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Book In the Realm of Appearances

Download or read book In the Realm of Appearances written by John Yau and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time he died in 1987, Andy Warhol's notoriety extended far beyond the rarified confines of the New York art world, beyond the fifteen minutes of fame he predicted for everyone's future, and into the vast realm of pop-culture. Warhol's public image was no less fascinating or controversial than his portraits of Campbell's soup cans, Brillo boxes, and movie stars. And the powerful mythology that surrounds both the man and his art continues to excite curiosity and demand attention. Some critics have called Warhol an authentic visionary while others have branded him a charlatan. In this unique series of prose meditations, poet and art critic John Yau examines the artist's identity in the inseparable context of his work, bringing fresh insight both to "the surface" and what may in fact be "behind it." Yau balances the polarized opinions about Warhol by considering the general state of affairs in twentieth century visual art and placing him in the context of such artistic influences and compatriots as Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons and composer John Cage. He also explores Warhol's creative energy in terms of cultural stereotypes and psychological factors such as voyeurism, vindictiveness, fear of intimacy and need for acceptance. What emerges from these meditations is a clear-eyed portrait of the myriad forces, both internal and external, that shaped the most highly acclaimed postwar artist in America. Yau pinpoints and dissects the central irony of Andy Warhol's life and work: that "The artist who helped demystify art has, it seems, become an impenetrable mystery"

Book Matthew Wong

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  • Author : Vivian Li
  • Publisher : Dallas Museum of Art
  • Release : 2022-10-11
  • ISBN : 9780300266863
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Matthew Wong written by Vivian Li and published by Dallas Museum of Art. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete overview of landscape painter Matthew Wong's oeuvre, covering his short yet prolific career and focusing on his process and commitment to experimentation and connection Self-taught artist Matthew Wong (1984-2019) painted intimate landscapes that recall Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, seventeenth-century Qing period ink painting, and contemporary artists he admired, including Philip Guston (1913-1980), Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929), Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), and Bob Thompson (1937-1966). Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances offers the first formal survey of Wong's six-year painting career that began in Hong Kong and matured in Canada. It includes new scholarship with a focus on his process and commitment to conversation, experimentation, and connection. Through his unique visual language, Wong fostered dialogue between not only himself and other artists, but other artists and each other. The five essays are lavishly illustrated with approximately 70 of Wong's paintings and include a selection of his writings.

Book The Realm of Facts

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  • Author : Nicholas Rescher
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2020-01-20
  • ISBN : 311067002X
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book The Realm of Facts written by Nicholas Rescher and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge of facts is essential for the management of life. Most studies of the subject examine how we go about trying to obtain it; they describe the processes and proceedings of rational inquiry. The present work steps back from this to inquire into the limits and limitations of such processes and to identify the assets and the limitabilities of what they are able to supply for us. It examines how knowledge of facts is secured and consolidated as such, and what the resulting information can and cannot provide. It argues that the unavoidable incompleteness of our factual information also endows it with an element of incorrectness. By looking also at the negative side of human inquiry the book’s perspective clarifies the nature of our grip on the facts that constitute our view of the reality of things.

Book The Vajra Essence

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  • Author : B. Alan Wallace
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 1614293473
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book The Vajra Essence written by B. Alan Wallace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Vajra Essence

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  • Author : Dudjom Lingpa
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-07-25
  • ISBN : 1614292760
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book The Vajra Essence written by Dudjom Lingpa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic presentation of the path of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection, by one of its most renowned proponents and rendered by a master translator. Düdjom Lingpa (1835–1904) was one of the foremost tantric masters of nineteenth-century Tibet, and his powerful voice resonates strongly among Buddhist practitioners today. The Vajra Essence is Düdjom Lingpa’s most extended meditation on the path of Great Perfection, in many senses a commentary on all his other Dzogchen works. Dzogchen, the pinnacle of practice in the Nyingma school, is a radical revelation of the pure nature of consciousness that is delivered from master to disciple and perfected in a meditation that permeates every moment of our experience. Revealed to Düdjom Lingpa as a visionary “treasure” text in 1862, the Vajra Essence takes the reader through seven stages of progressively deeper practice, from “taking the impure mind as the path” up to the practice of “direct crossing over” (tögal). The longest of Düdjom Lingpa’s five visionary works on Dzogchen, readers will find this a rich and masterful evocation of the enlightened experience. This is the first translation of this seminal work in any Western language, and B. Alan Wallace, with his forty-five-plus years of extensive learning and deep meditative experience, is one of the most accomplished translators of Tibetan texts into English.

Book Appearance and Identity

Download or read book Appearance and Identity written by L. Negrin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book casts a critical look at the dominant position that fashion has come to occupy in contemporary society. It addresses various aspects of fashion in postmodern culture including makeup, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, ornament in dress and the blurring of gender boundaries.

Book Phenomenology of Plurality

Download or read book Phenomenology of Plurality written by Sophie Loidolt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Edwin Ballard Prize awarded by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology This book develops a unique phenomenology of plurality by introducing Hannah Arendt’s work into current debates taking place in the phenomenological tradition. Loidolt offers a systematic treatment of plurality that unites the fields of phenomenology, political theory, social ontology, and Arendt studies to offer new perspectives on key concepts such as intersubjectivity, selfhood, personhood, sociality, community, and conceptions of the "we." Phenomenology of Plurality is an in-depth, phenomenological analysis of Arendt that represents a viable third way between the "modernist" and "postmodernist" camps in Arendt scholarship. It also introduces a number of political and ethical insights that can be drawn from a phenomenology of plurality. This book will appeal to scholars interested in the topics of plurality and intersubjectivity within phenomenology, existentialism, political philosophy, ethics, and feminist philosophy.

Book Reign of Appearances

Download or read book Reign of Appearances written by Ari Adut and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public sphere is the realm of appearances - not citizenship. Its central event is spectacle - not dialogue. Marked by an asymmetry between the few who act and the many who watch, and subjecting all its contents to visibility, the public sphere can undermine liberal democracy, law, and morality. But the public sphere also liberates us from the burdens and bondages of private life and fosters an existentially vital aesthetic experience. Reign of Appearances uses a great variety of cases to reveal the logic of the public sphere, including homosexuality in Victorian England; the 2008 crash; antisemitism in Europe; confidence in American presidents; communications in social media; special prosecutor investigations; the visibility of African-Americans; violence during the French Revolution; the Islamic veil; contemporary sexual politics; public executions; and pricing in art. This unconventional account of the public sphere is critical reading for anyone who wants to understand the effects of visibility in urban life, politics, and the media.

Book Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research

Download or read book Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research written by American Society for Psychical Research and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 1, 6, 12.

Book Nursing Ethics  Across the Curriculum and Into Practice

Download or read book Nursing Ethics Across the Curriculum and Into Practice written by Janie B. Butts and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nursing Ethics: Across the Curriculum and Into Practice continues to provide a solid ethical foundation for nursing students in an updated sixth edition. This comprehensive, easy-to-read text covers ethics across the nursing curriculum, making it a perfect fit for any undergraduate course. Logically divided into three parts, Nursing Ethics, Sixth Edition underscores how ethics is interwoven with nearly every aspect of professional nursing practice. It guides students through the foundations of ethics in nursing, ethical considerations across the lifespan, and ethical considerations for areas such as leadership and public health. Engaging learning features, including case studies, legal perspectives, and research notes bring concepts to life and serve to remind students that ethics really does sit at the heart of professional nursing practice and quality patient care.

Book Critique of Pure Reason  abridged

Download or read book Critique of Pure Reason abridged written by Immanuel Kant and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful abridgment makes an ideal introduction to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Key selections include: the Preface in B, the Introduction, the Transcendental Aesthetic, the Second Analogy, the Refutation of Idealism, the first three Antinomies, the Transcendental Deduction in B, and the Canon of Pure Reason. A brief introduction provides biographical information, descriptions of the nature of Kant's project and of how each major section of the Critique contributes to that project. A select bibliography and index are also included.

Book By the Grace of Guile

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  • Author : Loyal D. Rue
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 0195075080
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book By the Grace of Guile written by Loyal D. Rue and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a noble lie can save us from the psychological and social chaos now threatened by the spread of skepticism about the meaning of life and the universe.

Book Marx and Laozi

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  • Author : James Chambers
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2023-11-03
  • ISBN : 3031409817
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Marx and Laozi written by James Chambers and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work the theories of Marx and Laozi are dialectically combined. The resulting synthesis is a positive materialist negation of Hegel’s idealist dialectics. Syntheses are presented for Marx and Laozi in ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, scientific method, ethics and politics: the full spectrum of their foundational principles. The book is an attempt to reconstruct a materialist interpretation of Laozi, which can be put to work for Marxist theory.

Book Grasping Reality

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  • Author : Hans Lenk
  • Publisher : World Scientific
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9812380248
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Grasping Reality written by Hans Lenk and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grasping Reality addresses the methodology of a sophisticated realistic approach to scientific as well as everyday recognition by using schemes and interpretive constructs to analyze theories and the practice of recognition from a hypothesis-realistic vantage point. An appendix provides an overview regarding a realistic and pragmatic philosophy of technology, including the so-called new information technologies.

Book Journal of Education of the Academy of the New Church

Download or read book Journal of Education of the Academy of the New Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hegel Arg Philosophers

Download or read book Hegel Arg Philosophers written by M. J. Inwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book God of Abraham

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  • Author : Lenn Evan Goodman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1996-03-07
  • ISBN : 0195359461
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book God of Abraham written by Lenn Evan Goodman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cogently argued and richly illustrated book rejects the dichotomy between the God of Abraham and the God of the philosophers to argue that the two are one. In God of Abraham, one of our leading philosophers of religion shows how human values can illuminate our idea of God and how the monotheistic idea of God in turn illuminates our moral, social, cultural, aesthetic, and even ritual understanding. Throughout Goodman draws on a wealth of traditional, philosophical, historical, and anthropological materials, and particularly on a wide range of Jewish sources. He demonstrates how an adequate understanding of the interplay of values with monotheism dissolves many of the longstanding problems of natural theology and ethics and guides us toward a genuinely humanistic moral and social philosophy.