Shiva S Really Scary Gifts

Author : John Scott,Ann MacDonald
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 1552450910

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Shiva's Really Scary Gifts by John Scott,Ann MacDonald Pdf

Governor General's Award-winning visual artist John Scott is perhaps best known for his Trans Am of the Apocalypse, a car with the entire Book of Revelation scratched onto it, which is on display at the National Gallery of Canada. As Ann MacDonald discovered when she began working with him, Scott's personal life is no less compelling. So she sat down with Scott, a tape recorder and a stack of napkins for him to draw on - Shiva's Really Scary Gifts is the result. From catching a baseball bat in the teeth to harbouring the FBI's most-wanted fugitive in his Queen Street studio, John Scott has, it seems, done it all. Join him as he, in words and drawings, terrifies a pair of robbers, loses a parent, and struggles to get a gun permit for an art installation - John Scott's intriguing stories and the hundred accompanying drawings will help you get to know the man behind the Am. Shiva's Really Scary Gifts is a self-portrait of the artist as a delusional, diseased and debauched young man, a book as hilarious as it is touching.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art, Canadian
ISBN : UCSD:31822031009152

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Canadian Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : NWU:35556034100420

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Quill & Quire by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeet Heer
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770563513

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In Love with Art by Jeet Heer Pdf

In a partnership spanning four decades, Francoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman have been the pre-eminent power couple of cutting-edge graphic art. From Raw magazine to the New York, where she serves as art editor, Mouly and Spiegelman have revolutionized the art. In Love with Art profiles the pair and interviews Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Adrian Tomine and more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Books
ISBN : IND:30000114364353

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Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edited by Butler Marian,Marian Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1632 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0802049745

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Canadian Books in Print 2002 by Edited by Butler Marian,Marian Butler Pdf

Containing more than 48000 titles, of which approximately 4000 have a 2001 imprint, the author and title index is extensively cross-referenced. It offers a complete directory of Canadian publishers available, listing the names and ISBN prefixes, as well as the street, e-mail and web addresses.

Author : Debjani Chatterjee
Publisher : James Clarke & Co.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Hinduism
ISBN : 0718827864

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The Elephant-headed God and Other Hindu Tales by Debjani Chatterjee Pdf

The worlds of gods, demons and humans meet and come alive in these twelve stories. The gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, birds, beasts, demons, monsters, sages and warriors that inhabit these classical tales deliver the enduring wisdom of Hindu folklore. The stories are amongst the oldest in the world and belong to children everywhere, regardless of religion or country of birth. Each tale is illustrated with dramatic black-and-white pictures by Margaret Jones. These evocative illustrations capture the wealth and strength of the culture behind the stories and give the tales a magnificent setting worthy of their power and drama.

Author : Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476668789

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Superheroines and the Epic Journey by Valerie Estelle Frankel Pdf

The heroine's journey echoes throughout ancient legend. Each young woman combats her dark side and emerges stronger. This quest is also a staple of American comic books. Wonder Woman with semi-divine powers gives us a new female-centered creation story. Batgirl, Batwoman and Black Widow discover their enemy is the dark mother or shadow twin, with the savagery they've rejected in themselves. Supergirl similarly struggles but keeps harmony with her sister. From Jessica Jones and Catwoman to the new superwomen of cutting-edge webcomics, each heroine must go into the dark, to become not a warrior but a savior. Women like Captain Marvel and Storm sacrifice all to join the ranks of superheroes, while their feminine powers and dazzling costumes reflect the most ancient tales.

Author : Prabhavati C. Reddy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317806301

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Hindu Pilgrimage by Prabhavati C. Reddy Pdf

In recent years, changes in religious studies in general and the study of Hinduism in particular have drawn more scholarly attention to other forms of the Hindu faith that are concretely embodied in temples, icons, artworks, rituals, and pilgrimage practices. This book analyses the phenomenon of pilgrimage as a religious practice and experience and examines Shrî Shailam, a renowned south Indian pilgrimage site of Shiva and Goddess Durga. In doing so, it investigates two dimensions: the worldview of a place that is of utmost sanctity for Hindu pilgrims and its historical evolution from medieval to modern times. Reddy blends religion, anthropology, art history and politics into one interdisciplinary exploration of how Shrî Shailam became the epicentre for Shaivism. Through this approach, the book examines Shrî Shailam’s influence on pan-Indian religious practices; the amalgamation of Brahmanical and regional traditions; and the intersection of the ideological and the civic worlds with respect to the management of pilgrimage centre in modern times. This book is the first thorough study of Shrî Shailam and brings together phenomenological and historical study to provide a comprehensive understanding of both the religious dimension and the historical development of the social organization of the pilgrimage place. As such, it will be of interest to students of Hinduism, Pilgrimage and South Asian Studies.

Author : Marian Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0802049753

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Canadian Books in Print 2002 by Marian Butler Pdf

Author : Mike Hoolboom,Chase Joynt
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770564497

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You Only Live Twice by Mike Hoolboom,Chase Joynt Pdf

"Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom here give each other the gift so many people only dream of: ample, unhurried space to unspool crucial stories of one’s life, and an attentive, impassioned, invested, intelligent receiver on the other side. The gift to the reader is both the example of their exchange, and the nuanced, idiosyncratic, finely rendered examination it offers of biopolitical experiences which, in many ways, define our times. I’m so glad they have each other, and that we have this." – Maggie Nelson "You Only Live Twice is an intelligent ode to enchantment, to the possibilities that arise in their 'second lives' when all past expectations have been foreclosed." – Chris Kraus "The writing is out of the park — strong and surprising, a relay race of brilliant twirling, tossing thoughts back and forth like balletic rugby bros. Joynt and Hoolboom’s dances of disclosure are so courageous and generative, gifts to us all." – John Greyson What if it's not true that you only live once? In this genre-transcending work of true fiction, trans writer and media artist Chase Joynt and HIV-positive movie artist Mike Hoolboom come together over the films of Chris Marker to exchange transition tales: confessional missives that map out the particularities of what they call "second lives": Chase's transition from female to male and Mike's near-death from AIDS in the 1990s. Chronicling reactions from friends and families, medical mechanics, and different versions of "coming out,' YOLT explores art, love, sex, death, and life in changed bodies. The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every answer, jumping across borders until they finally dissolved. Man and woman. Queer and straight. Mike Hoolboom is an author and filmmaker based in Toronto. He has written four books, received more than thirty international film prizes, and enjoyed nine international retrospectives of his work. Chase Joynt is a Toronto-based moving-image artist and writer who has exhibited his work internationally. He recently received a Mellon Fellowship in Arts Practice and Scholarship at the University of Chicago.

Author : Preetha Rajah Kannan
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789386348142

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Son of Shiva by Preetha Rajah Kannan Pdf

Author : Mike Hoolboom
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781770561816

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Practical Dreamers by Mike Hoolboom Pdf

'The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.' – Man Ray What if there were movies made the same way as suits, custom fitted, each one tailored for one person? Not broadcast, but narrowcast? Not theatres around the world showing the same globalized pictures, but instead a local circumstance, a movie so particular, so peculiar, it could cure night blindness or vertigo? Welcome to the world of fringe movies, where artists have been busy putting queer shoulders to the wheels, or bending light to talk about First Nations rights (and making it funny at the same time), or demonstrating how a personality can be taken apart and put together again, all in the course of a ten-minute movie which might take years to make. Practical Dreamers takes us to this other side of the media plantation. In it, twenty-seven Canadian artists dish about how they get it done and why it matters. The conversations are personal, up close and jargon free, smart without smarting. The stellar cast includes smartbomb Steve Reinke; visionary Peter Mettler; Middle East specialist Jayce Salloum; queer Asian avatars Richard Fung, Midi Onodera, Ho Tam, and Wayne Yung; footage recyclers Aleesa Cohene and Jubal Brown; overhead projector king Daniel Barrow; First Nations vets Kent Monkman and Shelley Niro; international art presence Paulette Philips; and documentarian Donigan Cumming. These in-depth talks come lavishly illustrated in an oversized volume.

Author : K. Chandra Sekhar
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609764258

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Shiva's Own Story by K. Chandra Sekhar Pdf

The 'Brihakatha', or Lord Shiva's narrative to his wife Parvati, is featured in Gunadhya's epic composition 'Katha Sarita Sagara' in Sanskrit. Somadeva's adaptation retains the storyline, with Lord Shiva substituting for Lord Kubera, the God of Wealth. C H Tawney, blending pure Hindu mythology with Buddhist and tantric beliefs, translated the story into English as The Ocean of a Story, which runs 12 volumes and includes footnotes. Shiva's Own Story is a condensed version of Tawney's work. The setting of the stories is India in the 10th and 11th centuries, when the country was composed of many small kingdoms and fiefdoms. There was no dearth of monarchs with dynastic ambitions. The king was usually advised by an intelligent and devoted Brahman minister. The heir apparent, the crown prince, had a circle of friends, mostly sons of the king's ministers, who became part of the cabinet when the prince became king. Intrigue was rife and matrimonial alliances were often a strategy to expand the kingdom. In a country where illiteracy is still formidable, storytelling is a means of promoting and propagating religious and moral culture.

Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307538383

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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Pdf

The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years. In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed its independence from Great Britain, 1,001 children are born--each of whom is gifted with supernatural powers. Midnight’s Children focuses on the fates of two of them--the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman and the male heir of a wealthy Muslim family--who become inextricably linked when a midwife switches the boys at birth. An allegory of modern India, Midnight’s Children is a family saga set against the volatile events of the thirty years following the country’s independence--the partitioning of India and Pakistan, the rule of Indira Gandhi, the onset of violence and war, and the imposition of martial law. It is a magical and haunting tale, of fragmentation and of the struggle for identity and belonging that links personal life with national history. In collaboration with Simon Reade, Tim Supple and the Royal Shakespeare Society, Salman Rushdie has adapted his masterpiece for the stage.