Download or read book The Revival of Beauty written by Catherine Wesselinoff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: the 20th-century “Anti-Aesthetic” movement and the 21st-century “Beauty Revival” movement. It also includes a positive defence of beauty as a lived experience extrapolated from Beauty-Revival position. Beauty was traditionally understood in the broadest sense as a notion that engages our sense perception and embraces everything evoked by that perception, including mental products and affective states. This book constructs and places in parallel with one another the Anti-Aesthetic and Beauty-Revival movements. In the author’s view, Anti-Aestheticism is devoted to a decisive negation of beauty—denying its importance as a philosophical notion and its significance as a lived experience. It suggests that beauty is a merely sensual experience, which can be used, at best, as a distraction from justice and, at worst, as an instrument of evil. Alternatively, the Beauty-Revival movement advances arguments for beauty as an experience that extends primarily to sensual experience, but which also calls forth mental products and cognitive and affective states evoked by that experience. After reconstructing these two positions, the author elaborates on the notion of beauty as a lived experience through three key moments which occur in the process of our experiencing beautiful objects. These moments are (a) the conditions that constitute an experience of beauty, (b) the attitudinal features most likely to lead to the experience of beauty, and (c) the results of the experience of beauty. The Revival of Beauty will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, history of philosophy, and art history.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1962-12-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Download or read book Easy Beauty written by Chloé Cooper Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 * Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2022 * A Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, Time, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—an “exquisite” (Oprah Daily) and groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. “I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Jones learned early on to factor “pain calculations” into every plan, every situation. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as “less than.” The way she has been seen—or not seen—has informed her lens on the world her entire life. She resisted this reality by excelling academically and retreating to “the neutral room in her mind” until it passed. But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body), something in her shifts, and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she’d been denied, and denied herself. From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyoncé concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh, Jones weaves memory, observation, experience, and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths. “Bold, honest, and superbly well-written” (Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name) Easy Beauty is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world, and your place in it, with new eyes.
Download or read book Pricing Beauty written by ashley Mears and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the world of modeling. Exploring an arena of cultural production, it shows how the right 'look' is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commodity. It examines how models sell themselves, how agents promote them, and how clients decide to hire them
Download or read book Male Beauty written by Kenneth Krauss and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II. In the decades that followed World War II, Americans searched for and often founds signs of a new masculinity that was younger, sensitive, and sexually ambivalent. Male Beauty examines the theater, film, and magazines of the time in order to illuminate how each one put forward a version of male gendering that deliberately contrasted, and often clashed with, previous constructs. This new postwar masculinity was in large part a product of the war itself. The need to include those males who fought the war as menmany of whom were far younger than what traditional male gender definitions would accept as manlyextended the range of what could and should be thought of as masculine. Kenneth Krauss adds to this analysis one of the first in-depth examinations of how males who were sexually attracted to other males discovered this emerging concept of manliness via physique magazines.
Download or read book Then They Were Twelve written by Marilyn Séphocle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title Ambassador conjures up images of a gentleman with a chauffeur-driven limousine, flanked at plush cocktail parties by his perfect wife, who normally handles state dinners, tea parties, and flower arrangements. S^D'ephocle shows how this picture changes completely when the ambassador happens to be a woman, and how the role of the spouse of the ambassador changes as a result. Then, They Were Twelve is a historical account of the Washington diplomatic scene of the late 1990s, when the number of women ambassadors reached the double digits for the first time. Séphocle provides a series of candid and stimulating conversations with the women ambassadors about their lives, their work, and the struggle for the advancement of women in their countries. These women of state from various corners of the globe demonstrate a unique approach to diplomacy. This book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, students, and the concerned reader involved with diplomacy and women's studies.
Download or read book How I Became a Bond Chick written by Laurie De Nuccio and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The millennium is right around the corner and Lana, a baby-booming debutante, still hasn't found herself. She's fed up test-driving careers and relationships and is ready to try anything to get some real answers. With Old Man Time nipping at her heels, Lana gets into gear and goes on a nothing-to-lose quest to battle the family and cultural myths that hinder her spirit and prevent her from making her fairy tale dreams come true. Lana forges through the Internet wilderness and carves out an identity that cuts through untold bouts of romantic quackery. In her zany escapades she imagines wearing out men like "dirty socks"-- "Lana Lana Copa Cabana How does your garden grow With lots of love and little time And men lined all in a row" From the suffering-prone Annika, her emotional anchor--to Mitchell, who just discovered phone sex at 78--and Kril, who's just taken his third girlfriend in for a boob job--Lana's bizarre friends will keep you spilling out of your seat with laughter. Little does Lana know, the keys to the universe are right at her fingertips.
Download or read book The United States Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 2188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twenty Three written by Joel Riojas and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story begins in galactic times when artificial intelligence has conquered humans on the planet Rump. 23 fights to stay alive as man has been reduced to five hundred by Emperor Fang Hola on the supercontinent Uno. He makes his way across the land, arduously fighting wild beast, entities from another dimension, gangs, stranger things, and Emperor Fang Hola with his dark faction. 23 finds a renewed opportunity at life when he is found by a mysterious doctor. As Emperor Fang Hola speeds up his plans to kill the remaining five hundred men, 23 must find a way to survive.
Download or read book Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both John Keats and Thomas Carlyle were born in 1795, but one rarely thinks of them together. When one does, curious speculations result. It is difficult to think of Carlyle as a young Romantic or of Keats as a Victorian Sage, but had Carlyle died prematurely and had Keats lived to a ripe old age, we might now be considering a Romantic Carlyle and a Victorian Keats. Such a juxtaposition leads one to consider the use and abuse, the fusions and confusions, of period terms in literary history and in criticism. Does Carlyle represent Romanticism as typically as Keats? Does Keats's work give us any cause to believe that he might have developed into a Victorian poet? Do the terms Romanticism and Victorian have any useful literary historical and literary critical value? What are the marks of the transition from one to the other? Or is the existence of such a transition an illusion? In this volume, some essays consider aspects of Keats or of Carlyle independently, or together, or focus on contemporaries of one or other or of both and explore the effect of their literary and ideological relationships, and the often indefinable sense that we all have of different styles, manners and periods, as well as the awareness that we might all be equally deceived about such distinctive boundaries and definitions.
Download or read book Finding the Way to Long Day s Journey Into Night written by William Davies King and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene O’Neill wrote his most enduring and important plays after he won international acclaim as the first and only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, with his health failing and spirits sunk, he and his third wife, former actress Carlotta Monterey, moved to California to escape the materialism and commercialism of a declining “West,” and they built a new home called Tao House. A reasonably good translation of tao is “the way,” and in this house, which was largely the creation of Carlotta, he found the way to his most famous play, Long Day’s Journey Into Night. As an unusually explicit autobiographical drama, this play returns to 1912, the outset of O’Neill’s writing career, when he confronted tragedy in his family story and found a way to dramatize his mother, father, brother, and himself in a way that has resonated with audiences since its publication and production in 1956. But this book argues that the play originates as much in the moment of its creation, 1939–1941—in the family relationships, the historical circumstances, and the fact that this work would represent a moment of closure of his great career. Key to this heroic story of creation is the intervention of his wife, Carlotta, whose diaries enable a day-to-day observation of how the play was written. She was the driving force behind the design of Tao House, and she managed the rhythms and patterns of life within its architecture. It was her masterpiece, just as Long Day’s Journey was his. This book develops a close reading of their house and marriage and also uses many of O’Neill’s previous plays to illuminate the breakthrough of Long Day’s Journey. This book is the most granular and at the same time the most far-reaching inquiry into how this quintessential play was written (and almost not written) and how it came into the world.
Download or read book Scavengers of Beauty written by Philippe Sibaud and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was the mission to the Moon named after the God of the Sun, and not after a Moon Goddess or God? In this unconventional work, Philippe Sibaud explores the symbolism behind the 1969 landing on the Moon. More than fifty years after this seminal event, and whilst the Moon is attracting renewed interest, the author offers a bold new interpretation of the iconic Apollo mission. Was the Apollo landing the ultimate triumph of solar consciousness over the ancient lunar ways, a concrete enactment of the god Apollo mythically slaying the mother dragon at Delphi, or can the whole venture be seen as the sacred union of Sun and Moon, birthing a new vision at a time of great need? By weaving his own personal story with a greater cultural and symbolic narrative, Philippe Sibaud invites us to reflect on the importance of myths and the power of the Imagination to unlock the deeper meaning of our individual and collective experiences. You will never look at the Moon with the same eyes again.
Download or read book X Rated Affair written by Mark A. Thompson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: X-Rated Affair is a true story that involves infidelity, porn addiction, gambling addiction, love, miscommunication, and a corrupt justice system. It tells of the sexual escapades of Mark Thompson, a black man, his weakness and addictions, and Pepito, a Filipino, who had a love lust for this black man. They met serendipitously while each trying to escape their personal demons and situations and found comfort in acting on erotic triple-x porn scenes. The book also portrays the flawed and corrupt US justice system. This system was created to replace slavery, using minorities to staff slave labor wage teams for private corporations. There is nothing rehabilitating about the US justice system, which is another name for the system, an inexpensive and never-ending supply of cheap labor, mostly black men.
Download or read book Love Author Author Word to Live By written by Keith McDougall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about believe, and LOVE, and the loss of love. I truly hope all well take something positive from at least one chapter in my book. Please don't take offence to any part of the book. These are only my views and thoughts. I believe in. You do not have to. www.lovewordtoliveby.com or E-mail [email protected]
Download or read book Life Is Beautiful written by Mylia Jaza and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few things in here are what you'd expect. I loved that!" -Charlene Timol, Los Angeles, CA "Anyone who doesn't know about Mylia Jaza doesn't know themselves. These poems are the poetry of all our lives." -Robert Bolin, Detroit, MI "Whether or not you're a risk-taker, adding this book to your library will net nothing but positive returns." -Susie Palmer, Jackson, MS "This is the first poet to come along in a long time and deal head on with a variety of issues." -Laverne Vancouver, Colorado Springs, CO "This book inspired me so much. I feel empowered." -Troy Lewis, Manhattan, NY "I didn't like poetry much before reading some of these poems. Now, this collection will be the first book of poems in my own poetry library." -Beth Stanton, West Palm Beach, FL
Download or read book International Index to Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An author and subject index to publications in fields of anthropology, archaeology and classical studies, economics, folklore, geography, history, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, religion and theology, sociology and theatre arts.
