In A Mexican Garden: Courtyards, Pools, and Open-Air Living Rooms

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The team behind the best-selling Mexicolor and Mexicasa has unlocked the gates to Mexico's patios, courtyards, and walled gardens. From private homes to luxurious resorts, In A Mexican Garden celebrates Mexico's hidden oases where lovers meet for margaritas at sunset and families gather for spirited fiestas. The dazzling array of featured properties includes rustic coastal hideaways, elegant Spanish Colonial mansions, rural haciendas, and Modernist architectural masterpieces. Melba Levick's stunning photographs capture page after vibrant page of bold Mexican design elements: swirling mosaic floors, elaborate frescoes, hand-carved stone fountains, and lush native plants. Gina Hyams' informative text explains the historic roots of these uniquely Mexican outdoor spaces. Garden design enthusiasts, fans of Mexico, and anyone who appreciates a siesta in the sun need only open this book to hear the quiet babble of fountains and glasses clinking to toast another beautiful sunset.

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Mexican Garden.......2007-09-27

I was very surprise whith the quality of the presentation and the beautiful pictures. Excellent!!

Beautiful Photo's.......2007-09-03

I love this book! The beautiful photographs give the reader great ideas on how to design and decorate.

great book, terrible binding!!.......2007-07-19

I love the pictures and ideas presented, but after 2 days, the binding had pulled away from the pages!! I think that is flaw that needs fixing.

Mexican Garden.......2007-07-06

I chose this book to help give me some ideas as to how to " Mexicanise " my garden.
So what with the yuccas, agaves & cacti i'm well on the way, just need to add more colour & fragrance to it.

I also bought Mexicasa and Mexicolor.

It's a nice book..........2007-06-13

Your basic coffee table book, nice photos of exactly what the book claims to be: Courtyards, Pools, and Open-Air Rooms. A lot of the subject matter is authentic, old and sometimes dilapidated. Don't expect to see many pictures of new or well kept patios, pools or gardens. This is the real McCoy, just like you'll see when visitng Old Mexico...not that there'e anything wrong with that.

Rendering With Markers
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Valuable book but it needs a revision...Pronto!

Great, for its goals.

Needs more color

Breadth of content with step by step descriptions

Great for learning artists

Rendering With Markers
Ronald B. Kemnitzer
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill Publications
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Valuable book but it needs a revision...Pronto!.......2005-06-22

As digital imagining becomes more and more prolific, marker rendering seems to be a dying art. Thats a shame because it can be a beautiful tool for artists of all types. This book is a valuable reference tool for artists but the techniques are somewhat outdated, which is understandable seeing that the book was written in the early 80's. Another complaint is the lack of color pictures. This is a marker book! Give us color pictures! For the price it is a good deal and one of the few books on the subject but I would seek other publications to supplement this book.

Great, for its goals........2005-04-11

There are lots of times and places where you just need to make a good picture - or good enough - really fast. What you need is to create a visual idea and to convey it, right now, to those people who literally won't get it until you draw a picture for them.

Marker rendering is the established way to do it. Saying that you use "markers" is just too weak, though. This is about doing whatever works, to make a picture that lasts just long enough. There are the masks or friskets, highlights in gouache or white grease pencil, cutouts, layers of paper, and all the other media that go into a "marker" rendering. Even when you use the markers by themselves, there are endless variations of line, weight, guides (surely you've customized your triangles to lift the edge away from wet marks), color, and gray. Heck, you might have more than 20 markers even if you have only grays, warm and cool, in a dozen values, and new/juicy vs. old/dry.

This can work well as a text, with a series of graded exercises. It just can't stand by itself, though, it really needs a good teacher to go with it. You'll need someone with a trained eye for the gazillion things that go wrong, and with a back pocket full of ways to make them go right.

As far as it goes, this book is really good. If your pictures are there to convey an idea and not just to be pictures, this book is one of the student's best friends.

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Needs more color.......2001-03-14

A wonderful book that includes great techinque and design. It would have been nice to view more colored images. Over half of the examples are in black and white. This feature was a slight dissapointment when I first open the book.

Breadth of content with step by step descriptions.......2001-02-03

I think this book is wonderful for anyone trying to learn rendering techniques. Even though the book is a little dated, it still communicates the principals of marker renderings. It's starts with an overview of the key factors to keep in mind when using markers: controlling the view, defining form, enhancing light, defining the main characteristics of materials and enhancing the surface. Then it goes into each of these factors explaining each of them with various examples. It also compares some of the most commonly used papers: Vellum, Bond, Marker paper, blueprint to show their marker absorption rate, degree of translucency and how the same rendering looks on each of them. It covers basic marker techniques, scrub coat technique, wet blending, masking and editing techniques, bringing forms out of backgrounds. It also touches on pastels, but only slightly. As a product designer I think this boos is a must have for a beginner. But it's also a very good reference book for experienced designers looking nostalgic for good old marker techniques.

Great for learning artists.......1999-12-08

This book effictively describes various ways and methods of using markers for illustration, and designing purposes (although mainly targeted toward designers, this shouldn't discourage you if you're an illustrator). A sampling of what you'll learn...

Materials, from the markers you should choose to the various kinds of papers available and how they affact your drawing. Application of markers, controling markers, and effective ways to represent shading and depth for oyur needs. Defining materials with marker: Chrome, Plastic, Glass, Leather, Vegetation, etc... the drawings are very nice. There is much more you'll learn through the pages of this book, these are just some of the highlights.

Unfortunately, I had to give it 4 stars instead of 5 due to the fact that it is rather outdated matieral-wise (markers have changed since 1983), and it is mainly targeted toward designers (this book would recieve 5 stars for the aspiring designer!). BUT, I learned a great deal from this book even as an illustrator / cartoonist, and it is very easy to incorporate what you learn from this book into illustration purposes like cartooning or figure drawing. I'd highly recommend this book for those who are looking to improve in markers, which admitily give your drawings a look that paint or colored pencils alone cannot achive.

Rendering wood with Design art markers
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Arends Mark W.
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Rendering stone with Design art markers
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In 1971, Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama took a trip to New York City with Tadanori Yokoo. He stayed at the Chelsea Hotel and spent his days in The Museum of Modern Art Photography Study Center looking at pictures taken by Weegee. He shot 100 rolls of film with a half-frame camera, yielding 70 images per roll. Some of those pictures are presented here.

Customer Reviews:

Impressive Photography and Book Design.......2005-04-02

If you or I decided to go to New York City to create a book of photographs, the result would most likely be banal in terms of both photos and design. In contrast, this book by Daido Moriyama shows what a great artist can do with photography. Furthermore, the book design is remarkable.

About 23x15x5 cm and 1.4 kg, '71-NY (not "1971/NY" as Amazon would have it) arrives in a corrugated brown cardboard slipcase. A black dust jacket has one small elliptical hole revealing blue underneath and one small circular hole revealing white underneath. The soft cover of the book has horizontal blue and white stripes. It's over 400 pages in length (not "150" as Amazon would have it).

All the text in Japanese is translated into English and vice versa; the English versions are printed in landscape orientation in a typewriter-like font. The first three pages contain a letter from Moriyama to publisher and co-designer Andrew Roth. Eighteen pages toward the end contain an excerpt from "Another Country" by James Baldwin, an interview with Moriyama, and an essay by Neville Wakefield.

Almost all the black-and-white photos shot in 1971 bleed to the edges of the pages. Most occupy entire two-page spreads, but some are only one page in size, and a few take up 1/2 or 1/3 of a page. All the photos are grainy, and many are blurry and/or not level.

Flipping through the book is like taking a wild ride through the big city. We see buildings, people on the street, indoor self-portraits, television screen shots, etc. I especially like the sequences of different shots of the same subject. For example, there are four two-page spreads taken from the same vantage point showing the twin towers of the World Trade Center (still not yet fully occupied as of 1971) in the background. Two half-page images and a two-page spread explore the same scene full of movie marquees with their bright lights. Based on markings on the 14 sample pages of contact prints at the end, Moriyama chose carefully among his many negatives.

In the U.S., Moriyama is known through books that take his photos out of context, such as "Black Sun: the Eyes of Four: Roots and Innovation in Japanese Photography" by Holborn (1986), "Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog" by Phillips (1999), and "Daido Moriyama" by Nishii (2001, Phaidon 55 series). Since most of his other great books such as "Bye, Bye, Photography, Dear" (Shashin Yo Sayonara) and "Japan: A Photo Theater" (Nippon Gejiko Shashincho) are out of print and quite expensive on the used market, this book provides an affordable opportunity to own a complete work by Moriyama. Don't wait until the limited edition of 3000 copies is sold out - buy '71-NY today from Amazon.com!

BTW, as further evidence of its quality, this book is discussed in both "The Photobook: A History, Volume I" by Parr & Badger (2004) and "Open Book" of the Hasselblad Center and Arctic Paper (2004).

Extraordinary.......2004-06-14

This is one of the most extraordinary photography books in print, and certainly the most important book of Moriyama's available in the US. I cannot recommend it too highly. It's the result of Moriyama's trip to New York in 1971 and the photographs he took with his Olympus Pen W half frame camera (he shot over a hundred rolls). A document like this is the best way to experience Moriyama's photography because, as you'll see in this book, he doesn't so much shoot individual photographs as he does a series of photographs that together make up a work. This is an entirely different vision of photography from the dominant Euro-American approach to creating disparate images (think the decisive moment), and yet it's nothing like our usual sense of the photographic essay or series, either. Moriyama creates a new understanding of what's photographable, in my opinion. A book that's likely to become expensive and scarce quickly, so add it to your working library while you can.

Gazetteer and Business Directory of Wyoming County, Ny 1870-71

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SR-71: Blackbird; The Secret Vigil
New York, NY McGraw-Hill Productions
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"Please Notes: This is the NTSC format VHS. But, playable with multisystem VHS players in the world." "SR-71: Blackbird; The Secret Vigil; "The best way to describe the feeling of flying it were times of boredom, interspersed with moments of stark terror." ---Lt. Colonel Gene Quist, SR-71 Reconnaissance Systems Officer.....Produced by McGraw-Hill Productions, Copyright 1989 McGraw-Hill, Inc., Running Time: Approx. 1 hr....." [from back of case]

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From Realism to Symbolism: Whistler and His World - Loan Exhibition for Benefit of the Art History Fellowship Fund - Wildenstein, NY - 3/3/71 - 4/3/71

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MANUEL BROMBERG RETROSPECTIVE 1938-71 PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, SCULPTURE AT THE ART GALLERY OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE NEW PALTZ, NY SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 17
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The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Volume 2: 1907-1908 (Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland)
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Great comic, great draftsmanship, great art...

The first volume of Winsor McCay's classic comic strip

Before Calvin, there was Nemo ...

Winsor McCay was more important then Walt Disney !!

The Fantastic Dreamworld of Little Nemo

The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Volume 2: 1907-1908 (Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland)
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Winsor McCay's beautiful dreamscapes appeared in the New York Herald between 1905 and 1911, and the comic strip "Little Nemo" is considered by some to be the best, most brilliant comic strip ever published. Six-year-old Nemo (Latin for no one) falls asleep in his bed and is transported to the fantastical Slumberland--at the request of King Morpheus--where he encounters all kinds of strange creatures. At the end of each trip he wakes up, unsure of what was real and what was a dream. The exquisitely detailed, art-nouveau-style colored panels in this edition are reproduced from rare, vintage file-copy pages. Alongside George Herriman's bizarre Krazy Kat, McCay's work helped to create the grammar of comic art. This Little Nemo collection--an entertaining romp into Slumberland--also provides a lovely glimpse into the origins of an art form.

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Fantagraphics'Books award-winningseries reprintingWinsor McKay's masterpiece has setthe standards for classic comics reprints. McKaywas an amazing draftsman, an incisive social commentator, and one of the most ingenious creative minds in any artform. This magnificent series is a glorious testament to his genius, and includes extensive biographical information on McKay as well as much rare art (including some of his more obscure strips).

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Great comic, great draftsmanship, great art..........2005-05-07

What's to say? The greatest cartoon ever is out of print and can't be seen by anyone. Thankfully his animated work is available on DVD through Amazon and it's a humbling experience. Those were the first animated cartoons and in some respects they've seldom been equalled. His first one--THE first one--is a shocker, like some amateur building the Taj Mahal on the first try. In terms of raw, fantastic, dizzying, imagination coupled with stunning craftsmanship McCay may have no equal.

If this material is not made available pressure should be exerted somewhere, maybe with the Smithsonian, to release new editions. The lack of availability is almost criminal: like finding out that Don Quixote's gone out of print or something. Really, I'm not being hyperbolic. For all the interest there is in comic art these days, all the Manga, Fantastic Fours and graphic novels, this has to be accepted as the medium's Shakespeare.

The first volume of Winsor McCay's classic comic strip.......2002-11-11

Winsor McCay's "Little Nemo in Slumberland" is a rare combination of artistry and imagination that deserves to be considered the first classic comic strip. "The Yellow Kid" came first, but it never demonstrated the superb craftsmanship of McCay's work, which is done in a distinctive "art nouveau" style that presages the coming of surrealism. Within the frames of his story McCay was able to create illusions of vast size and space, showing a word that was remarkably futuristic. Each of Little Nemo's weekly adventures told of a dream of the tousle-haired boy (of about six?) and concluded with him falling out of bed or waking up. McCay's son Robert served as the model for Nemo. Before working on the Slumberland strips McCay had experimented with other comics including "Little Sammy Sneeze," "Hungry Henriette," "Poor Jake," "Tales of Jungle Imps," and "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" (the last one under the pseudonym Silas), but none of them even hinted at the splendor of "Little Nemo." In 1909 McCay would go on to create "Gertie the Dinosaur," the first commercially successful animated cartoon, which is probably how most people know of McCay's work. But that can only be because they have yet to be exposed to this comic strip.

The "Little Nemo in Slumberland" comics in this book originally appeared in the "New York Herald" Sunday color supplement from October 15, 1905 to March 31, 1907 and are faithfully reproduced in their original colors from rare, vintage file-copy pages in the hands of a few choice collectors. There is even a special strip that appeared in the European edition of the "Herald" that was never printed in the U.S. The strip continued until 1911 and those strips are published in the other volumes in this series. In these early adventures Little Nemo first enters Slumberland and learns to cope with his unpredictable flying bed, pursues the beautiful Princess of Slumber, searches for the castle of King Morpheus, and endures the ministrations of Dr. Pill. Nemo also meets up with the devilish Flip, a green-faced clown in a plug hat and ermine collared jacket, who starts off always trying to summon the Dawn and wake Nemo from his dreams but then becomes our little heroes boon companion in his Slumberland adventures which involved an impressive array of strange giants, beautiful mermaids, humongous elephants, mysterious space creatures, exotic parades, fantastic dirigible rides, a jolly green dragon, and anything else McCay could imagine.

By both artistic and historical standards "Little Nemo in Slumberland" is the first truly great comic strip. When you look at the great strips that followed, such as George Herriman's "Krazy Kat," George McManus' "Bringing Up Father," Bud Fisher's "Mutt and Jeff," and Frank King's "Gasoline Alley," they are all decidedly different from what McCay was doing, although the use of "art nouveau" interiors and zany byplay by McManus is clearly an homage to "Little Nemo" as far as I am concerned. There is a sense in which those who see nothing similar appearing on the funny pages until Bill Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes" have a point, although I would acknowledge Snoopy's imaginative life in "Peanuts" as well.

This volume includes "Perchance to Dream," an essay by Richard Marschall, who I think was the single biggest contributor of the strips reprinted in this volume. The essay provides a concise summary of McCay's life and career, with examples of some of his earlier work, "Little Nemo" postcards, and an incredibly detailed editorial cartoon. But the most important thing is that Marschall's efforts have preserved the premier American comic strip for the enjoyment of posterity. There has never been a more magical comic strip. Never.

Before Calvin, there was Nemo ..........2000-08-08

Long before a little boy and his tiger explored the imagination with wry social commentary and surrealism, Winsor McCay did the same with this amazing series of full page newspaper comics. This is a veritable treasure trove of comics history.

Admittedly, the jokes are not the same as Calvin and Hobbes so do not expect the same feelings. I find that Nemo evokes more feelings of wonder and delight while C and H brings about the hearty "guffaw". Also, the ending of every episode is exactly the same in that Nemo awakes to find the night's adventures were all within his head.

On the other hand, this book gives wonderful background of McCay and his world as well as beautiful reprints of the original prints.

I would heartily recommend this to anyone who enjoys fantasy, childhood, comics, or the dreams of past days.

Winsor McCay was more important then Walt Disney !!.......1998-12-10

Winsor McCay has been forgotten by the mainstream Nostalgia R' US spoon-fed media circus that we are all tapped into. Winsor McCay was a pioneering creative genius. He may not have been the very first motion picture animator but created some of the first animated shorts which featured CHARACTERS. His first was Gertie the Dinosaur. McCay would actually tour with his short and interact with the dinosaur on the screen, making it roll over and other tricks. McCay's Little Nemo is a feast

for the eyes. His eye for detail gives us a window to the early days of the 20th Century. The characters are completly fantastic. He was decades ahead of his time.

The Fantastic Dreamworld of Little Nemo.......1998-12-07

Although originally published as a weekly comic strip at the turn of the century, time has hardly diminished the charm or imaginative experiences of Little Nemo. As an unscripted character in his episodic dreams, a little boy named Nemo endeavors to keep up with the developments in "Slumberland" as they rapidly unfold. Recurrent characters show up to join in on the adventures, usually already in progress, and to clue Nemo in on where he is expected to go. As in dreams, the logic is usually skewed, and the storylines quickly gain momentum till they peak in a cataclysmic event that ultimately awakens Little Nemo. The wonderfully illogical development of the dreams are still as fresh today as they were a century ago. The only reminder of the era they came from is the quaint clothing and manner of the characters. The innovative story developments, though, are still uniquely fresh, having come from the visionary mind of Winsor McCay, who is credited with being the father of modern animation.

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