Download or read book Jean Cocteau written by James S. Williams and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluating Cocteau’s career and his fascinating personal life on equal terms, James Williams offers here a groundbreaking analysis that sets them both within highly revealing historical and artistic contexts.
Download or read book New York in Pyjamarama written by Michaël Leblond and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join our pyjama clad hero as he leaves his bedroom to see the sights of New York at night time. Dodge the traffic, be dazzled by the lights on Broadway and take in the dizzying heights of the Big Apple's skyline.
Download or read book Cocteau s World written by Jean Cocteau and published by London : Owen. This book was released on 1972 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this anthology, which features some of Cocteau's major writings, Margaret Crosland illustrates the wide range of his creativity and shows that his entire production is closely integrated. She emphasizes his own insistence that he was a 'poet,' writing always as a poet in different media. She introduces also many pieces which have never before been published in English, and others that are relatively unknown."--Book jacket.
Download or read book Le Roman de Tristan Et Iseut written by Joseph Bdier and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le roman de Tristan et Iseut by Joseph B�dier
Download or read book A Comparative History of National Oil Companies written by Alain Beltran and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a conference held in Nov. 2003.
Download or read book Exhibiting Electricity written by K. G. Beauchamp and published by IET. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusual book traces the history of public and technical exhibitions, from their origins in the late 18th Century to present day, and, particularly, how they have reflected the progress of science and technology especially electrical technology). Not only does the author show how electrical innovation and manufacture have been presented to the wider public through this period, but he also shows how the exhibitions themselves have required technological advice.
Download or read book Charles Garnier s Paris Op ra written by Christopher Curtis Mead and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By making systematic use of the mostly unpublished Opera Archive, Mead fills in the missing links to previous investigations and unlocks the significance of this seminal masterpiece.
Download or read book Cities of Light written by Sandy Isenstadt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours available for purposeful and industrious activities. Urban lighting is undergoing a revolution due to recent developments in lighting technology, and increased focus on sustainability and human-scaled environments. Cities of Light is expansive in coverage, spanning two centuries and touching on developments on six continents, without diluting its central focus on architectural and urban lighting. Covering history, geography, theory, and speculation in urban lighting, readers will have numerous points of entry into the book, finding it easy to navigate for a quick reference and or a coherent narrative if read straight through. With chapters written by respected scholars and highly-regarded contemporary practitioners, this book will delight students and practitioners of architectural and urban history, area and cultural studies, and lighting design professionals and the institutional and municipal authorities they serve. At a moment when the entire world is being reshaped by new lighting technologies and new design attitudes, the longer history of urban lighting remains fragmentary. Cities of Light aims to provide a global framework for historical studies of urban lighting and to offer a new perspective on the fast-moving developments of lighting today.
Download or read book Global Electrification written by William J. Hausman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how multinational enterprises and international finance influenced the course of electrification around the world. Multinational enterprises played a crucial role in the spread of electric light and power from the 1870s through the first three decades of the twentieth century. Their role did not persist, as over time they exited through "domestication" (buy-outs, confiscations, or other withdrawals), so that by 1978 multinational enterprises in this sector had all but disappeared, replaced by electrical utility providers with national business structures. Yet, in recent years, there has been a vigorous revival. This book, a unique cooperative effort by the three authors and a group of experts from many countries, offers a fresh analysis of the history of multinational enterprise, taking an integrative approach, not simply comparing national electrification experiences, but supplying a truly global account.
Download or read book The Age of Edison written by Ernest Freeberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
Download or read book Nuclear Science Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Efflorescence of Caricature 1759 1838 written by Todd Porterfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searing disputes over caricature have recently sparked flames across the world¿the culmination, not the beginning, of the story of one of modernity's definitive artistic practices. Modern visual satire erupts during a period marked by reform and revolution, by cohering nationalisms and expanding empires, and by the emerging discipline of art history. This has long been recognized as its Golden Age. It is time to look anew. In The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759-1838, an international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational team of scholars reconfigures the geography of modern visual satire, as the expansive narrative reaches from North America to Europe, to China and the Ottoman Empire. Caricature's specific visual cultures are also laid bare, its iconographic means and material support, as well as the diverse milieu of its making¿the military, the art academy, diplomacy, politics, art criticism, and popular entertainment. Some of its greatest practitioners¿James Gillray and Honor¿aumier¿are seen in a new light, alongside some of their far flung and opportunistic pastichers. Most trenchantly, assumptions about the consequences of caricature's rise come under intense scrutiny, interrogated for its cherished and long-vaunted civilizational claims on individual character, artistic supremacy, political liberty, and global domination.
Download or read book The End of the Salon written by Patricia Mainardi and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1993 study of the demise of the most important exhibition centre for art in Europe and America.
Download or read book Batteries of Life written by Christoph Asendorf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a cultural history of post-Enlightenment Europe, this is an important book. As a teacher of culture courses, I know there is little available that is even close in terms of excitement, breadth, and innovation."--Russell A. Berman, Stanford University "As a cultural history of post-Enlightenment Europe, this is an important book. As a teacher of culture courses, I know there is little available that is even close in terms of excitement, breadth, and innovation."--Russell A. Berman, Stanford University
Download or read book Milton s Vision written by Theo Hobson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-12-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concentrates on Milton's religious vision and is more concerned with his prose than his poetry. He insisted that Protestantism was compatible with political liberty - that the two causes are complementary. This was a new vision. By treating all ecclesiastical authority with suspicion, Milton helped to establish the modern ideal of secularism. He was a Christian libertarian who wanted every form of church to wither away, so that the Gospel might be completely free of coercion. Milton's Vision is a vital contribution to the debate about the place of religion in public life. It will appeal to those interested in the history of political thought, especially the concept of liberalism, as well as all those with an interest in religion and literature. This is the first study of Milton that highlights his relevance to the core issues of our day: how religion gives rise to and interacts with secular ideals.
Download or read book A Frequency Dictionary of German written by Randall Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Frequency Dictionary of German is an invaluable tool for all learners of German, providing a list of the 4,034 most frequently used words in the language. Based on a 4.2 million-word corpus which is evenly divided between spoken, fiction and non-fiction texts, the dictionary provides a detailed frequency-based list plus alphabetical and part of speech indexes. All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent, a sample sentence plus an indication of major register variation. The dictionary also contains twenty-one thematically organized lists of frequently used words on a variety of topics as well as eleven special vocabulary lists. A Frequency Dictionary of German aims to enable students of all levels to maximize their study of German vocabulary in an efficient and engaging way.
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition written by Professor Paola Pugliatti and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed large both in religious and in lay treatises of Shakespeare's time. The book re-reads Shakespeare's representations of war in light of both the changing historical and political contexts in which they were produced and of Shakespeare's possible connection with the culture and ideology of the European just war tradition. But to discuss Shakespeare's representations of war means, for Pugliatti, not simply to examine his work from a literary point of view or to historicize those representations in connection with the discourses (and the practice) of war which were produced in his time; it also means to consider or re-consider present-day debates for or against war and the kind of war ideology which is trying to assert itself in our time in light of the tradition which shaped those discourses and representations and which still substantiates our 'moral' view of war.
