Snowscape

Author : Aliyah Khan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781978806641

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Far from Mecca by Aliyah Khan Pdf

Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean is the first academic work on Muslims in the English-speaking Caribbean. Khan focuses on the fiction, poetry and music of Islam in Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica, combining archival research, ethnography, and literary analysis to argue for a historical continuity of Afro- and Indo-Muslim presence and cultural production in the Caribbean: from Arabic-language autobiographical and religious texts written by enslaved Sufi West Africans in nineteenth century Jamaica, to early twentieth century fictions of post-indenture South Asian Muslim indigeneity and El Dorado, to the 1990 Jamaat al-Muslimeen attempted government coup in Trinidad and its calypso music, to judicial cases of contemporary interaction between Caribbean Muslims and global terrorism. Khan argues that the Caribbean Muslim subject, the "fullaman," a performative identity that relies on gendering and racializing Islam, troubles discourses of creolization that are fundamental to postcolonial nationalisms in the Caribbean.

Author : Yi Gu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781684176137

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Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting by Yi Gu Pdf

"How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic perception of modern Chinese painters reveal about the relationship between artists and the nation-state? Could an understanding of modern Chinese landscape painting tell us something previously unknown about art, political change, and the epistemological and sensory regime of twentieth-century China? Yi Gu tackles these questions by focusing on the rise of open-air painting in modern China. Chinese artists almost never painted outdoors until the late 1910s, when the New Culture Movement prompted them to embrace direct observation, linear perspective, and a conception of vision based on Cartesian optics. The new landscape practice brought with it unprecedented emphasis on perception and redefined artistic expertise. Central to the pursuit of open-air painting from the late 1910s right through to the early 1960s was a reinvigorated and ever-growing urgency to see suitably as a Chinese and to see the Chinese homeland correctly. Examining this long-overlooked ocular turn, Gu not only provides an innovative perspective from which to reflect on complicated interactions of the global and local in China, but also calls for rethinking the nature of visual modernity there."

Author : Patrick Ness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1406384836

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Snowscape by Patrick Ness Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Floriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951P01044273S

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Minnesota Commercial Flower Growers Association Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maria CHENG, TANG Wai Hung, Eric CHOY
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789629371883

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Essential Terms of Chinese Painting by Maria CHENG, TANG Wai Hung, Eric CHOY Pdf

Essential Terms of Chinese Painting provides a comprehensive coverage of the broad spectrum of Chinese painting. Through an array of some 900 terms, it exhibits the history of Chinese culture, as interpreted by artists and portrayed in their work. In masterful detail, it describes not only the artistic implements and drawing styles, but also how these are influenced by changing cultural considerations over time such as religion, philosophy, intellectual ideas, and political developments. From the broad view of how the change of dynasties affected painting trends in both format and subject, to the smallest detail of the methods used to paint different styles of tree branches, this is a full compendium of the scope and depth of artwork from China. This volume features twelve chapters which • explore all major areas of art including techniques, implements and materials, inscriptions and seals, painting and mounting formats for all categories including landscape, bird-and-flower, figure and auspicious paintings; • provide a helpful resource for readers to enjoy Chinese art with over 500 full-colour illustrations and pictures to further elaborate the terms discussed; • serve as an introduction to begin a true understanding of traditional Chinese painting.

Author : Avlon McCreadie
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780244361372

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Here, There, And Everywhere: The Boy Who Hears the Shadows by Avlon McCreadie Pdf

Sara Adeline Mazzolini wrote the poems and songs to praise the eternal beauty of imagination. Sara Adeline Mazzolini a écrit le livre de la beauté éternelle. Elle a photographié les images en créant son autoportrait. Elle a composé les paroles de chanson en France.

Author : Albert James Arnold,Julio Rodríguez-Luis,J. Michael Dash
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027234485

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A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries by Albert James Arnold,Julio Rodríguez-Luis,J. Michael Dash Pdf

For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished international team of specialists. Read separately or as a set of three volumes, the History of Literature in the Caribbean is designed to serve as the primary reference book in this area. The reader can follow the comparative evolution of a literary genre or plot the development of a set of historical problems under the appropriate heading for the English- or Dutch-speaking region. An extensive index to names and dates of authors and significant historical figures completes the volume. The subeditors bring to their respective specialty areas a wealth of Caribbeanist experience. Vera M. Kutzinski is Professor of English, American, and Afro-American Literature at Yale University. Her book Sugar's Secrets: Race and The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993, treated a crucial subject in the romance of the Caribbean nation. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger has been very active in Latin American and Caribbean literary criticism for two decades, first at the Free University in Berlin and later at the University of Maryland. The editor of A History of Literature in the Caribbean, A. James Arnold, is Professor of French at the University of Virginia, where he founded the New World Studies graduate program. Over the past twenty years he has been a pioneer in the historical study of the Négritude movement and its successors in the francophone Caribbean.

Author : John Storey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317860457

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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture by John Storey Pdf

In this 6th edition of his successful Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. As before, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of and various approaches to popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Also retaining the accessible approach of previous editions, and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular culture, this new edition remains a key introduction to the area. New to this edition Extensively revised, rewritten and updated Improved and expanded content throughout new sections on The English Marxism of William Morris, Post-Feminism, and Whiteness The new edition remains essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, the sociology of culture, popular culture and other related subjects.

Author : Julian Dodd
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191536373

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Works of Music by Julian Dodd Pdf

In this original and iconoclastic book, Julian Dodd argues for what he terms the simple view of the ontological nature of works of pure, instrumental music. This account is the conjunction of two theses: the type/token theory and sonicism. The type/token theory addresses the question of which ontological category musical works fall under, and its answer is that such works are types whose tokens are sound-sequence-events. Sonicism, meanwhile, addresses the question of how works of music are individuated, and it tells us that works of music are identical just in case they sound exactly alike. Both conjuncts of the simple view are highly controversial, and Dodd defends them vigorously and with ingenuity. Even though the simple view is favoured by very few writers in the philosophy of music, Dodd maintains that it is the default position given our ordinary intuitions about musical works, that it can answer the sorts of objections that have led other philosophers to dismiss it, and that it is, on reflection, the most promising ontology of music on offer. Specifically, Dodd argues that the type/token theory offers the best explanation of the repeatability of works of music: the fact that such works admit of multiple occurrence. Furthermore, he goes on to claim that the theory's most striking consequence - namely, that musical works are eternal existents and, hence, that composers discover rather than create their works - is minimally disruptive of our intuitions concerning the nature of composition and our appreciation of works of music. When it comes to sonicism, Dodd argues both that this way of individuating works of music is prima facie correct, and that the putative counter-examples it faces - most notably, those propounded by Jerrold Levinson - can be harmlessly explained away. In the ontology of music, simplicity rules.

Author : Dave Davies
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405143646

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Art as Performance by Dave Davies Pdf

In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaboratesand defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about thearts that reveals important continuities and discontinuitiesbetween traditional and modern art, and between different artisticdisciplines. Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework forthinking about the arts. Offers a provocative view about the kinds of things thatartworks are and how they are to be understood. Reveals important continuities and discontinuities betweentraditional and modern art. Highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, includingtraditional theories about the nature of art, aestheticappreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artisticmeaning.

Author : Patrick Ness
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763647513

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Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness Pdf

As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.

Author : P. Bartelt,E. Adams,M. Christen,R. Sack,A. Sato
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781482259902

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Snow Engineering V by P. Bartelt,E. Adams,M. Christen,R. Sack,A. Sato Pdf

Specialists in building and civil engineering, architecture, traffic and transport engineering, urban planning and avalanche science came together at the Fifth International Conference on Snow Engineering, organized by the Federal Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos 2004. This event belongs to a series of Snow Engineering Confe

Author : 國立故宮博物院
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Art, Chinese
ISBN : UOM:39015056742466

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故宮英文雙月刊 by 國立故宮博物院 Pdf

Author : Kristi McKim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415894128

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Cinema as Weather by Kristi McKim Pdf

How do cinematic portrayals of the weather reflect and affect our experience of the world? While weatherly predictability and surprise can impact our daily experience, the history of cinema attests to the stylistic and narrative significance of snow, rain, wind, sunshine, clouds, and skies. Through analysis of films ranging from The Wizard of Oz to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, from Citizen Kane to In the Mood for Love, Kristi McKim calls our attention to the ways that we read our atmospheres both within and beyond the movies. Building upon meteorological definitions of weather's dynamism and volatility, this book shows how film weather can reveal character interiority, accelerate plot development, inspire stylistic innovation, comprise a momentary attraction, convey the passage of time, and idealize the world at its greatest meaning-making capacity (unlike our weather, film weather always happens on time, whether for tumultuous, romantic, violent, suspenseful, or melodramatic ends). Akin to cinema's structuring of ephemera, cinematic weather suggests aesthetic control over what is fleeting, contingent, wildly environmental, and beyond human capacity to tame. This first book-length study of such a meteorological and cinematic affinity casts film weather as a means of artfully and mechanically conquering contingency through contingency, of taming weather through a medium itself ephemeral and enduring. Using film theory, history, formalist/phenomenological analysis, and eco-criticism, this book casts cinema as weather, insofar as our skies and screens become readable through our interpretation of changing phenomena.

Author : Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022876887

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Bulletin by Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan Pdf