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Time of Need: forms of imagination in the twentieth century.

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Time of Need: forms of imagination in the twentieth century.
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Bib. Number0004259

Time of Need: forms of imagination in the twentieth century.

Book
Author/EditorBARRETT William.
PublisherHarper and Row
Place PublishedNew York
Year
Date & Collation401pp(11 illus).
LanguageEnglish
More InformationProblems of the twentieth century seen through the eyes of writers and some artists. Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure, 1938 green Hornton stone is illustrated on page 168, and is discussed at several points in the book: the being of this creature is absorbed into the body which yearns to belong again to its earth." Giacometti Dubuffet and Picasso are discussed briefly while the emphasis of the book is on nihilism and alienation in the work of Beckett Camus Hemingway Kafka Hesse and others."
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