Art and Act: On Causes in History--Manet, Gropius, Mondrian
by Gay, Peter
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- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0064300617
- ISBN 13
- 9780064300612
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers; Icon Editions, 1976. xv, 265 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Originated as 7 lectures delivered at Cooper Union in March and April of 1974. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear, age toning. CONTENTS: I: Introduction: dimensions of cause; 1. On overdetermination; 2. Minds in history; 3. From id to ego; II: Manet: the primacy of culture; 1. An obsession with sincerity; 2. The cutting edge of wit; 3. A stroller in Paris; III: Gropius: the imperatives of craft; 1. The cathedral of the present; 2. On individuality and collaboration; 3. The informed intuition; IV: Mondrian: the claims of privacy; 1. In solitary company; 2. The assault on nature; 3. Shapes of reticence.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.
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- Title
- Art and Act: On Causes in History--Manet, Gropius, Mondrian
- Author
- Gay, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0064300617
- ISBN 13
- 9780064300612
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers; Icon Editions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / 8. Modern, 1900-1945; Aesthetics; Movements / Realism; Movements / Abstraction; Movements / De Stijl;
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