Papyrus

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0593318897
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Book Synopsis Papyrus by : Irene Vallejo

Download or read book Papyrus written by Irene Vallejo and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity’s obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages • “Accessible and entertaining.” —The Wall Street Journal Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and Pharaohs were so determined to possess them that they dispatched emissaries to the edges of earth to bring them back. When Mark Antony wanted to impress Cleopatra, he knew that gold and priceless jewels would mean nothing to her. So, what did her give her? Books for her library—two hundred thousand, in fact. The long and eventful history of the written word shows that books have always been and will always be a precious—and precarious—vehicle for civilization. Papyrus is the story of the book’s journey from oral tradition to scrolls to codices, and how that transition laid the very foundation of Western culture. Award-winning author Irene Vallejo evokes the great mosaic of literature in the ancient world from Greece’s itinerant bards to Rome’s multimillionaire philosophers, from opportunistic forgers to cruel teachers, erudite librarians to defiant women, all the while illuminating how ancient ideas about education, censorship, authority, and identity still resonate today. Crucially, Vallejo also draws connections to our own time, from the library in war-torn Sarajevo to Oxford’s underground labyrinth, underscoring how words have persisted as our most valuable creations. Through nimble interpretations of the classics, playful and moving anecdotes about her own encounters with the written word, and fascinating stories from history, Vallejo weaves a marvelous tapestry of Western culture’s foundations and identifies the humanist values that helped make us who we are today. At its heart a spirited love letter to language itself, Papyrus takes readers on a journey across the centuries to discover how a simple reed grown along the banks of the Nile would give birth to a rich and cherished culture.

Drawings

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ISBN 13 : 9780984303403
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Drawings by : Dorian Vallejo

Download or read book Drawings written by Dorian Vallejo and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Dorian Vallejo, drawing is an integral part of the creative process. The drawings selected for this volume represent some of the work he does from life. They offer a glimpse of his art done solely for the pleasure of creative research and the visual expression of ideas.In part, they owe their roots to the centuries old tradition of academic figure drawing. However, they are not a strict adherent of any school in particular. Instead, that tradition is used as a point of departure.Here we view drawings that seek to capture visually, a distinct feeling, tone or mood. In some cases the figure is used in a symbolic manner, hinting at phases or streams of conscious awareness that are present as we trail off into sleep. In other cases the symbolism is a visual interpretation of the dual nature of our existence. Still, other drawings are experiments in movement and over lapping forms. Also represented, are several gestures that display the characteristic beauty inherent in the tangible expressions of rapid creation.In this collection of drawings are many avenues of thought allowing for a view into the birth of ideas that may later become paintings. One consistently present element is Vallejo?s appreciation for the beauty of life and the feminine in particular. With rare exception his subjects in this volume are all women represented in the bloom of youth. There is a feeling that these beautiful young women who paused for a brief moment to be immortalized, in spite of the ever changing flux of life, will grace us with the memory of their essence, like the flowers of spring.In every one of these drawings is clearly a mind wholly, completely and faithfully committed to the pursuit of excellence. This book, the first devoted to the artwork of Dorian Vallejo will be a treasured prize in the libraries of all who love art.

Jazz Day

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Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763669547
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Book Synopsis Jazz Day by : Roxane Orgill

Download or read book Jazz Day written by Roxane Orgill and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems recounts the efforts of Esquire magazine graphic designer Art Kane to photograph a group of famous jazz artists in front of a Harlem brownstone.

Homage to Vallejo

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Homage to Vallejo by : Christopher Buckley

Download or read book Homage to Vallejo written by Christopher Buckley and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of poems by 41 American poets inspired by César Vallejo, along with their statements of how Vallejo influenced them.

Filipinos in Vallejo

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439614377
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis Filipinos in Vallejo by : Mel Orpilla

Download or read book Filipinos in Vallejo written by Mel Orpilla and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filipinos came to Vallejo as early as 1912, and some families here can count five generations back to their roots in the Philippines. Many came to Mare Island Naval Shipyard, where Filipinos found steady, well-paying jobs that spared them from menial work and stoop labor in the fields of California. With each major conflict of the 20th century, and finally with the relaxation of immigration quotas in 1965, waves of Filipino newcomers arrived on these shores. They advanced in their work at the shipyards, settled down, and started families, buying homes and establishing successful businesses. Now this active, politically empowered Filipino community numbers in the tens of thousands, yet traditional histories ignore its contribution to Vallejos heritage.

Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell: The Ultimate Collection

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061151734
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell: The Ultimate Collection by : Boris Vallejo

Download or read book Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell: The Ultimate Collection written by Boris Vallejo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of Boris Vallejo is characterized by beautiful maidens, heroic men and fearsome monsters while the work of his wife Julie Bell is famous for a sense of color and dramatic composition which puts her paintings in a class by themselves. As two of the most acclaimed fantasy artists working today, Boris and Julie have produced art for album covers, trading cards, posters and calendars for (in Boris' case) 30 years -- and have seen 15 books published celebrating their breathtaking work. Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell: The Ultimate Collection brings together all their greatest pieces throughout their careers, while also including some unseen new work. The book is arranged chronologically and divided into three main sections: early, middle and recent art. A narrative accompanies the paintings with captions for many of the pieces. The pages are also punctuated by quotes from Boris and Julie's peers in the fantasy art field and fans of their work, who pay homage to their art and comment on how their work has inspired them to become better artists.

Mirage

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ISBN 13 : 9781560251392
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Mirage written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, Mirage took the fantasy world on a whirlwind tour, introducing us to paintings so bold, so provocative and superb that it became a major success. This astounding volume showcases alluring paintings of sensuous women and strong men, set against mythical, otherworldly backgrounds, and contains over 40 color and black and white illustrations, as well as 8 full pages of new, never before seen or published art work.

Our Lady of the Assassins

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Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Lady of the Assassins by : Fernando Vallejo

Download or read book Our Lady of the Assassins written by Fernando Vallejo and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tie-in with the eponymous new film by Barbet Schroeder.

Vallejo

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439630798
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Book Synopsis Vallejo by : James E. Kern

Download or read book Vallejo written by James E. Kern and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded as California's state capital in 1850 and named for one of the state's pre-eminent native sons, General Mariano Vallejo, the city of Vallejo has a favored location on the eastern interior of San Francisco Bay. Protected from wind, fog, and possible invasion by sea, Mare Island, just off Vallejo's shoreline, was the United States Navy's first base in the Pacific in 1854. Mare Island Navy Yard grew to meet the challenge of every major conflict in the country, reaching its apex during World War II and ending its military life producing nuclear submarines. The sunny sloping streets of Vallejo lengthened and became more populous in tandem with the Yard, expanding in bursts and nearly tripling its population in the 1940s. In recent years the city and its institutions have survived a wrenching urban and economic redevelopment process, now building on the creative strengths of its historic downtown and colorfully diverse population to forge a Vallejo for the new millennium.

Dreams

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Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781560252153
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Dreams by : Boris Vallejo

Download or read book Dreams written by Boris Vallejo and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers the fantasy artist's most recent work, including everything from winged women to strange new worlds

César Vallejo

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Publisher : Tamesis Books
ISBN 13 : 1855662531
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (556 download)

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Book Synopsis César Vallejo by : Stephen M. Hart

Download or read book César Vallejo written by Stephen M. Hart and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet. the Peruvian César Vallejo. It traces the important events of his life and evaluates his poetry, fiction, theatre, political essays and journalism. This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet, the Peruvian César Vallejo, who was born in an Andean village, Santiago de Chuco, on 16 March 1892 and died in Paris on 15 April 1938. It traces the important events of his life - becoming a poet in Peru, falling in love with Mirtho in Trujillo, writing Trilce which would transform for ever the avant-garde in the Spanish-speaking world, fleeing to Paris in the summer of 1923 afterbeing accused of burning down Carlos Santa María's house in Santiago de Chuco, falling in love with Georgette Philippart and then with communism, writing his Poemas humanos (Human Poems) and then, shortly before hisdeath, writing his moving poems inspired by the Spanish Civil War, España, aparta de mí este cáliz (Spain, Take this Chalice from Me). This book also provides an objective evaluation of Vallejo's poetry, fiction, theatre, political essays and journalism. Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture, School of European Languages, Culture and Society, University College London.

Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo

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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806192372
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo by : Rose Marie Beebe

Download or read book Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo written by Rose Marie Beebe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California. In 1874–75, Vallejo, working with historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, composed a five-volume history of Alta California—a monumental work that would be the most complete eyewitness account of California before the gold rush. But Bancroft shelved the work, and it has lain in the archives until its recent publication as Recuerdos: Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769–1849, translated and edited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. In Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California, Beebe and Senkewicz not only illuminate Vallejo’s life and history but also examine the broader experience of the nineteenth-century Californio community. In eight essays, the authors consider Spanish and Mexican rule in California, mission secularization, the rise of rancho culture, and the conflicts between settlers and Indigenous Californians, especially in the post-mission era. Vallejo was uniquely positioned to provide insight into early California’s foundation, and as a defender of culture and education among Mexican Californians, he also offered a rare perspective on the cultural life of the Mexican American community. In their final chapter, Beebe and Senkewicz include a significant portion of the correspondence between Vallejo and his wife, Francisca Benicia, for what it reveals about the effects of the American conquest on family and gender roles. A long-overdue in-depth look at one of the preeminent Mexican Americans in nineteenth-century California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo also provides an unprecedented view of the Mexican American experience during that transformative era.

César Vallejo

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520036482
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis César Vallejo by : César Vallejo

Download or read book César Vallejo written by César Vallejo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Translation judges for the National Book Awards--Richard Miller, Alastair Reid, Eliot Weinberger--cited Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia's translation of Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry as follows: "This, the first National Book Award to be given to a translation of modern poetry, is a recognition of Clayton Eshleman's seventeen-year apprenticeship to perhaps the most difficult poetry in the Spanish language. Eshleman and his present collaborator, Jose Rubia Barcia, have not only rendered these complex poems into brilliant and living English, but have also established a definitive Spanish test based on Vallejo's densely rewritten manuscripts. In recreating this modern master in English, they have also made a considerable addition to poetry in our language."

African Americans in Vallejo

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738595810
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)

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Book Synopsis African Americans in Vallejo by : Sharon McGriff-Payne

Download or read book African Americans in Vallejo written by Sharon McGriff-Payne and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans have been part of the Vallejo mosaic since 1850, the year of the North Bay city's birth. John Grider, a Tennessee native and former slave who arrived in Vallejo in 1850, was one of the city's earliest residents and a veteran of the California Bear Flag Revolt of 1846. While many 19th-century black pioneers established homes, businesses, and schools, it was during the Great Migration period of 1910-1970s that the bulk of Vallejo's black community took firm root. During this period, black folks from throughout the South--tiny towns and big cities alike, from places like Itasca, Texas; Heidelberg, Mississippi; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Lake Wales, Florida--made their way west searching for war-industry jobs at Mare Island Naval Shipyard and lives relatively free of unrelenting racial discord. African Americans in Vallejo chronicles this proud and oftentimes complicated journey.

The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938)

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782842144
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Book Synopsis The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938) by : R. K. Britton

Download or read book The Poetic and Real Worlds of César Vallejo (1892-1938) written by R. K. Britton and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world-renowned Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892-1938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist and would-be dramatist. The study of his life and work has encountered problems since the 1950s, stemming from the fact that half of his writing was published posthumously under editorship of doubtful accuracy. The matter is further complicated in that his non-poetic work has been neglected in favour of his verse. A Struggle between Art and Politics reviews the evidence -- literary and historical -- now reliably to hand, and assesses the often conflicting body of opinion his work has generated. Three essential questions are pertinent: Where should Vallejo be placed in the canon of twentieth-century modernism? What effect did his mid-life conversion to Communism have on his writing? How should his prose fiction, journalism and essays be assessed in relation to his poetry? There are few writers whose literary output follows the twists and turns of their lives more closely than César Vallejo's. This new, comparative study maps his career onto the cultural, social, political and historical backdrop to his life in Peru, France, Spain and Russia, and analyses his writings in the light of his life circumstances. Vallejo's journey from Peru, the cultural "periphery", to the "centre" of inter-war Paris, his experience of European capitalism during the Depression, and the confrontation of Communism and Fascism, ultimately played out in the Spanish Civil War, forced him to wage a personal struggle to reconcile art with life and politics. This challenge is fought out in different ways in his various writings, but nowhere more movingly, passionately and humanely than in his posthumous poetry.

César Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521210631
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Book Synopsis César Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence by : Jean Franco

Download or read book César Vallejo: The Dialectics of Poetry and Silence written by Jean Franco and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976-09-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study in English of the Peruvian poet, César Vallejo (1892-1938). Franco explores limitations on the poet's freedom of speech, and goes on to explore Vallejo's later poetry, which gestures towards the tentative nature of humanity and civilisation that gives the poetry its abiding relevance.

Selected Writings of César Vallejo

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819575259
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Writings of César Vallejo by : César Vallejo

Download or read book Selected Writings of César Vallejo written by César Vallejo and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential writings from the catalyst of the Latin American experimental tradition For the first time in English, readers can now evaluate the extraordinary breadth of César Vallejo's diverse oeuvre that, in addition to poetry, includes magazine and newspaper articles, chronicles, political reports, fictions, plays, letters, and notebooks. Edited by the translator Joseph Mulligan, Selected Writings follows Vallejo down his many winding roads, from Santiago de Chuco in highland Peru, to the coastal cities of Trujillo and Lima, on to Paris, Madrid, Moscow, and Leningrad. This repeated border-crossing also plays out on the textual level, as Vallejo wrote prolifically across genres and, in many cases, created poetic space in extra-literary modes. Informed by a vast body of scholarly research, this compendium synthesizes a restored literary corpus and—in bold translations that embrace the idiosyncratic spirit of the author's writing—puts forth a new representation of this essential figure of twentieth-century Latin American literature as an indispensable alternative to the European avant-garde. Compiling well known versions with over eighty percent of the text presented in English translation for the first time, Selected Writings is both a trove of and tribute to Vallejo's multifaceted work. Includes translations by the editor and Clayton Eshleman, Pierre Joris, Suzanne Jill Levine, Nicole Peyrafitte, Michael Lee Rattigan, William Rowe, Eliot Weinberger, and Jason Weiss.