South American Costumes~1941~16 Pochoir Prints!!~1st Ed
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LATIN SOUTH AMERICAN COSTUMES, designed by Yolanda Bartas, text by Dorothy Gladys Spicer, published by the Hyperion Press NY in 1941 FIRST EDITION This is a very large (11" x 15") beige cloth book with red titles and silk screened front board illustration. It has 88 pages with 16 magnificent full color pochoir plates on heavy stock. It also has numerous fascinating black and white text illustrations. It contains fabulous examples of 1940 costomes of both Men and Women from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. This book is in good+ condition. Please bear in mind that I am not an expert in book judging, but I will list it's faults to the best of my ability. There is wear to the extremity board with corners rounded and the cloth worn off the edges. This volume was, at one time, a library book with the usual stamps, a card holder torn out and even a discard notice hand written on the lead-in page. There is wear to the cloth on the spine and a 3 ' tear to the text on page 77. The interior sixteen Pochoir color plates are brilliant and dazzling. They must be seen in person to be fully appreciated. THESE 16 COLOR PRINTS WOULD BE SO BEAUTIFUL FRAMED!!!!! The Art of the Pochoir Print The effect is arresting: paging through the leaves of a pochoir-illustrated book, the reader is abruptly stopped by the extraordinary effects of lush, vibrant colors and bold geometric shapes. Bright oils and watercolors seem to come alive on the page in an almost three-dimensional experience. They used a stenciling technique to present these decorative arts. In fact, pochoir is the French word for stenciling, a form of coloring pictures that dates to a thousand years ago in China. It was introduced to commercial publishing in France in the late 1800s, and there it had its most exquisite expression. The pochoir process would use from 20 to 250 different stencils applied to a black-and-white collotype print from a photograph. The collotypes are affixed to stencil sheets of metal or board, and the patches to be colored are cut out. Each color to be applied uses a separate pompon, or brush of coarse, shortly-cropped animal hair, to sponge or dab on the paint. Each stencil is done in turn until the image is finished, so it is essential to place the stencils exactly in position. Though pochoir illustration had its heyday in the 1920s, with Paris as its center of greatest artistic production, several places produced pochoir books during this decade, including London, Florence, New York, and the avant-garde publishers of Prague and other Eastern European cities. In the United States, pochoir gave way quite early to related methods like serigraphy and silk-screening. Occasionally today some fine press books are illustrated using the pochoir method, but its most sumptuous flowering eight decades ago represents a remarkable era in the history of the book. On Sep-04-08 at 17:30:47 PDT, seller added the following information: Use the FREE Counters 1 million sellers do - Vendio!
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