Author: Lars Tunbjörk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Photographies de Suède de 1979 à 1991.
Country beside itself
Author: Lars Tunbjörk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Photographies de Suède de 1979 à 1991.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Photographies de Suède de 1979 à 1991.
Home
Author: Lars Tunbjörk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783882438680
Category : Architectural photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Home' is the third part of a color trilogy by the Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk. Whereas the focus of his earlier two books were leisure time and the world of office labour, the home series started when he went back to his childhood neighbourhood and photographed his mother's house.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783882438680
Category : Architectural photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Home' is the third part of a color trilogy by the Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk. Whereas the focus of his earlier two books were leisure time and the world of office labour, the home series started when he went back to his childhood neighbourhood and photographed his mother's house.
The Man Without a Country and Other Tales
Author: Edward Everett Hale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Country Life
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Place in the Country
Author: W.G. Sebald
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812995031
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A Place in the Country is W. G. Sebald’s meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind—and the last of this great writer’s major works to be translated into English. This edition includes more than 40 pieces of art, all originally selected by W. G. Sebald. This extraordinary collection of interlinked essays about place, memory, and creativity captures the inner worlds of five authors and one painter. In his masterly and mysterious style—part critical essay, part memoir—Sebald weaves their lives and art with his own migrations and rise in the literary world. Here are people gifted with talent and courage yet in some cases cursed by fragile and unstable natures, working in countries inhospitable or even hostile to them. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is conjured on the verge of physical and mental exhaustion, hiding from his detractors on the island of St. Pierre, where two centuries later Sebald took rooms adjacent to his. Eighteenth-century author Johann Peter Hebel is remembered for his exquisite and delicate nature writing, expressing the eternal balance of both the outside world and human emotions. Writer Gottfried Keller, best known for his 1850 novel Green Henry, is praised for his prescient insights into a Germany where “the gap between self-interest and the common good was growing ever wider.” Sebald compassionately re-creates the ordeals of Eduard Mörike, the nineteenth-century German poet beset by mood swings, depression, and fainting spells in an increasingly shallow society, and Robert Walser, the institutionalized author whose nearly indecipherable scrawls seemed an attempt to “duck down below the level of language and obliterate himself” (and whose physical appearance and year of death mirrored those of Sebald’s grandfather). Finally, Sebald spies a cognizance of death’s inevitability in painter Jan Peter Tripp’s lovingly exact reproductions of life. Featuring the same kinds of suggestive and unexplained illustrations that appear in his masterworks Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, and translated by Sebald’s colleague Jo Catling, A Place in the Country is Sebald’s unforgettable self-portrait as seen through the experiences of others, a glimpse of his own ghosts alongside those of the men who influenced him. It is an essential addition to his stunning body of work. Praise for A Place in the Country “Measured, solemn, sardonic . . . hypnotic . . . [W. G. Sebald’s] books, which he made out of classics, remain classics for now.”—Joshua Cohen, The New York Times Book Review “In Sebald’s writing, everything is connected, everything webbed together by the unseen threads of history, or chance, or fate, or death. The scholarly craft of gathering scattered sources and weaving them into a coherent whole is transformed here into something beautiful and unsettling, elevated into an art of the uncanny—an art that was, in the end, Sebald’s strange and inscrutable gift.”—Slate “Magnificent . . . The multiple layers surrounding each essay are seamless to the point of imperceptibility.”—New York Daily News “Sebald’s most tender and jovial book.”—The Nation “Reading [A Place in the Country is] like going for a walk with a beautifully talented, deeply passionate novelist from Mars.”—New York
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812995031
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A Place in the Country is W. G. Sebald’s meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind—and the last of this great writer’s major works to be translated into English. This edition includes more than 40 pieces of art, all originally selected by W. G. Sebald. This extraordinary collection of interlinked essays about place, memory, and creativity captures the inner worlds of five authors and one painter. In his masterly and mysterious style—part critical essay, part memoir—Sebald weaves their lives and art with his own migrations and rise in the literary world. Here are people gifted with talent and courage yet in some cases cursed by fragile and unstable natures, working in countries inhospitable or even hostile to them. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is conjured on the verge of physical and mental exhaustion, hiding from his detractors on the island of St. Pierre, where two centuries later Sebald took rooms adjacent to his. Eighteenth-century author Johann Peter Hebel is remembered for his exquisite and delicate nature writing, expressing the eternal balance of both the outside world and human emotions. Writer Gottfried Keller, best known for his 1850 novel Green Henry, is praised for his prescient insights into a Germany where “the gap between self-interest and the common good was growing ever wider.” Sebald compassionately re-creates the ordeals of Eduard Mörike, the nineteenth-century German poet beset by mood swings, depression, and fainting spells in an increasingly shallow society, and Robert Walser, the institutionalized author whose nearly indecipherable scrawls seemed an attempt to “duck down below the level of language and obliterate himself” (and whose physical appearance and year of death mirrored those of Sebald’s grandfather). Finally, Sebald spies a cognizance of death’s inevitability in painter Jan Peter Tripp’s lovingly exact reproductions of life. Featuring the same kinds of suggestive and unexplained illustrations that appear in his masterworks Austerlitz and The Rings of Saturn, and translated by Sebald’s colleague Jo Catling, A Place in the Country is Sebald’s unforgettable self-portrait as seen through the experiences of others, a glimpse of his own ghosts alongside those of the men who influenced him. It is an essential addition to his stunning body of work. Praise for A Place in the Country “Measured, solemn, sardonic . . . hypnotic . . . [W. G. Sebald’s] books, which he made out of classics, remain classics for now.”—Joshua Cohen, The New York Times Book Review “In Sebald’s writing, everything is connected, everything webbed together by the unseen threads of history, or chance, or fate, or death. The scholarly craft of gathering scattered sources and weaving them into a coherent whole is transformed here into something beautiful and unsettling, elevated into an art of the uncanny—an art that was, in the end, Sebald’s strange and inscrutable gift.”—Slate “Magnificent . . . The multiple layers surrounding each essay are seamless to the point of imperceptibility.”—New York Daily News “Sebald’s most tender and jovial book.”—The Nation “Reading [A Place in the Country is] like going for a walk with a beautifully talented, deeply passionate novelist from Mars.”—New York
The Love of Ruins
Author: Scott Cutler Shershow
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438465122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his "Cthulhu mythos" is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and his racism continues to spark controversy in the media. The Love of Ruins takes a fresh look at a figure widely acknowledged as the father of modern horror or "weird" fiction. In these pages, Lovecraft emerges not as the atheist and nihilist he is often claimed to be, but as a kind of "psychonaut" and mystic whose stories, through their own imaginative rigor, expose the intellectual bankruptcy of their author's racism. The Love of Ruins is itself written in the form of letters, in order to do homage to Lovecraft's love of the form of the personal letter (he wrote more than 100,000), and to emulate Lovecraft's lifetime practice of thinking-as-corresponding.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438465122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his "Cthulhu mythos" is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and his racism continues to spark controversy in the media. The Love of Ruins takes a fresh look at a figure widely acknowledged as the father of modern horror or "weird" fiction. In these pages, Lovecraft emerges not as the atheist and nihilist he is often claimed to be, but as a kind of "psychonaut" and mystic whose stories, through their own imaginative rigor, expose the intellectual bankruptcy of their author's racism. The Love of Ruins is itself written in the form of letters, in order to do homage to Lovecraft's love of the form of the personal letter (he wrote more than 100,000), and to emulate Lovecraft's lifetime practice of thinking-as-corresponding.
Scenes from Country Life
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Tracing Modernity
Author: Mari Hvattum
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415305112
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415305112
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Country Life Illustrated
Author:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Printers' Ink
Author:
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Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 2721
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 2721
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