university of california press berkeley 1992 (25 Ergebnisse)

, Brown, Phil / Mikkelsen, Edwin J. No safe place : toxic waste, leukemia, and community action. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992, xviii, 260pp., PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's name. 9780520080430 ISBN 0520080432.

PAPERBACK, attractive copy, very good. previous owner's name in ink inside front cover. ARNHEIM, RUDOLF. To the rescue of art: twenty-six essays. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, 2d printing number line starting with 2, x, 248pp., . The provocative title of this new collection of essays was chosen by Rudolf Arnheim for good reason. He has spent a lifetime analyzing the basic psychological principles that make works of visual art meaningful, stirring, indispensable, and lasting. But recent fashionable attitudes and theories about art, he argues, are undermining the foundation of artistic achievement itself. He says that we must face the threat "that the work crew charged with erecting the edifice of our principles is infiltrated by termites." As the leading explorer of the psychology of art, Arnheim has always sought to let works of art speak for themselves. His many books have reached innumerable students, teachers, museum visitors, and theorists. The essays collected in this volume are written in his familiar, careful, and solidly supported manner, but under present circumstances they amount to a call to arms. Included is a series of miniature monographs on a variety of great works of art. In other essays, Arnheim uncovers enlightening perspectives in the art of the blind, in architectural space, in caricature, and in the work of psychotics and autistic children. He also presents new scientific aspects of the psychology of art, and he widens our range of vision by reaching out to connect art with language, literature, and religion. Anyone who prizes vital, spirited interaction with works of art will find this new volume of Arnheim essays a personal treasure. - CONTENTS: In favor of confrontation -- Art among the objects -- What became of abstraction? -- The reach of reality in the arts -- Space as image of time -- The reading of images and the images of reading -- Writers' pointers -- For your eyes only -- Seven exercises in art appreciation -- Picasso at Guernica -- Sculpture -- The nature of a medium -- Negative art in architecture -- Caricature -- The rationale of deformation -- Art history and psychology -- The melody of motion -- Perceptual aspects of art for the blind -- The artistry of psychotics -- The puzzle of Nadia's drawings -- The artist as healer -- But is it science? -- Complementarity from the outside -- Interaction -- Its costs and benefits -- What is Gestalt psychology? -- The two faces of Gestalt theory -- Beyond the double truth -- Art as religion -- In the company of the century. 9780520074590 ISBN 0520074599.

23.0 x 15.0cms 184pp b/w illusts very good+ paperback & cover This book offers an introduction to Islamic Spain between the Berger invasion of the early 8th century and the expulsion of the Moriscos in the early 17th century.

23.0 x 15.0cms 410pp fine paperback & cover These 13 essays are grouped under 4 headings: theory of culture; culture collective purpose & polity; culture inequality & life style; culture technology & work.

Williams, Linda, 1946-. Figures of desire: a theory and analysis of surrealist film. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, xvii, 229pp., PAPERBACK, dent and tear at bottom of spine, foredges soiled, otherwise very good text and binding. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Introduction -- 1. The Image -- The Image in Pre-Surrealist Poetic Theory -- The Surrealist Image -- Goudal, Artaud, and Denos in Search of the "Language" of Dreams -- Freud, Lacan, and the Unconscious -- Surrealist Film and the Imaginary -- 2. Un Chien andalou -- Jakobson's Metaphor and Metonymy: Rhetorical Figures in Film -- The Prologue to Un Chien andalou: A Surrealist Film Metaphor -- Latent Meaning -- The Meaning of the Figures -- 3. L'Age d'or -- L'Age d'or and Its Myth -- L'Age d'or: A Description of the Film -- L'Age d'or as Myth -- Interdiction and Transgression -- Diegesis and Figure -- The False Mirror -- 4. Contemporary Surrealism: Bunuel's The Phantom of Liberty and That Obscure Object of Desire -- The Phantom of Liberty -- Permutations of Freedom -- Surrealist Metonymy -- That Obscure Object of Desire -- 5. Conclusion: The Figures of Desire -- Film Fetish -- Bibliography -- Supplementary Bibliography -- Index. 9780520078963 ISBN 0520078969.

24.0 x 16.0cms 384pp b/w illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper ( sunned front cover) Pwens wrote these essays about contemporary art sexuality & power between 1976 & 1990. Thee section headings are: toward a theory of postmodernism; sexuality/power; cultures; pedagogy.

179 p. Paperback (In good condition.).

23.0 x 15.0cms 246pp b/w illusts very good paperback & cover This book captures the milieu in which the Abstract Expressionists worked argued and critiqued each other''s work from the 1930s to the 1950s.

x+248pp. 8vo. Original wrappers a little creased. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 24cm, first edition, ix,257p., index, grey cloth with brown spine titles, a fine copy in fine jacket (ds4).

22.5 x 15.0cms 230pp b/w illusts very good / very good paperback & cover Williams argues that the Surrealists loved film not because it afforded a means of creating enchanting illusions but because it provided a means of exposing the illusions of the unconscious. Scarce title.

22.5 x 15.0cms 230pp b/w illusts very good / very good paperback & cover Williams argues that the Surrealists loved film not because it afforded a means of creating enchanting illusions but because it provided a means of exposing the illusions of the unconscious. Scarce title.

ix+258pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A near fine copy. First edition.

23.0 x 15.5cms 358ppb/w & colour illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: mimesis & the book: beginnings; surrealist collaborations; the focusing of a double talent; the text as illustration; surrealism & the 19th century; illustrating the precursors; illustration & commitment; displacing the narrative; postwar achievements; beyond the book; specificity & the surrealist book.

xv+218pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper. A very good copy. . First edition.

Thick 4to. xxii, 733 pp. Numerous illus., exhaustive bibliog., index. Pictorial wrappers. FINE ISBN: 0520067274.

23.0 x 15.5cms 356pp very good+ hardback & dustwrapper This book begins with ethnic music & American band music; Italian bands & American populr music and the rise of the ethnic music business (1900-1920). It ends with ethnic music become popular music (1940-1960) and Frankie Yankovoc the polka king when polka was king.

476 p 21 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica. Estado de conservación: Como nuevo. .

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1992. 4to. Cloth under dustj. xii-187 p. With figs. and plates. New copy in shrinkwraps. isbn 0520073711.

8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip creased else a very good, clean copy.

XV,136 p.; illustrations. Paperback 23 cm 400 gr.

Zustand: Very Good. viii, 1085, b/w photos. . HB. Vg in d/w. Second edition with supplement, (first published 1960). Reprinted. Identifies 3438 species of flowering plants, ferns, and fern-allies growing in Arizona. [9780520006379].

ix + 245pp., 24cm., in the series "Hellenistic culture and society" vol.8, previous owner's name on front endpaper, hardcover (cloth), dustwrapper, VG.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. x, 353. profusely illus. (few colour). biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.

8vo. pp. xv, 218.b/w illus, index. cloth. dw.