Wild Exuberance

Author : Rebecca Foster,Caroline M. Welsh
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815608349

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Wild Exuberance by Rebecca Foster,Caroline M. Welsh Pdf

Early in his career, critics and collectors widely recognized that Harold Weston (1894-"1972), was capturing and saying something unusual in his paintings. "There is a young American painter," wrote Duncan Phillips, "who stirs in me the hope for a re-birth on this new soil of something that was lost to the art of painting with the passing of Vincent van Gogh." Along with 104 color and ten black-and-white plates of Weston's works compiled by his daughter, Nina Weston Foster, curator of the Harold Weston Foundation, the catalog includes essays that cover myriad aspects of Weston's life and art. The Adirondack Museum's chief curator Caroline M. Welsh explores nature and wilderness preservation as themes in twentieth-century art and places Weston in the context of his contemporaries who painted the Adirondacks. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., curator of American art at the Fogg Art Museum, provides a critical analysis of Weston as a twentieth-century American modernist painter. The biographical essay by Weston's art historian granddaughter, Rebecca Foster, follows the unfolding of a career in parallel to the unfolding of a life. Weston's rich technique is explored by Stephen B. Phillips, curator at the Phillips Collection, in an in-depth analysis of the painting.

Author : Roger Lonsdale
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 2220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191515873

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Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets by Roger Lonsdale Pdf

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memorable biography of the enigmatic Richard Savage (1744), the friend of his own early years in London. Roger Lonsdale's Introduction describes the origins, composition, and textual history of the Lives, and assesses Johnson's assumptions and aims as biographer and critic. The commentary provides a detailed literary and historical context, investigating Johnson's sources, relating the Lives to his own earlier writings and conversation, and to the critical opinions of his contemporaries, as well as illustrating their early reception. This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905). This is volume two of four.

Author : Kay Redfield Jamison
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780375701481

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Exuberance by Kay Redfield Jamison Pdf

A national bestselling author examines one of the mind's most exalted states—one that is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survival itself. “[Jamison is] that rare writer who can offer a kind of unified field theory of science and art.” —The Washington Post Book World With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough. Exuberance: The Passion for Life introduces us to such notably irrepressible types as Teddy Roosevelt, John Muir, and Richard Feynman, as well as Peter Pan, dancing porcupines, and Charles Schulz’s Snoopy. It explores whether exuberance can be inherited, parses its neurochemical grammar, and documents the methods people have used to stimulate it. The resulting book is an irresistible fusion of science and soul.

Author : Hanjo Berressem
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN : 9781474450782

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Felix Guattari's Schizoanalytic Ecology by Hanjo Berressem Pdf

Hanjo Berressem establishes the notion of a schizoanalytic ecology as the most consistent conceptual spine of Félix Guattari's work. He covers the whole range of Guattari's solo work and the books co-authored with Gilles Deleuze, primarily a rigorous explication and analysis of 'Schizoanalytic Cartographies'.

Author : Bejamin Noys
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0745315879

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Georges Bataille by Bejamin Noys Pdf

A concise guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated The Story of the Eye.

Author : Thomas Reinert
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822382423

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Regulating Confusion by Thomas Reinert Pdf

With the urbanization of eighteenth-century English society, moral philosophers became preoccupied with the difference between individual and crowd behavior. In so doing, they set the stage for a form of political thought divorced from traditional moral reflection. In Regulating Confusion Thomas Reinert places Samuel Johnson in the context of this development and investigates Johnson’s relation to an emerging modernity. Ambivalent about the disruption, confusion, perplexity, and boundless variety apparent in the London of his day, Johnson was committed to the conventions of moral reflection but also troubled by the pressure to adopt the perspective of the crowd and the language of social theory. Regulating Confusion explores the consequences of his ambivalence and his attempt to order the chaos. It discusses his critique of moral generalizations, concept of moral reflection as a symbolic gesture, and account of what happens to the notion of character when individuals, having lost the support of moral convention, become faces in a crowd. Reflecting generally on the relationship between skepticism and political ideology, Reinert also discusses Johnson’s political skepticism and the forms of speculation and action it authorized. Challenging prevalent psychologizing and humanistic interpretations, Regulating Confusion leaves behind the re-emergent view of Johnson as a reactionary ideologue and presents him in a theoretically sophisticated context. It offers his style of skepticism as a model of poise in the face of confusion about the nature of political truth and personal responsibility and demonstrates his value as a resource for students of culture struggling with contemporary debates about the relationship between literature and politics.

Author : Abraham S. Luchins,Edith H. Luchins
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0838712274

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Revisiting Wertheimer's Seminars by Abraham S. Luchins,Edith H. Luchins Pdf

There two volumes reconstruct the interdisciplinary seminars conducted by Max Wertheimer at the New School for Social Research during the years 1936 to 1942.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005610154

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Dress & Vanity Fair by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pat Manser
Publisher : Macquarie
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781760981099

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More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary by Pat Manser Pdf

'The Editorial Committee of the dictionary of Australian English, led by Arthur Delbridge, were adamant that their dictionary was to be descriptive. It was an important point of difference from traditional dictionary policy. This dictionary would give an account of Australian English as it was heard and written. We wanted it all: spoken, written, technical, polite, rude. The speech of labourers, the jargon of merchants, swearwords, Australianisms, as well as the basic core of English vocabulary.' The idea for a dictionary of Australian English was conceived in the 1960s, but it wasn't until 1981 that the first edition of the Macquarie Dictionary was published. More Than Words tells the story of how the dictionary was brought to life during this period -- from identifying the need for a genuinely Australian dictionary to the long road towards publication -- and explores how the dictionary has evolved over the years since then.

Author : John Pickering
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HX6HC1

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Review of Johnson's English Dictionary, as Improved by Todd and Abridged by Chalmers, with Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary Combined, to which is Added Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names, Edited by J.E. Worcester by John Pickering Pdf

Author : Robert Turnbull
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732637645

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The Genius of Scotland by Robert Turnbull Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Genius of Scotland by Robert Turnbull

Author : Cyril Scott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594774980

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Music and Its Secret Influence by Cyril Scott Pdf

The role of music in the evolution of humanity • Reveals how a hierarchy of initiates, evolved spiritual intelligences, and devas actively influenced the musical compositions of geniuses to transmit great truths through music • Explores the influence of the classical composers Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Wagner, and Strauss--from Beethoven’s influence on the creation of psychoanalysis to Chopin’s musical influence on the emancipation of women Composer and author Cyril Scott explores the role of music in the evolution of humanity and shows how it has pushed human evolution forward. He explains that music has a profound effect on history, morals, and culture and is a more potent force in the molding of character than religious creeds or moral philosophies. Whereas mediocre musicians reflect only their own times, inspired ones help determine the character of the future. Exploring the works of classical composers such as Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Wagner, and Strauss, Scott reveals how their compositions were actively influenced by a hierarchy of initiates, evolved spiritual intelligences, and devas to make the way fertile for human spiritual evolution. Scott explains how humans are composed not only of a physical body, emotional body, and a mental body but also a sensation body that acts as the bridge between the physical realm and the hierarchy of initiates. Scott shows how the music of great composers affects not only those listening but also society as a whole--from Beethoven’s influence on the creation of psychoanalysis to Chopin’s musical influence on the emancipation of women.

Author : Bill Plotkin
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781577314226

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Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin Pdf

In contemporary America, we lack ceremony and initiation rites to pass from one part of life to the next.

Author : Joseph P. Natoli
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0791437272

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Speeding to the Millennium by Joseph P. Natoli Pdf

Intersperses headline events, popular film, postmodern theory, and fictional vignettes in order to capture the elusive cultural imaginary of our twentieth-century fin de siecle.

Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473374188

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George Borrow, The Man And His Books by Edward Thomas Pdf

This book contain the biography and critical study of George Borrow and his life's works written by Edward Thomas. It was originally published in 1912 and is here being republished with a new introductory biography on the author. Edward Thomas was an accomplished writer and his work included essays, travelogues, topographical descriptions, reviews, critical studies and biographies. He earned himself a reputation as a respected critic and was widely quoted in newspapers and journals of the time. He was killed in action in the First World War in 1917.