Author: Jonah Siegel
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503632164
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
What does it mean to look? How does looking relate to damage? These are the fundamental questions addressed in Overlooking Damage. From the Roman triumph to the iconoclasm of ISIS and the Taliban to the aerial views of looted landscapes and destroyed temples visible on Google, the relationship between beauty and violence is far more intimate than we sometimes acknowledge. Jonah Siegel makes the daring argument that a thoughtful reaction to images of damage need not stop at melancholy, but can lead us to a new reckoning. Would the objects we admire be more beautiful if they were not injured or displaced, if they did not remind us of unbearable violence? Siegel takes up writers from the time of the French Revolution to today who have reacted to the depredations of revolutionary iconoclasm, imperial looting, and industrial capitalism, and proposes that in these authors we may find resources with which to navigate our contemporary situation. Deftly bringing the methods of literary studies to bear on important debates in the study of heritage, archaeology, and visual culture, Overlooking Damage reflects on the ways in which concepts of beauty intersect with periods of epochal violence in an attempt to resist the separation of broken things from the worlds in which they have come to be embedded.
Overlooking Damage
Author: Jonah Siegel
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503632164
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
What does it mean to look? How does looking relate to damage? These are the fundamental questions addressed in Overlooking Damage. From the Roman triumph to the iconoclasm of ISIS and the Taliban to the aerial views of looted landscapes and destroyed temples visible on Google, the relationship between beauty and violence is far more intimate than we sometimes acknowledge. Jonah Siegel makes the daring argument that a thoughtful reaction to images of damage need not stop at melancholy, but can lead us to a new reckoning. Would the objects we admire be more beautiful if they were not injured or displaced, if they did not remind us of unbearable violence? Siegel takes up writers from the time of the French Revolution to today who have reacted to the depredations of revolutionary iconoclasm, imperial looting, and industrial capitalism, and proposes that in these authors we may find resources with which to navigate our contemporary situation. Deftly bringing the methods of literary studies to bear on important debates in the study of heritage, archaeology, and visual culture, Overlooking Damage reflects on the ways in which concepts of beauty intersect with periods of epochal violence in an attempt to resist the separation of broken things from the worlds in which they have come to be embedded.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503632164
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
What does it mean to look? How does looking relate to damage? These are the fundamental questions addressed in Overlooking Damage. From the Roman triumph to the iconoclasm of ISIS and the Taliban to the aerial views of looted landscapes and destroyed temples visible on Google, the relationship between beauty and violence is far more intimate than we sometimes acknowledge. Jonah Siegel makes the daring argument that a thoughtful reaction to images of damage need not stop at melancholy, but can lead us to a new reckoning. Would the objects we admire be more beautiful if they were not injured or displaced, if they did not remind us of unbearable violence? Siegel takes up writers from the time of the French Revolution to today who have reacted to the depredations of revolutionary iconoclasm, imperial looting, and industrial capitalism, and proposes that in these authors we may find resources with which to navigate our contemporary situation. Deftly bringing the methods of literary studies to bear on important debates in the study of heritage, archaeology, and visual culture, Overlooking Damage reflects on the ways in which concepts of beauty intersect with periods of epochal violence in an attempt to resist the separation of broken things from the worlds in which they have come to be embedded.
DNA Damage, DNA Repair and Disease Volume 2
Author: R. Stephen Lloyd
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN: 1839162511
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
The overall aim of these books is to give scientists in academia and industry a comprehensive overview of the field of DNA damage and DNA repair and related human diseases.
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN: 1839162511
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
The overall aim of these books is to give scientists in academia and industry a comprehensive overview of the field of DNA damage and DNA repair and related human diseases.
Report of the Committee of Examination on the Damage to Public Buildings at Baton Rouge
Author: Louisiana. Committee of Examination on the Damage to Public Buildings at Baton Rouge
Publisher:
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Category : Baton Rouge (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baton Rouge (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Damaged and Threatened National Historic Landmarks
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Golden Age
Author: Jane Smiley
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307744825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the much-anticipated final volume in the acclaimed The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, following Some Luck and Early Warning. A richly absorbing new novel that is “a monumental portrait of an American family and an American century…. Smiley’s plot is a marvel of intricacy that’s full of surprises.” —Los Angeles Times It’s 1987, and the next generation of Langdons is facing economic, social, and political challenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered. Michael and Richie, twin sons of World War II hero Frank, work in the high-stakes worlds of government and finance—but their fiercest enemies may be closer to home. Charlie, the charmer, struggles to find his way; Guthrie is deployed to Iraq, leaving the Iowa family farm in the hands of his younger sister, Felicity—who, as always, has her own ideas. Determined to help preserve the planet, she worries that her family farm’s land is imperiled, and not only by the extremes of climate change. Moving seamlessly from the power-brokered 1980s and the scandal-ridden ‘90s to our own present moment and beyond, Golden Age combines intimate drama, emotional suspense, and an intricate view of history, bringing to a magnificent conclusion the epic trilogy of one unforgettable family.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307744825
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes the much-anticipated final volume in the acclaimed The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, following Some Luck and Early Warning. A richly absorbing new novel that is “a monumental portrait of an American family and an American century…. Smiley’s plot is a marvel of intricacy that’s full of surprises.” —Los Angeles Times It’s 1987, and the next generation of Langdons is facing economic, social, and political challenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered. Michael and Richie, twin sons of World War II hero Frank, work in the high-stakes worlds of government and finance—but their fiercest enemies may be closer to home. Charlie, the charmer, struggles to find his way; Guthrie is deployed to Iraq, leaving the Iowa family farm in the hands of his younger sister, Felicity—who, as always, has her own ideas. Determined to help preserve the planet, she worries that her family farm’s land is imperiled, and not only by the extremes of climate change. Moving seamlessly from the power-brokered 1980s and the scandal-ridden ‘90s to our own present moment and beyond, Golden Age combines intimate drama, emotional suspense, and an intricate view of history, bringing to a magnificent conclusion the epic trilogy of one unforgettable family.
The Birds of the British Isles
Author: David Armitage Bannerman
Publisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Reports of cases heard and determined in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Punitive Damages
Author: J. Hudgins
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788172794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788172794
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Terroristic Activity: Interlocks between Communism and terrorism
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
Publisher:
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Category : Subversive activities
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subversive activities
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Terroristic Activity, Interlocks Between Communism and Terrorism
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description