Download or read book The Art of the Shoe written by Marie-Josèphe Bossan and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is more common than a pair of shoes? In a world where shoes have become an object of mass consumption, these accessories are now rid of any significance. The industry has accomplished its duty: producing a large quantity at a low price. But there was a time when the shoe symbolised the strength of the Roman legion, the power of the Medieval lords or the oppression of the Chinese woman. Its history is both vast and enthralling, as revealed by the author Marie-Josèphe Bossan. Supporting her analysis with an outstanding iconography, the author gives these commonplace objects a universal quality that sheds light on the whole of civilisation and elevates them to the rank of a work of art.
Download or read book A Magical Night Journey written by Amy T Won and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated guidebook to unleash the enchanted explorer in you and help you embark on a voyage through the night to find the wonder and wisdom of nature and creativity. Become the wonder-seeker you truly are as you explore the night. In this magical book, Amy T. Won, artist and guide, takes you on a personal creative night journey, exploring nocturnal wildlife and plants, twilight fairy tales and celestial myths, constellations and the cycles of the moon, and personal recollections of the night, such as camping or evening festivities. Amy's dreamy watercolour paintings of the enchanting night are interspersed with practical activities for the reader and fill-in pages to encourage you to record your experience. Through this exploration, connecting to your senses and examining your memories, you can learn your fears and hopes and develop your creativity to find inspiration. Capture the feeling of wonderment and creative flow, explore to your heart's delight and experience the magic-making. Allow the world around you to whisper in your ears what you wish most to create.
Download or read book A Theory of the Literary Text written by Antonio García-Berrio and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metal written by Garry Sharpe-Young and published by Jawbone Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive, illustrated book about one of the most enduringly popular forms of music. Combining biography, critical analysis, and detailed reference sections, it profiles all the major heavy metal artists as well as a huge selection of other niche acts from around the world. Metal: The Definitive Guide includes new firsthand interviews with many major metal musicians and detailed discographies. It is the definitive metal encyclopedia.The over 300 illustrations in this book encompass fantastic including artist pictures and memorabilia such as posters, ticket stubs, and much more.
Download or read book God s Headquarter written by Irfan A. Karowalia and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for the truth about a creator is as old as time itself. Is God real or is this deity only a legend passed down through time – a mere figment of our inherited imaginations? It’s age-old question, asked by millions over the centuries. Intelligent and curious Aydin is no ordinary 18 year-old. A science student Aydin struggles with what he has been taught and the strong religious beliefs, which run through his very veins. He starts to mediate in earnest in the hope it will bring him closer to the answer – can science and religion be juxtaposed? Why should we have to believe in one or the other and not both working together? Not in a million years would this curious teenager imagine that the very questions he asked were about to be answered in the most awe-inspiring fashion. He has kept to his strict mediation schedule and now it’s time for bed – another sleepless night perhaps? Since these questions have been plaguing him, Aydin has not been able to rest easy. Suddenly Aydin feels himself rising off the bed and bathed in blinding light. As the light dims, he sees two egg-shaped objects coming straight towards him. His journey is about to begin. A supernatural being emerges. This dimension traveller introduces himself as Ridz the Creators chief Li-Bot who is here to take Aydin on a journey of enlightenment. Aydin finds himself on a breath-taking ride across and up the skies to a world he could never have imagined existed. There are seven levels to God’s Headquarters Ridz tells him and if Aydin had any doubts about this, what this glorious being is telling him is just the tip of the iceberg. Aydin is whisked to the start of the level process, Zoology, where he learns about the delicate Balance of Life and all its mechanisms. There’s “drive libraries” and control desks, containing what proves to be a multitude of dimensions erstwhile unknown to humankind. He encounters a humanoid and dinosaur hybrid equipped with hundreds of unique designs. Hybz, the Li-Bot in charge of hybrid life forms, show him a design capable of moving on either two or four legs with equal ease with a skin like a crocodile, horns like rhinos and a face like a dragon. There are 3D creatures with highly evolved telepathic powers who can twist their heads and limbs at 360 degree angles; others can remove or grow limbs at will, swap wings for fins and shoot horns at the speed of light. He marvels at flying horses like unicorns and the Burrower, a mole-human hybrid with highly evolved powers. It’s like living a fairy tale, Aydin marvels. During the Tour of the Levels he realizes that he is the first human being to be granted this journey of passage through the realms of eternity. “Why me,” Aydin asks. The answer is simple: Aydin’s soul is pure, the colour of a bright white light giving him almost unlimited access to the levels. The emphasis is on “almost” however. As Aydin transcends levels past the level of light and dark forms and the level with the workings of the universe and its ingredients, he asks to visit the ultimate level for an audience with the Creator. This time it is not to be, Ridz tells him. Work on your already advanced state of purity and return for the ultimate tour. When he awakes the next morning, Aydin knows one thing for certain – a supreme Creator does indeed exist, in the most complex and scientific form beyond any human’s wildest imagination. Will anyone ever believe him?
Download or read book The Crying House written by Jillian Osborn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, Tristian and Josie OBrien settle into a perfect haven located in the ancestry town of Roscrea, Irelandunaware that their new home hides a dark and disheartening secret. Five years later, as the once clouded truth of the homes past begins to reveal itself, the OBriens suddenly find themselves witnessing shocking visions of past atrocities. As the couple is plagued by horrifying apparitions that reenact the terrifying struggles and frightening abuse that once took place in their house, their fear begins to grow as they soon realize that the supernatural forces will stop at nothing to achieve total control. A ghostly raven repeatedly scrapes its beak against the window in the dark of the night; a ghostly man stalks a filthy wench while sounds of breaking glass echoes throughout the walls; and a candle bursts, sending hot wax everywhere. The OBriens are living an ethereal nightmare. When they launch an investigation into the fate of the original owners, they rapidly discover that the spirits of the dead will never rest until they receive help from the living.
Download or read book Nocturnal Creations written by Paul Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Trends in Language and Culture Studies written by Yves-Antoine Clemmen and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes selected papers from the 20th Southeast Conference on Foreign Languages, Literatures and Film, held on March 2-3, 2012 at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida. It represents a cross section of current approaches to questions of violence and trauma; identity subjectivity and the national; race and gender; and teaching in foreign languages, literatures and film.
Download or read book Marienbad My Love With Mango Extracts written by Mark Leach (writer.) and published by Mark Leach. This book was released on 2011 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exiled on a deserted island, a Christ-haunted journalist-turned-filmmaker attempts to persuade a married women from his past to help him produce a skin care-themed pastiche to the 1960s French New Wave classic, "Last Year at Marienbad." Through this act of artistic creation, he expects to carry out the will of God by prophesizing the death of time and the birth of a new religion. If only he can make the woman remember him... "Marienbad My Love With Mango Extracts" is a 285,000-word reboot of "Marienbad My Love," the world's longest novel at 17 million words.
Download or read book The Golden Years Fifteen Minutes I Ll Never Get Back written by Sally Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the golden years contain many endearing times, they also seem to be full of modern conveniences that overwhelm many seniors to the point of distraction. These years are also full of frustrations due to our aging minds and bodies. It is only with a good sense of humor, the ability to laugh at ourselves, and a lifetime full of humorous memories that we can hopefully and cheerfully survive.
Download or read book A Half century of Greatness written by Frederic Ewen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Half-Century of Greatness paints a vivid and dramatic picture of the creative thought of mid- to late nineteenth century Europe and the influence of the unsuccessful Revolutions of 1848. It reveals often unexpected links between novelists, poets, and philosophers from England, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine-especially Dickens, Carlyle, Mill, the Bront?s, and George Eliot; Hegel, Strauss, Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, Wagner, and several German poets; the Hungarian poet Sndor Petfi; Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bakunin, and Herzen in Russia, and the great Ukrainian poet Shevchenko.The book was reconstructed and edited by Dr. Jeffrey Wollock from Ewen's final manuscript. It includes the author's own reference citations throughout, a reconstructed bibliography, and an updated "further reading" list.This is Ewen's last work, the long-lost companion to his Heroic Imagination. Together, these books present a panorama of the social, political, and artistic aspects of European Romanticism, especially foreshadowing and complementing recent work on the relation of Marxism to romanticism. Anyone interested in what Lukacs called "Romantic anticapitalism," who appreciates such books as Marshall Berman's Adventures in Marxism (1999) Lwy & Sayre's Romanticism against the Tide of Modernity (2001) or E.P. Thompson's The Romantics (1997), will find the Ewen volumes a welcome addition.
Download or read book Leaving the Body written by D. Scott Rogo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to induce a safe, controlled out-of-body experience using physical and mental methods. Astral projection, the ability to “leave the body” at will, is a phenomenon that has long fascinated both the scientific world and the general public. If you have been curious about this strange power and are now ready to take your curiosity one step further, here is a complete guide to eight genuine methods that have been proven to induce out-of-body experiences. In plain, straightforward language, this realistic guide explains the techniques and potential applications of astral projection through dynamic concentration, progressive muscular relaxation, dietary control, guided imagery, and others.
Download or read book Melancholy and the Otherness of God written by Alina N. Feld and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to maturing theological understanding and cultivation of a profound self-consciousness. Melancholy has been interpreted as a deadly sin or demonic temptation to non-being, yet its history of interpretation reveals a progressive coming to terms with the dark mood that ultimately unveils it as the self's own ground and a trace of the abysmal nature of God. The book advances two provocative claims: that far from being a contingent condition, melancholy has been progressively acknowledged as constitutive of subjectivity as such, a trace of divine otherness and pathos, and that the effort to transcend melancholy-like Perseus vanquishing Medusa-is a necessary labor of maturing self-consciousness. Reductive attempts to eliminate it, besides being dangerously utopian, risk overcoming the labor of the soul that makes us human. This study sets forth a rigorous scholarly argument that spans several disciplines, including philosophy, theology, psychology, and literary studies.
Download or read book Rycroft on Analysis and Creativity written by Charles Rycroft and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewpoints contains challenging essays on Freud, his fellows and critics, and on the contribution of modern figures such as Bruno Bettelheim, Thomas Azasz and Eric Berne. Charles Rycroft also pursues his enduring fascination with the place of memory and imagination in the work of artists and writers , such as Wilkie Collins, Rousseau and Sartre, and finally explores our puzzled conceptions of self hood and self awareness. Fluent, entertaining, imaginative and thought provoking, this collection confirms Rycroft as one of the most humane as well as the most distinguished of British psychoanalysts.
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Download or read book Art and Psyche written by Ellen Handler Spitz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative, closely argued book, Ellen Handler Spitz explores three principal psychoanalytic approaches to art. The first considers the relations between an artist's life and work; the second focuses on the work of art itself; and the third encompasses the intricate relations between a work of art and its audience or beholders. To illustrate her theoretical discussion, Spitz draws on a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, literature, music, and dance. "No one who is concerned with the psychoanalytic study of art can afford to neglect [this book]; no one who cares about the art of psychoanalysis should ignore it."--Aaron H. Esman, M.D., Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association "This book ... should prove fascinating to all who are concerned with works of art as expressions of the human mind and heart."--Shehira Davezac, Hospital and Community Psychiatry "This book is highly recommended to all who enjoy the multiple applications of analytic thought to extend our senses."--Jay Lefer, Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis Ellen Handler Spitz holds degrees in art history, aesthetics, and education from Barnard College, Harvard University, and Columbia University. She was trained as a special candidate at the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Columbia University.
Download or read book Public Art Now written by Claire Doherty and published by Art / Books. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Art (Now): Out of Time, Out of Place is the first survey of progressive public art from around the world. It presents some of the most significant artworks in the public realm from the last decade, challenging preconceptions about where, when and how public art takes place. The face of public art is changing. For decades, art in the public realm has been characterized by the landmark sculpture or spectacular outdoor event that helps to define or brand a place. But in recent years, a new wave of international artists and producers has rejected the monumental scale and mass appeal of such artworks. Instead, these individuals and groups favour unconventional forms that unsettle rather than authenticate a place's identity; disrupt rather than embellish a particular location; and contest rather than validate the design and function of public space. Performed interactions, collaborative social movements and small-scale subversive acts are just some of the unorthodox approaches taken by these artists. Their works challenge preconceived ideas about the role of art in place-making as they seek to remake places through radical forms and practices. Public Art (Now): Out of Time, Out of Place presents the artists who have been redefining the practice of public art over the past decade. They directly address the most pressing issues of our time, including the encroachment of corporate concerns on public space, the implications of global migration and the isolation of the individual, and the potential of collective action to share the future of our towns and cities. Some forty key works from around the world are organized into five sections – 'Displacement', 'Intervention', 'Disorientation', 'Occupation' and 'Perpetuation' – with detailed descriptions and dozens of installation and process shots. Interviews and quotes from practitioners, commissioners and commentators reveal the impetus and context for the projects, while the editor's introduction sets out the conceptual, practical and ethical issues raised by the works. Bringing together the most significant artworks in the public realm of the last ten years – from ephemeral interventions to long-term ongoing projects – this dynamic survey is an essential reference for anyone interested in the ideas, issues and impulses behind progressive public art, and an accessible introduction to one of the most vibrant areas of contemporary art.
