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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1982
ISBN 10: 0807609560ISBN 13: 9780807609569
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Toby Withers, a sensitive epileptic boy, grows up in a New Zealand town and trys to find his place in society.
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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1994
ISBN 10: 0807613568ISBN 13: 9780807613566
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. This fourth volume of Professor Meyer Schapiro's Selected Papers contains his most important writings - some well-known and others previously unpublished - on the theory and philosophy of art. Schapiro's highly lucid arguments, graceful prose, and extraordinary erudition guide readers through a rich variety of fields and issues: the roles in society of the artist and art, of the critic and criticism; the relationships between patron and artist, psychoanalysis and art, and philosophy and art. Adapting critical methods from such wide-ranging fields as anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, biology, and other sciences, Schapiro appraises fundamental semantic terms such as "organic style, " "pictorial style," "field and vehicle, " and "form and content"; he elucidates eclipsed intent in a well-known text by Freud on Leonardo da Vinci, in another by Heidegger on Vincent van Gogh. He reflects on the critical methodology of Bernard Berenson, and on the social philosophy of art in the writings of both Diderot and the nineteenth century French artist/historian Eugene Fromentin. Throughout all of his writings, Meyer Schapiro provides us with a means of ordering our past that is reasoned and passionate, methodical and inventive. In so doing, he revitalizes our faith in the unsurpassed importance of both critical thinking and creative independence.
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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 2003
ISBN 10: 0807615277ISBN 13: 9780807615270
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Over 200,000 copies sold in all editions. A new edition of Ron Glasser's classic account of the Vietnam War. 365 Days stands not only as a compelling account of this tragic conflict, but as a powerful antiwar statement. Nothing speaks so convincingly against the evils of war as the evils themselves. In this gripping account of the human cost of the Vietnam War, Ron Glasser offers an unparalleled description of the horror endured daily by those on the front lines. "The stories I have tried to tell here are true," says Glasser in his foreword. "Those that happened in Japan I was part of; the rest are from the boys I met. I would have liked to disbelieve some of them, and at first I did, but I was there long enough to hear the same stories again and again, and then to see part of it myself." Assigned to Zama, an Army hospital in Japan in September 1968, Glasser arrived as a pediatrician in the U.S. Army Medical Corps to care for the children of officers and high-ranking government officials. The hospital's main mission, however, was to support the war and care for the wounded. At Zama, an average of six to eight thousand patients were attended to per month, and the death and suffering were staggering. The soldiers counted their days by the length of their tourone year, or 365 daysand they knew, down to the day, how much time they had left. Glasser tells their storiesof lives shockingly interrupted by the tragedies of warwith moving, humane eloquence.
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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1969
ISBN 10: 0807605204ISBN 13: 9780807605202
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Although we face unique urban problems in our day, many of the strengths and weaknesses of our present cities have been inherited directly from the nineteenth century. Much has been written about the impact of the industrial revolution on urban centers, so Francoise Choay is inevitably dealing with many familiar issues in this book. Her analysis of nineteenth-century theory and practice with respect to the regularization and planning of cities has, however, a novelty about it which should permit us to see the accomplishments and frustrations of that century in a different light than usual.
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1978
ISBN 10: 0807608939ISBN 13: 9780807608937
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Examines icons of Christ, the Blessed Virgin, the great Church feasts, and the Saints and their lives, noting the ideological and theological changes that led to the acceptability of icon worship, especially in the Orthodox Church.
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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 2005
ISBN 10: 0807615544ISBN 13: 9780807615546
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A collection of five stories portraying Arab life in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, and Iraq today.
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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1993
ISBN 10: 0807613304ISBN 13: 9780807613306
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A Toute Epreuve is one of the finest artist's books of the twentieth century and the most ambitious creation of renowned Surrealist Joan Miro (1893-1983). After having published a facsimile of this extraordinary work in 1987, we are proud to offer it this year in paperback at an affordable price.For over ten years, Miro, the Spanish artist, and Paul Eluard, whose text was inspired by Catalan Spain, worked together to create a unique book: in their own words, a masterpiece of "Plastic harmony." Printed in pure, dazzling colors, Miro's characteristic amorphous forms invite the viewer to skip from text to imagery almost interchangeably, giving marvelous new life and meaning to Eluard's poetry as well as creating a book that is in itself a sculptural entity. Its title roughly translatable as "Ready for Anything," A Toute Epreuve achieves Miro's own ambition for the project, stated in 1948: "I hope to create something sensational.".
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1981
ISBN 10: 0807610224ISBN 13: 9780807610220
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Gathers etchings, linoleum cuts, monotypes, lithographs, aquatints, and book illustrations created by the French Impressionist.
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1979
ISBN 10: 0807609277ISBN 13: 9780807609279
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Applies ideas drawn from the history of secular life, judicial and political history, social customs, religious psychology, linguistics, and folklore to works of art spanning the period from the end of antiquity to the late Middle Ages.
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1989
ISBN 10: 0807612146ISBN 13: 9780807612149
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. The triumphs and tragedies of Guma, a poor sailor, and Livia, the woman he loves, mirror the mysteries, passions, and dreams of life itself, in a story in Bahia, Brazil in the early 1930s.
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1988
ISBN 10: 0807611948ISBN 13: 9780807611944
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by Tambo, Oliver.
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1989
ISBN 10: 0807612227ISBN 13: 9780807612224
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by STRACHEY, Lionel (Translator).
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1996
ISBN 10: 080761405XISBN 13: 9780807614051
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Celtic goddesses presided over war, nature, animals, healing and fertility. Considerable recent interest has been focused on the role of goddesses in ancient societies, though not always with a clear eye on the actual source material. This book, written by one of the leading scholars of Celtic myth and religion, examines the significance of the female in Celtic belief and ritual as expressed in surviving archaeological remains and written sources.Divine and semi-divine females abound in Welsh and Irish myths, often associated with themes of virginity and sexuality, promiscuity and destruction. The concept of partnership is a prominent aspect of Celtic religion and myth, and it is possible to trace evidence of the divine marriage in both European iconography and Irish myth. Interestingly, the female is sometimes the dominant partner.Terrifying battle goddesses were invoked in times of war, often believed to change into raven-form as harbingers of death. A Mother Goddess was venerated, often in triple form, and supplicated for fertility of animals and crops. Goddesses were often linked with animals: birds, dogs, bears, pigs and snakes all had their divine protectresses. The great Celtic horse-goddess Epona even had a Roman festival dedicated to her. The transition from polytheistic paganism to monotheistic Christianity in the Celtic west is examined in a final chapter.
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1980
ISBN 10: 0807609536ISBN 13: 9780807609538
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The authors spell out the major themes, techniques, and functions of sculpture, ranging from the traditional to Rodin.
Published by Brand: George Braziller, Inc., 1989
ISBN 10: 0807612200ISBN 13: 9780807612200
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Softcover. Condition: Good. One of the most successful art books of all time is now available in paperback for the first time. In their now-classic texts, Longnon and Cazelles recount the history of this work from its inception up until modern times. 139 color plates.
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1978
ISBN 10: 0807608920ISBN 13: 9780807608920
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Examines icons of Christ, the Blessed Virgin, the great Church feasts, and the Saints and their lives, noting the ideological and theological changes that led to the acceptability of icon worship, especially in the Orthodox Church.
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1982
ISBN 10: 0807609579ISBN 13: 9780807609576
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Paperback reprint ed. Written with unsparing precision and astounding immediacy, Faces in the Water takes the reader behind the walls of two hospitals--Cliffhaven and Treecroft--and into the hearts and minds of its confused and tormented patients. The experience of insanity and "the utter, the naked precariousness of existence" is conveyed with extraordinary insight and poetic brilliance.
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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1975
ISBN 10: 0807608076ISBN 13: 9780807608074
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Chagall's celebrated stained-glass windows symbolizing the twelve tribes of ancient Israel are reproduced and presented together with notes on their historical meanings and artistic creation and significance.
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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1981
ISBN 10: 0807609986ISBN 13: 9780807609989
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Lottman, Herbert R.
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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1990
ISBN 10: 0807612456ISBN 13: 9780807612453
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. From Library JournalIn Emecheta's latest novel, complex societal, moral, and emotional issues are played out through the life of young Gwendolen Brillianton. We meet her at age six in a Jamaican mountain village as her father emigrates to London and say good-bye at a triumphant age 16 after she's fought for survival and identity through a sequence of cruel events that include subjugation, rape, and incest. Her family's need to escape economic poverty has led to a new poverty--a moral malaise within a dissociated nuclear family. However awkward the narrative structure may appear, Emecheta is here exploring new territory. Her narrator, unlike its dispassionate Western counterpart, takes an active role by commenting on events and stating opinions--a practice evolving out of the oral tradition of the African griot that is also reminiscent of the Greek chorus in Western literary tradition. A native of Nigeria who has lived in England since 1962, Emecheta is the author of several novels, including The Rape of Shavi ( LJ 3/1/85). Her newest is a fine addition to any library.- Veronica Mitchell, New YorkCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.Product DescriptionBy the time she leaves Jamaica to join her family in London, Gwendolen feels alienated both from them and her culture, by the curses of poverty, illiteracy, and rape.
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 2005
ISBN 10: 080761551XISBN 13: 9780807615515
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A collection of five stories portraying Arab life in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, and Iraq today.
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1976
ISBN 10: 0807608114ISBN 13: 9780807608111
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. A critical biography of the great Swiss psychologist, examining his visionary and demagogic powers, the development and torments of his personality, and his thought, and viewing him as an exemplary figure, if not a prophetic, of his age.
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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1991
ISBN 10: 0807612677ISBN 13: 9780807612675
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Explains the background of the conflict between Catholics and Jews concerning the convent.
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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1981
ISBN 10: 0807610097ISBN 13: 9780807610091
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Davies's astonishing chronicle of his attempt, at age fifty, to find a wife reveals, with honesty and candor, how the noted British poet searched for the right partner in the streets of London at the close of World War I.
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1991
ISBN 10: 0807612634ISBN 13: 9780807612637
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. A novel of survival in South Africa of the 1950s and 1960s relates the story of Jezile, a young woman determined to plot the course of her own life, but caught up in the restriction of traditional values and the racist policies of apartheid.
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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1978
ISBN 10: 0807608785ISBN 13: 9780807608784
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. English, French (translation).
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1979
ISBN 10: 0807609005ISBN 13: 9780807609002
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Rebelling against strict social conventions, Ocampo fought for women's rights in Argentina, opposed the Peron regime, and, through her literary review, introduced South Americans to European and Northern American writers.
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Published by Brand: George Braziller, 2003
ISBN 10: 0807615269ISBN 13: 9780807615263
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hans Hofmann's art "has the authority of pure vision. Van Gogh had that. Picasso has it. And Hans Hofmann also has a place with those giants who move straight into the light without being blinded by it."Tennessee Williams, 1949 The painter Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) is one of the most important figures in post-war American art. In his lifetime, he came to be admired for his exuberant, color-filled canvases, but it was as an influential teacher, first in his native Germany, later in New York and Provincetown, that he was most renowned. Today, he is celebrated a giant of twentieth-century abstraction, and his pivotal role, along with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Arshile Gorky, in the development of Abstract Expressionism is widely acknowledged. Published to accompany a retrospective of the artist's work at the Naples Museum of Art, Florida, Hans Hofmann examines the full range of his achievement and influence as both artist and theorist. As a painter, Hofmann was distinguished by his ability to create expressive drama and evocative space with contrasts of intense color, richly modulated surfaces, and a vocabulary of shapes ranging from the geometric to the calligraphic. As a teacher, he brought to America first-hand knowledge of the work of such European modernists as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, who he met as a young man studying in Paris, during the early years of twentieth-century modernism. As a theorist, he developed an original philosophy of what a work of art could be, which formed the basis of his teaching, lectures, and essays. One of these statements, about the role of color in painting, is included in Hans Hofmann. More than sixty paintings highlight key stages of Hofmann's career, with a generous representation of works from the late flowering of his last decades, when he produced many of his most inventive pictures. 63 illustrations in color, 10 in black and white.
Published by Brand: George Braziller Inc, 1991
ISBN 10: 0807612723ISBN 13: 9780807612729
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Frame hastily submitted a sheaf of poems to her American publisher Braziller in the sixties, producing the only volume of poetry published in her lifetime, "The Pocket Mirror."
Published by Brand: George Braziller, 1995
ISBN 10: 0807613703ISBN 13: 9780807613702
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Softcover. Condition: Good. In "On the Humanity of Abstract Painting," Schapiro systematically dismantles the criticism of abstraction as cold, detached, and inartistic. Instead, he proves that this art form is capable of great expressive and intellectual power, endowed with lyricism and grace. He proposes new ways of viewing and thinking about abstraction, in the end establishes it as "an obvious and necessary enrichment of our lives."With "Mondrian: Order and Randomness in Abstract Painting," Schapiro analyses many of the painter's most important works, from The Red Mill to Broadway Boogie-Woogie. He articulates the subtleties of Mondrian's formal strategies and his innate lyricism. He proceeds to map Mondrian's relation to his predecessors, and shows that this archetypal abstractionist was in fact indebted to the formal compositional strategies of such leading late nineteenth century artists as Degas, Monet, Seurat, and Toulouse-Lautrec.
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