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Product Description: Brand new translations of the earliest versions of best-known and most-loved fairy tales, with an introduction by renowned mythographer Marina Warner Returning to some of the earliest written records of these stories, before the moralizing of the British Victorians and the sugarcoating of Walt Disney, unearths narratives that differ radically from those that children are told to this day...read more
By Marina Warner (introduced by)
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9781843913627 | Hesperus Pr, August 1, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Brand new translations of the earliest versions of best-known and most-loved fairy tales, with an introduction by renowned mythographer Marina Warner Returning to some of the earliest written records of these stories, before the moralizing of the British Victorians and the sugarcoating of Walt Disney, unearths narratives that differ radically from those that children are told to this day.

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Product Description: Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience...read more
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9780674055308 | Belknap Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes.

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Product Description: This book imaginatively evokes one of Anselm Kiefer's most significant exhibitions with magnificent reproductions of a provocative body of work representing his key themes, styles, and mediums. Employing a dazzling variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, and photography, Kiefer's monumental installation, captured in this sumptuous oversize volume, manifests an array of cultural myths and metaphors, from the Old and New Testaments to the Kabbalah, from ancient Roman history to the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Célan...read more
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9783791345833 | Prestel Pub, March 27, 2012, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This book imaginatively evokes one of Anselm Kiefer's most significant exhibitions with magnificent reproductions of a provocative body of work representing his key themes, styles, and mediums.

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Product Description: In 1996 the artist Bobby Baker was diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Her subsequent struggle to overcome severe mental and later physical illness lasted for 11 years, and was unknown to anyone outside her close family, friends and colleagues...read more
By Bobby Baker, Marina Warner (illustrator), Andrew Whittuck (photographer) and Dora Whittuck
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9781846683749 | Profile Books Ltd, December 21, 2010, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In 1996 the artist Bobby Baker was diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder.

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9781907317064, titled "The Colour of Time: Garry Fabian Miller" | Black Dog Pub Ltd, November 2, 2010, cover price $49.95

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Product Description: Already a sensation in the UK and winner of the prestigious 2008 Design & Art Direction award for outstanding achievement in illustration and book design, Sara Fanelli's Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I Am is an extraordinary new creation, a book unlike any other...read more
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9781854377289 | Tate Gallery Pubn, May 1, 2009, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Already a sensation in the UK and winner of the prestigious 2008 Design & Art Direction award for outstanding achievement in illustration and book design, Sara Fanelli's Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I Am is an extraordinary new creation, a book unlike any other.

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Product Description: With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition...read more
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9780199299942 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 7, 2006, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition.

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9780199239238 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 30, 2008, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition.

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Product Description: When Odysseus instructed his crew to lash him to the mast of their ship, he was preparing himself to hear the sirens' song, 'the song of the universe'. Their sweet singing, claims of omniscience and power to calm the waters, unfailingly lured sailors off course to their destruction...read more
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9783865213068 | Steidl / Edition7L, February 1, 2011, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: When Odysseus instructed his crew to lash him to the mast of their ship, he was preparing himself to hear the sirens' song, 'the song of the universe'.

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Product Description: Since the beginning of storytelling, monsters of all kinds have inhabited myths, legends, folklore, and oral traditions, and they continue to thrive amidst society's ever-increasing attraction to the thrill of experiencing fear. Today many of us seek out horror movies, read thrillers and Gothic novels, and visit haunted houses, in our endless pursuit of the macabre and exciting...read more
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9780813191744 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, February 23, 2007, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Since the beginning of storytelling, monsters of all kinds have inhabited myths, legends, folklore, and oral traditions, and they continue to thrive amidst society's ever-increasing attraction to the thrill of experiencing fear.

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Product Description: Although she emerged in the 1990s, Berlin-based English artist Tacita Dean has in her work a quiet depth not usually associated with the Pop and hype of the 'cool Britannia' scene. Her film installations explore how chance and coincidence influence daily life, constructing narratives that connect past and present, fact and fiction, private histories and larger events...read more
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9780714844282 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, July 1, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Although she emerged in the 1990s, Berlin-based English artist Tacita Dean has in her work a quiet depth not usually associated with the Pop and hype of the 'cool Britannia' scene.

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Product Description: The 1770s were marked by the emergence of themes of violence, horror, and the supernatural in art: the birth of the Gothic. In 1782 the unveiling of Henry Fuseli's painting The Nightmare was met with a mixture of shock and fascination, and was followed by the cosmic visions of William Blake and the searing grotesque caricatures of James Gilray...read more
By Christopher Frayling (contributor), Martin Myrone and Marina Warner (contributor)
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9781854375827 | Tate Gallery Pubn, April 1, 2006, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The 1770s were marked by the emergence of themes of violence, horror, and the supernatural in art: the birth of the Gothic.

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Presents a catalog of an exhibition highlighting the works of Kiki Smith, in a volume that also includes critical essays, an interview with the artist, and a chronology of Smith's life and work.
By Siri Engberg, Linda Nochlin, Kiki Smith, Lynne Tillman (contributor) and Marina Warner (contributor)
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9780935640793 | Walker Art Center, March 1, 2006, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Presents a catalog of an exhibition highlighting the works of Kiki Smith, in a volume that also includes critical essays, an interview with the artist, and a chronology of Smith's life and work.

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Product Description: Things, published in association with London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and drawn from its superb photography collection, showcases the work of artists, scientists, reporters, and advertising and editorial photographers. Ranging over 150 years, it includes the images of ninety photographers, from Fox Talbot and Julia Margaret Cameron to Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus, and that of a new generation on the cutting edge of recent technology...read more
By Mark Haworth-Booth and Marina Warner (introduced by)
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9780224072892 | Random House Uk Ltd, January 30, 2005, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Things, published in association with London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and drawn from its superb photography collection, showcases the work of artists, scientists, reporters, and advertising and editorial photographers.

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Product Description: Light and shadow, reflection, colour and motion - these are the primary elements of visual art. Shadow play, tricks of perspective, anamorphoses and magic lanterns have fascinated artists and craftsmen throughout the centuries and continue to inspire and stimulate the imagination to this day...read more
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9780853319139 | Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, December 30, 2004, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Light and shadow, reflection, colour and motion - these are the primary elements of visual art.

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Product Description: Once upon a time, in the Paris of Louis XIV, five ladies and one gentleman-- all of them aristocrats-- seized on the new enthusiasm for "Mother Goose Stories" and decided to write some of them down. Telling stories resourcefully and artfully was a key social grace, and when they recorded these elegant narratives they consciously invented the modern fairy tale as we still know it today...read more
By Gilbert Adair (editor), Sophie Herxheimer (editor) and Marina Warner (editor)
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9780195178210 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 4, 2004, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Once upon a time, in the Paris of Louis XIV, five ladies and one gentleman-- all of them aristocrats-- seized on the new enthusiasm for "Mother Goose Stories" and decided to write some of them down.

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Product Description: Here retold in all their original dramatic power are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures. Epic struggles and heroic adventures, passionate jealousies and psychological deceptions, comic mistakes and tragic destinies--these fabulous tales are all part of our common legendary past...read more
By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (editor) and Marina Warner (editor)
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9780292706071 | Univ of Texas Pr, June 30, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Here retold in all their original dramatic power are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures.
9780714150185 | British Museum Pubns Ltd, May 10, 2004, cover price $33.85 | About this edition: Here retold are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures.
9780292702042 | Univ of Texas Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Here retold in all their original dramatic power are some of the most exciting and influential of all world myths, drawn from a fascinating range of ancient cultures.

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Product Description: Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation...read more
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9780198187264 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 21, 2002, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation.

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9780199266845 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 11, 2004, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation.

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Product Description: Paula Rego has long had a fascination with Charlotte Bront's "Jane Eyre" and Jean Rhys' "The Wide Sargasso Sea". In 2002 this culminated in the production of twenty-five lithographs, reproduced here in a large-format artist's book, along with excerpts from the novel...read more
By Marina Warner (introduced by)
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9781904634133 | Enitharmon Pr, December 15, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Paula Rego has long had a fascination with Charlotte Bront's "Jane Eyre" and Jean Rhys' "The Wide Sargasso Sea".

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A collection of stories that conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world. In 'Natural Limits', a bereaved woman, contemplating the massacre of 11,000 virgins, comes to terms with the unimaginable. The title story and the 'Canary' search for signs of evil or innocence written on the body, and a 'canary' dies of toxic malice.
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9780099428374 | New edition (Vintage Uk, November 6, 2003), cover price $12.55 | About this edition: A collection of stories that conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world.

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Product Description: In Madison Square Park in New York, and subsequently in Soho Square, the heart of London's media world, video artist Tony Oursler created a spectral audio-visual experience for an image-saturated society. Conceived as a kind of psycho-landscape, "The Influence Machine" delves deep into the history of media, rousing long-forgotten spirits and setting them to roam about both squares at night...read more
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9781902201115 | Artangel, April 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In Madison Square Park in New York, and subsequently in Soho Square, the heart of London's media world, video artist Tony Oursler created a spectral audio-visual experience for an image-saturated society.

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A secret mummy at the Museum of Albion gives way to the stories of the legendary Leto, who slips through time in different guises, giving birth to twins in one era, sheltering with wolves in another, working as a chambermaid in a warn-torn city in third, and always seeking a lost son, as she journeys from pre-history to the present day. 15,000 first printing.
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9780374185480 | 1 amer ed edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2002), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A secret mummy at the Museum of Albion gives way to the stories of the legendary Leto, who slips through time in different guises, always seeking a lost son, as she journeys from pre-history to the present day.

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Product Description: This collection of images capture sculptor David Nash's intimate exploration of the properties of trees and timber. The accompanying essay by Marina Warner explores Nash's influences, approach and the mythical status of trees throughout history. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781902889047 | Artmedia Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $56.50 | About this edition: This collection of images capture sculptor David Nash's intimate exploration of the properties of trees and timber.

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Product Description: Louise Bourgeois is the first artist to be invited to make works for the Unilever Series, an annual art commission for the huge turbine hall at the heart of the Tate Modern. Extensively illustrated, this book includes text on the works featured and extracts from unpublished interviews...read more
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9781854373229 | Tate Gallery Pubn, November 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Louise Bourgeois is the first artist to be invited to make works for the Unilever Series, an annual art commission for the huge turbine hall at the heart of the Tate Modern.

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Product Description: Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art, especially sculpture, and painting, poetry, and classical mythology, she ranges over the allegorical presence of the woman in the Western tradition with a sharply observant eye and a piquant and engaging style...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780689116452 | Atheneum, November 1, 1985, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A look at the iconographical uses of womanhood from classical times to the present day, in the mass media and in the fine arts interprets the reasons behind the conventions and assesses their effects on ideas about women

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9780520227330 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2001), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles.

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Product Description: First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called "the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780940322691 | Reprint edition (New York Review of Books, April 1, 2001), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature.

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