Phyllis Beryl (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages. Kathleen Adams "'Dear Cara's: A New George Eliot Letter" / Phyllis Weliver "Music as a Sign in Daniel Deronda" / Katrina Ruth "The Imaginary Vision In Adam Bede" / David Clifford "The Dead Hand in Middlemarch" (SL#106).

Wraps. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. First Edition. Small chips and tears, otherwise a pretty nice copy of this fragile, newsprint publication devoted to video as art and political medium.

Condition: Good. George G. Harrap and Company, Ltd.; London, 1942. Hardcover. First Publication. Ex-Library. Good, green cloth binding with rubbed white lettering on front board, binding sturdy and intact, some wear to spine edges, small abrasions to board corners, some shelf wear and handling marks, starting front hinge, some sunning to text block edges and pages, trace scattered foxing top text block, some discoloration to pastedowns/endpapers, sticker residue front board, usual library markings include: library stamp bottom front board, library sticker front pastedown, embossed library stamp title page, number sticker and pencil call number on copyright page, blue ink number stamp bottom page 3, two library stickers verso rear free endpaper, library due date card pocket rear pastedown, without Dust wrapper. 4to[quarto or approx. 9.5 x 12 inches], 16pp., illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

Soft cover. Condition: New. PHOTO AND VIDEO OF PAGES TAKEN TO SHOW CONDITION PRIOR TO SHIPPING; Photos of book emailed upon request; Book. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. PHOTO AND VIDEO OF PAGES TAKEN TO SHOW CONDITION PRIOR TO SHIPPING; Photos of book emailed upon request; Book. Book.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Periodical. Cover photo by Julie Katz and Tom DeWitt. Folio. Quarter-fold newsprint in blue ink. Tiny nicks and light toning at the edges, very good. A journal started by Beryl Korot, Phyllis Gershuny, and Ira Schneider in 1970 (soon after low-cost portable video equipment became available) "as a service to alternate television people". The journal ran for 11 issues and dealt with videos and other technologies as a tool for social change and making people familiar with the technologies that are controlling their lives. Includes an article on cable TV and the electromagnetic spectrum, containing charts, text, and interviews, along with "A Short History of the Laser," "The Potential Impact of the Laser on the Video Medium," "What is Television?" "Television as Town Meeting," "Alternatives for Alternative Media - People's Video Theatre Handbook," and more. One of the only periodicals devoted to video in the early 70s.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Periodical. Cover photo by Julie Katz and Tom DeWitt. Folio. Quarter-fold newsprint in blue ink. Small stamps and short tear on front wrap, chip on the spine, very good. A journal started by Beryl Korot, Phyllis Gershuny, and Ira Schneider in 1970 (soon after low-cost portable video equipment became available) "as a service to alternate television people". The journal ran for 11 issues and dealt with videos and other technologies as a tool for social change and making people familiar with the technologies that are controlling their lives. Contains an article on cable TV and the electromagnetic spectrum, containing charts, text, and interviews. Additional articles include: "A Short History of the Laser," "The Potential Impact of the Laser on the Video Medium," "What is Television?" "Television as Town Meeting," "Alternatives for Alternative Media - People's Video Theatre Handbook," and more. One of the only periodicals devoted to video in the early 70s.

Raindance Corporation 1970 broadsheet. 22 pages. clean and crisp copy. light dampstaining to rear wrap no stain, just ripples. $NRP.

New York: Raindance Corporation, 1971. Folio (folded: 36 × 30 cm, unfolded: 58 × 36 cm). Original pictorial self-wrappers; [1], 26, [1] pp. with numerous illustrations. Signs of wear; small edge tears and creases; wrappers somewhat toned; few pages with handwritten annotations; else good or better. Third issue of the "most important video journal" (Wulf Herzogenrath). Iconically, the cover of the first issue shows a computer-generated image and thus evokes the dawn of a new age in which media are no longer structured by the hierarchical relationship between sender and receiver, but by a plastic, dynamically changing network. The subtitle of the first issue already makes it clear what the New York group "Raindance Corporation" of artists, writers and video artists was all about: The establishment of an "Alternate Television Movement". And the editorial of the first issue states that the aim would be to "design and implement alternate information structures which transcend and reconfigure the existing ones." The lead article in the third number was Paul Ryan's essay "Cybernetic guerrilla warfare". Contrary to what the title might initially suggest, Ryan is not interested in a cybernetic guerrilla war. "Nobody with any wisdom is looking for a straight out fight. We have come to understand that in fighting you too easily become what you behold." Instead, Ryan thinks about how social consciousness could change as a result of the findings of cybernetics. The concept of feedback is crucial for Ryan. Networking and free exchange, in which there is no longer a distinction between active sender and passive receiver, is intended to set deadlocked structures in motion. Ryan sees the portable video camera as the "weapon" in this "guerrilla war", which is supposed to be fundamentally different from violent, bloody acts of revolution. However, it is not just the video that is supposed to bring about change, but "What is critical is to develop an infrastructure to cable in situations where feedback and relevant access routes can he set up as part of the process." Other contributions include: Willard Van de Bogart ("Laser Light in Video Space"), Van Ftergiotis ("Dial Access Information Retrieval Systems"), Frank Gillette ("Aspects of Data"), Louis Jaffe ("Videotape versus Film"), Stuart Umpleby ("Citizen Sampling Simulations: A Method for Involving the Public in Social Planning"), Gene Youngblood ("Cathode-Ray Tube Videotronics"). The idea of the network was primarily based on a "techno-anarchist" critique of the structures of the mass media. In contrast, video was interpreted as an "egalitarian" medium that provided the individual with an affordable means of production. Thus, in addition to theoretical discussions on the ideas of thinkers such as Gregory Bateson, Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan, numerous practical contributions on video production with inexpensive camera equipment are also printed. (Cf. Alan N. Shapiro, Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction: Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism, Bielefeld: 2024, p. 330f.) As of September 2025, KVK, OCLC list only two copies in North America.