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Seductive Exacting Realism

Author : Irena Haiduk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783956792694
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Seductive Exacting Realism written by Irena Haiduk and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irena Haiduks dual-exhibition at the 14th Istanbul Biennal and the Renaissance Society, Seductive Exacting Realism by Marcel Proust 12, is a stand-in for a missing volume in Prousts collected works. The 13-volume edition published in Yugoslavia in 1967, with its elegant translation from the French by poet Tin Ujevic, was highly valued by the intelligensia and often stolen and sold on the black market during the Bosnian civil war. Haiduks exhibit features a set that was missing Volume 12 that was seized by local police in 1995 and acquired at public auction in 2014. Presented along with video and taped interviews investigating the dangerous journeys taken in revolutions, the project suggests parallels for artists. The catalog includes installation shots, an interview by Solveig vsteb, writings by Ivo Andric, Hannah Feldman, Monika Szewczyk and Marina Vishmidt on artist journeys into revolution.

Spells by Irena Haiduk

Author : Irena Haiduk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783956791222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Spells by Irena Haiduk written by Irena Haiduk and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Human? What is Divine? The Divine not only can do things that The Human cannot imagine, The Divine can imagine things that The Human cannot imagine. It is in this space that Irena Haiduk's work lives its perpetually challenged life: where that which we cannot imagine gets imagined. This art is a magnet that extracts psychic metal. --From the introduction Spells is the first collection of Irena Haiduk's writing, gathering her texts and limited-edition publications since 2007. Moving through a wide range of formats, the book encompasses manifestos, music scores, forecasts, conversions, translations, architectural programs, and other difficult-to-categorize works. With sharp teeth and a killer instinct, Haiduk leads the way to a sunny spot where every soul suffers infinite injustice.

Mind and Cosmos

Author : Thomas Nagel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199919755
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Mind and Cosmos written by Thomas Nagel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.

Miamification

Author : Armen Avanessian
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3956793501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Miamification written by Armen Avanessian and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange how many déjà vus you have here. How might we conceive of comradeship with a present that is increasingly predetermined by algorithms and governed by techno-politics? Armen Avanessian chronicles his stay in Miami as an experiment in writing about our times of individual optimization and digitization. An inventory of the self in the second person—and a philosopher's reflections in the infinity pool of the art world—this book reckons with a new time complex as well as the aesthetics and infrastructures of the contemporary. Can we advance from conditions of financial feudalism and climate change to a progressive poetics of the digital? The city of tropical noir becomes a case study for a geopolitics and economics of the future—Miami vision, Miami vacation, Miami fiction, Miamification.

Beyond Vision

Author : Pavel Florensky
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861896395
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Vision written by Pavel Florensky and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Vision is the first English-language collection of essays on art by Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), Russian philosopher, priest, linguist, scientist, mathematician – and art historian. In addition to seven essays by Florensky, the book includes a biographical introduction and an examination of Florensky’s contribution as an art historian by Nicoletta Misler. Beyond Vision reveals Florensky’s fundamental attitudes to the vital questions of construction, composition, chronology, function and destination in the fields of painting, sculpture and design. His reputation as a theologian and philosopher is already established in the English-speaking world, but this first collection in English of his art essays (translated by Wendy Salmond) will be a revelation to those in the field. Pavel Florensky was a true polymath: trained in mathematics and philosophy at Moscow University, he rejected a scholarship in advanced mathematics in order to study theology at the Moscow Theological Academy. He was also an expert linguist, scientist and art historian. A victim of the Soviet government’s animosity towards religion, he was condemned to a Siberian labor camp in 1933 where he continued his work under increasingly difficult circumstances. He was executed in 1937.

Benediction

Author : Kent Haruf
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307962156
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Benediction written by Kent Haruf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as comfortable as possible. Their daughter, Lorraine, hastens back from Denver to help look after him; her devotion softens the bitter absence of their estranged son, Frank, but this cannot be willed away and remains a palpable presence for all three of them. Next door, a young girl named Alice moves in with her grandmother and contends with the painful memories that Dad's condition stirs up of her own mother's death. Meanwhile, the town’s newly arrived preacher attempts to mend his strained relationships with his wife and teenaged son, a task that proves all the more challenging when he faces the disdain of his congregation after offering more than they are accustomed to getting on a Sunday morning. And throughout, an elderly widow and her middle-aged daughter do everything they can to ease the pain of their friends and neighbors. Despite the travails that each of these families faces, together they form bonds strong enough to carry them through the most difficult of times. Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, Benediction captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it, including its extinction, as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way. Here Kent Haruf gives us his most indelible portrait yet of this small town and reveals, with grace and insight, the compassion, the suffering and, above all, the humanity of its inhabitants.

Bad Religion

Author : Ross Douthat
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143917833X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Bad Religion written by Ross Douthat and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the decline of Christianity in America since the 1950s, posing controversial arguments about the role of heresy in the nation's downfall while calling for a revival of traditional Christian practices.

Sculpting in Time

Author : Andrey Tarkovsky
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292776241
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book Sculpting in Time written by Andrey Tarkovsky and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1989-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity

The Renaissance in the North

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870994344
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance in the North written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1987 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this volume, the work of the German, Dutch, Flemish, French, and English masters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is explored in more than one hundred reproductions. In addition to such well-known masterpieces as Van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgment, Memling's Tommaso Portinari and Maria Baroncelli, Bruegel's Harvesters, Durer's woodcut The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Cranach's Judgment of Paris, and Holbein's Erasmus of Rotterdam, this volume includes many lesser-known works in oil and on paper, as well as sculpture, decorative arts, and armor from the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art."--Page [2] of cover.

All That Man Is

Author : David Szalay
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979483
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book All That Man Is written by David Szalay and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2016 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realism Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving--in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a dingy Cyprus hotel--to understand what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing a dramatic arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, the ostensibly separate narratives of All That Man Is aggregate into a picture of a single shared existence, a picture that interrogates the state of modern manhood while bringing to life, unforgettably, the physical and emotional terrain of an increasingly globalized Europe. And so these nine lives form an ingenious and new kind of novel, in which David Szalay expertly plots a dark predicament for the twenty-first-century man. Dark and disturbing, but also often wickedly and uproariously comic, All That Man Is is notable for the acute psychological penetration Szalay brings to bear on his characters, from the working-class ex-grunt to the pompous college student, the middle-aged loser to the Russian oligarch. Steadily and mercilessly, as this brilliantly conceived book progresses, the protagonist at the center of each chapter is older than the last one, it gets colder out, and All That Man Is gathers exquisite power. Szalay is a writer of supreme gifts--a master of a new kind of realism that vibrates with detail, intelligence, relevance, and devastating pathos.

Dreamtime

Author : Venetia Welby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784632410
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Dreamtime written by Venetia Welby and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dreamtime Venetia Welby paints a terrifying and captivating vision of our near future and takes us on a vertiginous odyssey into the unknown.

French Curves

Author : Richard Adatto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977980994
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book French Curves written by Richard Adatto and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (p. 246).

Pictures and Tears

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113595013X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Pictures and Tears written by James Elkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply personal account of emotion and vulnerability draws upon anecdotes related to individual works of art to present a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art in the past.

Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Cynthia Freeland
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191579327
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction written by Cynthia Freeland and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very Short Introduction Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, alongside the latest research on the brain's role in perceiving art. This clear, provocative book engages with the big debates surrounding our responses to art and is an invaluable introduction to anyone interested in thinking about art. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Chief of Staff

Author : Mark Skinner Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chief of Staff written by Mark Skinner Watson and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To the Lighthouse

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504083865
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book To the Lighthouse written by Virginia Woolf and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work of modernist literature explores the inner lives of a typical English family while vividly exploring the nature of loss and memory. Following her celebrated masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf continues to develop her groundbreaking stream-of-consciousness technique in To the Lighthouse. Every summer, the Ramsey family returns to the Isle of Skye for a tranquil holiday, where the imposing lighthouse seems to promise everlasting constancy. But as their idyllic holiday confronts the realities of World War I, the Ramseys must also face the inescapable nature of change. A profound evocation of marriage, parenthood, aging, and grief, To the Lighthouse is regarded as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385352115
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller One of the most revered voices in literature today gives us a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the remarkable story of a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage's best books of the year