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Book Le Th    tre du Tarot   Volume 1

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  • Author : Sébastien Michel
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1300526513
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Le Th tre du Tarot Volume 1 written by Sébastien Michel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wagnerism

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  • Author : Alex Ross
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2020-09-15
  • ISBN : 1429944544
  • Pages : 784 pages

Download or read book Wagnerism written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cézanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Buñuel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf Hitler incorporated Wagner into the soundtrack of Nazi Germany, and the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism. For many, his name is now almost synonymous with artistic evil. In Wagnerism, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian. A pandemonium of geniuses, madmen, charlatans, and prophets do battle over Wagner’s many-sided legacy. As readers of his brilliant articles for The New Yorker have come to expect, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K. Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from O Pioneers! to Apocalypse Now. In many ways, Wagnerism tells a tragic tale. An artist who might have rivaled Shakespeare in universal reach is undone by an ideology of hate. Still, his shadow lingers over twenty-first century culture, his mythic motifs coursing through superhero films and fantasy fiction. Neither apologia nor condemnation, Wagnerism is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.

Book Debussy and the Theatre

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  • Author : Robert Orledge
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1982-12-16
  • ISBN : 9780521228077
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Debussy and the Theatre written by Robert Orledge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-12-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debussy and the Theatre means, in effect, 'Debussy and Pellias et Milisande', the opera both established Debussy's mature style and changed the course of operatic history.

Book The Use of Asian Theatre for Modern Western Theatre

Download or read book The Use of Asian Theatre for Modern Western Theatre written by Min Tian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a historical study of the use of Asian theatre for modern Western theatre as practiced by its founding fathers, including Aurélien Lugné-Poe, Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig, W. B. Yeats, Jacques Copeau, Charles Dullin, Antonin Artaud, V. E. Meyerhold, Sergei Eisenstein, and Bertolt Brecht. It investigates the theories and practices of these leading figures in their transnational and cross-cultural relationship with Asian theatrical traditions and their interpretations and appropriations of the Asian traditions in their reactional struggles against the dominance of commercialism and naturalism. From the historical and aesthetic perspectives of traditional Asian theatres, it approaches this intercultural phenomenon as a (Euro)centred process of displacement of the aesthetically and culturally differentiated Asian theatrical traditions and of their historical differences and identities. Looking into the displaced and distorted mirror of Asian theatre, the founding fathers of modern Western theatre saw, in their imagination of the 'ghostly' Other, nothing but a (self-)reflection or, more precisely, a (self-)projection and emplacement, of their competing ideas and theories preconceived for the construction, and the future development, of modern Western theatre.

Book Phantasmagoric Theater Tarot

Download or read book Phantasmagoric Theater Tarot written by Graham Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadiana

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 848 pages

Download or read book Canadiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Occult Mind

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  • Author : Christopher Lehrich
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2012-08-17
  • ISBN : 0801460549
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book The Occult Mind written by Christopher Lehrich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Given the historical orientation of philosophy, is it unreasonable to suggest a wider cast of the net into the deep waters of magic? By encountering magical thought as theory, we come to a new understanding of a thought that looks back at us from a funhouse mirror."-from The Occult Mind Divination, like many critical modes, involves reading signs, and magic, more generally, can be seen as a kind of criticism that takes the universe-seen and unseen, known and unknowable-as its text. In The Occult Mind, Christopher I. Lehrich explores the history of magic in Western thought, suggesting a bold new understanding of the claims made about the power of various belief systems. In closely interlinked essays on such disparate topics as ley lines, the Tarot, the Corpus Hermeticum, writing and ritual in magical practice, and early attempts to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, Lehrich treats magic and its parts as an intellectual object that requires interpretive zeal on the part of readers/observers. Drawing illuminating parallels between the practice of magic and more recent interpretive systems-structuralism, deconstruction, semiotics-Lehrich deftly suggests that the specter of magic haunts all such attempts to grasp the character of knowledge. Offering a radical new approach to the nature and value of occult thought, Lehrich's brilliantly conceived and executed book posits magic as a mode of theory that is intrinsically subversive of normative conceptions of reason and truth. In elucidating the deep parallels between occult thought and academic discourse, Lehrich demonstrates that sixteenth-century occult philosophy often touched on issues that have become central to philosophical discourse only in the past fifty years.

Book Histoire Du Spectacle en Europe  1580 1750

Download or read book Histoire Du Spectacle en Europe 1580 1750 written by Pierre Béhar and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 1999 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Work and Thought of Jean Grenier  1898 1971

Download or read book The Work and Thought of Jean Grenier 1898 1971 written by J. S. T. Garfitt and published by MHRA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Books

Download or read book British Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Publisher

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1104 pages

Download or read book The Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Bulletin of Bibliography on Education

Download or read book International Bulletin of Bibliography on Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Who s Who in Popular Music 2009

Download or read book International Who s Who in Popular Music 2009 written by Europa and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the people and organizations involved in the world of popular music.