The Vision Machine

The Vision Machine PDF Author: Paul Virilio
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ISBN: 9780851704456
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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The Vision Machine

The Vision Machine PDF Author: Paul Virilio
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ISBN: 9780851704456
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Working the Room

Working the Room PDF Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847679668
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great art great, Working the Room ventures into more personal territory with extensive autobiographical pieces - 'On Being an Only Child', 'Sacked' and 'Reader's Block', among other gems. Dyer's breadth of vision and generosity of spirit combine to form a manual for ways of being in - and seeing - the world today.

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition PDF Author: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism* *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* *A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects—music, literature, photography, and travel journalism—that, in Dyer's expert hands, becomes a kind of irresistible self-reportage. Otherwise Known as the Human Condition collects twenty-five years of essays, reviews, and misadventures. Here he is pursuing the shadow of Camus in Algeria and remembering life on the dole in Brixton in the 1980s; reflecting on Richard Avedon and Ruth Orkin, on the status of jazz and the wonderous Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, on the sculptor ZadKine and the saxophonist David Murray (in the same essay), on his heroes Rebecca West and Ryszard Kapus ́cin ́ski, on haute couture and sex in hotels. Whatever he writes about, his responses never fail to surprise. For Dyer there is no division between the reflective work of the critic and the novelist's commitment to lived experience: they are mutually illuminating ways to sharpen our perceptions. His is the rare body of work that manages to both frame our world and enlarge it.

Poetry, Painting and Ideas, 1885–1914

Poetry, Painting and Ideas, 1885–1914 PDF Author: Alan Robinson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349071900
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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The Wandering Jew

The Wandering Jew PDF Author: Eugène Sue
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Category : Wandering Jew
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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The Retrieval of the Beautiful

The Retrieval of the Beautiful PDF Author: Galen A. Johnson
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810125641
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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In this elegant new study Galen Johnson retrieves the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetics. Although Merleau-Ponty seldom spoke directly of beauty, his philosophy is essentially about the beautiful. In Johnson’s formulation, the ontology of Flesh as element and the ontology of the Beautiful as elemental are folded together, for Desire, Love, and Beauty are part of the fabric of the world’s element, Flesh itself, the term at which Merleau-Ponty arrived to replace Substance, Matter, or Life as the name of Being. Merleau-Ponty’s Eye and Mind is at the core of the book, so Johnson engages, as Merleau-Ponty did, the writings and visual work of Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, and Paul Klee, as well as Rilke’s commentary on Cézanne and Rodin. From these widely varying aesthetics emerge the fundamental themes of the retrieval of the beautiful: desire, repetition, difference, rhythm, and the sublime. The third part of Johnson’s book takes each of these up in turn, bringing Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetic thinking into dialogue with classical philosophy as well as Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. Johnson concludes his final chapter with a direct dialogue with Kant and Merleau-Ponty, and also Lyotard, on the subject of the beautiful and the sublime. As we experience with Rodin’s Balzac, beauty and the sublime blend into one another when the beautiful grows powerful, majestic, mysterious, and transcendent.

Rodin's Sculpture

Rodin's Sculpture PDF Author: Jacques De Caso
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ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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"The Rodin collection left by Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor is the most salient and nearly the earliest example of America's admirable passion for an artist whose personality and works dominated the decades of 1880 to 1910. In an essay which follows this introduction, Patricia B. Sanders has chronicled the history of Mrs. Spreckels' collecting enterprise... Her choice was remarkable. Before Rodin's death in 1917 and over the following years until the 1940s, she acquired, first from Rodin and later from those nearest him, bronzes, plasters and marbles -- among them not only many of the most important Rodins but also many of the best... The Spreckels collection... is second only to the Musée Rodin in Paris as a center of Rodin art and sculptures"--

The Outlook

The Outlook PDF Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916

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The Studio

The Studio PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Apropos Rodin

Apropos Rodin PDF Author: Jennifer Gough-Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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"Between 25 October 2006 and 21 January 2007 'Rodin - L'aEveil de la pierre', an exhibition of selected photographs from the book, will be held in the Cabinet d'Arts Graphiques, at the Musaee Rodin"--T.p. verso.