Author: Nicholas Kahn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984573981
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When you look through the porthole of your berth aboard the ship, what do you see? The raging ocean? A lone iceberg? The world as it once was, now receding into the distance? Likewise, when you peer through your telescope at the distant boat, what do you see? An approaching storm? A drowning man? The future, drifting forever out of reach? In their latest book, Doctor Falke's Oraculum, Kahn & Selesnick invite you to look through the peep hole where you shall find scenes of people trying to parse that which is to come, speak with those departed, or just finding their pleasure amid the florid decay of a world in decline. For when personal and societal mythologies supersede facts, when the promise of virtual realities threaten to supersede the real thing, what better way to approach an uncertain future than through the arcane method of augury-after all, is not prophecy the original fake news?The Oraculum continues the adventures of the Truppe Fledermaus, a cabaret troupe of anxious mummers and would-be mystics who catalogue their absurdist attempts to augur a future that seems increasingly in peril due to environmental pressures and global turmoil. Presented as an unbound collection of photographs and text, the Oraculum is by turns a travelogue, an oracle, an art book, a box of prints, a meditation on the future, and an instruction manual of interpretative dance moves. The loose nature of the pages allow the viewer to treat this volume as a bibliomancy oracle where pages can be shuffled and selected at random to receive messages and prophecy, much as one uses the tarot and other cartomancy decks.The artists also examine the notion of the carnivalesque-traditionally the carnival was a time when the normal order of society was upended and reversed, so that at least for a day the fool might become king, men and women might cross dress, and sacred ceremonies and normal mores were spoofed. The Truppe ask you to consider: is it the carnival that is upside-down, or perhaps the real world that it purports to burlesque?
Dr. Falke's ORACULUM
Author: Nicholas Kahn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984573981
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When you look through the porthole of your berth aboard the ship, what do you see? The raging ocean? A lone iceberg? The world as it once was, now receding into the distance? Likewise, when you peer through your telescope at the distant boat, what do you see? An approaching storm? A drowning man? The future, drifting forever out of reach? In their latest book, Doctor Falke's Oraculum, Kahn & Selesnick invite you to look through the peep hole where you shall find scenes of people trying to parse that which is to come, speak with those departed, or just finding their pleasure amid the florid decay of a world in decline. For when personal and societal mythologies supersede facts, when the promise of virtual realities threaten to supersede the real thing, what better way to approach an uncertain future than through the arcane method of augury-after all, is not prophecy the original fake news?The Oraculum continues the adventures of the Truppe Fledermaus, a cabaret troupe of anxious mummers and would-be mystics who catalogue their absurdist attempts to augur a future that seems increasingly in peril due to environmental pressures and global turmoil. Presented as an unbound collection of photographs and text, the Oraculum is by turns a travelogue, an oracle, an art book, a box of prints, a meditation on the future, and an instruction manual of interpretative dance moves. The loose nature of the pages allow the viewer to treat this volume as a bibliomancy oracle where pages can be shuffled and selected at random to receive messages and prophecy, much as one uses the tarot and other cartomancy decks.The artists also examine the notion of the carnivalesque-traditionally the carnival was a time when the normal order of society was upended and reversed, so that at least for a day the fool might become king, men and women might cross dress, and sacred ceremonies and normal mores were spoofed. The Truppe ask you to consider: is it the carnival that is upside-down, or perhaps the real world that it purports to burlesque?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984573981
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
When you look through the porthole of your berth aboard the ship, what do you see? The raging ocean? A lone iceberg? The world as it once was, now receding into the distance? Likewise, when you peer through your telescope at the distant boat, what do you see? An approaching storm? A drowning man? The future, drifting forever out of reach? In their latest book, Doctor Falke's Oraculum, Kahn & Selesnick invite you to look through the peep hole where you shall find scenes of people trying to parse that which is to come, speak with those departed, or just finding their pleasure amid the florid decay of a world in decline. For when personal and societal mythologies supersede facts, when the promise of virtual realities threaten to supersede the real thing, what better way to approach an uncertain future than through the arcane method of augury-after all, is not prophecy the original fake news?The Oraculum continues the adventures of the Truppe Fledermaus, a cabaret troupe of anxious mummers and would-be mystics who catalogue their absurdist attempts to augur a future that seems increasingly in peril due to environmental pressures and global turmoil. Presented as an unbound collection of photographs and text, the Oraculum is by turns a travelogue, an oracle, an art book, a box of prints, a meditation on the future, and an instruction manual of interpretative dance moves. The loose nature of the pages allow the viewer to treat this volume as a bibliomancy oracle where pages can be shuffled and selected at random to receive messages and prophecy, much as one uses the tarot and other cartomancy decks.The artists also examine the notion of the carnivalesque-traditionally the carnival was a time when the normal order of society was upended and reversed, so that at least for a day the fool might become king, men and women might cross dress, and sacred ceremonies and normal mores were spoofed. The Truppe ask you to consider: is it the carnival that is upside-down, or perhaps the real world that it purports to burlesque?
Madame Lulu's Book of Fate
Author: Falkner, Kahn and
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781715235857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This set of new interpretations to the tarot is the essential guidebook to the meanings and mysteries of Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick's Carnival at the End of the World Tarot deck.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781715235857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This set of new interpretations to the tarot is the essential guidebook to the meanings and mysteries of Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick's Carnival at the End of the World Tarot deck.
Pine Tree Ballads
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984573974
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
In the early 1900s, artist Paul Thulin's great-grandfather settled on an island off the coast of Maine because it resembled his homeland of Sweden. As a result, his family has returned to Gray's Point each summer for over a century. Throughout his life, his great-grandfather shared exquisitely detailed accounts of the early settlers of the New England apple orchard that included such characters as a one-legged ship cook, a widowed schoolteacher, and an ingenious Native American blacksmith. The tales were an intricate mix of facts and lore that fueled imagination and often had the power to transform daily floorboard creaks and shadows into enduring ancestral spirits. "Pine Tree Ballads" is a poetic memoir that embraces this spirit of magic realism. This deeply personal photographic sequence is a family generated folktale of place and origins; a story infused with both imagination and reality which, in most instances, are the true ingredients of history.This book adopts a unique"docu-literary" structure that celebrates and fully exploits the duplicitous nature of photography/text to be simultaneously interpreted as both fact and fiction. The project explores the emotive, contextual, and material constructs of history, culture, personal identity, memory, and folklore. The images are made with a variety of photo-based processes including both large format b/w and color film, and hi-resolution digital capture. An "aura aesthetic" purposely exposes the formal beauty and conceptual profundity of analog-based photographic material disruptions, such as film light leaks, dust and scratches, lens distortion, chemical stains, loss of color integrity, film grain, mold, and the multitude of ways paper stains, rips, and deteriorates over time.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984573974
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
In the early 1900s, artist Paul Thulin's great-grandfather settled on an island off the coast of Maine because it resembled his homeland of Sweden. As a result, his family has returned to Gray's Point each summer for over a century. Throughout his life, his great-grandfather shared exquisitely detailed accounts of the early settlers of the New England apple orchard that included such characters as a one-legged ship cook, a widowed schoolteacher, and an ingenious Native American blacksmith. The tales were an intricate mix of facts and lore that fueled imagination and often had the power to transform daily floorboard creaks and shadows into enduring ancestral spirits. "Pine Tree Ballads" is a poetic memoir that embraces this spirit of magic realism. This deeply personal photographic sequence is a family generated folktale of place and origins; a story infused with both imagination and reality which, in most instances, are the true ingredients of history.This book adopts a unique"docu-literary" structure that celebrates and fully exploits the duplicitous nature of photography/text to be simultaneously interpreted as both fact and fiction. The project explores the emotive, contextual, and material constructs of history, culture, personal identity, memory, and folklore. The images are made with a variety of photo-based processes including both large format b/w and color film, and hi-resolution digital capture. An "aura aesthetic" purposely exposes the formal beauty and conceptual profundity of analog-based photographic material disruptions, such as film light leaks, dust and scratches, lens distortion, chemical stains, loss of color integrity, film grain, mold, and the multitude of ways paper stains, rips, and deteriorates over time.
Dictionarium Etymologicum Latinum (etc.) Or, a Dictionarie Declaring the Etymologies, the Originall and Derivation of All Words Used in Any Latine Authors
Author: Francis Holyoake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Ballads and Songs of Brittany
Author: Tom Taylor
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752587326
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752587326
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.
Salt & Truth
Author: Shelby Lee Adams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984573912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shelby Lee Adams first encountered the communities of the Appalachian mountains as a child, while accompanying his doctor uncle on his rounds. In the mid-1970s he started to photograph in the region, using a 4 x 5 camera, gaining and building a special trust among its often impoverished people, who have tended to not always welcome would-be documentarians. Adams not only records their lives and hardships with great empathy, but also depicts the grace and humanity of his subjects, photographing with an ease evident in the results. Salt and Truthis Adams' fourth monograph, and presents 80 new photographs taken mostly over the past eight years. The photographs in this collection are of children and animals, of working people and of a way of life rarely glimpsed by photographers. Shelby Lee Adams(born 1950) is an American photographer renowned for his environmental portraiture, primarily in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky. Adams' work has been featured in three monographs: Appalachian Portraits(1993), Appalachian Legacy(1998) and Appalachian Lives(2003). In 2010 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Adams' work is represented in many major permanent collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the International Center of Photography in New York; Musee De L'Elysee Lausanne in Switzerland; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Time Life Collection, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Adams was also the subject of a 2002 documentary film by Jennifer Baichwal, The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984573912
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shelby Lee Adams first encountered the communities of the Appalachian mountains as a child, while accompanying his doctor uncle on his rounds. In the mid-1970s he started to photograph in the region, using a 4 x 5 camera, gaining and building a special trust among its often impoverished people, who have tended to not always welcome would-be documentarians. Adams not only records their lives and hardships with great empathy, but also depicts the grace and humanity of his subjects, photographing with an ease evident in the results. Salt and Truthis Adams' fourth monograph, and presents 80 new photographs taken mostly over the past eight years. The photographs in this collection are of children and animals, of working people and of a way of life rarely glimpsed by photographers. Shelby Lee Adams(born 1950) is an American photographer renowned for his environmental portraiture, primarily in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky. Adams' work has been featured in three monographs: Appalachian Portraits(1993), Appalachian Legacy(1998) and Appalachian Lives(2003). In 2010 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Adams' work is represented in many major permanent collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the International Center of Photography in New York; Musee De L'Elysee Lausanne in Switzerland; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Time Life Collection, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Adams was also the subject of a 2002 documentary film by Jennifer Baichwal, The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia.
Teutonic Mythology
Author: Jacob Grimm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Witches Wisdom Tarot
Author:
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 178817321X
Category : Fortune
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 178817321X
Category : Fortune
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
City of Salt
Author: Nicholas Kahn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931788779
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Essays by Erez Lieberman and Sarah Falkner.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931788779
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Essays by Erez Lieberman and Sarah Falkner.
What the Living Carry
Author: Morgan Ashcom
Publisher: Mack
ISBN: 9781910164938
Category : Landscape photography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What the Living Carry unveils a small town named Hoy's Fork, situated in the American South. Drawing on memories of the rural setting in which he grew up, Virginian photographer Morgan Ashcom brings together photographs, type-written letters and a hand-drawn map to build a fictional narrative of a foreboding place. Leading us on a trail through the town and its surrounding forest, Ashcom presents scenes that point to a mysterious history, and people whose familial connections remain unknown: a forlorn old man, with champagne to hand, reclines on the corroding steps of a once grand home; a bloodied mattress is carried through an overgrown field; a solitary child burrows into a meadow, while on the streets, a man dutifully cleans a white picket fence -- a vision that belies a local mural of a distant, ancient land. Interspersing this fragmented narrative is a set of texts -- four letters responding to 'Morgan's' request for DNA analysis -- written by 'Eugene' of the 'Center for Epigenetics and Wellness of the Spirit'. If What the Living Carry provides a set of clues to unravel the enigma behind this strange world, it is through a visual record that is simultaneously autobiographical and imagined, and inclined to elude.
Publisher: Mack
ISBN: 9781910164938
Category : Landscape photography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What the Living Carry unveils a small town named Hoy's Fork, situated in the American South. Drawing on memories of the rural setting in which he grew up, Virginian photographer Morgan Ashcom brings together photographs, type-written letters and a hand-drawn map to build a fictional narrative of a foreboding place. Leading us on a trail through the town and its surrounding forest, Ashcom presents scenes that point to a mysterious history, and people whose familial connections remain unknown: a forlorn old man, with champagne to hand, reclines on the corroding steps of a once grand home; a bloodied mattress is carried through an overgrown field; a solitary child burrows into a meadow, while on the streets, a man dutifully cleans a white picket fence -- a vision that belies a local mural of a distant, ancient land. Interspersing this fragmented narrative is a set of texts -- four letters responding to 'Morgan's' request for DNA analysis -- written by 'Eugene' of the 'Center for Epigenetics and Wellness of the Spirit'. If What the Living Carry provides a set of clues to unravel the enigma behind this strange world, it is through a visual record that is simultaneously autobiographical and imagined, and inclined to elude.