In the late 1950s and early 1960s Jay Last, fresh from receiving his Ph.D. in physics from MIT, became involved both in participating in the startup of Silicon Valley through the development of silicon integrated circuit chips and in forming a substantial collection of African art, which at that time was making the transition from display in museums of anthropology to being seriously treated as fine art. This book discusses the author's experiences in both of these fields over the course of the next fifty years The African art market underwent marked changes during this period. At the high point of African art collecting in the quarter century from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, vast quantities of art objects were sourced in Africa and brought to Europe and the United States through a system that proved to be remarkably efficient. Large numbers of dealers had businesses, primarily in New York, Paris, and Brussels, to supply this material to an increasing number of enthusiastic collectors. Eventually, the African sources dried up and the market transformed in the 1980s, when less emphasis became placed on the unknown and different and more on the provenance of pieces in existing collections. Having been active in the African art market and knowing most of the major dealers of this material throughout this period, the author not only discusses the evolution of the field but also provides biographical information and anecdotes about the various colorful individuals who were involved in it while also relating his experiences in acquiring objects and illustrating some of his major acquisitions. This is a unique and personal view of art collecting.

African Art and Silicon Chips: A Life in Science and Art

Last, Jay T.

Sierra Vista Books

First edition. History of these beautiful examples of color printing with over 400 illustrations in color. The color work in this book is superb. Discusses the processes starting with early stone lithography up to modern half-tone offset. 133 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 4to..

California Orange Box Labels: An Illustrated History

Science & Math

McClelland, Gordon T.

Technology

Hillcrest Pr

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The California Style: California Watercolor Artists 1925-1955

Arts & Photography

Painting

Paper labels to identify the brand name and packing location of boxes of fresh citrus fruit were first used in Southern California in the 1880s. These labels replaced the earlier methods of identifying shipments of citrus fruit; stenciling, stamping or burning the brand information on the wooden-crate ends or the tops of wooden barrels.

Fruit Box Labels: An Illustrated Price Guide to Citrus Labels

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

In the one hundred twenty year period between 1850 - 1970, California been the home to a large number of extremely talented and versatile watercolor artists. While some became nationally and internationally recognized, most were largely overlooked until recent years. Since the 1970s, art collectors and museum curators have developed a serious interest in California watercolors and have been seeking these works to collect and display. Rather than discussing California watercolors on a strictly chronological basis, the first three chapters of this book are divided into three sections dealing with different stylistic approaches - traditional and modern realism, the California style, and abstract and non-objective watercolors. In the fourth chapter are 555 biographies of artists who produced watercolors in California during the period between 1850 and 1970. Whenever possible the details of the artists' lives and art careers were obtained through personal interviews with the artists themselves or with their relatives or friends. Many of the watercolors reproduced in this book are award-winning paintings and serve as exceptional examples of artworks produced by leading artists active in California during the one hundred and twenty year period covered.

California Watercolors (1850-1970): An Illustrated History and Biographical Dictionary

Lithography was invented in Germany about 1795 and quickly spread throughout Europe. It was brought to America, beginning about 1820, by a stream of talented immigrants. First used mainly for black-and-white book illustrations, sheet music, and prints, lithography became a more versatile process when color techniques were developed in the 1840s. As America became interconnected by canals, railroads, and telegraph lines, distant markets developed for American products, and lithography began to be used for colorful advertisements and labels. In the second half of the century the production of lithographs became a highly mechanized low-cost high-volume process, supplying a wide variety of images for American commerce and culture. This book discusses the European roots of lithography and its commercial and technical development in America, focusing on the companies that produced the lithographic work. Many of them quickly went in and out of business, or were reorganized with new management

The Color Explosion: Nineteenth Century American Lithography

History

World

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