Allan armstrong hunter (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12 mo. (20 cm.) ix, 1-150p. Brown cloth with blue letters on the spine. Just touches of wear to extremities, cloth clean, tiny spot on front cover, gift inscription on front free endpaper, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Writing at the outbreak of WW II, which was darkness, Hunter had an experience of seeing the light/Light glistening off the leaves of the trees. In the Foreword he asks, "Do we not, with a sensitiveness denied to plants and trees, have it in us to say Yes to the Light? This Light permits us to cherish darkness in our wills, but it ever expanding and integrating life. We cannot argue it out of or into existence. Nor can we exhaust its meaning with words. What confronts us is the Light in Whom is no darkness at all or fever of time. It is adequate and can afford to wait, till every man, answering what may be his deepest desire, gives a positive answer and becomes new." A book for our own troubled time as well! Allan Armstrong Hunter [1893-1962] was also the author of THE AUDACITY OF FAITH (1949) and CHRISTIANS IN THE ARENA (1958). A Canadian by birth, Hunter moved to the United States where he was educated at Princeton Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church and in 1926 began a long and notable ministry at Mt. Hollywood Congregational Church in Los Angeles. His papers reside at USC. …

Unknown. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

72 pp.; 28 x 21.5 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; September/October 1979 issue of Journal. Edited by Bridget Johnson and Debra Burchett. Contents include: "Thoughts on the Last Ten Light Years," by Deborah Irmus; "An Interview with Leland Rice," by Dinah Portner; "Judy Fiskin's Photographs," by Richard Armstrong; "Broken Mirrors and Dirty Windows," by James Hugunin; "Jo Ann Callis: Between Eroticism and Morbidity," David Fahey; "Some Thoughts About Women's Photographs," by Sandra Matthews; "Fables, Grids and Swimming Pools: Phototexts in Perspective," by Robert C. Morgan; "Two (Four) Views of Niagara," by Alan Sondheim; "The Photograph and the Photographed," by Frances Colpitt; "The Photograph as Nonsufficient Datum: A Conversation with Allan Kaprow," by Robert C. Morgan; "On Art Writing/Part II: A Conceptual Criticism," by Clair Wolfe; "Dennis Hopper's Lost Movie," by David James; "Despair, Sobriety, Sachlichkeit," by Sanda Agalidi; "A Cautionary Note," by Howard Singerman; "The Materialist Art Object," by Louise Lewis; "Maria Nordman," by Melinda Wortz; "Touch Don't Touch Don't Touch Now Don't," by Hunter Drohojowska and "Proposal for QUBE," by Peter D'Agostino. Cover by Leland Rice, featuring a photograph of work in Peter Lodato's Studio. Good / Very Good. Dust soiling and yellowing of covers with foxing along cover edges and light fingerprint soiling. Light handling wear and edge-wear. Contents clean and unmarked.…