waldo frederick (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hardcover in Very Good-plus condition in a very good-plus dust jacket, large 8vo, pages: xiii,161. Red cloth boards, black cloth shelf-back with titles in gold, illustrations, red dust jacket with titles in black. Light wear, minor soiling to block edges, end-papers and leaves lightly tanned, tips sharp and binding tight. Bookseller accession no.: 17204. The story was narrated by Martin (Captain Lightfoot) to Waldo and originally published in 1850. Martin was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland in 1795, hung for highway robbery in Cambridge, Massachusetts 1821.

Broschiert. Zustand: Gut. 280 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek und trägt die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450.

First Edition. Poor copy bound in the original cloth boards with a worn dust wrapper. Wear and tear with the main text detached from the spine bands and boards, now loosely inserted. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 383, [1] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Notes; Date of publication from copyright date on title page verso. "Printed and bound in Chicago"-- title page verso. "452 illustrations, some in color"--dust jacket blurb. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Acknowledgements -- Foreword / John E. Burchard -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Art and science -- II. Image, form, symbol -- Art and science / Naum Gabo -- Domesticating the invisible / S.I. Hayakawa -- The esthetic motivation of science / Bruno Rossi -- III. The industrial landscape -- Inner and outer landscape / Richard J. Neutra -- Poetry and landscape / Richard Wilbur -- The new landscape / Fernand Leger -- Notes / Jean Helion -- Universalism and the enlargement of outlook / S. Giedion -- Reorientation / Walter Gropius -- Man-cosmos symbols / Charles Morris -- IV. The new landscape -- Magnification of optical data -- Expansion and compression of events in time -- Expansion of the eye's sensitivity range -- Modulation of signals -- V. Thing, structure, pattern, process -- VI. Transformation -- Transformation / Jean Arp -- VII. Analogue, metaphor -- Pure patterns in a natural world / Norbert Wiener -- Design and function in the living / R.W. Gerard -- On physiognomic perception / Heinz Werner -- VIII. Morphology in art and science -- IX. Symmetry, proportion, module -- Organic design / C.F. Pantin -- Art in crystallography / Kathleen Lonsdale -- Form in engineering / Paul Weidlinger -- X. Continuity, discontinuity, rhythm, scale -- Contributors biographies -- Name index. Subjects; Kepes, György (1906-2001). Nature (Aesthetics). Art Philosophy. Photography Scientific applications. Aesthetics. Art and science. Art - Theory. Art and science. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 3 Kg.