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Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Very Good. Very Good condition. (kaleidoscopes) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Edition:
This is an updated, Rev., and amplified version of Through the
Publisher:
Beechcliff Books
Published:
1993
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17673621403
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Jan Haber. Very good. 199, [1] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Bibliography. Kaleido-Glossary. Index. The Brewster Society. No DJ present. Signed by the author on the Dedication page. Signed by a number of designers at their write-ups! ! ! Has sections on Once Upon a Scope, Modern Kaleidoscopes, Meditative and therapeutic Values, Contemporary Designers, Scope-related Art and Artists, Color and the Rainbow Connection, and Shops Featuring Scopes. Cozy Baker was born as Hazel Cozette Oliver and married Harold Baker. In 1974, Cozy published her first book called, A Cozy Getaway: A Travel Guide to the Unusual. Later she published Holiday Frame of Mind. She wrote travel articles for newspapers and magazines. Her next book was published after her youngest son's death. Randall was killed by a drunk driver. This next book about her journey through tragedy was in 1982 and was titled Love beyond Life: Six Ways to Triumph over Tragedy. In 1982, she stopped in a gift shop in Nashville and purchased a kaleidoscope by Doug Johnson. During the entire flight home to Maryland, Cozy was mesmerized by the images of this wonderful new acquisition. Cozy Baker wrote her first book on the subject of kaleidoscopes in 1985. She curated the first major exhibition of scopes in Washington, D.C., and served as consultant for a kaleidoscope show at the Smithsonian. Baker founded The Brewster Society, the first organization for designers, collectors, and lovers of kaleidoscopes. Her collection includes over 800 contemporary and antique kaleidoscopes, and she established the world's first kaleidoscope museum in 1997. Kaleidoscopes developed into an important new art form as an unprecedented renaissance began in the late 1970s. It gained momentum in the 1980s with an article in the November, 1982 issue of Smithsonian Magazine, followed by the publication in 1985 of the first book on the subject, Through the Kaleidoscope, by Cozy Baker. At the same time Cozy curated the world's first exhibition of kaleidoscopes at Strathmore Hall Arts Center in Bethesda, Maryland. One year after this exhibition, Cozy founded the Brewster Society. The Brewster Kaleidoscope Society (BKS) was founded in 1986 by Cozy Baker as an international organization for kaleidoscope enthusiasts. Named after the inventor of the kaleidoscope, Sir David Brewster, its purpose is to share and promote the beauty, creativity, and joy of these mirrored tubes of magic. It serves as a network linking kaleidoscope artists, collectors, and retailers. Membership benefits include a quarterly newsletter, an annual convention, regional meetings, and a house/museum, maintained for members and open by appointment only. A kaleidoscope is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces (or mirrors) tilted to each other at an angle, so that one or more (parts of) objects on one end of these mirrors are shown as a regular symmetrical pattern when viewed from the other end, due to repeated reflection. These reflectors are usually enclosed in a tube, often containing on one end a cell with loose, colored pieces of glass or other transparent (and/or opaque) materials to be reflected into the viewed pattern. Rotation of the cell causes motion of the materials, resulting in an ever-changing view being presented. Coined by its Scottish inventor David Brewster, "kaleidoscope" is derived from the Ancient Greek word kalos ("beautiful, beauty") and eidos ("that which is seen: form, shape") and skope ("to look to, to examine"), hence "observation of beautiful forms." Brewster thought his instrument to be of great value in "all the ornamental arts" as a device that creates an "infinity of patterns". Artists could accurately delineate the produced figures of the kaleidoscope by means of the solar microscope (a type of camera obscura device), magic lantern or camera lucida. Brewster believed it would at the same time become a popular instrument "for the purposes of rational amusement". He decided to apply...
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Near Fine. Book 200 pages, shops, bibliography, glossary, index, membership blank for the Brewster Society, numerous illustrations many in color. Updated, revised and amplified version of Through the Kaleidoscope...And Beyond & Kaleidorama. Includes history and modern kaleidoscopes; 8vo, wine cloth, decorative cover. Gift note front endpaper, rest fine; no dust jacket.
