| Description |
xii, 252 : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Letter / John Addington Symonds. -- from Rear window / William Irish ; The library of Babel / Jorge Louis Borges ; Unpacking my library: a talk about book collecting / Walter Benjamin ; Poem / Gaius Valerius Catullus ; from A full and true account of the battle fought last Friday between the ancient and the modern books in St. James's library / Jonathan Swift ; Letter to Thomas Wharton / Thomas Gray ; Letter to Ivan Turgenev / Gustave Flaubert ; A lady's library / Joseph Addison ; from Along came Ruth / Ring Lardner ; from The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson / James Boswell ; from His notebooks / Henry James ; from The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry / Walter Pater ; from The film sense / Sergei Eisenstein ; from The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman / Laurence Sterne ; from A letter to a junior soph, at Cambridge / Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; from The brown book / Ludwig Wittgenstein ; from The escreveners / Anonymous ; from Really the blues / Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow ; from Mythomystes / Henry Reynolds ; ...Poetically man dwells... / Martin Heidegger ; from His essays / Michel de Montaigne ; Government and rhythm / Osip Mandelstam ; from His notebooks / Henry James ; from The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge / Rainer Maria Rilke ; from The painters of modern life / Charles Baudelaire ; Postcard to Samuel Loveman / Hart Crane |
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Preface / Anne d'Harnoncourt and Susanne Ghez. -- Introduction / Susanne Ghez and Ann Temkin. -- Raymond Pettibon: a reader. A note on dedications / Carl Van Vechten ; from Her diary / Alice James ; from The compleat angler / Izaak Walton ; from The garden of Cyrus / Sir Thomas Browne ; from The art spirit / Robert Henri ; from Purgatory explained by the lives and legends of the saints / F.X. Schouppe, S.J. ; from The big kill / Mickey Spillane ; from His notebooks / Henry James ; from The wisdom of Solomon / Anonymous ; The firmament / John Ruskin ; from Héloïse and Abélard / George Moore ; Cloud castles / George Santayana ; from Time regained / Marcel Proust ; from The cloud of unknowing / Anonymous ; from The hero as poet / Thomas Carlyle ; from His trial testimony / Charles Manson ; from His notebooks / William Blake ; from The craft of fiction / Percy Lubbock ; from Books, bindings and a titian / Arthur Symons ; Holy writ / H.L. Mencken |
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Woofed with dreams / Robert Warshow ; Of love / Francis Bacon ; Letter to Abelard / Héloïse ; from The flame of life / Gabriele D'Annunzio ; from The erotic traveler / Sir Richard Burton ; Sea-wind / Stéphane Mallarmé ; from The anatomy of melancholy / Robert Burton ; from An unknown friend / Ivan Bunin ; from Confessions / Saint Augustine ; from The unnamable / Samuel Beckett ; from Science and health / Mary Baker Eddy ; from The idler / Samuel Johnson ; from Seven pillars of wisdom / T.E. Lawrence ; from Pensées / Blaise Pascal ; from Revelation / Saint John the Divine. -- Perspectives on Raymond Pettibon. A reply to my critics / Bernard Welt ; Don't throw out the shaman with the bathwater / Hamza Walker ; Raymond Pettibon: return to disorder and disfiguration / Benjamin Buchloh ; Rayball / Peter Schjeldahl ; "What's better science than creating me?" / Ann Temkin |
| Notes |
"Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago." |
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Published to accompany the exhibition "Raymond Pettibon", held at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and others, Sept. 13, 1998-Oct. 17, 1999 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245) |
| Subject |
Pettibon, Raymond, 1957- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Pettibon, Raymond, 1957- -- Sources.
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| Author |
Pettibon, Raymond, 1957-
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Temkin, Ann.
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Walker, Hamza.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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University of Chicago. Renaissance Society.
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| LC no. |
98038152 |
| ISBN |
0876331207 |
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