Download or read book TOTalitarian ARTs written by Mark Epstein and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection represents a tool to broaden and deepen our geographical, institutional, and historical understanding of the term totalitarianism. Is totalitarianism only found in ‘other’ societies? How come, then, it emerged historically in ‘ours’ first? How come it developed in so many countries either in Western Europe (Italy, Germany, Portugal, and Spain) or under implicit Western forms of coercion (Latin America)? How do relations between individual(s), mass and the visual arts relate to totalitarian trends? These are among the questions this book asks about totalitarianism. The volume does not impose a ‘one size fits all’ interpretation, but opens new spaces for debate on the connection between the visual arts and mass-culture in totalitarian societies. From the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, from Western Europe to Latin America, from the fascism of the early 20th century to contemporary forms of totalitarian control, and from cinema to architecture, the chapters included in TotArt bring expertise, historical sensibility and political awareness to bear on this varied range of phenomena. This collection offers international contributions on visual, performing and plastic arts. The chapters range from examination of comics to study of YouTube videos and American newsreels, from Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Uruguayan cinemas to more contemporary American films and TV series, from painters and sculptors to the study of urban spaces.

Download or read book St Francis of Assisi Writings and Early Biographies written by Marion Alphonse Habig and published by Chicago : Franciscan Herald Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 1846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Translations by Raphael Brown, Benen Fahy, Placid Hermann, Paul Oligny, Nesta de Robeck, Leo Sherley-Price, with a research bibliography by R. Brown." Bibliography: p. 1667-1760.

Download or read book Francis of Assisi written by Arnaldo Fortini and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1981 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English translation of "the first biography to provide a detailed reconstruction of life in Assisi during Francis's lifetime." -- Dust jacket.