Geometrie Hors Limites Geometry Beyond Limits Catalogo Della Mostra Parigi 11 Febbraio 26 Marzo 2010 Ediz Illustrata

Author : Maison de l'Amérique latine (Paris, France)
Publisher : 5Continents
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215162905

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Geometrie hors limites-Geometry beyond limits. Catalogo della mostra (Parigi, 11 febbraio-26 marzo 2010). Ediz. illustrata by Maison de l'Amérique latine (Paris, France) Pdf

Visionary, inspired, and original, contemporary Latin American artists draw from influences near and far. This colorful survey, which features 178 carefully selected works, celebrates some of the most exciting modern Latin American artworks to date, and also shows North American and European works that offered inspiration to these artists. Included are works by such masters as Alexander Calder and Joaquin Torres-Garcia, and by younger artists such as Carmelo Arden Quin, Juan Bay, and Alberto Biasi. The book covers New Realist and geometric abstract art of the 1940s and 1950s; optical and kinetic art from the 1950s and 1970s; and contemporary works from the 1970s to the present day, including abstract art, architecture projects, and art that incorporates new technologies.

Author : Ilaria Serra
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838641989

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The Imagined Immigrant by Ilaria Serra Pdf

Using original sources--such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews--Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She chooses to translate the Italian concept of immaginario with the Latin imago that felicitously blends the double English translation of the word as "imagery" and "imaginary." Imago is a complex knot of collective representations of the immigrant subject, a mental production that finds concrete expression; impalpable, yet real. The "imagined immigrant" walks alongside the real one in flesh and rags.

Author : Susan Vandiver Nicassio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226579740

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Imperial City by Susan Vandiver Nicassio Pdf

In 1798, the armies of the French Revolution tried to transform Rome from the capital of the Papal States to a Jacobin Republic. For the next two decades, Rome was the subject of power struggles between the forces of the Empire and the Papacy, while Romans endured the unsuccessful efforts of Napoleon’s best and brightest to pull the ancient city into the modern world. Against this historical backdrop, Nicassio weaves together an absorbing social, cultural, and political history of Rome and its people. Based on primary sources and incorporating two centuries of Italian, French, and international research, her work reveals what life was like for Romans in the age of Napoleon. “A remarkable book that wonderfully vivifies an understudied era in the history of Rome. . . . This book will engage anyone interested in early modern cities, the relationship between religion and daily life, and the history of the city of Rome.”—Journal of Modern History “An engaging account of Tosca’s Rome. . . . Nicassio provides a fluent introduction to her subject.”—History Today “Meticulously researched, drawing on a host of original manuscripts, memoirs, personal letters, and secondary sources, enabling [Nicassio] to bring her story to life.”—History

Author : Guy P. Raffa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132202255

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The Complete Danteworlds by Guy P. Raffa Pdf

Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, references, and themes. But until the publication in 2007 of Guy Raffa’s guide to the Inferno, students lacked a suitable resource to help them navigate Dante’s underworld. With this new guide to the entire Divine Comedy, Raffa provides readers—experts in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Dante neophytes, and everyone in between—with a map of the entire poem, from the lowest circle of Hell to the highest sphere of Paradise. Based on Raffa’s original research and his many years of teaching the poem to undergraduates, The CompleteDanteworlds charts a simultaneously geographical and textual journey, canto by canto, region by region, adhering closely to the path taken by Dante himself through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. This invaluable reference also features study questions, illustrations of the realms, and regional summaries. Interpreting Dante’s poem and his sources, Raffa fashions detailed entries on each character encountered as well as on many significant historical, religious, and cultural allusions.

Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : Gangemi Editore spa
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-03T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788849290134

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The Mediterranean Medina by AA. VV. Pdf

This volume collects the proceedings of the International Seminar The Mediterranean Medina, that took place in the School of Architecture at Pescara from 17th to 19th of June 2004.

Author : Eugenio Garin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226283562

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Renaissance Characters by Eugenio Garin Pdf

Compared to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance is brief—little more than two centuries, extending roughly from the mid-fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century—and largely confined to a few Italian city states. Nevertheless, the epoch marked a great cultural shift in sensibilities, the dawn of a new age in which classical Greek and Roman values were "reborn" and human values in all fields, from the arts to civic life, were reaffirmed. With this volume, Eugenio Garin, a leading Renaissance scholar, has gathered the work of an international team of scholars into an accessible account of the people who animated this decisive moment in the genesis of the modern mind. We are offered a broad spectrum of figures, major and minor, as they lived their lives: the prince and the military commander, the cardinal and the courtier, the artist and the philosopher, the merchant and the banker, the voyager, and women of all classes. With its concentration on the concrete, the specific, even the anecdotal, the volume offers a wealth of new perspectives and ideas for study.

Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Botany
ISBN : BNC:1001986258

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Aspects of Nature, in Different Lands and Different Climates by Alexander von Humboldt Pdf

Author : Barbara A. Hanawalt,Michal Kobialka
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 1452904677

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Medieval Practices of Space by Barbara A. Hanawalt,Michal Kobialka Pdf

The contributors to this volume cross disciplinary and theoretical boundaries to read the words, metaphors, images, signs, poetic illusions, and identities with which medieval men and women used space and place to add meaning to the world.

Author : William Harmless
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814663394

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Augustine and the Catechumenate by William Harmless Pdf

As one of the most influential thinkers in Christian history, St. Augustine (354–430) had a flair for teaching and meditated deeply on the mysteries of the human heart. This study examines a little-known side of his career: his work as a teacher of candidates for baptism. ln the revised edition of this seminal book, both the text and notes have been revised to better reflect the state of contemporary scholarship on Augustine, liturgical studies, and the catechumenate, both ancient and modern. This edition also includes new findings from some of the recently discovered sermons of Augustine and incorporates new perspectives from recent research on early Christian biblical interpretation, debates on the Trinity, the evolution of the liturgy, and much more. This reconstruction of Augustine’s catechumenate provides fresh perspectives on the day-to-day life of the early church and on the vibrancy and eloquence of Augustine the preacher and teacher.

Author : Liz James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015038024322

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Light and Colour in Byzantine Art by Liz James Pdf

This is the first book to investigate the place of color in Byzantine art. By engaging the issue on both a technical level--how colors were made, what colors were available--and a perceptual level--how these colors were seen and described--James offers a new approach to the study of color in art history. Including sixty-four color illustrations, most never before published, James's study offers a unique view of the details of Byzantine art.

Author : Otto Demus
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014563836

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Byzantine Mosaic Decoration; Aspects of Monumental Art in Byzantium by Otto Demus Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Paolo Bartoloni
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781557533685

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On the Cultures of Exile, Translation, and Writing by Paolo Bartoloni Pdf

The hypothesis of Paolo Bartoloni's book is based on the belief that a substantial and innovative discussion of the philosophical notions of immanence and potentiality is not only overdue but also necessary to address the social, political, cultural, and ethical aporia confronting us today. The phenomenon of globalization with its countless sub-narratives such as mobility, migration, security, authenticity, and inauthenticity can be thought and contextualized through a close reading and articulation of immanence and potentiality. The author provides a tangible and workable philosophical and cultural discourse within which to present an alternative understanding of subjectivity by engaging in a theoretical discussion with the philosophical discourse on potentiality and immanence, of which the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben are among the most advanced and innovative examples to date. Secondly, Bartoloni presents a virtual insight into the potential immanent subject and community through exploring a radically new interpretation of exile, translation, and temporality. Finally, the author shows how the experience of potentiality and immanence, and their ontological statuses have been explored and realized in literature through a close reading and articulation of a series of selected texts, especially works by Giorgio Caproni and Maurice Blanchot. The methodology of the study is interdisciplinary, ranging across literary theory, postmodern cultural analysis, hermeneutics, and comparative culture analysis.

Author : Mirna Cicioni,Nicoletta Di Ciolla
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874130514

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Differences, Deceits and Desires by Mirna Cicioni,Nicoletta Di Ciolla Pdf

Italian crime fiction (known as gialli in Italy) has developed from a popular genre to a fully-fledged literary genre; and in the past thirty years it has gradually become the focus of growing interest from literary critics as well as the reading public. This collection of twelve essays is the first one in English to deal exclusively with Italian crime fiction. The essays are scholarly yet accessible contributions to the growing research in this field. They analyze texts by well-known authors (such as Umberto Eco, Leonardo Sciascia and Andrea Camilleri) as well as works by younger writers. They bring together four of the most significant strands of Italian gialli: the way gialli develop or subvert the tradition and conventions of the crime genre; regional specificity within Italian crime fiction; gialli by and about women, lesbians and gay men; and representations of Italy in gialli written by English-speaking writers.

Author : Margaret Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Italy
ISBN : HARVARD:HN68G5

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Our Home by the Adriatic by Margaret Collier Pdf

Author : Pseudo-Dionysius
Publisher : Digireads.com
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1420973584

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The Complete Works by Pseudo-Dionysius Pdf

Known as the "Corpus Areopagiticum", this collection of works was falsely attributed by its author as being written by Dionysius the Areopagite, a first century AD Athenian convert of Paul the Apostle mentioned in Acts 17:34. Because of this erroneous attribution great attention was given by early Christian scholars, most notably the late 13th and early 14th century scholar Meister Eckhart. Sometime in the 15th century it came to light that this collection of works was most likely the work of some anonymous late 5th or early 6th century author, who has subsequently been referred to as Pseudo-Dionysius. While this reattribution has diminished the "Corpus Areopagiticum" importance in Christian literature the collection still holds an important interest among scholars because of a renewed interest in the huge impact of Dionysian thought on later Christian thought. Included in this collection is the complete "Corpus Areopagiticum", which includes the following individual works: "Divine Names", "Mystic Theology", "Heavenly Hierarchy", "Ecclesiastical Hierarchy", and "Letters of Dionysius the Areopagite". This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and follows the translations of John Parker.