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2006Embry 147819Doubleday 2006. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by author on specially tipped-in page. Doubleday, 2006. First edition, first printing. unknown books
20099008922New York: Abrams 2009. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in publisher's original black boards with the front cover and spine stamped in white. Advance review copy with review slip laid in. <br/><br/> Abrams hardcover books
2015105797Rio de Janeiro: Babilonia Cultura Editorial; Fundação Biblioteca Nacional 2015. 19 cm. 1ª edição revista 128 pages b/w and color plates map illus. endpapers color pict. wrps. FIRST REVISED EDITION. With text fashion creations and typographic families signed by fashion designer Julia Vidal this book seeks to identify the African roots in Brazilian culture following African art and its influence on fashion and the Afro-Brazilian design. CONTENTS: A negritude / Ana Vidal -- Abre-alas -- A escravidão -- Heranças -- Moda -- Design e tipografia -- Religiões de matrizes africanas -- Livros negros -- Sobre a autora. Babilonia, Cultura Editorial; Fundação Biblioteca Nacional unknown books
2003109136Paris: Les Editions du Pacifique 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Black and white photographs by Vidal and text by Leperlier. A fine and tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Les Editions du Pacifique unknown books
2015165999San Juan Puerto Rico: Ediciones Alba 2015. Hardcover. VG. Blue cloth boards with color-illustration laid in on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. xiii 208 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Text in Spanish. "Portrait miniatures became popular in Puerto Rico during the 19th century with several artists mainly Creole practicing this type of painting and leaving behind a group of portraits of undeniable aesthetic and historic value. This study explores the functions and uses of portrait miniatures their relationship to those pictorial genres that preceded them and their evolution over the course of the 19th century. Biographical dates and details for some of the greatest Puerto Rican painters of portrait miniatures are also provided. The first chapter of the book looks at small portraits in oil which preceded the miniature in gouache on ivory; the second covers the technique uses special features and creators of the miniature; the final chapter investigates small photographic portraits which began to replace the painted miniature in the middle of the 19th century."-First Search. Ediciones Alba hardcover books
200685777San Juan Puerto Rico: Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín; Ediciones Alba 2006. 28 cm. 108p color plates bibl. color pict. wrps Religious sculptures between the 16th and 19th century in Puerto Rico by noted authority on subject Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín; Ediciones Alba unknown books
200582119San Juan Puerto Rico: Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín; Ediciones Alba 2005. 30cm. 70p b/w and color plates port. frontis. ports. illus. cat. bibl. illus. endpapers color pict. wrps Monographic edition that explores the work of noted artist Campeche b. Puerto Rico 1751-1809 as a portrait painter of colonial society and of religious icons. An English translation of this same study was incorporated in the catalogue of the itinerant exhibition "Retratos: 200 Years of Latin American Portraits" presented in various museums inaugurated in 2004 in New York and that traveled to Miami San Diego and Washington Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín; Ediciones Alba unknown books
2001201095Los Angeles: Advocate Books/Alyson Pub 2001. Paperback. 138p. 9.25x11.75 inches introduction 16 interbviews photos Liz Smith afterword fine first edition oversized glossy magazine/reade paperback in pictorial wraps. Advocate Books/Alyson Pub paperback books
