All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture
by Ewen, Stuart
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0465001009
- ISBN 13
- 9780465001002
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1998. Cloth, xi, 306 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. A quasi-Marxist examination of advertising as instances of commodity fetishism. Quite a good book, with a hstorical focus. "A provocative, compelling, and entertaining look at how the power of images dominates every aspect of our lives. / Stewart Ewen is professor of media studies and chair of the Department of Communications at Hunter College. He is also a professor in the Ph.D. programs in history and sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of the acclaimed Captains of Consciousness, Channels of Desire, and All Consuming Images, the last of which provided the basis for Bill Moyers's award-winning PBS series The Public Mind. He lives in New York City." - Publisher. An attractive copy of this excellent book. CONTENTS: Introduction: Shoes for Thought In The Eyes Mind; Images Without Bottom; Goods and Surfaces; The Marriage Between Art and Commerce Image And Identity; Chosen People; The Dream of Wholeness Image And Power In A Changing World; arnished Barbarism; Mechanical Sentiments The Politics of Style In Contemporary Culture; Form Follows Value; Form Follows Power; Form Follows Waste.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048967
- Title
- All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture
- Author
- Ewen, Stuart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0465001009
- ISBN 13
- 9780465001002
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Inc., Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Design / Fashion & Costume; Design / Advertising; Photography / Subjects & Themes / Fashion;
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