Edited Whitney Chadwick (7 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1993. hardcover. Library of Michael Viney bookplate inside front cover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some nicks and tears, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1993. hardcover. Library of Michael Viney bookplate inside front cover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some nicks and tears, remains very good. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally described creativity as an extraordinary individual's lone struggle for self-expression. Now, thirteen of today's leading critics and historians challenge and redefine conventional assumptions in a highly original and revealing series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have shared both sexual and artistic bonds, combining biography with evaluation of each partner's work in the context of their relationship. Significant Others features such celebrated duos as Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Anais Nin and Henry Miller, and Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. The contributors explore the nature of artistic companionships, with their corresponding limitations and innovations; the tangled questions of identity; the roles of gender and sexuality; and the stereotypes imposed by society. Many of the essays are particularly concerned with the way women and men have been evaluated in relation to their partners in traditional biographies, art history and literary criticism. We are encouraged to think in new ways about inspirational interaction, and to reassess both women's and men's contributions to culture and the importance of their art. These creative unions offer arresting instances of sexual and artistic collision, collusion and mutual stimulation. Significant Others presents thirteen dramas, with imaginative and courageous players who chose fruitful, colorful and often difficult solutions to the dilemmas of social constraint and competing genius." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Myths of creation: Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin, by Anne Higonnet; Living simultaneously: Sonia & Robert Delaunay, by Whitney Chadwick; Of first wives and solitary heroes: Clara & Andre Malraux, by Isabelle de Courtivron; The "left-handed marriage": Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant, by Lisa Tickner; "Tinder-and-flint": Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West, by Louise DeSalvo; The bird superior meets the bride of the wind: Leonora Carrington & Max Ernst, by Susan Rubin Suleiman; Beauty to his beast: Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera, by Hayden Herrera; Separate studios: Kay Sage & Yves Tanguy, by Judith D. Suther; The literate passion of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, by Noel Riley Fitch; Non-negotiable bonds: Lillian Hellman & Dashiell Hammett, by Bernard Benstock; The art of code: Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg, by Jonathan Katz; Significantly other: Simone & Andre Schwarz-Bart, by Ronnie Scharfman; Fictions: Krasner's presence, Pollock's absence, by Anne M. Wagner. Size: 8vo. Collectible.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. 64 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 26 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, February 11 to March 16, 2006. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "Bent looks at the ways in which issues of gender and sexuality inform the work of four artists: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Jesper Just, Annika Larsson, and Annica Karlsson Rixon. Through photography, video, and film, they draw from the rich media bank of images of masculinity and feminity circulated in advertising, film, historical art, and popular culture. Constructing dialogues between past, present, and future, and acknowledging the growing role mediated images play in culture, Ahtila, Just, Larsson, and Karlsson Rixon explore the importance of images of gender and sexuality in formations of contemporary identity. / Whitney Chadwick is professor of art at San Diego State University. The other contributors are Annika Ohrner and Linda Haverty Rugg." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The medium is not the message, by Whitney Chadwick; Annica Karlsson Rixon and Annika Larsson: aspects of gender and transnational politics in Swedish art, by Annika Ohrner; Gender and sex in Scandinavian cinema as screened in the American mind, by Linda Haverty Rugg. Size: 4to. Collectible.

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Condition. 256 pp., 76 B&W illustrations. A minor crease to the corner of page 193, otherwise a fine copy. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 6.25 x 9.5"; 256pp; red cloth with gilt; dustwrapper, with small mark to top front; very clean copy; 76 illustrations; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original red paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 256 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 050001566X SOCIAL & HUMANITIES.