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ROOTS OF ART the Sketchbook of a Photographer
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ROOTS OF ART the Sketchbook of a Photographer Hardcover - 1975

by Feininger, Andreas

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • first

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NY: The Viking Press, 1975. (USA) 1st publication. Tiny ownership stamp to the lower corner of the endpaper, no other markings, Near Fine in price-clipped about Very Good dust jacket with tiny chip to head of spine. . Cloth hardcover, 176pp, mostly B&W photos augmented with some colour plates. Feininger's thesis is that all man's creation in art and science has its roots in his experience with the orderly processes of nature, the source from which all inderstanding of the meaning of beauty are drawn. The author's photos demonstrate an awareness of the ways in which nature determines form and creates beauty. His photos draw visual comparision between, say the back of a trap-door spider and Aztec carvings on the Great Pyramid. (3.0 JM LVR 201/b0. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good (-). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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  • Title ROOTS OF ART the Sketchbook of a Photographer
  • Author Feininger, Andreas
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The Viking Press, NY
  • Date 1975
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 07372
  • ISBN 9780670608072 / 0670608076
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 74006998
  • Dewey Decimal Code 779.309

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