Download or read book The Wreck of the Medusa written by Jonathan Miles and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling . . . captivating” account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic—a tragedy that inspired an unforgettable masterpiece of Western art (The Boston Globe). In June 1816, the Medusa set sail. Commanded by an incompetent captain, the frigate ran aground off the desolate West African coast. During the chaotic evacuation a privileged few claimed the lifeboats, while 147 men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft that was soon cut loose by the boats that had pledged to tow it to safety. Those on the boats made it ashore and undertook a two-hundred-mile trek through the sweltering Sahara, but conditions were far worse on the drifting raft. Crazed, parched, and starving, the diminishing band fell into mayhem. When rescue arrived thirteen days later, only fifteen were alive. Among the handful of survivors were two men whose bestselling account of the maritime disaster scandalized Europe and inspired promising artist Théodore Géricault, who threw himself into a study of the Medusa tragedy, turning it into a vast canvas in his painting, The Raft of the Medusa. Drawing on contemporaneously published accounts and journals of survivors, The Wreck of the Medusa is “a captivating gem about art’s relation to history” (Booklist) and ultimately “a thrilling read” (The Guardian).

Download or read book The Age of Creativity written by Emily Urquhart and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for late-stage creativity from Emily Urquhart, the bestselling author of Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes. “The fundamental misunderstanding of our time is that we belong to one age group or another. We all grow old. There is no us and them. There was only ever an us.” — from The Age of Creativity It has long been thought that artistic output declines in old age. When Emily Urquhart and her family celebrated the eightieth birthday of her father, the illustrious painter Tony Urquhart, she found it remarkable that, although his pace had slowed, he was continuing his daily art practice of drawing, painting, and constructing large-scale sculptures, and was even innovating his style. Was he defying the odds, or is it possible that some assumptions about the elderly are flat-out wrong? After all, many well-known visual artists completed their best work in the last decade of their lives, Turner, Monet, and Cézanne among them. With the eye of a memoirist and the curiosity of a journalist, Urquhart began an investigation into late-stage creativity, asking: Is it possible that our best work is ahead of us? Is there an expiry date on creativity? Do we ever really know when we’ve done anything for the last time? The Age of Creativity is a graceful, intimate blend of research on ageing and creativity, including on progressive senior-led organizations, such as a home for elderly theatre performers and a gallery in New York City that only represents artists over sixty, and her experiences living and travelling with her father. Emily Urquhart reveals how creative work, both amateur and professional, sustains people in the third act of their lives, and tells a new story about the possibilities of elder-hood.

Download or read book The Raft of the Medusa written by Albert Alhadeff and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Raft of the Medusa written by and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raft of the Medusa Five Voices on Colonies, Nations, and Histories Jocelyne Doray, Julian Samuel, editors The interviews examine such issues as Islamic fundamentalism and Occidental modernism, the Partition of India in 1947, the future of Hong Kong, and questions of identity in a postcolonial era. This book presents Eurocentrism of western history as an aberration that is not only scandalous, but dangerous. In addition to the transcript of the video version of The Raft of the Medusa, this book also includes an interview with Marwan Hassan by Will Straw, providing a dialogue around the issues raised in the video, and an essay by Charles Acland examining colonial discourse as discussed in The Raft and how these themes are expressed in Bram Stokers' Dracula. The five voices, each brilliant and insightful, which Julain Samuel has interwoven in The Raft of the Medusa, together form a braid of thought that opens out the received ideas that bind colonizer and colonized into a world that oscillates between questons of deracination and re-territorialization--a journalistic tour de force. --Vera Frenkel, video artist In interviews with five academics and writers--Amin Maalouf, Thierry Hentsch, Sara Suleri, Marlene Nourbese Philip and Ackbar Abbas--history is discussed from a non-European perspective. the interviews examine such issues as Islamic fundamentalism and Occidental modernism, the Partition of India in 1947, the future of Hong Kong, and questions of identity in a postcolonial era. This book presents Eurocentrism of western history as an aberration that is not only scandalous, but dangerous. In addition to the transcript of the video version of The Raft of the Medusa, this book also includes an interview with Marwan Hassan by Will Straw, providing a dialogue around the issues raised in the video, and an essay by Charles Acland examining colonial discourse as discussed in The Raft and how these themes are expressed in Bram Stokers' Dracula. What's remarkable is the scope Samuel allows his interview subjects. --Now There is no shortage of thought-provoking material here. --Books in Canada Table of Contents The Raft of the Medusa: Five Voices on Colonies, Nations & Histories, by Julian Samuel On and Around the Raft: An Interview with Marvan Hassan, by Will Straw Hybridity and the Subversion of Frontiers, by Charles Acland Jocelyne Doray--editor, video consultant and translator--is currently at work on L' ge de l'innocence, a book on child criminals. Julian Samuel is a Montreal film and video maker and writer. He has made Resisting the Pharaohs, a film about Montreal's arms industry and weapons' sales to areas of conflict, including Isreal, south Africa and Indonesia. He is the author of Lone Ranger in Pakistan. POLITICS/WORLD 132 pages, video stills Paperback ISBN: 1-895431-76-X $19.99 Hardcover ISBN: 1-895431-77-8 $48.99 L.C. No. 93-072751 What's remarkable is the scope Samuel allows his interview subjects. --Now There is no shortage of thought-provoking material here. --Books in Canada Jocelyne Doray--editor, video consultant and translator--is currently at work on L' ge de l'innocence, a book on child criminals. Julian Samuel is a Montreal film and video maker and writer. He has made Resisting the Pharaohs, a film about Montreal's arms industry and weapons' sales to areas of conflict, including Isreal, south Africa and Indonesia. He is the author of Lone Ranger in Pakistan. 1994: 132 pages, video stills

Download or read book The Raft of the Medusa written by Bruce High Quality Foundation (Group of artists) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medusa written by Jonathan Miles and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1816, the Medusa, flagship of a French expedition to repossess the colony of Senegal from the British, set sail. She never arrived at her destination. Commanded by an incompetent Captain, she ran aground off the desolate West African coast. The evacuation of the frigate was chaotic and cowardly and 146 men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft which was then abandoned in mid-ocean, cut loose by the convoy of lifeboats which had pledged to tow it to safety. The drifting raft carried those who survived to the very frontiers of human experience. Crazed, parched and starving, the diminishing band slaughtered mutineers, ate their dead companions and organized a tactical extermination of the weakest among them. Meanwhile, the victims from the boats who made ashore, undertook a dangerous two hundred mile slog through the sweltering, mid-summer Sahara.Having laid the foundations for this tragedy, the Restoration Navy and neo-conservative administration, rightly fearing the political fallout from the disaster, did everything in their power to muffle the Medusa story. Among the handful of survivors from the raft, were two men whose written account of the tragedy catalogued the trail of government incompetence, indifference, and cover-up. Their book became a best-seller which rocked Europe and inspired the promising artist, Theodore Gericault. Reeling from an illicit affair with his attractive young aunt, he threw himself into an exhaustive study of the Medusa tragedy, turning it into a vast canvas.Set in the politically fragile world of Restoration France, the murk of Georgian London and along the dangerous West African coast where the French were covertly regenerating the outlawed slave trade, MEDUSA witnesses error and outrage turned into a best-seller, and that best-seller transformed into one of the masterpieces of Western art.

Download or read book Wreck of the Medusa written by Alexander McKee and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In horrifying detail, this book tells the gruesome true story of the shipwreck of the French frigate "Medusa" off the coast of Senegal in 1816. Forced to abandon ship, 150 men and women embarked on an overloaded makeshift raft. After 12 days of riots, mutiny, murder, and cannibalism, only 15 survived. Back in print after 20 years, this book was originally published as "Death Raft".

Download or read book Wreck of the Medusa written by Alexander McKee and published by Signet Book. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1816, the French frigate Medusa ran aground on a sandbar 40 miles off the coast of Senegal. Forced to abandon ship by the captain, 150 men and women embarked on a makeshift raft so overloaded that they were up to their hips in water. But their ordeal was only beginning ...

Download or read book Gericault 178 Colour Plates written by Maria Peitcheva and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (1791 - 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement.Géricault's first major work, The Charging Chasseur, exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1812, revealed the influence of the style of Rubens and an interest in the depiction of contemporary subject matter. Géricault continually returned to the military themes of his early paintings, and the series of lithographs he undertook on military subjects are considered some of the earliest masterworks in that medium. Perhaps his most significant, and certainly most ambitious work, is The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819), which depicted the aftermath of a contemporary French shipwreck, Meduse, in which the captain had left the crew and passengers to die.

Download or read book Space Law written by Francis Lyall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening of space to exploration and use has had profound effects on society. Remote sensing by satellite has improved meteorology, land use and the monitoring of the environment. Satellite television immediately informs us visually of events in formerly remote locations, as well as providing many entertainment channels. World telecommunication facilities have been revolutionised. Global positioning has improved transport. This book examines the varied elements of public law that lie behind and regulate the use of space. It also makes suggestions for the development and improvement of the law, particularly as private enterprise plays an increasing role in space.

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Download or read book Martin Kippenberger The Raft of Medusa written by Rachel Kushner and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skarstedt presents the first comprehensive exhibition of Martin Kippenberger's 'The Raft of the Medusa'-series in New York. Organized in collaboration with the Estate of Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, the show is dedicated solely to this exceptional body of work. The exhibition will be a multi-media presentation including paintings, drawings, photographs and a carpet from the series. 'The Raft of Medusa' will be on view at Skarstedt (20 East 79th Street) from March 3 – April 26, 2014.00Featuring paintings from the Estate of Martin Kippenberger, as well as public and private collections, the exhibition will demonstrate the breadth of the artist’s creativity in this singular body of work. The range of paintings and source materials include 16 paintings, 19 drawings, 14 lithographs, 9 photographs and a 8 by 15 foot woven rug which depicts a blueprint of the raft. 00Inspired by Theodore Géricault’s 1819 'Le Radeau de la Méduse', Kippenberger's series is demonstrative of his conflicted relationship with art historical precedents as well as his tendency to appropriate them.00In The Raft of Medusa series Kippenberger depicts himself as the individual figures from Géricault’s masterpiece. He posed for, then, worked from photographs, taken by his wife, Elfie Semotan. In the largest painting of the series, on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the artist recapitulates the whole of Géricault’s composition; now deconstructed in a tangled mess of body parts, faces, a diversity of unrelated strokes. 00Exhibition: Skarstedt, New York, U.S.A. (03.03-26.04.2014).

Download or read book Gericault written by LORENZ E. A. EITNER and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Carnivore s Inquiry written by Sabina Murray and published by . This book was released on 2006-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the monuments of Italy, through literary New York and rural Maine, to the dusty ranches of Mexico, twenty-three-year-old Katherine Shea is propelled on a restless journey of discovery. But her free-spirited movements are shadowed by a string of unexplained murders, and as the victims pile up slightly too close by for comfort, she finds relief and inspiration in the gory manifestations of cannibalism in literature, art and history. With mounting dread, Katherine closes in on the real reason for her own obsession with aberrant, savage behaviour...

Download or read book Wilson s Ghost written by Robert S. McNamara and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2003-06-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Wilson's Ghost, Robert S. McNamara and James G. Blight deliver an impassioned plea and a decisive and multi-faceted program for making the 21st century a more peaceful century than the last. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the war that has followed, have made their argument even more imperative. In a provocative synthesis of the pragmatic, historical, and philosophical arguments for avoiding war and achieving a sustainable peace, McNamara and Blight put forth a plan for realizing Woodrow Wilson's dream. The plan begins with a moral imperative that establishes the reduction of human carnage as a major goal of foreign policy across the globe, and details the necessity of adopting new policies to support that goal. McNamara and Blight argue that now is the time for a radical approach to reducing the risk of human carnage, and they demonstrate why we cannot afford to fail in this effort.

Download or read book European Drawings 2 written by George R. Goldner and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1992-10-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Getty Museum's collection of drawings was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. As in the first volume devoted to the collection (published in 1988 in English and Italian editions), the text is here organized first by national school, then alphabetically by artist, with individual works arranged chronologically. For each drawing, the authors provide a discussion of the work's style, dating, iconography, and relationship to other works, as well as provenance and a complete bibliography.

Download or read book Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 written by Jean Baptiste Henry Savigny and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 tells a story of the shipwreck of the Medusa frigate, its aftermath, and the tales of its survivors. Later in the book the author, Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny, describes the area where the shipwreck took place as well as his thoughts about colonization and about the practice of slavery.