Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: Beijing Shi : Xin Xing Chu Ban She, 2005, Beijing
ISBN: 7801487540

[Book #15723]

First Chinese Edition/First Printing, not listed in Contursi, Fine condition in pictorial wraps with French flaps. From the personal library of Eco bibliographer James Contursi;

Eco's seminal, revolutionary work in the field of semiotics and critical theory, a collection of essays pre-dating his move toward semiotics. The Open Work discusses the powerful concept of "openness", the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance. In Chinese