I Am A Beautiful Monster

Author : Francis Picabia
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780262517485

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I Am a Beautiful Monster by Francis Picabia Pdf

The first definitive edition in English of writings by poet, painter, pickpocket-plagiarist, and consummate anti-artist Francis Picabia, one of Dada's leading figures. Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada movement; indeed, André Breton called Picabia one of the only “true” Dadas. Yet very little of Picabia's poetry and prose has been translated into English, and his literary experiments have never been the subject of close critical study. I Am a Beautiful Monster is the first definitive edition in English of Picabia's writings, gathering a sizable array of Picabia's poetry and prose and, most importantly, providing a critical context for it with an extensive introduction and detailed notes by the translator. Picabia's poetry and prose is belligerent, abstract, polemical, radical, and sometimes simply baffling. For too long, Picabia's writings have been presented as raw events, rule-breaking manifestations of inspirational carpe diem. This book reveals them to be something entirely different: maddening in their resistance to meaning, full of outrageous posturing, and hiding a frail, confused, and fitful personality behind egoistic bravura. I Am a Beautiful Monster provides the texts of of Picabia's significant publications, all presented complete, many of them accompanied by their original illustrations.

Author : Jed Rasula
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780465066940

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Destruction Was My Beatrice by Jed Rasula Pdf

In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland for a series of bizarre performances. Three readers simultaneously recited a poem in three languages; a monocle-wearing teenager performed a spell from New Zealand; another young man flung bits of papier-mâché into the air and glued them into place where they landed. One of these artists called the sessions “both buffoonery and a requiem mass.” Soon they would be known by a more evocative name: Dada. In Destruction Was My Beatrice, modernist scholar Jed Rasula presents the first narrative history of the emergence, decline, and legacy of Dada, showing how this strange artistic phenomenon spread across Europe and then the world in the wake of the Great War, fundamentally reshaping modern culture in ways we’re still struggling to understand today.

Author : Miles Borrero
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798888450017

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Beautiful Monster by Miles Borrero Pdf

A breathtaking, exquisitely crafted memoir about a trans person’s singular journey through breaching the boundaries of gender—across generations, cultures and borders—to become his truest, most authentic self. Nearing the age of forty, with an entire life already lived as a woman—half in Colombia, half in the US—Miles Borrero comes face to face with his father’s impending death. Suddenly realizing that he has been stalling his transition for fear of losing his family’s love, this moment catalyzes Miles’s determination to be fully known as his father’s son before it is too late. In Beautiful Monster, Miles chronicles his unusual childhood, by turns riveting and hilarious, in ’80s and ’90s Colombia during the Pablo Escobar years, as well as his move to Salt Lake City to pursue acting and the winding trajectory that eventually lands him in the New York City yoga scene. Within these very different cultures, the realities of being queer and trans echo poignantly through the triumphs, heartbreaks, family dynamics, spiritual pursuits, and relationships that propel Miles along his path. Sublimely nuanced and written in ravishing prose that is as unique and irresistible as its subject, Beautiful Monster is one person’s story of navigating the pressures to perform femininity while becoming a gender outlaw. Brimming with wonder, humor, and mythos, entertaining and enlightening in equal measure, this book offers a compelling case for embracing one’s true nature.

Author : Malcolm Turvey
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262525114

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The Filming of Modern Life by Malcolm Turvey Pdf

"In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimenting with the medium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and Fernand Leger as well as filmmakers belonging to such avant-garde movements as Dada and surrealism made some of the most enduring and fascinating films in the history of cinema. In The Filming of Modern Life, Malcolm Turvey examines five films from the avant-garde canon and the complex, sometimes contradictory, attitudes toward modernity they express: Rhythm 21 (Hans Richter, 1921), Ballet mecanique (Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger, 1924), Entr'acte (Francis Picabia and René Clair, 1924), Un chien Andalou (Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel, 1929), and Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929). All exemplify major trends within European avant-garde cinema of the time, from abstract animation to "cinema pur."

Author : Effie Rentzou
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810145085

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Concepts of the World by Effie Rentzou Pdf

How did the avant-garde imagine its interconnected world? And how does this legacy affect our understanding of the global today? The writers and artists of the French avant-garde aspired to reach a global audience that would be wholly transformed by their work. In this study, Effie Rentzou delves deep into their depictions of the interwar world as an international and modern landscape, one marked by a varied cosmopolitanism. The avant-garde’s conceptualization of the world paralleled, rejected, or expanded prevailing notions of the global sphere. The historical avant garde—which encompassed movements like futurism, Dada, and surrealism—was self-consciously international, operating across global networks and developed with the whole world as its horizon and its public. In the heady period between the end of the Belle Époque and the tumult of World War II, both individual artists (including Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, Francis Picabia, Louis Aragon, Leonora Carrington, and Nicolas Calas) and collective endeavors (such as surrealist magazines and exhibitions) grappled with contemporary anxieties about economic growth, imperialism, and colonialism, as well as various universalist, cosmopolitan, and internationalist visions. By probing these works, Concepts of the World offers an alternative narrative of globalization, one that integrates the avant-garde’s enthusiasm for, as well as resistance to, the process. Rentzou identifies within the avant-garde a powerful political language that expressed the ambivalence of living and creating in an increasingly globalized world—a language that profoundly shaped the way the world has been conceptualized and is experienced today.

Author : Jan-Hendrik (jay) Badenhorst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798561764103

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Beautiful Monster by Jan-Hendrik (jay) Badenhorst Pdf

"There are so many moments that I could have done differently, so many words I wish I could take back. Hit pause, step out of the scene and tweak the narrative, shovel the context, and change the outcome. But who would that make me, where would I be, and how different would my life have become?" How do you, as a man, speak out about abuse? When, as a boy, you're taught not to cry or be too sensitive. To keep your emotions closed off from everybody else. You hold your story and your feelings so near to you in an attempt to stay in control. While your shame burns and grows like the scars in your mind, left there by her words. And the ones on your body carved there by her hands.How do you fight when she consumes you. Her face appearing literally in every frame on the walls that surround you? You are more loyal to her than any of her addictions. Who are you to claim she hurt you? To allow your pain to leak out? You know you'd never be able to quantify the guilt if you were to shout a little louder, hit back! How do you love her so much that you've made peace with the notion that staying means you'll die there, but leaving is not an option?

Author : Dong MenChuiNiu
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649750709

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The Strongest Soldier King by Dong MenChuiNiu Pdf

Ye Feng, who once stood at the peak of the world and made the world tremble. Conspiracy had allowed him to be reborn into a useless cripple with the same surname and surname. And to see, how could Ye Feng return to the peak from being a loser. As long as I, Ye Feng, am not dead, I will make the world cry.

Author : Hector Santana
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781469179193

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The Most Beautiful Monster by Hector Santana Pdf

This is a unique book about domestic abuse, fighting cancer, drunk driving, texting and driving, teenage pregnancy, suicide, addiction, bullies, love, dating, marriage, betrayal, rebounding, loneliness, current events, celebrities, super heroes, mentoring and much more. What is unique about it? It is done in poetry form and each poem has websites and phone numbers for easy reference plus full page hand drawn illustrations that match each poem. I guess I would name it self help poetry if I had to put a label on it. Enjoy!

Author : Daniel Goleman,Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781982178475

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Why We Meditate by Daniel Goleman,Tsoknyi Rinpoche Pdf

A practical and soul-stirring guide to meditation that offers a much-needed antidote to the forces of stress that overwhelm so many of us—from the New York Times bestselling author of the “thoughtfully written, persuasive” (USA TODAY) Emotional Intelligence and renowned meditation teacher,​ Tsoknyi Rinpoche. We all experience negative emotions from time to time. But in a world with as much frenzy and pressure as ours, it’s incredibly easy for these same emotions to become destructive. Now, by blending Eastern tradition with Western science, Why We Meditate effortlessly helps you embrace and understand meditation as never before. With accessible and eye-opening advice based on groundbreaking neuroscience, this guidebook helps you not only break free from negative patterns of thought and behavior but radically embrace your very being. Revolutionize your health, relationships, and soul with this book that is perfect for both serious meditators and those new to the practice.

Author : Kate McCaffrey
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781921696343

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Beautiful Monster by Kate McCaffrey Pdf

Written from the perspective of a teenager, this chilling psychological thriller follows Tessa as she copes with the blood-stained event that changed her life forever. Set in Perth, Western Australia, this gripping novel demonstrates how Tessa clings to anorexia and to her sinister, imaginary friend, Ned—her greatest support and her staunchest ally who is privy to her deepest secrets—in an attempt to deal with the loss of her brother and the resulting change in her parents.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410356093

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A Study Guide for Robert Lowell's "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Robert Lowell's "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Baethan Balor
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781663242310

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Outbursts of a Professional Lowlife; Thoughts of a Sober Barfly by Baethan Balor Pdf

I observed no human face other than my own and corresponded with no one this Christmas.

Author : Patrick McDonnell
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316230742

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The Monsters' Monster by Patrick McDonnell Pdf

Once upon a time, there were three little rascals who thought they were the BIGGEST, BADDEST monsters around. Then along came an even BIGGER monster who changed their minds. And all it took was two little words. In this playful tale from bestselling picture book author Patrick McDonnell, a very BIG monster shows three very BAD little monsters the power of boundless gratitude.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133692157

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Rain Taxi Review of Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Amerika
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503631717

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My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence by Mark Amerika Pdf

A series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum. Is it possible that creative artists have more in common with machines than we might think? Employing an improvisational call-and-response writing performance coauthored with an AI text generator, remix artist and scholar Mark Amerika, interrogates how his own "psychic automatism" is itself a nonhuman function strategically designed to reveal the poetic attributes of programmable worlds still unimagined. Through a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum, Amerika critically reflects on whether creativity itself is, at root, a nonhuman information behavior that emerges from an onto-operational presence experiencing an otherworldly aesthetic sensibility. Amerika engages with his cyberpunk imagination to simultaneously embrace and problematize human-machine collaborations. He draws from jazz performance, beatnik poetry, Buddhist thought, and surrealism to suggest that his own artificial creative intelligence operates as a finely tuned remix engine continuously training itself to build on the history of avant-garde art and writing. Playful and provocative, My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence flips the script on contemporary AI research that attempts to build systems that perform more like humans, instead self-reflexively making a very nontraditional argument about AI's impact on society and its relationship to the cosmos.