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Pleasures of Music: An Anthology of Writing About Music and Musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw (Phoenix Book)

By: Barzun, Jacques

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr: July 1984

Seller ID: 179346

ISBN: 0226038548

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Light cover toning, contents crisp & bright, a very nice copy.
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The Use and Abuse of Art (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)

By: BARZUN, JACQUES

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Princeton University Press: June 1975

Seller ID: 179349

ISBN: 0691018049

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Albert Camus said, 'only artists have never harmed mankind.' For this our author scolds him as an overrated sentimentalist. 'The truth is' Barzun corrects Camus, 'we do art no honor and no justice when we represent it as invariably humane, heroic and disinterested in its intentions, not subject to reproach or accountability.' Art, in the modern world is a public institution possessed of the same economic means of production, fashion and reception as other goods in the free market. The First World War was heedless in its destruction of art and artists, the Second careful to preserve them, all ...
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

By: JACQUES BARZUN

Price: $20.00

Publisher: HarperCollins: June 2000

Seller ID: 135557

ISBN: 0060175869

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Pristine copy in jacket showing very minor edgewear.
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From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

By: JACQUES BARZUN

Price: $24.99

Publisher: Harpercollins: May 2001

Seller ID: 173475

ISBN: 0060928832

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Nearing the century mark in age, Jacques Barzun caps a distinguished career of consistently remarkable literary and cultural criticism with this tour-de-force retrospective of the triumphs and tragedies of five hundred years of Western culture. Barzun concentrates on the historical path of ideas rather than simply recounting events, illuminating aspects of, for example, the Reformation and the Renaissance that have wended their way through the centuries to shape and transform our own lives and minds. As the title indicates, Barzun sees the twentieth-century, especially since World War I, as a ...
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Modern Researcher

By: Jacques Barzun, Henry F. Graff

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Thomson Learning: August 1985

Edition: 4

Seller ID: 143596

ISBN: 0155625128

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Plenty of rubbing wear to covers, binding firm, text unmarked.
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Author:JACQUES BARZUN

Pleasures of Music: An Anthology of Writing About Music and Musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw (Phoenix Book)

The Use and Abuse of Art (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

From Dawn to Decadence : 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

Modern Researcher