Excellent Beauty

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539355
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Excellent Beauty by : Eric Dietrich

Download or read book Excellent Beauty written by Eric Dietrich and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flipping convention on its head, Eric Dietrich argues that science uncovers awe-inspiring, enduring mysteries, while religion, regarded as the source for such mysteries, is a biological phenomenon. Just like spoken language, Dietrich shows that religion is an evolutionary adaptation. Science is the source of perplexing yet beautiful mysteries, however natural the search for answers may be to human existence. Excellent Beauty undoes our misconception of scientific inquiry as an executioner of beauty, making the case that science has won the battle with religion so thoroughly it can now explain why religion persists. The book also draws deep lessons for human flourishing from the very existence of scientific mysteries. It is these latter wonderful, completely public truths that constitute some strangeness in the proportion, revealing a universe worthy of awe and wonder.

Beauty Imagined

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191609617
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis Beauty Imagined by : Geoffrey Jones

Download or read book Beauty Imagined written by Geoffrey Jones and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how today's global giants grew. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built brands which shaped perceptions of beauty, and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty, and its association with a handful of cities, notably Paris and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into China, Russia, and India, but at the same time, these brands are having to respond to a far greater diversity of cultures and lifestyles as new markets are opened up worldwide. In the twenty first century, beauty is again being re-imagined anew.

A Great and Terrible Beauty

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0731814908
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis A Great and Terrible Beauty by : Libba Bray

Download or read book A Great and Terrible Beauty written by Libba Bray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls - and their foray into the spiritual world - lead to?

Thing of Beauty

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451676409
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Thing of Beauty by : Stephen Fried

Download or read book Thing of Beauty written by Stephen Fried and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration behind the Emmy Award–winning HBO film Gia with Angelina Jolie, this “vivid…exhaustive” (The New York Times Book Review) account of the iconic and tragic life, career, and legacy of supermodel Gia Carangi features a new afterword by the author. At seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father’s Philadelphia luncheonette. Within a year, she was one of the world’s top models, gracing the covers of Cosmopolitan and Vogue, partying at Studio 54, and redefining the fashion industry’s standard of beauty. But behind the glitz and fame, Gia was a young woman in pain, desperate for her mother’s approval and facing a drug addiction that quickly spun out of control. With dizzying speed, she went from $10,000-a-day fashion shoots to using drugs on the streets of New York and Atlantic City before finally being blackballed from modeling. At twenty-six, Gia once again made history as one of the first famous women to die of AIDS. This “chilling tale” (The Boston Globe), based on hundreds of interviews with friends, family, lovers, and fashionistas (the term author Stephen Fried coined for her industry colleagues), is comprehensively explored in this unputdownable biography that will introduce Gia to a new generation. It is also a powerful exploration of our society’s views of beauty and sexuality, fame and objectification, mothers and daughters, love and death.

All the Beauty in the World

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982163313
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis All the Beauty in the World by : Patrick Bringley

Download or read book All the Beauty in the World written by Patrick Bringley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--

Color Me Beautiful

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Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307804518
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Color Me Beautiful by : Carole Jackson

Download or read book Color Me Beautiful written by Carole Jackson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color is magic! No matter what kind of clothes you like to wear, the right colors can make the difference between looking drab and looking radiant! You can wear every color of the rainbow. Shade makes the difference. Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant Carole Jackson helps you choose the thirty shades that make you look smashing. What color season are you? Spring: Your colors are clear, delicate, or bright with yellow undertones. Summer: Cool, soft colors with blue undertones are right for you. Autumn: You look best in stronger colors with orange and gold undertones. Winter: Clear, vivid, or icy colors with blue undertones make you look best. Color Me Beautiful will also help you: • Develop your color personality • Learn to perfect your make-up color • Use color to solve specific figure problems • Save money by designing a color-coordinated wardrobe for all occasions • Discover your clothing personality • Determine the fabrics that are best for you • Use accessories successfully—from stockings to scarves

Essays

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Essays by : Francis Bacon

Download or read book Essays written by Francis Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Easy Beauty

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982152001
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis Easy Beauty by : Chloé Cooper Jones

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.

The Australian Musical News

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Australian Musical News written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Image of Christ in Modern Art

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317027914
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Image of Christ in Modern Art by : Richard Harries

Download or read book The Image of Christ in Modern Art written by Richard Harries and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Image of Christ in Modern Art explores the challenges presented by the radical and rapid changes of artistic style in the 20th century to artists who wished to relate to traditional Christian imagery. In the 1930s David Jones said that he and his contemporaries were acutely conscious of ’the break’, by which he meant the fragmentation and loss of a once widely shared Christian narrative and set of images. In this highly illustrated book, Richard Harries looks at some of the artists associated with the birth of modernism such as Epstein and Rouault as well as those with a highly distinctive understanding of religion such as Chagall and Stanley Spencer. He discusses the revival of confidence associated with the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral after World War II and the commissioning of work by artists like Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and John Piper before looking at the very testing last quarter of the 20th century. He shows how here, and even more in our own time, fresh and important visual interpretations of Christ have been created both by well known and less well known artists. In conclusion he suggests that the modern movement in art has turned out to be a friend, not a foe of Christian art.Through a wide and beautiful range of images and insightful text, Harries explores the continuing challenge, present from the beginning of Christian art, as to how that which is visual can in some way indicate the transcendent.

Famous Sculpture as Seen and Described by Great Writers

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Famous Sculpture as Seen and Described by Great Writers by : Esther Singleton

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Henry viii

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Publisher : Ozymandias Press
ISBN 13 : 1531279384
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (312 download)

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Book Synopsis Henry viii by : Albert Pollard

Download or read book Henry viii written by Albert Pollard and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is perhaps a matter rather for regret than for surprise that so few attempts have been made to describe, as a whole, the life and character of Henry VIII. No ruler has left a deeper impress on the history of his country, or done work which has been the subject of more keen and lasting contention. Courts of law are still debating the intention of statutes, the tenor of which he dictated; and the moral, political, and religious, are as much in dispute as the legal, results of his reign. He is still the Great Erastian, the protagonist of laity against clergy. His policy is inextricably interwoven with the high and eternal dilemma of Church and State; and it is well-nigh impossible for one who feels keenly on these questions to treat the reign of Henry VIII. in a reasonably judicial spirit. No period illustrates more vividly the contradiction between morals and politics. In our desire to reprobate the immorality of Henry's methods, we are led to deny their success; or, in our appreciation of the greatness of the ends he achieved, we seek to excuse the means he took to achieve them. As with his policy, so with his character. There was nothing commonplace about him; his good and his bad qualities alike were exceptional. It is easy, by suppressing the one or the other, to paint him a hero or a villain. He lends himself readily to polemic; but to depict his character in all its varied aspects, extenuating nothing nor setting down aught in malice, is a task of no little difficulty...

Michael Angelo Buonarroti

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Michael Angelo Buonarroti written by Charles Holroyd and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Michael Angelo Buonarroti" by Charles Holroyd. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

“The” Works of Francis Bacon

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book “The” Works of Francis Bacon written by Francis Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plain ugly

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526162709
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Plain ugly written by Naomi Baker and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plain ugly examines depictions of physically repellent characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. Available in paperback for the first time, the book focuses closely on English literary culture but also engages with wider European perspectives, drawing on a wide array of primary sources including Italian and other European visual art. Offering illuminating close readings of texts from both high and low culture, it will interest scholars in English literature, cultural studies, women’s studies, history and art history, as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students in these disciplines. As an accessible and absorbing account of the power dynamics informing depictions of ugliness (and beauty) in relation to some of the quirkiest literary and visual material to be found in early modern culture, it will also appeal to a wider audience.

Museum of Antiquity

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Museum of Antiquity by : Levi W. Yaggy

Download or read book Museum of Antiquity written by Levi W. Yaggy and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Villette

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
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Book Synopsis Villette by : Charlotte Brontë

Download or read book Villette written by Charlotte Brontë and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: