Doppelgangers Alter Egos And Mirror Images In Western Art 1840 2010

Author : Mary D. Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476669298

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Doppelgangers, Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art, 1840-2010 by Mary D. Edwards Pdf

The notion of a person--or even an object--having a "double" has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the body and its soul, a woman gazing at her reflection in a pool, or a man overwhelmed by his own shadow. In this edited collection focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century western art, scholars analyze doppelgangers, alter egos, mirror images, double portraits and other pairings, human and otherwise, appearing in a large variety of artistic media. Artists whose works are discussed at length include Richard Dadd, Salvador Dali, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, the creators of Superman, and Nicola Costantino, among many others.

Author : Mary D. Edwards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476637969

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Doppelgangers, Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Western Art, 1840-2010 by Mary D. Edwards Pdf

The notion of a person--or even an object--having a "double" has been explored in the visual arts for ages, and in myriad ways: portraying the body and its soul, a woman gazing at her reflection in a pool, or a man overwhelmed by his own shadow. In this edited collection focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century western art, scholars analyze doppelgangers, alter egos, mirror images, double portraits and other pairings, human and otherwise, appearing in a large variety of artistic media. Artists whose works are discussed at length include Richard Dadd, Salvador Dali, Egon Schiele, Frida Kahlo, the creators of Superman, and Nicola Costantino, among many others.

Author : Diane Goldstein,Sylvia Grider,Jeannie Banks Thomas
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780874216813

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Haunting Experiences by Diane Goldstein,Sylvia Grider,Jeannie Banks Thomas Pdf

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.

Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135965037

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The Philosophy of Horror by Noel Carroll Pdf

Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student of the horror genre, Carroll brings to bear his comprehensive knowledge of obscure and forgotten works, as well as of the horror masterpieces. Working from a philosophical perspective, he tries to account for how people can find pleasure in having their wits scared out of them. What, after all, are those "paradoxes of the heart" that make us want to be horrified?

Author : Kermit Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0807868752

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Unto These Hills by Kermit Hunter Pdf

Unto These Hills: A Drama of the Cherokee

Author : Atomic Overmind Pres,Jason Soles,Nicole Vega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0981679285

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Unhallowed Metropolis Revised by Atomic Overmind Pres,Jason Soles,Nicole Vega Pdf

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781855844773

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The Electronic Doppelganger by Rudolf Steiner Pdf

'Large temptations will emanate from these machine-animals, produced by people themselves, and it will be the task of a spiritual science that explores the cosmos to ensure all these temptations do not exert any damaging influence on human beings.'In an increasingly digitised world, where both work and play are more and more taking place online and via screens, Rudolf Steiner's dramatic statements from 1917 appear prophetic. Speaking of 'intelligent machines' that would appear in the future, Steiner presents a broad context that illustrates the multitude of challenges human beings will face. If humanity and the Earth are to continue to evolve together with the cosmos, and not be cut off from it entirely, we will need to work consciously and spiritually to create a counterweight to such phenomena.In the lectures gathered here, edited with commentary and notes by Andreas Neider, Rudolf Steiner addresses a topic that he was never to speak of again: the secret of the 'geographical' or the 'ahrimanic' doppelganger. The human nervous system houses an entity that does not belong to its constitution, he states. This is an ahrimanic being which enters the body shortly before birth and leaves at death, providing the basis for all electrical currents that are needed to process and coordinate sense perceptions and react to them.Based on his spiritual research, Rudolf Steiner discusses this doppelganger or 'double' in the wider context of historic occult events relating to 'spirits of darkness'. Specific brotherhoods seek to keep such knowledge to themselves in order to exert power and spread materialism. But this knowledge is critical, says Steiner, if the geographical doppelganger and its challenges are to be understood.

Author : Saswati Sengupta,Shampa Roy,Sharmila Purkayastha
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030267889

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'Bad' Women of Bombay Films by Saswati Sengupta,Shampa Roy,Sharmila Purkayastha Pdf

This book presents a feminist mapping of the articulation and suppression of female desire in Hindi films, which comprise one of modern India’s most popular cultural narratives. It explores the lineament of evil and the corresponding closure of chastisement or domesticity that appear as necessary conditions for the representation of subversive female desire. The term ‘bad’ is used heuristically, and not as a moral or essential category, to examine some of the iconic disruptive women of Hindi cinema and to uncover the nexus between patriarchy and other hierarchies, such as class, caste and religion in these representations. The twenty-one essays examine the politics of female desire/s from the 1930s to the present day - both through in-depth analyses of single films and by tracing the typologies in multiple films. The essays are divided into five sections indicating the various gendered desires and rebellions that patriarchal society seeks to police, silence and domesticate.

Author : Eric J. Klaus
Publisher : Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Sleepwalking in literature
ISBN : 1433134926

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Somnambulistic Lucidity by Eric J. Klaus Pdf

Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932), best known as the author of The Golem (1915), experimented with the occult in a time rife with occult experimentation. As a seeker of esoteric truth, he practiced and wrote about elements of Western Esotericism--alternative religious movements that pursued methods of tapping into secret spiritual wisdom that helped define the age. In doing so, Meyrink developed his own theories of salvation, which featured yoga as a means to open the door to supernatural and paranormal experience. In this way, his life, as well as his fiction, exemplifies liminality, existence on the margins. The core symbol of this liminal experience is the somnambulist: a figure existing between material and spiritual states of consciousness, having access to both yet belonging to neither. His oeuvre features characters entering trances, wandering the borders between "waking" and "metaphysical" worlds, gaining access to secret truths, and realizing salvation via a unio mystica. Meyrink, therefore, has much to say about the cultural climate of the fin de siècle: by viewing the turn of the twentieth century as a time defined by searches for certitude, by locating Western Esotericism as a meaningful movement of the age, by situating Meyrink on the periphery of social and spiritual spheres, and by identifying the sleepwalker as a seminal figure of the period as well as in Meyrink's work, this study echoes Meyrink's own attempts to find lucidity in the ambiguity of somnambulism.

Author : Nicole Erin Morse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1478015519

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Selfie Aesthetics by Nicole Erin Morse Pdf

Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans women feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore how selfies produce politically meaningful encounters between creators and viewers in ways that envision trans feminist futures.

Author : D. Perry,C. Sederholm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137041982

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Adapting Poe by D. Perry,C. Sederholm Pdf

Adapting Poe is a collection of essays that explores the way Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted over the last hundred years in film, comic art, music, and literary criticism. A major theme that pervades the study concerns the more recent re-imaginings of Poe in terms of identity construction in a postmodern era.

Author : Livia Stoenescu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 2503583989

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The Interaction of Art and Relics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art by Livia Stoenescu Pdf

The collection of essays gathered in this volume investigates the interaction between art and relics as a distinct historical relevance for devotional art of Early Modernity and the Renaissance. Recent studies in the material culture of artifacts from these periods have drawn increasing attention to a sense of material tangibility derived from relics. Putting that conclusion into perspective, this edited collection focuses on the aesthetic meaning generated by a specific material culture of sanctity - one in which artists based their practice upon the nature, variety, and history of relics. Works of art that contained relics shared in the aura of the relics, defining themselves as non-substitutable signs, or signs that preserved the physical relationship to the immutable nature and origin of relics. As studied in this volume, funerary monuments, chapel decorations, altarpieces, liturgical objects, and sacred sites yielded an unordinary aesthetic meaning, one that captured and at the same time transmitted the histories linked to a relic. Each chapter emphasizes the specific history contained within works of art premised upon relics and thus forever embedded in the relics' status as sacred originals..

Author : Willard Gayheart,Donia S. Eley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476613048

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New Art of Willard Gayheart by Willard Gayheart,Donia S. Eley Pdf

This is a portfolio of 87 drawings by the Appalachian pencil artist Willard Gayheart dating from the early 1970s to the present. The book features information about each drawing taken from interviews with the artist and the owners of the art. Additionally, the book contains information about the artist's life and music and where his art can be found in the region.

Author : Willard Gayheart,Donia S. Eley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786416610

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Willard Gayheart, Appalachian Artist by Willard Gayheart,Donia S. Eley Pdf

Willard Gayheart, a pencil artist from eastern Kentucky who now lives in southwestern Virginia, presents the history, people and culture of the Appalachian region. This book combines a biography of Gayheart with a portfolio of his work and his comments on his inspirations and techniques. His art has its roots in his childhood and his memories of that time inspire him today. Gayheart is also known for his portrayals of Appalachian musicians and ways of life, and many such drawings are reproduced here.

Author : Seung-hoon Jeong,Jeremi Szaniawski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501312649

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The Global Auteur by Seung-hoon Jeong,Jeremi Szaniawski Pdf

Once heralded and defined by the likes of François Truffaut and Andrew Sarris as a romantic figure of aesthetic individualism, the auteur is reinvestigated here through a novel approach. Bringing established as well as emergent figures of world art cinema to the fore, The Global Auteur shows how politics and philosophy are present in the works of these important filmmakers. They can be still seen leading a fight that their glorious predecessors seemed to have abandoned in the face of global capitalism and the market economy. Yet, as the contributors show, a new world calls for a new cinema, and thus for new auteurs. Covering a range of global auteurs such as Lars von Trier, Lav Diaz, Lee Chang-dong and Abderrahmane Sissako, The Global Auteur provides a much-needed reassessment of the film auteur for the global age.