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This distinguished series presents selections from the greatest national collection of American art, offering popularly priced, high-quality reproductions coupled with lively, informative text. This anthology offers incisive reflections on beauty by eminent artists, critics, and literati who help redefine it for a new generation of creative thinkers.
| ISBN | 1880559900 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9781880559901
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | Allworth Press,U.S. | | Weight (grammes) | 721 | | Imprint | Allworth Press,U.S. | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 235 | | Publication date | 01 Apr 1998 | | Width (mm) | 163 | | Library of Congress | BH201.U53 | | Spine width (mm) | 30 | | DEWEY | 701.17 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Introduction: Generosity and the Black Swan by Bill Beckley | | | | | | Preface by David Shapiro | | | | | | Le Livre est sur la table by John Ashbery | | | | | | On Perfection, Coherence, and Unity of Form and Content by Meyer Schapiro | | 3 | | | | Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty by Dave Hickey | | 15 | | | | Beauty and Morality by Arthur C. Danto | | 25 | | | | Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe | | 39 | | | | Notes on Beauty by Peter Schjeldahl | | 53 | | | | Contratemplates by Marjorie Welish | | 61 | | | | A Sign of Beauty by Robert C. Morgan | | 75 | | | | On Platonic Cosmetics by Jacqueline Lichtenstein | | 83 | | | | Freud with Kant? The Enigma of Pleasure by Hubert Damisch | | 101 | | | | Arousal by Image by David Freedberg | | 113 | | | | Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: "Primitivism" in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984 by Thomas McEvilley | | 149 | | | | On "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: 'Primitivism' in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984" by William Rubin and Kirk Varnedoe and Thomas McEvilley | | 167 | | | | On "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief": Part II by William Rubin and Thomas McEvilley | | 201 | | | | On the Claims and Critics of the "Primitivism" Show by Kirk Varnedoe | | 241 | | | | The Practice of Beauty by James Hillman | | 261 | | | | Ode to Willem de Kooning by Frank O'Hara | | 275 | | | | Venus Unveiled: De Kooning's Melodrama of Vulgarity by Donald Kuspit | | 279 | | | | The Mind and Body of the Dreamer by John Yau | | 297 | | | | Mondrian's Secret by David Shapiro | | 307 | | | | A Conversation between Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici by Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici | | 325 | | | More... | | |
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