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A New Directions Paperback, 2008. 184 pp. Very good copy with only minor wear. The Great American Jazz Novel by Nathaniel Mackey, winner of the 2006 National Book: "An open-ended exegesis of musical meaning that is equal parts African American history, Bedouin mysticism, and Mackey’s own imagination." - Nathaniel Mackey was born in Miami, Florida, in 1947. He is the author of several books of fiction of “exquisite rhythmic lyricism” (Bookforum), poetry, and criticism and has received many awards for his work, including the National Book Award in poetry for Splay Anthem, the Stephen Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society, the Bollingen Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Mackey is the Reynolds Price Professor of English at Duke University.

Wordwell Ltd., Wicklow, Ireland, 2004. Tall large paperback. X, 258 pp. Clean copy.

Sternberg Press, 2014. Wraps. 293 pp. Very good copy. Contributions by Emanuel Almborg, Dave Hullfish Bailey, Nils Christie, Ane Hjort Guttu, Carl Hegemann, Adelita Husni-Bey, Carsten Rene Jørgensen, Lars Bang Larsen, Sharon Lockhart, Magnus Marsdal, Marit Paasche, Allan Sekula. "One of the few things we have in common in contemporary society is the future of our children. But it seems that even the “we” of childhood, of learning and free play, has turned into a common ground for instrumentalization and competition. Today, the pedagogical paradox—Kant’s meditation on the paradox that the subject’s predisposition for freedom must be learned—is increasingly lost in governmental obsession about the efficiency of education and schooling. From another perspective, artists are addressing questions of childhood, play, and pedagogy. What ideological and moral transformations is the school system currently undergoing? What do the psychiatric diagnoses and treatments mean that are increasingly applied to children and youth? What happened to the reform pedagogy of the twentieth century? What is the status of childhood in the era of the consuming child and the playing adult? These are some of the questions addressed by The Phantom of Liberty, which sets out to reestablish a social and aesthetic dialogue between visual art and psychology, philosophy, pedagogy, and critical journalism.

Aarhus Universitet, 1995. 194 pp. Hft. Navn. Enkelte noter i margin. Heri blandt andet Cassirer's text "Ånd og Liv: Heidegger", tekst af Foucault med flere om Cassirer.

Berlin: DAAD-Galerie, 1987. Lille 4to. 80 sider. Rigt illustreret. Tekst på tysk. Hæftet. Med DEDIKATION fra kunstneren.

South Bank Centre / Parkett - Distributed Art Pub Inc., 1992. Large 8vo in stiff wraps as issued. 250 pages, with illustrations. Fine tight and clean copy. First edition. The 23 artists in Doubletake were: Stephan Balkenhol, Sophie Calle, Saint Claire Cemin, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Christian Marclay, Julio Galán, Robert Gober, Andreas Gursky, Ann Hamilton, Gary Hill, Jenny Holzer, Narelle Jubelin, Mike Kelley, Jon Kessler, Juan Muñoz, Simon Patterson, Philip Taaffe, Boyd Webb, Tim Rollins + K.O.S. and Rachel Whiteread.

Sophienholm, 2014. 4to hardcover. 240 pp. Rigt illustreret. Pænt eksemplar. A retrospective of the works (so far) by Danish artist Jytte Rex.

Abbeville Press, 1986. 4to in wraps. 128 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Near fine / fine clean copy. First edition. "The story of Philip Guston's life is, in many ways, a chronicle of the ideas and events that transformed American painting in this century. Having been a muralist in the 1930s, by the 1940s Guston had turned away from public art to explore a more private vision. These haunting tableaux gave way in the 1950s to shimmering abstractions that represent one of the most poetic contributions to Abstract Expressionism. In the last and most important decade of his life, Guston's work changed yet again, as he invented bizarre, cartoonlike characters to enact monstrously comic fantasies. This abrupt shift from abstraction to figuration enraged the art establishment, but it also helped embolden a younger generation of artists to risk a new style of painting that became known as Neo-Expressionism". From the Modern Masters series.

Gyldendals Tranebøger, 1989. 257, 252 pp. Hft. Pænt sæt.

Foreningen for Boghaandværk, 1998. Smuk udgave indbundet i det originale halvlærredsbind (hardcover). 87 pp. Skjold på cover i venstre hjørne (se foto) der dog ikke er gået igennem. Bogen er ren og pæn indvendig. Første udgave og 1. oplag.

Rhodos, 1973. 272 pp. Hft. Omslag med lidt brugsspor. Første udgave, 1. oplag. Eet af Brøgger's hovedværker og et hovedværk i dansk litteratur i det hele taget.

Attika, 2004. 188 sider. Heftet med orig. omslag. Pænt eksemplar. Illustreret i sort/hvid og farver. Med dedikation fra forfatteren.

Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2000. 97 pp. Hft. Pænt eksemplar.

London & Stratford-Upon-Avon: A.H. Bullen at the Shakespeare Head Press 1913 (1911). Tall large 8vo in original quarter cloth hardcover, untrimmed edges. XIV, 226 pp. Binding rubbed but solid (see photos). Name to innercover front. Some heavy browncoloring to both endpapers, soiling to the first page. Still overall an acceptable and good copy, apart from scattered brownspottings clean inside. Contains Deidre; The Green Helmet; On Baile’s Strand; The King’s Threshold; The Shadowy Waters; The Hour-Glass; Cathleen Ni Houlihan; acting version of The Shadowy Waters. Author’s preface and notes. Edition with large type and generous wide margins. First edition, 2nd impression.

Forlaget Klim, 2009. Original kartonbind (hardcover). 635 pp. 6.oplag. Pænt eksemplar.

Ikon Gallery, 2008. Large 4to in wraps as issued. 72 pages, illustrated. Edgewear, overall very good clean copy. First edition. Exhibition catalogue, produced to accompany his exhibition held at the Ikon gallery, Birmingham and the Hiroshima City Museum of Modern Art, Japan. 72 pages, soft back, fully illustrated. Text: Jonathan Watkins, Yukie Kamiya, Michael Archer.

New York: Lustrum Press, 1979. Large 8vo hardcover. 140 pages, German intro text else illustrated throughout. Only minimal wear to cover. A very good and clean copy. Illustrated with polaroid photographs by Mary Ellen Mark, Lucas Samaras, Andre Kertesz, Duane Michals et al.

Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann 1978 (1967). 8vo. Broschur. X, 478 Seiten. Name. Viele Anstreichungen mit Kugelschreiber.

Museum Tusculanums Forlag, København 1998. Hardcover. 221 sider. Illustreret i s/h. Et par enkelte noter i teksten, ellers pæn.

Arrow Books, 2003. Thick paperback. 717 pages. Very good, clean and tight copy.  'I have put my genius into my life but only my talent into my work'. So said Oscar Wilde of his remarkable life - a life more complex, more erotic, more troubled and more triumphant than any of his contemporaries ever knew or suspected. Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde charts fully for the first time Oscar's astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London's sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges as a man driven personally and creatively by his powerful desires for sex with men, and Neil McKenna argues compellingly and convincingly that Oscar's Wilde's life and work can only be fully understood and appreciated in terms of his sexuality.The book draws of a vast range of sources, many of them previously unpublished, and includes startling new material like the statements made to the police by the male prostitutes and blackmailers ranged against Oscar Wilde at his trial which have been lost for over a century.Dazzlingly written, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde meticulously and brilliantly reconstructs Oscar Wilde's emotional and sexual life, painting an astonishingly frank and vivid portrait of a troubled genius who chose to martyr himself for the cause of love between men.

Thames & Hudson, 2020. 8vo. Paperback. 599 pages. Illustrated. Very good clean copy. No foreign shipping for this item! Whitney Chadwick’s acclaimed study challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule, who ‘transcended’ their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contribution to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected, Chadwick’s survey amounts to much more than an alternative canon of women artists: it re-examines the works themselves and the ways in which they have been perceived as marginal, often in direct reference to gender. In her disussion of feminism and its influence on such a reappraisal, the author also addresses the closely related issues of ethnicity, class and sexuality. With a new preface and epilogue by Flavia Frigeri on the history of women artists, this revised edition continues the project of charting the evolution of feminist art history and pedagogy in recent years, revealing how artists have responded to new strategies of feminism for the current moment.

Thames & Hudson, 2012. Small 4to in wraps as issued. 256 pp. Richly illustrated. Fine clean copy.

University of California Press 2018. Hardcover, w jacket. 279 pp. Unread, like new copy. 1. ed.- "Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present. Reading like a jazz composition, the blend of research, anecdote, and a selection of Dexter's personal letters reflects his colorful life and legendary times. It is clear why the celebrated trumpet genius Dizzy Gillespie said to Dexter, "Man, you ought to leave your karma to science." Dexter Gordon the icon is the Dexter beloved and celebrated on albums, on film, and in jazz lore--even in a street named for him in Copenhagen. But this image of the cool jazzman fails to come to terms with the multidimensional man full of humor and wisdom, a figure who struggled to reconcile being both a creative outsider who broke the rules and a comforting insider who was a son, father, husband, and world citizen. This essential book is an attempt to fill in the gaps created by our misperceptions as well as the gaps left by Dexter himself."

Strandberg Publishing, København 2022. 4to. Hardcover. 240 sider. Rigt illustreret. Nærmest som ny.

AG Schwabe Verlag, 1999. 8vo in hardcover. 190 Seiten. Gut erhalten.