2002, ISBN: 9780822320906

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New York, NY: Tangerine Press/Scholastic, 2002. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF; strong & sound w/trace edge & shelving wear, and faint creasings to corners. Guide to the art … More...

New York, NY: Tangerine Press/Scholastic, 2002. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF; strong & sound w/trace edge & shelving wear, and faint creasings to corners. Guide to the art of Manga (manhua, in Chinese), comics or graphic novels --- a genre that filled the void at a moment of low, or non-existent, literacy rates, flourishing in the 19th century to become a modern day favorite medium. 64 pgs. 6 chapters: 1, Getting Started; 2, Faces; 3, Expressions; 4, Bodies; 5, Finishing Touches; and 6, Materials.. First Edition, First Thus. Paperback. NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Illus. by Katy Coope (Author-Illustrator). First Edition, First Thus., Tangerine Press/Scholastic, 2002, New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1994. Book. Illus. by Chappell, Warren. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very-nice, clean copy. NO remainder marks or clippings. Two-toned boards are bright and clean. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 403 pages. Illustrated. Library Journal This wide-ranging collection indicates how deeply religious issues have affected modern writers. The stories focus on the workings of the divine in the world through miracles, epiphanies, and angels. Some stories, like Mark Twain's "The Story of the Good Little Boy" and John Steinbeck's "Saint Katy the Virgin," are satiric takes on the working of the supernatural in the natural. Others, like Eudora Welty's "A Still Moment" and Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation," reveal the mysterious ways that the divine works. Many of the pieces uncover a side to modern writers seldom seen in their major works. A welcome addition to the growing literature on angels. BookList With angels hitting the airwaves and the cover of "Time", it's not surprising that they'd be lionized literarily as well. What may prove surprising for some, however, is the fact that so many first-rate writers--Malamud, Tolstoy, García Márquez, and Cheever, among them--have elected to center tales on members of the heavenly host. Some of the angelic heroes featured here are familiar--the angel Gabriel, for example, who appears in Isaac Asimov's "Last Trump"--but others, such as African American Angel Levine in Malamud's famous story of the same name, are a distinctly more contemporary sort of angel. Editor Grey has not just limited himself to angel stories. The "Awakenings" part of the title opens the door to stories about miracles, heaven, and a sainted pig named Katy in John Steinbeck's "Saint Katy the Virgin." A satisfying anthology whose popularity should be increased by its good timing.., Doubleday, 1994, Birch Lane Press, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very-nice, clean copy of this 1993 hardback. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $19.95. Dustcover is clean - shows a 1 small, closed tears along bottom-front-edge. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Illustrated. Tight spine, clean pages. 227 pages. Blue boards with maroon spine (clean and bright). Synopsis Culture or Trash? is the first book-length critical account of the multibillion dollar industry that calls itself contemporary art. Starting where Tom Wolfe's Painted Word left off, with the birth of postmodernism, Culture or Trash? takes the reader through the follies of Soho, Los Angeles, and Cologne and provides an irreverent account of the Graffiti Art of New York's East Village scene, the terminal coolness of Neo-Geo, the rowdy chaos of Body Art. It also discusses how Chris Burden has become an admired and sought-after artist by getting himself shot at and electrocuted in two different performance pieces. And it describes the fascinating new market for "Outsider Art," where works by murderers and the mentally ill sell for more than those of the Old Masters. Culture or Trash? explains how the art market works, what the reigning critical doctrines of the moment are, and how contemporary art differs from all previous artistic practice. In a highly original description of the National Endowment for the Arts controversy, this book explains how both artists and the right wing have profited and were delighted to keep the issue alive as long as possible. The author also provides bold predictions about the art of the future, which may be just around the corner. The first truly probing analysis devoted to contemporary art, Culture or Trash? acknowledges and celebrates the good work that is now being produced. At the same time, it makes clear that, all too often, people who write about contemporary art stand to profit by it. Criticism has been reduced to ad copy for galleries. Indeed, in no other field could you find such a rosy unanimity of acclaim - until now.., Birch Lane Press, 1993, Duke University Press Books. PAPERBACK. 0822320908 1998. Paper covers; light shelf wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 189 pages. . Fine., Duke University Press Books<

ISBN: 0822320908

In "Empty Moments," Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as "drift"--the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of a… More...

In "Empty Moments," Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as "drift"--the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of artistic, philosophical, and scientific interrogations of the experience of time, Charney presents cinema as the emblem of modern culture's preoccupation with the reproduction of the present." Empty Moments" creates a catalytic dialogue among those who, at the time of the invention of film, attempted to define the experience of the fleeting present. Interspersing philosophical discussions with stylistically innovative prose, Charney mingles Proust's conception of time/memory with Cubism's attempt to interpret time through perspective and Surrealism's exploration of subliminal representations of the present. Other topics include Husserl's insistence that the present can only be fantasy or fabrication and the focus on impossibility, imperfection, and loss in Kelvin's laws of thermodynamics. Ultimately, Charney's work hints at parallels among such examples, the advent and popularity of cinema, and early film theory. A book with a structural modernity of its own, "Empty Moments" will appeal to those interested in cinema and its history, as well as to other historians, philosophers, literary, and cultural scholars of modernity. arts music and photography,performing arts Performing Arts, Duke University Press<