Harry Blain (36 results)

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Condition: Good. 2017. First Edition. 80 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Cream cloth a pasted on illustration. Signed by the author with dedication to first page. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Plates are bright and clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends.…

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. From the personal library of the feminist art historian extraordinaire, Dr. Whitney Chadwick, a giant across many fields. A fine catalogue raisonne of the paintings produced by the British painter Clive Head between 1996 and 2001 but who is known for his affinities to the American Realist style. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound handsomely in original publisher's gray cloth with silver lettering stamped to front cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. 94 pp. and with full bibliography and list of exhibitions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. A sobering and eyeopening indictment that Congress has consistently been the most dangerous branch of government when it comes to protecting, and undermining, civil liberties-particularly in the wake of military conflict. Why do wartime restrictions on civil liberties outlive their original justifications? Scholars have long argued that the blame lies with the executive branch of government. Their logic is straightforward: during war, lawmakers require (in Alexander Hamilton's words) "decision, activity, secrecy, and dispatch," so they choose to enable executive leadership. Executives promise to wield extraordinary powers temporarily, only to entrench them indefinitely. This book tests how these claims hold up in four pivotal moments in US history: the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and Vietnam. Ultimately, it finds them wanting. Harry Blain argues that national legislators are decisive in sustaining postwar restrictions on civil liberties. These elected officials have formidable tools at their disposal, including powers over the rules and membership of their own institution, the funding and personnel of the executive branch, the jurisdiction of federal courts, and the priorities of state and local governments. These tools make Congress, not the executive, the primary institutional threat to civil liberties in the aftermath of war. For example, the House used its exclusion power to refuse to seat the socialist Victor Berger, disenfranchising voters in the process; Congress used its power to compel testimony during the Red Scares in an effort to discredit and humiliate their political enemies; and legislators have removed, or threatened to remove, Supreme Court jurisdiction over habeas corpus petitions throughout US history. In a time where the president and the Supreme Court are seen as the most dangerous branches of government, Legislating Against Liberties is a sober reminder that Congress has historically been at the vanguard of undermining democracy and liberty.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. A sobering and eyeopening indictment that Congress has consistently been the most dangerous branch of government when it comes to protecting, and undermining, civil liberties-particularly in the wake of military conflict. Why do wartime restrictions on civil liberties outlive their original justifications? Scholars have long argued that the blame lies with the executive branch of government. Their logic is straightforward: during war, lawmakers require (in Alexander Hamilton's words) "decision, activity, secrecy, and dispatch," so they choose to enable executive leadership. Executives promise to wield extraordinary powers temporarily, only to entrench them indefinitely. This book tests how these claims hold up in four pivotal moments in US history: the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and Vietnam. Ultimately, it finds them wanting. Harry Blain argues that national legislators are decisive in sustaining postwar restrictions on civil liberties. These elected officials have formidable tools at their disposal, including powers over the rules and membership of their own institution, the funding and personnel of the executive branch, the jurisdiction of federal courts, and the priorities of state and local governments. These tools make Congress, not the executive, the primary institutional threat to civil liberties in the aftermath of war. For example, the House used its exclusion power to refuse to seat the socialist Victor Berger, disenfranchising voters in the process; Congress used its power to compel testimony during the Red Scares in an effort to discredit and humiliate their political enemies; and legislators have removed, or threatened to remove, Supreme Court jurisdiction over habeas corpus petitions throughout US history. In a time where the president and the Supreme Court are seen as the most dangerous branches of government, Legislating Against Liberties is a sober reminder that Congress has historically been at the vanguard of undermining democracy and liberty.…

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Stiff Wrappers. Condition: Fine Condition. Unpaginated (56 pages) 22 illustrations in color. [INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST] Inscribed by the artist to the previous owner, "For Jessica, Many Thanks, London 2004, Thomas Nozkowski". Illustrated wraps. Oblong. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Haunch of Venison, London 31 March-8 May 2004. Select Biography. Inscribed by the Artist. Book.…

Condition: gut. Paul Delvaux : exhibition 2013 : Special Edition In englischer Sprache. pages.

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Hardcover, 96 pages, ENG. edition, 300 x 255 x 14 mm, NEW !, illustrated in color / b/w.,***please handle with care, book has a velvet-like cover ***. ISBN 9780984044733. Paul Delvaux, the subject of a modest exhibition at the Blain Di Donna gallery in Mayfair, was JG Ballard?s favourite painter. The writer prized him for the creation of a complete world. Ballard found that world curious and inviting. He said he could spend hours gazing at the pictures wishing he could escape into their alternate reality. Ballard was made of sterner stuff than me. The places Delvaux paints seem quiet but harsh, not much happens but they feel menacing. They are sparsely populated and lonely. On the other hand, Ballard had a point about how compelling and intriguing he made his vision. It is always either night or noon. The interiors are neo-classical apartments that belong to the European bourgeoisie from before the First World War, and they come with a full collection of Freudian indicators: locked doors, open windows, floors stripped down to the boards. The landscapes are either classical or barren and they have been emptied of all but a few people. The figures rarely interact with each other. No one speaks. The women always outnumber the men. They are thoughtful and distant, isolated but content and always utterly unapproachable. On the rare occasions they are clothed, it seems to be in the dress of the years before 1914: of Delvaux?s childhood. 900 g. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Two Hardback Volumes in slipcase; Both volumes unread and in mint condition; 1st 2008 Haunch of Venison.