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Author : Willard Bohn
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791451601
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Surrealism written by Willard Bohn and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the developments that paved the way for the Surrealist movement in literature and art.
Author : Mary Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Pursuit of the Marvelous written by Mary Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Mary Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Pursuit of the Marvelous written by Susan Mary Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hopkins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119238226
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Dada and Surrealism written by David Hopkins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism blends expert synthesis of the latest scholarship with completely new research, offering historical coverage as well as in-depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender. This book provides an excellent overview of new research on Dada and Surrealism from some of the finest established and up-and-coming scholars in the field Offers historical coverage as well as in–depth discussion of thematic areas ranging from criminality to gender One of the first studies to produce global coverage of the two movements, it also includes a section dealing with the critical and cultural aftermath of Dada and Surrealism in the later twentieth century Dada and Surrealism are arguably the most popular areas of modern art, both in the academic and public spheres
Author : Janet Sharp Hermann
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617032239
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Pursuit of a Dream written by Janet Sharp Hermann and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating history set in the Reconstruction South is a testament to African-American resilience, fortitude, and independence. It tells of three attempts to create an ideal community on the river bottom lands at Davis Bend south of Vicksburg. There Joseph Davis's effort to establish a cooperative community among the slaves on his plantation was doomed to fail as long as they remained in bondage. During the Civil War the Yankees tried with limited success to organize the freedmen into a model community without trusting them to manage their own affairs. After the war the intrepid Benjamin Montgomery and his family bought the land from Davis and established a very prosperous colony of their fellow freedmen. Their success at Davis Bend occurred when blacks were accorded the opportunity to pursue the American dream relatively free from the discrimination that prevailed in most of society. It is a story worthy of celebration. Janet Hermann writes here of two men--Joseph Davis, the slaveholder and brother of the president of the Confederacy, and Benjamin Montgomery, an educated freedman. In 1866 Montgomery began the experiment at Davis Bend. The Pursuit of a Dream, published in 1981, received the Robert F. Kennedy Award, the McLemore Prize of the Mississippi Historical Society, and the Silver Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California. Historical writing at its best . . . her research is impressive and is presented in balanced, ironic prose. --David Bradley, New York Times Book Review. A marvelous story for all readers with a taste for the ironies, the ambiguities, and the surprises of history. --C. Vann Woodward. Janet Sharp Hermann, a freelance writer and historian, is the author of Joseph E. Davis: Pioneer Patriarch (University Press of Mississippi).
Author : Elinor Lipman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307429237
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Pursuit of Alice Thrift written by Elinor Lipman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her newest well-tuned, witty, and altogether wonderful novel, bestselling author Elinor Lipman dares to ask: Can an upper-middle-class doctor find love with a shady, fast-talking salesman? Meet Alice Thrift, surgical intern in a Boston hospital, high of I.Q. but low in social graces. She doesn’t mean to be acerbic, clinical, or blunt, but where was she the day they taught Bedside Manner 101? Into Alice’s workaholic and wallflower life comes Ray Russo, a slick traveling fudge salesman in search of a nose job and well-heeled companionship, but not necessarily in that order. Is he a conman or a sincere suitor? Good guy or bad? Alice’s parents, roommate, and best friend Sylvie are appalled at her choice of mate. Despite her doubts, Alice finds herself walking down the aisle, not so much won over as worn down. Will their marriage last the honeymoon? Only if Alice’s best instincts can triumph over Ray’s unsavory ways.
Author : Susan Landauer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520292200
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Of Dogs and Other People written by Susan Landauer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roy De Forest's brightly colored, crazy-quilted jungles dotted with nipples of paint and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own (a perennial favorite being his wild-eyed, pointy-eared dogs) appeal to a broad spectrum of viewers from young to old, from the casual visitor to the most sophisticated art aficionado. OMCA's project aims to reassess De Forest's art-historical position, placing him in a national rather than solely regional/West Coast context. Landauer positions De Forest as part of a bicoastal alternative current of American art that has been poorly documented and deliberately ran counter to better publicized tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s, notably Pop, Minimalism, and post-painterly abstraction. Despite the playfulness of his work, close study of De Forest's art reveals deep layers of meaning. He was a fan of popular science fiction and adventure stories, but he was also well versed in Australian aboriginal art, ukiyo-e prints, poetry, literature, and the history of philosophy. He enjoyed secreting obscure art-historical references into his work: animals might assume postures found in Medieval or Renaissance art, or a drawing that appears to depict a comic-book character may in fact refer to Titian's triple-headed allegory of Prudence. This engaging publication presents gorgeous color reproductions of 150 of De Forest's finest artworks, plus a variety of figure illustrations that illuminate the artist's diverse sources and freewheeling social and creative milieu in Northern California."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Damon Lee
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491785454
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book A Pursuit of the Divine written by Damon Lee and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pursuit of the Divine: A Philosophical Approach to Spirituality and Scientific Understanding engages in a serious examination of human life, exploring it from philosophical, historical, spiritual, and cognitive perspectives. The author, Damon Lee, brings to the conversation his wide-ranging education and experience, enabling him to engender in others an appreciation for the complex nature of the human creature. In seventeen chapters that span five sections, A Pursuit of the Divine guides the reader along a path of exploration that touches on several key topics. Readers will explore, for instance, the distinctions among purpose, providence, and potential, the nature of the human heart, the interplay of mind, body, soul, and spirit, the task of perceiving Gods will, the comprehension of the transcendental nature of humanity, and the development of a vision for the next steps for human awareness. A Pursuit of the Divine brings to bear the best tools of modern thought, the proven insights from the Christian tradition, and the honesty that comes from deliberate introspection. Using these tools, it fashions a compelling exploration of the human creature that pursues A Philosophical Approach to Spirituality and Scientific Understanding. For more information visit www.ALiteattheEnd.com.
Author : sasha k
Publisher : Changing Suns Press
ISBN 13 : 0995155100
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Killing King Abacus Anthology written by sasha k and published by Changing Suns Press. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New introductions by sasha k, Leila and Wolfi Landstreicher plus an anthology introduction Chris Kortright. This is an anthology of the writing tied to Killing King Abacus. Killing King Abacus was started as a writing project to challenge aspects of discourse and practices within the North American anarchist scene by three individuals Leila, sasha k and Wolfi Landstreicher. One of the central challenges of this project was to think through/explore “insurrectionary anarchism” as a practice/process. This anthology spans a time between 2000-2005 covering Killing King Abacus #1 and #2; Hot Tide Bulletin which is comprised of anti-authoritarian/anti-capitalist analysis; an exchange between sasha k and Chris Dixon debating/dialoging issues of organization; the role of “activists” and “political experts”; a collection of letters and articles in other publication that where in response to or in discussion with the larger Killing King Abacus project.
Author : Benjamen Gussen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981136950X
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Axial Shift written by Benjamen Gussen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses historical analysis, constitutional economics, and complexity theory to furnish an account of city subsidiarity as a legal, ethical, political, and economic principle. The book contemplates subsidiarity as a constitutional principle, where cities would benefit from much wider local autonomy. Constitutional economics suggests an optimal limit to jurisdictional footprints (territories). This entails preference for political orders where sovereignty is shared between different cities rather states where capital cities dominate. The introduction of city subsidiarity as a constitutional principle holds the key to economic prosperity in a globalizing world. Moreover, insights from complexity theory suggest subsidiarity is the only effective response to the ‘problem of scale.’ It is a fitness trait that prevents highly complex systems from collapsing. The nation-state is a highly complex system within which cities function as ‘attractors.’ The collapse of such systems would ensue if there were strong coupling between attractors. Such coupling obtains under legal monism. Only subsidiarity can make the eventuality of collapse improbable. The emergent and self-organizing properties of subsidiarity entail a shift in policy emphasis towards cities with a wide margin of autonomy.
Author : Ayelet Waldman
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307279804
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Love and Other Impossible Pursuits written by Ayelet Waldman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot less rosy when Emilia has to deal with the most neurotic and sheltered five-year-old in New York City: her new stepson William. Now Emilia finds herself trying to flag down taxis with a giant, industrial-strength car seat, looking for perfect, strawberry-flavored, lactose-free cupcakes, receiving corrections on her French pronunciation from her supercilious stepson – and attempting to find balance in a new family that’s both larger, and smaller, than she bargained for. In Love and Other Impossible Pursuits Ayelet Waldman has created a novel rich with humor and truth, perfectly characterizing one woman’s search for answers in a crazily uncertain world.
Author : Maria Takolander
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039111930
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Catching Butterflies written by Maria Takolander and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magical realism was one of the most significant literary developments in the last century. It has become synonymous with the seductive fictions of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Ben Okri, Jeanette Winterson and Peter Carey. However, the genre has also become known for its theoretical indeterminacy. In fact, exoticist speculation, inspired by the links between magical realist literature and the world's cultural or political margins, has thrown the category into critical disrepute. This book rescues magical realism from misreadings and misdemeanours, tracing the historical development of the literary genre and analysing an original spectrum of magical realist texts from Latin America, Africa, India, Canada, the US, the UK and Australia. It asks such questions as: How did magical realism come to take over the world? What is the nature of its allure? Also, how does the marginal status of its authors inform the genre? Does magical realism have a political agenda? This book uses postcolonial theory to investigate notions of cultural identity and post-structural theory to examine the narrative strategies of magical realism, presenting a comprehensive historical and theoretical overview of the genre and a politically urgent argument about its subversive potentialities.
Author : Tessel M. Bauduin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135137902X
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Surrealism, Occultism and Politics written by Tessel M. Bauduin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes and techniques by Surrealist artists and writers in Europe and the Americas, from the 1920s through the 1960s. Its central focus is the specific use of occultism as a site of political and social resistance, ideological contestation, subversion and revolution. Additional focus is placed on the ways occultism was implicated in Surrealist discourses on identity, gender, sexuality, utopianism and radicalism.
Author : Susan Landauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Paper Trails written by Susan Landauer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Ross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135267006
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Modernism and Theory written by Stephen Ross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism and Theory boldly asks what role theory has to play in the new modernist studies. The three sections comprise expositions and debates on modernist topics by leading contributors, and the book concludes with an afterword from Fredric Jameson.
Author : Kirsten Strom
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000735931
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Surrealism written by Kirsten Strom and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealism’s many achievements, but also its historical shortcomings, to illuminate its connections to the historical and cultural moment(s) from which it originated and to assess both the ways in which it still shapes our world in inspiring ways and the ways in which it might appear problematic as we look back at it from a twenty-first-century vantage point. Contributions from experienced scholars will enable professors to teach the subject more broadly, by opening their eyes to aspects of the field that are on the margins of their expertise, and it will enable scholars to identify new areas of study in their own work, by indicating lines of research at a tangent to their own. The companion will reflect the interdisciplinarity of Surrealism by incorporating discussions pertaining to the visual arts, as well as literature, film, and political and intellectual history.
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811225453
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Henry Miller Reader written by Henry Miller and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1969-03-26 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of works spanning the entire career of great 20th-century American writer Henry Miller, edited and introduced by Lawrence Durrell. In 1958, when Henry Miller was elected to membership in the American Institute of Arts and Letters, the citation described him as: "The veteran author of many books whose originality and richness of technique are matched by the variety and daring of his subject matter. His boldness of approach and intense curiosity concerning man and nature are unequalled in the prose literature of our times." It is most fitting that this anthology of "the best" of Henry Miller should have been assembled by one of the first among Miller’s contemporaries to recognize his genius, the eminent British writer Lawrence Durrell. Drawing material from a dozen different books Durrell has traced the main line and principal themes of the "single, endless autobiography" which is Henry Miller’s life work. "I suspect," writes Durrell in his Introduction, "that Miller’s final place will be among those towering anomalies of authorship like Whitman or Blake who have left us, not simply works of art, but a corpus of ideas which motivate and influence a whole cultural pattern." Earlier, H. L. Mencken had said, "his is one of the most beautiful prose styles today," and the late Sir Herbert Read had written that "what makes Miller distinctive among modern writers is his ability to combine, without confusion, the aesthetic and prophetic functions." Included are stories, "portraits" of persons and places, philosophical essays, and aphorisms. For each selection Miller himself prepared a brief commentary which fits the piece into its place in his life story. This framework is supplemented by a chronology from Miller’s birth in 1891 up to the spring of 1959, a bibliography, and, as an appendix, an open letter to the Supreme Court of Norway written in protest of the ban on Sexus, a part of which appears in this volume.
