The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression

Arguelles, Jose

ISBN 10: 0877730555 / ISBN 13: 9780877730552

Published by Shambhala, Berkeley, California, 1975

About this Item

Blue wraps with white lettering and b&w illustration; 364 pp. Contents as follows: he dialectical setting : human hemispheres and planetary poles -- Art and consciousness : from cosmic myth to single vision -- The high Renaissance vision : the formation of a literary artistic elite -- The academization of single vision -- The birth of history -- Revision, style, and revolution -- In search of a hero : romantic quest, fractured vision -- William Blake : the hero as prophet -- Caricature as truth : seeing beyond official truth -- The receding landscape : the seeds of ecological consciousness -- Drawing with light : photography, reality, and dream -- Dream light on the east : visions of the seer-poets -- Revolution of the eye, revolution of the mind -- The establishment of the avant-garde : the fugitive and the real -- The outcast vision : Van Gogh and Gauguin -- Abstraction and the techno-environment -- The aesthetic of madness I -- The aesthetic of madness II -- Art and alchemy : the great return -- Split Adam--Split atom : art in America -- At the zero point : the art to end all art -- In the shadow of the apocalypse -- Art as internal technology : the return of the Shaman--the descent of the goddess -- The transformative vision : Catharsis and individuation -- The development of the Holocene Era -- The ascent of the Jaguar. Good (Wraps are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean with minimal markings; binding is solid.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Transformative Vision: Reflections on the Nature and History of Human Expression
• Publisher: Shambhala, Berkeley, California
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877730555
• ISBN 13: 9780877730552
• Binding: Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Art