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Book Synopsis Yearning for Beauty by : Valérie Dufour
Download or read book Yearning for Beauty written by Valérie Dufour and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2006 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Peter Noever, Etienne Davignon, Paul Dujardin and Anne Mommens. Essays by Val rie Dufour, Anette Freytag, Siegfried Mattl, Paulus Raine and Eduard F. Sekler, and conversations with Marc Hotermans and Heimo Zobernig.
Book Synopsis Yearning for beauty by : Peter Noever
Download or read book Yearning for beauty written by Peter Noever and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wiener Werkstätte - 1903-1932 by : Christian Witt-Dörring
Download or read book Wiener Werkstätte - 1903-1932 written by Christian Witt-Dörring and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Easy Beauty written by Chloé Cooper Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 * Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2022 * A Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, Time, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—an “exquisite” (Oprah Daily) and groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. “I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Jones learned early on to factor “pain calculations” into every plan, every situation. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as “less than.” The way she has been seen—or not seen—has informed her lens on the world her entire life. She resisted this reality by excelling academically and retreating to “the neutral room in her mind” until it passed. But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body), something in her shifts, and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she’d been denied, and denied herself. From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyoncé concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh, Jones weaves memory, observation, experience, and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths. “Bold, honest, and superbly well-written” (Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name) Easy Beauty is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world, and your place in it, with new eyes.
Book Synopsis Beauty in Arabic Culture by : Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Download or read book Beauty in Arabic Culture written by Doris Behrens-Abouseif and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A specialist in Islamic architecture and social history, Behrens-Abouseif (U. of Munich) surveys the concepts of beauty in classical and post-classical Arabic culture through the 15th century CE, drawing on Arabic texts in philosophy, theology, mysticism, poetry, literary criticism, historiography, and the Thousand and One Nights. She shows how beauty was measured by the degree of pleasure it elicited in the recipient. The original German Schonheit in der Arabischen Kultur was published by C. D. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich, in 1998. Paper edition (199-3), $22.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Beaner Wiener written by Jim Stark and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Beaner Wiener, and I'm a black cat with some white bits here and there. I wrote this book all by myself ... well, I did have a bit of help from Overall-man, an old writer-guy who wore overalls all the time and lived in a farmhouse. He adopted me after I got dumped in the bush in a cardboard box with all my brothers and sisters for some reason that I didn't even know what it was. But oh, after that, I had a wonderful life. Overall-man said he had to write a description of this book, but I said I'd do it, 'cause it's my book anyway, right? Of course you're wondering how I could write this big book, eh? I mean I was only a little kitten, eh? Well, you'll be real surprised when you find out how I did it, but you should read the whole book and find out that way 'cause then the surprise won't be all ruined when you get to the ending. My sister who got adopted just before me, Overall-man called her Alienne, which is the female for "alien" 'cause she's all white and ghosty-looking and sometimes real grumpy-like. Overall-man called me "Beaner" because he said I was full of beans, whatever that is, and then he added the "Wiener" part later' cause he says sometimes I act like a wiener, whatever that is. Me and Alienne got to play all over that big old farmhouse, and we even got to go outside once we weren't too scared to do it. The yard was endless fun, but it had dangers too. For instance, there was a kennel full of yappy white Samoyed dogs out there, and those dogs made lots of puppies that got sold for money ... whatever that is. We thought at first that dogs ate kittens, but all they ever did was lick us till we fell over. Eww! After a while, Overall-man took us in a cage in his car and got us "fixed" by a vet! That wasn't very nice, actually. Alienne and me, we didn't even know we were broken! I remember one day the mayor came over to our house 'cause some farmer's wife got to complaining about the dogs' howling at night, but Overall-man said that it was legal, just like it's legal for cows to say "moo." The mayor talked and talked until he got himself all muddled up and stomped out. Oh, did we laugh! I saw snow when the winter came, and I even ran around in it. Angel from the farm came over and lived with us for a while and she even had her puppies at our house, and one of them turned out to be blind 'cause of this thing called cancer, and he got put asleep and went to "puppy heaven," Overall-man told us. Then summer came along ... and oh, that was ever so nice. We lived real near a river, and when it was real hot out, people went round the sandy shore dressed up-honestly-in only their underwear! And they went right in the water and got all wet ... on purpose! I have no idea why they would do such a perfectly silly thing. As you can see, I had a most adventurous life, but I have to stop writing here, 'cause you need to read the whole book to get my whole life story.
Book Synopsis Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938 by : Michelle Jackson-Beckett
Download or read book Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938 written by Michelle Jackson-Beckett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the domestic sphere might seem tangential to the dire political situation and humanitarian crises of interwar Europe, it was nevertheless at the forefront of debates about cultural identity and economic policy in the Viennese press, culture, and arts. Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938 explores why and how the Viennese design landscape was set apart--aesthetically and theoretically--from other European explorations of modern design. Jackson-Beckett examines interior design exhibitions, press, and debates about modern living in interwar Vienna, an overlooked area of modern European architecture and design history, arguing for a reconsideration of the contours of European modernism. The text analyses varied interpretations of modern domestic culture (Wohnkultur) in Vienna, and explores why these interpretations were distinct from other strands of European modernism. Vienna and the New Wohnkultur introduces new research and translation of primary sources on flexible, adaptable, and affordable design by architects, designers, and retailers. Vienna's design discourse also prefigured important postmodern and contemporary discussions on historicism, eclecticism, empathy, and user experience. Through extensive new research in archival and period sources, Jackson-Beckett illustrates how design ideas, taste, and portrayals of domestic culture of fin-de-si?cle Viennese Modernism (Wiener Moderne) were also deployed as forms of cultural and national identity both during the early years of the Social Democratic government in Vienna (1918-1934) and later under the fascist state (1934-1938).
Book Synopsis Beauty on Earth by : Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
Download or read book Beauty on Earth written by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz and published by Onesuch Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the door of a Swiss inn the reader steps into a painting. Two men talk to each other and before long the writer -someone like them, one of them- begins to address us. Thus commences the fugue that is Beauty on Earth,in which the coming of a beautiful orphan to her uncle's inn brings a gradual chaos upon his town. Swiss novelist Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz published La Beauté in 1927. This translation by Michelle Bailat-Jones is a gift for which English language readers have waited decades.
Download or read book Chronophobia written by Pamela M. Lee and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the pervasive anxiety about and fixation with time seen in 1960s art. In the 1960s art fell out of time; both artists and critics lost their temporal bearings in response to what E. M. Cioran called "not being entitled to time." This anxiety and uneasiness about time, which Pamela Lee calls "chronophobia," cut across movements, media, and genres, and was figured in works ranging from kinetic sculptures to Andy Warhol films. Despite its pervasiveness, the subject of time and 1960s art has gone largely unexamined in historical accounts of the period. Chronophobia is the first critical attempt to define this obsession and analyze it in relation to art and technology. Lee discusses the chronophobia of art relative to the emergence of the Information Age in postwar culture. The accompanying rapid technological transformations, including the advent of computers and automation processes, produced for many an acute sense of historical unknowing; the seemingly accelerated pace of life began to outstrip any attempts to make sense of the present. Lee sees the attitude of 1960s art to time as a historical prelude to our current fixation on time and speed within digital culture. Reflecting upon the 1960s cultural anxiety about temporality, she argues, helps us historicize our current relation to technology and time. After an introductory framing of terms, Lee discusses such topics as "presentness" with repect to the interest in systems theory in 1960s art; kinetic sculpture and new forms of global media; the temporality of the body and the spatialization of the visual image in the paintings of Bridget Riley and the performance art of Carolee Schneemann; Robert Smithson's interest in seriality and futurity, considered in light of his reading of George Kubler's important work The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things and Norbert Wiener's discussion of cybernetics; and the endless belaboring of the present in sixties art, as seen in Warhol's Empire and the work of On Kawara.
Book Synopsis The Whistleblowers by : Mandy Wiener
Download or read book The Whistleblowers written by Mandy Wiener and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPDATED EDITION With corruption and fraud endemic in democratic South Africa, whistleblowers have provided an invaluable service to society through disclosures about cover-ups, malfeasance and wrongdoing. Their courageous acts have resulted in the recovery of millions of rands to the fiscus and to their fellow citizens as well as in improved transparency and accountability. But in most cases, the outcomes for the whistleblowers themselves are devastating. Some have been gunned down in orchestrated assassinations, others have been threatened and targeted in sinister dirty-tricks campaigns. Many are hounded out of their jobs, ostracised and victimised. They are pushed to the fringes of society. These are the evocative accounts of South Africa’s whistleblowers, told in their own voices, from across the country. The Whistleblowers also advocates for a change in legislation, organisational support and social attitudes in order to embolden others to have the courage to step up. Photographs by Felix Dlangamandla
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Book Synopsis Questionable Practices Concerning the Navy's Acquisition of ADP Equipment by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee
Download or read book Questionable Practices Concerning the Navy's Acquisition of ADP Equipment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence by : Various
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 2732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) a term coined in the 1950s actually dates back as far as 1943. Now very much in the public consciousness, AI research has fallen in and out of favour over the years. Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence (10 Volumes) brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a small interdisciplinary series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1970 and 1994. Covering ground in computer science, literature, philosophy, psychology, psychotherapy and sociology, this set is a fascinating insight into the development of ideas surrounding AI.
Book Synopsis Wiener Werkstatte by : Gabriele Fahr-Becker
Download or read book Wiener Werkstatte written by Gabriele Fahr-Becker and published by Taschen America Llc. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1932 by : Christian Witt-Dorring
Download or read book Wiener Werkstätte, 1903-1932 written by Christian Witt-Dorring and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiener Werkstätte, founded by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waerndorfer, was an artists’ and craftsmen’s collective that existed in Vienna from 1903 until 1932. The artists’ goal was to bring high-quality design and craft into all areas of life and to elevate everyday objects into pieces of art. During that time, the collective produced items in a variety of media including ceramics, furniture, glass, jewelry, metalwork, and textiles. The Wiener Werkstätte style influenced generations of architects from Bauhaus to Art Deco. This book features the work of well-known Wiener Werkstätte members such as Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Dagobert Peche along with lesser known designers such as Gudrun Baudisch, Carl Otto Czeschka, and Ugo Zovetti. It also includes in-depth essays that explore the Wiener Werkstätte’s long history and legacy.
Download or read book The Magazine of Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Norbert Wiener 1894–1964 by : Pesi R. Masani
Download or read book Norbert Wiener 1894–1964 written by Pesi R. Masani and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and philosopher. He was a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and mathematical noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Wiener is considered the originator of cybernetics, a formalization of the notion of feedback, with implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, neuroscience, philosophy, and the organization of society. Wiener thought on a grand scale and stressed the adaptation of technical concepts from pure mathematics and electrical engineering outside their technical contexts. Masani's interesting and thoughtful book analyses both Wiener's mathematical and his nonmathematical ideas in sympathetic and sensitive detail. Readers will find much to appreciate in this book, in addition to the discussion of Wiener's technical research.
Book Synopsis Klimt and the Women of Vienna's Golden Age, 1900-1918 by : Tobias G. Natter
Download or read book Klimt and the Women of Vienna's Golden Age, 1900-1918 written by Tobias G. Natter and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative and generously illustrated book highlights Gustav Klimt’s portrayals of women in his work. Klimt was a central figure in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, and a crucial link between nineteenth-century Symbolism and Modernism. His sensual portrayals of women are among his most celebrated works and the focus of this book. Highlights of the publication include Klimt's most important society portraits, such as Serena Lederer (1899); Gertrud Loew (1902); Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907); Ma&̈da Primavesi (1913); Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16); and Ria Munk III (1917). These works cover the gamut of Klimt's portrait style, from his early ethereal works influenced by Symbolism and the Pre-Raphaelite movement to his so-called "golden style," as well as his almost Fauvist depictions. These art works are complemented by preparatory Klimt sketches and decorative arts from the Wiener Werksta&̈tte.
