Carole A. Feuerman

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essay by Nicholas Capasso

"Bones of the Earth, Spirit of the Land, spans the twenty-five year career of the internationally recognized sculptor John Van Alstine. Beginning with early stone carvings reminiscent of Modernists such as Hans Arp and Constantin Brancusi, this book traces the rapid development of a style and themes centered on combining roughly hewn stone and metal. Van Alstine has an abiding concern for the land resulting in sculptures that "elicit meaning through their juxtapositions with existing landscapes, and also transform places from the mundane to the magical," according to Nicholas Capasso in his introductory essay. Also featured in this book are many of Van Alstine's drawings and early "easel paintings.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Eduard Hüttinger

"The Swiss artist, designer and architect Max Bill (1908-1994) remains a key figure in Europe's applied arts and is one of Concrete and Constructive art's most influential exponents. Bill's 100th birthday offers the occasion to cast a new glance at his versatile oeuvre; several of the sculptures, paintings, furnishings, use objects and typographies in this book have only rarely been available for viewing. The texts additionally shed light on Bill's artistic environment and document his influence on other artists."--Jacket.

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Lesa Carnes Corrigan

"When Robert Penn Warren asks, "what / Is man but his passion?" he exemplifies the type of artist that the British Romantics celebrated. Poems of Pure Imagination traces the development of Warren's poetic craft as influenced by that movement's ideals."--BOOK JACKET. "Lesa Carnes Corrigan lays out clearly the six-decades-long progression in Warren's Romantic vision - a combination of Wordsworth's tempered aesthetics and Yeats's awareness of historical violence and modern estrangement. She demonstrates how closely the poet associated his most deeply felt intuitions about art and life with the overarching philosophies of the Romantics."--BOOK JACKET.

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Sanford Sternlicht

"Stephen Spender is the last of the great British poets of the "Thirties". This group, lead[sic] by W H. Auden, used their art as an expression of political sympathy and solidarity with the oppressed and impoverished. Now spanning more than five decades, Spender's work--including The Still Centre and Collected Poems--has earned him both popular praise and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Although first a poet, Spender has made landmark contributions to literary criticism, prose fiction, political theory, and autobiography."--BOOK JACKET. "Stephen Spender, the first book-length study of the entire Spender canon, discusses all genres of the author's work. Sanford Sternlicht begins by providing the reader with a well researched, biographical sketch of the poet's development over several decades. He also includes a lengthy and insightful discussion of Spender's influential role as literary and political critic. By treating this multifaceted writer's craft, philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and sexuality in a Modernist context, the book fully illustrates Spender's place in the British literary pantheon."--BOOK JACKET.