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New York: Knopf, Date: 1991. Hardcover. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. Essays on art and society, 177 pages. Red dot on bottom page edge.; 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 1991. Knopf ISBN 0394587529 9780394587523 [US]
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Alfred A. Knopf 1991 1st ed hardcover New York. 1991. March 1991. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394587529. 179 pages. hardcover. Jacket art is a portrait-'The Artist and His Mother', 1934, by Arshile Gorky. Jacket design by Archie Ferguson. keywords: Literature Essays America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-With wit and passion, Jay Cantor in this sequence of essays tackles some of the philosophical underpinnings of modern life and art. In ‘The Patriarchs, ' American leftist thought of the Sixties, nourished on Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche, meets the post-modern culture of the Eighties, raising questions that will have to be answered in the Nineties. (How can we defeat post-modern irony, post-modern despair? Will we participate in reshaping ourselves or be designed by others? ) The title essay, ‘On Giving Birth to One's Own Mother, ' looks at Arshile Gorky painting and repainting a portrait of his mother and himself and explores the ways in which the artist transforms the loss of those he loves into art-to remake himself and to overcome his sadness. The collection includes, as well, essays on contemporary film (can we again make movies that we will want to splice into our personalities? ); on making history into fiction (can we tell the story in a way that will change the shape of the future? ); on Afro-American jazz, and how its inspired conversation between voices can serve as a model for a new, democratic post-modernism; on great popular art (Krazy Kat) an ...
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New York. 1991. March 1991. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394587529. 179 pages. hardcover. Jacket art is a portrait - 'The Artist and His Mother', 1934, by Arshile Gorky. Jacket design by Archie Ferguson. keywords: Literature Essays America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - With wit and passion, Jay Cantor in this sequence of essays tackles some of the philosophical underpinnings of modern life and art. In ‘The Patriarchs,' American leftist thought of the Sixties, nourished on Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche, meets the post-modern culture of the Eighties, raising questions that will have to be answered in the Nineties. (How can we defeat post-modern irony, post-modern despair? Will we participate in reshaping ourselves or be designed by others?) The title essay, ‘On Giving Birth to One's Own Mother,' looks at Arshile Gorky painting and repainting a portrait of his mother and himself and explores the ways in which the artist transforms the loss of those he loves into art - to remake himself and to overcome his sadness. The collection includes, as well, essays on contemporary film (can we again make movies that we will want to splice into our personalities?); on making history into fiction (can we tell the story in a way that will change the shape of the future?); on Afro-American jazz, and how its inspired conversation between voices can serve as a model for a new, democratic post-modernism; on great popular art (Krazy Kat) and the endles ...
ISBN10: 0394587529, ISBN13: 9780394587523, [publisher: Knopf] Hardcover First Edition New York. 1991. March 1991. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0394587529. 179 pages. hardcover. Jacket art is a portrait - 'The Artist and His Mother', 1934, by Arshile Gorky. Jacket design by Archie Ferguson. keywords: Literature Essays America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - With wit and passion, Jay Cantor in this sequence of essays tackles some of the philosophical underpinnings of modern life and art. In The Patriarchs,' American leftist thought of the Sixties, nourished on Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche, meets the post-modern culture of the Eighties, raising questions that will have to be answered in the Nineties. (How can we defeat post-modern irony, post-modern despair? Will we participate in reshaping ourselves or be designed by others?) The title essay, On Giving Birth to One's Own Mother,' looks at Arshile Gorky painting and repainting a portrait of his mother and himself and explores the ways in which the artist transforms the loss of those he loves into art - to remake himself and to overcome his sadness. The collection includes, as well, essays on contemporary film (can we again make movies that we will want to splice into our personalities?); on making history into fiction (can we tell the story in a way that will change the shape of the future?); on Afro-American jazz, and how its inspired conversation between voices can serve as a ...
ISBN10: 0394587529, ISBN13: 9780394587523, [publisher: Distributed by Random House, New York] Hardcover First Edition [Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
New York, NY Alfred A. Knopf 1991 Hard cover Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 177 p. Audience: General/trade. 177pp. Extremities lightly rubbed & faded. Dj covers rubbed & lightly soiled.
New York Knopf 1991 Stated First Edition Hardcover Fine in fine jacket Essays on Art and Society. 8vo. Quarter light blue cloth over light blue boards, with silver spine titles, and silver author's name on cover. Red top-stain. 177 pages. No names or marks. In illustrated dust-jacket, with price intact.
New York: Knopf, Date: 1991. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Quarter light blue cloth over light blue boards, with silver spine titles, and silver author's name on cover. Red top-stain. 177 pages. No names or marks. In illustrated dust-jacket, with price intact. 1991. Knopf ISBN 0394587529 9780394587523 [US]
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ISBN10: 0394587529, ISBN13: 9780394587523, [publisher: Knopf] Hardcover Essays on Art and Society. 1st ed. NY (Knopf) 1991. Fine in dust wrapper. [St Louis, MO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Date: 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Top edge of spine slightly bumped. Pages clean. Light shelf rubbing to dustwrapper Otherwise nice condition. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. 1991. Alfred A. Knopf ISBN 0394587529 9780394587523 [US]
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