Book #15699

Enrico Baj - Il Giardino Delle Delizie - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Umberto Eco, Donald Kuspit, Jean Baudrillard

Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Milano: Fabbri editori, 1991.
ISBN: 8845038602

Price: $60.00

First edition/first printing, Contursi Aa23a. Fine in black cloth in about Fine pictorial dust-jacket, small impression on back cover/panel, variant jacket with "dal Paradiso Perduto" preceding title, "Regione Lazio" (blacked out) at bottom, lacking price and ISBN, "11" on lower spine. Numerous color reproductions and black and white photographs. From the personal library of Eco bibliographer James Contursi.

an important introduction into nuclear art founder Enrico Baj (1924-2003) and the history of modern and postmodern Italian drawings and paintings of the late 20th century. Four untenable theses that are rendered tenable in Enrico Baj's heads. In the original Italian language; 4to; 119, [1] pages.

Author Bio

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory.