Download or read book Visions of Enchantment written by Daniel Zamani and published by Fulgur Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Antiquity, the idea of the artist as a magician, trickster and powerful creator of new realities has established itself as a fertile idea in the discussion of image-making. The conjuring of illusions, the inherent link between the material and the spiritual and the wish to make the invisible visible are all part of this wider discourse. Visions of Enchantment looks at the fascinating intersections between esotericism and visual culture through a decidedly cross-cultural lens, with topics ranging from talismanic magic and the Renaissance exploration of alchemy, through to the role of magic in modern art and 20th century experimental film.00The essays offered in 'Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture' have been selected from papers presented at a major international conference at the University of Cambridge in 2014. It includes work by some of the leading scholars in Western Esotericism including Antoine Faivre, M.E. Warlick and Deanna Petherbridge. It attests to the vibrant role that magic and the occult play in cutting-edge research across a wide variety of the arts and humanities today.
Download or read book Curious Visions of Modernity written by David L. Martin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious Visions of Modernity, David Martin unpacks a collection of artifacts from the visual and historical archives of modernity, finding in each a slippage of scientific rationality--a repressed heterogeneity within the homogenized structures of post-Enlightenment knowledge. In doing so, he exposes modernity and its visual culture as haunted by precisely those things that rationality sought to expunge from the "enlightened" world: enchantment, magic, and wonderment. Martin traces the genealogies of what he considers three of the most distinct and historically immediate fields of modern visual culture: the collection, the body, and the mapping of spaces. In a narrative resembling the many-drawered curiosity cabinets of the Renaissance rather than the locked glass cases of the modern museum, he shows us a world renewed through the act of collecting the wondrous and aberrant objects of Creation; tortured and broken flesh rising from the dissecting tables of anatomy theaters to stalk the discourses of medical knowledge; and the spilling forth of a pictorializing geometry from the gilt frames of Renaissance panel paintings to venerate a panoptic god. Accounting for the visual disenchantment of modernity, Martin offers a curious vision of its reenchantment.
Download or read book Enchanted Visions written by Sarahi Lopez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close your eyes and take a Deep Breath. Do you hear that? Do you Feel that? It is what you have left after everything Bad Has Beaten you down and left you Abandoned. It is what you have left after you have been ripped at the Seams, Frayed and Falling Apart. Bleeding on your hands and Knees, Begging to be Noticed or saved subjecting yourself to a cage like a scared Animal. Pulse. The Journey Begins Now. Allow me to Assist you in making sense of it all so you can Reflect, Review, Renew, Revitalize and Rebuild. Make a Commitment. You want to Give Up and Give in ? STOP. I won't Let You. Your Life is As Beautiful as you Make it. It is My Life Mission to Assist and Support Beautifully Broken People into realizing that Being Alive isn't just about a Heart Beat and a Pulse. It is about getting to know yourself, Embracing and Fulfilling your Calling and True Purpose for your Life.
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Download or read book Enchanted Visions II written by Sarahi Lopez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-04-12 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Face it until you make it. Get up. Work Hard. Fail. Do a little bit better. Fail again. Get back up. Repeat.Succeed! Claim what is Yours.#Own it!
Download or read book Daytime Visions written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collage illustrations introduce the letters of the alphabet.
Download or read book School Reform and the Arts of Re enchantment written by David Kalim Diehl and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Disenchantment' has been a consistent trope in sociology since Weber's appropriation of the term nearly a century ago. In this work I argue that, in contrast to the standard modernization story, organizations have long been subject to countervailing forces other than that that of rationalization. This has been especially true in schools, institutions that exist at the intersection of the logics of bureaucracy, democracy and expressive youth cultures. In this dissertation I identify a uniquely contemporary organizational response to these tensions, one I associate with the notion of 're-enchantment.' I use this term to refer to reforms that identify emotional and intellectual alienation as the primary institutional problems to be overcome and find a solution in the reinvigoration of organizational practices with imagination, creativity, and collaboration. The result is a genre of reform that accepts the logic of standardized and rationalized outcomes but attempts to transform the process of achieving these goals by 're-enchanting' organizational experience with a sense of connectedness and creativity. In this dissertation I discuss small school reform generally, and a particular instance of it at Mill Town high specifically, as examples of organizational re-enchantment. More than just introducing new practices or structures, small school reform entails an effort to reshape the tactic and practical modes of coordination, what I call ways of being. These are social conventions that allow actors to coordinate with each other and their environment in a way that is grounded in a shared practical understanding of the proper ordering of people and things. In contrast to standard account that locate the barrier to change in the minds of organizational actors, utilizing a mixed-methods approach I show that much of the failure of the reform at Mill Town was not the result of beliefs, attitudes or values of teachers, but rather concerned the complexity of changing culturally disposed, and intersubjectively sustained, modes of coordination in the organization.
Download or read book Catalogue of Title entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington Under the Copyright Law Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Aesthetics of Enchantment in the Fine Arts written by M. Kronegger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let us revive the true sense of fine arts: enchantment! In the conceptualised, commercialised, artificial approach to fine arts, we forgot its authentic experiential sense. It lies at the imaginative heart of all arts there to be retrieved by the creative recipient as the very 'truth of it all'.
Download or read book Enchantment s Trap written by Sela Croft and published by Camden Lee Press, LLC. This book was released on with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampire Prince risks it all in the war with the Fae. Callie discovers untold powers, connects with her past, and transforms in a way she never expected. The rescue of her sister teeters in the balance. A centuries-old sorceress, vampire magic, and a horrifying blood exchange thrust her into a new state and unexpected consequences. Logan taps into his supernatural abilities to save Callie and her sister. Yet he meets with forces more powerful than anticipated. A life-changing event releases his strength as never before. The prince must save the woman he loves, and the very world he lives in.
Download or read book The Enchantments of Mammon written by Eugene McCarraher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls. “A majestic achievement...It is a work of great moral and spiritual intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we can’t afford not to care about deeply.” —Commonweal “More brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page, than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his accomplishment—an account of American capitalism as a religion...will stun even skeptical readers.” —Christian Century
Download or read book Enchanted Visions Fantastic Houses and Their Treasures written by Claude Arthaud and published by New York : Putnam. This book was released on 1972 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions of Enchantment written by Hugh Parry and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Himself primarily a classicist, Parry offers 10 essays introducing magical themes and variations in literary fiction, both to begin what he sees as a neglected endeavor, and to encourage lay and specialist readers to turn or return to some of the works he considers. He focuses almost exclusively on western literature and a select scattering of ancient and modern texts. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book Mad Enchantment written by Ross King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Ross King, a brilliant portrait of the legendary artist and the story of his most memorable achievement. Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Monet intended the water lilies to provide "an asylum of peaceful meditation." Yet, as Ross King reveals in his magisterial chronicle of both artist and masterpiece, these beautiful canvases (featured in black and white images throughout, as well as a 16-pg color insert) belie the intense frustration Monet experienced in trying to capture the fugitive effects of light, water, and color. They also reflect the terrible personal torments Monet suffered in the last dozen years of his life. Mad Enchantment tells the full story behind the creation of the Water Lilies, as the horrors of World War I came ever closer to Paris and Giverny and a new generation of younger artists, led by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, were challenging the achievements of Impressionism. By early 1914, French newspapers were reporting that Monet, by then seventy-three, had retired his brushes. He had lost his beloved wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. His famously acute vision--what Paul Cezanne called “the most prodigious eye in the history of painting”--was threatened by cataracts. And yet, despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing age, Monet began painting again on a more ambitious scale than ever before. Linking great artistic achievement to the personal and historical dramas unfolding around it, Ross King presents the most intimate and revealing portrait of an iconic figure in world culture.
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Download or read book Boundless Enchantment A Limited Edition Collection of Fantasy Romance written by Stephanie Morris and published by Carnal Imprint Publishing . This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into a realm of enchantment and mystery with where love is not bound by the ordinary. In this exclusive anthology, BIPOC characters take center stage in tales that celebrate diversity and explore the depths of desire. From the graceful allure of nymphs to the timeless beauty of elves, and even the mischievous charm of goblins, these stories will transport you to a world where love and magic intertwine. Experience the passions of mythical beings as they find love in the most extraordinary places. As you journey through these pages, you'll discover that the heart's desires can transcend the boundaries of reality. Boundless Enchantment is a limited-edition collection that promises to enchant, captivate, and awaken your senses. Prepare to be swept away by the allure of these diverse love stories. Order your copy now and let the magic ignite your imagination and set your heart ablaze. Including stories by: Stephanie Morris - USA Today bestselling author Tamika Brown- USA Today Bestselling Author Faith Marlow- USA Today Bestselling Author / Nikki Prince Jordan Elizabeth Rene Wolfe Robin O’Connor
Download or read book The Tree of Enchantment written by Orion Foxwood and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Faery Seership the truths we seek can only be found within ourselves, within nature, and within our relationships to nature. At the center of the Faery Tradition lies the Tree of Enchantment: the symbol for these relationships and for the threefold life of humanity. At each level of the tree, there are attending spirit forces that vary from beings of light to beings of shadow, from the ancestors of humanity to the architects of form and nature, from the destiny of our planet to the creation forces of the universe. The tree’s roots grow through the lower world, where all life originates and the dead travel, its trunk and lower branches reach out across the middle world, where elemental forces and the four directions guide us, and its highest branches reach the into the upper world and the Star realm. Weaving together folk tradition and extensive academic research, Orion Foxwood has created an accessible, beautifully written pathway into the Old Religion of Faery Seership. Based on Appalachian traditions, Wiccan studies, Celtic oral traditions, and the Craft from Western and Northern Europe, The Tree of Enchantment offers the student of Faery Tradition both introductory and advanced visionary practices and authentic tools to learn to navigate the three realms of humanity. With diligence and an open heart, the reader will learn to cross The River of Blood, pass through The Gate of Awakening, and over The River of Stars.