Beauty S Nothing

Author : Nadav Kander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015054435204

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Beauty's Nothing by Nadav Kander Pdf

Nadav Kander creates unfailingly beautiful photographs with the formal precision of a master photographer. But beauty is the beguiling lure for Kander's disconcerting explorations into representation through genre as diverse as portraiture, landscape, and still life. He employs the seductive charm of aestheticism to expose our inconsistent response to the female nude, to probe questions of morality and desire in a series on Cuban prostitutes, and to manifest the fragile imbalances of the American landscape with its endlessly repeating artifice at the edge of vast emptiness. The book is composed of chapters of images, interleaved with short stories, poems, and essays, each responding to a particular image or section. Each sequence elaborates a narrative, at times driven by the commissioned texts and often arising from the friction between two dissociated images. Nadav Kander was born in Israel in 1961 and was raised in South Africa. In 1982 he moved to London, where in 1986 he set up his first studio. Kander has received international critical acclaim for his photography and is one of the most sought-after photographers working today. In the preceding few years, Kander has shot for numerous magazines and commercial accounts, including Nova, Visionaire, Dazed & Confused, Raygun, Rolling Stone, Zoom, the London Sunday Times, Sports Illustrated, Graphis, and others. He has exhibited in museums and galleries such as the Saatchi Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Photographic Society, and the Tate Museum. This book, his first, is accompanied by an international touring exhibition.

Author : Charles Force Deems
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081677019

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Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine by Charles Force Deems Pdf

Author : Drew A. Hyland
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253219770

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Plato and the Question of Beauty by Drew A. Hyland Pdf

Drew A. Hyland, one of Continental philosophy's keenest interpreters of Plato, takes up the question of beauty in three Platonic dialogues, the Hippias Major, Symposium, and Phaedrus. What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, and Hyland's close readings show that Plato ultimately gives up on the possibility of a definition. Plato's failure, however, tells us something important about beauty—that it cannot be reduced to logos. Exploring questions surrounding love, memory, and ideal form, Hyland draws out the connections between beauty, the possibility of philosophy, and philosophical living. This new reading of Plato provides a serious investigation into the meaning of beauty and places it at the very heart of philosophy.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 3337 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547387084

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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Oscar Wilde collection: Plays: Vera The Duchess of Padua Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance Salomé Salome (English Version) An Ideal Husband The Importance of Being Earnest La Sainte Courtisane A Florentine Tragedy For Love of the King Novel: The Picture of Dorian Gray (The Original Version) The Picture of Dorian Gray (The Revised 20 Chapter Version) Short Stories: The Portrait of Mr. W. H. The Happy Prince and Other Tales: The Happy Prince The Nightingale and the Rose The Devoted Friend The Selfish Giant The Remarkable Rocket A House of Pomegranates: The Young King The Birthday of the Infanta The Fisherman and His Soul The Star-Child Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Canterville Ghost The Sphinx Without a Secret The Model Millionaire Poetry: Ravenna Hélas! Eleutheria Sonnet to Liberty Ave Imperatrix Louis Napoleon. Quantum Mutata Libertatis Sacra Fames Theoretikos The Garden of Eros Rosa Mystica The Burden of Itys Wind Flowers Impression du Matin Magdalen Walks Athanasia Serenade Endymion La Bella Donna della Mia Mente Chanson Charmides Flowers of Gold The Sphinx The Ballad of Reading Gaol... Essays & Lectures: Intentions The Decay of Lying The Critic as Artist Pen, Pencil, and Poison The Truth of Masks The Rise of Historical Criticism The English Renaissance of Art House Decoration Art and the Handicraftsman Lecture to Art Students London Models Poems in Prose The Soul of Man under Socialism Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated De Profundis Impressions of America... Literary Reviews: Dinners and Dishes A Modern Epic Shakespeare on Scenery A Bevy of Poets Parnassus versus Philology... Other Works: Aphorisms Des Grieux (Prelude to Teleny) Teleny Letters: Letters to the Daily Chronicle Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life Letters on Dorian Gray Letters to Robert Ross Oscar Wilde, His life and Confessions – Biography by Frank Harris

Author : Chrysostomos A. Stamoulis
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227178126

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Holy Beauty by Chrysostomos A. Stamoulis Pdf

"The philosophical and theological study of aesthetics has a long and rich history, stretching back to Platos identification of ultimate goodness and beauty, together representing the eternal form. Recent trends in aesthetic theory, however, characterised by a focus on the beautiful at the expense of the good, have made it an object of suspicion in the Orthodox Church. In its place, Greek theologians have sought to emphasise philokalia as a truer theological discipline. Seeking to reverse this trend, Chrysostomos Stamoulis brings into conversation a plethora of voices, from Church fathers to contemporary poets, and from a Marxist political theorist to a literary critic. Out of this dialogue, Stamoulis builds a model for the re-appropriation of Orthodoxys patristic and Byzantine past that is no longer defined in antithesis to the Western present. The openness he proposes allows us to perceive afresh the world shot through with divinity, if only we can lift our gaze to see it. Dismantling the false dichotomy, philokalia or aesthetics, is the first step."

Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015051321290

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Bacon's Essays by Francis Bacon Pdf

Author : Henry George Bonavia Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : BL:A0024119335

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An Initiatory Inquiry Into the Philosophy of Beauty by Henry George Bonavia Hunt Pdf

Author : James Wetzel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441174826

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Augustine: A Guide for the Perplexed by James Wetzel Pdf

This is a student's guide to the life and work of Augustine; a notoriously challenging thinker, widely read in Philosophy and Christian Theology. The book provides a concise and coherent overview of Augustine, introducing all the key concepts and themes, and is ideal for undergraduates who require more than just a simple introduction to his work and thought.

Author : Charles Dudley Warner,Hamilton Wright Mabie,Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle,George H. Warner,Edward Cornelius Towne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Anthologies
ISBN : UOM:39076000776208

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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z by Charles Dudley Warner,Hamilton Wright Mabie,Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle,George H. Warner,Edward Cornelius Towne Pdf

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022901078

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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with a biographical and critical introduction, by Henry Rogers, and portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds by Edmund Burke Pdf

Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 2185 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504052757

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The Lanny Budd Novels Volume Two by Upton Sinclair Pdf

Books four through six in the Pulitzer Prize–winning series of historical novels about an international spy in the first half of the twentieth century. An ambitious and entertaining mix of history, adventure, and romance, Upton Sinclair’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Lanny Budd novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of the author’s vision and his singular talents as a storyteller. “Few works of fiction are more fun to read; fewer still make history half as clear, or as human” (Time). In these three novels, as the threat of Nazism grows in the 1930s, Lanny progresses from international art dealer to international spy. Wide Is the Gate: When his arms dealer father strikes a business agreement with Hermann Göring, Lanny uses the opportunity and his art world reputation to move easily among the Nazi high command and gather valuable information he can transmit back to those who are dedicated to the destruction of Nazism and Fascism. He’s playing a dangerous—albeit necessary—game, which will carry him from Germany to Spain on a life-and-death mission on the eve of the Spanish Civil War. The Presidential Agent: In 1937, Lanny’s boss from the Paris Peace Conference—now one of Roosevelt’s top advisors—connects him to the president. Appointed Presidential Agent 103, he embarks on a secret assignment that takes him back into the Third Reich as the Allied powers prepare to cede Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler in a futile attempt to avoid war. But Lanny’s motivations are not just political: The woman he loves has fallen into the brutal hands of the Gestapo, and Lanny will risk everything to save her. Dragon Harvest: Lanny has earned the trust of Adolf Hitler and his inner circle, who are convinced the American art dealer is a “true believer” committed to their Fascist cause. But when Roosevelt’s secret agent learns of the Führer’s plans for conquest, his dire warnings to Neville Chamberlain and other reluctant European leaders fall on deaf ears. The bitter seeds sown decades earlier with the Treaty of Versailles are now bearing fruit, and there will be no stopping the Nazi war machine as it rolls relentlessly on toward Paris.

Author : Vasily Sesemann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004357990

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Aesthetics by Vasily Sesemann Pdf

This work by Lithuania's most important philosopher Vasily Sesemann (1884-1963) is a European classic. Having been published in Lithuanian for the first time in 1970 (though written much earlier) it has now finally become accessible to an international public. Sesemann's Aesthetics is not only an extremely useful introduction to the discipline of aesthetics; it also engages in stimulating analyses of a whole range of subjects that remain of interest for the contemporary reader. Sesemann explains in a clear and systematic way almost all problems linked to aesthetic production and perception, providing inquiries into, for example, philosophical problems of space, tectonicity in architecture, and film. Sesemann's personal philosophical vision of aesthetic experience as well as of the ambiguity of aesthetic form makes this book a must for specialists in German and Eastern European interwar philosophy as well as in Russian Formalism.

Author : Josef Popper-Lynkeus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847680363

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The Individual and the Value of Human Life by Josef Popper-Lynkeus Pdf

A translation of a German humanist tract written popularly for a wide audience by Josef Popper (1838-1921), most widely known by the pseudonym "Lynkeus." On the first page, Popper provides the ethical ideal that is meant to serve as the foundation for his program of social reform: "The obliteration of any individual who has not willfully or forcibly endangered another...is a much more important event than all the political, religious, and national events, and all scientific, artistic, and technical progress of all centuries and people taken together." Introduction by Joram Graf Haber. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : HARVARD:HXDV6C

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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay by Samuel Austin Allibone Pdf

Author : Charles Bukowski
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780872866386

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Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski Pdf

Exceptional stories that come pounding out of Bukowski's violent and depraved life. Horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again. This collection of stories was once part of the 1972 City Lights classic, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness. That book was later split into two volumes and republished: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and, this book, Tales of Ordinary Madness. With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground—people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time, a madman, a recluse, a lover; tender, vicious; never the same. "Bukowski … a professional disturber of the peace … laureate of Los Angeles netherworld [writes with] crazy romantic insistence that losers are less phony than winners, and with an angry compassion for the lost."—Jack Kroll, Newsweek "Bukowski’s works are extraordinarily vivid and often bitterly funny observations of people living on the very edge of oblivion. His poetry, in all its glorious simplicity, was accessible the way poetry seldom is a testament to his genius."—Nick Burton, PIF Magazine