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Renaissance in the Tropics

Author : Mario Calderón Rivera
Publisher : Centro Las Gaviotas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance in the Tropics written by Mario Calderón Rivera and published by Centro Las Gaviotas. This book was released on with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAVIOTAS, For the recovery of Earth’s skin There is a new start towards the world. One age that Mario Calderon Rivera, outstanding thinker and humanist, called Renaissance in the sense of both the Italian Renaissance as a change of mind of man to himself, and the contemporary one as a change of mind from man towards nature. The Renaissance, led by this brilliant saying of Leonardo da Vinci: "Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything" especially in a round planet. This also comes to be true in Centro "Las Gaviotas" where they achieved, among other things, the reawakening of the Amazon rainforest in the Colombian savannas of Orinoco. There they join the community welfare with the wealth generated by the sustainable use of tropical biodiversity, which, being located in the equatorial zone, has one of the highest rates of biological productivity. Within this context, Mario Calderon, travels through the last 60 years showing the ideas of the human being when he began to reflect on the effects of his action on Earth. They consist of a new attitude towards nature, seeing himself as being part of one system, with it he can coexist without destroying, understanding their connections, i.e. its complexity. Gaviotas age is this way of thinking. The author in honor of Gaviotas and its founder, Paolo Lugari, sets the theoretical foundations of the progress mankind has made in this respect since the last half century. Gaviotas is an example, a path, but at the same time an outpost of a bioculture that makes its way to protect both human life as well as that from others, which ultimately are subjected to the recovery of the vegetable skin of Earth, by the increase in biomass, as this determines the dynamic stability of the composition of the atmosphere of 99%, of nitrogen and oxygen If this composition would be disturbed by the continuing decline in biomass it would make impossible for human life to exist, something much more serious than global warming. Just warming is only a reductionist analysis of the issue. Development is seen now in productive harmony with nature, without undermining the very foundations of civilization. With an extensive knowledge of the authors who have made the ecological thinking trends of our time, Calderón contextualizes Gaviotas in the present world highlighting its conceptual contributions and its innovative achievements, always pointing to a decent lifestyle without denying the modernity.

TROPICAL RENAISSANCE

Author : Katherine Manthorne
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book TROPICAL RENAISSANCE written by Katherine Manthorne and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1989-10-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1839 and 1879, some thirty American artists--including Frederic Church, Titian Peale, Norton Bush, James M. Whistler, and Martin Heade--trekked through Central and South America. Manthorne (art history, U. of Illinois) outlines the particular circumstances in the 19th-century US that turned national attention southward. With eight color and 100 bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism

Author : Samantha A. Noël
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012897
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism written by Samantha A. Noël and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. Noël investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century responded to and challenged colonial and other white-dominant regimes through tropicalist representation. With depictions of tropical scenery and landscapes situated throughout the African diaspora, performances staged in tropical settings, and bodily expressions of tropicality during Carnival, artists such as Aaron Douglas, Wifredo Lam, Josephine Baker, and Maya Angelou developed what Noël calls “tropical aesthetics”—using art to name and reclaim spaces of Black sovereignty. As a unifying element in the Caribbean modern art movement and the Harlem Renaissance, tropical aesthetics became a way for visual artists and performers to express their sense of belonging to and rootedness in a place. Tropical aesthetics, Noël contends, became central to these artists’ identities and creative processes while enabling them to craft alternative Black diasporic histories. In outlining the centrality of tropical aesthetics in the artistic and cultural practices of Black modernist art, Noël recasts understandings of African diasporic art.

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892367857
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Current Literature

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tropic Death

Author : Eric Walrond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Tropic Death written by Eric Walrond and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

Author : Surekha Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316546128
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human written by Surekha Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as careful syntheses that enabled viewers to compare different peoples. In an age when scholars, missionaries, native peoples and colonial officials debated whether New World inhabitants could – or should – be converted or enslaved, maps were uniquely suited for assessing the impact of environment on bodies and temperaments. Through innovative interdisciplinary methods connecting the European Renaissance to the Atlantic world, Davies uses new sources and questions to explore science as a visual pursuit, revealing how debates about the relationship between humans and monstrous peoples challenged colonial expansion.

The Duke and the Stars

Author : Monica Azzolini
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674067916
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Duke and the Stars written by Monica Azzolini and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Duke and the Stars explores science and medicine as studied and practiced in fifteenth-century Italy, including how astrology was taught in relation to astronomy. It illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was often a critical, secretive source of information for Italian Renaissance rulers, particularly in times of crisis.

Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

Author : Surekha Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107036674
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Eric Walrond

Author : James Davis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538618
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Eric Walrond written by James Davis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Walrond (1898–1966) was a writer, journalist, caustic critic, and fixture of 1920s Harlem. His short story collection, Tropic Death, was one of the first efforts by a black author to depict Caribbean lives and voices in American fiction. Restoring Walrond to his proper place as a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, this biography situates Tropic Death within the author's broader corpus and positions the work as a catalyst and driving force behind the New Negro literary movement in America. James Davis follows Walrond from the West Indies to Panama, New York, France, and finally England. He recounts his relationships with New Negro authors such as Countée Cullen, Charles S. Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, and Gwendolyn Bennett, as well as the white novelist Carl Van Vechten. He also recovers Walrond's involvement with Marcus Garvey's journal Negro World and the National Urban League journal Opportunity and examines the writer's work for mainstream venues, including Vanity Fair. In 1929, Walrond severed ties with Harlem, but he did not disappear. He contributed to the burgeoning anticolonial movement and print culture centered in England and fueled by C. L. R. James, George Padmore, and other Caribbean expatriates. His history of Panama, shelved by his publisher during the Great Depression, was the first to be written by a West Indian author. Unearthing documents in England, Panama, and the United States, and incorporating interviews, criticism of Walrond's fiction and journalism, and a sophisticated account of transnational black cultural formations, Davis builds an eloquent and absorbing narrative of an overlooked figure and his creation of modern American and world literature.

The American Journal of Tropical Diseases and Preventive Medicine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Journal of Tropical Diseases and Preventive Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Assembling the Tropics

Author : Hugh Cagle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107196639
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Assembling the Tropics written by Hugh Cagle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.

Current Opinion

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Current Opinion written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750

Author : Elizabeth Horodowich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107122872
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750 written by Elizabeth Horodowich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers Italy's history and examines how Italians became fascinated with the New World in the early modern period.

Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire

Author : Felix Driver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226164705
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire written by Felix Driver and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contrast between the temperate and the tropical is one of the most enduring themes in the history of the Western geographical imagination. Caught between the demands of experience and representation, documentation and fantasy, travelers in the tropics have often treated tropical nature as a foil to the temperate, to all that is civilized, modest, and enlightened. Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire explores images of the tropical world—maps, paintings, botanical drawings, photographs, diagrams, and texts—produced by European and American travelers over the past three centuries. Bringing together a group of distinguished contributors from disciplines across the arts and humanities, this volume contains eleven beautifully illustrated essays—arranged in three sections devoted to voyages, mappings, and sites—that consider the ways that tropical places were encountered, experienced, and represented in visual form. Covering a wide range of tropical sites in the Pacific, South Asia, West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, the book will appeal to a broad readership: scholars of postcolonial studies, art history, literature, imperial history, history of science, geography, and anthropology.

The German Discovery of the World

Author : Christine R. Johnson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813927121
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book The German Discovery of the World written by Christine R. Johnson and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current historiography suggests that European nations regarded the New World as an inassimilable "other" that posed fundamental challenges to the accepted ideas of Renaissance culture. The German Discovery of the World presents a new interpretation that emphasizes the ways in which the new lands and peoples in Africa, Asia, and the Americas were imagined as comprehensible and familiar. In chapters dedicated to travel narratives, cosmography, commerce, and medical botany, Johnson examines how existing ideas and methods were deployed to make German commentators experts in the overseas world, and how this incorporation established the discoveries as new and important intellectual, commercial, and scientific developments. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book brings to light the dynamic world of the German Renaissance, in which humanists, cartographers, reformers, politicians, botanists, and merchants appropriated the Portuguese and Spanish expeditions to the East and West Indies for their own purposes and, in so doing, reshaped their world. Studies in Early Modern German History

Global Interests

Author : Lisa Jardine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801438080
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Global Interests written by Lisa Jardine and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this re-assessment of Renaissance art, Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton examine the ways in which European civilization defined itself between 1450 and 1550.