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Book EROS TRIUMPHANT

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Likides
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2010-07-09
  • ISBN : 1453511237
  • Pages : 905 pages

Download or read book EROS TRIUMPHANT written by John Likides and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set partly in the present and partly in the future, Eros Triumphant centers on Andora Panvion, a wealthy predator of plutocrats preventing humanity from organizing an orderly exodus from our solar system. The bloated Sun evaporated Earth’s oceans. A global desert stretches between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer while the poles bear the only seas and vegetation. Humans live in subterranean cities across the solar system and several alien star systems. Around the galaxy’s central black hole, a ring 3.14 light-years in diameter bears oceans, landmasses, cities, and form-shifting beings fond of existentialism. Eros finally kills Thanatos.

Book The Triumph of Eros

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  • Author : Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book The Triumph of Eros written by Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eros the Bittersweet

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  • Author : Anne Carson
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-03-14
  • ISBN : 0691249245
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Eros the Bittersweet written by Anne Carson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson’s lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general readers. Beginning with the poet Sappho’s invention of the word “bittersweet” to describe Eros, Carson’s original and beautifully written book is a wide-ranging reflection on the conflicted nature of romantic love, which is both “miserable” and “one of the greatest pleasures we have.”

Book Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas from Egypt

Download or read book Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas from Egypt written by László Török and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English summary: The catalogue of all the Egyptian terracotta objects of the Hellenistic and Roman periods in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. The presentation of the individual pieces includes a full discussion of their relative chronology and their iconography. Since the material is mostly of unknown provenance, it has been possible to propose a dating almost exclusively on the basis of careful stylistic analysis. Italian description: La catalogazione di tutti gli oggetti in terracotta egiziani di epoca ellenistica e romana conservati nel Museum of Fine Arts di Budapest. La presentazione dei singoli pezzi comprende unampia discussione sulla loro cronologia relativa e sulla loro iconografia. Trattandosi infatti per la maggior parte di materiale di cui non si conosce la provenienza, e stato possibile proporre una datazione quasi esclusivamente sulla base di unaccurata analisi stilistica.

Book The Triumph of Eros

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  • Author : Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book The Triumph of Eros written by Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Legend of Eros and Psyche

Download or read book The Legend of Eros and Psyche written by John Redwood Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Triumphant Democracy

Download or read book Triumphant Democracy written by Andrew Carnegie and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Triumphant Surrender

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  • Author : Tony Green
  • Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2023-02-09
  • ISBN : 1098071255
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Triumphant Surrender written by Tony Green and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Search the internet! The words triumphant and surrender are not typically found together. After all, winners triumph, and losers surrender, right? In the worldaEUR(tm)s eyes, that is certainly right. Yet from a kingdom perspective, triumphant and surrender are a perfect match. The pivotal point of surrender to GodaEUR(tm)s plan for our lives occurs when we admit that our ways and thoughts are undeniably subordinate to GodaEUR(tm)s ways and thoughts. Once that happens, God uses the gospel of Jesus Christ, the transforming work of the Holy Spirit, and the profound truths of the Bible to orchestrate a magnificent triumph in us and through us.This is a story of the dramatic events in one manaEUR(tm)s life. These pages reveal what can happen when we walk in harmony with God versus the startling contrasts of what can happen when we thumb our nose at God. Can any of us imagine what might have happened in the Garden of Gethsemane had Jesus said, aEURoeNot thy will, Father, but mine be done!aEUR Hell would have cackled with glee for far longer than just three days. In a lonely hotel room one night in Hamburg, Germany, as anger against God heightened, this Spirit-fueled discourse was born, destined to help the hurting, offer clarity to the confused, and spark hope in the hopeless.What do you believe? Is triumphant living about trying harder, or might it be about believing bigger and surrendering deeper? What do you think GodaEUR(tm)s will for your life is? Do you know what His call upon your life is? Have you consistently succeeded in filling the God-shaped hole in your heart? Does your identity bring you peace and joy, pride and accomplishment, or shame and defeat? Would you like your life to be transformed like a butterfly in a cocoon? Do you believe living triumphantly in Christ can be your reality?This memoir of one manaEUR(tm)s testimony, interwoven with hundreds of scriptures, is written in easy-to-understand prose that sheds light on each one of these profound questions. May these pages forever alter the course of your life and lead you to your own Triumphant Surrender.

Book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

Download or read book Harvard Studies in Classical Philology written by and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Severed Head

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  • Author : Julia Kristeva
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0231157207
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book The Severed Head written by Julia Kristeva and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Kristeva (Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection) offers an extended consideration of artistic figurations of the severed head, the organizing theme to an exhibition she coordinated at the Louvre in 1998. Though she follows a single historical trajectory, moving from Paleolithic skull cults to antique Greek sculpture to the Surrealist drawings, Kristeva eschews the disciplinary constraints of art history, instead employing psychoanalysis to explore the intertwined problems of representation and mortality posed by the severed head. For Kristeva, the capacity to figure the life of the mind first requires a confrontation with this horrific object that stands at the boundary between life and death, registering not only the loss of corporeal form but also subjective interiority. Though this book does not engage with recent images of decapitation, it is not without contemporary political-cultural import; for Kristeva, these cruel artistic figurations offer us the capacity to contemplate the sacred within a technology-driven contemporary visual culture. Verdict While a challenging text, this beautifully written and richly layered meditation on mortality and representation will undoubtedly appeal to those readers interested in semiotic and psychoanalytically informed readings of art.-Jonathan Patkowski, CUNY Graduate Ctr.(c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Book The Moment of Caravaggio

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  • Author : Michael Fried
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-10-17
  • ISBN : 069125298X
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book The Moment of Caravaggio written by Michael Fried and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reevaluation of Caravaggio from one of today's leading art historians This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. Based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, The Moment of Caravaggio displays Fried's unique combination of interpretive brilliance, historical seriousness, and theoretical sophistication, providing sustained and unexpected readings of a wide range of major works, from the early Boy Bitten by a Lizard to the late Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. The result is an electrifying new perspective on a crucial episode in the history of European painting. Focusing on the emergence of the full-blown "gallery picture" in Rome during the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth, Fried draws forth an expansive argument, one that leads to a radically revisionist account of Caravaggio's relation to the self-portrait; of the role of extreme violence in his art, as epitomized by scenes of decapitation; and of the deep structure of his epoch-defining realism. Fried also gives considerable attention to the art of Caravaggio's great rival, Annibale Carracci, as well as to the work of Caravaggio's followers, including Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, Bartolomeo Manfredi, and Valentin de Boulogne. Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Book Childhood  Education and the Stage in early modern England

Download or read book Childhood Education and the Stage in early modern England written by Richard Preiss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child.

Book Marcel Duchamp and the Art of Life

Download or read book Marcel Duchamp and the Art of Life written by Jacquelynn Baas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking reading of Duchamp's work as informed by Asian “esoterism, ” energetic spiritual practices identifying creative energy with the erotic impulse. Considered by many to be the most important artist of the twentieth century, the object of intensive critical scrutiny and extensive theorizing, Marcel Duchamp remains an enigma. He may be the most intellectual artist of all time; and yet, toward the end of his life, he said, “If you wish, my art would be that of living: each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual or cerebral.” In Marcel Duchamp and the Art of Life, Jacquelynn Baas offers a groundbreaking new reading of Duchamp, arguing in particular that his work may have been informed by Asian “esoterism, ” energetic spiritual practices that identify creative energy with the erotic impulse. Duchamp drew on a wide range of sources for his art, from science and mathematics to alchemy. Largely overlooked, until now, have been Asian spiritual practices, including Indo-Tibetan tantra. Baas presents evidence that Duchamp's version of artistic realization was grounded in a western interpretation of Asian mind training and body energetics designed to transform erotic energy into mental and spiritual liberation. She offers close readings of many Duchamp works, beginning and ending with his final work, the mysterious, shockingly explicit Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau 2° le gaz d'éclairage, (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas). Generously illustrated, with many images in color, Marcel Duchamp and the Art of Life speculates that Duchamp viewed art making as part of an esoteric continuum grounded in Eros. It asks us to unlearn what we think we know, about both art and life, in order to be open to experience.

Book Tennessee Williams

Download or read book Tennessee Williams written by Caroline Fehl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1987-05-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxill... writes with the same sympathy and grace as his writer under scrutiny.' - Plays and Players.

Book Foundations of Meaning

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  • Author : John Likides
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2013-04-29
  • ISBN : 1483621103
  • Pages : 615 pages

Download or read book Foundations of Meaning written by John Likides and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In MARGINS OF PHILOSOPHY, while discussing the challenge before phenomenology, Jacques Derrida speaks of the ground of signification and the pedestal of silence, but his two very apt phrases also apply to the ENTIRE human project of understanding ourselves and the multiversethe aim of THIS book. In other words, FOUNDATIONS OF MEANING expresses the ENTIRE range of human experience in the multiverse: dream-speak, stream-of-consciousness, dialog, storytelling, analysis, synthesis, meditation, music, and so onsynergized into a polyphony that resonates in frequencies that no one mode (from science to mysticism) can attain alone because all such modes reject one another and thus limit their effectiveness. In other words, as inclusive and multicultural societies are the most advanced and best-prepared for the future, so FOUNDATIONS OF MEANING heals the rifts separating the many human disciplines, synergizes the many human modes of expression, focuses our aims as a civilization whose inner ANGELS have been at war with our inner DEMONS, and shows how guarded optimism and free thought can empower humanity to mature and spread across this galaxy and then on to othersad infinitum.

Book Athanasia

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  • Author : John Likides
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2021-05-09
  • ISBN : 1664171053
  • Pages : 579 pages

Download or read book Athanasia written by John Likides and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising a novel, 59 essays, and a screenplay, Athanasia: Humanity across the Multiverse is a blueprint for our species’ maturation. The novel features a Mars-astronaut couple (a Scandinavi-an-American surfer and a Tibetan-American woman) and a visionary Tibetan-American physicist (the surfer’s mentor and the woman’s uncle) who summon the galaxy’s apex civilization, which clones worthy deceased humans and tests them on an alien Earth-like planet where dinosaur-like creatures with primitive tech tempt cloned humans with genocide. The essays range from peren-nial questions (consciousness, knowledge, the mind-body problem, etc) to more recent ones (quantum mechanics, alternate universes, Black Lives Matter, American exceptionalism, global warming, the Mars frontier, etc).

Book Man Ray

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  • Author : Arthur Lubow
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 0300237219
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Man Ray written by Arthur Lubow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and art Man Ray (1890-1976), a founding father of Dada and a key player in French Surrealism, is one of the central artists of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most elusive. In this new biography, journalist and critic Arthur Lubow uses Man Ray's Jewish background as one filter to understand his life and art. Man Ray began life as Emmanuel Radnitsky, the eldest of four children born in Philadelphia to a mother from Minsk and a father from Kiev. When he was seven the family moved to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, where both parents worked as tailors. Defying his parents' expectations that he earn a university degree, Man Ray instead pursued his vocation as an artist, embracing the modernist creed of photographer and avant-garde gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz. When at the age of thirty Man Ray relocated to Paris, he, unlike Stieglitz, made a clean break with his past.