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Author : Diane Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985909420
Author : Thomas MacDonald
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781794872592
Shattered Porcelain is a focused work on what it means to be human, and the resources individuals use to re-imagine their own sense of meaning. Art can be a mode of creation where the individual can perceive experiences vicariously through unconscious processes linked to raw emotional need. It is through this need that art creates a foundational outpouring of explosively real, and confrontational wellsprings of reflective media conducive to personal growth. From this idea, there is a concentration of themes surrounding the human experiences of loss, hope, remembrance, and confrontation. The emotional depictions are meant to be depersonalized, and often in first person, to impart a sense of universal dialogue through art. The voice of the individual has been considered in the creation of each piece, and is part of that dialogue.
Author : Gianluca Miniaci
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259162
Archaeological remains are ‘fragmented by definition’: apart from exceptional cases, the study of the human past takes into account mainly traces, ruins, discards, and debris of past civilizations. It is rare that things have been preserved as they were originally made and conceived in the past. However, not all the ancient fragmentary objects were the ‘leftovers’ from the past. A noticeable portion of them was part and parcel of the ancient materiality already in the form of a fragment or damaged item. In 2000, John Chapman, with his volume Fragmentation in Archaeology, attracted the attention of scholars on the need to reconsider broken artifacts as the result of the deliberate anthropic process of physical fragmentation. The phenomenon of fragmentation can be thus explored with more outcomes for a category of objects that played an important role inside the society: the figurines. Due to their portability and size, figurines are particularly entangled and engaged in social, spatial, temporal, and material relations, and – more than other artifacts – can easily accommodate acts of embodiment and dismemberment. The act of creation symmetrically also involves the act of destruction, which in turn is another act of creation, since from the fragmentation comes a new entity with a different ontology. Breaking contains the paradigms of life: creation and reparation, destruction and regeneration. The scope of this volume is to search for traces of any voluntary and intentional fragmentation of ancient artifacts, creating, improving, and sharpening the methods and principles for a scientific investigation that goes beyond single author impression or sensitivity. The comparative lens adopted in this volume can allow the reader to explore different fields taken from ancient societies of how we can address, assess, detect, and even discuss the action of breaking and mutilation of ancient figurines.
Author : María Elena de Valdés
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292715900
Popular images of women in Mexico—conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television—were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the ideological mirrors that reflected these images. This book explores this major change in the literary representation of women in Mexico. María Elena de Valdés enters into a selective and hard-hitting examination of literary representation in its social context and a contestatory engagement of both the literary text and its place in the social reality of Mexico. Some of the topics she considers are Carlos Fuentes and the subversion of the social codes for women; the poetic ties between Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Octavio Paz; questions of female identity in the writings of Rosario Castellanos, Luisa Josefina Hernández, María Luisa Puga, and Elena Poniatowska; the Chicana writing of Sandra Cisneros; and the postmodern celebration—without reprobation—of being a woman in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate.
Author : Stefanie Harris
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271047157
"An interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Various,Louis van Loon,Lily de Silva,Webu Sayadaw,Susan Elbaum Jootla,Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano,Geshe Wangyal,Nauyane Ariyadhamma Mahathera,Georg Grimm,Suvimalee Karunaratna,Nina Van Gorkom,Ajahn Chah,Samanera Bodhesako,Acharya Buddha-rakkhita,Bhikkhu Khantipalo,Mahasi Sayadaw,Ayya Khema,Bhikkhu Sucitto,Ajahn Sumedho,Leonard Price,Natasha Jackson and Hilda M. Edwards,Karel Werner,M. O’C. Walshe,Lafcadio Hearn,Eileen Siriwardhana
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789552403736
This book contains thirty one numbers of the renowned Bodhi Leaf Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. Bodhi Leaves 91: Buddha-Bush—Bhikkhu Khantipalo 92: Radical Buddhism and Other Essays—Leonard Price 93: The Heart Awakened—Eileen Siriwardhana 94: The Rebirth of Katsugoro—Lafcadio Hearn 95: Meditating on No-Self—Ayya Khema 96: To The Cemetery and Back—Leonard Price 97: Sayings and Parables—Various Authors 98: Heedfulness—Bhikkhu Khantipalo 99: The Middle Way and other essays—M. O’C. Walshe 100: The Doctrine of Rebirth in Eastern and Western Thought—Karel Werner 101: Mind Training in Buddhism—Natasha Jackson and Hilda M. Edwards 102: Bhikkhu Tissa Dispels Some Doubts—Leonard Price 103: Religious Convention and Sila Practice—Ajahn Sumedho 104: Walking Dhutanga in Britain Bowing to conventions—Bhikkhu Sucitto 105: An Exhortation Self-image or Self-knowledge?—Ayya Khema 106: The Ups and Downs of Rebirth—Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw 107: The Training of the Heart—Ajahn Chah 108: Aggression, War, and Conflict—Bhikkhu Khantipalo 109: Positive Response: How to Meet Evil with Good—Acharya Buddha-rakkhita 110: The Buddha and Catch-22—Samanera Bodhesako 111: Our Real Home—Ajahn Chah 112: The Problem of Fear in Time of Grief—Nina Van Gorkom 113: The Walking Meditation—Suvimalee Karunaratna 114: Going Into Homelessness—Georg Grimm 115: Anapanasati: Meditation on Breathing—Ven. Nauyane Ariyadhamma Mahathera 116: Essential Advice of the Kadampa Masters—Geshe Wangyal 117: A Buddhist View of Abortion—Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano 118: On Pilgrimage—Susan Elbaum Jootla 119: Dhamma Discourse III—Webu Sayadaw 120: The Self Made Private Prison—Lily de Silva 121: Why the Buddha Did Not Preach to a Hungry Man—Louis van Loon
Author : David Porter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0804732035
From the first successful Jesuit mission to China in 1583, China's cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, and social critics. This book traces recurrent patterns in the European imaginative constructions of China through four illuminating spheres of encounter: linguistic, theological, aesthetic, and economic.
Author : Mark Bernhard
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595293704
Tom Greer is a man with a past. A former Orlando police detective, Tom lost his partner and best friend to a drug dealer's bullet, his wife to another man, and his job to a bottle of whiskey. But rather than end his life, he decided to remake it. Now, living his life as a simple Buddhist in the mountains of Colorado, Tom has found love, happiness, and peace of mind. But a moment of compassion drags him back into the dark works of evil men. People are dying, and in order to save himself and those he loves, Tom must give up his idyllic life and return to the world of violence he once called home. Set in the mountain towns of Colorado, Spitfire Blues is a mystery with energy and intelligence that will have you hooked and leave you dying for more.
Author : Robbie Franklyn Ethridge,Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803226142
During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there fragmented, migrated, coalesced, and reorganized into new and often quite different societies. The editors of this volume, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, argue that such a period and region of instability and regrouping constituted a "shatter zone."
Author : Maureen G. Shanahan,Reyes, Ana M
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813055978
One of Latin America's most famous historical figures, Simón Bolívar has become a mythic symbol for many nations, empires, and revolutions, used to support wildly diverse--sometimes opposite--ideas. From colonial Cuba to Nazi-occupied France to Soviet Slovenia, the image of "El Libertador" has served a range of political and cultural purposes. Here, an array of international and interdisciplinary scholars shows how Bolívar has appeared over the last two centuries in paintings, fiction, poetry, music, film, festivals, dance traditions, city planning, and even reliquary adoration. Whether exalted, reimagined, or fragmented, Bolívar's body has taken on a range of different meanings to represent the politics and poetics of today's national bodies. Through critical approaches to diverse cultural Bolivarianisms, this collection demonstrates the capacity of the arts and humanities to challenge and reinvent hegemonic narratives and thus vital dimensions of democracy.
Author : Michal Peled Ginsburg,Moshe Ron
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791459209
The first book-length study of the Israeli novelist David Shahar.
Author : Okediji
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295802502
The Shattered Gourd uses the lens of visual art to examine connections between the United States and the Yoruba region of western Nigeria. In Yoruba legend, the sacred Calabash of Being contained the Water of Life; when the gourd was shattered, its fragments were scattered over the ground, death invaded the world, and imperfection crept into human affairs. In more modern times, the shattered gourd has symbolized the warfare and enslavement that culminated in the black diasporas. The "re-membering" of the gourd is represented by the survival of people of African origin all over the Americas, and, in this volume, by their rediscovery of African art forms on the diaspora soil of the United States. Twentieth-century African American artists employing Yoruba images in their work have gone from protest art to the exploration and celebration of the self and the community. But because the social, economic, and political context of African art forms differs markedly from that of American culture, critical contradictions between form and meaning often appear in African American works that use African forms. In this book -- the first to treat Yoruba forms while transcending the conventional emphasis on them as folk art, focusing instead on the high art tradition -- Moyo Okediji uses nearly four dozen works to illustrate a broad thematic treatment combined with a detailed approach to individual African and African American artists. Incorporating works by such artists as Meta Warrick Fuller, Hale Woodruff, Aaron Douglas, Elizabeth Catlett, Ademola Olugebefola, Paul Keene, Jeff Donaldson, Howardena Pindell, Muneer Bahauddeen, Michelle Turner, Michael Harris, Winnie Owens-Hart, and John Biggers, the author invites the reader to envision what he describes as "the immense possibilities of the future, as the twenty-first century embraces the twentieth in a primal dance of the diasporas," a future that heralds the advent of the global as a distinct movement in art, beyond postmodernism.
Author : Carly LeBaron,Dr Carly Lebaron Lmft
Publisher : Embracing Authenticity
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999635204
Perfectionists and people-pleasers put in enormous amounts of time and energy trying to be the best, the brightest, and the nicest. They twist themselves in knots trying to be what they think they should be in order to get approval or avoid rejection from others. But at what cost? In Shattering the Porcelain, Dr. Carly LeBaron explores what perfectionism and people-pleasing are, how they negatively impact your life, and how to break free from those perfectly pleasing patterns to embrace who you truly are. In this book you'll learn: -How perfectionism and people-pleasing negatively impact your mental, emotional, and relational health. -Where your perfectionism and people pleasing originated and how to use that knowledge to guide your journey to becoming the real you. -The type of perfectionist and/or people-pleaser you are and how that influences your life experiences. -Practical tips, tricks, and techniques to use in changing the way you think, how you feel, and what you do that keeps you stuck. -How to shatter your perfectionism and people-pleasing and start embracing authenticity.
Author : Lester C. Olson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 1570035253
"Olson contends that attention to the visual images created in each of these roles dramatizes fundamental changes in Franklin's sensibility concerning British America. In 1754 Franklin was an American Whig supporter of the British Empire's constitutional monarchy. During the late 1750s and early 1760s he veered toward increasing the power of the Crown over Pennsylvania by changing the colony's form of government before ultimately rejecting constitutional monarchy and advocating republican politics during the 1770s and 1780s. The shifts in Franklin's fundamental political commitments are among the most arresting aspects of his life. Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community highlights these changes as it examines his pictorial representations of British America through several decades."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Brian Willems
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000529388
In the middle of the eigtheenth century, a new fad found its way into the gardens of England's well-to-do: building fake Gothic ruins. Newly constructed castle towers and walls looked like they were already falling apart, even on the first day of their creation. Made of stone, plaster, or even canvas, these "sham ruins" are often considered an embarrassing blip in English architectural history. However, Sham Ruins: A User's Guide expands the specific example of the sham ruin into a general principle to examine the way purposely broken objects can be used to both uncover old truths and invent new ones. Along with architecture, work by Ivan Vladislavić, Tom Stoppard, Alain Mabanckou, Aleksei Fedorchenko, Michael Haneke, and Sturtevant is used to develop this thesis, as well as artifacts such as pre-torn jeans, fake histories, and broken screen apps. Using these examples, one of the key questions the book raises is: what is it that sham ruins ruin? In other words, if real ruins are ruins of what they actually are, then sham ruins should be considered ruins of what they are not. Thus sham ruins are about imposing new meaning where such meaning does not and should not exist. They also can show how things we think are functioning well are actually already broken. Sham ruins do this, and much more, by being lies, ruses, and embarrassments. This is what gives them the power with which we can think about objects in new, unintended ways.
