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Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2 Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949
ISBN: PB: 9780226306223, University of Chicago Press, February 1988
374 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 halftones
Contents: Acknowledgments Editorial Note Foreword by John O'Brian 1945 1. Trail Blazer: Review of Williatn Sidney Mount by Bartlett Cowdrey and Hermann Warner Williams Jr. 2. Obituary and Review of an Exhibition of Kandinsky 3. Review of Exhibitio...
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£25,50
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Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason Volume 1: Theory of Practical Ensembles
ISBN: PB: 9780226097015, University of Chicago Press, January 1987
289 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Sartre's "Critique of Dialectical Reason" ranks with "Being and Nothingness" as a work of major philosophical significance, but it has been largely neglected. The first volume, published in 1960, was dismissed as a Marxist work at a time when structu...
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£19,00
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Cezanne and the End of Impressionism A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art
ISBN: PB: 9780226753065, University of Chicago Press, April 1986
336 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 57 halftones
Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cezanne's painting. He shows how Cezanne's style met the emerging criteria of a "technique of originality" and how it...
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£37,00
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Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness
ISBN: PB: 9780226096995, University of Chicago Press, September 1985
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness" represents, I believe, a very important beginning of a deservingly serious effort to make the whole of "Being and Nothingness" more readily understandable and readable. In his systematic inte...
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Critical Understanding The Powers and Limits of Pluralism
ISBN: PB: 9780226065557, University of Chicago Press, September 1982
422 pp., 23x15 cm
Critics will always disagree, but, maintains Wayne Booth, their disagreement need not result in critical chaos. In "Critical Understanding", Booth argues for a reasoned pluralism – a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any on...
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£34,50
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Canada Gazetteer Atlas
ISBN: HB: 9780226092591, University of Chicago Press, August 1980
176 pp., 45.9x33.5 cm
This definitive work – Canada's official atlas – is the first to bring together from diverse official sources complete information on the populated places of the country. It consists of two parts: First, 48 double-page relief maps which are the mo...
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Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana
ISBN: HB: 9780226775791, University of Chicago Press, November 1968
890 pp., 26.3x20 cm
The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the...
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