Search Results: Titles starting with P from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

First printing of third edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", is like new. This book contains a number of b&w textual illustrations. xxvi/578 pages.""Packaging the Presidency," Third Edition, is now completely updated to offer the only comprehensive study of the history and effects of political advertising in the United States. Noted political critic Kathleen Hall Jamieson traces the development of presidential campaigning from early political songs and slogans through newsprint and radio, and up to the inevitable history of presidential campaigning on television from Eisenhower to Clinton. The book also covers important issues in the debate about political advertising by touching on the development of laws governing political advertising, as well as how such advertising reflects, and at the same time helps to create, the nature of the American political office. Finally, current public concerns about political advertising are addressed as Jamieson raises the topic of ads… Read More

Oblong softcover volume (approx. 11" x 8.5") is like new. Lavishly illustrated with color reproductions of antique prints offfering views of 19th-century Russia. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Castello del Buonconsiglio, Monumenti e collezioni provinciali, Trento, Italy, Dec. 20, 2013-May 04, 2014. Texts in Italian with one text in Italian and Russian. 238 pages

Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 10.25" x 12.5", is new, still in shrinkwrap. Catalogue with essays and entries by exhibition co-curators Ilona Katzew, Jaime Cuadriello, Paula Mues Orts, and Luisa Elena Alcalá ; additional entries by Ronda Kasl. The exhibition was co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Fomento Cultural Banamex. 512 pages."...provides the first in-depth reassessment of 18th-century Mexican painting, making accessible an extraordinary body of images, alongside compelling new scholarship. This stunning volume represents the first serious effort to reposition the history of 18th-century Mexican painting, a highly vibrant period marked by major stylistic changes and the invention of new iconographies. Exquisitely illustrated with newly commissioned photography of never-before-published artworks, the book provides a broad view of the connections of Mexican painting with transatlantic artistic trends and emphasizes its own internal developments and… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is new. xiv/405 pages.""Painting the City Red" illuminates the dynamic relationship between the visual media, particularly film and theater, and the planning and development of cities in China and Taiwan, from the emergence of the People's Republic in 1949 to the staging of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Yomi Braester argues that the transformation of Chinese cities in recent decades is a result not only of China's abandonment of Maoist economic planning in favor of capitalist globalization but also of a shift in visual practices. Rather than simply reflect urban culture, movies and stage dramas have facilitated the development of new perceptions of space and time, representing the future city variously as an ideal socialist city, a metropolis integrated into the global economy, and a site for preserving cultural heritage.Drawing on extensive archival research, interviews with leading filmmakers and urban planners, and close readings of scripts… Read More

Volume is bound in light gray cloth over spine and cream paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in excellent condition. 251 pages.

Studies in British Art. Two volume set. Revised edition. Large-format softcover volumes, measuring approximately 8.5" x 12", show creasing to spines. Books, with flaps, are otherwise in fine condition, with sound bindings, clean and bright interiors. Volumes are preserved in a cardboard slipcase. xlii/354, xvi/572 pages.
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"This prize-winning catalogue raisonné of Turner's paintings is published in a fully revised form, incorporating fresh information on every important picture and completely new entries for fourteen works that have come to light since the book's first publication. The Plates volume has also been completely revised to include recently discovered or newly cleaned works, and well over half the paintings are now reproduced in colour. These two volumes, recognised since their first publication as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference work on Turner's paintings, provide a unique visual record of his… Read More

Volume, measuring approximately 8" x 10.25", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book has lightly bumped bottom outside corners and it otherwise in fine condition. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Numerous color illustrations. Dust jacket shows very light shelfwear. 255 pages.
"Throughout the centuries there have been castles, great and small, for animals as diverse as goats and guinea pigs, deer and dogs, cows and bees, pigs and horses, bears and even salmon. In 1883, a Grecian temple with tapering Egyptian windows was built for pigs in Yorkshire and in the 1800s a red sandstone elephant with a castle on its back was designed for bees in Cheshire. With such architects as William Kent designing a cowshed and Sir John Soane devising classical 'canine residences,' these buildings are not mere curiosities; John Nash applied himself at his most picturesque to a dovecote, while Capability Brown was commissioned to create a classical menagerie and Henry Holland… Read More

Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 12.5" x 12.25", is new, still in shrinkwrap. 276 pages."Built for Federico II Gonzaga Duke of Mantua between 1525 and 1536, Palazzo Te is the masterpiece of Renaissance artist, designer, and architect Giulio Romano, the most accomplished and favored of Raphael's pupils.The palace's interiors are replete with frescoes depicting imaginative scenes and trompe l'oeil fantasies of gods and heroes, fictive marble statues, and portraits of the Duke's favorite thoroughbreds. From the erotic scenes of the Sala di Psiche to the famous Sala di Giganti, based on the mythological defeat of the Titans by the gods of Olympus, the High Renaissance ideal of classical harmony and balance is overtaken by breathtaking illusionist techniques and images of giants, falling masonry, and the thunderbolts from the gods."

Softcover volume, with French flaps, measures approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is new. Pamphlet and program are laid in. 152 pages.
This book contains the text of, and essays on, "Pan y toros," a typically Spanish type of operetta, including spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. This work also contains a discography, biographies, references and information on the venue, Teatro de La Zarzuela.

Third edition. Folio volume, measuring approximately 12" x 17", is new. 84 unnumbered pages."Favorite book of Panamarenko himself. Completely edited and designed by the artist, with a text by Jon Thompson.""For more than 30 years, the Belgian visionary Panamarenko; engineer, poet, artist, physicist, inventor--has been conducting meticulous studies of the natural world and various scientific principles. He analyzes the secrets of the universe, gravity, and other energetic mysteries, and formulates both logical and well-considered solutions. His work is poetic, the result of a seamless coalescence of artistic skill and scientific research; the outcome of which can take the form of a flying saucer, backpack helicopter, flying carpet, zeppelin, solar powered car, submarine, or prehistoric mechanical bird. Each of his spectacular constructions possesses not only a peculiar beauty and naive playfulness, but also a degree of conspicuous consideration. In 2001, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent held a… Read More

Cornell Paperbacks. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 267 pages."No one has been more influential in the contemporary practice of art history than Erwin Panofsky, yet many of his early seminal papers remain virtually unknown to art historians. As a result, Michael Ann Holly maintains, art historians today do not have access to the full range of methodological considerations and possibilities that Panofsky's thought offers, and they often remain unaware of the significant role art history played in the development of modern humanistic thought. Placing Panofsky's theoretical work first in the context of the major historical paradigms generated by Hegel, Burckhardt, and Dilthey, Holly shows how these paradigms themselves became the grounds for creative controversy among Panofsky's predecessors -- Riegl, Wölfflin, Warburg, and Dvorák, among others. She also discusses how Panofsky's struggle… Read More

Large-format hardcover volume, measuring approximately 10.25" x 11.75", is, together with pictorial dust jacket, new, still in shrinkwrap. x/340 pages."One of the premier artists of Renaissance Venice, Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) enjoyed a successful career creating splendid and sophisticated paintings for an elite clientele. Focusing on Veronese's materials, workshop organization, and remarkably varied techniques, this important book provides a rich examination of the artist's painting practice and how it developed throughout his career—from his initial training in Verona through the height of his fame in Venice. Diana Gisolfi's multidisciplinary approach brings together information on the physical qualities of Veronese's works discovered during recent conservation projects, a fresh look at contemporary texts from the 16th century, and a nuanced understanding of the world of Venetian artists and their patrons. This innovative approach elucidates the working life of Veronese and his circle of… Read More

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in maroon cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. viii/312 pages."In many accounts of Native American history, treaties are synonymous with tragedy. From the beginnings of settlement, Europeans made and broke treaties, often exploiting Native American lack of alphabetic literacy to manipulate political negotiation. But while colonial dealings had devastating results for Native people, treaty making and breaking involved struggles more complex than any simple contest between invaders and victims. The early colonists were often compelled to negotiate on Indian terms, and treaties took a bewildering array of shapes ranging from rituals to gestures to pictographs. At the same time, Jeffrey Glover demonstrates, treaties were international events, scrutinized by faraway European audiences and framed against a background of English, Spanish, French, and Dutch imperial… Read More

Softcover volume displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 366 pages.

Colección Narrativa. Second edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.75", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Small price sticker appears in lower inside corner of rear cover. Book is otherwise in very good condition. 168 pages.Mexican author and journalist Cristina Pacheco (b. 1941) collects the observations, conversations, news items, images, overhead exchanges as reflections of life in Mexico City.

Collection La philosophie en effet. First edition. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 6.25" x 9.75" is like new. 286 pages.
"Parages" brings together four essays by Derrida on the fictions of Maurice Blanchot. Three of the essays―"Living On," "Title To Be Specified," and "The Law of Genre," are by now canonical. This was a breakthrough publication in the analysis of Blanchot, a notoriously difficult writer. It is safe to say Derrida contributed much to that writer's reputation in both French and English, always insisting on the philosophical pertinence of Blanchot's work to any discussion of the relationship between literature and critical thought. Through patient citation, and an ample collocation and readings of Blanchot's various motifs, Derrida explores a variety of questions, including the limits of genre, the procedure of crossing out, and the evocation of a non-dialectical and non-privative negativity. The book marks a crucial stage in Derrida's itinerary and provides a… Read More

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is new. vi/364 pages.""Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic" is unique both in its focus on literary fiction as a formal and sociological category and in the range of examples it brings to bear on the question of Paris as an imaginary capital of diasporic consciousness."

Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.5" x 7.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 93 pages.
"A philosophical essay, by a French Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, dealing with suffering and the behavior of Holocaust victims and survivors. Quotes from several works demonstrating the horrors of Auschwitz and other concentration camps, especially by two French non-Jews, Robert Antelme and Maurice Blanchot, who wrote about their own experience of Nazi persecution." (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)

Cambrige Studies in Contentious Politics. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6' x 9", is near fine, with lightly bumped bottom edge of spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xiii/313 pages.
""Party in the Street" explores the interaction between political parties and social movements in the United States. Examining the collapse of the post-9/11 antiwar movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this book focuses on activism and protest in the United States. It argues that the electoral success of the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama, as well as antipathy toward President George W. Bush, played a greater role in this collapse than did changes in foreign policy. It shows that how people identify with social movements and political parties matters a great deal, and it considers the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street as comparison cases."

Colección de pensamiento medieval y renacentista, núm. 162. Softcover volume is new. 241 pages. Selected papers presented at the conference held in Salamanca, Spain, June 6, 2014, with contributions in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. On Spanish intellectual life and philosophy in the 16th century.