wirth harold (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Buone Condizioni dell'interno: Ottime.

[26] pp.; 28 x 21.5 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; photocopy / xeroxed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held April 10 - May 12, 1992. Curated by Max Schumann. Includes artists'' statements by some of the artists in the exhibition including: Liz Was, Paul Dean/Paper Shrine, Stokley Towles, Carol Stetser, Dana Henry, Karen M. Wirth, Frank Moore, Susan Gold, Larry Walczak, Marcello Diotallevi, Christian Rigal, Simon Ford, Judith Weinperson, Daniel Plunkett, J. Nebraska Gifford, Robert Drake, Deborah Small, Elizabeth Sisco, Carla Kirkwood, Scott Kessler, Louis Hock, David Avalos, Stephen Willats, Harold Lohner, Art Strike Action Committee, Joseph Nechvatal, Joan Mathews, Paul Weinman, Sabra Moore, Peter Silvia, Bern Porter, Sharon Gilbert, Heino Partanan, Miekal And, Tom Scarpino, Andrea Scott, David Thorne. "This book gathers together artists'' statements from participants in the exhibition BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY: Photocopier Artists'' Books and the Politics of Accessible Printed Technologies, held at the Printed Matter bookstore at Dia, from April 10 to May 12, 1992. The texts were generated from a questionnaire circulated by the curator Max Schumann." -- publisher''s statement. Good. 3 cm. dog-ear to top left corner of recto. Additional bumping along spine edge and rubbing of covers. Contents clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. v, 246 pp. 4to. Green cloth boards with gold embossed design and titling to spine. Minor scuffing overall from shelf wear, ownership label at head for front cover board, clean and crisp within. Laid in is a typed letter, signed by Albert H. Good on behalf of Conrad L. Wirth, then Assistant Director of the National Park Service (and future Director) to Fay Welch at the New York State College of Forestry in Syracuse, New York. Albert Good would go on to author the three-volume expansion of this work, "Park and Recreation Structures" publsihed in 1938. The original title that began to set the design standards for what we now view as "Park Service Architecture." Everything from sign standards to amphitheater design, welcome centers, picnic tables, and rustic chandeliers. Includes hundreds of photographic examples as well as measured drawings. This edition was expanded to a three volume publication in 1938 entitled "Park and Recreational Structures." Volume draws on both National Park examples as well as state and regional park facilities. Produced in a limited edition of 2,250 copies, this being copy #1186.