The Metamorphosis of the Gods by Malraux, Andre; Gilbert, Stuart (translator) - 1960

Garden City: Doubleday, 1960. First American Edition. Hardcover with Slipcase. Very Good/Very Good. Gravure Plates, Color Illus.. 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. In color pictorial jacket over red cloth with publisher's slipcase., 8vo, 400pp. Illustrated.

NY: Doubleday & Co, 1960. First American Edition; in VG slipcase; lite sunning of edges; 400 clean, unmarked pages . A metaphysical inquiry into art as a series of transmutations of man's varying reaction to "his portion of eternity". Illustrated by color, b&w photos & illusts. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8 Vo; 3.5 Pounds.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company. As New in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1960. First US Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full maroon cloth with embossed gilt lettering on cover and spine. Profusely illustrated with B&W photographs. In slipcase. Through the civilizations of Greece and Byzantium and Europe Malraux traces successive changes not only in the meaning of art but in its uses. One loses a sense of one period growing out of another and substitutes instead an awareness of forces that produced change beyond the definable worldly factors. Malraux reaches back into pre- history, to ancient empires Minean and Mycenacean and Egyptian and Hittite; and forward to the classic eres as the Sophists undermined the prestige of the gods and the tyranny of reality lept Rome from true art. With the Byzantium overlordship came the linking and kinship between Christian and Oriental forms. A religious ferment was at work. Mosaics- not painting- took the place of the antique… Read More