Lateness And Longing

Author : George Baker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780226035116

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Lateness and Longing by George Baker Pdf

"Lateness and Longing explores the ongoing nostalgia and cultural longing for traditional photography--the kind that captures a fleeting moment in somebody's life in emulsion and lives on long after that person is gone. With digital innovations, many scholars are apt to declare traditional photography "dead," not just in terms of the documentary and emotional functions it has served but in its materiality as well. But the analog has never gone away, Baker argues, rooted as it is in our understanding of time, history, home, mortality. This book examines the renewed curiosity about the material photograph through the work of four contemporary artists, all women: Tacita Dean, Moyra Davey, Zoe Leonard, and Sharon Lockhart. Baker draws on their practices to build a meditation on photography and its kin as aesthetic instruments for reflection, loss, nostalgia, desire, history, and "lateness.""--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004681132

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Longing for Perfection in Late Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

How on earth can humans be perfect? The striving for perfection has always occupied a central place in ancient Greek culture. This dynamics urged the Greeks on to surpass themselves in different fields, from sculpture and architecture over athletics to philosophy. In this volume, an international group of scholars examines how the ideal of perfection was conceived and pursued in Late Antiquity, both within philosophical circles and Christianity. Their studies yield a fascinating panorama of various attempts to bridge the unbridgeable and assimilate our frail, imperfect human nature as far as possible to divine perfection.

Author : Leonard Cohen
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781551991580

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Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen Pdf

Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is Cohen’s eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title, Book of Mercy, and his hugely successful 1993 publication, Stranger Music, a Globe and Mail national bestseller. Book of Longing contains erotic, playful, and provocative line drawings and artwork on every page, by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and at times darkly humorous. The book brings together all the elements that have brought Leonard Cohen’s artistry with language worldwide recognition.

Author : Daniel Birnbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822036371722

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50 Moons of Saturn by Daniel Birnbaum Pdf

'50 Moons of Saturn' is the catalog of the exhibition curated by Daniel Birnbaum for T2 - the second Torino Triennale. It brings together works by 50 young international artists and presents two special projects by Paul Chan and Olafur Eliasson.

Author : Kyle Chayka
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781635572117

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The Longing for Less by Kyle Chayka Pdf

The New Yorker staff writer and Filterworld author Kyle Chayka examines the deep roots-and untapped possibilities-of our newfound, all-consuming drive to reduce. “Less is more”: Everywhere we hear the mantra. Marie Kondo and other decluttering gurus promise that shedding our stuff will solve our problems. We commit to cleanse diets and strive for inbox zero. Amid the frantic pace and distraction of everyday life, we covet silence-and airy, Instagrammable spaces in which to enjoy it. The popular term for this brand of upscale austerity, “minimalism,” has mostly come to stand for things to buy and consume. But minimalism has richer, deeper, and altogether more valuable gifts to offer. In The Longing for Less, one of our sharpest cultural critics delves beneath the glossy surface of minimalist trends, seeking better ways to claim the time and space we crave. Kyle Chayka's search leads him to the philosophical and spiritual origins of minimalism, and to the stories of artists such as Agnes Martin and Donald Judd; composers such as John Cage and Julius Eastman; architects and designers; visionaries and misfits. As Chayka looks anew at their extraordinary lives and explores the places where they worked-from Manhattan lofts to the Texas high desert and the back alleys of Kyoto-he reminds us that what we most require is presence, not absence. The result is an elegant synthesis of our minimalist desires and our profound emotional needs. With a new afterword by the author.

Author : North Carolina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1714 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : North Carolina
ISBN : UIUC:30112073453455

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The State Records of North Carolina: 1662-1712-1788-1790 by North Carolina Pdf

Author : Leonard Cohen
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307595836

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Poems and Songs: Cohen by Leonard Cohen Pdf

A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genres and generations. This anthology contains a cross section of his five decades of influential work, including such legendary songs as “Suzanne,” “Sisters of Mercy,” “Bird on the Wire,” “Famous Blue Raincoat,” and “I’m Your Man” and searingly memorable poems from his many acclaimed poetry collections, including Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers, and Death of a Lady’s Man. Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the mystical and the sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of dazzling intelligence and live-wire emotional immediacy.

Author : Matthew C. Hunter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780226390390

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Painting with Fire by Matthew C. Hunter Pdf

Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century—and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the 1670s, experimental philosophers at the Royal Society of London had studied the visual effects of dynamic combustibles. By the 1770s, chemical volatility became central to the ambitious paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, premier portraitist and first president of Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts. Valued by some critics for changing in time (and thus, for prompting intellectual reflection on the nature of time), Reynolds’s unstable chemistry also prompted new techniques of chemical replication among Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and other leading industrialists. In turn, those replicas of chemically decaying academic paintings were rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century and claimed as origin points in the history of photography. Tracing the long arc of chemically produced and reproduced art from the 1670s through the 1860s, the book reconsiders early photography by situating it in relationship to Reynolds’s replicated paintings and the literal engines of British industry. By following the chemicals, Painting with Fire remaps familiar stories about academic painting and pictorial experiment amid the industrialization of chemical knowledge.

Author : Stephan van Erp,Lea Verstricht
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cynicism
ISBN : 9783825812355

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Longing in a Culture of Cynicism by Stephan van Erp,Lea Verstricht Pdf

Through current expressions of religion, people are confronted with all kinds of longings and desires which have no place in a rationalised and alienated culture. At the same time, these longings are seeking and finding opportunities for expression. How to understand this cultural ambiguity? The authors in this volume explore the possibilities of a rationality beyond rationalism, reflecting beyond the borders of human imagination on the hidden God.

Author : William Kingdon Clifford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UOM:39015059730823

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Lectures and Essays, by the Late William Kingdon Clifford by William Kingdon Clifford Pdf

Author : John DUNCAN (LL.D., Professor of Hebrew in the New College, Edinburgh.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026995713

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The Late Rev. J. D.... in the Pulpit and at the Communion Table. [A Selection of Letters and Sermons by J. D.] With Biographical Supplement. Edited by D. Brown by John DUNCAN (LL.D., Professor of Hebrew in the New College, Edinburgh.) Pdf

Author : Pieter Vos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567695086

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Longing for the Good Life: Virtue Ethics after Protestantism by Pieter Vos Pdf

This book argues that Protestant theological ethics not only reveals basic virtue ethical characteristics, but also contributes significantly to a viable contemporary virtue ethics. Pieter Vos demonstrates that post-Reformation theological ethics still understands the good in terms of the good life, takes virtues as necessary for living the good life and considers human nature as a source of moral knowledge. Vos approaches Protestant theology as an important bridge between pre-modern virtue ethics, shaped by Aristotle and transformed by Augustine of Hippo, and late modern understandings of morality. The volume covers a range of topics, going from eudaimonism and Calvinist ethics to Reformed scholastic virtue ethics and character formation in the work of Søren Kierkegaard. The author shows how Protestantism has articulated other-centered virtues from a theology of grace, affirmed ordinary life and emphasized the need of transformation of this life and its orders. Engaging with philosophy of the art of living, Neo-Aristotelianism and exemplarist ethics, he develops constructive contributions to a contemporary virtue ethics.

Author : Edward Said
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408846254

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On Late Style by Edward Said Pdf

_______________ 'A series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists' - London Review of Books 'Gracefully unquiet, probing and wise ... Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style' - Financial Times 'What Said stands for - critical intelligence, high art and the preservation of the language - must be at the centre of our lives. This book is a fine monument to his life and work' - Hanif Kureishi 'His own late style, if it is acceptable to call it that, mixes an easy mastery of material with an unquenched desire to preserve difficulties' - Guardian _______________ On Late Style examines the work produced by great artists -Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Jean Genet among them - at the end of their lives. Said makes it clear that, rather than the resolution of a lifetime's artistic endeavour, most of the late works discussed are rife with contradiction and almost impenetrable complexity. He helps us see how, though these works often stood in direct contrast to the tastes of society, they were, just as often, announcements of what was to come in the artist's discipline - works of true artistic genius.

Author : Peggy Papp
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1572307056

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Couples on the Fault Line by Peggy Papp Pdf

Edited by a renowned family therapist, this book brings together prominent marital and family therapists to explore the new challenges and opportunities facing couples and the clinicians who work with them. The volume presents a range of approaches to helping couples reconsider and reorder their life priorities around parenting, marriage, and other stages of life.

Author : Tamara S. Wagner
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838756003

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Longing by Tamara S. Wagner Pdf

By revealing the origins of common misunderstandings about nostalgia, this book aims, moreover, to show that it creatively fosters a personal and imaginative memory."--Jacket.