What doing von dean abner (16 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket.

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing dust jacket, box, or discs. Damaged item.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Includes dust jacket. dj in mylar sleeve, shows moderate wear, tear, chipping. pages clean.

hardcover. Zustand: Like New. May have light shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

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

Zustand: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (humor, cartoons) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Comme neuf.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Cartoons, Humor) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FXL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 249 x 23. Weight in Grams: 704. . 2016. Main. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. ABNER DEAN WHAT AM I DOING HERE? 1947 1ST HC DJ A BOOK OF PICTURES! Quoting from the flap of the dust jacket (although you really need to see the photos): This is, if you like completely inadequate one-line descriptions, a book of satiric drawingsWe think you will laugh at this book even though you may suspect that the hero might be on his way to an accident .your own. Please find: What Am I Doing Here? by Abner Dean. This medium-sized but relatively thin hard cover book (6 ¾ x 9 ½ inches, 160 pages) was published by Simon and Schuster of New York dated 1947 and the First Edition with the same date on title and copyright pages. It opens with a two page Prefatory Note by Clifton Fadiman. His wry take on what Abner Dean is attempting with this book will get you started, and the rest of the book is his drawings which will (or should but may not) bemuse you to the end. Condition: This book is in very good condition. The dust jacket, however, has suffered a bit with a big crease across front & back and some chips and other tears. The hard covers are clean and bright and unbumped or blemished. Inside the book is unmarked and the pages and countless drawings are clean and bright throughout. Both hinges are intact, and the binding is tight and sound. This book is not ex-library or a remainder. …

Hardcover. Second Printing. Octavo, 160 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in the publisher's beige cloth bearing black lettering to the spine. Boards have slight plus wear including light soiling and slight rubbing to the edges. Text block has moderate wear including slight age toning to the edges and slight foxing to the end papers. Illustrated. Second printing. Inscribed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column CC. 1412544. FP New Rockville Stock. Signed.…

Zustand: New. Abner Dean (1910&ndash1982) was born and lived in New York City. He spent his career working as a commercial illustrator and, starting with It&rsquos a Long Way to Heaven in 1945, published seven collections of his cartooning work, including.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. 160 pages. Illustrations. A preparatory Note by Clifton Fadiman. A Note about Abner Dean. No DJ present. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This is Dean's second book, and to some his best. The following description is from a later edition of the book: What Am I Doing Here? is a startling masterwork by one of the forgotten innovators of American comics. In 1945, after more than a decade as a commercial illustrator-drawing advertisements and cartoons for Life, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, and many other publications-Abner Dean invented a genre all his own: One might call it the Existential Gag Cartoon. He used the elegant draftsmanship and single-panel format of the standard cartoons of the day, but turned them to a deeper, stranger purpose. With an inimitable mixture of wit, earnestness, and enigmatic surrealism, Dean uses this most ephemeral of forms to explore the deepest mysteries of human existence. What Am I Doing Here?, Dean's second book and perhaps his best, depicts a world at once alien and familiar, in which everyone is naked but acts like they're clothed in a world of club-wielding commuters and byzantine inventions, secret fears and perverse satisfactions. Through it all strolls (or crawls, or floats, or stumbles) Dean's unclad Everyman, searching for love, happiness, and the answers to life's biggest questions. Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 - June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, and radio and television personality. He began his work in radio, and switched to television. Fadiman became a prime example of the "witty intellectual" type popular on television. Abner Dean (18 March 1910 - 30 June 1982), born Abner Epstein in New York City, was an American cartoonist. In allegorical or surrealist situations, Dean often depicted extremes of human behavior amid grim, decaying urban settings or barren landscapes. His artwork prompted Clifton Fadiman to comment, "His pictures are trick mirrors in which we catch sight of those absurd fragments of ourselves that we never see in the smooth glass of habit." Dean graduated from Dartmouth College in 1931, and studied at the National Academy of Design. He worked as a commercial illustrator, contributing to The New Yorker, Esquire, and other publications. His work for Life included illustrations of George Orwell's 1984 for a Life article on Orwell. His first book, It's a Long Way to Heaven had an introduction by Philip Wylie. Chris Lanier, in "Abner Dean Made This: An Appreciation," analyzed the approach Dean took in the book: The characters in these drawings are modestly sexless, but they reveal all sorts of things about themselves through their activities. Their guiding star is folly, and when they act in groups, it's always under the direction of a collective id. Some of the drawings are under the sway of a symbolism that suggests a simplified modern version of the instructive images Bosch or Bruegel composed â" there are men turning into birds, or mushrooms turning into men, and people with portentous objects affixed to their pates â" eggs, books, irons. Of course, when the rest of you is naked, even a hat becomes a portentous object: a naked man wearing a policeman's hat is not simply a man wearing a hat. But even in the most hermetic and perplexing cartoons, you feel there might be some unacknowledged part of yourself acting out its pet obsession in some corner of the diorama. At first these pictures look like gag cartoons (there's a funny drawing, and then a caption that might provide a laugh) but on closer examination they reveal themselves to be a different animal. In a gag strip, the caption usually puts the image to a full stop â" the joke has been released from the image, and so the image has been "used up" â" disposable as the burnt rind of a firecracker. With some of Dean's images, the caption can indeed provide a laugh, but the image, instead of coming to a full stop, begins to spool out in disquieting directions. But even the drawings that are closer to gags, like "Double Thinking," showing a man who has a doll doppelganger of himself strapped to his back (a woman is embracing the doppelganger, while the man himself is observing her and taking notes), are drawn with such an atmosphere of blasted loneliness that what you take away from them, more than the laugh or the cleverness, is a sense of chilly disconnect. In Heaven, Dean situates his scenes in landscapes, even when he doesn't strictly need a wider environment to sell the situation â" and most of the landscapes are barren, showing empty hills or dead cracked trees, piles of jagged rocks, horizons stretching out the promise of more nothingness. Seven more Dean collections were published over the next 16 years. As indicated by the title of his Naked People (1963), his more personal work portrayed most often unclothed people in a variety of absurdist situations, reflecting the themes of disillusionment, self-delusion, yearning and the meaninglessness of modern life. Despite this, he usually drew in a very slick, professional and cleanly drawn, even cute style. Dean's vision expressed a darkness atypical of cartoon work of his time. He has begun to accumulate a posthumous following of admirers.…