2003, ISBN: 9780295972367

New York:: Norton,, nd [2003.]. First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) From the back cover: 'Ignac Semmelweis is remembered… More...

New York:: Norton,, nd [2003.]. First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) From the back cover: 'Ignac Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately, they also threatened the medical establishment and so undid the passionate but self-destructive Semmelweis that he failed to overturn the status quo, leaving it to later medical giants--Pasteur, Lister, and Koch--to establish conclusively the germ theory of disease.' A title in the Great Discoveries series. Bibliographical notes. 189 pp., Norton, 5, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993. xii, 270 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "Frances Colpitt chronicles the Minimal art movement of the 1960s, now thought to be the most influential artistic development of this lively decade. Maintaining the original spirit of the period - enthusiasm for innovation and a passionate commitment to intellectual inquiry - Colpitt provides an excellent documentary history that is both thorough and nonpartisan." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Process issues. New materials and techniques; Color; Monochromatic painting; "The vanishing base"; Internal issues: composition. Nonrelational composition; Figure-ground; The hegemony of shape; Systematic order; External issues: the spectator. The concept of presence; Significance of scale; Architecture and the environment; Michael Fried's theory of theatricality; The spectator's experience; Theoretical issues. Abstraction and the subversion of illusion; Reality and the condition of objecthood; "Boring" art; Interest as a value; Art or non-art: the relevance of theories; Appendix: Exhibitions and reviews, 1963-68.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., University of Washington Press, 1993, 3<

ISBN: 9780295972367

University of Washington Press. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text.… More...

University of Washington Press. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., University of Washington Press, 2.5<

ISBN: 9780295972367

Paperback. Very Good., 3