The Art Of Speculation During Civil War

Author : Arthur Fixed
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1479304921

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The Art of Speculation During Civil War by Arthur Fixed Pdf

The Art of Speculation during Civil War - Sun Tzu Meets Jesse Livermore offers a compelling choice: remain asleep or wake up to the truth; accept whatever major media say or understand how the economy, government, and society are manipulated for the profit of a few and at the expense of the majority. Slavery is dependent upon the consent of the slave. Oppression, to succeed, requires the sanction of the oppressed. No regime, be it democratic, monarchic, socialist, communist, or fascist, can exist for long without the public's consent, irrespective of how that consent is manufactured. If consent is withdrawn, the regime falls. The Art of Speculation during Civil War aims to hasten the day when individuals, communities, countries, and the world withdraw consent from those who would manipulate them for the aggrandizement of their power. This book invites its readers to awaken to the truth and profit from the knowledge and freedom gained. The truth is a solid foundation for any economic activity. Anyone can profit from the truth and extraordinary profits are possible for those who understand why Sun Tzu meets Jesse Livermore.

Author : Ross Barrett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520343917

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Speculative Landscapes by Ross Barrett Pdf

Speculative Landscapes offers the first comprehensive account of American artists’ financial involvements in and creative responses to the nineteenth-century real estate economy. Examining the dealings of five painters who participated actively in this economy—Daniel Huntington, John Quidor, Eastman Johnson, Martin Johnson Heade, and Winslow Homer—Ross Barrett argues that the experience of property investment exposed artists to new ways of seeing and representing land, inspiring them to develop innovative figural, landscape, and marine paintings that radically reworked visual conventions. This approach moved beyond just aesthetics, however, and the book traces how artists creatively interrogated the economic, environmental, and cultural dynamics of American real estate capitalism. In doing so, Speculative Landscapes reveals how the provocative experience of land investment spurred painters to produce uniquely insightful critiques of the emerging real estate economy, critiques that uncovered its fiscal perils and social costs and imagined spaces outside the regime of private property.

Author : M. Hunt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230339286

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Shakespeare’s Speculative Art by M. Hunt Pdf

This is the first book-length analysis of Shakespeare s depiction of specula (mirrors) to reveal the literal and allegorical functions of mirrors in the playwright s art and thought. Adding a new dimension to the plays Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Henry the Fifth, Love s Labor s Lost, A Midsummer Night s Dream, and All s Well That Ends Well, Maurice A. Hunt also references mirrors in a wide range of external sources, from the Bible to demonic practices. Looking at the concept of speculation through its multiple meanings - cognitive, philosophical, hypothetical, and provisional - this original reading suggests Shakespeare as a craftsman so prescient and careful in his art that he was able to criticize the queen and a former patron with such impunity that he could still live as a gentleman.

Author : Karen L. Georgi
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271062471

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Critical Shift by Karen L. Georgi Pdf

American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift, Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known texts, finding certain key discrepancies between their words and our historiography that point to unrecognized narrative desires. The book also studies ruptures and revolutionary breaks between “old” and “new” art, as well as the issue of the morality of “true” art. Georgi asserts that these concepts and their sometimes loaded expression were part of larger rhetorical structures that gainsay the uses to which the key terms have been put in modern historiography. It has been more than fifty years since a book has been devoted to analyzing the careers of these three critics, and never before has their role in the historiography and periodization of American art been analyzed. The conclusions drawn from this close rereading of well-known texts challenge the fundamental nature of “historical context” in American art history.

Author : Carl W. Reddel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Russia
ISBN : MINN:30000001092455

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Transformation in Russian and Soviet Military History by Carl W. Reddel Pdf

Author : Hito Steyerl
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781786632456

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Duty Free Art by Hito Steyerl Pdf

In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world's most valuable artworks are used as a fictional currency in a global futures market that has nothing to do with the work itself? Can we distinguish between creativity and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring artefacts as diverse as video games, Wikileaks files, the proliferation of spam, and political actions, she exposes the paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of art production.

Author : Marina Vishmidt
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262373890

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Speculation by Marina Vishmidt Pdf

A wide-ranging investigation of what speculation is, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial, critical, and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character. Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass the artistic, the economic, and the philosophical, with excursions into the literary and the scientific, this collection approaches the theme as a powerful logic of contemporary life whose key instantiations are art and finance. Both are premised on the power of contingency, temporality, and experimentation in the creation (and capitalization) of possible worlds. Artistic autonomy, and the self-legislation of the space of art, have often been seen as the freedom to speculate wildly on material and social possibilities. In this context, the artist is seen as a speculative subject and a paragon of creativity—the diametrical opposite of the bean-counter obsessed with balance sheets and value added. However, once social reality becomes speculative and opaque in its own right—risky, algorithmic, and overhauled by networked markets—what becomes of the distinction between not just art and finance but art and life? This anthology surveys material and social inventiveness from the ground up, speculating with technologies, gender, constructs of the family, and systems of logistics and coordination. An ecology of speculation is traced—one that is as broken, specific, and enthralling as the world. Artists Surveyed include Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy Ludwiński, Cameron Rowland, Salvage Art Institute, Andy Warhol, Mi You, PiraMMMida, Sam Lewitt Writers Include Lisa Adkins, Ramon Amaro, Brenna Bhandar, Octavia Butler, Cédric Durand, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Sophie Lewis, Dougal Dixon, Stanisław Lem, Isabelle Stengers and Phillip Pignarre, Steven Shaviro, Can Xue, Daniel Spaulding

Author : Kirk Savage
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520271333

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Monument Wars by Kirk Savage Pdf

Kirk Savage explores the National Mall in Washington D.C., site of some of the most important & poignant memorials in the U.S. He shows how the idea of monument has changed over the decades, & how the 19th century concept of the monument has given way to the late 20th century idea of 'space', the monument as an experience.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951001919197I

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr. Jacob W. Kipp
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786250599

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Mass, Mobility, And The Red Army’s Road To Operational Art, 1918-1936 by Dr. Jacob W. Kipp Pdf

The first requirement for this paper is to deal with the problem of exactly what we mean by the three terms employed in the title. Mass in the Russian context has a double meaning. To some it unquestionably calls to mind the image of the Russian steamroller, which provided nightmares of Schlieffen and his planners in the decades before World War I. A simple process of extrapolation based upon the size of Russia’s standing army, the number of conscripts being inducted in any year under the universal military service statute, and the Empire’s total population provided a rough estimate of the total number of rifles and bayonets which the tsar could put into the field. The tsarist government’s adoption of the Grand Program for rearmament in 1912 thus threatened to change the military balance on the continent. Those forces would mobilize slowly, but, like a steamroller, their momentum would carry all before them.

Author : Morrall W. Gaines
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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the Art of Investment by Morrall W. Gaines Pdf

The Art of Investment by Morrall W. Gaines: In this insightful guide, Morrall W. Gaines shares valuable strategies and principles for successful investing. From understanding financial markets to evaluating risks and opportunities, "The Art of Investment" equips readers with essential knowledge for making informed and sound investment decisions. Key Aspects of the Book "The Art of Investment": Investment Strategies: Gaines offers a range of investment strategies, including long-term investing and risk management. Financial Markets: The book explores the workings of financial markets, providing readers with a foundation for understanding investment dynamics. Practical Guidance: "The Art of Investment" provides practical and actionable advice for both novice and experienced investors. Morrall W. Gaines was a respected financial expert and investment advisor. His expertise and insights in the realm of investment continue to inspire and inform readers seeking to navigate the world of finance and grow their wealth.

Author : Irene Finel-Honigman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135238513

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A Cultural History of Finance by Irene Finel-Honigman Pdf

The world of finance is again undergoing crisis and transformation. This book provides a new perspective on finance through the prism of popular and formal culture and examines fascination and repulsion toward money, the role of governments and individuals in financial crises and how the Crisis of 2008, like others since 1720, repeat the same patterns of enthusiasm, greed, culpability, revulsion, reform and recovery. The book explores the political and socio-economic factors which determine fallibility and resilience in financial cultures, periods of crisis, transition and recovery based on cyclical rather than linear progression. Examining the roots of financial capitalism, in Europe and the United States and its corollary development in Asia, Russia and emerging markets proves that cultural and psychosocial reactions to financial success, endeavor and calamity transcend specific periods or events. The book allows the reader to discover parallel and intersecting reactions, controversies and resolutions in the cultural history of financial markets and institutions.

Author : Lisa . Tendrich Frank
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440829796

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The World of the Civil War [2 volumes] by Lisa . Tendrich Frank Pdf

Covering everything from the arts to food and drink, religion, social customs, and technology, this two-volume set provides an in-depth, accessible look at the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of the American Civil War. The American Civil War caused dramatic changes in every aspect of life and society, affecting combatants and noncombatants at all levels of the socioeconomic scale. The World of the Civil War: A Daily Life Encyclopedia offers an accessible and reliable reference for the major topics that defined American life during the nation's most tumultuous era. Taking a blended approach to history, this book covers the military and political history of the era and examines the social and human experiences of the war, thereby offering a comprehensive look at the Civil War era's most significant events, people, places, and experiences. The thematic organization of this encyclopedia helps readers to more readily explore related topics. The subject matter explored in some 250 entries includes religious beliefs and practices; rites of passage; soldiers' lives and experiences; rural and urban life; social structure of the Civil War era—aristocrats, landowners, and slaves; men's and women's roles and responsibilities; holidays, festivals, and other celebrations; tools, machinery, and inventions; and justice and punishment. Readers will come away with an understanding of many aspects of daily life during the Civil War era and gain appreciation for the vast differences between life today and 150 years ago.

Author : Kirk Savage
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691184524

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Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves by Kirk Savage Pdf

The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces—specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history took place amid struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments exposed the myth of a "united" people, and have only become more controversial with the passage of time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Art
ISBN : UIUC:30112077191424

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance by Anonim Pdf