Search Results: Criticism from Exchange Value Books

Lukas and Sternberg Inc.: New York, 2000. Softcover. Very Good. 6x4x0. [ART CRITICISM]. De Rijke, Jeroen, and Willem de Rooij. "After the Hunt." New York: Lukas and Sternberg Inc., 2000. English and German languages. Softcover. 206 pp. Text and color illustrations. Art criticism. Text clean. Very Good. ISBN: 9780967180205."Small books, big ideas. Cutting-edge publisher Lukas & Sternberg's pocket-book series spotlights some of the most intriguing international artists emerging today, with critical essays in English and German exploring the theoretical basis of their works. A growing series now featuring five titles. These Dutch artists received international recognition for their seemingly luxurious and self-reflexive 35mm films. This first comprehensive monograph discusses how Dutch painting, Minimal Art and film conventions become the backdrop for a "cinema in its decontextualized form". Essays by Vanessa J. Muller and Veit Loers. Interview by Nicolaus Schafhausen.… Read More

Sternberg Press: Berlin, DE, 2011. Softcover. Good Plus. 4x0x7. [CRITICISM]. Franco Berardi Bifo, Keti Chukhrov, Diedrich Diederichsen, Antke Engel, Liam Gillick, Tom Holert, Lars Bang Larsen, Marion von Osten, Precarious Workers Brigade, Irit Rogoff, Hito Steyerl. "Are You Working Too Much?: Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art (Sternberg Press / e-flux journal)." Berlin, DE: Sternberg Press, 2011. English language. Softcover. Text with black and white illustrations. 7 x 4.25 x 0.75 in. 18 x 11 x 2 cm. 7 oz. 212 pp. Creases in front cover and spine. Front cover splays up. Sticker on back cover. Slight yellowing. One page dog-earred. Asterisk in ink on one page. Good Plus. ISBN: 9781934105313."Let's be clear about something: it is infuriating that most interesting artists are perfectly capable of functioning in at least two or three professions that are, unlike art, respected by society in terms of compensation and general usefulness. Furthermore, when the flexibility,… Read More

Christian Brandstatter Verlag: Vienna, AT, 2006. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7x9x0. [CRITICISM]. Konstanze Fliedl, Hajo Eickhoff, Juliane Vogel, Hermann Schlosser, Reinhard Urbach, Evelyne Polt-Heinzl, Peter Huemer, Astrid Lange-Kirchheim, Elsbeth Dangel-Pellquin, Franziska Schssler, et al. "Arthur Schnitzler: Affairen und Affekte." Vienna, AT: Christian Brandstatter Verlag, 2006. German language. Hardcover in jacket. Text with full-color photos. 9.75 x 8 x 0.5 in. 25 x 20 x 2 cm. 27 oz. 159 pp. Indentation on back of jacket. Price in pencil on half-title. Text clean. Near Fine. ISBN: 9783902510587.

Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, 2020. Softcover. Very Good Plus. 5x0x8. [CULTURAL STUDIES]. Rupprecht, Caroline. "Asian Fusion: New Encounters in the Asian-German Avant-Garde (Cultural History and Literary Imagination Vol. 32)." Oxford, UK: Peter Lang, 2020. English language. Softcover. Text with black and white illustrations. 9 x 6 x 0.75 in. 23 x 15 x 1.5 cm. 14 oz. pp. xii, 259. Front cover slightly bows. Inscribed in ink on half-title. Text clean. Very Good Plus. ISBN: 9781787073555."This book contributes to a historically evolving conversation about immigration as a facet of globalization in the European context. Focusing on literary and artistic works from the post–World War II era, the author uses a «call-and-response» structure – as in African-American slave songs, Indian kirtans, and Jewish liturgy… Read More

Brooklyn, NY: New Art Publications, Inc, 2010. Softcover. Near Fine. 11x9x0. [CRITICISM]. Ed. Betsy Sussler. Contributors: Joan Jonas, Rick Moody, Jennifer Egan, AM Homes, Tan Lin, Sharon Hayes, et al. "Bomb Magazine, No. 112, Summer 2010." Brooklyn, NY: New Art Publications, Inc., 2010. English language. Stapled softcover magazine. Text with full-color photos. 11 x 9 x 0.25 in. 29 x 23 x 1 cm. 15 oz. 48 pp., 96 pp. [supplement]. Text clean. Near Fine. No ISBN. ASIN: B003QJB3I0. ISSN: 0743-3204."BOMB 112, Summer 2010, featuring: Interviews with Joan Jonas by Karin Schneider, Dan Asher by Ben Berlow, Edward Droste by Rick Moody, Elizabeth Streb by A.M. Homes, Jennifer Egan by Heidi Julavits, Alain Mabanckou by Binyavanga Wainaina, Jessica Jackson Hutchins by Stuart Horodner. Essays on Futurefarmers by David van der Leer, Andrew Lampert by Ed Halter, Cordy Ryman by Stephen Westfall. Fiction & Poetry Barbara Browning, Danielle Dutton, Mac Wellman. Elizabeth Willis, Tan Lin, Zach… Read More

Brooklyn, NY: New Art Publications, Inc, 2014. Softcover. Good. [CRITICISM]. Ed. Betsy Sussler. Contributors: Roxane Gay, John Ashbery, Adam Fitzgerald, Tania Bruguera, Joe Sola, Shirley Kaneda, Kalup Linzy, et al. "Bomb Magazine, No. 128, Summer 2014." Brooklyn, NY: New Art Publications, Inc., 2014. English language. Softcover magazine with spine. Text with full-color images. 11 x 9 x 0.25 in. 29 x 23 x 1 cm. 19 oz. 148 pp. Rubbing on spine. Creasing on spine and corners of front cover. Indentations to pages on corners. Text clean. Intact. Good. No ISBN. No ASIN. ISSN: 0743-3204."Featuring interviews with John Ashbery, Charlemagne Palestine, Juan Isle, Giuliana Bruno, Lola Arias, Roxane Gay, Tania Bruguera, and Joe Sola.

Ministerio da Cultura: Fundacao Nacional de Arte-Funarte: Rio de Janeiro, BR, 1997. Softcover. Good. 0x0x0. [CRITICISM]. Eds. Jorge Zahar, Gloria Ferreira, Cecilia Cotrim. Contributors: Yve-Alain Bois, Clement Greenberg, T. J. Clark, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Hubert Damisch, Ann Hindry, Rosalind Krauss, Barnett Newman, John O'Brian, Harold Rosenberg, Leo Steinberg. "Clement Greenberg: e o debate critico." Rio de Janeiro, BR: Ministerio da Cultura: Fundacao Nacional de Arte-Funarte, 1997. Portuguese language. Softcover with French flaps. 9 x 6.5 x 1 in. 23 x 16 x 2 cm. 16 oz. 280 pp. Wear on edge of covers. Use. Age. Yellowing. Errata pastedown on colophon. Text clean. Good. ISBN: 9788585781316.

Amfora; St. Petersburg, RU, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. [HARUKI MURAKAMI]. Rubin, Jay. "Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words." Amfora; St. Petersburg, RU, 2004. Russian language. Hardcover. 429 pp. Text clean. Very Good Plus. ISBN: 9785942784799.

Peter Lang: Bern, CH, 2007. Softcover. Good. 6x0x9. [CRITICISM]. Eds. Lucy Kay, Zoe Kinsley, Terry Phillips, Alan Roughley. Contributors: William Blazek, Jo Carruthers, Christina Ljungberg, Peter Messent, Louis Armand, Arthur Bradley. "Mapping Liminalities: Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Texts: Transatlantic Aesthetics and Culture, Volume 2." Bern, CH: Peter Lang, 2007. English language. Softcover. 9 x 6 x 0.5 in. 23 x 16 x 1.5 cm. 13 oz. 231 pp. Text at top of spine along front cover. Use, wear on covers. Price in pencil on half title. Slight yellowing. Text clean. Good Plus. ISBN: 9783039114559."The essays in this book offer new perspectives on the concept of liminality. They explore the relevance and significance of the limen or threshold from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, and across a broad range of historical periods. The authors all seek to revisit key questions raised in recent literary and cultural criticism, whilst also moving that discussion in new… Read More

Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 6x0x9. [CRITICISM]. Eds. Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien. Contributors: Emily Gray, Nik Taylor, Carmel Cedro, Tracy Fahey, et al. "New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)." Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015. English language. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 17 oz. i-viii, 1-237. 237 pp. Text clean. Slight scratch on back cover. Like New. ISBN: 9781138810617."This book brings together a carefully selected range of contemporary disciplinary approaches to new areas of Gothic inquiry. Moving beyond the representational and historically based aspects of literature and film that have dominated Gothic studies, this volume both acknowledges the contemporary diversification of Gothic scholarship and maps its changing and mutating incarnations. Drawing strength from their fascinating diversity, and points of correlation, the varied… Read More

Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018. Hardcover. Like New. 6x0x9. [CRITICISM]. Ed. Lucy E. Frank. "Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture." Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018. English language. Text with black and white illustrations. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 18 oz. xi, 234 pp. Text clean. Like New. ISBN: 9780815391470. "From the famous deathbed scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva to Mark Twain's parodically morbid poetess Emmeline Grangerford, a preoccupation with human finitude informs the texture of nineteenth-century US writing. This collection traces the vicissitudes of this cultural preoccupation with the subject of death and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Contributors from North America and the United Kingdom, representing the fields of literature, theatre history, and American studies, analyze the sexual, social, and epistemological… Read More

Red Dust, Inc.: New York, 2009. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. [PROUST]. Rosasco, Joan T. "The Septet: Proust's Wager." New York: Red Dust, Inc., 2009. English language. Softcover with spine. [4], 26 pp. The text of a lecture given by Rosasco before the Proust Society at the Mercantile Library in New York on April 13, 2006 with footnotes. Front cover slightly bows out. Dog-earring. Text clean. Very Good. ISBN: 9780873760980."Rosasco, author of "Voies de l'imagination proustienne" gave this essay before the Proust Society in 2006. Some of the very best Proust studies come in small packages, such as this essay.

John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam, NL, and Philadelphia, PA, 1983. Softcover. Very Good. 8x6x9. [CRITICISM]. D'haen, Theo. "Text to Reader: A Communicative Approach to Fowles, Barth, Cortazar, and Boon (Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature Volume 16)." Amsterdam, NL, and Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1983. English language. Softcover. 8.5 x 6 x 0.25 in. 22 x 15 x 1 cm. 8 oz. x, 162 pp. Light discoloration on spine. Smudge on bottom of page block. Wear. Slight yellowing. Text clean. Very Good Minus. ISBN: 9027222010. "Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel's form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser's reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffman's frame analysis, this book starts from the assumption that a reader has certain conventional expectations with regard to a novel, and then goes on to examine how violations of these expectations rule the… Read More

University of Chicago Press; Chicago, IL, and London, 1991. Softcover. Very Good. 88x9x135. [HENRY JAMES]. Cameron, Sharon. "Thinking in Henry James." Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. English language. Softcover. vii, 200 pp. 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 in. 21 x 14 x 2 cm. 10 oz. Sticker on spine. Use. Crease in front cover. Text clean. Small stain on fore-edge of page block near back of book. A few crinkly pages. Very Good Minus. ISBN: 9780226092317. "Thinking in Henry James identifies what is genuinely strange and radical about James's concept of consciousnessfirst, the idea that it may not always be situated within this or that person but rather exists outside or "between," in some transpersonal place; and second, the idea that consciousness may have power over things and people outside the person who thinks. Examining these and other counterintuitive representations of consciousness, Cameron asks, "How do we make sense of these conceptions of thinking?

University of South Carolina Press: Columbia, South Carolina, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x1x7. [CRITICISM]. Stephenson, Gregory. "Understanding Robert Stone." Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. English language. Hardcover in jacket. 7.25 x 5.25 x 1 in. 18 x 13 x 2.5 cm. xiv, 261 pp. Erased prices in pencil on free front endpaper, smudging. Slight abrasion on edge of page block. Text clean. Very Good. ISBN: 9781570034626. "A strong case for Stone as an articulate and passionate moralist; In this guide to the fiction of Robert Stone, Gregory Stephenson introduces readers to a novelist of popular appeal and critical acclaim whom he describes as an anomaly among contemporary American writers - an author independent of literary fashions, unaffiliated with groups or movements. In this critical survey, Stephenson identifies the qualities that separate Stone from his peers and have brought him accolades such as the National Book Award, earning him… Read More

Nakladatelstvi Brana; Prague, Czech Republic, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. [Theater Criticism]. Just, Vladimir. "Werichovo Divadlo ABC." Nakladatelstvi Brana; Prague, Czech Republic, 2000. Czech language. Hardcover in jacket. Text with black and white illustrations. 157 pp. Short tear near spine on front cover of dust jacket. Use. Top right hand corner of pages crimped. Text clean. Very Good. ISBN: 9788072430796.

New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x0x9. [CRITICISM]. Bremen, Brian A. "William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture." New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. English language. Hardcover in jacket. Black cloth boards with silver lettering. 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.75 in. 24 x 16 x 2 cm. 20 oz. pp. x, 231. Price in pencil on free front endpaper. Slight yellowing at edges of jacket. Text clean. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. ISBN: 9780195072266."Bremen's study examines the development of William Carlos Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on Williams's ongoing fascination with the effects of poetry and prose, and his life-long friendship with Kenneth Burke. Using a framework based on Burke's and Williams's theoretical writings and correspondence, as well as on the work of contemporary cultural critics, Bremen looks closely at how Williams's poetic strategies are intimately… Read More