Man's Lot: A Trilogy.

KAUFMANN, Walter.

Verlag: Reader's Digest Press, New York, 1978

Beschreibung

Half title with photograph and "Books by Walter Kaufmann" on the verso + TP with Acknowledgements on verso + Dedication page with photo of Rembrandt on verso + [7] = Contents of all three parts + [9] = Preface with black & white photos on verso + [11] = Half Title for Life At The Limits with photo + [12]-[13] = Black & White Photographs + [14]-[15] = Contents of Life at the Limits + [16] = Notes on the Photographs + [17]-[64] = Color Photographs + [65]-128 + [129]-[160] = Color Photographs + Half Title = Time Is An Artist with photo + [2]-[5] = Black & White Photographs + [6]-[7] = Contents of Time Is An Artist + [8] = Notes on the Color Photographs + [9]-[24] = Color Photographs + [25]-79 + [80] = Bibliography + [81]-[96] = Color Photographs + Half Title for What Is Man? + [2]-[12] = Black & White Photographs + [13]-[14] = Content of What Is Man? + [15]-[16] = Notes on the Color Photographs + [17]-[48] = Color Photographs + [49]-160 + [161]-[192] = Color Photographs, Quarto. First Edition.Man's Lot fuses photography and poetry, scholarship and philosophy to present a vision of the human condition. The images are not only individual works of art but presented in three sequences. With the text they are like a sonata for violin and piano, in three movements: a new art form. In Life at the Limits, all of the color photographs are of people in India while the text deals largely with the West. The final chapters compare attitudes toward extreme situations in India and in the West. The second part, Time is an Artist, shows us time's artistry in nature as well as time's effects on human art, including patina, torsos, and ruins. It deals critically with multimillion-dollar restoration projects and shows how different attitudes toward time are related to our attitudes toward ourselves and the past, old ag, and death, widows and witches. The social implication are developed, and the epilogue bears the title "Old is Beautiful." The last part, What is Man?, represents the culmination of the trilogy. The text and pictures are meant to be lived with, and the whole book is intended for continued meditation and reflection. Publisher's original unclipped dust jacket over the original green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. The dust jacket has a small closed tear at the front top of the spine and there are two small scratches to the rear panel. Otherwise, a near fine copy of this book. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1416

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Man's Lot: A Trilogy.

Verlag: Reader's Digest Press, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1978

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Auflage: FIRST EDITION.