Featuring essays by well-known scholars of utopia, this elegantly designed volume explores the long tradition of thought and art envisioning the "perfect place", extending from classical antiquity to the present. Accompanies a major exhibition sponsored by Bibliotque Nationale de France and the New York Public Library. 330 illustrations.
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Featuring essays by well-known scholars of utopia, this elegantly designed volume explores the long tradition of thought and art envisioning the "perfect place", extending from classical antiquity to the present. Accompanies a major exhibition sponsored by Bibliotque Nationale de France and the New York Public Library. 330 illustrations.
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Good Condition. Slight wear on the edges and corners, but otherwise in good shape. Clean and bright contents. Firm, tight bindings. Publisher's note: This is a catalogue for the exhibition of the same name and showcases more than 400 books, manuscripts, drawings, prints, maps, photographs and other original material from the New York Public Library and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The book explores the long tradition of thought and art that has envisioned the perfect place Size: 27 x 21 x 2.7 cm. xiii, 386 p. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; Utopias; ISBN: 0195141113. ISBN/EAN: 9780195141115. Add. Inventory No: 240229NPG012010.
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Very Good+ First English language edition, 2000, paperback, quarto, 385pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book VG+ with rubbing and mild corner wear to wrap, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
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VG/VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are very clean and clear. ) Blue cloth boards with silver lettering; black dj with color illustrations; xiii, 386 pp; profusely illustrated in bw and color. "This is a catalogue for the exhibition of the same name and showcases more than 400 books, manuscripts, drawings, prints, maps, photographs and other original material from the New York Public Library and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The book explores the long tradition of thought and art that has envisioned the perfect place."-publisher's description. Contents: Preface / Jean-Pierre Angremy and Paul LeClerc--Utopia: space, time, history / Roland Schaer--Utopian traditions: themes and variations / Lyman Tower Sargent--Society as Utopia / Alain Touraine--Ancient, biblical, and Medieval traditions / Danielle Lecoq and Roland Schaer--Plato's Atlantis: the true utopia / Jean-Francois Pradeau--Utopia and the new world, 1500-1700 / J.C. Davis--City as an intellectual exercise / Ruth Eaton--Mundus novus et renovatio mundi: messianic and utopian currents in the Indies of Castille / Alain Milhou--Utopia and the Reformation / Frank Lestringant--On the frontiers of utopia: satires and robinsonades / Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent--Utopia and revolutions / Lyman Tower Sargent and Roland Schaer--Fin-de-siecle landscapes against a background of ruins / Bronislaw Baczko--Socialism and utopia / Gregory Claeys--Utopia and nineteenth-century French literature / Laurent Portes--Utopia and anti-utopia in the twentieth century / Krishan Kumar--Communal movements in the twentieth century / Yaacov Oved--Utopia and twentieth-century avant-gardes / Roland Schaer--Architecture and urbanism: the faces of utopia / Ruth Eaton--Utopia and totalitarianism / Frederic Rouvillois--Utopia and the late twentieth century: a view from North America / Lyman Tower Sargent--Utopia and the philosophical status of constructed space / Francoise Choay--Symbolic collapse: utopia challenged by its representations / Laurent Gervereau.
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