Download or read book Breaking Resemblance written by Alena Alexandrova and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades curators and artists have shown a distinct interest in religion, its different traditions, manifestations in public life, gestures and images. Breaking Resemblance explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion by focusing on the ways artists re-work religious motifs as a means to reflect critically on our desire to believe in images, on the history of seeing them, and on their double power— iconic and political. It discusses a number of exhibitions that take religion as their central theme, and a selection of works by Bill Viola, Lawrence Malstaf, Victoria Reynolds, and Berlinde de Bruyckere—all of whom, in their respective ways and media, recycle religious motifs and iconography and whose works resonate with, or problematize the motif of, the true image.

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Download or read book Fra Angelico written by Georges Didi-Huberman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-10-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Florentine painter who took Dominican vows, Fra Angelico (1400-1455) approached his work as a largely theological project. For him, the problems of representing the unrepresentable, of portraying the divine and the spiritual, mitigated the more secular breakthroughs in imitative technique. Didi-Huberman explores Fra Angelico's solutions to these problems - his use of color to signal approaching visibility, of marble to recall Christ's tomb, of paint drippings to simulate (or stimulate) holy anointing. He shows how the painter employed emptiness, visual transformation, and displacement to give form to the mystery of faith. In the work of Fra Angelico, an alternate strain of Renaissance painting emerges to challenge rather than reinforce verisimilitude. Didi-Huberman traces this disruptive impulse through theological writings and iconographic evidence and identifies a widespread tradition in Renaissance art that ranges from Giotto's break with Byzantine image-making well into the sixteenth century. He reveals how the techniques that served this ultimately religious impulse may have anticipated the more abstract characteristics of modern art, such as color fields, paint spatterings, and the absence of color. Part of Didi-Huberman's large-scale rethinking of art theory and history, and the first of his books to appear in English translation, Fra Angelico is a fitting introduction to one of the most original and celebrated writers in the world of art history and criticism.

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Download or read book Break My Heart written by Marianne Willis and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2024-10-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max I’ve already destroyed the others, crushed their hopes and dreams. Now Roxanne is the last on my list. One problem though…this woman’s getting under my skin, just as she had ten years ago, but I’ll be damned before making the same mistake twice. I’ve taken over the company she works for, I’ve taken control of her job, and soon enough I’ll destroy her completely. Roxanne These weird encounters I’m experiencing all stem back to him, to my past. I made mistakes, big ones, but I’ve changed. For ten years I’ve been held captive by guilt, and now the past has returned to utterly crush me. Could my new boss, this strange and mysterious man release the pain I’ve carried all these years? Could he be my second chance at happiness, or am I destined for another broken heart?

Download or read book Mind Meaning and Reality written by D. H. Mellor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mind, Meaning, and Reality contains fifteen philosophical papers by D. H. Mellor, including a new defence of 'success semantics', and an introduction arguing that metaphysics can and need only be justified by doing it and not by a 'meta-metaphysics', which it needs no more than physics needs metaphysics. The papers are grouped into three parts. Part I is about how the ways we are disposed to act fix both what we believe and what we use language to mean. Part II is about what there is: the reality of dispositions; what makes beliefs and sentences true; why there is only one universe; and how social groups, and other things composed of parts, are related to the people and other things that constitute them. Part III is about time, and includes discussions of twentieth century developments in the philosophy of time; why Kant was right about tense, even though he was wrong about time; why forward time travel is trivial and backward time travel impossible; and what gives time its direction.

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