Paper The Books

I was at the Whitney Museum this week and came across this book, which I've been planning on buying already--being a big fan of Sillman's work. Besides her art talents, the book in itself is a piece of art. It's not your regular white pages with a picture in the middle, it's done very creatively. It's not on the top of my wish list pile.

This book is really a work of art itself. I love the work of Amy Sillman and though I can't afford one of her works, this book is as close as one can get. You can really experience the work up close and the different qualities of the paper and comments by Koestenbaum are pure poetry! Its truly a dedication to a great woman artist.
If you are an art lover, you need to experience this artist!!!

This is a wonderful book that extensively covers the architecture of buildings in New York, from past to present. Full of interesting background information. I can recommend this book to anyone that is interested in New York architecture. Unfortunately, photographs are kept to an essential minimum. Other than that, it was everyting I hoped for.

I bought this book a few days before my first visit to New York City. However, just reading very first part of this book gave me good knowledge of both history and architectures of NYC.

This book starts with the born of New York City in 17th century, and covers many famous (and not so famous) architectures with about 200 photos taken by the author. It covers Georgian influence of 18th Century, Greek revival of 19th century, the Chicago school...etc. The Art Deco Skyscrapers, such as the Empire State building and the Chrysler building are well described. A whole chapter is devoted to Rockefeller Center. The history of MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) is interesting...

For me, this book seems to have some small shortcomings. This book lacks "up to date" information. (This revised edition was first published in 1994.) Also, as a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright, I hope Guggenheim Museum have been covered more.

I just got this book and it is wonderful! This book is well laid out, with step by step instructions, and lots of pictures. These are not cards for your kids to make. These are cards adults or older children will make that the recipient will keep as treasured keepsakes. Techniques such as marbling, crayon batik, bleach stamping, embossing, teabag folded cards, pop-up cards and calligraphy. Unfortunately that list doesn't do justice to the variety and beauty of the examples and explanations shown in the book.

This isn't just another idea book-- it's an art primer. It goes beyond rubber stamping, although there are some very good instructions for rubber stamping. You can also explore plastic wrap prints, fabric and salt prints, and marbling to name a few. There's even a section on creative card lettering! This is for exploring many types of art media in card making endeavors. I highly recommend it.

I bought this for my granddaughter for her 8th birthday, along with three other Tom Tierney paper doll books. She was thoroughly enchanted. The other mothers at the birthday party 'oohed' and 'aahed' over the books. They all noted how difficult it is to find paper dolls anymore and couldn't believe the beautiful quality. It may seem quaintly old fashioned but it was nice to sit and visit with my granddaughter as we cut out the pretty outfits. Soon the older sister joined in, as well as my daughter-in-law and her mother as well! We actually spent three hours with no arguments! That has to be a first in our family! ;^)

This is by far the best of the best drawn by Tom. Every page was a gasp from my mouth, as each gown appeared, and I love this book for the color and designs of its time! If you love the designers of the Old World, Paquin, Worth, Channel, Schiparelli, Poiret, Lanvin etc., they are all here to enjoy and admire. This was for sure one of my all-time favorite Tom Tierney paper doll books, and I have been collecting his work for almost 15 years!

I used to think of John Berkey as just a sci-fi artist. But after viewing this book its clear Berkey is quite simply an excellent artist on all levels. What I find masterful about his work is that upon close viewing you see that he uses simple brush strokes for his approach. Yet, when viewed from a distance his art appears as detailed as any photograph I've seen. This is what it means to be a true artist: Being able to convey a clearly conceived and well-executed idea while maintaining an original sense of style and technique. Mr Berkey's work should be viewed by all, whether sci-fi fan or not.

For those of you who were inspired by John Berkey's fantastic visions of the future decades ago, you will find continued inspiration in Jane Frank's new book, The Art of John Berkey. This book complements the earlier Painted Space book well, but stands on its own as a serious work about John Berkey. Several pages of autobiographical notes from Mr. Berkey himself followed by several chapters chronicling the many phases of Berkey's remarkable career. Back before computers, Berkey mastered the brush, inferring technological complexity with only minimal strokes in a way few other artists can. He ranks high along with legendary futurist artists like Syd Mead and Ralph McQuarrie. The book is beautifully printed, with lush colorful pages that bring Berkey's paintings to life. I recommend you purchase this book-it will take you on a fantastical journey you will want to come back to time and again.

This is an excellent origami book by an author who specialises in producing origami books which are beautifully photographed and diagrammed by using a series of photographs of step folds. This particular example is in softback but the book has been produced on quality paper with heavy card for the covers.

The book kicks off with a sumptuous gallery containing illustrations of some more modern pieces from the 1990s. Mr Beech then provides some of the best instructions I have seen for creating your own duo papers, and provides some instructions also on how to work some of the sequences of folds which appear in the models.

Although the book starts with a series of relatively simple models it very quickly progresses to models which would be classed in a convention as high intermediate, including pieces such as Enomoto's Elephant and Adolpho Cerceda's wonderful Peacock. I would therefore regard it as suitable for someone who has done origami before and would like to progress into slightly more advanced work.

Rick Beech is an excellent teacher and his selection of models will keep most people happy for some time.

This is an excellent book for anyone at an intermediate level, and maybe even talented beginners. The diagrams are given as photos, and they are all quite clear and easy to follow, excepting perhaps Beech's predilection for using patterned papers, which can become a little confusing. But he's one of the better authors out there. Incidentally, don't bother buying more than one of his books: they mostly contain the same projects in different orders.

Excellent, information packed, a good reference as well as how-to book, belongs in every collection, lots of images of artists' work. I return to it for moldmaking for casting paper.

This book has saved us many times when we've been searching high and low for the information we need. Good technical ( but not boring ! ) descriptions of processes, materials, techniques. This is an essential book for all papermakers and paper artists.

This book is a true story. Not "based on a true story", but a real, live, no frills true story. If the title "True Grit" wasn't already taken for a cheesy western, I'd grab it for this book. It is about a couple in their 30's, living in Boston, romanticizing Thoreau and "Walden". One day, the husband says, "Let's do it. Let's find a location that will be condusive to living off the land, and go there."

And so they do. Duffels full of axes, woolens, lanterns, and a few how-to books, they take a train to British Columbia, find an abandonded prospector's cabin, get it water-tight, and live there. Their nearest neighbor lives a half mile away, they're basically sqatting on this land, winter's coming, and they've got to live on oats and berries, and whatever Joe Boston (Bradford Angier) can kill out in the immense forest which serves as their backyard.

It's wonderful. Very (to use that popular wine judger's phrase) approachable. Read: easy to read. You don't have to know anything about nothing to enjoy this book. Also, Bradford Angier (although this book is written by him and his wife, Vera)
becomes sort of a back woods guru and writes some outdoor manuals on wild edibles and how to build your own moss-chinked cabin on someone else's land. Check it out.

I just finished this book tonight and must say that I loved every page of it. It was the first book of the Angier's that I have read, and I can tell you it won't be the last. The way both Brad and Vera describe in flowing detail and friendly, backwoods banter, how their first few years were like living in the mountains and off the land, will spark a fire in anyone who longs for such adventure. Read it. It is a wonderful story.

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Dear Carlota:

Your At the Paper Gates ... It's a triumph, no other words for it. First, the translations are very good indeed. Second, the individual poems are often outstanding, and always striking (and in such different ways too!). For example in "Exiles:Unpublished Letter from Nora," you weave Nora Barnacle into Molly Bloom - fair enough, almost predictable perhaps - but you do it in a very subtle way, that "Spanish" at the end, not the Italian she would have known. Many writers would have made a hash of this idea through their haste to spring the "idea" on us, but you're more careful. Then there's the humour, mocking and ribald -in, say, "Each Love Affair in My Life ..." (Isadora Duncan) --which runs through the entire sequence. Then there's the sharpness of insight, which is almost (but not ironic or dessicated), as in "Letter from Lucrezia Borgia to her Confesor"- "My punishment now / is twentieth century freedom." There are lines, or narrative twists, which are hard to forget. Of course there's a structure to the book, intentional I'm sure, which begins to emerge on rereading - present in details such as the echoing of the tattooed bodies of the first poem in the conclusion of the final piece ('Textures ...'), with its "sketching on your body". Such details make the book more than merely a collection of lyrics based on a good idea (women in history speaking, along with / through me, the contemporary author). In this particular instance, you convey that desire we have (don't we?) to mark the body of the beloved, that animal instinct to set some kind of sign of possession on the cuerpo of the lover.

Finally -- and that last aspect is a facet of this one - there's the sheer eroticism - never coy or mawkish -- of the writing. I'm sure this is in the texture / texturas of the original Spanish, and is bound to have evaporated somewhat in the translation, although I think I can detect it in places. It's very different from an Anglo-Saxon / North European variety and all the more impressive for that. I just love the way these poems hang between the unabashedly fleshy and hyperspace, too. I could go on; suffice it to say I'm very grateful to have it and that I've been carrying it around in my pocket for over a week, and probably will do for a good while longer.

Did I say that's it's beautifully-produced too? InteliBooks is to be congratulated. The appearance of the book is superb, matching its sumptuous and quizzical contents.

John Goodby, Poet and Critic, University of Swansea, Wales, UK. Author of A Birmingham Yank.

"Carlota Caulfield gives us an extraordinary and hallucinatory book, original and disturbing, which helps us to recreate our madness and love as extraordinary women of a universal history, from countesses to dancers, from Incan princesses to nuns, because this poet knows that the true secret of love letters does not lie with the recipient, but with the writer. This is an exquisite and joyous collection, a classic work of 20th century poetry. Caulfield is a poet to read and remember: her love letters will forever be in the secret zones or in the open landscapes of the written word."

-Marjorie Agosin, author of Women of Smoke

"I read your incendiary women with immense pleasure, particularly enjoying the historical texturing of the material. My only regret was that I wanted more. I will read the collection one more time because I may want to respond with a poem of my own. You are inspiring me!"

-Cecile Pineda, author of Face

"In At the Paper Gates with Burning Desire, Carlota Caulfield arranges a teasing collage of fragments of women's writing throughout history and from all over the world. Her sources are various, ranging from Sappho to Isadora Duncan, from a Virgin of the Sun to Rosa Luxemburg; letters are repositioned, faxes and e-mails recontextualized. But a common theme winds its sinuous way through these shards of emotion ripped from the past: the secret, playful language of love.

-Stephen Hart, author of White Ink: Essays on Modern Feminine Fiction in Spain and Latin America

"In Caulfield's poetry, writing herself becomes rewriting the other(s). There are two poetic voices in this book: an intimate female voice, strongly confessional, and an intellectual, cosmopolitan voice, full of multicultural references and endless metamorphoses, both of which transform our reading into a feast for the senses as well as for the mind."

-Jesús J. Barquet, author of Escrituras poéticas de una nación: Dulce María Loynaz, Juana Rosa Pita y Carlota Caulfield.

I have enjoyed the art of folding for many years and I have to admit that this is without a doubt the best instructional book I own. It has incredible detail and the finished models are strickingly realistic! I have had to reccomend this one to my friends and I am looking forward to seeing more from this talented artist in the future...well done indeed!

I highly suggest adding this one to your collection!

The author has provided what appear to be accurate models of eighteen different fighter aircraft. There is quite a bit of detail in the models and the finished products are very impressive.

This book does use some fairly advanced folding techniques, but the first 20 or so pages give sufficient instruction to allow patient beginners to figure out the models.

Check it out!