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Published by Author, Ottery St. Mary, 1994
Seller: Balfour Books, Sidmouth, DEVON, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Copy in illustrated card wraps. Small stain on lower cover which has carried over to rear end papers. Free of inscriptions. Clean and flat contents.
Published by Praxis : A Journal of Radical Perspectives on the Arts Berkeley, CA, 1975
Seller: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
156 pp.; 21.5 x 13.9 cm.; glue bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; First issue of the periodical Praxis. Articles include: "Bruno's Castle or Some Literary Misconceptions," by Gene H. Bell; "Art Against Imperialism," by E. San Juan; "Brecht, Godard and Epic Cinema," by Naomi Greene; "Reflections on Literary Theory and Culture,: by Jon Fekete; "A Shift in Weather (poem)," by Ruth Lechlitner; "Art, Censorship and Socialism," by Stefan Morawski; "Mayakovsky: Language and Death of a Revolutionary," by John Berger and Anya Bostock; "Art as Humanizing Praxis," by Marx W. Wartofsky; "The Living Theatre in Brazil," by Theodore Shank; "The Education to Despair: Some Thoughts on Death in Venice," by Duncan Smith; "Three Drawings," by William Gropper; "The Lumpen Drama of Frank Wedekind," by Frank Galassi; "The End of Criticism: Some Reflections on Radical Practice," by Kingsley Widmer; "Hegemony, Praxis and the novel Form," by Alan Swingewood; "The Contemporary Social Film: Its Contents and Aesthetic Characteristics," by Antonin J. Liehm; Against Duchamp," by Carl Andre; "The San Francisco Mime Troupe Perform Brecht," by Lee Baxandall and The Case for Revolutionary Culture: The Mime Troupe Versus Baxandall," by Ira Schorr. Good. 8.5 cm. area of light soiling to recto and 1 cm. tear to spine edge. Water damage to page 65 through to verso causing inside pages to be stained orange from bleed from recto. Discrete small rubber stamp logo inside rear cover.