Download or read book The Manneken Pis written by N Caraway and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely old man is living out the last days of his life in Brussels, a city that alternates between small town nonentity and extreme surrealist quirkiness, symbolised by the famous statue of a small boy urinating. Increasingly confused by the effects of a heart attack, he tries to find meaning in one last rational act of kindness before he dies. Set in the capital of a rapidly aging Europe, the second novel by N Caraway is a tragicomic study of solitude and growing old that also provides a surprising new take on the theme of the classic Frank Capra movie 'It's a Wonderful Life.'
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Download or read book Regarding Manneken Pis written by Catherine Emerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manneken Pis, a fountain featuring a bronze child urinating, has stood on the same Brussels street corner since at least the mid-fifteenth century. Since there is no consensus on its meaning, it has been used to express many different readings of social relations in a complex city and nation state. It has formed part of the festival culture of the city - from royal entries to gay pride - but has also been exploited in conflicts arising out of war and occupation, and the tensions inherent in modern Belgium. Drawing on archives, histories, police reports, devotional literature, ephemera and a wealth of other sources, Catherine Emerson examines how one smaller-than-lifesized water source has come to embody a certain sort of Brussels identity.
Download or read book Mannekin Pis written by Vladimir Radunsky and published by . This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a boy who peed on a war. It tells of a Belgian boy who lived in a walled town with adoring parents. They were all very happy, until enemies came to destroy the town and a terrible war began and went on for a long time, until he found an unusual way to put an end to it!
Download or read book Mystery of the Stolen Manneken Pis written by Newman Skyles and published by Newman Skyles. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter turned toward the source of the shot, his mind racing to assess the threat, but what he saw next left him in shock. Sandra was on the ground, her body sprawled across the wet pavement. A sense of dread washed over him, and he rushed to Sandra's side, his heart pounding with a mixture of fear and disbelief. The sound of the gunshot still echoed in his ears, but all he could focus on was the woman he loved, lying wounded before him.
Download or read book The History and Origin of Manneken Pis Translated and Compared with the Flemish and French Original Histories By Henry Sch P S Histoire Et Origine de Manneken Pis Etc Eng Fr written by Henry Sch. P. S. and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Manneken Pis written by N. Caraway and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely old man is living out the last days of his life in Brussels, a city that alternates between small-town non-entity and extreme surrealist quirkiness, symbolised by the famous statue of a small boy urinating. Increasingly confused by the effects of a heart attack, he tries to find meaning in one last rational act of kindness before he dies. Set in the capital of a rapidly ageing Europe, the second novel by N Caraway is a tragicomic study of solitude and growing old that also provides a surprising new take on the theme of the classic Frank Capra movie 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
Download or read book Pissing Figures 1280 2014 written by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Claude Lebensztejn’s history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280–2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on transgression and limits in works of art in general. Lebensztejn is one of France’s best-kept secrets. A world-class art historian who has lectured and taught at major universities in the United States, his work has remained almost entirely in French, his American audience limited to a small but dedicated group of cognoscenti. First introducing the Manneken Pis—the iconic little boy whose stream of urine supplies water to this famous fountain and is also the logo for a Belgian beer company—the author takes the reader through a semi-scatological maze of cultural history. The earliest example is a fresco scene located directly above Cimabue’s Crucifixion from around 1280 at the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, in which Lebensztejn’s careful eye locates an angel behind a pillar who looks like he is about to urinate through a hole in his garment. He continues to navigate expertly through cultural twists and turns, stopping to discuss Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film Teorema, for example, and Marlene Dumas’s 1996–1997 homage to Rembrandt’s pissing woman. At every moment, Lebensztejn’s prose is lively, his thinking dynamic, and his subject matter entertaining. In this short and poignant cultural history, readers not only find the care for detail that has made Lebensztejn into one of the greatest European art historians, but also the rebelliousness that makes him one of the most interesting intellectuals of our time. The first widely distributed book of Lebensztejn’s in English, Pissing Figures 1280–2014 is simultaneously published in France by Éditions Macula.
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Download or read book The Devil and Manneken Pis written by Michael Z. Gilcrease and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a religious community where unwed mothers are shunned, homosexuals are hated, and child predators are disguised as men of God . . . it's hard not to lose your faith.
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