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onestar press 2005
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onestar press 2005
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''Exposing the Maya'' focuses on the works of Désiré Charnay, Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon, Teobert Maler, Alfred Maudslay and Adela Breton, all of whom were masters of their craft and travelled extensively to sites in Mexico and Central America. The over 100 selected images in this volume, together with nearly 40 additional contextual images featuring sketches from(...)
Exposing the Maya: Early archaeological photography in the Americas
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''Exposing the Maya'' focuses on the works of Désiré Charnay, Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon, Teobert Maler, Alfred Maudslay and Adela Breton, all of whom were masters of their craft and travelled extensively to sites in Mexico and Central America. The over 100 selected images in this volume, together with nearly 40 additional contextual images featuring sketches from travel journals, hand-colored drawings, prints, and maps, are combined with the photographers’ own words found in their published writings, journals and letters to provide insight into their methods, context for their images, and to capture the realities of field work in Mesoamerica.
Photography Collections
O'Keefe-isms
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Georgia O’Keeffe was one of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century. Bridging representation and abstraction, she depicted plants, flowers, cityscapes, and landscapes in iconic paintings whose unique style has become an indelible part of our visual culture. Drawn from her published writings, letters, interviews, and other sources, the quotes in(...)
O'Keefe-isms
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Georgia O’Keeffe was one of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century. Bridging representation and abstraction, she depicted plants, flowers, cityscapes, and landscapes in iconic paintings whose unique style has become an indelible part of our visual culture. Drawn from her published writings, letters, interviews, and other sources, the quotes in ''O’Keeffe-isms'' provide insights into her artistic philosophy, creative process, and profound connection to the desert landscapes of New Mexico and the American Southwest. Poetic, fearless, and introspective, ''O’Keeffe-isms'' provides a vivid window into the mind of a beloved modernist artist who forged her own path.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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While Mies van der Rohe’s pavilion at the International Exposition in Barcelona in 1929 went unnoticed by most of the visitors to the fairgrounds, contemporary critics enthusiastically hailed it as the most convincing statement of the Modern Age. This book presents 100 selected texts about this much discussed building, written then and now: from the opening speech by(...)
The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe: one hundred texts 1929 - 2019
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While Mies van der Rohe’s pavilion at the International Exposition in Barcelona in 1929 went unnoticed by most of the visitors to the fairgrounds, contemporary critics enthusiastically hailed it as the most convincing statement of the Modern Age. This book presents 100 selected texts about this much discussed building, written then and now: from the opening speech by the Spanish king, to newspaper articles and private letters, voices of contemporary architects, architecture critics and historians, and even a text by artist Ai Weiwei, who created an installation in the outdoor area of the pavilion in 2010.
Architecture Monographs
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Part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual, Extra Bold is filled with stories and ideas that don't show up in other career books or design overviews. Both pragmatic and inquisitive, the book explores power structures in the workplace and how to navigate them. Practical guides cover everything from starting out, to wage gaps,(...)
Extra bold: a feminist inclusive anti-racist non-binary field guide for graphic designers
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Part textbook and part comic book, zine, manifesto, survival guide, and self-help manual, Extra Bold is filled with stories and ideas that don't show up in other career books or design overviews. Both pragmatic and inquisitive, the book explores power structures in the workplace and how to navigate them. Practical guides cover everything from starting out, to wage gaps, coming out at work, cover letters, mentoring, and more. Critical essays rethink design principles and practices through theories of feminism, anti-racism, inclusion, and nonbinary thinking, while biographical sketches explore individuals marginalized by sexism, racism, and ableism.
Graphic Design and Typography
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Jean McEwen (19231999) was a Canadian painter who was known for his abstract, colourful paintings. De ma main a la couleur (Hand to Colour) is a series of 16 watercolour paintings accompanied by handwritten poetry by McEwen. The book will include an essay by art historian and writer Laurier Lacroix, and an additional text by McEwen s widowed wife Indra McEwen. It is(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
December 2016
Jean McEwen: De ma main à la couleur / Hand to Colour
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Jean McEwen (19231999) was a Canadian painter who was known for his abstract, colourful paintings. De ma main a la couleur (Hand to Colour) is a series of 16 watercolour paintings accompanied by handwritten poetry by McEwen. The book will include an essay by art historian and writer Laurier Lacroix, and an additional text by McEwen s widowed wife Indra McEwen. It is also published to coincide with 50 limited edition box sets that are stamped and authenticated by McEwen s estate. The watercolour series is a collection of love letters addressed to colour, produced near the end of McEwen s life.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Originally set up after a request from Winston Churchill, the Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk ran for over 60 years, collating mysterious sightings and records of strange objects in the sky from observant members of the public. As well as letters and official reports, the UFO files contain photographs, drawings and even paintings of these curious sightings. David Clarke(...)
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UFO drawings from the National Archives
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Originally set up after a request from Winston Churchill, the Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk ran for over 60 years, collating mysterious sightings and records of strange objects in the sky from observant members of the public. As well as letters and official reports, the UFO files contain photographs, drawings and even paintings of these curious sightings. David Clarke has selected examples from The National Archives to present a history of British UFO art and the remarkable stories behind these images, including an alien craft on the A1, flying saucers over Hampstead, and a spaceship landing at a primary school in Macclesfield.
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This book explains, in simple steps and non-mathematical terminology, how to create repeat patterns in a line, on the plane, as tiles, and as Escher-like repeats. The book also shows how to make 'wallpaper repeats', where the elements of the pattern merge into each other, apparently seamlessly. Using letters as the basic elements, the book demonstrates how all repeat(...)
How to make repeat pattersn: a guide for designers, architects and artists
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This book explains, in simple steps and non-mathematical terminology, how to create repeat patterns in a line, on the plane, as tiles, and as Escher-like repeats. The book also shows how to make 'wallpaper repeats', where the elements of the pattern merge into each other, apparently seamlessly. Using letters as the basic elements, the book demonstrates how all repeat pattern-making comes out of four simple operations: translation, rotation, reflection, and glide reflection. It will provide the definitive one-stop pattern-making resource for professional designers and students across disciplines, from textiles and fashion to graphic design and architecture.
Graphic Design and Typography
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This collection assembles all of the known correspondence of Canadian typographer and type designer Carl Dair (1912-67) concerning the conception, development and reception of his Cartier typeface. The letters span two decades, from Dair’s 1956?57 studies under the punchcutter P.H. Rädisch at the Enschedé typefoundry in Holland, to the voluminous response to the release(...)
Carl Dair and the Cartier typeface
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This collection assembles all of the known correspondence of Canadian typographer and type designer Carl Dair (1912-67) concerning the conception, development and reception of his Cartier typeface. The letters span two decades, from Dair’s 1956?57 studies under the punchcutter P.H. Rädisch at the Enschedé typefoundry in Holland, to the voluminous response to the release of the First Proof of Cartier in 1966 until his sudden death in 1967, including candid criticisms and detailed critiques from some of the twentieth century’s foremost typographic minds?Sem Hartz, John Dreyfus, Paul Standard, Beatrice Warde, Hermann Zapf and others.
Graphic Design and Typography
Berenice Abbott
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The American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) is known best for her documentation of New York in the 1930s and for her efforts to gain recognition for the work of Eugène Atget in both Europe and the United States. This book features 120 photographs and a series of rarely seen documents (including letters, book layouts, and periodicals), illuminating the three(...)
Berenice Abbott
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The American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) is known best for her documentation of New York in the 1930s and for her efforts to gain recognition for the work of Eugène Atget in both Europe and the United States. This book features 120 photographs and a series of rarely seen documents (including letters, book layouts, and periodicals), illuminating the three major periods of Abbott's career: her early work in the United States and Paris during the 1920s; her project Changing New York (1935–39), created for the Federal Art Project; and her scientific pictures made between 1939 and 1961.
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