Marina warner essay (11 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good +. First Edition. First Edition. Paperback. 11" X 9 1/2". xi, 119pp. Mild toning and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This catalog explores the psychological and social implications contained in the hybrid creatures and fantastic scenarios created by contemporary artists whose works will appear in the exhibition Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, which opens at Nashville's Frist Center for the Visual Arts in February 2012. Curator Mark Scala's introductory essay focuses on anthropomorphism in the mythology, folklore, and art of many cultures as it contrasts with the dominant Western view of human exceptionalism. Scala also provides an art historical context, linking the visual fabulists of today to artists of the Romantic, Symbolist, and Surrealist periods who sought to transcend oppositions such as rationality and intuition, fear and desire, the physical and the spiritual. Discussing how artists adapt traditional stories to give mythic form to the very real dilemmas of contemporary life, Jack Zipes's "Fairy-Tale Collisions" centers on Paula Rego, Kiki Smith, and Cindy Sherman. From a generation of women who have attained prominence since the 1980s, these artists alter fairy-tale imagery to subvert or rewrite social roles and codes. In "Metamorphosis of the Monstrous," Marina Warner discusses works in the exhibition in the context of historical conceptions of monsters as expressions of alterity, bestiality, or sinfulness. Her reminder that contemporary monster images offer "a promise and a warning about the variety, heterogeneity, and possible combinations and recombinations in the order of things" sets the stage for Suzanne Anker's essay, punningly titled "The Extant Vamp (or the) Ire of It All: Fairy Tales and Genetic Engineering." Considering representations of hybrid bodies by Patricia Piccinini, Janaina Tschape, Saya Woolfalk, and others, which evoke imagined beings of the past as a way to envision the recombinant creatures that may lie in the future, Anker shows how artists explore the social, ethical, and future implications of biological design and enhanced evolution. Accompanying an exhibition of contemporary art in which depictions of marvelous creatures and fantastic narratives provide both chills and delights, the essays in Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination explore the meaning of this fabulist revival through the lenses of social and art history, literature, feminism, animal studies, and science.(Publisher).…

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Unpaginated, approx. 36 pages. Colour illustrated exh. cat. 26 plates. A Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 109 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "The subject of Helen Chadwick's work is herself. The book forms a cumulative, evolving portrait of a British artist through a diversity of media, including sculpture, the photocopier, light projections, computer and the microscope. In 1987 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. Beginning with a series of photo-sculptures, she depicts her growth from the incubator to adulthood. In an enterprise called 'Of Mutability', she has suspended her own image in a sea of organic form and decay. In a series of light projections she places herself close to her mother and against the backdrop of the city and the State in an attempt to discover the core of her cultural heritage. Finally, in her 'Viral Landscapes' she derives her imagery from her own cellular structure. With the computer she mixes her internal landscape with images of the natural coastline with a view that is simultaneously microscopic and macroscopic." - Publisher. Size: Folio. Collectible.…

SOFTCOVER. Condizione: FINE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Issued without a dustjacket. 1st Edition. Extra Large 4to. in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 128pp on thick glossy art paper, colour photos throughout . [CONDITION: A well preserved FINE clean and tight unmarked copy ] . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

SOFTCOVER. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Extra Large 4to. in colour printed stiff card covers, 109pp, colour plates, etc . [CONDITION: A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (minute speck of shelf rub to cover corner tips) ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

SOFTCOVER. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Large 4to. in stiff card covers, with glossy colour printed dust jacket, unpaginated, approx. 36pp on thick glossy art paper, colour plates, etc . [CONDITION: A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy in a VERY GOOD+ complete Dust Jacket (barely noticeable closed tear, creasing to bottom edge of front panel) ] . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Fine in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 1st edition, 1st issue. Scarce. ISBN 0853319138.

Ex-library, Folio, heavy illus board, white lettering on spine, 216pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate bruising/soiling on spine, heavy cracking on spine extrems, minimal library markings, moderate to heavy bruising & scuffing to board edges, light soiling on eps, binding sloppy).

Condizione: Near Fine. FIRST US EDITION. 4to. Original pale yellow cloth, lettered in blind and brown. Light edgwear, dints to bottom edge. Occasional spots, else, clean, bright and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket: spine gently sunned, creasing and nick to head of spine, light shelf soiling to rear panel., faint foxing to reverse. Still, a lovely copy. Very good/ very good Helen Chadwick (19531996) was a British sculptor, photographer and installation artist, whose subject was herself. More than "a definitive collection of her work," Enfleshings offers a "cumulative, evolving portrait"; it includes Of Mutability, Chadwick's important 1989 solo exhibition. Nominated for the 1987 Turner Prize, Chadwick was an important and innovative figure in the British art world.…

4°, Klappbrosch. 112 S. - sehr gutes Exemplar. Buch.

Cloth boards in drop-over box. Limited Ed. Limited Edition, number 670 of 980 numbered copies. Oversize, publisher's white buckram boards with pictorial gilt and turquoise, all twelve tipped-in colour plates by Kay Nielsen with captions and tissue guards, endpapers decorated in gilt and red (design by Kay Nielsen), illustrated title page printed in red and black, pp 275. In original publisher's turquoise clamshell box with booklet "Dreams of Enchantment", an essay by Marina Warner, in inside pocket in wraps printed with the same endpaper design. The plates are reproduced from the first edition (1925), printed by Memminger on Arctic coated paper. Printed by Memminger, Memmingen, on Caxton Wove paper. Printed and bound in Germany. Fine condition in like publisher's box. A stunning edition of tales from the Brothers Grimm, with colour plates by Kay Nielsen, the Danish illustrator from the Golden Age of illustration. First published in 1925, and taken from that first edition. Includes an essay by the critic and fairy tale expert Marina Warner, "Dreams of Enchantment: Kay Nielsen's illustrations to Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories". A beautiful, limited edition of an iconic illustrated book. Kay Nielsen [Illus.] (illustratore).…