Sentences with phrase «dust jacket for»

Visual artist Ann Agee has designed a three - color dust jacket for the book, which has been screen - printed in four versions.

The dust jacket for the novel may also have readers expecting a more highly charged novel than this turns out to be.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead... We're nothing more than dust jackets for books... so many pages to a person...

«Dust Jackets for the Niggerati - and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings submitted ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker,» Sikkema Jenkins, New York, NY.

Sikkema Jenkins & Co. presented new graphite drawings and hand - printed texts on paper that explore themes of transition and migration that run throughout the African American experience in the 20th century as part of an exhibition titled «Dust Jackets for the Niggerati — and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings Submitted Ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker.»

A selection of dust jackets for each artist reveals how far the book as an artefact had travelled from the days of the plain wrapper in the nineteenth century.

His essay contributions to artist monographs include Kara Walker's Dust Jackets for The Niggerati (Gregory R. Miller & Co.); Basquiat — The Unknown Notebooks (Brooklyn Museum / Skira Rizzoli); and on the paintings of Suzanne McClelland, 36-24-36 (Team Gallery / D.

Fully illustrated with reproductions of the entire series, and designed by award - winning design studio CoMa with Walker's close collaboration, Dust Jackets for the Niggerati represents a major contribution to the career of one of our most significant and complex contemporary artists.

FOR MORE ON KARA WALKER, read a Culture Type review of her recent book, «Kara Walker: Dust Jackets for the Niggerati.»

It's a necessary ingredient in the tension of her show Dust Jackets for the Niggerati..., on at Sikkema Jenkins through June 4th.

The exhibition «Dust Jackets for the Niggerati — and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings, submitted ruefully by Kara E. Walker,» featured an amazing series of narrative drawings and text - driven, tongue - in - cheek prints that Walker describes as «potential book covers for unwritten essays, works of fiction, and missing narratives of the black migration.»

The newly published «Kara Walker: Dust Jackets for the Niggerati» complements her 2011 exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., the New York gallery that represents her.

In conceiving «Dust Jackets for the Niggerati,» Walker referenced Alain Locke's «The New Negro,» a seminal text that «signaled an emerging cohesiveness in black American thought and celebrated the creativity of African - Americans,» and was inspired by the Aaron Douglas woodblocks that illustrate the 1925 anthology.

Dust Jackets for the Niggerati — and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings Submitted Ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 530 W. 22nd St. Through June 11.

Installation view: Dust Jackets for the Niggerati - and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings submitted ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, 2011.

Not exact matches

The most authors can hope for is that we like a dust jacket and decide it fits aesthetically on our shelves.

Does this mean, as the dust jacket baldly states, that politicians were to blame for an otherwise avoidable war?

I have to say something about the dust jacket design / photo didn't do it for me.

These leather jackets are water and dust resistant and especially made for highway rides.

Made with real leather jackets material, these can withstand rain, cold, dust and are highly prized for their warmth.

I first encountered this jacket when my mom lent me hers at the last minute for the trip to the Dust Bowl Series.

You'll barely spare a glance for the description on the dust jacket.

Erin, who is trying to hide her interest in paranormal activity from the faculty as she is up for tenure, first denies that she wrote the book, but ultimately can not hide that her face is on the dust jacket.

Having a template for the book cover and / or dust jacket from the printer or the publisher is the only way to make sure there I can create artwork that will be the correct size.

Once you have signed an agreement with us, we can send you the measurements for the cover or cover wrap, and dust jacket, if applicable.

You can provide additional text for the interior flaps of the dust jacket.

Authors who work directly with publishers and printing companies to print book covers and dust jackets are responsible for:

POD includes the choice of hardcover, hardcovers with a dust jacket, a wide variety of trim sizes constantly being expanded, and different options for color interiors.

Most debut fiction titles first appear on bookstore shelves as a cloth bound hardcover with a dust jacket — likewise for debut titles in the history, biography, science, and social studies genres.

This includes the back cover and spine for softcover books, as well as dust jacket flaps, case cover, and endpapers for more complex projects.

In the case of cloth bound cover spreads, the extra space afforded by the flaps of the dust jacket gives much more room for extra artwork or positive reviews recommending the book to readers.

For years, my brief dust - jacket bio has read (pretty much in sum), «Mr. Stone writes his fiction on the commuter train between his home in Connecticut and his advertising job in midtown Manhattan.»

On a closing spread, Carle shares a childhood photo of a friend, now lost to him, but on the dust jacket, we read that his wife, Bobbie, was inspiration for the book as well.

In the dust jacket blurb for Mark Leonard's What Does China Think?

The dust jacket of her Practically Seventeen speaks tellingly about these romance novels: «In recent years, permanent recognition and popularity have been accorded the «junior novel» [this patronizing term was used to describe books for teens in the forties and fifties], the story that records truthfully the modern girl's dream of life and romance and her ways of adjusting to her school and family experiences.

Once the dust jacket is removed, a new illustration shows swatches of the holey overcoat and Joseph appearing quite pleased with himself for patching it.

You can publish a paperback with an ISBN for distribution, a non-ISBN paperback version to sell specifically on Lulu and your author site, an ebook for sale on all platforms, a dust jacket hardcover you can sell either through distribution with an ISBN or solely on Lulu depending on demand for hardcover, and on top of all of this, you can always create a unique version to sell by hand at an event, perhaps featuring a special foreword, bonus chapter, or teaser for another book still in the works.

You can provide additional text for the interior flaps of the dust jacket option, such as an excerpt of a book review or endorsement.

It would be naive to think that book reviews procured by a publisher for its author were free, unbiased and unculled (have you seen a bad review on a dust jacket?).

We offer cover design services for digital e books, print - on - demand paperbacks and hardcover dust jackets.

«The dust jacket doffed and donned in the 20th century... There is a glorious cast of subjects ripe for rediscovery» The Art Newspaper

Painted especially for a compendium book of my Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction dust jacket paintings, entitled «Only Visiting This Planet»

The referent installation, Any Moment Now... (2014), for instance, is a series of 365 vintage dust jackets that are by transformed by Soares into a subjective mapping of a year's time.

For the uninitiated, on the book's dust jacket, she explains the origins of the term Niggerati:

Some time during the past five years he went to bed an hysteric, the closest thing Britain had to a nutty Nostradamus, and awoke to find himself labelled a man of reason, a «defender of truth» no less, who is praised on the dust - jacket of his latest book for possessing a «dazzling command of science» (only by Naomi Klein, admittedly, but still).

He held his breath, took off his jacket, folded it inside out, and than as the dust settled looked around for a place to hang it.

If you want to hang on to the dust jackets, simply tuck them inside the books for safe keeping.