Visions and Ecstasies

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Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 1644230232
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Book Synopsis Visions and Ecstasies by : H.D.

Download or read book Visions and Ecstasies written by H.D. and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.D’s writing continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collection of H.D.’s writings introduces her compelling perspectives on art, myth, and the creative process. While H.D. is best known for her elemental poetry, which draws heavily on the imagery of natural and ancient worlds, her critical writings remain a largely underexplored and unpublished part of her oeuvre. Crucial to understanding both the formative contexts surrounding her departure from Imagism following the First World War and her own remarkable creative vision, Notes on Thought and Vision, written in 1918, is one of the central works in this collection. H.D. guides her reader to the untamed shores of the Scilly Isles, where we hear of powerful, transformative experiences and of her intense relationship with the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. The accompanying essays, many published here for the first time, help color H.D.’s astute critical engagement with the past, from the city of Athens and the poetry of ancient Greece. Like Letters to a Young Painter (2017), also published in the ekphrasis series, this collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the creative process.

Selected Essays on the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521183161
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (831 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Essays on the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print by : Stanley Morison

Download or read book Selected Essays on the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print written by Stanley Morison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selected Essays on Books and Printing

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004619194
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Essays on Books and Printing by : A.F. Johnson

Download or read book Selected Essays on Books and Printing written by A.F. Johnson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty extensive essays on the history of printing, publishing, typefounding, type design, etc. Emphasis is on the sixteenth century. A very beautifully produced book: Designed by Giovanni Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona.

Selected Literary Essays

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107685389
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Literary Essays by : C. S. Lewis

Download or read book Selected Literary Essays written by C. S. Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from 'The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version' to 'Psycho-Analysis and Literary Criticism,' from Shakespeare and Bunyan to Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay, however, is the lively wit, the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterizes Lewis's best critical writing.

Selected Essays

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Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Essays by : John Berger

Download or read book Selected Essays written by John Berger and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2001 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the occasion of his seventy-fith birthday, Pantheon is publishing a gathering of John Berger's most insightful and provocative writings on art over the past forty years. "Selected Essays brings together a comprehensive array of writings from Berger's previous collections: "Toward Reality, "The Moment of Cubism, "The Look of Things," About Looking, "The Sense of Sight, and "Keeping a Rendezvous. From Piero to Pollock, from Kokoschka to La Tour, from mass demonstrations to museums-the ideas in these essays are as fresh and compelling as they were when first published. Polemical, meditative, radical, always original, they display a remarkable continuity of thoughtful inquiry and political engagement.

New Selected Essays

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811217286
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis New Selected Essays by : Tennessee Williams

Download or read book New Selected Essays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There isn't a dull or conventional page, or an unlovely sentence in the book."--Scott Eyman, The Palm Beach Post

Getting Personal

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Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786729783
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Getting Personal by : Phillip Lopate

Download or read book Getting Personal written by Phillip Lopate and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the man who is practically synonymous with the form of the modern personal essay comes a delightful collection of prose, poems, and never-before-published pieces that span his career as an essayist, novelist, poet, film critic, father, son, and husband. Organized in six parts (Childhood; Youth; Early Marriage and Bachelorhood; Teaching and Work; Fiction; Politics, Religion, Movies, Books, Cities; The Style of Middle Age) Getting Personal tells two stories: the development of Lopate's career as a writer and the story of his life.

The Family Imprint

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Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783775742481
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (424 download)

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Book Synopsis The Family Imprint by : Nancy Borowick

Download or read book The Family Imprint written by Nancy Borowick and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Photojournalist Nancy Borowick's parents--Howie and Laurel--were diagnosed with stage IV cancer and simultaneously underwent treatment, she did the only thing she knew how--she documented it. By turning the camera on her family's life during this most intimate time, Borowick learned a great deal about herself, family, and relationships in general. She discovered that her parents' marriage--while complex--was an intricate symbiosis of compassion. Their partnership and sense of family only deepened. And no matter the prognosis, there was always room for laughter. Today, Borowick, herself, is married. Her father passed away in 2013, and her mom followed suit, 364 days later. The lessons she garnered from Howie and Laurel were plentiful: always call when the airplane lands, never pass on blueberry pie--and most importantly, family is love and love is family.

Pensativities

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Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 177196006X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Book Synopsis Pensativities by : Mia Couto

Download or read book Pensativities written by Mia Couto and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the greatest living writers in the Portuguese language."—Philip Graham, The Millions What would Barack Obama's 2004 campaign have looked like if it unfolded in an African nation? What does it mean to be an African writer today? How do writers and poets from all continents teach us to cross the sertão, the savannah, the barren places where we're forced to walk within ourselves? Bringing together the best pieces from his previously untranslated nonfiction collections, alongside new material presented here for the first time in any language, Pensativities offers English readers a taste of Mia Couto as essayist, lecturer, and journalist—with essays on cosmopolitanism, poverty, culture gaps, conservation, and more.

Selected Essays on Books and Printing

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Publisher : Amsterdam : Van Gendt ; New York : Abner Schram, 1970 [1971]
ISBN 13 : 9780839000167
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Selected Essays on Books and Printing by : Alfred Forbes Johnson

Download or read book Selected Essays on Books and Printing written by Alfred Forbes Johnson and published by Amsterdam : Van Gendt ; New York : Abner Schram, 1970 [1971]. This book was released on 1971 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Serious Noticing

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374722048
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Serious Noticing by : James Wood

Download or read book Serious Noticing written by James Wood and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of literary essays by The New Yorker’s award-winning longtime book critic Ever since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays on canonical writers (Gustav Flaubert, Herman Melville), recent legends (Don DeLillo, Marilynne Robinson) and significant contemporaries (Zadie Smith, Elena Ferrante) have established a standard for informed and incisive appreciation, composed in a distinctive literary style all their own. Together, Wood’s essays, and his bestselling How Fiction Works, share an abiding preoccupation with how fiction tells its own truths, and with the vocation of the writer in a world haunted by the absence of God. In Serious Noticing, Wood collects his best essays from two decades of his career, supplementing earlier work with autobiographical reflections from his book The Nearest Thing to Life and recent essays from The New Yorker on young writers of extraordinary promise. The result is an essential guide to literature in the new millennium.

Making the Archives Talk

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271050675
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Making the Archives Talk by : James L. W. West

Download or read book Making the Archives Talk written by James L. W. West and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays by editor, biographer, bibliographer, and book historian James L. W. West III, covering editorial theory, archival use, textual emendation, and scholarly annotation. Discusses the treatment of both public documents (novels, stories, nonfiction) and private texts (letters, diaries, journals, working papers)"--Provided by publisher.

Astronomy and History Selected Essays

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461255597
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Book Synopsis Astronomy and History Selected Essays by : O. Neugebauer

Download or read book Astronomy and History Selected Essays written by O. Neugebauer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of papers assembled here on a variety of topics in ancient and medieval astronomy was originally suggested by Noel Swerdlow of the University of Chicago. He was also instrumental in making a selection* which would, in general, be on the same level as my book The Exact Sciences in Antiquity. It may also provide a general background for my more technical History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy and for my edition of Astronomi cal Cuneiform Texts. Several of these republished articles were written because I wanted to put to rest well-entrenched historical myths which could not withstand close scrutiny of the sources. Examples are the supposed astronomical origin of the Egyptian calendar (see [9]), the discovery of precession by the Babylonians [16], and the "simplification" of the Ptolemaic system in Copernicus' De Revolutionibus [40]. In all of my work I have striven to present as accurately as I could what the original sources reveal (which is often very different from the received view). Thus, in [32] discussion of the technical terminology illuminates the meaning of an ancient passage which has been frequently misused to support modern theories about ancient heliocentrism; in [33] an almost isolated instance reveals how Greek world-maps really looked; and in [43] the Alexandrian Easter computus, held in awe by many historians, is shown from Ethiopic sources to be based on very simple procedures.

Morris & Company

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ISBN 13 : 9781584563853
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (638 download)

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Book Synopsis Morris & Company by : William S. Peterson

Download or read book Morris & Company written by William S. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays on fine printing in the UK and USA during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first published in various journals, edited and with added illustrations"--

A Critic Writes

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520923200
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis A Critic Writes by : Reyner Banham

Download or read book A Critic Writes written by Reyner Banham and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of essays, polemics, and reviews drawn from more than three decades of Banham's writings. The volume, which includes discussions of Italian Futurism, Adolf Loos, Paul Scheerbart, and the Bauhaus as well as explorations of contemporary architecture by Frank Gehry, James Stirling, and Norman Foster, conveys the full range of Banham's belief in industrial and technological development as the motor of architectural evolution. Banham's interests and passions ranged from architecture and the culture of pop art to urban and industrial design. In brilliant analyses of automobile styling, mobile homes, science fiction films, and the American predilection for gadgets, he anticipated many of the preoccupations of contemporary cultural studies. Los Angeles, the city that Banham commemorated in a book and a film, receives extensive attention in essays on the Santa Monica Pier, the Getty Museum, Forest Lawn cemetery, and the ubiquitous freeway system. Eminently readable, provocative, and entertaining, this book is certain to consolidate Banham's reputation among architects and students of contemporary culture. For those acquainted with his writing, it offers welcome surprises as well as familiar delights. For those encountering Banham for the first time, it comprises the perfect introduction.

Self to Self

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521854290
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (542 download)

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Book Synopsis Self to Self by : J. David Velleman

Download or read book Self to Self written by J. David Velleman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by philosopher J. David Velleman on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions is united by an overarching thesis that there is no single entity denoted by 'the self', as well as themes from Kantian ethics and Velleman's work in the philosophy of action.

Letters to a Young Painter

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Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 1941701647
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (417 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters to a Young Painter by : Rainer Maria Rilke

Download or read book Letters to a Young Painter written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke’s fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, is a surprising companion to his infamous Letters to a Young Poet, earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908. While the latter has become a global phenomenon, with millions of copies sold in many different languages, the present volume has been largely overlooked. In these eight intimate letters written to a teenage Balthus—who would go on to become one of the leading artists of his generation—Rilke describes the challenges he faced, while opening the door for the young painter to take himself and his work seriously. Rilke’s constant warmth, his ability to sense in advance his correspondent’s difficulties and propose solutions to them, and his sensitivity as a person and an artist come across in these charming and honest letters. Writing during his aged years, this volume paints a picture of the venerable poet as he faced his mortality, through the perspective of hindsight, and continued to embrace his openness towards other creative individuals. With an introduction by Rachel Corbett, author of You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin (2016), this book is a must-have for Rilke’s admirers, young and old, and all aspiring artists.