are all gone and the roads are washed so they are impassable. I went down to see the ruins. It looks rather rough along the Black river. We hear that Mr. Atherton's house is washed away. Tue. Oct. 5. The water in the river has fell considerably but not so we can cross it yet. Thurs. Nov. 30. Great excitement about the smallpox of which there are several cases in town. Friday Dec. 24. This evening all hands have been down for Proctorsville's Christmas eve. "Old Santa Clause" was generous this year. He put a present on the tree for me. Sat. Dec. 25. I spent a Merrie Christmas at home. This evening they have had exiting times at Farrsville. Quite a skirmish Merry merry Christmas indeed I should think. Joseph had a present of a box of collars and much much more. BIO NOTES: Courtesy of the Cavendish Historical Society Eugenia A. Goodrich was born in Cavendish 16 April 1846 daughter of Joseph D. and Lucy M. Paine Goodrich. Genie lived her whole live in the community of Proctorsville a village in the western part of the town. She also lived through the utmost tragedies that can ever be afflicted into the life of one little girl. During the first typhoid epidemic in Cavendish in 1851 her baby sister Hannah was taken. But even worse during the typhoid fever epidemic that struck Cavendish during the fall and winter of 1863 Genie lost her beloved father her twenty-year old sister Cassandra and her fifteen old sister Harriet. This left her poor grieving mother a widow at the age of 42 with three surviving children. Lucy did what she could but she was not strong and as time went on her heart grew weak. It was through her piety and humble work in the Baptist Church that she was adopted as a charity but she never asked for charity. Rev. Swett Brown was a pillar in the community and made sure that Lucy did not want for protection food and shelter with attentive neighborly love. Lucy Paine Goodrich was a gracious loving intelligent woman. Her life was a tragedy just as her daughter Genie's was. Lucy died of heart disease at her home in Cavendish 14 Oct. 1878 age 57. Her surviving son Joseph P. Goodrich lived with his wife Lizzie Oriette Kingston Goodrich and their children on a small farm in the Gassetts section of Chester a town south of Cavendish. Eugenia Lucy's daughter was married in Cavendish at the Baptist Church by Rev. Swett Farnsworth Brown 4 April 1872 to Albert Butler Adams. Albert was a Civil War veteran of Cavendish who enlisted at Cavendish 5 Aug. 1864 in the 2nd Battery Light Artillery as a private. He was discharged 28 July 1865. They lived in Cavendish District #8 on their own farm. Albert had a pension as he came home from war a very sick man. Genie died of consumption 15 June 1873 age 27. This was only three months and twelve days after giving birth to her only child Albert. Albert died of a scrofula illness 24 July 1878 at the young age of 34 years. They were buried in Cavendish. The book proper is a standard 19th century diary with astronomical items postage rates moon phases time of sunset and rise for each day etc.4"x2"x1" page a day small leather-bound book has a worn cover lining loose but overall G.; 64mo - up to 3" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF CAVENDISH EUGENIA A. GOODRICH NORTH HAVERHILL NEW HAMPSHIRE AMERICANA POST CIVIL WAR RECONSTRUCTION ERA PROCTORSVILLE VERMONT LUDLOW WOMENS STUDIES GENDER STUDIES RURAL LIFE HARDSHIPS EPIDEMICS INFLUENZA SMALLPOX FEVERS SUGARING MAPLE SYRUP HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA Als antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel . hardcover
2007rif. 73001Mondadori Electa S. P. A. . New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in Italian. 312 pp. With 184 ills. 172 col. . 28 x 24 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2007. 8837053363 . Mondadori Electa S. P. A. paperback
2009rif. 79554Actar. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English Catalan and Spanish. 192 pp. 32 x 17 cm. -- with a bonus offer--; Multilingual Edition; FREQUENCIES is the catalogue that accompanies a new exhibition project by the artist Eugènia Balcells on some perceptive aspects of energy: light and colour. FREQUENCIES is a book that wants to be faithful to the screens on which the images of the multimedia installations Colour wheel Labyrinth Marble and Frequencies are projected. It is a book that allows us to slowly study the flow of the colour spectrum that defines the geometry of everything that exists. FREQUENCIES is both a visual source of knowledge and a collection of reflections on the communicative capacity of art and sciences. . 2009. 8492861037 . Actar hardcover
2014rif. 108379University of Texas Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer--; Bill and Alice Wright Photography . 2014. 0292754639 . University of Texas Press hardcover
2008rif. 73613Skira. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in Italian. 288 pp. With 180 ills. 89 col. . 28 x 25 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2008. Skira paperback
2010rif. 87814RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 240 pages; 244 illus. -- with a bonus offer--; Claude Bragdon 1866-1946 was a first-generation modernist architect as well as an illustrator critic theorist and theater designer. Bragdon practiced architecture in Rochester New York throughout the Progressive Era. Although his masterpiece the New York Central Railroad Station was demolished in the 1960s-70s the First Universalist Church the Bevier Memorial Building the Peterborough Bridge near Toronto and nearly 100 residences remain today. A prolific and influential writer Bragdon published more than twenty books and hundreds of articles. He was nationally known for his graphic art his writing on the fourth dimension his Song & Light Festivals of 1915-1918 and his role in theater's New Stagecraft. He had technical and artistic expertise in many disciplines making it difficult to categorize his work into a specific stylistic trend. Bragdon's work as an early modernist is important both in its own right and as a key to other 20th Century architects work. The book includes a complete bibliography of Bragdon's published work a timeline and an index. Contributors: Eugenia V. Ellis Paul Emmons Marcia Feuerstein Marie Frank Jean France Joscelyn Godwin Linda Dalrymple Henderson Christina Malathouni Jonathan Massey Mary Nixon Joan Ockman Andrea Reithmayr and Richard Guy Wilson. . 2010. 1933360437 . RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press paperback
2010rif. 123263PUbliCan - Ediciones de la Universidad de Cantabria. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened. Text in Spanish. – with a bonus offer-- . 2010. 8481025712 . PUbliCan - Ediciones de la Universidad de Cantabria paperback
2016rif. 122391Texas A&M University Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened – with a bonus offer--; Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities . 2016. 1623494524 . Texas A&M University Press hardcover
1967rif. 36802New York: Harcourt Brace & World. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE 437 pages. ASIN: B0006D74CS . Book Description: "Both witness to and victim of Stalin’s reign of terror a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia’s prisons and labor camps." -- with a bonus offer--; T-Ginzjour; Ginzburg Eugenia Semyonovna translated By Stevenson Paul and Hayward Max Journey Into the Whirlwind . 1967. Harcourt, Brace & World hardcover
2011rif. 94736University of Pennsylvania Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 414 pages; 88 illustrations. -- with a bonus offer--; Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture; Like their penchant for clubs cricket and hunting the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. In Flora's Empire Eugenia W. Herbert argues that more than simple nostalgia or homesickness lay at the root of this "garden imperialism" however. Drawing on a wealth of period illustrations and personal accounts many of them little known she traces the significance of gardens in the long history of British relations with the subcontinent. To British eyes she demonstrates India was an untamed land that needed the visible stamp of civilization that gardens in their many guises could convey. Colonial gardens changed over time from the "garden houses" of eighteenth-century nabobs modeled on English country estates to the herbaceous borders gravel walks and well-trimmed lawns of Victorian civil servants. As the British extended their rule they found that hill stations like Simla offered an ideal retreat from the unbearable heat of the plains and a place to coax English flowers into bloom. Furthermore India was part of the global network of botanical exploration and collecting that gathered up the world's plants for transport to great imperial centers such as Kew. And it is through colonial gardens that one may track the evolution of imperial ideas of governance. Every Government House and Residency was carefully landscaped to reflect current ideals of an ordered society. At Independence in 1947 the British left behind a lasting legacy in their gardens one still reflected in the design of parks and information technology campuses and in the horticultural practices of home gardeners who continue to send away to England for seeds. . 2011. 0812243269 . University of Pennsylvania Press hardcover
1968rif. 39466Cambridge MA: Fogg Art Museum / Harvard University. As New. Hardcover Monograph. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE - 321 works catalogued and illustrated -- with a bonus offer--; T-Janis; Janis Eugenia Parry Degas Monotypes: Essay Catalogue & Checklist - Fogg Art Museum Harvard University - April 25 - June 14 1968 . 1968. Fogg Art Museum / Harvard University hardcover
1968rif. 32411Fogg Art Museum Harvard University / New York Graphic Society. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE - 321 works catalogued and illustrated -- with a bonus offer--; T-Janisep; Janis Eugenia Parry Degas Monotypes : Essay Catalogue & Checklist - Fogg Art Museum Harvard Univeristy Cambridge MA - April 25 - June 14 1968 . 1968. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University / New York Graphic Society paperback
1991rif. 75186Museum. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 32 pp. With 14 ills. 28 x 20 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1991. Museum paperback
1975rif. 69605New York: W W Norton. Fine. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE - Corresponds to / earlier editoin of ISBN: 039330227X. Frist edition so stated -- with a bonus offer--; 040256; Lopez Claude-Anne; Herbert Eugenia W. The Private Franklin: The Man and His Family Benjamin Franklin . 1975. 039330227X . W W Norton hardcover
2016rif. 116778J. Paul Getty Museum. New. Hardcover. IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer; 9.5 X 1.1 X 11 inches; 244 pages . 2016. 1606064673 . J. Paul Getty Museum hardcover
2015rif. 116384La Fábrica. New. Paperback. IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - Text in English and Spanish. -- with a bonus offer; Libros De Autor; 0 X 0 X 0 millimeters; 80 pages . 2015. 841624815X . La Fábrica paperback
2011rif. 95420Radius Books. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 132 pp. ; 57 illus. -- with a bonus offer--; Family man optician avid reader and photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard created and explored a fantasy world of dolls and masks in which his family and friends played the central roles on an ever-changing stage. His monograph The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater published posthumously in 1974 recorded his wife and family posed in various disquieting settings wearing masks and holding dolls and evoking a penetrating emotional and psychological landscape. The book won his work critical acclaim and has been hugely influential in the intervening decades. Dolls and Masks opens the doors on the decade of rich experimentation that immediately preceded the production of his final opus The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago this handsome book presents more than 70 never-before-seen works from the Meatyard Archive greatly expanding our understanding of Meatyard's elusive and captivating genius. Writer and historian Eugenia Parry and curator Elizabeth Siegel contribute essays that set the stage for this foray into the unknown work of one of the last century's most intriguing photographers. Ralph Eugene Meatyard 1925-1972 attended Williams College as part of the Navy's V12 program in World War II. Following the war he married became a licensed optician and moved to Lexington Kentucky. When the first of his three children was born Meatyard bought a camera to make pictures of the baby. Photography quickly became a consuming interest. He joined the Lexington Camera Club where he met Van Deren Coke under whose encouragement he soon developed into a powerfully original photographer. Meatyard's work is housed at the Museum of Modern Art George Eastman House in Rochester New York Smithsonian Institution and many other important collections. . 2011. 1934435333 . Radius Books hardcover
