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Condition: Very Good. 40 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Quarterly Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

First edition. 12 x 16 inches. 96 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original cloth; pictortial dust jacket. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, New York, in 2010. A fine copy; dust jacket with some minor rubbing and wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 277 pages. Published in 2016. Book-length account on subject. One of the best books on aesthetics and criticism ever written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents A. O. Scott's "Better Living Through Criticism: How To Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, And Truth". A worthy companion volume to Harold Bloom's classic, "How To Read And Why" (2000). About the immediate and lasting relevance of intellectual activity for a more productive and rewarding life, "aesthetics-as-ethics". A. O. Scott is best-known as the film critic of the New York Times. This book demonstrates that his knowledge and expertise range farther and wider than film, and encompasses the entire artistic and philosophical tradition of Western culture. "Critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott shows that criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative, and urgent activities of existence. Drawing on the long tradition of criticism from Aristotle to Susan Sontag, Scott shows that real criticism was - and always will be - the breath of fresh air that allows true creativity to thrive" (Publisher's blurb). It is because we live in an illiterate, degraded, and degenerate Social Media Age that critical thinking is all-important, not just desirable: "The time for criticism is always now because the imperative to think clearly, to insist on the necessary balance of reason and passion, never goes away" (A. O. Scott). An absolute "must-have" title for A. O. Scott collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Almost ALL copies available online are in multiple subsequent printings even if their dealers do not say so. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the most brilliant critic/aestheticians of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 1594204837. no.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. Signed by Author. HBDJ, 1st Limited numbered edition, 1990, #1439/2,000 , F/F, Unpaginated. Signed by Author.