Author : Raymond Borde
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780872864122
This first book published on film noir established the genre--a classic, at last in translation.
Author : Robert Motherwell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674185005
Presents a collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations that provide an overview of the Dada movement in art, describing its convictions, antics, and spirit, through the words and art of its principal practitioners.
Author : Norman Naimark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107133549
The second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts analyze archival sources from formerly Communist states to re-examine the limits to Moscow's control of its satellites; the de-Stalinization of 1956; Communist reform movements; the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance; the growth of Communism in Asia, Africa and Latin America; and the effects of the Sino-Soviet split on world Communism. Chapters explore the cultures of Communism in the United States, Western Europe and China, and the conflicts engendered by nationalism and the continued need for support from Moscow. With the danger of a new Cold War developing between former and current Communist states and the West, this account of the roots, development and dissolution of the socialist bloc is essential reading.
Author : Renato Poggioli
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674882164
Convinced that all aspects of modern culture have been affected by avant-garde art, Renato Poggioli explores the relationship between the avant-garde and civilization. Historical parallels and modern examples from all the arts are used to show how the avant-garde is both symptom and cause of many major extra-aesthetic trends of our time, and that the contemporary avant-garde is the sole and authentic one.
Author : Christoph Cornelissen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 10,84 MB
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1800737270
From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.
Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 1888
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Nathalie Sarraute
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1628974176
A young writer has his heart set on his aunt's large apartment. With this seemingly simple conceit, the characters of The Planetarium are set in orbit and a galaxy of argument, resentment, and bitterness erupts. Telling the story from various points of view, Sarraute focuses below the surface, on the emotional lives of the characters in a way that surpasses even Virginia Woolf. Always deeply engaging, The Planetarium reveals the deep disparity between the way we see ourselves and the way others see us.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
Author : Fabio Porzia
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042951617
'Ancient Greek and Semitic languages resorted to a large range of words to name the divine. Gods and goddesses were called by a variety of names and combinations of onomastic attributes. This broad lexicon of names is characterised by plurality and a tendency to build on different sequences of names; therefore, the Mapping Ancient Polytheisms project focuses on the process of naming the divine in order to better understand the ancient divine in terms of a plurality in the making. A fundamental rule for reading ancient divine names is to grasp them in their context - time and place, a ritual, the form of the discourse, a cultural milieu...: a deity is usually named according to a specific situation. From Artemis Eulochia to al-Lat, al-'Uzza and Manat, from Melqart to "my rock" in the biblical book of Psalms, this volume journeys between the sanctuary on Mount Gerizim and late antique magical practices, revisiting rituals, hymnic poetry, oaths of orators and philosophical prayers. While targeting different names in different contexts, the contributors draft theoretical propositions towards a dynamic approach of naming the divine in antiquity.'
Author : Vincent Crapanzano
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0226118762
Studies the life in France of those Algerian Muslims who fought with the French army during the war of independence, moved to France after the war, and were placed in camps for years by the French government.
