Impossible Images

Author : Shelley Hornstein,Laura Levitt,Laurence J. Silberstein
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814798263

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Impossible Images by Shelley Hornstein,Laura Levitt,Laurence J. Silberstein Pdf

Impossible Images brings together a distinguished group of contributors, including artists, photographers, cultural critics, and historians, to analyze the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in and through paintings, architecture, photographs, museums, and monuments. Exploring frequently neglected aspects of contemporary art after the Holocaust, the volume demonstrates how visual culture informs Jewish memory, and makes clear that art matters in contemporary Jewish studies. Accepting that knowledge is culturally constructed, Impossible Images makes explicit the ways in which context matters. It shows how the places where an artist works shape what is produced, in what ways the space in which a work of art is exhibited and how it is named influences what is seen or not seen, and how calling attention to certain details in a visual work, such as a gesture, a color, or an icon, can change the meaning assigned to the work as a whole. Written accessibly for a general readership and those interested in art and art history, the volume also includes 20 color plates from leading artists Alice Lok Cahana, Judy Chicago, Debbie Teicholz, and Mindy Weisel.

Author : Chris Mortensen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780253062352

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The Impossible Arises by Chris Mortensen Pdf

The Impossible Arises explores the life and work of Oscar Reutersvärd (1916–2002), founder of the Impossible Figures movement. The movement began in Stockholm in 1934 when eighteen-year-old Reutersvärd drew the first impossible triangle. Over the course of his life he would go on to draw around 4000 impossible figures and be honored by the Swedish government with an issue of stamps showing his work. Based on a large collection of Reutersvärd's art and correspondence held at the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington, the lavishly illustrated Impossible Arises examines the evolution of Reutersvärd's impossible figures and how they influenced other modern artists in the later twentieth century. The Impossible Arises offers a detailed look at the philosophy guiding Reutersvärd's art and presents a rich array of stories from his eccentric personal life. It is an essential introduction to the life and career of one of the most fascinating artists of the twentieth century.

Author : Mary Warnock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1978-10-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0520037243

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Imagination by Mary Warnock Pdf

Imagination is an outstanding contribution to a notoriously elusive and confusing subject. It skillfully interrelates problems in philosophy, the history of ideas and literary theory and criticism, tracing the evolution of the concept of imagination from Hume and Kant in the eighteenth century to Ryle, Sartre and Wittgenstein in the twentieth. She strongly belies that the cultivation of imagination should be the chief aim of education and one of her objectives in writing the book has been to put forward reasons why this is so. Purely philosophical treatment of the concept is shown to be related to its use in the work of Coleridge and Wordsworth, who she considers to be the creators of a new kind of awareness with more than literary implications. The purpose of her historical account is to suggest that the role of imagination in our perception and thought is more pervasive than may at first sight appear, and that the thread she traces is an important link joining apparently different areas of our experience. She argues that imagination is an essential element in both our awareness of the world and our attaching of value to it.

Author : Alexander Sergeant
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438484600

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Encountering the Impossible by Alexander Sergeant Pdf

2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Shortlisted for the 2022 Best First Monograph Award presented by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Hollywood fantasy cinema is responsible for some of the most lucrative franchises produced over the past two decades, yet it remains difficult to find popular or critical consensus on what the experience of watching fantasy cinema actually entails. What makes something a fantasy film, and what unique pleasures does the genre offer? In Encountering the Impossible, Alexander Sergeant solves the riddle of the fantasy film by theorizing the underlying experience of imagination alluded to in scholarly discussions of the genre. Drawing principally on the psychoanalysis of Melanie Klein and D.W. Winnicott, Sergeant considers the way in which fantasy cinema rejects Hollywood's typically naturalistic mode of address to generate an alternative experience that Sergeant refers to as the fantastic, a way of approaching cinema that embraces the illusory nature of the medium as part of the pleasure of the experience. Analyzing such canonical Hollywood fantasy films as The Wizard of Oz, It's a Wonderful Life, Mary Poppins, Conan the Barbarian, and The Lord of the Rings movies, Sergeant theorizes how fantasy cinema provides a unique film experience throughout its ubiquitous presence in the history of Hollywood film production.

Author : Casey Reason,Clair Reason
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412994040

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Mirror Images by Casey Reason,Clair Reason Pdf

Mirror Images presents ten iconic teacher-leadership models that help teachers move away from teaching as they were taught toward new roles that can transform the profession.

Author : Robert Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCD:31175006970910

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Analytical Concordance to the Bible by Robert Young Pdf

Author : Lisi Schoenbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199909384

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Pragmatic Modernism by Lisi Schoenbach Pdf

Modernism has long been understood as a radical repudiation of the past. Reading against the narrative of modernism-as-break, Pragmatic Modernism traces an alternative strain of modernist thought that grows out of pragmatist philosophy and is characterized by its commitment to gradualism, continuity, and recontextualization. It rediscovers a distinctive response to the social, intellectual, and artistic transformations of modernity in the work of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Dewey, and William James. These thinkers share an institutionally-grounded approach to change which emphasizes habits, continuities, and daily life over spectacular events, heroic opposition, and radical rupture. They developed an active, dialectical attitude that was critical of complacency while refusing to romanticize moments of shock or conflict. Through its analysis of pragmatist keywords, including "habit," "institution," "prediction," and "bigness," Pragmatic Modernism offers new readings of works by James, Proust, Stein, and Andre Breton, among others. It shows, for instance, how Stein's characteristic literary innovation--her repetitions--aesthetically materialize the problem of habit; and how institutions--businesses, museums, newspapers, the law, and even the state itself--help to construct the subtlest of personal observations and private gestures in James's novels. This study reconstructs an overlooked strain of modernism. In so doing, it helps to re-imagine the stark choice between political quietism and total revolution that has been handed down as modernism's legacy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555007216

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The Church association monthly intelligencer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ambrosios Giakalis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047407287

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Images of the Divine: The Theology of Icons at the Seventh Ecumenical Council - Revised Edition by Ambrosios Giakalis Pdf

This book, newly revised and updated, examines the Eastern Church's theology of icons chiefly on the basis of the acta of the Seventh Ecumenical Council of 787. The political circumstances leading to the outbreak of the iconclast controversy in the eighth century are discussed in detail, but the main emphasis is on the theological arguments and assumptions of the council participants. Major themes include the nature of tradition, the relationship between image and reality, and the place of christology. Ultimately the argument over icons was about the accessibility of the divine. Icons were held by the iconophiles to communicate a deifying grace which raised the believer to participation in the life of God.

Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
ISBN : UCBK:C029489685

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On Intelligence by Hippolyte Taine Pdf

Author : American Medical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015020981125

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Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association Pdf

Author : Robert Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Bible
ISBN : MSU:31293103098558

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Analytical Concordance to the Bible on an Entirely New Plan by Robert Young Pdf

Author : Deane E. D. Downey,Stanley E. Porter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498275248

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Christian Worldview and the Academic Disciplines by Deane E. D. Downey,Stanley E. Porter Pdf

This book--an edited compilation of twenty-nine essays--focuses on the difference(s) that a Christian worldview makes for the disciplines or subject areas normally taught in liberal arts colleges and universities. Three initial chapters of introductory material are followed by twenty-six essays, each dealing with the essential elements or issues in the academic discipline involved. These individual essays on each discipline are a unique element of this book. These essays also treat some of the specific differences in perspective or procedure that a biblically informed, Christian perspective brings to each discipline. Christian Worldview and the Academic Disciplines is intended principally as an introductory textbook in Christian worldview courses for Christian college or university students. This volume will also be of interest to Christian students in secular post-secondary institutions, who may be encountering challenges to their faith--both implicit and explicit--from peers or professors who assume that holding a strong Christian faith and pursuing a rigorous college or university education are essentially incompatible. This book should also be helpful for college and university professors who embrace the Christian faith but whose post-secondary academic background--because of its secular orientation--has left them inadequately prepared to intelligently apply the implications of their faith to their particular academic specialty. Such specialists, be they professors or upper-level graduate students, will find the extensive bibliographies of recent scholarship at the end of the individual chapters particularly helpful.

Author : John Hill,Martin McLoone
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 1860200052

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Big Picture, Small Screen by John Hill,Martin McLoone Pdf

This work features contributions from academics and media professionals who ask: what is the history of involvement between film and television in the US, Europe, Britain and Ireland; what are the sources of television finance for film; and what are the consequences for the type of film made?

Author : Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600068399

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On intelligence, tr. by T.D. Haye and revised by the author by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine Pdf