Rendering Violence

Author : Ross Barrett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520282896

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Rendering Violence by Ross Barrett Pdf

Rendering Violence explores the problems and possibilities that the subject of political violence presented to American painters working between 1830 and 1890, a turbulent period during which common citizens frequently abandoned orderly forms of democratic expression to riot, strike, and protest violently. Examining a range of critical texts, this book shows for the first time that nineteenth-century American aesthetic theory defined painting as a privileged vehicle for the representation of political order and the stabilization of liberal-democratic life. Analyzing seven paintings by Thomas Cole, John Quidor, Nathaniel Jocelyn, George Henry Hall, Thomas Nast, Martin Leisser, and Robert Koehler, Ross Barrett reconstructs the strategies that American artists developed to explore the symbolic power of violence in a medium aligned ideologically with lawful democracy. He argues that American paintings of upheaval ÒrenderÓ their subjects in divergent ways. By exploring the inner conflicts that structure these painterly projects, Barrett sheds new light on the politicized pressures that shaped visual representation in the nineteenth century and on the anxieties and ambivalences that have long defined American responses to political turmoil.

Author : Marguerite S. Shaffer,Phoebe S. K. Young
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812247251

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Rendering Nature by Marguerite S. Shaffer,Phoebe S. K. Young Pdf

We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival—health, sustenance, shelter—or in relation to our comfort-driven desires. As demand for resources both necessary and unnecessary increases, understanding how nature and culture are interconnected matters more than ever. Bridging the fields of environmental history and American studies, Rendering Nature examines the surprising interconnections between nature and culture in distinct places, times, and contexts over the course of American history. Divided into four themes—animals, bodies, places, and politics—the essays span a diverse array of locations and periods: from antebellum slave society to atomic testing sites, from gorillas in Central Africa to river runners in the Grand Canyon, from white sun-tanning enthusiasts to Japanese American incarcerees, from taxidermists at the 1893 World's Fair to tents on Wall Street in 2011. Together they offer new perspectives and conceptual tools that can help us better understand the historical realities and current paradoxes of our environmental predicament. Contributors: Thomas G. Andrews, Connie Y. Chiang, Catherine Cocks, Annie Gilbert Coleman, Finis Dunaway, John Herron, Andrew Kirk, Frieda Knobloch, Susan A. Miller, Brett Mizelle, Marguerite S. Shaffer, Phoebe S. K. Young.

Author : James Newton Poling
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725230965

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Render Unto God by James Newton Poling Pdf

"What marks, principles, and values from our study of Jesus can guide our reflections about the church and its witness in a world of economic injustice? What kinds of principles ought to be part of an ecclesiology in a world where family violence is epidemic?" So asks author James Poling in his exploration of the role of faith and religious practice as a resource for those who are economically vulnerable to domestic violence. In this groundbreaking work, Poling focuses his research on women and children in working-class and poor communities of three cultures, analyzing the forces that define and sustain economic vulnerability and detailing how such vulnerability affects the daily lives of people within these communities. He looks at how the church can function as a source of healing and empowerment for persons who are trapped by domestic violence and economic vulnerability and develops models for prevention of violence and of practical ministry for pastoral care of the victims and perpetrators.

Author : Emily Ng
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520303034

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A Time of Lost Gods by Emily Ng Pdf

Traversing visible and invisible realms, A Time of Lost Gods attends to profound rereadings of politics, religion, and madness in the cosmic accounts of spirit mediumship. Drawing on research across a temple, a psychiatric unit, and the home altars of spirit mediums in a rural county of China’s Central Plain, it asks: What ghostly forms emerge after the death of Mao and the so-called end of history? The story of religion in China since the market reforms of the late 1970s is often told through its destruction under Mao and relative flourishing thereafter. Here, those who engage in mediumship offer a different history of the present. They approach Mao’s reign not simply as an earthly secular rule, but an exceptional interval of divine sovereignty, after which the cosmos collapsed into chaos. Caught between a fading era and an ever-receding horizon, those “left behind” by labor outmigration refigure the evacuated hometown as an ethical-spiritual center to come, amidst a proliferation of madness-inducing spirits. Following pronouncements of China’s rise, and in the wake of what Chinese intellectuals termed semicolonialism, the stories here tell of spirit mediums, patients, and psychiatrists caught in a shared dilemma, in a time when gods have lost their way.

Author : William Owen Pughe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Welsh language
ISBN : OXFORD:600046656

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A dictionary of the Welsh language [E-Y by William Owen Pughe Pdf

Author : Mark Caleb Smith,Marc Clauson,Emily K. Ferkaluk,Justin D. Lyons,David Rich,Kevin Sims
Publisher : Sheffield Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781879215917

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Rendering to God and Caesar by Mark Caleb Smith,Marc Clauson,Emily K. Ferkaluk,Justin D. Lyons,David Rich,Kevin Sims Pdf

You are holding in your hands a piece of the counterculture. The recent tendency in the academic world has been away from primary sources and toward textbooks. Being a fairly traditional lot, we find that unacceptable. We focus on the “big ideas” that have shaped American government. There are many ways to gain exposure to these ideas, but in our opinion, none are better than actually reading the primary sources that first articulated them. That is why you will see many founding documents, Supreme Court cases, and momentous speeches within these pages. This collection will whet your appetite for exploring our rich American governmental heritage. Our hope is that this may be the beginning of a lifelong interest in the basis of our American government—how we got where we are today, and how we are to proceed from here!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Philology, Modern
ISBN : UIUC:30112001436929

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MLN. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Severino João Medeiros Albuquerque
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Latin American drama
ISBN : 0814322441

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Violent Acts by Severino João Medeiros Albuquerque Pdf

Albuquerque analyzes the use of violence in Latin American theatre from the 1950s through the 1980s. He argues that in the face of repression and torture, some playwrights counter victimization with art as urgent as street confrontation. A study from both Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Ryan C. McIlhenny
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443883306

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Render Unto God by Ryan C. McIlhenny Pdf

The Great Recession, like most economic depressions, has compelled many to reconsider not only the consequences, but also the very nature of contemporary global capitalism. Sadly, very little critical reflection on the fundamental nature of the world’s hegemonic economic system has come from its most devout disciples – evangelicals. Throughout the pages of the Old and New Testament, God reprimands those driven by a love for gain. By way of the cultural mandate, God has given humanity the responsibility to care not only for their fellow human beings, but also for the earth itself. True and undefiled religion includes taking care of those forgotten, marginalized, and made invisible by all-consuming (and all-mighty) capital. As such, those who accumulate wealth by destroying creation dishonor their Creator. Has the Christian community gone far enough in meeting the needs of the poor, in seeking the end of poverty, or in curbing the rapacious appetites of the greedy few in order to preserve that which is good, true, and beautiful within God’s creation? Render Unto God calls Christians to reconsider their ideological commitment to unrestrained capitalism – to rethink not only the profit motive, an essential element of capitalism (if not its central telos), the meaning of private property, and the dominion of the global power elite, but also to understand how market fundamentalism fractures families, creates systems of inequality, and destroys the environment. Have we forgotten our commitment to God, neighbor, and creation? Have we forgotten our primary purpose, the reason for our existence – namely, to glorify God and enjoy him forever?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3064888

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The Chautauquan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Bryan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195183344

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Render to Caesar by Christopher Bryan Pdf

Bryan reexamines the attitude of the early Church toward imperial Rome, exploring how far the early Christian critique of Roman power extended & finding its roots in the established biblical & prophetic tradition.

Author : Natasha Myers
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822375630

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Rendering Life Molecular by Natasha Myers Pdf

What are living bodies made of? Protein modelers tell us that our cells are composed of millions of proteins, intricately folded molecular structures on the scale of nanoparticles. Proteins twist and wriggle as they carry out the activities that keep cells alive. Figuring out how to make these unruly substances visible, tangible, and workable is a challenging task, one that is not readily automated, even by the fastest computers. Natasha Myers explores what protein modelers must do to render three-dimensional, atomic-resolution models of these lively materials. Rendering Life Molecular shows that protein models are not just informed by scientific data: model building entangles a modeler’s entire sensorium, and modelers must learn to feel their way through the data in order to interpret molecular forms. Myers takes us into protein modeling laboratories and classrooms, tracking how gesture, affect, imagination, and intuition shape practices of objectivity. Asking, ‘What is life becoming in modelers' hands?’ she tunes into the ways they animate molecules through their moving bodies and other media. In the process she amplifies an otherwise muted liveliness inflecting mechanistic accounts of the stuff of life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555024526

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The Literary churchman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Johann Peter Lange,Philip Schaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Bible
ISBN : UIUC:30112114870097

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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Proverbs by Johann Peter Lange,Philip Schaff Pdf

Author : Johann Peter Lange,Philip Schaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Bible
ISBN : UGA:32108004298181

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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical by Johann Peter Lange,Philip Schaff Pdf