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Bricks quilt [kit] by Victoria Lynch/Quilted by Louise Spruill.;

Subjects: Quilts;

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Tecla Tofano : this body of mine / by Tofano, Tecla,artist.(CARDINAL)883109; Anid, Audrée,curator, writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)898724; Cohan, James H.,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)882948; Farías, Luis Felipe,editor,contributor.(CARDINAL)872230; Gaxiola, Lucía Hinojosa,translator.; Rangel, Gabriela,curator,editor,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)821546; Distributed Art Publishers,distributor.(CARDINAL)784868; James Cohan Gallery,publisher,host institution.(CARDINAL)222409;

Includes bibliogrpahical references."Tecla Tofano: This Body of Mine foregrounds Tofano as a critical figure in the history of feminist art and the broader canon of postwar global modernism. Curated by Gabriela Rangel and Audrée Anid, this exhibition features over thirty ceramics from the 1960s and 70s as well as a selection of drawings from Evas al desnudo (Naked Eves), her series from 1972. Tofano channeled her ideas most notably through ceramics, though she was also an adept draftswoman, a metalsmith, and a voracious writer. In Rangel's words, "...the feminist impulse empowered her to examine, in both her art and writing, the female body as a tactical space of confrontation." Tofano's meditations in clay were often infused with her biting sense of humor, though they also maintained a poignant and personal undertone. The artist's initial foray into pottery in the 1950s began with throwing utilitarian objects on the wheel under the tutelage of Miguel Arroyo, a figurehead of Venezuela's nascent craft movement. By the 1960s and into the '70s, she shifted to hand-modeling body parts as well as domestic items ranging from food and books to totemic figures, flora, and fauna. Unabashed in her choice of subject matter, Tofano embraced ugliness, hand-modeling ceramics that celebrated the grotesque. Her visual language stood in direct opposition to a refined geometric abstraction and kineticism that was popular among her peers. Tofano embraced rough, hand-built surfaces, as evidenced in this exhibition's uncompromising works, which range from carved and extruding phalluses to disembodied tongues. The artist's work revealed the cracks in an extremist sociopolitical system in Venezuela, Tofano's home of over forty years. Her left-leaning activist views were a direct response to the volatile dictatorial climate that engulfed the country in the 1950s and to the oil boom of the 1960s and '70s. She embedded her work with social commentary to explore issues of class, gender construction and sexism. The female body is specifically addressed in Tofano's visual art and writing as an affront to pervasive machismo and a reflection of her personal traumas. Her suite of forty-four pencil drawings, Evas al desnudo (Naked Eves), 1972, for example, directly referenced social stigmas and expectations imposed on women, particularly those involving reproductive and domestic labor. In Tofano's narrative, Eve, the archetypal woman, is pictured in a multitude of scenarios, from the quotidian to the fantastical. Towards the end of the 1970s, Tofano felt that she had exhausted the possibilities of visual art and refocused her energy and activist rhetoric on writing. The titular phrase, "This Body of Mine" is borrowed from Epílogos (Epilogues), her 1987 book of poetry. Tecla Tofano's corporeal ruminations across ceramics, drawings and writing underscore the artist's deeply-rooted commitment to vocalizing the unspoken paradoxes of womanhood and to rendering visible what was once considered taboo. To accompany this exhibition, James Cohan has published the first-ever monograph dedicated to the artist, co-edited by Gabriela Rangel and Luis Felipe Farías. It features an essay by Rangel, a detailed chronology by Farías, and translations of Tofano's poetry and writing by Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola."-- Provided by Gallery"Tecla Tofano was born in Naples, Italy, on March 5, 1927. In 1952, she moved to Caracas, Venezuela, where she studied ceramics at the School of Plastic and Applied Arts. Tofano was an outspoken public intellectual and influential activist who taught at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas from 1959 to 1980. Beginning in the 1960s, she wrote for the newspaper El Nacional and authored several books of fiction and poetry including Quien inventó la silla (Who Invented The Chair?), 1968 and Yo misma me presento (I Introduce Myself), 1974. Tofano presented her work in exhibitions at numerous galleries and institutions in Caracas including the Museo de Bellas Artes and the Galería de Arte Nacional. She was awarded the Premio Oficial de Artes Aplicadas at the 19th Salón Oficial, Museo de Bellas Artes (Caracas, 1958); gold medal at the International Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics (Prague, 1961); and silver medal at the Exposición Internacional de Cerámica (Buenos Aires, 1962). In recent years, Tofano's work has been featured in group exhibitions including the 2015-2016 exhibition, MODERNO, Design for living in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, 1940-1978 at the Americas Society, New York and the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas and the pivotal 2017 exhibition, Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, which traveled from Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, to the Brooklyn Museum, New York and Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil. Her ceramics were included in Cecilia Alemani's exhibition, The Milk of Dreams at the 2022 Venice Biennale. She is represented in the collections of Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. Tecla Tofano died in Caracas on October 20, 1995."-- Biography from:

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Tofano, Tecla; Art, Modern; Art, Venezuelan; Feminism in art; Potters; Pottery;

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Liz Larner : don't put it back like it was / by Larner, Liz,1960-artist,interviewee.(CARDINAL)227512; Butler, Cornelia H.,author.(CARDINAL)217397; Carver, Cathy,photographer.(CARDINAL)874169; Ceruti, Mary,curator,interviewer.(CARDINAL)873278; Dancewicz, Kyle,curator.(CARDINAL)874011; Liu, Catherine,author.(CARDINAL)685893; Reines, Ariana,author.(CARDINAL)787002; Dancing Foxes Press,publisher.; Distributed Art Publishers,distributor.(CARDINAL)784868; Sculpture Center (New York, N.Y.).Gallery,host institution.(CARDINAL)875050; Walker Art Center,host institution.(CARDINAL)150439;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-97)."For the past three decades, Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner (US, b. 1960) has explored the material and social possibilities of sculpture in innovative and surprising ways. Today she is one of the most influential artists of her generation engaged with the medium. Larner's use of materials ranges from the traditional--such as bronze, porcelain, glass, or stainless steel--to the unexpected: bacterial cultures, surgical gauze, sand, or leather. The artist selects each medium for its physical or chemical properties as well as for social and historical associations. Taking direction from these materials, she creates works that can be delicate or aggressive, meticulously crafted or unruly and formless. Liz Larner: Don't put it back like it was, co-organized by the Walker and SculptureCenter, New York, is the artist's largest survey since 2001. Presenting some 30 works produced between 1987 and 2020, the exhibition includes many pieces never before shown. Featured works include Larner's early experiments with petri dishes and destructive machines, installations that respond to architecture, and more recent wall-based works in ceramic. As a whole, the exhibition underscores the power and intention of Larner's work to reconsider objects in physical space as not only a matter of architectural proportions but also as a social, gendered, and psychological construction. As her objects assert themselves in the gallery environment, they reflect a history of sculptural practice and an understanding of physical space that has largely been shaped by (or credited to) men. The experience of viewing these works compels an awareness of our own embodied presence and relationship to this space. The exhibition examines ways in which Larner has investigated both the material potential of sculpture and its relationship to the viewer, bringing forward key themes that have occupied her work: the dynamic between power and instability, the tension between surface and form, and the interconnectedness of objects to our bodies." - Walker Art Center"Liz Larner was born in Sacramento, California in 1960. She experiments with abstract sculptural forms in a dizzying array of materials, including polychromatic ceramics that evoke the tectonic geologic shifts of the western landscape. An inventor of new forms, Larner's sculptures are not easy to categorize. They defy easy description by design, such as the geometric sculpture of a cube turning into a sphere that is both yet neither, or a complex chain of linked metal rings that never tangles and can also be worn as jewelry." Full biography found at:

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Interviews.; Larner, Liz, 1960-; Larner, Liz, 1960-; Larner, Liz, 1960-; Sculpture, Abstract; Sculpture, Abstract; Sculpture, American; Sculpture, American; Sculpture, Modern; Sculpture, Modern; Women sculptors; Women sculptors;

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Sampler quilt [kit] by Delbridge, Esther P.;

Esther P Delbridge was born August 25, 1926 in Sampson, North Carolina. She lived most of her life in Warren County.

Subjects: Quilts;

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A global history of architecture / by Ching, Frank,1943-; Jarzombek, Mark.; Prakash, Vikramaditya.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.3500 BCE -- Beginnings of China's civilization -- Early Indus settlements -- Predynastic Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- European megalithic tombs -- 2500 BCE -- Indus Ghaggar-Hakra civilization -- Early empires of Mesopotamia -- Egypt: the Old Kingdom -- Megalithic temples of Malta -- Stonehenge -- First civilizations of the Americas -- 1500 BCE -- Egypt: the New Kingdom -- Hittite Empire -- Minoan civilization -- Mycenaean civilization -- Civilization of the High Andes -- Poverty Point -- Shang Dynasty China -- 800 BCE -- The Olmecs -- Chavin de Huántar -- Zhou Dynasty China -- Varanasi: the Aryan conquest -- Etruscan civilization -- Greece: the geometric period -- Temple of Solomon -- Kingdom of Kush -- Neo-Assyrian Empire -- 400 BCE -- Achaemenid Dynasty -- Classical Greece -- Early Hellenic Age -- Advent of Bhuddism -- China: the Warring States period -- Late Olmec Centers -- 0 -- Republican Rome -- Augustan Rome -- Post-Augustan Rome -- Imperial Rome -- Mahayana Buddhism -- Taxila: the Gandharan Cosmopolis -- Qin Dynasty China -- Shaft tombs of Teuchitlán -- 200 CE -- Roman Empire -- Zoroastrian fire temples -- Buddhism of the Satvahanas -- The Kushan -- Han China -- The Moche and Nazca civilizations -- Teotihuacán -- Ohio's Hopewell Mounds -- 400 CE -- Hindu Renaissance -- Kushans of Bamiyan -- Establishment of Chinese Buddhism -- Emergence of Christianity -- Post-Constantinian age -- Zapotecs of Oaxaca -- Kofun period: Japan -- 600 CE -- Maya of the Yucatan -- Tiwanaku -- Age of Justinian -- Armenian architecture -- Rise of the temple kingdoms -- The Sui and Tang dynasties -- Nara period: Japan -- 800 CE -- Chang-an, the Tang capitol -- Korean Buddhism -- South Asian Hindu-Buddhism -- Indonesia at a crossroads -- Hindu kingdoms of Cambodia -- Construction in Southeast Asia -- Rise of Islam -- Carolingian Empire -- Byzantine Empire -- Pueblo Bonito -- Maya city-states -- 1000 -- Rise of Rajput kingdoms -- Song Dynasty China -- Pure-Land Buddhism -- Seljuk Turks -- The Fatimids -- Almoravid Dynasty -- Byzantine revival -- Ottonian Germany -- The Normans -- Pilgrimage churches -- Italian city-states -- Medieval Scandanavia -- Kievan Russia -- Mayan Uxmal -- Native Americans of Cahokia -- 1200 -- Khmer Vrah Vishnulok -- Kingdom of Pagan -- Kamakura Japan -- Southern Song Dynasty -- Delhi Sultanate -- The Hoysalas -- African kingdoms -- Europe: the High Middle Ages -- Republic of Novgorod -- Nasrid Sultanate -- Toltec Empire -- 1400 --The Mexica: Tenochtitlan -- Nomadic invaders -- Ming Dynasty China -- Joseon Dynasty -- Muromachi Japan -- Timurid Dynasty -- The Deccan sultanates -- Ottoman Empire -- Mamluk Sultanate -- Republic of Venice -- Italian Renaissance -- French chateaux -- 1600 -- Tokugawa Shogunate -- Voyages of Zheng He -- The Mughals -- Spanish conquest of America -- Italian High Renaissance -- Place Royale -- Elizabethan England -- The Kremlin's new churches -- Baroque Italy -- The Dogons of Mali -- Architecture of the Eurasian power bloc -- 1700 -- Colonialism -- The French culture of empire -- England: House of Stuart -- Spread of the baroque -- Georgian architecture -- Qing Dynasty China -- Edo and the Kyoto Odoi -- Choson Dynasty -- Nayaks of Madurai -- The Mallas of Nepal -- End of the Mughals -- 1800 -- Qianlong Emperor -- Neo-classicism -- Japan: the Edo Period -- Romantic nationalism -- Shakers -- Greek Revival -- Synagogues -- Viollet le Duc -- Wat Pra Kaeow -- 1900 -- London Metropolitan Board of Works -- World's Fairs -- National museums -- Colonial Bombay -- École des beaux-arts -- Arts and crafts movement -- The Indo-Saracenic -- Dutch Kampung -- Shingle style -- The City Beautiful movement -- Rise of professionalism -- Skyscrapers -- Art nouveau -- International beaux arts -- Colonial Africa -- The Deutsche Werkbund -- Expressionism -- De Stijl -- Russian constructivism -- Bauhaus -- 1950 -- Modernism -- Postmodernism -- The postmodern museum -- The postmodern postcolonial world -- Globalizati

Subjects: Architecture;

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Sampler quilt [kit] by Overby, Martha,1890-1977.;

Mary Carrie Bower was born September 9, 1890 in Halifax County, North Carolina. She lived most of her life in Halifax County.

Subjects: Quilts;

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Sampler quilt [kit] by Overby, Martha.;

Martha Overby was born January 6, 1938 in Vance County, North Carolina. She lived most of her life in Warren County.

Subjects: Quilts;

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Take a ride to read! [video-enabled device] by Playaway Products, LLC,issuing body.(CARDINAL)868990;

Kids Trucks: Alphabet Letter Identification Games -- Avokiddo ABC Ride -- Kids Preschool Puzzles -- Traffic Jamming -- Everyday Short Stories -- Wheels -- Phonics Fever -- Kids Learn to Write Letters Numbers and Words -- Transformers Rescue Bots: Sky Forest Rescue -- We Are The Chuggineers -- Sight Words Games & Flash Cards.Avokiddo ABC Ride: In this enjoyable bike ride, kids use their imagination and logic to find the hidden letters and to practice ABCs and spelling!Everyday Short Stories - Wheels: Do you like to ride a bicycle, scooter or unicycle? This delightful collection of beginning short stories will help to make reading fun for all kids! Choose the "Read To Me" option with words that highlight in sync with a Narrator's voice, or "Read With Someone" so your child can practice reading on their own or with someone else.Kids Learn to Write Letters Numbers and Words: Children will learn to write letters, numbers and basic English words.Kids Preschool Puzzles: In this game, your child will slide and snap the colorful puzzle pieces into place to reveal the delightful image. Themes include animals and food, transportation, geometric shapes, numbers, letters, sports & more.Kids Trucks: Alphabet Letter Identification Games: With three games to choose from that use bulldozers, yarders, and cranes, Kids Trucks: Alphabet Games works on letter recognition in a way that is fun and easy for preschoolers and children to enjoy!Kids will be propelled into early literacy learning while building a strong knowledge of letters, phonics, vocabulary, and more. - Learn important sight words - Develop phonetic awareness - Practice spelling - Read along with animated storybooksPhonics Fever: Kids will love learning the alphabet and phonic sounds with the colorful graphics!Sight Words Games & Flash Cards: Join Abby and the Wordaliens on a learning adventure! Children will enjoy six different games to build their knowledge in spelling, sight words and more.Traffic Jamming: What sounds do you hear in the busy city? A fire truck or taxi? A police car coming near? Each honk, screech, beep, and whir is music to my ear. Have you ever listened to all the sounds in a big city? Speakaboos' parent app, HOMER, is a proven early learning program that builds personalized learning plans for children ages 2-8 - complete with this story and others like this!Transformers Rescue Bots: Sky Forest Rescue: The TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS have landedin their first-ever interactive storybook app! When a new Sky Forest tower is constructed in Griffin Rock, the city finds itself under attack by ravenous plants! It's time for the TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS to roll to the rescue! This is an interactive storybook adventure that puts early and emerging readers at the center of the action on every page. Includes Read to me and Read along modes. Provides exciting opportunities for young readers to develop problem-solving skills, learn how to be a team member while solving challenges, understand the importance and value of every team member's contribution. Aids emergent and early literacy by expanding early reading skills, increasing reading comprehension, and learning new vocabulary. Assists young readers' critical transition from learning to read to reading to learn.We Are The Chuggineers: Ride the rails in an exciting new Chugginton adventure! A follow up to ' Chug Patrol: Ready to Rescue' storybook, this action-packed story includes dynamic multi-level games, positive reinforcement and rewards, video clips, and fun interactions with the characters. Emerging readers can follow along or practice their skills with highlighted text while reading independently.Ages 3-5.Pre-K to K.

Subjects: Educational games.; Video games.; Mobile apps.; Reading (Elementary); Language arts (Elementary); Vocabulary; Reading;

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Homage to Frank Stella. by Stella, Frank,artist.(CARDINAL)125642; Ratcliff, Carter,writer of supplementary textual content.(CARDINAL)152026; Mnuchin Gallery,publisher,host institution.(CARDINAL)342307;

Frank Stella (1936-2024) : an homage / Carter Ratcliff -- Works -- Exhibition checklist -- Frank Stella's series -- Timeline."Mnuchin Gallery is honored to announce Homage to Frank Stella, on view from September 18th to January 25, 2025. In commemoration of both his life and artistic legacy, the selected works illuminate the enduring significance of Stella's diverse and exploratory oeuvre through seminal examples spanning from 1958 to 2023. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue, authored by art historian and critic, Carter Ratcliff. At the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Stella redefined painting with his Black, Aluminum, and Copper series, proposing a new trajectory for the medium which presaged Minimalism. The historical significance of Stella's early works is epitomized in pieces like Arbeit Macht Frei (1958) (Work Will Set You Free), where the haunting phrase from Auschwitz's entrance imbues a dark, contemplative gravitas; or the copper Telluride (1960-1961), where he emphatically conveys his progression toward a more sculptural approach with a T-shaped canvas. These foundational series would naturally evolve into the asymmetrically shaped canvases, bold colors, and geometric patterns that characterize his Concentric Squares, Protractors, and Irregular Polygons. Stella sought to challenge and broaden the spatial and conceptual definitions of painting, or as he explained, "what painting wants more than anything else is working space--space to grow with and expand into, pictorial space that is capable of direction and movement, pictorial space that encourages unlimited orientation and extension." In the 1970s, Stella expanded upon these ideas by developing painted wall-constructions. The resulting works, such as Maha-lat, 5.5x (1978-1979) from the Indian Bird series and Norisring (1982) from the Circuit series, seamlessly fuse elements from the disciplines of painting, sculpture, and printmaking. A masterfully innovative artist, Stella's late career is further defined by his ventures into the sculptural realm, with dynamic shapes and intricate linear constructions reflecting his enduring fascination with the interplay of materials, forms, and structures. Stella's use of Protogen RPT, a lightweight and durable resin, exemplifies his innovative approach to integrating new materials into his work. In K. 179 (2011), the combination of Protogen RPT and stainless steel tubing enables Stella to synthesize color, shape, and movement in a manner that poetically responds to the rhythms of Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas. Yet, it is Star with square tubing (2016) that best crystallizes Stella's decades-long exploration of working space. This final work, echoing the early star-shaped compositions of Port Tampa City (1963), encapsulates the full arc of Stella's artistic journey and bridges the divide between minimalist painting and sculpture. Few artists have left such an indelible mark across so many artistic movements, minds, and generations as Frank Stella. His legacy, spanning nearly seven decades, stands as a testament to his profound influence on the course of contemporary art. Through his groundbreaking explorations of form, color, and spatial relationships, Stella not only challenged the conventions of art history, but also inspired generations of artists to push the limits of their own creativity. His work stands as a testament to the power of innovation in abstraction. Mnuchin Gallery's Homage to Frank Stella is a tribute to the artist's accomplishments, offering visitors a momentous opportunity to engage with the pivotal moments that defined his extraordinary career."-- exhibition summary provided by Mnuchin Gallery

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Stella, Frank; Art, Modern; Art, Modern;

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Fun with cork : 35 Do-It-Yourself projects for cork accessories, gifts, decorations, and much more! / by Handrup, Jutta,author.(CARDINAL)798276; Hedder, Maike,author.(CARDINAL)798281; Berasaluce, Andrea Jones,illustrator.(CARDINAL)798137;

Front Cover; Title Page; Contents; What's This Beauty? Could It Be Cork?; Cork as Crafting Material; What Do I Need to Make Crafts Using Cork?; Tips and Tricks for Crafting with Cork; Chapter 1: Accessories and Gifts Made of Cork Fabric; Round Braid Bracelet; Statement Bracelet; Cuddly Coffee Mug Holder; Clutch; Smartphone Case (No Sewing!); Waist Belt with Stars; Notebooks; Tassels or Key Chains; Fortune Cookies; Chapter 2: Cork Fabric Decorations; Flowerpot Hanger; Cushions with Feathers; Placemats; Star Ornament with Decorative Thread; Heart-Shaped Picture Collage; LOVE Vases or LanternsWhite Designer TableChapter 3: Cork Upgrades for Walls and Adhesive Cork Decorations; Geometric Butterfly; Scrapbooking, Labels, and Cork Confetti; Greeting Cards; Wall Lettering; Letter Mugs; Drawer Decorations; Chapter 4: Fold, Cut, Glue: Cork Paper Beauties; Envelopes; Mini Origami Stars for a Mobile; Hand Lettering Art; Gift Boxes; Moravian Star; Atmospheric Table Lamp; Origami Cube Light Chain; Christmas Star Lantern; Chapter 5: Creative Craft Ideas Made from Cork Construction Paper; Star Table Decorations; Leaves Mobile; Cork-Strip Baskets; Gift Tags; Geo Vases; Copyright Page"Cork is so much more than just pin boards and trivet. Today, there are an incredible number of cork materials: fabrics, paper, construction paper and adhesive foils made from an absolutely sustainable natural product. Cult bloggers and trendsetters Jutta and Maike von Kreativfieber show in this book what you can do with these wonderful materials. All projects are easy to imitate and bring through their stylish design and the unique feel of the cork a very special flair in the apartment and wardrobe." --Amazon.com.

Subjects: Cork craft.; Decoration and ornament.; Handicraft.;

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