Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Date: 1999. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1999. Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN 0374282013 9780374282011 [US]

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Date: 1999-10-07. Hardcover. Good. 1999. Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374282013 9780374282011 [US]

ISBN10: 0374282013, ISBN13: 9780374282011, [publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux] Hardcover First Edition Very Good/Very Good condition. First edition, first printing. No markings to the text block. No marks of personal identification or prior ownership.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 1999. Hardcover. 0374282013 . First edition. Fine in a very near fine (old sale price on front flap) dust jacket. . 1999. Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374282013 US

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Date: 1999. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 336 pp. . 1999. Farrar Straus Giroux ISBN 0374282013 9780374282011 [US]

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Date: 1999. xi, 336 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "A new book on the nourishing powers of visual art - film, painting, dance, and clothes. Since the advent of cinema more than a hundred years ago, visual art has tended to be perceived as if it were in motion, and as the century ends, we notice that artists create less often in fresco or carved stone and more on film or tape, on the dance stage or in the ever changing, ever moving medium of clothes. In this remarkable collection of writing that ranges over art of the past century with unusual depth of historical insight, the noted critic Anne Hollander explores these rich, diverse visual treasures and the underlying themes that connect them. Feeding the Eye opens with a wonderful array of 'modern legends' - essays on celebrated figures from Balanchine to Cartier-Bresson, from Kafka to Chanel, from Isadora Duncan to Simone de Beauvoir-who have helped to define our world. Other sections of the book are devoted to the arts of dressing or decorating the human body - Hollander is particularly celebrated for her bold and original interpretations of this theme-and to classic, often misinterpreted artists of the cinema: Chaplin and Garbo, among others. Hollander concludes by asking us to consider how great paintings of the past continue, in many different ways and contexts, to startle us with 'the tonic effect ...

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