Download or read book 50 Stories from Israel written by Zisi Stavi and published by Yediot Miskal. This book was released on 2007 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely accepted that the short story is the most difficult genre in fiction because it is so condensed. This anthology includes 50 short stories from modern Hebrew literature covering the first half-century as Israel`s existence as a modern state. They are the product of three literary periods: the Palmach Generation, the State Generation, and the Generation of the 90`s, which includes some postmodernist writers.Israel has a rich tradition of storytelling and storytellers. The works included here reflect a broad spectrum of styles and subjects in order to acquaint the reader with Israel`s best short-story writers

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Download or read book The Art of Parmigianino written by David Franklin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beauty and range of the work of the sixteenth-century artist Parmigianino as painter, draughtsman, and printmaker make him one of the most remarkable figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was an artist who seemed to discover his style without any effort, and his art was universally recognized as being graceful, or full of grace. In his day, "grace" was understood to be a spiritual endowment, conferring qualities that could not be taught. It was one of the preconditions of natural genius, so highly valued among Renaissance artists. But nothing as effortlessly elegant as Parmigianino's drawings and paintings could have been achieved without effort. It is through a close study of the drawings, in particular, that one is able to discern the sources of Parmigianino's style and the creative struggles he endured. This illustrated study offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as a draughtsman. More than eighty works on paper, selected from collections around the world, are discussed in detail. Among Renaissance artists, Parmigianino was perhaps more conscious than any of the potential of the graphic arts to convey, and indeed broadcast, complex ideas. He explored this potential himself, not only by means of his numerous drawings but also through the etchings he produced on his own (effectively introducing this print medium into Italian art) and through the engravings and chiaroscuro woodcuts that were made after his designs. In these media, his influence travelled farther and wider than it could have through his paintings alone. This book coinciding with the quincentenary of the artist's birth in Parma in 1503, accompanies an exhibition presented at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, from October 3, 2003 to January 4, 2004, and at The Frick Collection, New York, from January 27 to April 18, 2004.

Download or read book Lignans written by David C. Ayres and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-11-30 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lignans are widely occurring plant compounds and are closely related to lignin, which forms the woody component of trees and other plants. The lignans are characterized by their dimeric composition from cinnamic acids, and they are attracting increasing attention as a result of their pharmacological properties. The volume surveys the chemical, biological and clinical properties of lignans as well as providing information on their isolation, purification, identification and chemical synthesis.

Download or read book Land Labour and Governance written by Debabrata Bandyopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to West Bengal, India.

Download or read book American Buddhism as a Way of Life written by Gary Storhoff and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.

Download or read book Human Remains from Etruscan and Italic Tomb Groups in the University of Pennsylvania Museum written by Marshall Joseph Becker and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Aegean and Its Cultures written by Georgios Deligiannakis and published by British Archaeological Reports Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the first Oxford-Athens graduate student workshop organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, April 2005. Contents: 1) Framing the Aegean (Georgios Deligiannakis); 2) Whats in a Word? The Manifold Character of the Term Koine and its Uses in Aegean Prehistory (Yannis Galanakis); 3) An aspect of the Mycenaean koine? The Uniformity of the Peloponnesian Late Helladic III Palatial Megara in its Heterogeneous Context (Vassilis Petrakis); 4) The Dissemination of Attic Pottery During the Protogeometric and Geometric Periods (Fani K. Seroglou); 5) Domestic space in the Geometric and post-Geometric Aegean: An Attempt to Reconstruct Morphology and Function in 8th and 7th c. BC Houses in the Cyclades and the Eastern Aegean (Anastasia Christophilopoulou); 6) The Contexts of Archaic Cretan Terracotta Relief Plaques with a Note on the Oxford Plaques from Papoura (Oliver Pilz); 7) Extra-Urban Sanctuaries in Classical and Hellenistic Crete (Angelos Chaniotis); 8) Vogue and Utility: Terracotta Products with Ionian Kymation in Relief from the Aegean Shores of Thrace (Petya Ilieva); 9) Preliminary Report of the Halasarna Project: An Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Ancient Demos Halasarna on Kos (Konstantinos Kopanias); 10) The Coan Banquet Reliefs: Parallels in the Aegean Region (Chrysanthe Tsouli) 11) Stone Agricultural Implements from the Island of Kos. The Evidence from Kardamaina, the Ancient Demos of Halasarna (Eirene Poupaki); 12) Searching for Byzantine Model-Books based on Artists Inscriptions from the Middle Byzantine Period (Lambros Travlos); 13) Coexistence in the Aegean under the Ottomans (Elizabeth A. Zachariadou); 14) The Dark Side of the Sun: Aegean Islands as Places of Exile, Desolation and Death in post-World War II Greek Poetry (Eirini Kotsovili); 15) The Concept of Authenticity in Managing Cultural Heritage Resources. The Aegean Paradigm (Stelios Lekakis).

Download or read book American Space American Place written by John A. Agnew and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book The Furniture and Furnishings of Ancient Greek Houses and Tombs written by Dimitra Andrianou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Dimitra Andrianou analyzes the furniture and furnishings found in late Classical and Hellenistic houses, tombs, and inscriptions of ancient Greece. Questioning the wealth of images of furniture as portrayed on vases, she focuses on the actual remains of furniture found in houses; analyzes the symbolic nature of elaborate furniture used in every day and in the afterlife; discusses their types and uses in houses, tombs, and sanctuaries; and assembles their ancient vocabulary. The material evidence has been gathered from sites throughout the entire area of Greece that was ruled by the Macedonian kings and is supported by material and literary comparanda from contemporary neighboring sites.

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Download or read book The Chimaera of Arezzo written by Mario Iozzo and published by Edizioni Polistampa. This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translated catalog was produced for the title exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, held July 16, 2009-February 8, 2010. Iozzo (National Archeological Museum, Florence) and the Getty's senior curator of antiquities describe their collaboration for the loan of this large Etruscan bronze chimera dating to the 5th century B.C., its 16th century discovery in Arezzo, symbolism of the mythical creature, and place in classical art and Medici history.

Download or read book The Printed Image in China written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Museum holds one of the finest collections of Chinese prints outside Asia, with particular strength in the modern period. This book features 100 examples from the British Museums collection. It also explains the features of each print, including techniques, aesthetic principles and cultural context. Full description

Download or read book Beyond Empire written by Jonathan Ingleby and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian mission has been linked for good and ill with colonialism. But what is its relation to postcolonialsm, to a world which has gone 'beyond empire' but has not necessarily fully taken into account its colonial past? Postcolonialism offers a lens through which we can re-read Scripture and re-view the history of our times. Topics such as migration, the fate of indigenous peoples, hybridity, the postcolonial city, development, and many more, come into focus in this book. The discussion then leads naturally to a fresh expression of the nature of the Kingdom of God and the mission of the church.

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