Dora Holzhandler's paintings are rooted in the mystical perception of reality and depict a timeless Jewish world, often with a Buddhist quality. The twin strands of Holzhandler's spiritual identity - Jewish and Buddhist - are strongly evidenced in her extraordinary work and explored in this superb volume, the first monograph on the art of Dora Holzhandler. Holzhandler's richly decorative paintings of everyday, often specifically Jewish, life, are reminiscent of Polish folk art, Indian and Persian miniatures and Roman ...
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Dora Holzhandler's paintings are rooted in the mystical perception of reality and depict a timeless Jewish world, often with a Buddhist quality. The twin strands of Holzhandler's spiritual identity - Jewish and Buddhist - are strongly evidenced in her extraordinary work and explored in this superb volume, the first monograph on the art of Dora Holzhandler. Holzhandler's richly decorative paintings of everyday, often specifically Jewish, life, are reminiscent of Polish folk art, Indian and Persian miniatures and Roman mosaics. Inspired by Allen Ginsberg's poetry, Jack Kerouac's Buddhist-Catholic novels, Aldous Huxley's study of visionary perception and LSD-transfigured ways of seeing, and essays on the mystical path by a Catholic monk, Dora Holzhandler draws no distinction between the sacred and mundane.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. First edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, customary library markings and attachments, mylar cover taped to boards,
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Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Book Printed in Singapore. Polish Jewish artist, born in Paris 1928. Primitive version of Chagall 100 color repros. fine, fine dj, pale blue bds, oversized 128 pgs.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. The Overlook Press, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Bright unopened copy. Tiniest wear at lower corner tips. JAcket pretty and fresh, with a short closed tear at top edge, and a little ruffling to top rear..
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Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 4to. 128 pps. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.