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With Fire: Richard Hirsch (Hardcover)

by Scott Meyer
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With Fire is the story of ceramic artist Richard Hirsch, and an examination of the work for which he is so widely celebrated. This richly illustrated book presents the life of an artist whose career spans some of the most important developments in the American Clay Movement. Hirsch established a connection with the legendary Raku and Ohi families, whose influence created a lasting pedagogical and creative link to the West that continues today.

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Publisher: RIT Press (December, 2012)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933360-54-6
Binding: Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket)
Pages: 160
Illustrations: Color
Size: 9 x 11 in.
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With Fire: Richard Hirsch (Softcover)

by Scott Meyer
Price: $24.99

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With Fire is the story of ceramic artist Richard Hirsch, and an examination of the work for which he is so widely celebrated. This richly illustrated book presents the life of an artist whose career spans some of the most important developments in the American Clay Movement. Hirsch established a connection with the legendary Raku and Ohi families, whose influence created a lasting pedagogical and creative link to the West that continues today.

About the author

Book details

Publisher: RIT Press (December, 2012)
ISBN-13: 978-1-933360-97-3
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 160
Illustrations: Color
Size: 9 x 11 in.
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Learn Fore-edge Painting with Martin Frost

Price: $140.00

October 17, 2012

10:30-5:00

Wallace Memorial Library, Rochester Institute of Technology

 

In conjunction with the Cary Graphic Arts Collection exhibition "Edges of Books," Martin Frost will host a workshop introducing participants to the technique of fore-edge painting. On completion they can expect to take away their own gilt-edged book with a hidden painting.

 

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Ruminations

by Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi, Zahra Partovi
Price: $15.00

Quotations from the writings of Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi, translated from the Persian by Zahra Partovi. Published by Vincent FitzGerald & Company.

 

An exhibition of Rumi works by Vincent FitzGerald & Co. opens April 12, 2012 at the Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection.

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Publisher: Vincent FitzGerald & Co. (October, 1998)
ISBN-10: 0935581006
ISBN-13: 9780935581003
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 64
Size: 4.75 x 7 in.
Shipping Weight: 0.2

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Greeting Cards: London in the 19th Century

Price: $7.00

Images from Metropolitan Improvements: London in the Nineteenth Century

London: Jones & Co., 1827.

Original drawings by Mr. Thomas H. Shepard, engraved by W. Wallis.
Held in Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection.

Cards printed with image on front, blank inside. 8 cards, 2 each of 4 designs with envelopes.

Size: 4.25 x 6 in. each

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Greeting Cards: Greek Ornament

Price: $7.00

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Ornaments from Greek and Etruscan vases found in the British Museum and the Louvre.

Owen Jones, The Grammar of Ornament, London, 1868.
Held in Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection.

Cards printed in color on front, blank inside. 8 cards, 2 each of 4 designs with envelopes.

Size: 4.25 x 6 in. each

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Claude Bragdon and the Beautiful Necessity

edited by Eugenia Victoria Ellis, Andrea G. Reithmayr
Price: $49.95

Claude Bragdon (1866-1946) was a first-generation modernist architect, as well as an illustrator, critic, theorist and theater designer. Bragdon practiced architecture in Rochester, New York throughout the Progressive Era. Although his masterpiece, the New York Central Railroad Station, was demolished in the 1960s-70s, the First Universalist Church, the Bevier Memorial Building, the Peterborough Bridge near Toronto, and nearly 100 residences remain today. 

 

Book details

Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press (April, 2010)
ISBN-10: 978-1-933360-43-0
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 240
Illustrations: 212 Color and 36 Black and White images.
Size: 8.5 in x 11.25 in.
Shipping Weight: 1.8

Table of contents

Acknowledgements                                                                 ix

 

Notes on the Contributors                                                        xi

 

Introduction
   Eugenia Victoria Ellis                                                            xv

 

                                       Essays

 

1. Claude Bragdon Reads Authur Schopenhauer:                     3
    “Architecture is in space alone…”
     Christina Malathouni

 

2. Claude Bragdon and Pure Design                                          9
     Marie Frank

 

3. Claude Bragdon: A Pre-Modern Architect                              15
     Jean France

 

4. Western New York’s Theosophical Enlightener                      21
     Joscelyn Godwin

 

5. Claude Bragdon: Academic Architect and the                        25
     American Renaissance
     Richard Guy Wilson

 

6. Architecture and the “Spirit” of Democracy:                            35
     Variations on a Theme in the Writings of Louis
     Sullivan, Claude Brgadon, and Frank Lloyd Wright
     Joan Ockman

 

7. Transitional Transmedia Modernism                                       45
     Jonathan Massey

 

8. Claude Bragdon’s Prehensile Eye and                                   53
     Preconditioned Images
     Mary Nixon

 

9. On Turning the Corner to the Fourth Dimension:                    57
    Claude Bragdon’s Isometric Perspective
    Paul Emmons

 

10. Skewed Stagecraft: Claude Bragdon’s Isometric                  65
       Theatrics
       Marcia Feuerstein

 

11. Claude Bragdon, the Fourth Dimension and                          73
       Modern Art in Cultural Context

 

                                    Exhibition Catalogue

 

Introduction to the Exhibition                                                       89
       Andrea G. Reithmayer

 

Catalogue                                                                                   91

 

Timeline of the Life of Claude Bragdon                                      195

 

Bibliography of the Writings of Claude Bragdon                         201

 

Index                                                                                           213

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Photo-Editing and Presentation

by Douglas Holleley
Price: $24.95

This book introduces photographers, print-makers, and other graphic artists to the creative possibilities of image editing and presentation. The focus is on how meaning can be created and shaped if the emphasis is placed on the totality of the visual experience rather than by looking at each single image in isolation.

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Publisher: Clarellen and RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-9707138-5-8
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 140
Illustrations: 96 Full Color
Size: 6 in. x 9 in.
Shipping Weight: 0.5

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Basic Editing Strategies

The Initial Edit Method

Intention Versus Effect

Editing Strategies

The Third Effect

Systems of Internal Logic

Category or Genre

Similar Classes of Objects Use of Recurring Visual Motifs

Metaphors and Symbols

Chapter 2: Macro Editing Systems

Grouping

On Authorship

Narrative

The Sustained Metaphor or Sequence

The Array

Assemblage

The Moving Image

Diagrammatic Systems

Chapter 3: Presentation

General Considerations—Scale

Seven Main Ways to Present Images

The Book

The Portfolio

The Book/Portfolio Hybrid

The Exhibition

The Installation

Time and/or Screen Based Systems for Still Images

Electronic Delivery Systems

Contextualizing Your Data

Writing an Artist Statement

Chapter 4: Presentation Techniques

Important Safety Note

Introduction

Making a Simple Concertina Book

On Demand Publishing Options

Working with Cloth and Board

Bookbinding Tools and Materials

A Two-Piece Hard Cover for a Concertina Book

Making a Two-Piece Portfolio Box

Matting Prints

Print as Object

Bibliography

Index

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Red Cat Typography Pamphlet Set

by Jan Tschichold, Alexander Lawson
Price: $20.00 $7.50

The pamphlets in the letterpress printed set are Clay in the Potter's Hand by Jan Tschichold, and An Older Typophile in the Nineties: A Typophile Keepsake by Alexander Lawson.

Book details

Publisher: Engdahl Typography, Vineburg, California (January, 1992)
Binding: saddlestitched booklets
Size: about 5.75 x 8.25 in. each
Shipping Weight: 0.4
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The Work of Ismar David

by Helen Brandshaft
edited by David Pankow
Price: $29.95

Ismar David made his career over a broad spectrum of applied art. His work is exciting, not merely because of its technical excellence, but because it resonates with clarity and color of a distinct and distinctive artistic voice.

Book details

Publisher: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press (January, 2005)
ISBN-10: 0-9759651-2-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-9759651-2-2
Binding: Sewn paperback
Pages: 160
Illustrations: 98 Full color
Size: 8 x 11 in.
Shipping Weight: 1.6
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Table of contents

Foreword
Biographical Sketch
Graphics
Bookwork
Architectural & Three-Dimensional Design
List of Architectural Sites
Bibliography
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