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  • Salvador Dalí

    by Mary Ann Caws ...
    Series Book 20 - Critical Lives
    Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, Marquis of Pubol, was born in Catalonia on May 11, 1904, and died on January 23, 1989. Best known as a surrealist painter, his artistic output also included film, sculpture, photography and writing. Dalí is also notorious for his eccentric behaviour and his involvement with the Dada movement, which often drew more attention to himself than his art ... Read more

    $22.19 CAD

  • Symbolism, Dada, Surrealisms

    Selected Writing of Mary Ann Caws

    by Mary Ann Caws ...
    Over the course of her long, highly distinguished career writing about literature and art, Mary Ann Caws has excavated, illuminated and examined in depth the most intriguing works and personalities of Symbolism, Dada, Surrealism and beyond. In these concise but always colourful and insightful articles, Caws brings us fresh portraits of the most famous figures and introduces us to writers and ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD

  • Mina Loy

    Apology of Genius

    by Mary Ann Caws ...
    Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, became American, and lived variously in New York, Europe and, finally, Aspen, Colorado, where she died in 1966. Flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde, she was a poet, painter, novelist, essayist, manifesto writer, actress, and dress and lampshade designer. Her life involved an impossible abundance of artistic friends, performance and spectacular ... Read more

    $39.89 CAD

  • Women of Bloomsbury

    Virginia, Vanessa and Carrington

    by Mary Ann Caws ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Virginia Woolf
    Originally published in 1990, Women of Bloomsbury takes a fresh look at the lives of Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, and Dora Carrington. Connected by more than bonds of friendship and artistic endeavour, the three women faced similar struggles. Juxtaposing their personal lives and their work, Mary Ann Caws shows us with feeling and clarity the pain women suffer in being artists and in ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • To the Boathouse

    A Memoir

    by Mary Ann Caws ...
    From Southern roots to scholarly heights—one woman’s journey to find peace, purpose, and her place in the world.A neat and lavish, if constricting, childhood in the lush landscapes of North Carolina. Summers at a calm, remote beach house. A proper and religiously influenced prep school in Washington. Years at Bryn Mawr, an impulsive study trip to Paris, further education at Yale, married life, and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Pablo Picasso

    by Mary Ann Caws ...
    Series Book 3 - Critical Lives
    With an introduction by Arthur C. Danto.This book provides a fresh, engaging view into Picasso's life and art. Mary Ann Caws describes the artist's life thematically and chronologically, and also takes as focal points Picasso's relationships with his close friends as they changed over the years.Pablo Picasso invokes central places and characters in various periods of the artist's long and active ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Blaise Pascal

    Miracles and Reason

    by Mary Ann Caws ...
    Series Book 3 - Renaissance Lives
    Blaise Pascal had an extraordinary life and career. Renowned as a child prodigy, he engaged with the intellectual ferment surrounding the mathematician Father Mersenne before turning to his scientific experiments, his work on mathematics and construction of mechanical calculating machines, his correspondence with Pierre de Fermat and René Descartes, and his ‘Memorial’, a scrap of paper he always ... Read more

    $26.49 CAD

  • City Images

    Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy and Film

    by Mary Ann Caws ...
    First Published in 1991. Knowing any real city, and still more so, knowing what it is to know a city, may be as much about passive as about active experience. What we read in the field-that field of the city in all its bizarre mixture of culture and nature-is bound to determine, to some non-fictional extent, what we know of it, what we imagine it could be, what we fear it may be, or become. These ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Robert Motherwell

    with Pen and Brush

    by Mary Ann Caws ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    Robert Motherwell was by far the most intellectual and articulate of the Abstract Expressionists. This book, written by a friend of the artist, the well-known writer and critic Mary Ann Caws, examines Motherwell’s way of thinking and writing in relation to his paintings. The artist, American by birth, yet simultaneously American and European in his way of visualizing and vocalizing artistic and ... Read more

    $22.09 CAD

  • Bloomsbury and France

    Art and Friends

    by Mary Ann Caws, Sarah Bird Wright ...
    "Bloomsbury on the Mediterranean," is how Vanessa Bell described France in a letter to her sister, Virginia Woolf. Remarking on the vivifying effect of Cassis, Woolf herself said, "I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim.... Complete heaven, I think it." Yet until now there has never been a book that focused on the profound influence of France on the Bloomsbury group. In ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The French Prose Poem

    An Anthology

    Edited by Mary Ann Caws, Michel Delville ...
    The first English-language collection of its kind, this anthology offers an overview of the past and present history of a long-underappreciated—and now quickly burgeoning—poetic tradition.For decades, the prose poem has variously delighted, confounded, and incensed readers and critics. Until recent years, it had been confined to the margins of literary history as a rather disturbing and elusive ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • Undoing Art

    by Mary Ann Caws, Michel Delville ...
    Series series Elements
    «Here is, we think, the point. It doesn't matter for what reason the writer or painter or lover destroys the creation: the real point is that destruction itself, like a gigantic statement. It is, in fact, something of an excitation, a stimulation to further thought: what is this ACTION about?» What do Stéphane Mallarmé, Antonin Artaud, Meret Oppenheim, Asger Jorn, Yoko Ono, Tom Phillips and Martin ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus