Search Results: Authors starting with C from THE CROSS Art + Books

Newcastle Public Library, Newcastle 1966. 22.5 x 16.0cms 56pp, very good stapled paperback The chapters are: early years, medical career, marriage buisines ventures; Bank of Australia & coal industry; business neterprise 1851-1865; Wolfskehl & the great will case 1865-1869.

Laurence King Publishing, London 2011. 24.5 x 17.5cms, 200pp, colour illusts, fine paperback & cover The chapters are: the search for shelter: being (the second skin, extensions of self, the un-universal man; design for basic human needs; design for well-being); inside (prevailing sterotypes, the psychology analogy, empirical knowledge, dsigning habitable space); design (towards anew design, acknowledging design's complex nature, the development of experiential knowledge, a protocol for phenomenological investigations, the identification of qualitative design factors).

Hale & Iremonger Sydney 1983 . 27.5 x 22.0cms, 166pp, b/w & colour Illusts. very good+ hardcover & dustwrapper This book has chapters on Australia's first commercial artists; early processors, printers & publishers; the black & white artists; the early agencies & art studios; Australians working in America & England; regional design; the changing design scene; contemporary Australian design; film & television graphics.

Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1988. 23.0 x 18.0cms, 136pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback This book has chapters on: architecture; engineering; fashion & textile design; industrial design; interior design; landscape architecture; naval architecture; design for the performing arts; urban & regional planning and visual communication - in Australia in the late 1980s.

Hale & Iremonger Sydney 1983 . 27.5 x 22.0cms, 166pp, b/w & colour Illusts. very good hardcover & dustwrapper This book has chapters on Australia's first commercial artists; early processors, printers & publishers; the black & white artists; the early agencies & art studios; Australians working in America & England; regional design; the changing design scene; contemporary Australian design; filma and television graphics.

Thames & Hudson, London, 1971. 21.0 x 14.5cms, 136pp, very good paperback The chapters are: 8 years of swimming lessons; a window into something else; through the 'Large Glass'; I like breathing better than working; I live the life of a waiter; Johns has written an appreciation.

ABGR with the Society of Australian Genealogists, Sydney 1985, 1987 & 1988. 24.0 x 17.0cms, c 868pp, b/w illusts, 3 very good+ hardback volumes with green boards (no dustwrappers as issued) This book covers the famous, infamous and many of the ordinary men and women who contributed in many different ways to colonial Australia.

A B G R, Sydney 1985. 24.5 x 17.0cms, 288pp, b/w illusts, very good+ paperback & cover This book offers concise biographies of aevery submitted Australian who was born in Australia between 1842-1899 and who had died by 1985.

The Churchwardens of St James' Church, Sydney 1999. A4, 44pp, b/w & colour illusts, stapled paperb (ex-library with stamps) The chapters are: the church and its rectors; the wider parish; music; buildings; outreach; education; worship.

Newsweek, New York, 1971. 27.5 x 23.0cms, 172pp, b/w & colour illusts, fine hardcover & dustwrapper This book explores Philip II's empire as well as the building's design, social function and history

Readers Union & Hodder & Stoughton London 1950. 20.0 x 13.0cms, 306pp, very good hardcover with delicate dustwrapper The authors trecked through the Gobi desert as Christian missionaries selling Bibles and other Christian literature, and prosletising their faith. In the words of Mildred Cable: "From Etzingol to Turfan, from Spring of Wine to Chuguchak, we ... spent long years in following trade-routes, tracing faint caravan tracks, searching out innumerable by-paths and exploring the most hidden oases. ... Five times we traversed the whole length of the desert, and in the process we had become part of its life"

Sagep Editrice Consorzio Autonomo Del Porto Di Genova 1991. 29.5 x 22.5cm. 188pp. B&W and colour illustrations. Hardcover in dustjacket. TEXT IN ITALIAN. Good+

George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London 1966 . 22.0 x 14.0cms, 290pp b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper Cassia-Dominioni, Count of Sillavengo, travelled from Marsah Matruh to the Siva Oasis in the 1930s. During World War II, he as in the Italian Army that drove the British Eighth Army to Alexandria. After the war, he tried to recover the Italian dead to Hill 33. This book details his experiences at the battle of El Alamein.

Fratelli Palombi Publishers 1995. 29 x 21cm. 83pp. B&W illustrations., softcover, inscription on ffep, good+ Exhibition catalogue. Headings: modern design with its links to daily life, building construction with its ties to historical tradition and urban planning in its relation to space and landscape.

Fratelli Palombi Publishers 1995. 29 x 21cm. 83pp. B&W illustrations. Softcover.Very good. Exhibition catalogue. Headings: modern design with its links to daily life, building construction with its ties to historiacal tradition and urban planning in its relation top space and landscape.

Stanford University Press, Stanford 1996. 21.5 x 14.0cms, 220pp, fine paperback & cover Cacciari sees Vienna as Europe's capital of late 19th century visionaries, avant-garde thinkers, architects, poets, musicians and artists. he sees it as the hub which wheeled European culture into the 20th century. The protagonits include: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Peter Altenberg, Robert Walser, Lou Andreas-Salome, Adolf Loos, Martin Buber, Egon Sciele, Karl Kraus, Gustav Klimt.

Yale University Press, New Haven 1993. 23.0 x 14.0cms, 248pp b/w illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper Cassiati studies modern architecture's relationship with philosophy and applies the thinking of avant-garde architects, artists and writers to a technological society's social and political problems. He uses Georg Simmel and Max Weber to examine Adolf Loos's designers along with other early 20th century Viennese architects's projects. The section headings are: the dialectics of the negative; & the metropolis; Loos & his contemporaries; Loos & his angel.

Konecky & Konecky, New York 1990. 32.5 x 24.0cms, 160pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good hardcover (a coffee [/] stain which does not affect reading) and dustwrapper Cachin argues that it is impossible to catagorise Manet's work because of his debt to tradition, his simplifications, his subject matter, his contempt for classicists' mythologies, his distance from full-bodied impressionism

New York Graphic Society, Greenwich CT, 1971. 27.5 x 24.0cms, 142pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good hardcover (ex-library with stamps and scars) This was the first substantial study on Signac and his relationships with Van Gogh, the Pont-Aven painters, art nouveau, Matisse and fauvism.

Kodansha, Tokyo 1982. 23.5 x 18.5cms, 256pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback with French flaps. The chapters are: a literary & historical bakground to the Thai epic; the origin of the bas-releifs of Wat Phra Jetubon; the Destruction of the Demons