Rather Susan (65 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st printing (2003). Corner bumps and wear. CD sleeve has been ripped opened but CD is included. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: New. None as issued. Brand new paperback copy, purchased directly from publisher. Small bump to back bottom corner. CD is sealed in MINT condition. NO publisher's/remainder mark. We are unable to ship oversize books and multi-volume sets internationally.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Fine. 1st Edition. 1st. and only printing 1987 , Soft cover in illustrated wraps, unpaginated with color and black & white illustrations. Condition : Very Fine . Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Various Artist (illustrator). Book.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. very good(+). Illustrated in black and white. xiv, 268 pages. 8vo, brown cloth, d.w. (lightly edgeworn). Austin: University of Texas Press, (1993). Fine in a very good(+) dust wrapper. MANSHIP, Paul (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dark blue cloth, lettered in gold foil. Slightly tanned at heel of spine, otherwise as issued. Color pictorial dust jacket Near Fine, mildly sunned along spine panel and showing slight surface rubbing, now in mylar. 1st ed. 248 pp., illus. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book. …

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Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in clay cloth with b&w illustrated jacket. xiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Archaism, an international artistic phenomenon from early in the twentieth century through the 1930s, receives its first sustained analysis in this book. The distinctive formal and technical conventions of archaic art, especially Greek art, particularly affected sculptors - some frankly modernist, others staunchly conservative, and a few who, like American Paul Manship, negotiated the distance between tradition and modernity. Professor Susan Rather considers the theory, practice, and criticism of early twentieth-century sculpture in order to reveal the changing meaning and significance of the archaic in the modern world. To this end - and against the background of Manship's career - she explores such topics as the archaeological resources for archaism, the classification of the non-Western art of India as archaic, the interest of sculptors in modern dance (Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis), and the changing critical perception of archaism. Rather rejects the prevailing conception of archaism as a sterile and superficial academic style to argue its initial importance as a modernist mode of expression. The early practitioners of archaism - including Aristide Maillol, Andre Derain, and Constantin Brancusi - renounced the rhetorical excess, overrefined naturalism, and indirect techniques of late nineteenth-century sculpture in favor of nonnarrative, stylized and directly carved works, for which archaic Greek art offered an important example. Their position found implicit support in the contemporaneous theoretical writings of Emmanuel Lowy, Wilhelm Worringer, and Adolf von Hildebrand. The perceived relationship between archaic art and tradition ultimately compromised the modernist authority of archaism and made possible its absorption by academic and reactionary forces during the 1910s. By the 1920s, Paul Manship was identified with archaism, which had become an important element in the aesthetic of public sculpture of both democratic and totalitarian societies. Sculptors often employed archaizing stylizations as ends in themselves and with the intent of evoking the foundations of a classical art diminished in potency by its ubiquity and obsolescence. Such stylistic archaism was not an empty formal exercise but an urgent affirmation of traditional values under siege. Concurrently, archaism entered the mainstream of fashionable modernity as an ingredient in the popular and commercial style known as Art Deco. Both developments fueled the condemnation of archaism - and of Manship, its most visible exemplar - by the avant-garde. Rather's exploration of the critical debate over archaism, finally, illuminates the uncertain relationship to modernism on the part of many critics and highlights the problematic positions of sculpture in the modernist discourse. The first book-length study of archaism and the first critical study of Paul Manship, this work will be important reading in several fields, including American studies and twentieth-century art history. Numerous black-and-white illustrations complement the text. VG. Jacket has a little rubbing and shelfwear.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 247 Pp. Dark Blue Cloth, Gilt. Fine In Fine Jacket. First Printing.

Oversize Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book is in excellent condition, as new in every respect. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, with light scuffing, no tears. Exhibition catalog for a show held at the publisher's gallery; 247 pages with a great many color and b&w photos of sculpture throughout. The catalog for a Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition examining how American sculptors from 1900 to 1950 negotiated the competing demands of figural tradition and modernist abstraction, with essays and catalog entries on works by Manship, Lachaise, Nadelman, and others. Keywords: American Realism, Rodin Influence, Beaux Arts, Paul Manship, Gaston Lachaise, Elie Nadelman, Social Realism, WPA Sculpture, Bronze Figure, Los Angeles Museum, Figural Abstraction, 20th Century 2.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wrapper has light handling wear, remnant of mailing label on back. Pages clean, bright. Contents: Rather, Benjamin West's professional endgame and the historical conundrum of William Williams. Olson, Donald W., et al., Perfect tide, ideal moon: an unappreciated aspect of Wolfe's generalship at Québec. Forum: the Madisonian moment. Reviews. 9.0" tall; 241 pages. …

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HARD BACK. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First. 308pp 169 colour & b&w illustrations. An in-depth look at the changing status of American artists in the 18th and early 19th century This fascinating book is the first comprehensive art-historical study of what it meant to be an American artist in the 18th- and early 19th-century transatlantic world. Heavy item, may attract additional postage. Size: 280x216mm.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Book fine, dust jacket fine. dj. 1st. Includes bibliographical references and index. Illustrated.

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Condition: New. pp. 284.