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Kay Nielsen

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Description: "Inspired first by Art Nouveau and later by the great Chinese colorists, Kay Nielsen retained a startling originality of outlook and delicacy of fancy. This unique collection of his illustrations shows how his artistic imagination and unbounded vision gave his work an outstanding place in the Golden Age of pictorial books to which he belonged."--Page 4 of cover.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1975.
Call number: 607950
Creator: Nielsen, Kay Rasmus (1886-1957)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Sanford and Helen Berger, 1999. From the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection.

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"Michiko Kon is a contemporary Japanese artist of startling originality. Her exploration of the photographic still-life, in which perishable materials such as raw fish, fowl, and vegetables, are combined with familiar, often feminine objects--a schoolgirl's uniform, high-heeled shoes, a pocketbook--triggers our senses of touch, taste and smell through vision and imagination"--Publisher's description.

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Life history of John Nielsen

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Typescript of John Nielsen's life history, probably recorded in or around 1885. The volume traces Nielsen's childhood experiences in Denmark, including prejudices faced by Mormon converts, and his family's plan to travel to the United States in 1866. It continues with notes on their voyage to New York, their travel by rail and boat to Florence, Nebraska, and their journey on foot to Salt Lake City. It concludes with reminiscences on Nielsen's life in Utah, including a grasshopper invasion in 1869.

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Life history of John Nielsen [microform]: 1948

Manuscripts

Microfilm of the life history of John Nielsen, compiled by May Nielsen Anderson, J. Jesse Nielsen, and Willard H. Anderson from writings by Nielsen probably begun around 1885. The account traces Nielsen's childhood experiences in Denmark, including prejudices faced by Mormon converts, and his family's plan to travel to the United States in 1866. It continues with notes on their voyage to New York, their travel by rail and boat to Florence, Nebraska, and their journey on foot to Salt Lake City. It then focuses on reminiscences of Nielsen's life in Utah, including a grasshopper invasion in 1869, as well as his work digging ditches, laying building foundations, cultivating land, and raising crops in the 1890s and 1910s.

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The Ballad of Soames Bantry and other stories from the fabled life and New York years of photographer, painter and poet Saul Leiter

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Recognized as a pioneer of color photography, Leiter was also an immensely prolific and ingenious painter. The Ballad of Soames Bantry brings together the diversity of his artistic expression in a suite of images which amplify the autobiographical narrative and celebrate a personal vision described by Anders Goldfarb as "riveting and profound, soulful and spirited."--Publishers description.

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Museum studies

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"Through his masterful use of the composite print and trademark playfulness of vision, Jerry Uelsmann early in his career extended the definition of the photographic print. In 'Museum Studies,' the content of Uselmann's works--rather than the technique with which they were created--define the rules of the game. The artist has selected 42 images spanning some thirty years of work, each containing elements from museums around the world. The result offers a startling insight not only into the artist's muse, but also into the meaning of that universally-revered institution, the museum"--Publisher's description.

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Anarch

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"This collection is our third collaboration with the remarkable Joseph Mills. An artist of unique vision and exceptional skill, Mills is influenced in particular by the Dada and Surrealist movements, and by his personal experience of psychosis. He describes his earliest artistic accomplishment as 'simply surviving through creativity.' Starting out as a photographer, a snow-induced confinement indoors kicked off a second creative practice: collage ... In this gorgeous new book we present silk-screened images, a medium relatively new to Mills but one he deploys with his own inimitable genius. 'Anarch' is fascinating, beautiful and truly unique"--Publisher's description.

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