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Book Synopsis The Ceaseless Century by : Richard Harrison Martin
Download or read book The Ceaseless Century written by Richard Harrison Martin and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1998 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the fall of 1998. Presents 84 mostly color photographs of costumes from about 1700 to the present, with commentary by The Costume Institute's curator Richard Martin. 9x12". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Ceaseless Century by : Richard Harrison Martin
Download or read book Ceaseless Century written by Richard Harrison Martin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lure of Perfection by : Judith Bennahum
Download or read book The Lure of Perfection written by Judith Bennahum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE LURE OF PERFECTION: FASHION AND BALLET, 1780-1830 offers a unique look at how ballet influenced contemporary fashion and women's body image, and how street fashions in turn were reflected by the costumes worn by ballet dancers. Through years of research, the author has traced the interplay between fashion, social trends, and the development of dance. During the 18th century, women literally took up twice as much space as men; their billowing dresses ballooned out from their figures, sometimes a full 55 inches, to display costly jewelry and fine brocade work; similar costumes appeared on stage. But clothing also limited her movement; it literally disabled them, making the dances themselves little more than tableaux. Movement was further inhibited by high shoes and tight corsets; thus the image of the rigidly straight, long-lined dancer is as much a product of clothing as aesthetics. However, with changing times came new trends. An increased interest in natural movement and the common folk led to less-restrictive clothing. As viewers demanded more virtuosic dancers, women literally danced their way to freedom. THE LURE OF PERFECTION will interest students of dance and cultural history, and women's studies. It is a fascinating, well-researched look at the interplay of fashion, dance, and culture-still very much a part of our world today.
Book Synopsis The Ceaseless Century: 300 Years of 18th Century Costume by :
Download or read book The Ceaseless Century: 300 Years of 18th Century Costume written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Elements of South-Indian Palaeography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century, AD by : A. C. Burnell
Download or read book Elements of South-Indian Palaeography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century, AD written by A. C. Burnell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking and extensive 1874 study of the Sanskrit manuscripts of southern India is still cited by scholars today.
Download or read book Century Path written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Christian Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age by : Michael Leslie
Download or read book A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age written by Michael Leslie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages was a time of great upheaval - the period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries saw great social, political and economic change. The radically distinct cultures of the Christian West, Byzantium, Persian-influenced Islam, and al-Andalus resulted in different responses to the garden arts of antiquity and different attitudes to the natural world and its artful manipulation. Yet these cultures interacted and communicated, trading plants, myths and texts. By the fifteenth century the garden as a cultural phenomenon was immensely sophisticated and a vital element in the way society saw itself and its relation to nature. A Cultural History of Gardens in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on issues of design, types of gardens, planting, use and reception, issues of meaning, verbal and visual representation of gardens, and the relationship of gardens to the larger landscape.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Medieval History Series volumes 1-5 by :
Download or read book The Cambridge Medieval History Series volumes 1-5 written by and published by Plantagenet Publishing. This book was released on with total page 2478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Senses of the Future by : Gerard Delanty
Download or read book Senses of the Future written by Gerard Delanty and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future has become a problem for the present. Almost every critical issue is now understood and experienced through the prism of the future since this is the primary focus for the playing out of crises. Senses of the Future offers a wide-ranging discussion of theories of the future. It covers the main ideas of the future in modern thought and explores how we should view the future today in light of a plurality of very different and conflicting visions. The key contribution of this book is to bring together the different approaches with an account that is grounded in sociological and philosophical analysis as opposed to visions of the future that are inspired by extreme visions of catastrophe or approaches that see the future as only the continuation of the present. Given a revival of apocalyptical visions of the ‘end times’ and dystopian views of the future of human societies, there is urgent need for a new approach on how we should imagine the future. The author explores the future as a field of tensions that is revealed in narratives, utopian desires, hope, imaginaries, and social struggles concerning the potential possibilities of the present: the future does not just arrive; it has to be fought for. This book is an important contribution to a critical sociology of the future. It is both a work of reconstruction and critique grounded in a historical and philosophical hermeneutics of the future. Table of Contents Chapter One Introduction: Conflicting Visions of the Future Contested Visions of the Future Today Return to the Future Outline of the Chapters References Chapter Two When is the Future? The Problem of Time and the Human Condition Time in the Physical World: Lessons from Physics Has the Future already Begun? Time and History Time, Life, and the Human Condition: Biology, Evolution, and Culture Conclusion References Chapter Three Lessons from the Past: What Does the Past Tell Us about the Future? The Future in the Past Failed Societies and Civilizational Collapse Catastrophes and History Conclusion References Chapter Four Modernity and the Concept of the Future: Utopia, Progress, and Prophecy The Future as Expectation The Future as an Imaginary and the Emergence of Utopianism The Future as Possibility The Future as Experience Conclusion References Chapter Five Ideas of the Future in the Twentieth Century: Futurism, Modernism, Sociology, and Political Theory New Political Ideas of the Future after 1945 Responses to the Future: From Fear of the Future to Futurology Sociological Theory and the Future Conclusion: The New Sociology of the Future References Chapter Six Critical Theory and the Future: The Sources of Transcendence The Intellectual Origins of Critical Theory: A Brief Outline The Idea of the Future in the Critical Theory of the Early Frankfurt School Habermas and the Communication Paradigm The Responsibility Paradigm and Cosmopolitanism: Jonas and Apel Critical Cosmopolitanism and the Idea of the Future Conclusion: Cultural Models and the Future as Possibility References Chapter Seven Conclusion: In The Shadow of the Future Do We Need a Theory of the Future? Are we already in a New Historical Era? AI and a Posthuman Future Struggles for the Future References Index
Book Synopsis Inventions in the Century by : William H. Doolittle
Download or read book Inventions in the Century written by William H. Doolittle and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Inventions in the Century by William H. Doolittle
Book Synopsis The Ceaseless Century by : Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book The Ceaseless Century written by Costume Institute (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age by : Peter Paret
Download or read book Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age written by Peter Paret and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Authoritative and convincing."—New York Times Book Review The classic reference on the theory and practice of war The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics, and its political and social functions over the past five centuries. The diversity of its themes and the broad perspectives applied to them make the book a work of general history as much as a history of the theory and practice of war from the Renaissance to the present. Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age takes the first part of its title from an earlier collection of essays that became a classic of historical scholarship. Three essays are repinted from the earlier book while four others have been extensively revised. The rest—twenty-two essays—are new. The subjects addressed range from major theorists and political and military leaders to impersonal forces. Machiavelli, Clausewitz, and Marx and Engels are discussed, as are Napoleon, Churchill, and Mao. Other essays trace the interaction of theory and experience over generations—the evolution of American strategy, for instance, or the emergence of revolutionary war in the modern world. Still others analyze the strategy of particular conflicts—the First and Second World Wars—or the relationship between technology, policy, and war in the nuclear age. Whatever its theme, each essay places the specifics of military thought and action in their political, social, and economic environment. Together, the contributors have produced a book that reinterprets and illuminates war, one of the most powerful forces in history and one that cannot be controlled in the future without an understanding of its past.
Download or read book Century written by Warren Steck and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caesar Augustus; John the Baptist; Emperor Nero; King Herod; Jesus of Nazareth; the burning of Rome; the Roman conquest of Britain; the fiery destruction of Pompeii; the Roman-Jewish War; conquests, scandals, intrigues, terrifying cruelties, extraordinary deeds and unforgettable personalities. The first century saw them all. Two thousand years ago, a new world -- our world -- was being born. CENTURY is the story of those fabulous hundred years.
Download or read book World's End written by Pablo Neruda and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book-length poem, translated for the first time into English and presented in a bilingual format, Nobel Laureate Neruda composes a "valediction to the Sixties" and confronts a grim disillusionment growing inside him.
