Kara artist (9 risultati)

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good+. No Jacket. Later Printing. Used Graphic Novel.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Walker, Kara (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. Book has mild rubbing to edges of spine. otherwise book is in excellent condition with a clean cover, bright pages, and a strong binding.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 184 pgs. Sealed, new. Edouard Duval-Carrié had a solo exhibition at Pérez Art Museum Miami titled Imagined Landscapes. The exhibition showcased a series of new large-scale works generated over the past year, depicting lush tropical scenes that reference specific nineteenth-century paintings executed in the Caribbean and Florida.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. First printing. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) hard slipcase (no jacket issued). A clean, unmarked copy. A stunning copy, purchased new and opened only to take photos for this listing. Hundreds of color illustrations. 384 pp., 4to, lime green cloth, pictorial slipcase. Gagosian Gallery published this book in association with Rizzoli. Presents his complete body of work as of 2006, approximately 400 paintings and drawings, many of which are previously unpublished.…

Staplebound. Condizione: Very good. Exhibition Catalog 11" by 8 1/2". Stapled wraps. Sixteen pages featuring a selection from an exhibition of 59 of Walker's prints and multiples and an essay by Jessi DiTillio. The traveling exhibition visited eight locations in the United States between January 2014 and February 2017. Walker's silhouette images work to bridge unfinished folklore in the Antebellum South, raising identity and gender issues for African-American women in particular. Walker uses images from historical textbooks to show how enslaved African Americans were depicted during Antebellum South.The silhouette was typically a genteel tradition in American art history; it was often used for family portraits and book illustrations. Walker carried on this portrait tradition but used them to create characters in a nightmarish world, a world that reveals the brutality of American racism and inequality.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Quarto, 12-5/8 by 9-3/4 inches, 136 pages. Prints editioned by Derrière L'Etoile Studio NYC, under the supervision of Maurice Sanchez. Bound with red leather spine and printed cotton sides, in slipcase. Edition of 400 numbered and signed copies for sale. This artist book of Porgy & Bess, the libretto by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, is the occasion for Kara Walker's first series of lithographs. The book contains 16 lithographs Porgy & Bess has been controversial since its premiere in 1935; Kara Walker is known for her controversial art on themes of race, violence, and American history. In her Artist's Statement, she says of the characters: "they've become archetypes of another no less grand drama, that of: 'American Negroes drawn up by white authors, and retooled by individual actors, amid charges of racism, and counter charges of high-art on stage and screen, in the face of social and political upheaval, over generations." This fraught status, along with memories of her mother's reaction to a cast recording, led her to render them in a straightforward way, ".more an homage to the feeling of the music. And to that feeling I had as a child of a heavy atmosphere hanging around a timeless act of love." ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help. Walker, Kara (illustratore). Signed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Quarto, 12-5/8 by 9-3/4 inches, 136 pages. Prints editioned by Derrière L'Etoile Studio NYC, under the supervision of Maurice Sanchez. Bound with red leather spine and printed cotton sides, in slipcase. Edition of 400 numbered and signed copies for sale. Additional suite of four lithographs, different from the images in the book, signed and numbered by the artist. This artist book ofPorgy & Bess,the libretto by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, is the occasion for Kara Walker's first series of lithographs. The book contains 16 lithographs, with another four images not in the book in a separate portfolio. Porgy & Bess has been controversial since its premiere in 1935; Kara Walker is known for her controversial art on themes of race, violence, and American history. In her Artist's Statement, she says of the characters: "they've become archetypes of another no less grand drama, that of: 'American Negroes drawn up by white authors, and retooled by individual actors, amid charges of racism, and counter charges of high-art on stage and screen, in the face of social and political upheaval, over generations." This fraught status, along with memories of her mother's reaction to a cast recording, led her to render them in a straightforward way, "more an homage to the feeling of the music. And to that feeling I had as a child of a heavy atmosphere hanging around a timeless act of love." ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help. Kara Walker (illustratore).…