Michael Leja (153 results)

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Condition: Very Good. 2000. paperback. Very good clean copy, like new. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Text is in German and English. Binding has light wear; top of cover has erased former owner's surname; top left corner of the half-title page has a small red heart stamp; tight, text clean. 132 p., illustrated. [br 15].

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original paperback, 391 pages, index, b + w plates. Some curling along cover, page edges, corners. Ordinary reading wear. Solid reading copy. r2b1.

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193 pp.; 22.8 x 15.4 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Transcript of a symposium on Postmodernism that took place online in October 2001. Edited with an introduction by Maurice Berger. Contributions by Maurice Berger, Maxwell Anderson, Ian Berry, Dan Cameron, John Carlin, Donna De Salvo, Steve Dietz, Wendy Ewald, Ann Eden Gibson, Jennifer González, Teresa Grandes, Chrissie Iles, Caroline Jones, Kellie Jones, Mason Klein, Michael Leja, Simon Leung, Catherine Lord, Barbara Buhler Lynes, Nicholas Mirzoeff, James S. Moy, Olu Oguibe, Yvonne Rainer, Aleta M. Ringlero, Robert Rosenblum, David A. Ross, Jerry Saltz, Michele Wallace, and Jonathan Weinberg. Includes selected bibliography and participant biographies. "In October 2001, a few weeks after the tragic events of September 11, an international group of scholars, artists, and curators debated the issue of postmodernism in an online symposium on the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum website. The questions raised by the personal testimony and analysis of symposium participants about the nature of reality and representation, about the appropriateness of irony and cynicism in times of crisis, about the potential of culture to effect social change, about the limits of free expres-sion-were as important to grasping the social and cultural complexities of a wounded nation coping with the reality of September 11 as they were to a discussion of postmodernism." -- from book's back cover Fine. As New. Covers and contents clean and unmarked. …

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Condition: Good. None. 392 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w and color photographs throughout. Includes extensive bibliography. Some stains to fore edge, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 469218.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. NoNE. 3RD PRINTING. GREAT REFERENCE UNMARKED SOLID CLEAN AND CRISP NO CREASE ON SPINE A NICE COPY. PHOTOS (illustrator).

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First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 16 pages. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran May 22 through June 29, 1980. Features a preface by Carl Belz, acknowledgements and text by Michael Leja. Includes black and white illustrations of works by Charles Garabedian, Leon Golub, Red Grooms, Philip Guston, Alfred Jenson, Jess, Roger Kizik, and Lucas Samaras as well as some biographical information about each artist. An about very good copy in stapled wrappers with some light wear and a color shift to the spine and edges. …

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. A brand new copy that I acquired in its original plastic wraps. 392pp.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing (with full number line including 1). Fine in a fine dust Jacket. Cloth, xiii, 300 pages, illustrations (some color); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. A exploration of the relationship between modern art, truth, and deception, addressing American visual culture, from the art of Thomas Eakins, William Harnett, and Marcel Duchamp to such historical episodes as the trial of spirit photographer William Mumler, scientist Helen Abbott's interpretation of Monet's Impressionism, the myriad illusions featured at the Buffalo World's Fair of 1901, and William James's analysis of automatic drawing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, xiii, 300 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "If seeing ever really was a reason for believing, it surely was not in New York around 1900. The rift between appearances and truth was widening: deceptive images flourished in advertising and mass media science contradicted unaided vision the spirit world gained credibility and hucksters, frauds, and hoaxes proliferated. In Looking Askance, Michael Leja conducts a dazzling tour from fine art to mass culture and back again to chart the emergence of a new skepticism about seeing and to assess the roles played by the visual arts, both fine and commercial, in this cultural transformation. A lively exploration of the relationship between modern art, truth, and deception, Looking Askance offers a new paradigm for understanding American visual culture, from the art of Thomas Eakins, William Harnett, and Marcel Duchamp to such fascinating historical episodes as the trial of spirit photographer William Mumler, scientist Helen Abbott's interpretation of Monet's Impressionism, the myriad illusions featured at the Buffalo World's Fair of 1901, and William James's analysis of automatic drawing. Leja traces the roots of skeptical seeing in the culture of modernity and in national values of entrepreneurship, invention, competition, and unregulated marketing. This original and provocative book shows how 'looking askance' has shaped American visual culture from the mid- nineteenth century to our own time. / Michael Leja is Professor and Sewell C. Biggs Endowed Chair in American Art History at the University of Delaware and the author of Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s (1993)." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction: looking askance; Mumler's fraudulent photographs; Eakins's reality effects; Impressionism and nature's deceptions; Touching pictures by William Harnett; Buffalo's illusions; The self's deceptions; Humbugs for highbrows: Duchamp's readymades in New York. Size: 4to. Collectible.…