Allison Simmons (10 results)

paperback. Condition: Fine. Grade 4 out of 5 points. This is a used book. Book may have wear due to handling. Has no markings on pages. May not include extra materials like access codes, CDs, accessories, etc. All orders ship by next business day! We are a small company and very thankful for your business.…

New York: Reagan Arthur Books (Little Brown):, 2010. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 487 pp. Cover artwork by: Allison J. Warner "As George Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general's ghost enters Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior - and Custer's voice will speak to him for the rest of his event-filled life." Simmons seems to be into these moderately twisted historical fictions lately. I'm told they're good fun. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket. Allison J. Warner (illustrator).…

New York: Reagan Arthur Books:, 2013. First printing, Paperback, New, 708 pp. Cover artwork by: Allison Warner "The United States is near total collapse. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. After ex-detective Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her; he's lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result. Nick may be a lost soul but he's still a good cop, so he is hired to investigate the murder of a top governmental advisor's son. This flashback-addict becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation turning away from the future to live in the past." Now a quality paperback. First printing, Paperback, New. Allison Warner (illustrator).…

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Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sparse underlining and marginal notes. Most pages are very clean and bright with no markings. Binding is tight and square. Minor to moderate rubbing to the edges and corners of the wraps. Some scuffing to the rear cover panel.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. exlibrary softcover in moderate shape, usual library markings. moderate wear to cover and book edges. has some stains to book edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. "The New Television: a Public/private art: essays, statements, and videotapes based on "Open circuits: an international conference on the Future of Television" organized by Fred Barzyk, Douglas Davis, Gerald O'Grady, and Willard Van Dyke for the Museum of Modern Art, New York City" Quarto, 289 pages, illustrated throughout in black and white. Printed wrappers. Chafed towards edges + light foxing towards foredge. Very good - First edition. "This book … makes clear that video, the nonbroadcast use of television, is a very young and self-conscious art form. In common with other contemporary art, video users are somewhat pre-occupied with the use of its own marks and materials: specialization in technique is dominant. Many of the contributors examine their work, making references in a historical context to the performances and tapes of other video artists, first noting the precedents of painting, film and architecture, etc. and then explaining in their own terms their individual activities, almost it seems to find out exactly what they think they are doing. Television technology is mirrored in video when it shows off its attractive electronic features by literally turning the camera onto itself in an act of synthesized feedback, plus other circuit configurations. Video is therefore rich in introspective details: its own technological process speaking for an artist. Russel Connor, describing the WNET Television Laboratory, calls it 'the most sophisticated electronic palette for the exploration of the medium itself. Robert Pincus-Witten remarks that the early generation of video artists had first to provide the tools - Nam June Paik's work on the synthesizer for instance. John Baldessari suggests that the video medium become a neutral tool at the service of artists and Allan Kaprow that it become as familiar as the telephone. Many hopes are expressed that video can break down the elitist approach to rare and inaccessible artworks. The Editors have brought together 39 contributors under three main headings: (1) The Aesthetics of Television, (2) The Support Structure: Change and Resistance and the International Setting, (3) The Politics, Philosophy and Future of Television…." (Ray E. Knight in: Leonardo, Volume 11, Number 3, Summer 1978, pp. 255-256).…

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Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977. First Edition, Hardcover Format. Large octavo; publisher's black decorative paper-covered boards, color pictorial endpapers; [14],289pp.; illus. throughout. Boards rather rubbed, ownership signature to front free endpaper, creasing to top edge of final two leaves, else Very Good. Published in conjunction with ?Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television,? the first major museum conference devoted exclusively to video art, held at the Museum of Modern Art in January 1974. A 1977 press release describes attendees as ?Museum educators and curators, cable and educational television producers, artists and critics from many parts of the world.? ?MoMA Expands Video Program,? MoMA, 1977.…