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Against Natureby J.K. Huysmans, Margaret Mauldon, Nicholas WhiteISBN 0192823671 (0-19-282367-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against Nature'Book summary:Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who attempts to escape Paris and, along with it, the vulgarity of modern life. As Des Esseintes hides away in his museum of high taste, Huysman offers the reader a treasury of cultural delights and anticipates many aspects of twentieth century modernism. Supplemented by notes and a critical introduction, this new translation is sure to engage today's reader. [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green, John TennielISBN 019283374X (0-19-283374-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Arabian Nights' Entertainmentsby Robert L. MacKISBN 0192834797 (0-19-283479-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights' Entertainments'Book summary:The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the possible infidelities of his wives leads to an outbreak of barbarity in his realm and to a reign of terror in his court, stopped only by the resourceful Scheherazade. The tales with which she nightly postpones the Sultan's murderous intent have entered our language and our lives like no other collection of stories before or since. Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin: all make their appearance in Arabian Nights' Entertainments. This edition is the only one to offer the complete text of the earliest English translation, and also provides full notes and plot summaries, especially important in a such a sprawling work of great complexity. [via]
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Architecture in the United Statesby Dell UptonISBN 019284217X (0-19-284217-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theoryby Alfred GellISBN 0198280149 (0-19-828014-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Atlas of World Artby John OniansISBN 0195215834 (0-19-521583-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlas of World Art'Book summary:The Atlas of World Art maps the cumulative traces of humankind's artistic activity and demonstrates the importance of physical and political geography for the history of the world's art. This stunning volume is the first to treat the art of the whole world from prehistory to present day and to show the importance of natural and social factors in shaping artistic activity.
The Atlas is divided into seven parts, each devoted to a specific time period: Art of the Hunter Gatherer (50,000-5,000 BCE); Art, Agriculture and Urbanization (5,000-500 BCE); Art, War and Empire (500 BCE-600 CE); Art, Religion and Empire (600-1500); Art, Exploitation and Display (1500-1800); Art, Industry and Science (1800-1900); Art, Competition and Identity (1900-2000). Each section opens with a helpful timeline for that period bringing together important dates from across various cultures. Within each section, the spreads are organized by four broad geographic regions: the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia and the Pacific. With dramatic full-color maps, as well as commentaries and illustrations, the Atlas of World Art is an authoritative, comprehensive, and elegant volume. [via]More editions of Atlas of World Art:
Camera Portraits: Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, London, 1839-1989by Malcolm RogersISBN 0195208587 (0-19-520858-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer, David WrightISBN 019283360X (0-19-283360-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mindby Arthur ZajoncISBN 0195095758 (0-19-509575-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Concise History of Canadian Paintingby Dennis ReidISBN 019540663X (0-19-540663-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Concise History of Canadian Painting'Book summary:First published in 1973, this book quickly became an indispensable short history of Canadian painting. This new edition has been extensively revised and expanded to reflect new information and new interpretations. The first edition studied Canadian painting through 1965, masterfully combining visual description, anecdotes, and aesthetic evaluation with full accounts of the careers of most of the leading Canadian painters, beginning in the French colonial period. The second edition covers events through 1980, with a new long chapter covering the crucial intervening fifteen years that saw developing in Canada a tremendous interest in other art forms, and an apparent waning of interest in painting. Reid contends that this was not so, and traces the contributions of established artists who produced steadily in the period as well as new arrivals on the scene who have since joined the ranks of leading Canadian artists. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 illustrations, 36 of them in color, this edition is simply the most wide-ranging and authoritative handbook on its subject available and will be of interest to anyone involved in art and art history. [via]
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A Concise History of Watercoloursby Graham ReynoldsISBN 0195200519 (0-19-520051-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introductionby Julian StallabrassISBN 0192806467 (0-19-280646-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Cubismby Edward FryISBN 0195200691 (0-19-520069-1)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Culture & Anarchyby Matthew Arnold, Jane GarnettISBN 0192805118 (0-19-280511-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture & Anarchy'Book summary:Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, what good it can do, and if it is really necessary. He contrasts culture, which he calls the study of perfection, with anarchy, the mood of unrest and uncertainty that pervaded mid-Victorian England.
This edition reproduces the original book version, revealing the immediate historical context and controversy of the piece. The introduction and notes broaden out the interpretative approach to Arnold's text, elaborating on the complexities of the religious context. The book also reinforces the continued importance of Arnold's ideas its influences in the face of the challenges of multi-culturalism and post-modernism.
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Divine Mirrors : The Virgin Mary in the Visual Artsby Melissa R. Katz, Robert A. Orsi, Davis Museum and Cultural Center StaffISBN 0195145577 (0-19-514557-7)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Divine Mirrors: The Virgin Mary in the Visual Artsby Robert A. Orsi, Melissa R. Katz, Davis Museum and Cultural CenterISBN 0195145585 (0-19-514558-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, Maud EllmannISBN 0192833863 (0-19-283386-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:The dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by stoker. He aims to terrify and succeeds, portraying the awesome power of evil to corrupt even the virtuous heroine, lucy. Only the old magic--a crucifix, garlic, a wooden stake--can provide effective weapons against the count's appalling strength [via]
Early Modernism: Literature, Music, and Painting in Europe, 1900-1916by Christopher ButlerISBN 019818252X (0-19-818252-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Emily Carr: A Biography.by Maria TippettISBN 0195403142 (0-19-540314-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Encyclopedia of Artistsby William H. T. VaughanISBN 0195215729 (0-19-521572-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Selfby Marina WarnerISBN 0199266840 (0-19-926684-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self'Book summary:Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds, acclaimed novelist and critic Marina Warner explores the metaphorical power of metamorphoses in the evocation of human personality. Beginning with Ovid's great poem, The Metamorphoses, as the founding text of the metamorphic tradition, she takes us on a journey of exploration, into the fantastic art of Hieronymous Bosch, the legends of the Taino people, the life cycle of the butterfly, the myth of Leda and the Swan, the genealogy of the Zombie, the pantomime of Aladdin, the haunting of doppelgangers, the coming of photography, and the late fiction of Lewis Carroll. Beautifully illustrated and elegantly written, Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds is sure to appeal to all readers interested in mythology, art, and literature. [via]
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A Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpetsby Christopher AlexanderISBN 0195208668 (0-19-520866-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Dennis Butts, Frances Hodgson BurnettISBN 0192817728 (0-19-281772-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Garden'Book summary:Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as truculent as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, cooped up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's the Secret Gardenby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Dennis ButtsISBN 0192835963 (0-19-283596-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George Frazer, Robert FraserISBN 0192829343 (0-19-282934-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Greece and the Hellenistic Worldby John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn MurrayISBN 0192821652 (0-19-282165-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greece and the Hellenistic World'Book summary:From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical world has established the foundations of our culture, as well as many of its enduring achievements. Astonishingly in-depth in its coverage of the entire 1000-year history of the classical world and richly illustrated, The Oxford History of the Classical World offers the general reader the definitive companion to the Graeco-Roman world, its history, and its achievements.
The first volume, Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World, covers the period from the eighth to first centuries B.C., a period unparalleled in history for its brilliance in literature, philosophy, and the visual arts. It also treats the Hellenization of the Middle East by the monarchies established in the area conquered by Alexander the Great.
The second volume, Classical Rome, covers early Rome and Italy, the expansion of the Roman republic, the foundation of the Roman Empire by Augustus, its consolidation in the first two centuries A.D., and the later Empire and its influence on Western civilization.
The editors--three eminent classicists, John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray--intersperse chapters on political and social history with chapters on literature, philosophy, and the arts, and reinforce the historical framework with maps and chronological charts. The two volumes also contain bibliographies and a full index, as well as color plates, black and white illustrations, and maps integrated into the text.
The contributors--thirty of the world's leading scholars--present the latest in modern scholarship through masterpieces of wit, brevity, and style. While concentrating on the aspects essential to understanding each period, they also focus on those elements of the classical world that remain of lasting importance and interest to readers today. Together, these volumes provide both a provocative and entertaining window into our past. [via]More editions of Greece and the Hellenistic World:
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, G. R. HibbardISBN 0192834169 (0-19-283416-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in fact, the most authoritative version of the play, this new edition turns to the First Folio of 1623--Shakespeare's "fair copy"--that has been preserved for us in the Second Quarto. Introducing fresh theatrical momentum, this revision provides, as Shakespeare intended, a better, more practical acting script. [via]
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Talesby Hans Christian Andersen, L. W. Kingsland, H.C. Andersen, Vilhelm Pedersen, Lorenz FrlichISBN 0192816993 (0-19-281699-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales'Book summary:This collection of twenty-six tales features reproductions of the original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich, especially photographed from the drawings in the Hans Andersen Museum at Odense. [via]
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Talesby L. W. Kingsland, H.C. Andersen, Vilhelm Pedersen, Lorenz Frlich, Naomi LewisISBN 0192835076 (0-19-283507-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales'Book summary:This collection of twenty-six tales features reproductions of the original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich, especially photographed from the drawings in the Hans Andersen Museum at Odense. [via]
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The Home Planetby Association of Space Explorers, Kevin W. KelleyISBN 0201072629 (0-201-07262-9)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Home Planetby Kevin W. KelleyISBN 0201151979 (0-201-15197-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Home Planet'Book summary:Prepared under the aegis of the Association of Space Explorers and in cooperation with the Soviet agency Mir, The Home Planet conveys as no book ever has the human dimension of space exploration, and the deeply personal response to our terrestrial home which space travel awakens. [via]
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Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Tasteby Clement GreenbergISBN 0195139232 (0-19-513923-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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How to Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History and Theory of Film and Mediaby James MonacoISBN 0195028066 (0-19-502806-6)
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How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia Language, History, Theoryby James MonacoISBN 019503869X (0-19-503869-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia Language, History, Theory'Book summary:First published in 1977, this popular book has become the source on film and media. Now, James Monaco offers a revised and rewritten third edition incorporating every major aspect of this dynamic medium right up to the present.
Looking at film from many vantage points, How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia explores the medium as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and technology. After examining film's close relation to such other narrative media as the novel, painting, photography, television, and even music, Monaco discusses those elements necessary to understand how films convey meaning and, more importantly, how we can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate.
In a key departure from the book's previous editions, the new and still-evolving digital context of film is now emphasized throughout How to Read a Film. A new chapter on multimedia brings media criticism into the twenty-first century with a thorough discussion of topics like virtual reality, cyberspace, and the proximity of both to film. Monaco has likewise doubled the size and scope of his "Film and Media: A Chronology" appendix. The book also features a new introduction, an expanded bibliography, and hundreds of illustrative black-and-white film stills and diagrams. It is a must for all film students, media buffs, and movie fans. [via]More editions of How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia Language, History, Theory:
Industrial Designby John HeskettISBN 019520218X (0-19-520218-X)
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Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brainby Semir ZekiISBN 0198505191 (0-19-850519-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain'Book summary:Why do we find it hard to explain why art is beautiful? Perhaps it is because the visual system of the human brain is much more developed than its language centers, as it has had far longer--millions of years--to evolve. Semir Zeki believes that we can only reach a better understanding of art as we learn more about the operations of the visual brain.
Zeki demonstrates that the simple act of seeing is a profoundly artistic activity. Separating out the mass of geometrical and spectral information received through the eye to arrive at a visual perception is a complex and creative process. Zeki traces the functional similarities of the artist and the seeing brain. "Just as the brain searches for constancies and essentials," Zeki writes, "so does art.... It is those attributes of vision [to which] the brain has assigned specialised processing systems ... that have primacy in art. Among those one can include colour, form, motion, faces, facial expressions and even body language."
Zeki's examples are varied and convincing. For example, he explores the relationship between modern works that have emphasized lines and the reaction of cells in the brain that work on lines of specific orientation. More ambitiously, he even outlines the neurological bases of Fauvism and Cubism!
T.S. Eliot said that using language to discuss art was "a raid on the inarticulate, with shabby equipment." In Inner Vision, that pejorative statement acquires a heroic mantle: no artist worth the name and no one who enjoys visual beauty can afford to ignore the insights contained in this book. --Simon Ings, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Just So Stories for Little Childrenby Rudyard Kipling, Lisa LewisISBN 0192834363 (0-19-283436-3)
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Landscape with Figures : A History of Art Dealing in the United Statesby Malcolm GoldsteinISBN 019513673X (0-19-513673-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Landscape with Figures : A History of Art Dealing in the United States'Book summary:How did the United States become not only the leading contemporary art scene in the world, but also the leading market for art? The answer has to do not only with the talents of American artists or even the size of the American economy, but also--and especially--the skills and entrepreneurship of American art dealers. Their story has not been told...until now.
Landscape with Figures is the first history of art dealing in the United States, following the profession from eighteenth-century portrait and picture salesmen in the colonies to the high-profile, jet-set gallery owners of today. Providing anecdotal and carefully researched biographies of the prominent dealers from more than two centuries of trade, author Malcolm Goldstein shows how magnanimous personalities and social networking helped to shape the way Americans have bought and valued art. These dealers range from Michael Paff, whose enthusiasm often overshadowed his expertise but nonetheless helped him sell faux Old Master paintings to major collectors in the early nineteenth century; to the imperious Joseph Duveen, dealer to magnates like Henry Clay Frick; to visionary Leo Castelli, who helped to usher in a revolution in modern art during the 1960s by showing such avant-garde artists as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. Goldstein also shows that the American art trade, while male-dominated, has been galvanized by female dealers, including the inimitable Edith Gregor Halpert, Peggy Guggenheim, and Mary Boone. Their fascinating stories unfold in the context of world art history, the rise of major art institutions like the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum, and the growing zeal of art collectors who would eventually pay millions for individual works of art.
Unprecedented and critical to understanding today's art world, Landscape with Figures is a must for artists, art history students, and art lovers. [via]More editions of Landscape with Figures : A History of Art Dealing in the United States:
Look! Zoom in on Art: Zoom in on Artby Gillian WolfeISBN 0195219120 (0-19-521912-0)
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Roma GillISBN 0198321465 (0-19-832146-5)
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The Marble Faunby Nathaniel Hawthorne, Susan ManningISBN 0192839764 (0-19-283976-4)
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Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society. [via]More editions of The Marble Faun:
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The Masterpieceby Emile Zola, Thomas WaltonISBN 0192839632 (0-19-283963-2)
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The Masterpieceby Thomas Walton, Emile Zola, Roger PearsonISBN 0192829068 (0-19-282906-8)
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Modern Art: A Very Short Introductionby David CottingtonISBN 0192803646 (0-19-280364-6)
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More Joy of Photographyby Eastman Kodak CompanyISBN 0201045435 (0-201-04543-5)
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More Joy of Photographyby KodakISBN 0201045443 (0-201-04544-3)
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On the Aesthetic Education of Manby Friedrich Schiller, Elizabeth M. Wilkinson, L. A. WilloughbyISBN 019815786X (0-19-815786-X)
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Other Criteria: Confrontations With Twentieth-Century Artby Leo SteinbergISBN 019501846X (0-19-501846-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Other Criteria: Confrontations With Twentieth-Century Art'Book summary:[via]Leo Steinbergs classic Other Criteria comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public and the flatbed picture plane to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The latter, which Francine du Plessix Gray called a tour de force of critical method, is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of the Johnss work ever written. This edition includes a new preface and a handful of additional illustrations.
The art book of the year, if not of the decade and possibly of the century. . . .The significance of this volume lies not so much in the quality of its insightsalthough the quality is very high and the insights are importantas in the richness, precision, and elegance of its style. . . . A meeting with the mind of Leo Steinberg is one of the most enlightening experiences that contemporary criticism affords.Alfred Frankenstein, Art News
Not only one of the most lucid and independent minds among art critics, but a profound one. Robert MotherwellMore editions of Other Criteria: Confrontations With Twentieth-Century Art:
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Artby Harold OsborneISBN 0192820761 (0-19-282076-1)
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The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic Worldby Jasper Griffin, John Boardman, Oswyn MurrayISBN 0192852477 (0-19-285247-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World'Book summary:From the epic poems of Homer through the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical world established the foundations of our culture as well as many of its most enduring achievements. Now available in a smaller, more convenient format, the astonishingly in-depth and widely praised Oxford History of the Classical World offers the general reader the definitive companion to the Graeco-Roman world.
The first volume, Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World, covers the period from the eighth to the first centuries B.C., a period unparalleled in history for its brilliance in literature, philosophy, and the visual arts. It also treats the Hellenization of the Middle East by the monarchies established in the area conquested by Alexander the Great.
The second volume, Classical Rome, covers early Rome and Italy, the expansion of the Roman republic, the foundation of the Roman Empire by Augustus, its consolidation in the first two centuries A.D., and the later Empire and its influence on Western civilization.
The editors, John Boardman, Jasper Griffen, and Oswyn Murray--all eminent classicists--intersperse chapters on political and social history with sections on literature, philosophy, and the arts, and reinforce the historical framework with maps and historical charts. The two volumes also offer bibliographies and a full index, as well as black and white photographs integrated into the text.
The contributors--thirty of the world's leading scholars--present the latest in modern scholarship through masterpieces of wit, brevity, and style. While concentrating on the aspects essential to the understanding of each period, they also focus on those elements of the classical world that remain of lasting importance and interest to readers today. Together, these volumes provide both a provocative and entertaining window into our classical heritage. [via]More editions of The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World:
The Oxford History of the Classical Worldby John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn MurrayISBN 019814380X (0-19-814380-X)
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The Oxford History of the Classical Worldby Oswyn Murray, John Boardman, Jasper GriffinISBN 0198721129 (0-19-872112-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford History of the Classical World'Book summary:This overview of ancient European history is divided into three roughly equal parts on Greece, Greece and Rome, and Rome, an organizational scheme that underscores the historical progression by which the Greek city-states forged empires that the Romans would later inherit. Within this broad outline, authors Oswyn Murray, John Boardman, and Jasper Griffin, all distinguished Oxford University scholars, outline patterns of trade and colonization, look at the rise of philosophical schools and religions, and examine key works of literature. Oxford History of the Classical World, heavily illustrated with photographs and maps, is a fine reference, complete with compact chronologies. [via]
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The Oxford History of the Classical World Vol. 2 : The Roman Worldby John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn MurrayISBN 0192821660 (0-19-282166-0)
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Paradise Lostby John Milton, Stephen Orgel, Jonathan GoldbergISBN 0192833197 (0-19-283319-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise Lost'Book summary:Paradise Lost is the great epic poem of the English language, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle ranges across heaven, hell, and earth, as Satan and his band of rebel angels conspire against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, motivated by all too human temptations, but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.
This marvelous edition boasts an introduction by one of Milton's most famous modern admirers, the best-selling novelist Philip Pullman. Indeed, Pullman not only provides a general introduction, but also introduces each of the twelve books of the poem. In these commentaries, Pullman illuminates the power of the poem and its achievement as a story, suggests how we should read it today, and describes its influence on him and his acclaimed trilogy His Dark Materials, which takes its title from a line in the poem. His observations offer a tribute that is both personal and insightful, and his enthusiasm for Milton's language, skill, and supreme gifts as a storyteller is infectious. He encourages readers above all to experience the poem for themselves, and surrender to its enchantment.
Pullman's tremendous admiration and passion for Paradise Lost will attract a whole new generation of readers to this classic of English literature. An ideal gift, the book is beautifully produced, printed in two colors throughout, illustrated with the twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition published in 1688, with ribbon marker. [via] -
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Constructionby Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, Sara IshikawaISBN 0195019199 (0-19-501919-9)
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Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendyby J. M. Barrie, Peter HollindaleISBN 0192839292 (0-19-283929-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy'Book summary:In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living a wild and secret life with birds and fairies in the middle of London. Later Barrie let this remarkable child grow a little older and he became the boy-hero of Neverland, making his first appearance, with Wendy, Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys, in Peter and Wendy. The Peter Pan stories were Barrie's only works for children but, as their persistent popularity shows, their themes of imaginative escape continue to charm even those who long ago left Neverland. This is the first edition to include both texts in one volume and the first to a present an extensively annotated text for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. [via]
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The Philosophy of the Visual Artsby Philip AlpersonISBN 0195059751 (0-19-505975-1)
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Pictures Out of My Lifeby Pitseolak, Dorothy EberISBN 0195401913 (0-19-540191-3)
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The Portrait of a Ladyby Henry James, Nicola BradburyISBN 0192833693 (0-19-283369-3)
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Sculpture Since 1945by Andrew CauseyISBN 0192842056 (0-19-284205-6)
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Seen/ Unseen: Art, Science, And Intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble Telescopeby Martin KempISBN 0199295727 (0-19-929572-7)
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Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Realityby Siegfried KracauerISBN 0195007212 (0-19-500721-2)
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Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Lifeby John HeskettISBN 0192804448 (0-19-280444-8)
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Tragedy of Macbethby William Shakespeare, Nicholas BrookeISBN 0192834177 (0-19-283417-7)
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Treasures of Tibetan Art : The Collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Artby Barbara Lipton, Nima D. Ragnubs, Nima DorjeeISBN 0195097149 (0-19-509714-9)
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Ulyssesby James Joyce, Jeri JohnsonISBN 0192828665 (0-19-282866-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Visualizations: Illustrated Essays on Science and Artby Martin KempISBN 0198564767 (0-19-856476-7)
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When Harlem Was in Vogueby David L. LewisISBN 0195059697 (0-19-505969-7)
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William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations: A Catalogue and Study of the Plates Engraved by Blake After Designs by Other Artistsby Robert N. EssickISBN 0198173903 (0-19-817390-3)
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