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Condición: very_good. Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. daCosta, Robert (book design); Smith, IV, J. Hunter (book design) Ilustrador. Fine unread condition beige cloth boards with gold front cover and spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Contents are in both English and Spanish and includes: PART I: Dedication/Dedicatoria; Introduction/Introduccion; Generational Ties/Vinculos de las Generaciones; Philosophy, Religion and Iberia / Filosofia, Religion e Iberia; Art and Essays / Arte y Ensayos; Biography / Biografia; Art and Essays / Arte y Ensayos; PART II: Photos to Art / De Fotoos al Arte; Index of Plates / Indice de Placas. Profusely illustrated with oil paintings, watercolors, etc. Signed, inscribed, and dated (7/22/99) by the author/artist, Robert daCosta, with thin black ink at the upper section of the blank first free front endpaper. "Artists are often told to say nothing when showing their portfolio, to allow the work to speak for itself. But for artist/philosopher Robert daCosta, who has traveled the world's museums looking at art, it has always been mildly disappointing to find only an artist's name and date or a small "untitled" marker next to a work. He would like to know a little more about the work: if an abstract, especially, what was the thought or intellect that inspired it? In this retrospective, which covers 45 years of his own work, the artist eschews this "say nothing" axiom, inviting the viewer into his inner mind and explaining what initiated the works and their underlying rationale. But before you read the description, he encourages, shape your own reaction first, so that your mind is free to focus on its own imagery, to conjure up its own inner feeling for each painting. In this way a painting becomes truly a reflection of life, lying in a state of pure potentia, waiting for the mind to give life to the images it encounters. This is not a book of paintings of scenes or subjects rendered with artisanship alone: the kind that hangs on walls and is noticed for a few days, then "disappears" into the general decor never to be noticed again. Robert daCosta's art has an intangible, intrinsic value that causes the viewer to look at it time and again over the years. It is the art of an artisan who has studied design and composition and it's underlying intellect. It is also the art of a man who has spent the majority of his adult life reading and studying physics and philosophy and brings to his craft the sum of a lifetime of thought about the nature of the universe. In the first half of the book we are invited into the artist's life through an autobiography describing his paths to discovery of his talents in childhood. He shares with us the life choices that allowed him to use his talents while raising a family and running several businesses. His inevitable return to his roots as an artist can be seen in his paintings, which span four decades. The second half of the book presents works rendered using the composition and design aspects of art mastered over the years. These works stem from photographs of unique aspects of life he observed with the eye of an artist while traveling the world with his camera, intending someday to paint these subjects. Using the computer and specialized software - the newest tools available to the arts - Robert daCosta is able to combine his intellect and modern technology to render his compositions into a personal artistic version while retaining the essence of the moment these images were originally captured." - from the inner front jacket flap. Signed by Author(s).