Download or read book The Walking Lights by Irfan Ajvazi written by Irfan Ajvazi and published by Irfan Ajvazi . This book was released on with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Irfan Ajvazi’s artworks, men are discreetly observed, almost like flies on the wall, without disrupting their self-perception. These men represent the modern archetype, dressed in timeless suits, seemingly in control, yet occasionally revealing their vulnerabilities. Irfan’s art uncovers the hidden suffering beneath the facade of order and discipline in the modern world. Drawing has been Irfan’s lifelong means of understanding the world. He skillfully controls color and composition, akin to a seasoned calligrapher or a pianist adding that unspoken essence to his work. His ability to capture the essence of a moment with precision is striking. Ravn takes on the role of a surveillance camera, observing while his subjects lose control, leaving behind intriguing mysteries. Some of Irfan’s pieces exhibit fragmented motifs, revealing the inner turmoil and absurdity of modern existence. Men in suits and shiny shoes tumble, displaying a choreographed loss of control, shedding light on societal norms. His series of artworks often explore variations on a central theme, occasionally delving into the metaphysical, representing the inner and outer pressures that shape our humanity. Irfan’s paintings offer a window into the complex inner lives of his subjects, where multiple personas interact, emotions break through, and the boundaries of control are challenged. Irfan Ajvazi’s art is deeply infused with a profound admiration for black and white photography and the visual culture of Central Europe during the 20th century. Influential filmmakers like Hitchcock, Bergman, Tati, Fellini, and Kubrick have always served as guiding stars, shaping the aesthetic essence of his work. In the early stages of his career, Irfan employed a limited color palette, primarily working with black, white, and ochre oil paints. Later, he introduced ultramarine and vermillion, expanding his spectrum to these five colors. In more recent paintings depicting gardens and forests, a splash of lemon yellow adds a refreshing vibrancy to the lush greenery. Although Irfan’s artistic journey may appear unconventional at first glance, intimate connections can be traced from his early record covers and designs to the themes that pervade his art. For instance, the cover of “Tøsedrengene 3” (1982) visualizes the disciplined young body, while “Gangway’s Out on the Rebound for Love” (1985) introduces the suited modern man. Both these designs carry a lightly nostalgic touch reminiscent of a bygone era, influenced by black and white photography. The overarching exploration of the modern man’s disciplined exterior and tumultuous interior can be observed throughout Irfan’s artistic evolution. This theme is also evident in his fashion design, such as “Trust Your Intuition” (1991), where he plays with the male role in conflict with identity and instincts. In recent years, Irfan’s male figures have begun to break free from their mental confines and interact with various landscapes. Some find themselves in semi-natural garden spaces, while others appear as if they’ve been dropped into open, cultivated landscapes with intricate road networks dividing the surroundings. A few have ventured into the woods, embracing nature. This shift from inhabiting abstract mental spaces to occupying physical spaces is notable. The garden paintings, in particular, are characterized by a dark sense of humor that subtly underlies Irfan’s work. The suited men, despite their formal attire, attempt to unwind in these recreational spaces. This juxtaposition reflects the containment of the human’s animalistic side, mirroring the tamed nature of the garden compared to the wild surroundings. By Noah Moreland , art historian and writer
Download or read book Composition as Identity written by A. J. Cotnoir and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composition is the relation between a whole and its parts--the parts are said to compose the whole; the whole is composed of the parts. But is a whole anything distinct from its parts taken collectively? It is often said that 'a whole is nothing over and above its parts'; but what might we mean by that? Could it be that a whole just is its parts? This collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus on the relationship between composition and identity. Twelve original articles--written by internationally renowned scholars and rising stars in the field--argue for and against the controversial doctrine that composition is identity. An editor's introduction sets out the formal and philosophical groundwork to bring readers to the forefront of the debate.
Download or read book Embracing Scientific Realism written by Seungbae Park and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate. Readers will encounter old and new arguments for and against scientific realism. They will also be given useful tips for how to provide influential formulations of scientific realism and antirealism. Finally, they will see how scientific realism relates to scientific progress, scientific understanding, mathematical realism, and scientific practice.
Download or read book Material Constitution written by Michael Cannon Rea and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only anthology available on material constitution, this book collects important recent work on well known puzzles in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. The extensive, clearly written introduction helps to make the essays accessible to a wide audience.
Download or read book C zanne written by Alex Danchev and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2012 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major biography--the first comprehensive new assessment to be published in decades--of the brilliant work and restless life of Paul Cezanne, the most influential painter of his time, whose vision revolutionized the role of the painter.
Download or read book Mereology and Location written by Shieva Kleinschmidt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of leading philosophers presents original work on theories of parthood and of location. Topics covered include how we ought to axiomatise our mereology, whether we can reduce mereological relations to identity or to locative relations, whether Mereological Essentialism is true, different ways in which entities persist through space, time, spacetime, and even hypertime, conflicting intuitions we have about space, and what mereology and propositions can tell us about one another. The breadth and accessibility of the papers make this volume an excellent introduction for those not yet working on these topics. Further, the papers contain important contributions to these central areas of metaphysics, and thus are essential reading for anyone working in the field.
Download or read book Persistence and Spacetime written by Yuri Balashov and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do material objects persist through time and survive change? Are they three-dimensional entities extended in space, or are they four-dimensional spacetime 'worms'? Balashov shows how the theory of relativity supports four-dimensionalism and in so doing illuminates a wide range of metaphysical issues.
Download or read book Burning Lights written by Bella Chagall and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is an odd thing: a desire comes to me to write, and to write in my faltering mother tongue, which, as it happens, I have not spoken since I left the home of my parents. Far as my childhood years have receded from me, I now suddenly find them coming back to me, closer and closer to me, so near, they could be breathing into my mouth. I see myself so clearly a plump little thing, a tiny girl running all over the place, pushing my way from one door through another, hiding like a curled-up little worm with my feet up on our broad window sills. My father, my mother, the two grandmothers, my handsome grandfather, my own and outside families, the comfortable and the needy, weddings and funerals, our streets and gardens all this streams before my eyes like the deep waters of our Dvina. My old home is not there any more. Everything is gone, even dead. My father, may his prayers help us, has died. My mother is living and God alone knows whether she still lives in an un-Jewish city that Is quite alien to her. The children are scattered In this world and the other, some here, some there. But each of them, in place of his vanished inheritance, has taken with him, like a piece of his father's shroud, the breath of the parental home. I am unfolding my piece of heritage, and at once there rise to my nose the odours of my old home. My ears begin to sound with the clamour of the shop and the melodies that the rabbi sang on holidays. From every corner a shadow thrusts out, and no sooner do I touch it than it pulls me Into a dancing circle with other shadows. They jostle one another, prod me in the back, grasp me by the hands, the feet, until all of them together fall upon me like a host of humming flies on a hot day. I do not know where to take refuge from them. And so, just once, I want very much to wrest from the darkness a day, an hour, a moment belonging to my vanished home. But how does one bring back to life such a moment? Dear God, it is so hard to draw out a fragment of bygone life from fleshless memories! And what if they should flicker out, my lean memories, and die away together with me? I want to rescue them. I recall that you, my faithful friend, have often in affection begged me to tell you about my life in the time before you knew me. So I am writing for you.
Download or read book The Sorites Paradox written by Sergi Oms and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a systematic introduction and discussion of all the main solutions to the sorites paradox and its areas of influence.
Download or read book Objects written by Daniel Z. Korman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sorts of material objects are there? Many philosophers opt for surprising answers to this question that seem deeply at odds with how we ordinarily think about the material world. Some embrace radically eliminative views, on which there are far fewer objects than we ordinarily take there to be, while others go in for radically permissive views on which there are legions of extraordinary objects that somehow escape our notice, despite being highly visible and right before our eyes. In this book, Daniel Z. Korman defends our ordinary, intuitive judgments about which objects there are. The book responds to a wide variety of arguments that have driven people away from the intuitive view: arbitrariness arguments, debunking arguments, overdetermination arguments, arguments from vagueness and material constitution, and the problem of the many. It also criticizes attempts to show that permissive and eliminative views are, despite appearances, entirely compatible with our ordinary beliefs and intuitions.
Download or read book An Introduction to Ontology written by Nikk Effingham and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging and wide-ranging new book, Nikk Effingham provides an introduction to contemporary ontology - the study of what exists - and its importance for philosophy today. He covers the key topics in the field, from the ontology of holes, numbers and possible worlds, to space, time and the ontology of material objects - for instance, whether there are composite objects such as tables, chairs or even you and me. While starting from the basics, every chapter is up-to-date with the most recent developments in the field, introducing both longstanding theories and cutting-edge advances. As well as discussing the latest issues in ontology, Effingham also helpfully deals in-depth with different methodological principles (including theory choice, Quinean ontological commitment and Meinongianism) and introduces them alongside an example ontological theory that puts them into practice. This accessible and comprehensive introduction will be essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and post-graduate students, as well as any reader interested in the present state of the subject.
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Download or read book Personal Identity and Applied Ethics written by Andrea Sauchelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Soul', 'self', ‘substance’ and 'person' are just four of the terms often used to refer to the human individual. Cutting across metaphysics, ethics, and religion the nature of personal identity is a fundamental and long-standing puzzle in philosophy. Personal Identity and Applied Ethics introduces and examines different conceptions of the self, our nature, and personal identity and considers the implications of these for applied ethics. A key feature of the book is that it discusses a range of different approaches to personal identity; philosophical, religious and cross-cultural, including perspectives from non-Western traditions. Within this comparative framework, Andrea Sauchelli examines the following topics: Early views of the soul in Plato, Christianity and Descartes The Buddhist 'no-self' views and the self as a fiction Confucian ideas of our nature and the importance of self-cultivation as constitutive of the self Locke's theory of personal identity as continuity of consciousness and memory and objections by Butler and Reid as well as contemporary critics The theory of 'animalism' and arguments concerning embodied theories of personal identity Practical and narrative theories of personal identity and moral agency Personal identity and issues in applied ethics, including abortion, organ transplantation, and the idea of life after death Implications of life-extending technologies for personal identity. Throughout the book Sauchelli also considers the views of important recent philosophers such as Sydney Shoemaker, Bernard Williams, Derek Parfit, Marya Schechtman and Christine Korsgaard, placing these in helpful historical context. Chapter summaries, a glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading make this a refreshing, approachable introduction to personal identity and applied ethics. It is an ideal text for courses on personal identity that consider both western and non-western approaches and that apply theories of personal identity to ethical problems. It will also be of interest to those in related subjects such as religious studies and history of ideas.
Download or read book The Wyeths written by Newell Convers Wyeth and published by Gambit Incorporated Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N. C. Wyeth was one of America's greatest illustrators and the founder of a dynasty of artists that continues to enrich the American scene. This collection of letters, written from his eighteenth year to his tragic death at sixty-one, constitutes in effect his intimate autobiography, and traces and development and flowering of the "Wyeth tradition" over the course of several generations. -- Amazon.com.
Download or read book Understanding Kant s Ethics written by Michael Cholbi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic guide to Kant's ethical work and the debates surrounding it, accessible to students and specialists alike.
Download or read book The Twelve Years Truce 1609 written by Randall Lesaffer and published by Brill - Nijhoff. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Twelve Years Truce covers the legal history of a crucial text in the formation of the Republic of the Northern Netherlands as a sovereign power and highlights its significance in the formation of the early modern laws of war and peace.
