spiteris tony thomas burton (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], quarter-bound pictorial cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. . Illustrated with tipped-inb-w halftones, colour plates and so forth. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . Tony Spiteris was a Greek art critic based in Venice, who was then acting as General Secretary of AICA (International Association of Art Critics). From the mid-sixties, he collaborated with the Cyprus Government as advisor on cultural matters, and in this capacity he curated the first national participation of Cyprus in the Venice Biennale. Among various proposals, Spiteris set apart six young artists with a mean age of 35, bringing forth some of the most pioneering work on the Cypriot scene at the time, and reflecting its gradual and delayed transition to the movements of modernism and abstraction. The works presented varied in style and form; there was painting, reliefs and wood sculptures in series, moving between geometric abstraction and abstract expressionism, and elements of constructivism and surrealism. Evidently marked by the artists formative training in various centres abroad, they nevertheless retained, as Spiteris put it, "a taste of their native land, without ever slipping into folklore rhetoric". The artists shared a small space at the back of the Italian Pavilion to exhibit a total of 18 paintings and 4 sculptures. The hall was vast, separated by panels and shared by many countries that did not possess a space of their own. Despite all sorts of difficulties, the first Cypriot exhibition was properly set up, the resulting feedback was encouraging and the thrill of this new beginning was extraordinary. Chrysochos was the only one absent from the Venice opening; Christoforos Savva, already suffering from an illness, died of heart attack in Sheffield a few weeks later. In exceptionally good condition In exceptionally good condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Folio with two dust jackets, one is paper and the outer one is clear acetate with white lettering at the bottom edge of the front panel. Tipped-in color plates; B&W illustrations. Condition: small part of top edge of front panel of acetate DJ torn away; paper DJ price-clipped; else near fine in very good DJs. 215 pages.

Fine condition in fine DJ. Publishers: Reynal & Co. / William Morrow & Co., Inc. Illustrated by Color & B&W plates. 1st edition. Binding is cloth & boards.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st. (UK) First British edition. Inscription in pencil to the end paper, no other markings, slight rubbing to lower corner tips, Near Fine in unclipped Near Fine dust jacket protected in mylar. Illus boards, [215]pp. 61 colour plates, tipped in with 92 B&W photos. This history of Cypriot art looks at Bronze Age and Iron Age votive statutes, painted pottery, sculptures, mosaics, jewellery. The text is in English. A heary oversize book. (6.6 JM LVR 202/b6 Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12".