Herbert list introduction stephen spender (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Only in Good Dustjacket. Quarto. Avocado-green cloth-covered boards. Light rubbing to extremities. Some smudging and edgewear to dustjacket, now protected in mylar. NOTE: One sprung signature which basically mean the book's structural integrity has one weak point, thus rendering it more for study and as a reading copy, than, well, than a livingroom artifact. A fascinating photographic study of a particular period in twentieth-century Germany at the rise of the Nazi state. Translated from the German Herbert List: Fotografia Metafisica by Ingeborg von Zitzewitz. A READING COPY. "I first met Herbert List in Hamburg in 1929. Herbert was at that time the centre of a group of friends who represented for me all that was freest, most open-minded, most consciously new about the new Germany. They were the Children of the Sun. To them, far more important than politics, business, self-promotion, was 'life'. 'Life' consisted of friendship, free love, the cultivation of their own bodies, nature and the sun. Their weakness perhaps was that they did not understand that at some point in history these values would be swept away, and they together with them unless they had a strong will to self-preservation.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition Limited Edition. B&W gravure prints of Lists photos of young men looking sexy and lithe across the world. An excellent hardcover copy with dust jacket.