Download or read book Slightly Fissured Statues written by George Rizescu and published by Vasile Poenaru. This book was released on with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The satirical novel Slightly Fissured Statues by Romanian writerGeorge Rizescu is an amazing book that unveils the inner political life of the Parliament in Bucharest an reveals truths that are difficult to imagine about party activities, manipulations and irresponsible acts. This is what literary critic Aureliu Goci tells us about this captivating book: Narrative Performance and Excellence of Fun Mr. George Rizescu’s comic work is a conscious way of comic sources reevaluation, in modern and postmodern forms. His latest two books, “Short Treatise on Bollocksology” and “Slightly Fissured Statues,” represent his complete and complex textual contribution to deciphering and exploring the humorous formulas produced by an increasingly ridiculous and comic society, as—it seems—it loses its sense of humor at the level of consciousness. This last sense is based on degradation of the other senses in the endowment of the human being. The humor of exaggerated communication that George Rizescu’s prose introduces is one of the most appropriate and synchronous scriptural expressions in the spirit of the contemporary civilization. Surely, earlier, we were aware of the Hamletian “world rocking” at the beginning of the millennium, world still under the terror of a glorious, apocalyptic end that was supposed to crown festively the past millennium and the high-profile year 2000, of course long-awaited for 2000 years (according to some, awaited even for a longer time). The sober, methodical, academic attitude of the author—who became an important comic writer of our time—could only lead to a representative creation of contemporary times and the discovery of a first-class and high significance writer at a time when the image is still trying to detract the text… and, behold, it can’t! Mr. George Rizescu, profound comic contemporary author, created a fully personalized expressive territoriality, supported by a consistent work in the true sense of the word. Through his writing, he can’t be snatched from the center of the contemporary comic universe because he remains tucked into the place by the heavy anchors represented by his novels, starting with the “Salvache1…” cycle and continuing with the “Treatise on Bollocksology” and “Slightly Fissured Statues.” The author, of course, a chronicler of his time, represents for us, in this last book a fabulous “history” of events and characters that mark a period in a determined space. “History” is a nineteenth century concept that on the one hand records and defines documentarily, chronologically and coherently time and space, and—on the other hand, it’s an imaginary construction, an invented but credible story, a fictional subtext with diffuse didactic motivations and moral ends. “History” is recorded and explained in order to be a model, either positive or negative, so as not to repeat itself. [...] We can say that Mr. George Rizescu performs, in the unitary and coherent series of his novels, a post-revolutionary epic of the new Romanian capitalism. Aureliu Goci

Download or read book Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on Deterioration and Conservation of Stone written by V. Fassina and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2000-06-13 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conservation of historic monuments, sites and structures constitutes an inter-professional discipline co-ordinating a range of aesthetic historic, scientific and technical methods. Conservation is a rapidly developing field, which, by its true nature, is a multidisciplinary activity with experts respecting one another's contributions and combining to form an effective team. Conservation is an artistic activity aided by scientific and historical knowledge.Main topics at this Congress included: - the most appropriate methodology for the assessment of the degree of weathering of stone - development of new methods and instruments for the diagnosis of the state of conservation, for the study of alteration mechanisms and for conservation treatments. - the definition of Technical European Standard Methods for the evaluation of conservation treatments of artistic and historic stone objects and monuments.

Download or read book After the Destruction of Giant Buddha Statues in Bamiyan Afghanistan in 2001 written by Claudio Margottini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work reports on a real adventure in earth science and conservation, dealing with the UNESCO’s emergency activities implemented in Bamiyan (Central Afghanistan) for the recovery and rehabilitation of the cliff and niches after the destruction of the two famous Giant Statues in 2001. Since 2002 an international effort has been made to understand the geological characteristics of the area, the mechanical properties of local materials, petro-geophysical and sedimentological details as well as the historical and geological evolution of the Statues and cliff. Taken together, this information serves as a basis for the recovery and rehabilitation of the cliff and niches and is presented in detail.

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Download or read book Statuary from Royal Buildings at Amarna written by Marsha Hill and published by Egypt Exploration Society. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over more than a century and a quarter of excavations the royal and administrative buildings in the city of Amarna have yielded the remains of many hundreds of statues that had been part of Akhenaten's visionary plan. But fragmentation and dispersal have up until now made the results almost invisible. Only a relatively small number of the original statues have been widely known, even to experts. The present publication brings together all these traces of the city's past to reveal the abundance, beauty, variety, and novelty of the statuary and to begin the process of reintegrating it in considerations of the temples and palaces of the city. The work is presented in two parts. The first volume presents extensive observations about the creation of the statuary, comprising chapters dealing with the range of materials and the methods of working them, a detailed explication of the novel creation of composite statuary, and an overview of the workshop buildings that have been identified so far at Amarna. In the second volume, the excavated fragments themselves, most of them previously unpublished, are catalogued in a series of chapters devoted to individual royal buildings. The original statues are envisioned and analysed for their contexts, resulting in new information about these buildings, the intentions and concerns behind them, and the evolution in those intentions.

Download or read book United States Compiled Statutes Annotated 1916 written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Journeys Erased by Time The Rediscovered Footprints of Travellers in Egypt and the Near East written by Neil Cooke and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early travellers in Egypt and the Near East made great contributions to our historical and geographical knowledge and gave us a better understanding of the different peoples, languages and religions of the region. Travellers in this volume are a mixture of rich and poor, bravely adventuring into the unknown, not knowing if would ever return home.

Download or read book The Man who Laughs Book III The beginning of the fissure written by Victor Hugo and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Global Fissures written by Clara A.B. Joseph and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume examine the tensions between two major political and intellectual structures: the global and the postcolonial, charting the ways in which such tensions are constitutive of changing power relations between the individual, the nation-state and global forces. Contributors ask how postcolonialism, with its emphasis on cultural difference and diversity, can respond to the new, neo-imperialist imperatives of globalization. Signalling the discursive grounds for debate is the fissures/fusions title, suggesting alternative categorizations of stereotypes like ‘global homogenization’ and ‘postcolonial resistance’. Interwoven are considerations of the intellectual or writer’s position today. Literary texts from a wide range of countries are analysed for their resistance to global hegemony and for representations of manipulative power structures, in order to highlight issues such as environmental loss, nationality, migrancy, and marginality. Specific topics covered include ‘westernizing’ the Indian academy, ecotourism and the new media of computer technology, the corporatization of creativity in ‘re-branding’ New Zealand (including film), and the hybrid forms of Latin American photography. Writers discussed include Chinua Achebe, Samuel Beckett, Hafid Bouazza, Bei Dao, Mahmoud Darwish, Witi Ihimaera, James Joyce, Yann Martel, Rohinton Mistry, Ellen Ombre, Michael Ondaatje, George Orwell, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, and Edward Said. Different essays stress the hegemony of global networks; the technological revolution’s revitalizing of niche marketing while marginalizing postcolonial resistance; the implications of the internationalization of culture for the indigene; and the potential of cultural hybridity to collapse cultural hierarchies.

Download or read book Journal of the British Archaeological Association written by British Archaeological Association and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: