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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sybil Lennard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Sybil Lennard. A Novel written by Sybil Lennard and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Crozier
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781870626644
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Other Brian Croziers written by Brian Crozier and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brian Croziers memoir of his early life as a kind of Lord Berners bursts at the seams with art, literature, and music, offering an unusual insight into the formation of a real-life secret agent who has played a major role in underground conflicts. It also explores Crozier's other roles as poet, painter, pianist, and composer, and reveals a young man exploding with talents, hungry to possess the world, and gradually learning that the world is already in the wrong hands."
Author : Scott Rothkopf
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300185324
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Wade Guyton OS written by Scott Rothkopf and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue was produced on the occasion of the exhibition Wade Guyton at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 4, 2012-February 2013.
Author : Gilles Grelet
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1913029166
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Theory of the Solitary Sailor written by Gilles Grelet and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grelet's solitary sailor is a radical theoretical figure, herald angel of an existential rebellion against the world and against philosophy's world-thought. Over a decade ago, Gilles Grelet left the city to live permanently on the sea, in silence and solitude, with no plans to return to land, rarely leaving his boat Théorème. An act of radical refusal, a process of undoing one by one the ties that attach humans to the world, for Grelet this departure was also inseparable from an ongoing campaign of anti-philosophy. Like François Laruelle's "ordinary man" or Rousseau's "solitary walker," Grelet's solitary sailor is a radical theoretical figure, herald angel of an existential rebellion against the world and against philosophy's world-thought, point zero of an anti-philosophy as rigorous gnosis, and apprentice in the herethics of navigation. More than a set of scattered reflections, less than a system of thought, Theory of the Solitary Sailor is a gnostic device. It answers the supposed necessity of realizing the world-thought that is philosophy (or whatever takes its place) with a steadfast and melancholeric refusal. As indifferently serene and implacably violent as the ocean itself, devastating for the sufficiency of the world and the reign of semblance, this is a lived anti-philosophy, a perpetual assault waged from the waters off the coast of Brittany, amid sea and wind.
Author : Peter Fritzsche
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674013391
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Stranded in the Present written by Peter Fritzsche and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche explores how Europeans and Americans saw themselves in the drama of history, how they took possession of a past thought to be slipping away, and how they generated countless stories about the sorrowful, eventful paths they chose to follow. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, contemporaries saw themselves as occupants of an utterly new period. Increasingly disconnected from an irretrievable past, worried about an unknown and dangerous future, they described themselves as indisputably modern. To be cast in the new time of the nineteenth century was to recognize the weird shapes of historical change, to see landscapes scattered with ruins, and to mourn the remains of a bygone era. Tracing the scars of history, writers and painters, revolutionaries and exiles, soldiers and widows, and ordinary home dwellers took a passionate, even flamboyant, interest in the past. They argued politics, wrote diaries, devoured memoirs, and collected antiques, all the time charting their private paths against the tremors of public life. These nostalgic histories take place on battlefields trampled by Napoleon, along bucolic English hedges, against the fairytale silhouettes of the Grimms' beloved Germany, and in the newly constructed parlors of America's western territories. This eloquent book takes a surprising, completely original look at the modern age: our possessions, our heritage, and our newly considered selves.
Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Napoleon Bonaparte written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Frey
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ISBN 13 : 9781789141603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Venus Betrayed written by Julia Frey and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marvelous, beautifully illustrated."--Wall Street Journal Édouard Vuillard was so secretive that he berated himself for betraying his emotions in conversation. He was a reticent, impassioned man, at once a timid stalker and a social climbing anarchist, caught in conflicting desires. From the 1880s until the advent of World War II, using styles from academic to pointillist to Nabi to Fauve, Vuillard's abundant paintings revealed his turmoil of love and hatred: models pose beside a plaster torso cast from the Venus of Milo, women appear without faces, anxiety radiates from many masterpieces--while other works were left unfinished for months or years. Drawing on insights and images from Vuillard's still unpublished diaries, Julia Frey takes us into Vuillard's private world of cabarets, experimental theaters, holiday resorts, and intimate boudoirs, showing how his art reflects his fraught personal relations and his artistic struggles. Frey highlights many of his finest works, from his famous intimate interior scenes to book illustrations and poster designs, and she examines his complex relationships with iconic friends like Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Felix Vallotton, as well as with the women he loved--his mother and sister, penniless models, and rich men's wives.
Author : Donna Olendorf
Publisher : Contemporary Authors
ISBN 13 : 9780810355514
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictu written by Donna Olendorf and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors®. Authors in this volume include: Barbara Bush Tenzin Gyato - Dalai Lama Georges Perec Lucius Shepard
Author : László Krasznahorkai
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215046
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Melancholy of Resistance written by László Krasznahorkai and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize
Author : Elizabeth Caroline Grey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1042 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Sybil Lennard, by the author of 'The young prima donna'. written by Elizabeth Caroline Grey and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enzo Traverso
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543018
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Left-Wing Melancholia written by Enzo Traverso and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent of critical theory, a culture of defeat and its emotional overlay of melancholy have characterized the leftist understanding of the political in history and in theoretical critique. Drawing on a vast and diverse archive in theory, testimony, and image and on such thinkers as Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and others, the intellectual historian Enzo Traverso explores the varying nature of left melancholy as it has manifested in a feeling of guilt for not sufficiently challenging authority, in a fear of surrendering in disarray and resignation, in mourning the human costs of the past, and in a sense of failure for not realizing utopian aspirations. Yet hidden within this melancholic tradition are the resources for a renewed challenge to prevailing regimes of historicity, a passion that has the power to reignite the dialectic of revolutionary thought.
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416576894
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Greater Journey written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever—sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent—flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.”
Author : Tate Gallery
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Tate Gallery written by Tate Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385353227
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book The Buried Giant written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
Author : Kynaston McShine
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 9780810961975
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (619 download)
Download or read book The Museum as Muse written by Kynaston McShine and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 14 - June 1, 1999.
Author : Duncan Macmillan
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Art of Will MacLean written by Duncan Macmillan and published by Mainstream Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will Maclean RSA, Professer of Painting in the University of Dundee, is one of the outstanding Scottish artists of his generation. He was born in Inverness where his father, a former sailor, was harbour master, and he spent his childhood between Inverness and Skye. His art is rooted in his knowledge of the Highlands, the Highland people and their history, and in his own early associations with sailors and the sea. These things make it relevant and immediately accessible, yet it remains uncompromisingly modern in its forms and in its concerns. In this new edition, Duncan Macmillan has extended and updated the book, first published in 1992, to include the important work that the artist has done in the last decade. Fittingly, the great Gaelic poet, the late Sorely Maclean, contributed a foreword to the first edition of Symbols of Survival. It is reprinted here and, elsewhere in the book, as he explores the poetry and meaning of Maclean's subtle and complex art, the author shows how, like Sorley MacLean's poetry, it reaches out from the artist's own experience to touch on universal themes."
