Hoving thomas namingha dan (2 risultati)

Condizione: COME NUOVO. Harry N Abrams Inc cm.21x27,5, pp.160 ill.a colori. legatura editoriale, sopraccoperta figurata a colori. Drawing upon the landscape and culture of his native American Southwest, Dan Namingha blends abstraction and reality. Boldly colored and powerfully constructed, his works evoke the stark red sandstone desert of New Mexico and Arizona, the buttes and mesas of the Hopi land, and the emblems and symbols of Hopi ceremonies, to which he is strongly connected. His great-great-grandmother was the legendary Hopi potter Nampeyo, and numerous family members create traditional and innovative art of high distinction - pottery, kachina dolls, paintings, and graphic works. Raised in the combined tradition of two Pueblo peoples, the Hopi and the Tewa, Namingha marries the colorful, geometric imagery of his indigenous roots with the tradition of twentieth-century abstract modernism. His artistic schooling includes formal training at Santa Fe's Institute of American Indian Arts and brief, but important, studies at the University of Kansas and the American Academy of Art in Chicago.…

Firtst edition (not stated) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST. 160 pages. Hardcover: H 27.25cm x L 23.5cm. Dust jacket presented in an older rubbed mylar protector. Orange boards. Artist Dan Namingha and author Thomas Hoving black felt tip ink signatures are on half-title page; interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Laid-in at front endpapers is a Santa Fe gallery (Niman Fine Art) brochure regarding the artist along with promotional cards and advertisement clipping. ISBN 0810940507.…