Barter, Judith (and) Charles Brock (and) Teresa Carbone (and) Marc Simpson (and) Avis Berman (and) Carol Troyen (and) Sylvia Yount

The World of William Glackens, Volume II

New York, Sansom Foundation, 2017. Hardcover. A black casebound book with the title in silver lettering down the spine. There is a matte, color-illustrated dust jacket with the title printed in white down a blue spine. The free and pasted end pages are blue. Pages: (5), vi-vii, (3), 3-263. Profusely illustrated with a majority color images. Contents are as follows: Preface / Frank Buscaglia -- Eakins in Paris / Marc Simpson -- Trompe l'oeil and Modernity / Judith A. Barter -- All About Eve? William Glackens's Audacious Girl with Apple / Teresa A. Carbone -- The Exhibition Game: Rockwell Kent and The Twelve / Charles Brock -- New perspectives on William Glackens: Introduction / Avis Berman -- Brotherly Love and Fellowship: Glackens's Formative Years / Sylvia Yount -- Modernity Begins at Home: Edith Dimock Glackens / Avis Berman -- "Wonderful Color Palpitating about Us" : William Glackens and the Independents Exhibition of 1910 / Carol Troyen -- Contributors -- Index. VG+/VG+ .

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Book number: 202805

Catalogue: American Artists

Keywords: American Artists ; Glackens, William ; ;

Bowden, Charles and Michael P. Berman

Inferno

Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. White DJ with photo illustration and red, black and grey lettering; taupe boards with red lettering; 176 pp.; richly illustrated. "Charles Bowden has been an outspoken advocate for the desert Southwest since the 1970s. Recently his activism helped persuade the U.S. government to create the Sonoran Desert National Monument in southern Arizona. But in working for environmental preservation, Bowden refuses to be one who "outline[s] something straightforward, a manifesto with clear rules and a set of plans for others to follow." In this deeply personal book, he brings the Sonoran Desert alive, not as a place where well-meaning people can go to enjoy "nature," but as a raw reality that defies bureaucratic and even literary attempts to define it, that can only be experienced through the senses." "Inferno burns with Charles Bowden's passion for the desert he calls home. His vivid descriptions, complemented by Michael Berman's acutely observed photographs of the Sonoran Desert, make readers feel the heat and smell the dryness, see the colors in earth and sky, and hear the singing of dry bones across the parched ground. Written as "an antibiotic" during the time Bowden was lobbying the government to create the Sonoran Desert National Monument, Inferno repudiates both the propaganda and the lyricism of contemporary nature writing. Instead, it persuades us that "we need these places not to remember our better selves or our natural self or our spiritual self. We need these places to taste what we fear and devour what we are. We need these places to be animals because unless we are animals we are nothing at all. That is the price of being a civilized dude.""--Jacket. Good (Ex art library with sticker on the spine and on rear pastedown; DJ is lightly edgeworn/toned/scuffed/smudged; boards are lightly edgeworn and there is dampstaining at the top corner of both covers; textblock edges are lightly smudged; top of textblock is lightly cockled; binding is solid.) .

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Book number: 201176

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: Photography, Michael P. Berman, Charles Bowden, Sonoran Desert National Monument ; Berman, Michael P. ; ;

Bowden, Charles and Michael P. Berman

Trinity

Austin, University of Texas Press, 2009. Hardcover. Brown and white DJ with white, black and brown lettering; brown boards with metallic brown lettering; vii, 260 pp.; richly illustrated. "Sparing no one, Bowden recounts how everyone who has laid claim to the Southwestern desert--Native Americans, Spain, Mexico, and the United States--has attempted to control and domesticate this ecologically fragile region, often with devastating consequences. He reserves special scorn for the U.S. government, whose attempts at control have provoked consequences ranging from the massive land grab of the Mexican War in the nineteenth century, to the nuclear fallout of the first atomic bomb test in the twentieth century, to the police state that is currently growing up around attempts to seal the border and fight terrorism. Providing a stunning visual counterpoint to Bowden's words, Michael Berman's photographs of the desert reveal both its harsh beauty and the scars it bears after centuries of human abuse. Bowden's clearest warning yet about the perils facing the desert he calls home, Trinity confirms that, in his words, 'the [border] zone is a laboratory where the delusions of life--economic, religious, military, foreign policy, biological, and agricultural--can be tested. This time the edge is the center, this time the edge is the face of the future'"-- Publisher's website. Good+ (Ex art library with sticker on DJ spine and on rear pastedown; DJ is lightly edgeworn/toned/scuffed/smudged; boards are lightly edgeworn; textblock edges are lightly edgeworn and smudged; interior is clean, but there is light toning at the page edges; binding is solid.) .

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Book number: 201211

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: Photography, Michael P. Berman, Nuclear Weapons ; Berman, Michael P. ; ;

Thunberg, Carl Peter (1743-1828) ; Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet ; Charles Berman, M.D., provenance

Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia : Performed between the Years 1770 and 1779. In Four Volumes. The Second Edition. (Vol. 1. A Voyage to the Southern Parts of Europe, and to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773 -- V.2. Two Expeditions to the Interior Part of the Country Adjacent to the Cape of Good Hope, and a Voyage to the Island of Java Performed in the Years 1773, 1774, and 1775 -- V.3. A Voyage to Japan, and Travels in Different Parts of That Empire, in the Years 1775 and 1776 -- V.4. Travels in the Empire of Japan, and in the Islands of Java and Ceylon, Together with the Voyage Home. ) Original Printings

London, : Printed for F. and C. Rivington .. and sold by W. Richardson, Cornwill,1795. 8vo. 10.5 x 19.1cm. 4 vols. Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked - calf spine gilt with red morocco title labels. Repair by A. & M. Winstanley's Salisbury Bookbinders, England in 1969....Frontispiece and 4 plates in vol. 1; 4 plates in vol. 2. No plates in vols. 3 & 4.. Second edition, volume 4 lacks half-title, advertisement leaf at end of volume 4, offsetting to text, occasional spotting, washed.. Vol. I. Voyage to the Southern Parts of Europe and to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa... xii, 318, + index...x Vol. II. Containing two expeditions to the interior part of the country adjacent to the Cape of Good Hope, and a voyage to the island of Java; performed in the years 1773, 1774, and 1775...iv, 316. + index...Vol. III. containing a voyage to Japan, and travels in different parts of that empire. In the years 1775 and 1776...xvi, 286, xvi, 32pp...Vol. IV. Travels in the Empire of Japan and in the Islands of Java and Ceylon together with the Voyage home..xix, 293 + index...OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 185263447 (vol. 3 only).... Provenance : Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet (29 February 1749 -24 March 1838, in London) was a British floriculturist and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons ..Sep 30, 2019 : Charles Berman, mine medical officer and expert on primary liver cancer, dies in Johannesburg. References. Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). .

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Book number: 51-5978

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