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Book Ritratto di donna  Dipinto su tela  firmato M  Bianchi  1889  Alt  m  0 70 larg  m  0 50

Download or read book Ritratto di donna Dipinto su tela firmato M Bianchi 1889 Alt m 0 70 larg m 0 50 written by Mosè Bianchi and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Killing and Dying

Download or read book Killing and Dying written by Adrian Tomine and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killing and Dying is a stunning showcase of the possibilities of the graphic novel medium and a wry exploration of loss, creative ambition, identity, and family dynamics. With this work, Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings, Scenes from an Impending Marriage) reaffirms his place not only as one of the most significant creators of contemporary comics but as one of the great voices of modern American literature. His gift for capturing emotion and intellect resonates here: the weight of love and its absence, the pride and disappointment of family, the anxiety and hopefulness of being alive in the twenty-first century. "Amber Sweet" shows the disastrous impact of mistaken identity in a hyper-connected world; "A Brief History of the Art Form Known as Hortisculpture" details the invention and destruction of a vital new art form in short comic strips; "Translated, from the Japanese" is a lush, full-color display of storytelling through still images; the title story, "Killing and Dying", centers on parenthood, mortality, and stand-up comedy. In six interconnected, darkly funny stories, Tomine forms a quietly moving portrait of contemporary life. Tomine is a master of the small gesture, equally deft at signaling emotion via a subtle change of expression or writ large across landscapes illustrated in full color. Killing and Dying is a fraught, realist masterpiece.

Book Gidion s Knot

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  • Author : Johnna Adams
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Release : 2014-03-03
  • ISBN : 0822229676
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book Gidion s Knot written by Johnna Adams and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of a parent/teacher conference, a grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother's son, Gidion. Gidion may have been bullied severely—or he may have been an abuser. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion's act and come to terms with excruciating feelings of culpability.

Book The Influence of Pre Raphaelitism on Fin de Si  cle Italy

Download or read book The Influence of Pre Raphaelitism on Fin de Si cle Italy written by Giuliana Pieri and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first comprehensive study of the influence of English Pre-Raphaelitism on Italian art and culture in the late nineteenth century. Analysis of the cultural relations between Italy and Britain has focused traditionally on the special place that Italy had in the British imagination, but the cultural and artistic exchanges between the two countries have been much misunderstood. This book aims to correct this imbalance by placing Pre-Rapahelitism in its European context. It explores the nature of its influence on Italy, how it was transmitted, and how it was manifested, by focusing on the role of Italian Anglophiles, the English communities in Florence and Rome, the writings of Gabriele D'Annunzio, and a number of Italian artists active in Tuscany and Rome. The works of Cellini, Ricci, Gioja, De Carolis, and Sartorio in particular fully demonstrate the impact of Pre-Raphaelitism on the young Italian school of painting which found in the English movement an ideal link with its glorious past on which it could build a new artistic identity. These artists show that English Pre-Raphaelitism was one of the most powerful single influences on fin-de-siecle Italian culture.

Book Miss Brown

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  • Author : Vernon Lee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1884
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Miss Brown written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vernon Lee

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  • Author : Peter Gunn
  • Publisher : Ayer Publishing
  • Release : 1975-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780405073571
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Vernon Lee written by Peter Gunn and published by Ayer Publishing. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ariadne in Mantua

Download or read book Ariadne in Mantua written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peace with Honour

Download or read book Peace with Honour written by Vernon Lee and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art   Man  Essays   Fragments

Download or read book Art Man Essays Fragments written by Clementina Anstruther-Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Towards a Lasting Settlement

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  • Author : The MacMillan Company
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781022683136
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Towards a Lasting Settlement written by The MacMillan Company and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the aftermath of World War I, Towards a Lasting Settlement outlines a plan for postwar peace and international cooperation. Drawing on his experiences as a politician and diplomat, Charles Roden Buxton offers a thoughtful analysis of the causes of war and proposes pragmatic solutions for ensuring lasting peace. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Music and Its Lovers   An Empirical Study of Emotional and Imaginative Responses to Music

Download or read book Music and Its Lovers An Empirical Study of Emotional and Imaginative Responses to Music written by Vernon Lee and published by Thomas Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MUSIC AND ITS LOVERS AH EMPIRICAL STUDY 0. MOTIONAL AND fif CJINATIVE RESPONSES TO MUSIC VERNQN LEE S LITT. D NEW YORK E. P, DUTTON AND CO, INC lit U.. A, 1933 Ell rigkis PRINTBD IN ORBAT BRITAIN BY UNWIN BROTHERS LTD, WOK11 J DEDICATION AND THANKSGIVING This book based upon their answers to my Questionnaires I dedicate, after more than twenty years, to all my Answerers, known or unknown to me, living and, alas, also dead. But quite specially to the memory of BESSIE AND ISABELLA FORD OF ADEL And now that the book is actually going to the Printers let me also congratulate myself very gratefully that the same admirable collaborator, Irene Cooper Willis, to whom I owe so much help in the early stages of this work, should be able and willing to edit and pass it through the press when finished. CONTENTS PREFACE AIMS AND METHODS 13 PART I LISTENERS AND HEARERS CHAPTER PACE I, VARIETIES OF MUSICAL EXPERIENCE 23 ii. WHAT is LISTENING 35 III. THE EMOTION OF MUSIC, iv, COMPLICATIONS AND ENTANGLEMENTS 59 v. ANCESTORS OF EMOTION 66 VI. EMOTION OF MUSIC VERSUS EMOTIONAL MUSIC 86 is VII. AESTHETIC CONTEMPLATION HIGHER PLANES 97 VIII, ACTIVE AND PASSIVE ATTENTION. A PSYCHOLOGICAL P. S. 107 IX, EPILOGUE TO LISTENERS 115 PART II EMOTIONAL RESPONSES I. THE POWERS OF SOUND-123 II. CECILIA AND CECILIANS 135 in. AMBIENCE 141 iv. CHAOS THE UNINTELLIGIBLE AND THE OVERHEARD. 150 V. INTERMITTENCE AND EVOCATION. CASE OF DONNA TEODORA 158 VI. MUSICAL MEMORY, A PSYCHOLOGICAL P. S. TO DONNA TEODORA. 167 VII. AFFECTIVE MEMORY. RIBOTS HYPOTHESIS . 1 73 VIII. REFERENCE TO HUMAN PERSONALITY. 1 92 io MUSIC AND ITS LOVERS CHAPTER PAGE EX. PARTICIPATION, INTENSIFICATION, PASS MORT AND PASSE VIVANT. ELSA AND THEVIOLINIST 3 202 x. EVOCATION OF PAST AND FUTURE HERR WOLFRAM AMIE DE GABRIELLE MME. LOUISE YOUNG PEOPLE FRANCES 2 7 XI. INTRODUCTION TO DIONYSIACS. THE CUP OF COMUS 228 xii. DIONYSIACS FRANZ PROFESSOR PAUL MASTER HUGUES P. S. ON NIETZSCHE 240 PART III IMAGINATIVE RESPONSES i. INTERPRETATION MUSIC AS A LANGUAGE 259 n. LAPSES IN LISTENING AND THINKING OF OTHER THINGS 273 III. STIMULATION OF THOUGHT POETS, NOVELISTS AND PHILO SOPHERS 28 J IV. INTERPRETATION AS METAPHOR CASE OF SPIRIDION 20 v. MYSTICAL INTERPRETATION THE MICROCOSM RESPONDING TO THE MACROCOSM THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 298 VI. THE IMAGINARY COMPOSER 308 VII. THE POWER OF WORDS 325 VIII. INTERPRETATION BY EQUIVALENCE 340 DC. SUGGESTION BY MOVEMENT FRAU MARIA AND BELLA 350 X. INTERPRETATION BY AS IF . ... 359 XI. INTERPRETATION AS ALLEGORY. PICTURES SUGGESTED BY MUSIC 3 3 XII. INTERPRETATION AS DRAMA. CASE OF LADY VENETIA 383 PART IV HAS MUSIC A MEANING COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENTS SOME RESULTS OF COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENTS CONTENTS ii PART V THE COMPOSERS PHENOMENON CHAPTER PAGE I. TRANSLATION INTO MUSIC 445 II. DIVIDED ATTENTION 456 III. AESTHETIC INTEGRATION. A COMPARISON WITH OTHER ARTS 468 iv. SYNTHESIS SOME EXPERIENCES OF MY OWN 478 PART VI HOW MUSIC COMES INTO OUR LIVES I. THE STATE OF AESTHETIC CONTEMPLATION 489 II. MYSELF AS CORPUS VILE 492 in. BETTINA A DUOLOGUE ON MOZART AND BEETHOVEN 510 IV. BEING ATTUNED TO .... 517 PART VII f E GUSTIBUS . . . I. SOME PREFERENCES CLASSIFIED 5 7 II. . . . NQN EST DISPVTANDUM 543 PART VIII BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL i. BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL 551 II. SOME ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 554 III. EXCITEMENT AS A VITAL NEED 558 rv. MUSIC VERSUS WORDS 559 ENGLISH QUESTIONNAIRE 563 INDEX 569 PREFACE AIMS AND METHODSI THIS BOOK, which, after so many years of working at it and dropping it, has at last got finished, is neither for Musicians nor for Musical Critics, though dealing with both. Not even for such intelligent Amateurs as have contributed so largely to it. It can teach no one whether any particular music happens to be good or bad still less how to make music which shall be good rather than bad. It tries to understand why the self-same music will, perhaps must, seem good, i, e, worth having, to some people, and bad, i. e...