Maritain CREATIVE INTUITION IN ART & POETRY 1st ed 1953 Inscribed by Ben Shahn

  
Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. Author: [BEN SHAHN] MARITAIN, Jacques Title: Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. Publication: New York: Pantheon / Bollingen Series XXXV, 1953 Edition: First Edition. Cloth-backed tan linen boards, stamped in gilt; xxxii, 423pp; tipped-in color frontispiece & 68 leaves of plates. Inscribed on front endpaper by artist Ben Shahn to his wife Bernarda, dated 1955. Minor external wear; internally clean and unmarked; Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front endpaper.

Very nice association copy of Maritain's treatise on the relationship between art and spiritual experience, a theme which played an ever-increasing role in Shahn's work in the 1950s and 60s. Subject: Art, Photography & Architecture, Autographs & Manuscripts, Library of Ben & Bernarda Shahn. Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA.

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