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MIT Press, 1993. Hardcover. As New. Disclaimer:An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact; pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

MIT Press, 1993. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

MIT Press, 1995. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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The MIT Press, 1995-03-26. paperback. Book in good condition. . 9x7x0. Clean pages with no markings. Some wear on the corners. Ask for Photos!Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

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Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. V5 . Very Good. Soft cover. First Paperback Printing.. 1995.

MIT Press. NF. 1993. Hardcover. Hardback in Near Fine condition with Near Fine dust jacket . October Series. 7.5 X 1 X 9.25 inches. 337 pages. Some sunning to top edges and to dust jacket spine. . Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information. .

MIT Press, 1995. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN:9780262560818

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Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, André Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death. To this end Foster first restages the difficult encounter of surrealism with Freudian psychoanalysis, then redefines the crucial categories of surrealism―the marvelous, convulsive beauty, objective chance―in terms of the Freudian uncanny, or the return of familar things made strange by repression. Next, with the art of Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, and Alberto Giacometti in mind, Foster develops a theory of the surrealist image as a working over of a primal fantasy. This leads him finally to propose as a summa of surrealism a body of work often shunted to its margins: the dolls of Hans Bellmer, so many… Read More

The MIT Press, 1995. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Clean and tight.

MIT Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Unworn Hardback But With Extensive Annotations And Marker Lines.

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October Books for MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1993. 22.5 x 18.0cms, 314pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback & cover Foster sees surrealism as 'an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive towards death'. The chapters are: beyond the pleasure principle?; compulsive beauty; compulsive identity; fatal attraction; exquisite corpses; outmoded spaces; auratic traces; beyond the surrealism principle?

October Books for MIT Press, Cambridge MA 1993. 22.5 x 18.0cms, 314pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback & cover Foster sees surrealism as 'an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive towards death'. The chapters are: beyond the pleasure principle?; compulsive beauty; compulsive identity; fatal attraction; exquisite corpses; outmoded spaces; auratic traces; beyond the surrealism principle?

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. hardcover. very good(+)/near fine. 313 pages, wide 8vo, blue cloth (lightly sunned at edges), dust wrapper (slightly sunned spine). Cambridge: MIT, 1993. A very good(+) copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

Cambridge: MIT, 1993. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. An October Book. 4to, 313 pp., b/w illus.