Download or read book Our Former Lives in Art written by Jennifer S. Davis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of the Deep South, these nine haunting stories explore big themes–authenticity, the relinquishing of childhood, the acceptance of dreams lost–in a way that ultimately affirms the act of living and the value of human relationships. In “Giving Up the Ghost,” a man sits beside a fatal car wreck to share the last moments of a stranger’s life. In “Witnessing,” a young woman befriends her lover’s ailing wife. In “Rapture,” a housewife’s unexpected romantic encounter during a tornado rocks her tidy suburban existence. How do we become who we are? And what makes us love one another? With empathy, wit, and beautiful language, Davis blends the real and the imagined to create a kaleidoscope of the human heart. Praise for Our Former Lives in Art “Davis creates magnificently conflicted characters with low key stylistic panache.” –Publishers Weekly “Davis shares with other southern female short-story writers, such as Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty, a sense of relish of the absurdity running through the human condition.” –Booklist (starred review) "A work of deep emotional resonance and acute psychological power" –Holiday Reinhorn, author of Big Cats “Jennifer Davis’s stories have a wry sensibility in them, and compassion, a sweet perversity, and a sense of wonder about just being alive. Her tales mark the craziness and sadness of adolescence as it collides inevitably with failed wishes, loss, and sexual desire.” –Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, A Comedy "Unusually insightful and gorgeously written, these powerful stories reveal how sometimes the most unexpected discoveries in the present can illuminate the past and change a person forever. Jennifer Davis is not only an author to watch, she's one to read–now." –Cristina Henriquez, author of Come Together, Fall Apart

Download or read book Life Meets Art Inside the Homes of the World s Most Creative People written by Sam Lubell and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring collection of the extraordinary private spaces of 250 of the world's most creative people, past and present

Download or read book Concerning the Spiritual in Art written by Wassily Kandinsky and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.

Download or read book The Dying Art of Disagreement written by Bret Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Lowy Institute Media Lecture

Download or read book All Those Strangers written by Douglas Field and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still to others, few authors defy any single critical narrative to the confounding extent that James Baldwin manages. Was he a black or queer writer? Was he a religious or secular writer? Was he a spokesman for the civil rights movement or a champion of the individual? His critics, as disparate as his readership, endlessly wrestle with paradoxes, not just in his work but also in the life of a man who described himself as "all those strangers called Jimmy Baldwin" and who declared that "all theories are suspect." Viewing Baldwin through a cultural-historical lens alongside a more traditional literary critical approach, All Those Strangers examines how his fiction and nonfiction shaped and responded to key political and cultural developments in the United States from the 1940s to the 1980s. Showing how external forces molded Baldwin's personal, political, and psychological development, Douglas Field breaks through the established critical difficulties caused by Baldwin's geographical, ideological, and artistic multiplicity by analyzing his life and work against the radically transformative politics of his time. The book explores under-researched areas in Baldwin's life and work, including his relationship to the Left, his FBI files, and the significance of Africa in his writing, while also contributing to wider discussions about postwar US culture. Field deftly navigates key twentieth-century themes-the Cold War, African American literary history, conflicts between spirituality and organized religion, and transnationalism-to bring a number of isolated subjects into dialogue with each other. By exploring the paradoxes in Baldwin's development as a writer, rather than trying to fix his life and work into a single framework, All Those Strangers contradicts the accepted critical paradigm that Baldwin's life and work are too ambiguous to make sense of. By studying him as an individual and an artist in flux, Field reveals the manifold ways in which Baldwin's work develops and coheres.

Download or read book Discovering Your Past Lives Made Easy written by Atasha Fyfe and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, concise and comprehensive guide to unlocking and working with your past life memories to encourage healing and self-empowerment. Past Lives Made Easy introduces the idea that we have multiple lifetimes, explores how they can connect to each other and offers techniques to help you experience the incredible healing and growth that they can offer you. Hypnotherapist and past life therapist Atasha Fyfe explains step by step how regression works and how readers can use it to find the clues to their past lives. She shares astonishing cases of children's past life memories, how the body holds on to past life memories and what the common triggers for them are. Regressions can bring many benefits to the reader, including helping them release emotional or psychological blocks they have in their present life. Readers can use this book to: initiate a past life regression at home discover their own past lives learn about the benefits of past life awareness receive the positive messages that can come through during a regression This title was previously published in the Hay House Basics series.

Download or read book POSTMODERNISM AND AESTHETICS COLLIDE OR STEER written by Kyunghee Pyun and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism and Aesthetics: Collide or Steer presents twenty-two artists who were awardees of the contemporary visual art competition by the AHL Foundation. All of them spent their youth in the 1990s as immigrant artists or as fine art students studying-abroad in the United States. While postmodernism gained momentum in South Korea during an economic boom in the 1990s, a milieu of fine arts departments at major universities as well as art markets in Seoul, still maintained a purity of high modernism in abstract painting. Organized by curator and professor Kyunghee Pyun at the Fashion Institute of Technology, this exhibition overviews the current status of twenty-two artists from Korea living and working in the United States. The show divided artists and their works into most popular binary themes of postmodernism and high modernism such as appropriation/originality; local/ international; simulacra/real; banal/avant-garde; and personal/universal.

Download or read book New York Mirror written by Theodore Sedgwick Fay and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New York Mirror written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education written by Susan Cahan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary art and multicultural education is the first book of its kind to address the role of art within today's multicultural education. Co-published with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, this beautifully illustrated book provides both theoretical foundations and practical resources for art educators and students, combining exquisite color reproductions, statements from contemporary artists and interviews with notable educators. Absent from multicultural art education is an approach which connects everyday experience, social critique and creative expression with classroom learning; for students from widely-varied backgrounds and differing levels of English comprehension, art becomes a vital means of reflecting upon the nature of society and social existence. To this end, this volume features both works of art and artists' personal statements in English and Spanish with lesson plans which explore topics that connect what students learn in school to what life experiences might reveal.

Download or read book Past Lives Present Miracles written by Denise Linn and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of If I Can Forgive, So Can You Miracles can occur in your life, easily and effortlessly. It’s simply a matter of remembering who you are—and to do this it’s necessary to clear the blockages that stand between you and your soul. Almost all of these obstacles have their roots in your distant past, so it’s valuable to travel back in time to release them. However, most of us are so caught up in limiting beliefs about who we are that it’s almost impossible to take that journey. In this book, you’ll learn how to travel back to your previous incarnations to release buried obstructions so you can create the miracles in your life that you deserve! It’s safe, easy, and fun . . . and anyone can do it! You’ll learn how to: · discover your past lives without ever doing a regression · remove limitations regarding your relationships, abundance, and health that came from your past lives · uncover the symptoms of past-life traumas and how to clear them, even if you don’t believe in reincarnation · understand the roles that loved ones played in your previous incarnations · find your personal guides, spirit guardians, and angels and receive their help ... and much, much more!

Download or read book Prayer Book Parallels Volume II Paperback written by Paul V. Marshall and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volumes of Prayer Book Parallels are aids to the study of the development of the American book from as many points of view as possible. They include liturgical texts and related historical documents. Volume Two is a comparison of Collects, Family Prayers, and Prayers at Sea, as well as the Articles of Religion, the Psalter, and other texts and documents pertinent to Prayer Book study. The two volumes are of great value to seminarians, clergy, church historians, and anyone interested in the development of the present Prayer Book. (576 pp)

Download or read book The World s Greatest Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Live at the Forbidden City written by Dennis Rea and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live at the forbidden City offers a singular look at the rapidly evolving Chinese popular music scene, as seen through the eyes of one of the first progressive Western musicians to perform extensively in both China and Taiwan. In the 1980s and 90s, American author and musician Dennis Rea played concerts in venues ranging from sports arenas to underground nightclubs to TV broadcasts - frequently under bizarre circumstances and the constant threat of harassment by Communist Party authorities. Spiced with informative reflections on Chinese music and culture, Rea interweaves depictions of his musical adventures with an insider's look at China's emergent rock music phenomenon and an eyewitness account of the violent civil uprising in Chengdu at the same time as the events at Tiananmen Square.

Download or read book Children s Past Lives written by Carol Bowman and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has your child lived before? In this fascinating, controversial, and groundbreaking book, Carol Bowman reveals overwhelming evidence of past life memories in children. Not only are such experiences real, they are far more common than most people realize. Bowman's extraordinary investigation was sparked when her young son, Chase, described his own past-life death on a Civil War battlefield--an account so accurate it was authenticated by an expert historian. Even more astonishing, Chase's chronic eczema and phobia of loud noises completely disappeared after he had the memory. Inspired by Chase's dramatic healing, Bowman compiled dozens of cases and wrote this comprehensive study to explain how very young children remember their past lives, spontaneously and naturally. In Children's Past Lives, she tells how to distinguish between a true past life memory and a fantasy, offers practical advice to parents on how to respond to a past life memory, and shows how to foster the spiritual and healing benefits of these experiences. Perhaps the most moving, convincing, and best-documented evidence yet for life after death, Children's Past Lives will stand alongside the classics of Betty J. Eadie, Raymond Moody, and Brian Weiss in its power to comfort, uplift, and transform our thinking about life after death

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Download or read book Past Lives That Matter written by Isisi Allthings and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a dawning understanding emerged slowly into view, Rose began to see her life experiences through a more compassionate lens. It became necessary for her to fully forgive and release any trauma she still clung on to from her past, but not only from this present lifetime. Her ever more mysterious life path began to lead her along a metaphysical pilgrimage into other past lives and experiences not belonging solely to her current one, but strangely inter-linked. What she discovered about her conscious reality, began to metamorphosis into a realisation that she is not a lone figure in the tapestry of experiences that she wove over the centuries. Stitch by stitch, she imagined a far greater picture with others joining her along the way, on a special past life pilgrimage. As she stood back and observed it from afar, as an artist would a painting, it seemed that all the unrelated knots and tie came together as a beautiful whole. Along The Way, she leant how her challenges had shaped her destiny over and over again, down through history. Some experiences taught her painful lessons and others brought her unimaginable gifts but everyone she includes in this jigsaw of a tale, seemed to play a unique and important part to the overview of life that was emerging. In this second book, she traces each character’s life learnings and mysterious self-discoveries in order to understand how each piece of the jigsaw fits with hers and what she can share with others keen to understand the same. Although a personal journey, it took on a spiritual nature of a very different kind, leading to some exciting revelations about the magic we can each weave. Find THE BOOK & SOCIAL MEDIA on Linktree: https://linktr.ee/isisiallthings