Author : Chris Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0957692331
Horizon Icons
Chris Shaw
Horizon Icons
Horizon Icons Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Horizon Icons book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Writing the Icon of the Heart
Maggie Ross
Author : Maggie Ross
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621895459
Writing the Icon of the Heart by Maggie Ross Pdf
The subtitle of Maggie Ross's new book captures its essence, for it is about silence and our need to behold God. Beholding is a notion that we are in danger of losing. It is often lost in translation, even by the NRSV and the Jerusalem Bible. Beholding needs to be recovered both in theology and practice. Ross is very aware of "poor talkative Christianity." There is a twofold plea to enter into silence--for lack of silence erodes our humanity--and to behold the radiance of God. This is a book full of deep questioning and the testing of our assumptions. Throughout there is a great love for the world and for our humanity, accompanied by sadness that we are so easily distracted . . . We are invited into a silence that is not necessarily an absence of noise, but is a limitless interior space. Ancient texts are used in new and exciting ways, and many of our worship practices are challenged. She is in no doubt that "the glory of the human being is the beholding of God." --adapted from a review in The Church Times (London) by Canon David Adam.
Global Icons
Bishnupriya Ghosh
Author : Bishnupriya Ghosh
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822350163
Global Icons by Bishnupriya Ghosh Pdf
Global Icons considers how highly visible public figures such as Mother Theresa become global icons capable of galvanizing intense affect and sometimes even catalyzing social change.
Mr. B
Jennifer Homans
Author : Jennifer Homans
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812984781
Mr. B by Jennifer Homans Pdf
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”—MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography and the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, and the Kirkus Prize • Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing”—from the bestselling author of Apollo’s Angels New York Times Editors’ Choice • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, Oprah Daily Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century—The New York Times called him “the Shakespeare of dancing.” His radical approach to choreography—and life—reinvented the art of ballet and made him a legend. Written with enormous style and artistry, and based on more than one hundred interviews and research in archives across Russia, Europe, and the Americas, Mr. B carries us through Balanchine’s tumultuous and high-pitched life story and into the making of his extraordinary dances. Balanchine’s life intersected with some of the biggest historical events of his century. Born in Russia under the last czar, Balanchine experienced the upheavals of World War I, the Russian Revolution, exile, World War II, and the Cold War. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, he pressed ballet in America to the forefront of modernism and made it a popular art. None of this was easy, and we see his loneliness and failures, his five marriages—all to dancers—and many loves. We follow his bouts of ill health and spiritual crises, and learn of his profound musical skills and sensibility and his immense determination to make some of the most glorious, strange, and beautiful dances ever to grace the modern stage. With full access to Balanchine’s papers and many of his dancers, Jennifer Homans, the dance critic for The New Yorker and a former dancer herself, has spent more than a decade researching Balanchine’s life and times to write a vast history of the twentieth century through the lens of one of its greatest artists: the definitive biography of the man his dancers called Mr. B.
Making Icons
Jennifer Coates
Author : Jennifer Coates
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789888208999
Making Icons by Jennifer Coates Pdf
One distinctive feature of post-war Japanese cinema is the frequent recurrence of imagistic and narrative tropes and formulaic characterizations in female representations. These repetitions are important, Jennifer Coates asserts, because sentiments and behaviours forbidden during the war and post-war social and political changes were often articulated by or through the female image. Moving across major character types, from mothers to daughters, and schoolteachers to streetwalkers, Making Icons studies the role of the media in shaping the attitudes of the general public. Japanese cinema after the defeat is shown to be an important ground where social experiences were explored, reworked, and eventually accepted or rejected by the audience emotionally invested in these repetitive materials. An examination of 600 films produced and distributed between 1945 and 1964, as well as numerous Japanese-language sources, forms the basis of this rigorous study. Making Icons draws on an art-historical iconographic analysis to explain how viewers derive meanings from images during this peak period of film production and attendance in Japan. ‘It is very difficult not to heap superlatives upon Making Icons. This splendid work sheds a shining light on the situation of women in post-war Japan, and on post-war Japan itself. Not only is this a deft reading of text and context, it expands the very notion of context, seeing stardom through the lens of filmic and extra-filmic texts. A must-read for anyone interested in Japanese cinema.’ —David Desser, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ‘This is a compelling book. I am excited by Jennifer Coates’s art-historically informed iconographic approach towards female representation in post-war Japanese cinema. Making Icons will certainly make a splash in the field of Japanese film studies.’ —Daisuke Miyao, Professor and the Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature, University of California, San Diego
Alter Icons
Jefferson J. A. Gatrall,Douglas M. Greenfield
Author : Jefferson J. A. Gatrall,Douglas M. Greenfield
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271036779
Alter Icons by Jefferson J. A. Gatrall,Douglas M. Greenfield Pdf
"A collection of essays by eleven scholars of Russian history, art, literature, cinema, philosophy, and theology that track key shifts in the production, circulation, and consumption of the Russian icon from Peter the Great's Enlightenment to the post-Soviet revival of the Orthodox Church"--Provided by publisher.
Lytro Illum: An Easy Guide to the Best Features
Bill Stonehem
Author : Bill Stonehem
Publisher : First Rank Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Lytro Illum: An Easy Guide to the Best Features by Bill Stonehem Pdf
The Lytro Illum is a high resolution, light field digital camera that was released back in 2014. It has 8X zoom and has been reviewed for its great focus while shooting your photos. The shape of the Lytro Illum has never been seen on a camera before as it resembles a rectangular tube. The hardware and quality of the photos have been greatly improved and some cool effects have also been added. The processing speed is said to slow, however, and is one of the few down falls of the Lytro Illum digital camera.
Postcolonising the Medieval Image
Eva Frojmovic,Catherine E. Karkov
Author : Eva Frojmovic,Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351867238
Postcolonising the Medieval Image by Eva Frojmovic,Catherine E. Karkov Pdf
Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of medieval art and visualities has, in general, remained Eurocentric in its canon and conservative in its approaches. 'Postcolonising', as the eleven essays in this volume show, entails active intervention into the field of medieval art history and visual studies through a theoretical reframing of research. This approach poses and elicits new research questions, and tests how concepts current in postcolonial studies - such as diaspora and migration, under-represented artistic cultures, accented art making, displacement, intercultural versus transcultural, hybridity, presence/absence - can help medievalists to reinvigorate the study of art and visuality. Postcolonial concepts are deployed in order to redraft the canon of medieval art, thereby seeking to build bridges between medievalist and modernist communities of scholars. Among the varied topics explored in the volume are the appropriation of Roman iconography by early medieval Scandinavian metalworkers, multilingualism and materiality in Anglo-Saxon culture, the circulation and display of Islamic secular ceramics on Pisan churches, cultural negotiation by Jewish minorities in Central Europe and the Iberian peninsula, Holy Land maps and medieval imaginative geography, and the uses of Thomas Becket in the colonial imaginary of the Plantagenet court.
Life of Jesus in Icons
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0814632378
Life of Jesus in Icons by Anonim Pdf
"In the Cathedral Church of Mary of the Assumption in Tbilisi, Georgia, in Eastern Europe, "the Word of Life" is proclaimed in the Liturgy, and also told through one hundred and thirty icons of scenes from the Bible, elegantly arranged along the Cathedral's side walls. For the faithful, these icons uncover the thread of love that can draw them to enter, through prayer, into contemplation of the image of the invisible God." "Thirty of these icons, which tell the story of the life of Jesus, are reproduced in this book together with the relevant biblical texts and a commentary written especially for the English language edition by Francis J. Moloney, SDB. Carefully chosen extracts from early Church Fathers shed further light on each of the events portrayed in the icons."--BOOK JACKET.
ShowTime
Bea Fogelman
Author : Bea Fogelman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780595190126
ShowTime by Bea Fogelman Pdf
Has anyone ever told you that you look like a celebrity? Elvis or Marilyn? Cher or Madonna? Bush or Donald Trump, perhaps? The 4th in her series of Entertainment books, author Bea Fogelman introduces the role of the Actor into the world of the Impersonator, the Look-alike, the Voice-Over and the Impressionist. With her assortment of photographs, the novice and professional performer receives a view of the Artists and how they came to emulate the celebrities. ShowTime provides a Directory of Agents, Producers other forms of entertainment as well as allied services to the Industry. This is an “open door” to the wonderful World of Entertainment.
Phenomenology of the Icon
Stephanie Rumpza
Author : Stephanie Rumpza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781009317924
Phenomenology of the Icon by Stephanie Rumpza Pdf
Interweaving art history, patristics, theology, and aesthetics, this original phenomenological study develops a fresh new approach to the icon.
Icons in the Western Church
Jeana Visel
Author : Jeana Visel
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814646601
Icons in the Western Church by Jeana Visel Pdf
Within the Eastern tradition of Christianity, the eikon, or religious image, has long held a place of honor. In the greater part of Western Christianity, however, discomfort with images in worship, both statues and panel icons, has been a relatively common current, particularly since the Reformation. In the Roman Catholic Church, after years of using religious statues, the Second Vatican Council's call for "noble simplicity" in many cases led to a stripping of images that in some ways helped refocus attention on the eucharistic celebration itself but also led to a starkness that has left many Roman Catholics unsure of how to interact with the saints or with religious images at all. Today, Western interest in panel icons has been rising, yet we lack standards of quality or catechesis on what to do with them. This book makes the case that icons should have a role to play in the Western Church that goes beyond mere decoration. Citing theological and ecumenical reasons, Visel argues that, with regard to use of icons, the post-Vatican II Roman Catholic Church needs to give greater respect to the Eastern tradition. While Roman Catholics may never interact with icons in quite the same way that Eastern Christians do, we do need to come to terms with what icons are and how we should encounter them.
God after Metaphysics
John Panteleimon Manoussakis
Author : John Panteleimon Manoussakis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253116949
God after Metaphysics by John Panteleimon Manoussakis Pdf
While philosophy believes it is impossible to have an experience of God without the senses, theology claims that such an experience is possible, though potentially idolatrous. In this engagingly creative book, John Panteleimon Manoussakis ends the impasse by proposing an aesthetic allowing for a sensuous experience of God that is not subordinated to imposed categories or concepts. Manoussakis draws upon the theological traditions of the Eastern Church, including patristic and liturgical resources, to build a theological aesthetic founded on the inverted gaze of icons, the augmented language of hymns, and the reciprocity of touch. Manoussakis explores how a relational interpretation of being develops a fuller and more meaningful view of the phenomenology of religious experience beyond metaphysics and onto-theology.
Mute Icons
Marcelo Spina,Georgina Huljich
Author : Marcelo Spina,Georgina Huljich
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781638409496
Mute Icons by Marcelo Spina,Georgina Huljich Pdf
Mute Icons challenges fixed aesthetic notions of beauty in architecture as both, disciplinary discourse and a spatial practice within the public realm, by intersecting historic antecedents and present instances within contemporary projects wherein indeterminacy, monolithicity and defamiliarization play a speculative role in constructing withdrawn, irritant and yet engaging architectural images. No longer concerned with narrative excesses or with the "shock and awe" of sensation making; the mute icon becomes intriguing in its deceptive indifference towards context, perplexing in its unmitigated apathy towards the body. Object and building, absolute and unstable, anticipated and strange, manifest and withdrawn, such is the dichotomy of mute icons. Dwelling in the paradox between silence and sign and aiming to debunk a false dichotomy between critical discourse, a pursue of formal novelty and the attainment of social ethics, “Mute Icons” reaffirms the cultural need and socio-political relevance of the architectural image, suggesting a much-needed resolution to the present but incorrect antagonism between formal innovation, social responsibility and economic austerity. Intersecting relevant historical antecedents and polemic theoretical speculations with original design concepts and provocative representations of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S recent work, the book aspires to stimulate authentic speculations on the real.
Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity
Dr C A Tsakiridou
Author : Dr C A Tsakiridou
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781409472339
Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity by Dr C A Tsakiridou Pdf
Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical, interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and philosophical studies of the Christian image and redefines this within the Orthodox tradition by exploring the ontological and aesthetic implications of Orthodox ascetic and mystical theology. It finds Modernist interest in the aesthetic peculiarity of icons significant, and essential for re-evaluating their relationship to non-representational art. Drawing on classical Greek art criticism, Byzantine ekphraseis and hymnography, and the theologies of St. Maximus the Confessor, St. Symeon the New Theologian and St. Gregory Palamas, the author argues that the ancient Greek concept of enargeia best conveys the expression of theophany and theosis in art. The qualities that define enargeia - inherent liveliness, expressive autonomy and self-subsisting form - are identified in exemplary Greek and Russian icons and considered in the context of the hesychastic theology that lies at the heart of Orthodox Christianity. An Orthodox aesthetics is thus outlined that recognizes the transcendent being of art and is open to dialogue with diverse pictorial and iconographic traditions. An examination of Ch’an (Zen) art theory and a comparison of icons with paintings by Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko and Marc Chagall, and by Japanese artists influenced by Zen Buddhism, reveal intriguing points of convergence and difference. The reader will find in these pages reasons to reconcile Modernism with the Christian image and Orthodox tradition with creative form in art.