Blum, Carol

Diderot: The Virtue of a Philosopher

New York, Viking Press, 1974. [ix] 182p. dj. .

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Blum, Carol

Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France.

Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 280 pp. English text. Condition as new. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - In the eighteenth century France became convinced it was losing population. While not technically true (France was merely failing to gain population as rapidly as Great Britain and the German states), the public's belief in a national fertility crisis had far-reaching consequences. In Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France, Carol Blum shows how intellectuals used natalism as a means of criticizing the monarchy and the Church in their pursuit of social change. In addition to the arguments over celibacy, divorce, and polygamy, other, more radical, proposals were put forward to free potentially fruitful male desire from the tedious ties of European matrimony. The question of whether sexual violence was a crime or rather an imperative of nature was passionately debated, as was the abolition of the incest taboo. Descriptions of exotic locales where uninhibited natives were alleged to copulate freely and procreate abundantly became a popular literary genre of erotic fantasy, made respectable by a framework of natalist discourse. The wish to reject the Church's moral guidance and return to the laws of nature led philosophers such as Diderot and Voltaire to question the institution of marriage itself. ISBN 9780801868108.

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Carol Lynn Blum; Xul Solar

Xul Solar: A Collector's Vision

Rachel Adler Gallery, New York, New York 1993. 4to. 32 pp. Soft Cover. Very Good. Light shelf wear. Hole-punch binding. Color Plates. Provenance: From the estate of Gerald Nordland (1927-2019). Nordland was a museum director, art critic, educator and author. Dean of the Chouinard Art Institute (1960-64), Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA) (1966-73), Milwaukee Art Museum (1977-85), and the UCLA Wight Art Gallery (1973-1977). He is the author of over 60 publications, including books on Lachaise, Nakian, Diebenkorn and Frank Lloyd Wright. .

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