![]() This edition restores the original artwork by Joe Mugnaini. ![]() And in Touched with Fire, two old men have learned to predict future murders. In The Next in Line, a woman becomes convinced that shell never leave the small, Mexican town shes traveled to on vacation. Uncle Einar and Homecoming concern the monstrous and immortal Elliott family. The October Country collects nineteen short stories: macabre carnival tales, speculative horror, and strange fantasy. The stories explore both the dehumanizing possibilities of space-age technologyin The Veldt and The Rocket Man-and the pessimistic, dark side of humanity, as in The Visitor. The Illustrated Manthe more Earthbound science fiction companion to Bradburys classic collection The Martian Chroniclescontains eighteen short stories bound together by the unifying metaphor of a strangely tattooed outcast. ![]() Here are two of Bradburys most beloved collections, along with twenty-seven other stories, that together represent the best of Bradburys stories of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of Americas most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to printThe author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy. This is the book that the New York Times described as 'Nightmare novelties, imaginative sprees that in turn terrorize or tantalize the mind":- (original cost £0.40). Slight sticker removal discolouration damage to front cover:- Contents: The Fog Horn / The Pedestrian / The April Witch / The Wilderness / The Fruit At The Bottom Of The Bowl / Invisible Boy / The Flying Machine / The Murderer / The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind / I See You Never / Embroidery / The Big Black And White Game / A Sound Of Thunder / The Great Wide World Over There / Powerhouse / En La Noche / Sun And Shadow / The Meadow / The Garbage Collector / The Great Fire / Hail And Farewell / The Golden Apples Of The Sun:- Synopsis: 'The Golden Apples Of The Sun' is a collection of stories in which Ray Bradbury's imagination turns inside out, revealing the strange desires and incredible obsessions of men and monsters. A part of the Corgi SF Collector's Library series. © 1953: A collection of 22 short stories by Ray Bradbury. Cover Art: Bob Fowke / Illustrations: Mugnaini (illustrator). Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. These mass magazine representations of abstract painting and readers’ responses to it constructed both a vision of postwar American culture and a middle American public for it.Paperback: 7" x 4½". Yet letters to the editors reveal that readers were still not convinced of the value of abstract art. By the end of the decade, mass magazines characterized Abstract Expressionism as the embodiment of American freedom and individualism, the leading international style, and an asset in the cultural Cold War. As American abstraction gained support from art institutions and markets in the 1950s, magazines depicted modern art as a commonplace consumer object, a stylistic choice that demonstrated both the consumer’s personality and capitalist freedom. During the late 1940s mass magazines portrayed modern art as a culturally divisive issue in articles that ridiculed abstraction, describing it as a mediocre European derivation that required no skill and questioning whether it was art at all or actually a highbrow hoax on middle America. This dissertation investigates how such magazines defined modern art and its role in postwar American culture for millions of readers. Most Americans who did not frequent museums and galleries or read art journals would have experienced art primarily in mass magazines such as Life, Time, Look, Newsweek, and The Saturday Evening Post. While art historians have devoted much attention to Abstract Expressionism’s place within the New York art establishment and its international promotion, the presentation of this and other art to the American public has been largely overlooked. PhD dissertation: This dissertation examines how mass magazines framed American abstraction for a broad public during the years following the Second World War.
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