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FRANCIS BACON and the Loss of Self
by ALPHEN, Ernst van
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0674317637
- ISBN 13
- 9780674317635
- Seller
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cambridge MA, London: Harvard University Press, Reaktion Press, 1993. 1st US Edition . Soft cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Title page gives Harvard UP,1993 as publisher & date but verso gives this plus Reaktion Press,1992 as first publisher and UK as printing location, so assume this is actually 1st US. Glossy illustrated covers with Bacon's screaming Pope Innocent X after Velasquez portrait to front, virtually pristine. 208 pp., 121 ills, 8 being full page colour plates, all inc.in pagination. Front end-paper has an attractive private bookplate with picture of white herons and dates of previous owner. An interesting and original psychological and art critical analysis of Bacons aims and how he achieved his visual effects. 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm Issued in Harvard UP's 'Essays in Art and Culture' series.
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- Bookseller
- Douglas Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012327
- Title
- FRANCIS BACON and the Loss of Self
- Author
- ALPHEN, Ernst van
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st US Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0674317637
- ISBN 13
- 9780674317635
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press, Reaktion Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge MA, London
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- psychology modern art art-criticism
- X weight
- 0 kg
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