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Book Art for the Nation

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  • Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Art for the Nation written by National Gallery of Art (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition includes approximately 2% of the acquisitions made during the 1990s.

Book The Jewish Encyclopedia

Download or read book The Jewish Encyclopedia written by Isidore Singer and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.I:Aach-Apocalyptic lit.--V.2: Apocrypha-Benash--V.3:Bencemero-Chazanuth--V.4:Chazars-Dreyfus--V.5: Dreyfus-Brisac-Goat--V.6: God-Istria--V.7:Italy-Leon--V.8:Leon-Moravia--V.9:Morawczyk-Philippson--V.10:Philippson-Samoscz--V.11:Samson-Talmid--V.12: Talmud-Zweifel.

Book The Culture of the Copy

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  • Author : Hillel Schwartz
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2014-11-02
  • ISBN : 1935408453
  • Pages : 473 pages

Download or read book The Culture of the Copy written by Hillel Schwartz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-11-02 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel attempt to make sense of our preoccupation with copies of all kinds—from counterfeits to instant replay, from parrots to photocopies. The Culture of the Copy is a novel attempt to make sense of the Western fascination with replicas, duplicates, and twins. In a work that is breathtaking in its synthetic and critical achievements, Hillel Schwartz charts the repercussions of our entanglement with copies of all kinds, whose presence alternately sustains and overwhelms us. This updated edition takes notice of recent shifts in thought with regard to such issues as biological cloning, conjoined twins, copyright, digital reproduction, and multiple personality disorder. At once abbreviated and refined, it will be of interest to anyone concerned with problems of authenticity, identity, and originality. Through intriguing, and at times humorous, historical analysis and case studies in contemporary culture, Schwartz investigates a stunning array of simulacra: counterfeits, decoys, mannequins, and portraits; ditto marks, genetic cloning, war games, and camouflage; instant replays, digital imaging, parrots, and photocopies; wax museums, apes, and art forgeries—not to mention the very notion of the Real McCoy. Working through a range of theories on biological, mechanical, and electronic reproduction, Schwartz questions the modern esteem for authenticity and uniqueness. The Culture of the Copy shows how the ethical dilemmas central to so many fields of endeavor have become inseparable from our pursuit of copies—of the natural world, of our own creations, indeed of our very selves. The book is an innovative blend of microsociology, cultural history, and philosophical reflection, of interest to anyone concerned with problems of authenticity, identity, and originality. Praise for the first edition “[T]he author... brings his considerable synthetic powers to bear on our uneasy preoccupation with doubles, likenesses, facsimiles, replicas and re-enactments. I doubt that these cultural phenomena have ever been more comprehensively or more creatively chronicled.... [A] book that gets you to see the world anew, again.” —The New York Times “A sprightly and disconcerting piece of cultural history” —Terence Hawkes, London Review of Books “In The Culture of the Copy, [Schwartz] has written the perfect book: original and repetitive at once.” —Todd Gitlin, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Book An Outline of German Romanticism

Download or read book An Outline of German Romanticism written by Allen Wilson Porterfield and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lady of Lyons

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  • Author : Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-07-14
  • ISBN : 9781722800819
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book The Lady of Lyons written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-14 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton An indistinct recollection of the very pretty little tale, called "The Bellows-Mender," suggested the plot of this Drama. The incidents are, however, greatly altered from those in the tale, and the characters entirely re-cast.

Book The Lady of Lyons  Or  Love and Pride

Download or read book The Lady of Lyons Or Love and Pride written by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton

Book The Lady of Lyons  Or  Love and Pride

Download or read book The Lady of Lyons Or Love and Pride written by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.

Book The Royal Academy of Arts

Download or read book The Royal Academy of Arts written by Algernon Graves and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Western Esoteric Traditions

Download or read book The Western Esoteric Traditions written by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western esotericism has now emerged as an academic study in its own right, combining spirituality with an empirical observation of the natural world while also relating the humanity to the universe through a harmonious celestial order. This introduction to the Western esoteric traditions offers a concise overview of their historical development. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke explores these traditions, from their roots in Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism in the early Christian era up to their reverberations in today's scientific paradigms. While the study of Western esotericism is usually confined to the history of ideas, Goodrick-Clarke examines the phenomenon much more broadly. He demonstrates that, far from being a strictly intellectual movement, the spread of esotericism owes a great deal to geopolitics and globalization. In Hellenistic culture, for example, the empire of Alexander the Great, which stretched across Egypt and Western Asia to provinces in India, facilitated a mixing of Eastern and Western cultures. As the Greeks absorbed ideas from Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, and Persia, they gave rise to the first esoteric movements. From the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, post-Reformation spirituality found expression in theosophy, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry. Similarly, in the modern era, dissatisfaction with the hegemony of science in Western culture and a lack of faith in traditional Christianity led thinkers like Madame Blavatsky to look East for spiritual inspiration. Goodrick-Clarke further examines Modern esoteric thought in the light of new scientific and medical paradigms along with the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. This book traces the complete history of these movements and is the definitive account of Western esotericism.

Book Sword of Wisdom

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  • Author : Ithell Colquhoun
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN : 9780854350926
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book Sword of Wisdom written by Ithell Colquhoun and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lady Of Lyons  Or Love And Pride  A Comedy In Five Acts

Download or read book The Lady Of Lyons Or Love And Pride A Comedy In Five Acts written by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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 Dictionary of Films

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  • Author : Georges Sadoul
  • Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN : 9780520021525
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Dictionary of Films written by Georges Sadoul and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists significant international films, with brief plot summaries, critical analyses, and listings of producers, directors, and actors

Book The Cloister and the Hearth

Download or read book The Cloister and the Hearth written by Charles Reade and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lady of Lyons

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  • Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 180
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2016-08-27
  • ISBN : 9781363870707
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book The Lady of Lyons written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 180 and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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 The Lady of Lyons  Or Love and Pride

Download or read book The Lady of Lyons Or Love and Pride written by Edward Bulwer baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scanderbeg  the Christian Hero

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  • Author : George Lillo
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2013-10-22
  • ISBN : 9781493553709
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Scanderbeg the Christian Hero written by George Lillo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Scanderbeg, the Christian Hero' is a masterpiece by George Lillo. Compare it with Kadare's 'The Seige', or Sarrochi's 'Scanderbeide' or other books on Scanderbeg. The characters are impressive. The conflict is fascinating. And yes, there is love in it!