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Art Of Dreams, Visions, Other Worlds - Interviews With Texas Artists

by Robert Craig Bunch

~~39,75€~~ 31,80€ 20% OFF

 Robert Craig Bunch has interviewed sixty current Texas artists, focusing on painters, printmakers, sculptors, and others whose work, broadly speaking, is inspired by dreams, visions, myths, and imagined worlds. Working in the tradition of predecessors such as Bror Utter, Ben Culwell, Maudee Carron, Kelly Fearing, Jim Harter, Valton Tyler, Harry Geffert, and even more distant antecedents such as Hieronymus Bosch, Hildegard of Bingen, and the prehistoric rock artists of the Lower Pecos, these artists are united by the common theme of taking inspiration from an "inner landscape" that includes elements of the fantastic, the mystical, and the surreal. In his introduction to the interviews, Bunch observes, "Art has many purposes. Among the most ancient and persistent have been the depiction of worlds beyond what is perceived in common—mythical pasts and imagined futures; realms supernatural, magical, and fantastic; and interior worlds of dreams, visions, hallucinations, and unfettered imagination." Through sensitive examination of these artists and their approach to these works, he affords readers a fresh perspective on the creative process, especially its roots in the subconscious and the human fascination with dreams and altered modes of awareness. Ranging from discussions of filmmaker Richard Linklater to conversations with artist and educator Floyd Newsum while also incorporating less familiar artists such as Houston’s Fariba Abedin and El Paso’s Ho Baron, this collection of interviews with working Texas artists includes a representative image, chosen by each interviewee as a representation of their work. The Art of Dreams, Visions, Other Worlds: Interviews with Texas Artists promises to expand readers’ concepts of the boundaries currently being explored by Texas artists.
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Monumental - The Art Of David Adickes

by Melissa L. Mednicov e Michael H. Henderson

~~26,50€~~ 21,20€ 20% OFF

 As the creator of the 67-foot-tall "Big Sam" statue of Sam Houston that overlooks Interstate 45 just south of Huntsville, Texas, David Adickes is a pivotal, if sometimes enigmatic, figure in Texas art. Though he made many contributions to the early development of the Houston art scene and to Texas Modernism, which has experienced an upsurge in interest of late, Adickes’s life and work have had no thorough examination. Monumental: The Art of David Adickes tells the story of how a young artist from rural Texas studied with Fernand Léger in Paris, traveled the world, and returned to Texas to become one of the founders of a thriving art scene. Consideration of his monumental sculptures of Sam Houston, the Beatles, and various US presidents affords readers the opportunity to reflect on the challenges of making public art and navigating its political, cultural, and bureaucratic restrictions. Monumental considers the artistic implications of history, popular culture, kitsch, and even social media while exploring the dichotomy between the frequent academic skepticism and the ongoing mass appeal of Adickes’s oeuvre. Scholars and students of contemporary Texas art, as well as general readers interested in Adickes’s well-known public works, will enjoy this first-ever comprehensive look at a popular Texas artist.
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Architecture Of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s

by Anat Geva

~~46,31€~~ 37,05€ 20% OFF

 In the aftermath of World War II, the United States experienced a rapid expansion of church and synagogue construction as part of a larger "religious boom." The synagogues built in that era illustrate how their designs pushed the envelope in aesthetics and construction. The design of the synagogues departed from traditional concepts, embraced modernism and innovations in building technology, and evolved beyond the formal/rational style of early 1950s modern architecture to more of an expressionistic design. The latter resulted in abstraction of architectural forms and details, and the inclusion of Jewish art in the new synagogues. The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s introduces an architectural analysis of selected modern American synagogues and reveals how they express American Jewry’s resilience in continuing their physical and spiritual identity, while embracing modernism, American values, and landscape. In addition, the book contributes to the discourse on preserving the recent past (e.g., mid 20th century architecture). While most of the investigations on that topic deal with the "brick & mortar" challenges, this book introduces preservation issues as a function of changes in demographics, in faith rituals, in building codes, and in energy conservation. As an introduction or a reexamination, The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s offers a fresh perspective on an important moment in American Jewish society and culture as reflected in their houses of worship and adds to the literature on modern American sacred architecture. The book may appeal to Jewish congregations, architects, preservationists, scholars, and students in fields of studies such as architectural design, sacred architecture, American modern architecture and building technology, Post WWII religious and Jewish studies, and preservation and conservation.
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Architecture Of Birdsall P. Briscoe

by Stephen Fox

~~46,38€~~ 37,10€ 20% OFF

 Birdsall P. Briscoe (1876-1971) practiced architecture from 1912 to 1956, the span of years during which Houston was transformed from an ambitious town on Buffalo Bayou into an international city, its economy powered by cotton, trade, and oil. The country houses Briscoe designed for three generations of affluent clients, sited in such Houston neighborhoods as Courtlandt Place, Shadyside, Broadacres, and River Oaks, display his exceptional skill in formulating stylistic and social identities for his wealthy clients and their families. In The Architecture of Birdsall P. Briscoe, architectural historian Stephen Fox examines the country houses designed by Briscoe, offering a glimpse into the architect’s methods as well as analyzing how Briscoe constructed a "social architecture" to frame his clientele during periods of economic expansion and contraction. Fox demonstrates how Briscoe cultivated and managed elements of taste, style, and fashion to embody assertions of class identity and solidarity in the context of Houston’s capitalist economy. Additionally, Fox shows how Briscoe and his peers interpreted and reflected early twentieth-century Progressive Era design ideals in giving shape to the vision of local civic leaders. Illustrated throughout with masterful color photography by Paul Hester, this original study of one of Texas’ most distinguished residential architects will enthrall readers with both its detail and its contextual clarity. As he did in his book on the architecture of John F. Staub, Fox delivers a treasure trove of insight into a vital period of Houston’s social history and the architect who helped design it.
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Art Of Roger Winter - Fire And Ice

by Susie Kalil

~~46,38€~~ 37,10€ 20% OFF

 In this definitive retrospective of Roger Winter's life and art, Susie Kalil offers an in-depth portrait of one of today's most important American painters. Critics, collectors, scholars, students, and art lovers will glean deep insights from this study in contrasts.
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All The Houses Were Painted White - Historic Homes Of The Texas Golden Crescent

~~53,00€~~ 42,40€ 20% OFF

 Designed to appeal to those with a love for old houses and especially for the preservation of historic structures, All the Houses Were Painted White offers its readers a stately appreciation of the historic houses in and around the town of Victoria, Texas, and their place in the South Texas landscape.
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Houston, Space City Usa

by Ray Viator

~~13,24€~~ 10,59€ 20% OFF

 Offers a visual celebration of Houston's historic ties to the US human space program. Author and photographer Ray Viator, a longtime Houstonian, has lovingly captured the spirit of a city's devotion to space exploration from the 1960s to now.
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Collision - The Contemporary Art Scene In Houston, 1972-1985

by Pete Gershon

~~13,24€~~ 10,59€ 20% OFF

 In this expansive and vigorous survey of the Houston art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, author Pete Gershon describes the city's emergence as a locus for the arts, fuelled by a boom in oil prices and by the arrival of several catalyzing figures, including museum director James Harithas and sculptor James Surls.
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Master Builder Of The Lower Rio Grande - Heinrich Portscheller

by W. Eugene George

~~13,24€~~ 10,59€ 20% OFF

 <DIV>In 1865, Heinrich Portscheller emigrated to Mexico from his native Germany, perhaps motivated by a desire to avoid compulsory military service in the Austro-Prussian War. The scion of a well-known family of masons and master builders, he had the misfortune to disembark at Veracruz during the Franco-Mexican War. Portscheller and his traveling companion were impressed into the imperialist forces and sent to northern Mexico. Sometime following the Battle of Santa Gertrudis in1866, Portscheller deserted the army and eventually made a place for himself in Roma, a small town in Starr County, Texas. Over the next decades, Portscheller acquired a reputation as a master builder and architect. He brought to the Lower Rio Grande Valley his long heritage of Old World building knowledge and skills and integrated them with the practices of local Mexican construction and vernacular architecture. However, despite his many contributions to the distinctive architecture of Roma and surrounding places, by the mid-twentieth century he was largely forgotten. During nearly fifty years of historical sleuthing in South Texas and Germany, W. Eugene George reconstructed many of the details of the life and career of this important South Texas craftsman. Containing editorial contributions by Mary Carolyn Hollers George and featuring a foreword by Mariá Eugenia Guerra and a concluding assessment by noted architectural historian Stephen Fox, Master Builder of the Lower Rio Grande: Heinrich Portscheller at last permits a long-overdue appreciation of the legacy of this influential architect and builder of the Texas-Mexico borderlands.</DIV>
Vision Of Place - The Work Of Curtis & Windham Architects

by Russell Windham e William Curtis

~~66,25€~~ 53,00€ 20% OFF

 William Curtis and Russell Windham have dedicated their work to the principle that classical architecture should embody the same rigour, the same attention to surroundings, and the same thoughtful approach to design theory that fuels the most forward-looking styles and movements. In this book, they reflect on more than two decades of the practice of classical contemporary architecture.
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Houston'S Hermann Park - A Century Of Community

by Alice M. Scardino (Barrie) Bradley

~~46,36€~~ 37,09€ 20% OFF

 Richly illustrated with rare period photographs, Houston's Hermann Park: A Century of Community provides a vivid history of Houston's oldest and most important urban park. Author and historian Barrie Scardino Bradley sets Hermann Park in both a local and a national context as this grand park celebrates its centennial at the culmination of a remarkable twenty-year rejuvenation.
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Born On The Island - The Galveston We Remember

~~19,86€~~ 15,89€ 20% OFF

 67 watercolors and drawings of extant Galveston buildings that illustrate architectural styles of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Choreographing A House - Dan Phillips, Apostle For Sustainable Housing

by Dan Phillips

~~43,26€~~ 34,61€ 20% OFF

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Joy To The World - The Life And Paintings Of Lu Ann Barrow

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Houston, Space City Usa

by Ray Viator

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 Offers a visual celebration of Houston's historic ties to the US human space program. Author and photographer Ray Viator, a longtime Houstonian, has lovingly captured the spirit of a city's devotion to space exploration from the 1960s to now.

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