{"product_id":"utopia-the-search-for-the-ideal-society-in-the-western-world","title":"Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe idea of utopia  the perfect place  has tantalized humanity for thousands of years  from the myth of the Garden of Eden to the high-tech folly of Biosphere 2. Now the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and The New York Public Library are jointly sponsoring a major exhibition that explores the utopian imagination and the myriad attempts to achieve utopia  showcasing a spectacular collection of art and literature. Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World is the catalog for the American exhibition  which will be on view in New York from October 14  2000 through January 2001. Featuring essays by curator Roland Schaer and by Alain Touraine  Lyman Tower Sargent  and other leading European and American scholars of utopia  this elegantly designed volume will explore the long tradition of thought and art envisioning the \"perfect place \" extending from classical antiquity to the present. Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 pictures  most of them in color  Utopia presents such fascinating images as Theodore de Brys 16th-century idealized drawings of the native inhabitants of the New World  Renaissance renderings of ideal architecture  posters from the Soviet Union and the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York  and photographs of experimental communities. Included as well are such resonant documents as a copy of the Declaration of Independence in Thomas Jeffersons hand  stunning illuminated manuscripts  and rare items relating to the French Revolution and to the social utopias of the Romantic Age from the collections of the Bibliothque Nationale. Both beautiful and intellectually provocative  Utopia is the perfect vehicle to explore an idea that has arisen  in many forms and many places  throughout human history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974374649909,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195141113","price":90.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195141115.jpg?v=1770656216","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/utopia-the-search-for-the-ideal-society-in-the-western-world","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}