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The De-definition of Art
by Harold Rosenberg
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Collier Books (Macmillan), 1973. Soft cover. Good. 216 pages, with index. First Collier Books (paperback) edition of book published the previous year. Excepting the title essay, which was a commencement address, the chapters originated as articles in the New Yorker on a variety of modern art topics, artists, and the art-viewing public. Illustrated throughout with b&w art reproductions. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, slight curl to wraps, faint foxing to top edge and a few spots elsewhere, a couple of the front-matter pages rumpled at top, binding tight and a bit stiff, pale tan stain to dedication page from laid-in newspaper clipping. Underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 30 pages and inside back cover, concentrated in an essay on Frank Stella and one on Marcuse's (and Kafka's) treatments of "art and life". The laid-in clipping, a Nov. 1972 TLS review of the book conveys with this copy.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-1139
- Title
- The De-definition of Art
- Author
- Harold Rosenberg
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Collier Books (Macmillan)
- Date Published
- 1973
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AAESTHETICS, SURREALISM, DADA, ROTHKO, MONDRIAN, VANGUARDISM, MUSEMS, MARCUSE, KAFKA, LIVING ART, FRANK STELLA, NEW YORK SCHOOL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays; Art;
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Our standard domestic shipping rate is for USPS Media Mail shipments weighing up to 2 lb. Books are packaged in bubble-pack envelopes or a cardboard box with moisture protection. International shipping rates are for packages weighing up to 2 lb (0.9 kg). Heavier or oversized items may incur a shipping surcharge, which will be stated to the buyer before finalization of the transaction. Shipping charge may be reduced on some books weighing less than 1 lb to U.S. addresses. International Priority shipping charges may be reduced on books that fit in a USPS small flat-rate box. International Standard (First-Class Package International) shipping charges may be reduced for a second or more books if the total package weight does not exceed 2 lb. Shipping speeds are estimates based on carrier delivery times and cannot be guaranteed. If your order will pass through Customs, please expect a delay. Any applicable Customs duties or brokerage fees are the responsibility of the buyer.
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Berthoff Books
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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