Sentences with phrase «endpapers of»

In recent work, Clay has focused on two contrasting sets of artifacts — first, on the Black Paintings of Frank Stella, iconic monuments to modernist authorship, and, second, on handmade marbleized paper (such as that used in the colorful endpapers of antique books), readily identifiable as a reference to anonymous historical craft.

The exhibition comprises two bodies of related work, 157 oils on book pages and twelve acrylic and colored pencil paintings on the blank endpapers of clothbound book covers.

The front endpapers of the catalogue offer a graphic spread that plays off Barr's legendary chart - the cover to his exhibition's catalogue - acanonical lineage of begotten isms.

She reminded me of a nineteenth century Nancy Drew - the list of things she knows and can do could fill the endpapers of the book (not just industrial chemistry and the wiring of circuits and the pathology of ergot, but also horticulture, sewing and cooking).

when most of America hadn't: the kitschy well - meaning illustrations on the endpapers of the Watch - tower books from the Jazz Age and the Depression: a Mexican family all in sombreros, an African family in embroidered A-line robes, a clean - cut white family, a Chinese family in their conical straw hats, all the families standing together, their faces raised toward heaven, where a pale, bearded Jesus rides down on a horse.

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Trust the opened book to tell you more, the endpaper Rhythms of forgetfulness: her scent that night now long ago, The wind's soft moving of the weather door, the moonlight's matrix On the carpet, the fan he made with her soft hair.

It's such a massive tome, and filled with such good things, that I've taken to recording on the endpapers the results of the recipes I've tried.

The tile pattern captivates with a painterly quality that is reminiscent of decorative antique endpaper illustration.

The booklet included photos of Alison and Chris at age 7, postage stamps from their home states, an outline of the ceremony, a listing of the bridal party, a map showing where the bridal party hails from (they're from nine different states and have lived in 23), and a back page reminiscent of a yearbook's endpapers.

My publisher, Mira Books, created a gorgeous hardcover for Sonnet, including probably the prettiest endpapers I've ever seen, featuring hand - drawn illustrated maps of Avalon, Willow Lake and Camp Kioga.

It's also a marked contrast to the beautifully designed jacket and endpapers, which show Jobs kicked back in an office chair, in front of a wooden desk cluttered with paper, staring at a Mac wallpapered with a photo of his family.

As one of the rec.arts.sf folks pointed out, endpaper maps on a Kindle are sheer torture.

Beautifully designed all the way down to endpapers showing a collage of nifty type blocks, this volume has a handcrafted quality.

The endpapers are also worth discovering: The opening pages display a brick wall, and the final ones show readers a field of grasses.

The patterned endpapers show a wide - eyed Knuffle Bunny peering helplessly through the window on the circular door of the washing machine and offer a hint to the story's climax.

Wiesner has incorporated the story elements of the pigs» homes into the book cover, with the reddish spine representing the bricks, the gray cover signifying the sticks, and the tawny endpapers symbolizing the straw.

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The endpapers are unique — the front carrying a map of «The Kingdom of Kerry»; the back includes two drawings — one with a Kerry passing two Sealys and the quote, «An Irishman, a very valiant gentleman, I» faith», and the second showing a Kerry at the end of his lead addressing three Pekes, «Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.»

Quarto (11.25» X 9») hardcover with 112 pages and pictorial endpapers (map of the «The Kingdom of Kerry»).

Image Credit: Alex Schomburg, Endpaper for Winston Science Fiction, 1952 © The Estate of Alex Schomburg.

Among the first papers he incorporated into his artworks were small rectangular tissues known as «endpapers», which, more usually, are folded over the ends of hair during the perming process.

Bradford employs the «tools of civilization» — billboards, merchant posters, newsprint, comics, magazines, and endpapers — to conflate cultural and political forces, and create layers of social commentary in paintings that evoke deep feeling.

One of the earliest works in the show is Enter and Exit the New Negro (2001), a minimalist canvas made from perm endpapers — a material used in the straightening of African - American hair.

Born in Los Angeles, Mark Bradford collages pieces of detritus — found billboards, logos, hairdresser's endpapers — scavenged from the streets of southern California, which together snap into abstracted urban grid paintings and other evocative compositions.

A recipient of a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Award (known as the «genius grant»), Bradford uses found materials — peeling movie posters, homemade flyers, salvaged plywood, even the endpapers used to perm black hair — to create his vibrant, textured compositions.

Edition: 50 copies signed, dated and numbered in Roman numerals in pencil on the endpaper, also numbered in Roman numerals in felt - tip pen on the penultimate page; oil paint on book cover applied by Richter with squeegee, in a light grey cardboard slipcase (designed by the artist) 20 copies, signed, dated, numbered in Roman numerals and marked h.c. in pencil on the endpaper; some of these also signed, dated and numbered in Roman numerals in ballpoint or felt - tip pen on the penultimate page; oil paint applied to book cover by Richter with squeegee, in light grey cardboard slipcase (designed by the artist)

Executed in 1971, this lot is used as the catalogue's endpapers and has a conservative estimate of $ 50,000 to $ 70,000.

Bourke - White, Margaret (1904 - 1971), Portrait of Myself, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963, inscribed on free front endpaper, and signed on flyleaf, half cloth, with dust jacket, 8vo, (ex-library More...

-LSB-...] Speaking of Art is made to resemble a cassette, with an «A» side and a flip - over «B» side and shiny dark - brown endpapers to evoke magnetic tape.

With the reverence and technical mastery of a trompe l'oeil, the painting Fanned Book (2012) depicts the turning pages of a bound volume with marbled endpapers.

Runaway, 2010, / One of a kind book, case binding, marbled boards and endpapers, 31 fountain pen drawings illuminating an original text, 36 x 24 inches (open), excerpt view Private Collection

The shows of Fergus Feehily: Makeshifts and Endpapers and of Jimmy Robert: Elegantly Wasted are on display from May 11 until July 06, 2008.

Logically enough, this particular setting reflected strongly upon his initial art as Mark's earliest works were made with the use of permanent - wave endpapers, foil and dye.

A blurred Gallaccio appears in only a couple of the images in this book, yet from the amethyst - encrusted front cover, through the flowers and vegetable foliage on the end papers, via every corner of all of the 266 inside pages, and out again through the indigo - dyed chappa silk, back endpaper, to the gleaming bronze back cover, one is aware of her omnipresence.

First Edition.Signed and inscribed by Helen Frankenthaler in the year of publication on the front free endpaper.

The astounding range of creativity, irreverence and abstruseness that resulted was bracketed between endpapers with wide - angled views of masses of humanity: The first showed the 1963 March on Washington, the last the 1969 Woodstock festival.

The image at the top, by the way, is a piece of the charming endpaper in Riddell's book.