San Antonio College Library

"This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about the societies who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over the centuries Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions of utopia Explores the many forms utopias have taken - prophecies and oratory,...

This analysis of the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh aims to represent the artist as a determined modern professional. The author discusses what she sees as a Utopian idealism infusing both the artist's life and his paintings, and considers Van Gogh's career from 1882 to 1890.

How Charlotte Perkins Gilman developed her capacity to imagine a full-blown utopia for women is the focus of this book. It presents Gilman's writing both in four chapters of scholarly discussion and in a fifth chapter that contains fourteen brief reprinted selections from Gilman's utopian writing. This combination of scholarship and selection of original works is essential for understanding of Gilman because her work is so expansive, so contradictory,...