The Struggle with the Angel : Delacroix, Jacob, and the God of Good and Evil de Kauffmann, Jean-Paul

Basic Books, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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NY:: Four Walls Eight Windows. Fine in Fine dust jacket; A bright fine copy!. 2002. 1st US Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1568582439. 226 p.; Translated from the French by Patricia Clancy; 8 pages of color illus.. Catalogs: Art History. Keywords: Eugene Delacroix.

Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. First American Edition. Hardback, Dustjacket. Like New, slight wear to cover.

U.S.A.: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. A very clean and sound copy. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. International Priority Air Mail shipping available for this item. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002-10-22. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Minor wear & toning to boards. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. 1st US . Hardcover. Fine/Very Fine. (1st US) Slightly smaller book, gray boards, very bright gilt lettering on spine, 226 pages, color photo section on photo paper. DJ glossy with color-illustration of painting on front and back, praise on back from Parade, The Boston Globe, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and others. Remainder mark at bottom of pages' edge. Very Fine DJ/Near Very Fine book.

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Da Capo Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Clean unmarked pages, slight creasing to upper edge of jacket. In The Struggle with the Angel, Jean-Paul Kauffmann -- a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award for his The Black Room at Longwood -- wrestles with good and evil. His muse is The Struggle of Jacob with the Angel, a Delacroix painting in Paris's Saint-Sulpice. In this painting, Delacroix, a narrative artist of the mid 19th century, portrayed one of the most enigmatic episodes in Genesis. It was said to be his "spiritual testimony," and it took him eight years to complete. In the manner of an intuitive detective, Kauffmann investigates the painting and the church that houses it. Stroke by meticulous stroke, he uncovers the painting's deeper meaning the struggle with God for the artist and for himself, as he attempts to put his own troubled past into perspective. Color photos and illustrations accompany this meditation on humanity's struggles with… Leer más