Under The Sign Of Saturn

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141976518

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Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag Pdf

Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her now-famous polemic against Hitler's favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as a dazzling analysis of Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Hitler, a Film from Germany. There are also highly personal and powerful explorations of death, art, language, history, the imagination and writing itself.

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781466853591

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Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag Pdf

This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers of our time.

Author : Rudolf Wittkower,Margot Wittkower
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 1590172132

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Born Under Saturn by Rudolf Wittkower,Margot Wittkower Pdf

A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a “delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution.” Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf Wittkower explore the history of the familiar idea that artistic inspiration is a form of madness, a madness directly expressed in artists’ unhappy and eccentric lives. This idea of the alienated artist, the Wittkowers demonstrate, comes into its own in the Renaissance, as part of the new bid by visual artists to distinguish themselves from craftsmen, with whom they were then lumped together. Where the skilled artisan had worked under the sign of light-fingered Mercury, the ambitious artist identified himself with the mysterious and brooding Saturn. Alienation, in effect, was a rung by which artists sought to climb the social ladder. As to the reputed madness of artists—well, some have been as mad as hatters, some as tough-minded as the shrewdest businessmen, and many others wildly and willfully eccentric but hardly crazy. What is certain is that no book presents such a splendid compendium of information about artists’ lives, from the early Renaissance to the beginning of the Romantic era, as Born Under Saturn. The Wittkowers have read everything and have countless anecdotes to relate: about artists famous and infamous; about suicide, celibacy, wantonness, weird hobbies, and whatnot. These make Born Under Saturn a comprehensive, quirky, and endlessly diverting resource for students of history and lovers of the arts. “This book is fascinating to read because of the abundant quotations which bring to life so many remarkable individuals.”–The New York Review of Books

Author : Raymond Klibansky,Erwin Panofsky,Fritz Saxl
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773559523

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Saturn and Melancholy by Raymond Klibansky,Erwin Panofsky,Fritz Saxl Pdf

Saturn and Melancholy remains an iconic text in art history, intellectual history, and the study of culture, despite being long out of print in English. Rooted in the tradition established by Aby Warburg and the Warburg Library, this book has deeply influenced understandings of the interrelations between the humanities disciplines since its first publication in English in 1964. This new edition makes the original English text available for the first time in decades. Saturn and Melancholy offers an unparalleled inquiry into the origin and development of the philosophical and medical theories on which the ancient conception of the temperaments was based and discusses their connections to astrological and religious ideas. It also traces representations of melancholy in literature and the arts up to the sixteenth century, culminating in a landmark analysis of Dürer's most famous engraving, Melencolia I. This edition features Raymond Klibansky's additional introduction and bibliographical amendments for the German edition, as well as translations of source material and 155 original illustrations. An essay on the complex publication history of this pathbreaking project - which almost did not see the light of day - covers more than eighty years, including its more recent heritage. Making new a classic book that has been out of print for over four decades, this expanded edition presents fresh insights about Saturn and Melancholy and its legacy as a precursor to modern interdisciplinary studies.

Author : W. G. Sebald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221306

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The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald Pdf

"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:490305123

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Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag Pdf

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993-06-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781466818729

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Alice in Bed by Susan Sontag Pdf

Alice in Bed is a free dramatic fantasy which merges the life of Alice James, the brilliant sister of William and Henry James, with the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It is a play about the anguish and grief and rage of women; and about the triumphs and limitations of the imagination.

Author : Aliza Einhorn
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781633410701

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The Little Book of Saturn by Aliza Einhorn Pdf

The Little Book of Saturn, a smart, friendly introduction to the astrological Saturn, is a book for curious readers who know there is more to astrology than their sun signs. Saturn has traditionally been considered the planet of challenges, but the life lessons that this stern planet brings are necessary for personal growth. This book is suitable for beginners and experts alike. It discusses the influence of Saturn on the natal horoscope, focusing on Saturn in its various places in the birth chart and exploring the various transits, especially the return(s), which brings with it a period of transition that is often feared, but Aliza Einhorn shows you how to understand and navigate them with confidence.

Author : Erin Sullivan
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120818296

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Saturn In Transit by Erin Sullivan Pdf

ABOUT THE BOOK:Saturn, god of the saturnine disposition, is popularly associated with doom and gloom. But Saturn in Transit reveals the planet's useful and developmental influence in our lives. Saturn assists the modern hero and heroine, during its

Author : James Hollis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UVA:X002738295

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Under Saturn's Shadow by James Hollis Pdf

Saturn was the Roman god who ate his childern to stop them from usurping his power. Men have been psychologically and spiritually wounded by this legacy. Hollis offers a rich perspective on the secrets men carry in their hearts.

Author : Salvador Plascencia
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0156032112

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The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia Pdf

Part memoir, part lies, this imaginative tale is a story about loving a woman made of paper, about the wounds made by first love and sharp objects.

Author : Alice Crary
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674967816

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Inside Ethics by Alice Crary Pdf

Alice Crary offers a transformative account of moral thought about human beings and animals. Instead of assuming that the world places no demands on our moral imagination, she underscores the urgency of treating the exercise of moral imagination as necessary for arriving at an adequate world-guided understanding of human beings and animals.

Author : Sherene Schostak,Weiss Stefanie
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0071770089

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Surviving Saturn's Return by Sherene Schostak,Weiss Stefanie Pdf

For the first time, psychological strategies for surviving the astrological fallout of turning the big 3-0! Many young women approach their 30th birthdays with anxiety. They suddenly notice every tiny wrinkle, question the speed of their corporate ladder climb, or suffer from a biological clock that rivals Big Ben. Is it vanity, fear of aging, early midlife crisis, or insanity? It's actually the result of what astrologers call the "Saturn Return," a phenomenon occurring every 28 years, when Saturn completes its cycle through an individual's birth chart. At this crucial juncture, women often experience a crisis of self, unexplained chaotic feelings, or the uncertainty of personal and professional crossroads. In Surviving Saturn's Return, the first book to explore the subject, the authors combine their psychological and astrological expertise to demystify this cosmic source of strife and offer self-help strategies for surviving, even thriving, during this "quarterlife" crisis. In a fun, friendly, and reassuring tone, they explain how to deal with everything from the father complex to money to marriage to maturing confidently into adulthood.

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781429923828

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Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag Pdf

Susan Sontag has said that her earliest idea of what a writer should be was "someone who is interested in everything." Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, the now classic Against Interpretation, our most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last two decades that illustrate a deeply felt, kaleidoscopic array of interests, passions, observations, and ideas. "Reading" offers ardent, freewheeling considerations of talismanic writers from her own private canon, such as Marina Tsvetaeva, Randall Jarrell, Roland Barthes, Machado de Assis, W. G. Sebald, Borges, and Elizabeth Hardwick. "Seeing" is a series of luminous and incisive encounters with film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theatre. And in the final section, "There and Here," Sontag explores some of her own commitments: to the work (and activism) of conscience, to the concreteness of historical understanding, and to the vocation of the writer. Where the Stress Falls records a great American writer's urgent engagement with some of the most significant aesthetic and moral issues of the late twentieth century, and provides a brilliant and clear-eyed appraisal of what is at stake, in this new century, in the survival of that inheritance.

Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440634840

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Saturn's Children by Charles Stross Pdf

Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct, leaving only androids behind to fulfill humanity’s dreams. And, having learned well from their long-dead masters, they’ve established a hierarchical society—one with humanoid aristo rulers at the top and slave-chipped workers at the bottom, performing the lowly tasks all androids were originally created to do. Designed as a concubine for a species that hasn’t existed for two hundred years, femmebot Freya Nakamichi-47—one of the last of her kind still functioning—accepts a job from a stranger to deliver a package from mercury to Mars. Unfortunately, she’s just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids desperate to retrieve the package’s contents…