A Fable of Modern Art.
by Dore Ashton
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0500233012
- ISBN 13
- 9780500233016
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About This Item
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1980.. 8vo. 128 pp. Hard cover. Very Good+. Brown cloth covered boards with decorative gilt pattern. Dust Jacket Very Good, with discoloration along spine and edges. In protective Mylar wraps. Penciled underlining and notations on a few pages, likely in the hand of Peter Selz. Else, pages fine. B&W plates.Contents:1. Who was Frenhofer? --ch. 2. Cézanne in the shadow of Frenhofer --ch. 3. Rilke in search of the uttermost --ch. 4. Picasso and Frenhofer --ch. 5. Arnold Schoenberg's ascent.ISBN: 0500233012 9780500233016.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz.
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- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18-7271
- Title
- A Fable of Modern Art.
- Author
- Dore Ashton
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0500233012
- ISBN 13
- 9780500233016
- Publisher
- New York: Thames and Hudson, 1980.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1980
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art History;
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