Butler, Ruth:Rodin: The Shape of Genius
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[Washington, D.C., 1899. A collection of photos, several showing the medical training or treatment of service men. Ten of the images, 5 x 7 in., are mounted on stiff card stock, the othe… More...
[Washington, D.C., 1899. A collection of photos, several showing the medical training or treatment of service men. Ten of the images, 5 x 7 in., are mounted on stiff card stock, the other five, 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 in., are not mounted. All the photos are very good, clear. In twelve of the images, the same Army medical doctor [Frank G. Atwood] is shown: using a skeleton to teach anatomy to a group of privates (1); bandaging the head of an injured soldier who sits beside a bed with a blanket belonging to the "U.S.A. Med. Dept. 1887" (1); attending a bed-ridden patient (3) or a patient in his office (1); examining the teeth of other service men (3); listening to the heart of another soldier using his ear (1); preparing medicines (1); and with his horse and medical bag, presumably on the grounds of a post hospital (1). The remaining photos show another man bandaging the ankle of an officer (1); an examination table on a swivel base (1); and a troop of soldiers standing at attention with their rifles on a parade ground (1). These photos are likely all from Atwood's time at the U.S. Army medical department in Washington, D.C. Dr. Frank G. Atwood was born in Woodbury, Connecticut in 1875. He studied veterinary science at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1896. He also took post-graduate courses at Yale Medical School, and at Johns Hopkins University, studying general medicine and surgery. At the outbreak of the Spanish American War he served with the Medical Department of the U.S. Army in Cuba caring for the sick and injured soldiers there. Following the conflict he returned to Washington, D.C. "where he was stationed at the General Hospital in the medical department of the United States army caring for the sick and wounded in the capital city for ten months, when he returned to New Haven and resumed the practice of the veterinary science." [see: "Modern History of New Haven and Eastern New Haven County," by Everett G. Hill (NY: 1918), Vol. II, pp. 704-5 ]. Dr. Frank G. Atwood advertised his services as a veterinarian in a W.C.T.U. community cookbook publication, "Proved Receipts," from Clinton, Madison, and Guilford, Connecticut (1904), and included his photograph which helped to identify him as the physician in these photos. His obituary, published in the New York Times on Sept. 15, 1936, states that as a "pioneer research student under Dr. Osler, he was active in the Spanish War in the work to stamp out yellow fever." He also operated a large veterinary hospital in New Haven, Connecticut for a quarter century., 1899, 0, Madam Will Not Dine Tonight~Hillary Waugh~1947~First Edition~Extremely Rare~Collectible~Free Shipping.This is truly a unique and rare collectible book by Hillary Waugh. This was his first published mystery book. In 1989, Waugh was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. I have done a thorough search for this first edition copy and could only find one copy that is $1250.00. This book is in good condition with wear on the cloth cover. Some stains on the back cover. A glue mark on inside front cover. A small inscription on inside first page. One chip is on the spine at the top. A photo of Hillary Waugh is included. This was part of the dust jacket. Please see my photos for an accurate view of the condition. If you need more information about this book please convo me. A rare find for any collector. Thanks for visiting!Hillary Baldwin Waugh (June 22, 1920 December 8, 2008) was a pioneering American mystery novelist. In 1989, Waugh was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. Pseudonyms for Waugh, include "Elissa Grandower," "Harry Walker" and "H. Baldwin Taylor."Hillary Baldwin Waugh was born on June 22, 1920 in New Haven, Connecticut. Waugh graduated in 1942 from Yale University, majoring in art with a music minor. He was an editor of campus humor magazine The Yale Record.During his senior year at Yale, Waugh enlisted in the United States Navy Air Corps and, after graduation, received his aviator's wings. He served in the Panama Canal Zone for two years, flying various types of aircraft.While in military service, Waugh turned his hand to creative writing, completing and publishing his first novel Madam Will Not Dine Tonight in 1947. He quickly published two more novels, but they were not very well received. In 1949, as the result of reading a case book on true crime, Waugh decided to explore a realistic crime novel. With the cooperation of his fiancée, who was a student at Smith College, Waugh set his police procedural Last Seen Wearing ... in a fictional women's college. Published in 1952, the book was a significant success and is now considered a pioneering effort exploring relentless police work and attention to detail.After Last Seen Wearing..., Waugh went on to publish more than thirty-five additional detective novels, many aptly described as "hardboiled". - From Wikipedia, Coward McCann, 1947, 2.5, 1969. New York / Cambridge / and others, Charles Scribner's Sons / Harper / Yale University Press / Oxford University Press / Viking Press etc., 1969-2003. Large Octavo (17 cm x 23,5 cm). XXIX, 365 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth / Softcover. All books in very good or better condition; many signed or inscribed. A rare opportunity to look into the mind of an important philosophical thinker through his annotations and notes, especially in the book on Sartre. Stanley Louis Cavell (September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy. As an interpreter, he produced influential works on Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau, and Heidegger. His work is characterized by its conversational tone and frequent literary references. Cavell was born to a Jewish family in Atlanta, Georgia. His mother, a locally renowned pianist, trained him in music from his earliest days. During the Depression, Cavell’s parents moved several times between Atlanta and Sacramento, California. As an adolescent, Cavell played lead alto saxophone as the youngest member of a black jazz band in Sacramento. He entered the University of California, Berkeley, where, along with his lifelong friend Bob Thompson (musician), he majored in music, studying with, among others, Roger Sessions and Ernest Bloch. After graduation, he studied composition at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, only to discover that music was not his calling. He entered graduate school in philosophy at UCLA, and then transferred to Harvard University. As a student there he came under the influence of J. L. Austin, whose teaching and methods "knocked him off ... [his] horse." In 1954 he was awarded a Junior Fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Before completing his Ph.D., he became an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. Cavell's daughter by his first wife (Marcia Cavell), Rachel Lee Cavell, was born in 1957. In 1962–63 Cavell was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he befriended the British philosopher Bernard Williams. Cavell’s marriage to Marcia ended in divorce in 1961. In 1963 he returned to the Harvard Philosophy Department, where he became the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value. In the summer of 1964, Cavell joined a group of graduate students, who taught at Tougaloo College, a historically black college in Mississippi, as part of what became known as the Freedom Summer. He and Cathleen (Cohen) Cavell were married in 1967. In April 1969, during the student protests (chiefly arising from the Vietnam War), Cavell, helped by his colleague John Rawls, worked with a group of African-American students to draft language for a faculty vote to establish Harvard's Department of African and African-American Studies. In 1976, Cavell's first son, Benjamin, was born. In 1979, along with the documentary filmmaker Robert H. Gardner, Cavell helped found the Harvard Film Archive, to preserve and present the history of film. Cavell received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992. In 1996-97 Cavell was president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division). In 1984, his second son, David, was born. Cavell remained on the Harvard faculty until retiring in 1997. Thereafter, he taught courses at Yale University and the University of Chicago. He also held the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam in 1998. Cavell died in Boston, Massachusetts of heart failure on June 19, 2018, at the age of 91. He was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. (Wikipedia), 1969, 0, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr. New. 1993. Hardcover. 0300054009 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED - DESCRIPTION: An insightful life of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) that's based on many previously unpublished letters and a fresh interpretation of familiar facts. Butler (Art/UMass at Boston) is especially perceptive about Rodin's relationships--how they inspired, energized, and influenced his art--particularly his relations with the women to whom he claimed he ``owed everything'': his sister, who died when he was 21; his companion of 51 years, Rose Beuret, whom his biographer, Judith Cladel, arranged for him to marry when they were both near death; Camille Claudel, the student whom he reputedly drove mad; wealthy married women who commissioned portraits; and dozens of models who inspired and posed for his thousands of frenetic erotic drawings. Returning to France from Brussels, where he'd began his career, Rodin stopped in Florence, where he encountered the grandeur of Michelangelo and was liberated from the Grecian academic style that prevailed in Paris. This new, more natural, and somewhat vulgar style, as well as the artist's own demanding nature, accounted for his alienation from the centers of power in the artistic community, especially from the Salon system. Nonetheless, in an age of ``statuemania,' ' of nationalism and public art, Rodin created major icons: The Kiss, The Thinker, The Burghers of Calais, and The Gate of Hell, the sublime portals based on Dante and cast for a museum that was never built. Butler's special strengths are in analyzing the politics of the artistic community and the art of politics; the expensive and collaborative nature of sculpture (the space, technology, and immense amount of assistance that Rodin required); Rodin's entrepreneurial dimension; his neglect of his illegitimate son; his fame abroad (Rilke wrote his first biography) but his equivocal position in France; and his loneliness. Like Rodin's art: simplified but rounded; monumental. (Two hundred photographs) -- From Kirkus Reviews -- with a bonus offer-- ., Yale Univ Pr, 1993, 6<
