Hardcover
1981 · New York
by Hammacher, A.M.
New York: H.N. Abrams, 1981. Hardcover. VG-/VG- light interior foxing, minor sunning to dust jacket.. Magenta cloth boards with black stamped lettering. Cream and color-illustrated dust jacket with red lettering. 364 pp. Color illustrations. Contents: Phantoms of the imagination -- "And then a plank in reason, broke" -- The divine imagination -- Henry Fuseli : invention and the actor -- Frankenstein -- Unsteady reason and the magic of an image : 1793-1830-1845 -- Salome of the imagination -- The revelations of Joris Karl Huysmans and the labyrinth of symbolism -- "When the oriental tale reigns" -- "It was not dark; it was not light" -- From daylight to dreamlight -- The demons of Mikhail Lermontov and Mikhail Vrubel -- The portal of surrealism : Giorgio de Chirico and his Piazza d'Italia -- The power of strange encounters in surrealism -- "The experience continues.
(Inventory #: 171404)