2011, ISBN: 9788599117507

Pollock's Toy Theatre and Toy Museum, 1960. Pictorial card envelope with light edge wear, corner chip and theatre "door" present but detached. Appears complete with all piec… mais…

Pollock's Toy Theatre and Toy Museum, 1960. Pictorial card envelope with light edge wear, corner chip and theatre "door" present but detached. Appears complete with all pieces in plastine sleeve. Includes Pollock's Theatres illustrated catalogue describing their other theatres and this item as "A modern reproduction of the theatre front first published by Green in 1841. The theatre is made of cardboard, and when assemble measures 11.5 x 11.5 inches x by 8 inches. It is pre-cut ready for assembling complete with all accessories and the characters, scenery and playbook for Aladdin.. Soft Cover. Very Good., Pollock's Toy Theatre and Toy Museum, 1960, 3, New York: Manhattan Electrical Supply Co., Inc., 510 Sixth Ave., 1930. 4to. [4], 64 pp. Numerous colour illustrations on opening 4 pages, over 250 black & white text illustrations. Blue printed softcovers, cover art photo of Manhattan Electrical Supply building on front, electrical appliances, toys, and Christmas lights on back cover (minor dustsoiling, edgewear, 1 small tear, minor wear to corners), still VG copy. First edition of this well-illustrated electrical appliance, lighting, and toy catalogue on the eve of the Great Depression, with listings for electric broilers, Hammond clocks, toasters, percolators, fans, vacuums, a number of different Christmas light sets, industrial lighting, X-Ray Reflectors, Green Glass Shades, and Grebe radios., Manhattan Electrical Supply Co., Inc., 510 Sixth Ave., 1930., 0, São Paulo: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paolo, 2011 (Exhibition: 4 de stembro a 7 de novembro de 2010). 31.5 cm. Catalogo = Catalogue. Projeto Editorial = Publication Project... Exposição = Exhibition. Curadoría = Curatorship: Ivo Mesquita; Juliana Rego Ripoli, assistente 172(xv)p color plates, chron., cat., color pict. boards. OCLC: 733756588 Parallel exhibition to the 29th Bienal of São Paulo gathers sixteen relevant works by Gross (b. Brazil 1946) covering four decades of work.. 16 works created between 1965 and 2010 by one of the foremost installation artists in Brazil: Cristina Gross (b. São Paulo, Brazil 1946) who started her art career in the 1960's when she was only 14 years old and Brazil was living under the military regime. She is an artist with an extended and diversified production, both regarding support – painting, printing, stamps, installations, urban interventions, works with light, videotext, film – and the issues with which she works: landscapes, urban spaces, construction of forms of representation, image systems, art itselfThe exhibition included her site-specific installation, "Illuminarias-2010" (Illuminations-2010), made especially for the show and that consists in placing 66 "giroflex" revolving lamps (emergency lights) scattered across the facade of the Pinacoteca station, the same building occupied from 1940-1983 by the Departamento Estadual de Ordem Publica e Social (DEOPS) where flashing police cars and ambulances were a common sight. . Contents: Apresentação = Presentation / Marcelo Mattos Araujo -- "Carmela Gross: um corpo de ideias", uma controversia = "Carmela Gross: a body of works", a discussion / Ivo Mesquita -- Vistas da exposi ção = Exhibition views -- Canteiro de obras = Construction site / Marta Bogéa -- Desenho, desenhos: a título de prologo = Drawin, drawings: by the way of prologue / Carla Zaccagnini -- Cronología crítica = Critical timeline / Juliana Rego Ripoli -- Lista de obras = Check list -- Creditos = Credits. ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE TEXT., Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paolo, 2011 (Exhibition: 4 de stembro a, 0<