FELSTINER, JOHN - The Lies of Art Max Beerbohm's Parody and Caricature

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394472276; Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Small faded spot on top edge. Name on ffep.. Contents are almost like new. Minor edge wear on clean, complete DJ. ; 8-1/2" Tall, 294pp. + 24p b/w reproductions. Light brown cloth, bright gold spine & front cover lettering , bright gold figure on front cover. BIOGRAPHY. "With the aid of dozens of the greatest (and funniest) Beerbohm drawings and some of the paintings that influenced him most. Felstiner traces how and why Beerbohm flourished in the journalistic culture of the eighteen-nineties and how he developed his parody both of figure and of literary form as a medium through which art might hope to survive in the modern world, its very self-question ing signifying regeneration. This is a large-minded, innovating work of criticism, and exact yet imaginative mapping of the most subtle of creative intelligences, 'the incomparable Max'. " Index. Notes. Bibliography. Top edge colored light blue.. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .