Esthetics Contemporary
by Kostelanetz, Richard; editor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0879751053
- ISBN 13
- 9780879751050
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1978. Important anthology addressing issues of esthetics raised by avant-garde arts & theory since 1959, and not well-handled by the Philosophers of the day. Authors include Moholy-Nagy, Marshall McLuhan, Morse Peckham, George Brecht, José Argüelles, Linda Nochlin, Duchamp, Dick Higgins, Jackson Pollock, Lucy Lippard, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Steve Reich, Allan Ginsberg, David Antin, Sol LeWitt, many more. Hardcover. First edition, with publisher's promotional letter laid in. Light wear to book, minor bumping to corners; jacket shows light wear, scuffs to rear flap hinge, faint stains to spine. Text clean; 444 pages; notes on the contributors, notes, bibliography.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- s0670
- Title
- Esthetics Contemporary
- Author
- Kostelanetz, Richard; editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0879751053
- ISBN 13
- 9780879751050
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books
- Place of Publication
- Buffalo
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Philosophy, Aesthetics, Art, Music, Dance, Avant-Garde, Modernism, Postmodernism, Fluxus, Criticism
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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