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Beauty, Violence, Representation

Author : Lisa A. Dickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134102062
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Beauty, Violence, Representation written by Lisa A. Dickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music. Charting diversifying interests in the subject of violence and beauty, dealing with the multiple inflections of these questions and representing a spectrum of voices, the volume takes its place in a growing body of recent critical work that takes violence and representation as its object. This collection offers a unique opportunity, however, to address a significant gap in the critical field, for it seeks to interrogate specifically the nexus or interface between beauty and violence. While other texts on violence make use of regimes of representation as their subject matter and consider the effects of aestheticization, beauty as a critical category is conspicuously absent. Furthermore, the book aims to "rehabilitate" beauty, implicitly conceptualized as politically or ethically regressive by postmodern anti-aesthetics cultural positions, and further facilitate its come-back into critical discourse.

The Night of Broken Glass

Author : Feroz Rather
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9352641620
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book The Night of Broken Glass written by Feroz Rather and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades, Kashmir has been ravaged by insurgency. While reams have been written on it - in human rights documents, academic theses, non-fiction accounts of the turmoil, and government and military reports - the effects of the violence on its inhabitants have rarely been rendered in fiction. Feroz Rather's The Night of Broken Glass corrects that anomaly. Through a series of interconnected stories, within which the same characters move in and out, the author weaves a tapestry of the horror Kashmir has come to represent. His visceral imagery explores the psychological impact of the turmoil on its natives - Showkat, who is made to wipe off graffiti on the wall of his shop with his tongue; Rosy, a progressive, jeans-wearing 'upper-caste' girl who is in love with 'lower-caste' Jamshid; Jamshid's father Gulam, a cobbler by profession who never finds his son's bullet-riddled body; the ineffectual Nadim 'Pasture', who proclaims himself a full-fledged rebel; even the barbaric and tyrannical Major S, who has to contend with his own nightmares. Grappling with a society brutalized by the oppression of the state, and fissured by the tensions of caste and gender, Feroz Rather's remarkable debut is as much a paean to the beauty of Kashmir and the courage of its people as it is a dirge to a paradise lost.

The Beauty of Violence

Author : Karl Lagerfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783869300467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Beauty of Violence written by Karl Lagerfeld and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beauty of Violence is Karl Lagerfeld's portrait of Baptiste Giabiconi acting out an erotic seizure of myriad facial and corporeal expressions. Giabiconi is a theatrical chameleon: he hides coyly behind a lock of black hair, adopts a Classical contrapposto pose, bunches his limbs vulnerably, and attempts to stuff his fist into his mouth. He alternatively confronts the camera's presence with a provocative sultry stare, or withdraws from it into a state of wilful self-absorption. By teasing out the facets of Giabiconi's athletic youth, Lagerfeld removes the threat of violence and suggests its seductive, indeterminate beauty. The Beauty of Violence is both the exploration of an intense persona and the latest chapter in Lagerfeld's ongoing photographic exploration of architectural forms made material by light - whether his subject be man-made structures, landscape, or the human form. Karl Lagerfeld, fashion designer, book dealer and publisher, began working as a photographer in 1987. He has received the Lucky Strike Design Award from the Raymond Lewy Foundation, the cultural prize from the German Photographic Society, and the ICP Trustees Award at the International Center of Photography's Infinity Awards in 2007. His recent photographic exhibitions include 'Konkret Abstrakt Gesehen' at the Langen Foundation, Neuss; and 'Metamorphoses of an American - A Cycle of Youth, 2003-8' at Pace/MacGill, New York. Steidl has published most of Lagerfeld's photography books, including Casa Malaparte, Aktstrakt, A Portrait of Dorian Gray, Room Service, Palazzo, Metamorphoses of an American, Chanel's Russian Connection and others.

War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict

Author : David Shields
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1576879496
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict written by David Shields and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs fromTheNew York Timesand came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process ofthe "paper of record,"by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pullsthe woolover the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.This powerful media mouthpiece, the mightyTimes, far from being a check on governmental power, is in reality a massive amplifier for its dark forces by virtue of the way it aestheticizeswarfare. Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan can't help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably theTimesled the way in making the case for these wars through the manipulation of its visuals. Shields forces the reader to weigh the consequences of our own passivity in the face of these images' opiatic numbing. The photographs gathered inWar Is Beautiful, often beautiful and always artful, are filters of reality rather than the documentary journalism they purport to be.

The Law of Love and The Law of Violence

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486113132
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Law of Love and The Law of Violence written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treatise articulates Tolstoy's famous dictum that it is morally superior to suffer violence than to do violence — a philosophy that has inspired Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and countless others.

The Remainder

Author : Alia Trabucco Zerán
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895588
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Remainder written by Alia Trabucco Zerán and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize Felipe and Iquela, two young friends in modern day Santiago, live in the legacy of Chile’s dictatorship. Felipe prowls the streets counting dead bodies real and imagined, aspiring to a perfect number that might offer closure. Iquela and Paloma, an old acquaintance from Iquela’s childhood, search for a way to reconcile their fragile lives with their parents’ violent militant past. The body of Paloma’s mother gets lost in transit, sending the three on a pisco-fueled journey up the cordillera as they confront the pain that stretches across generations.

The Last Cheater's Waltz

Author : Ellen Meloy
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466876964
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Last Cheater's Waltz written by Ellen Meloy and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the recipient of the 1997 Whiting Award. Feeling disconnected from the wildly beautiful desert that she has known intimately for twenty years, award-winning writer Ellen Meloy embarks on a search for home that is historical, scientific, and spiritual. Her "Map of the Known Universe," devised to guide her quest, reveals extraordinary details of a physical link between the atomic age and her home on Utah's San Juan River. The Map grows to include Los Alamos, the Trinity A-test site, White Sands Missile Range, and primary sources of uranium. Meloy casts her naturalist's eye on the Southwest's "geography of consequence," where she finds unusual local bestiaries, the bodies of long-buried neighbors, an underground bubble of nuclear physics in a national forest, and the rich textures of nature on her own eight acres of land. The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest is multilayered and far-reaching, yet always infused with Meloy's prodigious research, finely tuned prose, and wry humor.

The Apprehension of Beauty

Author : Donald Meltzer
Publisher : Harris Meltzer Trust
ISBN 13 : 1912567075
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Apprehension of Beauty written by Donald Meltzer and published by Harris Meltzer Trust. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has grown over the years as a family project of Martha Harris, her two daughters Meg and Morag and her husband, Donald Meltzer. It therefore has its roots in English literature and its branches waving wildly about in psychoanalysis. It is earnestly hoped that it will reveal more problems than it will solve.

Understanding Violence

Author : Elizabeth Kande L. Englander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351537938
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Violence written by Elizabeth Kande L. Englander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What impels human beings to harm others -- family members or strangers? And how can these impulses and actions be prevented or controlled? Heightened public awareness of, and concern about, what is widely perceived as a recent explosion of violence -- on a spectrum from domestic abuse to street crime -- has motivated behavioral and social scientists to cast new light on old questions. Many hypotheses have been offered. This volume sorts, structures, and evaluates them.The author draws on contemporary research and theory in varied fields--sociology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, social work, neuropsychology, behavioral genetics, child development, and education--to present a uniquely balanced, integrated, and readable summary of what we currently know about the causes and effects of violence. Throughout, she emphasizes the necessity of distinguishing among different types of violent behavior and of realizing that nature and nurture interact in human development. Controversial issues such as physical punishment and violent television programming receive special attention making this volume an important resource for all those concerned with violent offenders and their victims -- and for their students and trainees.In this third edition of Understanding Violence, author Elizabeth Kandel Englander draws on contemporary research and theory in varied fields to present a uniquely balanced, integrated, and readable summary of what we currently know about the causes and effects of violence, particularly its effect on children. The goal of this textbook is to give a critical review of the most relevant and important areas of research on street and family violence, examining why it is that people become violent. Between 1994 and 2004 the United States benefited from a dramatic decline in rates of violent crime. However, as the economy has weakened in recent years and tougher times have returned, the crime rate has shown signs of a modest

Beauty & the Beatings

Author : Erika Santos
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494996727
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Beauty & the Beatings written by Erika Santos and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am looking at my destroyed reflection. My right hand is holding a 22LRGBG that is pointing at my head... it is a perfect gun for Russian Roulette. But I am not playing. I don't recognize this person anymore. I destroyed my life and I don't want to stay on this Earth. I cannot believe that LOVE with a man did this to me! Erika Santos has everything: a supportive husband, six beautiful children, and an optimistic outlook on life. She's living in Europe, managing her own financial companies and a non-profit organization, and appearing in many television shows and magazines. But when a business venture brings her to Tampa, Florida, she falls in love with the wrong man. Blinded by infatuation, she divorces her husband and moves with her children to be with HIM, leaving her businesses and celebrity life behind. Quickly, she realizes HE is not the man she thought HE was. Once HE gains control over her, HE becomes cruel and abusive, subjecting her to physical, psychological, and sexual torture. Scared for her life and her children's safety, she decides to escape. Out on the street with six young children, no money, and nowhere to go, Erika struggles to keep herself and her children safe. It isn't easy... HE is powerful, threatening, and vindictive. And the biggest problem of all: she still loves HIM.

One Ring Circus

Author : Katherine Dunn
Publisher : IPG
ISBN 13 : 0980139422
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book One Ring Circus written by Katherine Dunn and published by IPG. This book was released on 2009 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published together for the first time, this anthology of essays on boxing covers the sport in all its forms and at its many levels. Written in bestselling author Katherine Dunn's characteristic vernacular, these pieces range from portraits of legendary fighters such as Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Marvin Hagler, and Mike Tyson to the unsung stories of trainers, amateurs, promoters, cutmen, and a pair of pugilistic priests. Spanning 30 years and including all who make up the vibrant boxing world, this compilation--from one of the most original voices in American sports literature--finely elevates the sport and communicates its beauty, passion, and character.

Violence

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312427182
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Violence written by Slavoj Zizek and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in the world.

Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence

Author : Grace Jantzen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415290333
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Death and the Displacement of Beauty: Foundations of violence written by Grace Jantzen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pursuit and love of death has characterized Western culture since Homeric times. Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought. It covers the origins of ideas of death--the "beautiful death" of Homeric heroes-through to the gendered misery of war. Jantzen examines the tensions between those who tried to eliminate fear of death by denying its significance, and those like Plotinus who looked to another world for life and beauty.

The Ugly Renaissance

Author : Alexander Lee
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385536607
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Ugly Renaissance written by Alexander Lee and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and counterintuitive portrait of the sordid, hidden world behind the dazzling artwork of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and more Renowned as a period of cultural rebirth and artistic innovation, the Renaissance is cloaked in a unique aura of beauty and brilliance. Its very name conjures up awe-inspiring images of an age of lofty ideals in which life imitated the fantastic artworks for which it has become famous. But behind the vast explosion of new art and culture lurked a seamy, vicious world of power politics, perversity, and corruption that has more in common with the present day than anyone dares to admit. In this lively and meticulously researched portrait, Renaissance scholar Alexander Lee illuminates the dark and titillating contradictions that were hidden beneath the surface of the period’s best-known artworks. Rife with tales of scheming bankers, greedy politicians, sex-crazed priests, bloody rivalries, vicious intolerance, rampant disease, and lives of extravagance and excess, this gripping exploration of the underbelly of Renaissance Italy shows that, far from being the product of high-minded ideals, the sublime monuments of the Renaissance were created by flawed and tormented artists who lived in an ever-expanding world of inequality, dark sexuality, bigotry, and hatred. The Ugly Renaissance is a delightfully debauched journey through the surprising contradictions of Italy’s past and shows that were it not for the profusion of depravity and degradation, history’s greatest masterpieces might never have come into being.

Sense Violence

Author : Helena Boberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939568311
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Sense Violence written by Helena Boberg and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first full-length English-language translation of the work of Helena Boberg, we are powerfully confronted with what she has called "a creative testimony that points out patterns of injustice, sexism, and violence" in the society we inhabit. A book-length poem, Sense Violence hinges on the dichotomy of a masculine will to power and a call to action for a feminine collective to confront it on all corners--from mythologies to cultural tropes and ingrained hierarchies. Translated by Johannes Göransson, the English edition faithfully captures Boberg's wordplay and linguistic richness bringing this urgent and uniquely-voiced work to a new audience.

Blood and Beauty

Author : Rex Koontz
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 1938770439
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Beauty written by Rex Koontz and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame have been the traditional categories through which scholars have examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. This volume expands those traditional categories to include such concerns as gladiatorial-like boxing combats, investiture rites, trophy-head taking and display, dark shamanism, and the subjective pain inherent in acts of violence. Each author examines organized violence as a set of practices grounded in cultural understandings, even when the violence threatens the limits of those understandings. The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.

Hurricane Season

Author : Fernanda Melchor
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811228045
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Hurricane Season written by Fernanda Melchor and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers Winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute's Tanslation Prize Longlisted for the National Book Award Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Winner of the Internationaler Literaturpreis New York Public Library Best Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2020 The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse has the whole village investigating the murder. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters—inners whom most people would write off as irredeemable—forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666 or Faulkner’s novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world saturated with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more and more terrifying the deeper you explore it.