Sentences with phrase «dust jackets»
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If you want to hang on to the dust jackets, simply tuck them inside the books for safe keeping.
Hiding behind those clumsy dust jackets are books just waiting to be displayed as a colorful addition to a bookcase or built - in.
The antique dresser holds a barnacle curiosity from Perch in New Orleans atop a stack of white books (dust jackets flipped inside out), a hand painted frame purchased on last year's Rosemary Beach trip and a lamp I found at Stein Mart at least four years ago.
Installation view: Dust Jackets for the Niggerati - and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings submitted ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, 2011.
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.
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.
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.
Computer generated prints of web - sourced images of valuable comic book covers, rare stamps and first - edition dust jackets have been exposed to haphazard sprays of water.
Given their subject and tenor, the four texts could comfortably be wrapped in Walker's «dust jackets.»
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 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.
It's a necessary ingredient in the tension of her show Dust Jackets for the Niggerati..., on at Sikkema Jenkins through June 4th.
FOR MORE ON KARA WALKER, read a Culture Type review of her recent book, «Kara Walker: Dust Jackets for the Niggerati.»
Shop a unique series of limited editions by Ai Weiwei, from exhibition catalogues with individually painted dust jackets, to handmade porcelain flowers.
Historical printed media includes dust jackets by Aaron Douglas and Loïs Mailou Jones, offset lithographs by Charles White, rare Black comics Lobo # 1 and All Negro Comics, periodicals Crisis, Fire!!
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.
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.
Becoming Imperceptible has three different dust jackets and includes essays by Andrea Andersson, Naomi Beckwith, Kitty Scott and Stephen Squibb.
Edward Bawden's prolific output across many areas of fine and applied arts included the design of numerous dust jackets through all of the decades covered by this book.
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.
Collection of Mark Terry / Facsimile Dust Jackets L.L.C. www.dustjackets.com.
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.»
«Dust Jackets for the Niggerati - and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings submitted ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker,» Sikkema Jenkins, New York, NY.
In 2001 Miller produced a series of paintings based of the dust jackets of Penguin books.
@Justin Ward > Unfortunately, we don't sell the dust jackets, they're automatically included in the collector's editions!
I'm a fan of good binding... of colorful dust jackets... of awesome cover art... and I think that the smell of a freshly cracked book comes second only to the «new car smell» in the great olfactory list of aromas.
Edit: Information on DokiDoki's website tells us that the books will be the same size as their June and DMP line - ups (5.875 ″ x 8.25 ″) and will have no dust jackets.
We offer cover design services for digital e books, print - on - demand paperbacks and hardcover dust jackets.
It was one of the first presses to produce well - made books with acid - free paper, full cloth bindings, and full - color dust jackets by accomplished artists.
Whether it's 100 books or 2,500, BookBaby's short run book printing offers the highest quality printed books in the business - from softcover perfect bound books to hardcover books with dust jackets, ready in only 5 days.
It's a neat little bonus feature on the beautiful dust jackets.
If his fans agreed that the format is preferable to loose dust jackets, he said, «You might want to let publishers know... you want more books made like that.
Checking each of the books in turn I realized that without the covers and dust jackets — which felt as if they were half the weight of each book — I'm not sure any of the titles would have weighed more than a comic.
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead... We're nothing more than dust jackets for books... so many pages to a person...
With the general acceptance of all of the new niches, especially paranormal romance, the publishing industry is including that word in the book descriptions and on dust jackets once again.
Dust jackets are not available.
Authors who work directly with publishers and printing companies to print book covers and dust jackets are responsible for:
Also, cloth - bound hardcovers with dust jackets.
DVD dust jackets usually tell filthy lies... but not in this case.
Published in the Journal of Computer - Mediated... a good feeling about this one, he's an academic you know» — only to discover he was a librarian who spent the entire meal talking about dust jackets.
So all the dust jackets had to be stripped from the book, an expensive and time - consuming process.
The most authors can hope for is that we like a dust jacket and decide it fits aesthetically on our shelves.
In the late «90s the neocons urged President Clinton to take military action against Iraq; their letter to him is reproduced on the dust jacket of Dorrien's book.
The title of the book, printed on the dust jacket over a close - up of one of Rembrandt's many penetrating self - portraits, alludes to the power of sight itself, a recurring metaphor (along with its opposite, blindness) both in Rembrandt's work and in Schama's elucidation of it.
Here are most of the words that will appear on the beautiful dust jacket: An Indispensable Guide to....
(The dust jacket includes a warm endorsement by Carroll.)
Bill Bradley and John McCain, politicians Miller admires, are quoted on the dust jacket endorsing his approach, as are public intellectuals ranging from left to right — Paul Krugman, Barbara Ehrenreich, David Gergen and David Brooks.
Recently while flying home from Portland, I had my nose buried in a book, and the bright yellow dust jacket caught the flight attendant's eye.
The dust jacket of Michael Massing's study of U.S. drug policy offers a summary of his thesis in bold red letters: «Under the Nixon Administration, America Had an Effective Drug Policy.