Time's Thievish Progress - Hardcover

Time's Thievish Progress: Autobiography III

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine: Signs of shelf wear to the original dust jacket (tears, creasing, marks), though protected now by a plastic slipcover. Blue cloth binding and silver lettering/borders along the spine remains mint. Dust marks to the top of the text block, but otherwise clean. Good page edges. Internally, pages remain clean and tightly bound - unread. First edition, 1970. This unique copy features a hand-written inscription between two Colins Wilsons (architect and author), as well as the author's congratulations and wishes. Time's Thievish Progress is John Rothenstein's reflective memoir and cultural meditation, charting his life in the arts as a critic, curator, and director of major British institutions. Moving between personal recollection and broader observation, Rothenstein writes about artists he knew, exhibitions he shaped, and the gradual transformations of taste, institutions, and cultural values over the twentieth century. Elegant and thoughtful, the book explores how time alters both art and the people devoted to it, blending autobiography with a quietly philosophical view of cultural memory and change. Signed by Author(s). Artikel-Nr. 823nerE

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