Author : Larry Joseph Kreitzer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850756231
The eight chapters of this volume explore the contribution that numismatic studies can make to a serious investigation of the New Testament and its world. The first two chapters focus on themes connected with the reign of the Julio-Claudian emperors, the next three on aspects of Pauline letters that may be illuminated by specific issues of Roman coinage, and the final three concentrate on coinage minted during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian.
Author : Stacy Boldrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351547690
All cultures make, and break, images. Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. With its impressive chronological sweep and disciplinary breadth, this is the first book about iconoclasm (the breaking of images) and the transformation of broader sets of signs that includes contributions from archaeologists, curators, and museum conservators as well as historians of art, literature and religious studies. The chapters examine themes critical to the study of iconoclasm: violence, punishment, memory, intentionality, ruins and relics and their survival. The conclusion shows how cross-disciplinary debate amongst the contributors informed Tate Britain?s 'Art under Attack' exhibition (2013) and addresses the challenges iconoclasm presents to the modern museum. By juxtaposing objects and places usually considered in isolation, Striking Images raises provocative questions about our understandings of cross-cultural differences and the value of representational objects from the broken swords of pre-historical bog graves to the Bamiyan Buddhas and contemporary art. Are any such objects ever ?finished?, or are they simply subject to constant transformation? In dialogue with each other, the essays consider this question and expand the field of iconoclasm - and cultural - studies.
Author : Joe Farace
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1600592643
Joe Farace is an award-winning photographer with more than 30 books and 1,600 articles to his credit. So there’s no one better to take monochrome into the digital age. Whether you’re shooting digital black and white from your camera or converting color photographs to monochrome on the computer, you’ll discover an array of unique, innovative, and inspirational techniques suitable for shutterbugs of every level. Farace explains what kinds of software programs are best, and how to use them to manipulate your photos in diverse ways. He also discusses various in-camera effects including toning and soft focus. The detailed information and instruction cover everything from creating traditional looking black-and-white or sepia images, to adding color selectively for a one-of-a-kind, fine-art approach.
Author : Robert Galbraith
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0751584215
***The 7th novel in the Strike series, THE RUNNING GRAVE, is coming in September 2023. Pre-order now and be the first to read it*** THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, JULY 2023 'A superlative piece of crime fiction' SUNDAY TIMES 'There can be no denying [Galbraith's] considerable talents as a crime writer' GUARDIAN 'Fans will be as entranced as ever' DAILY MAIL When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity. Robin decides that the agency can't help with this - and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart. Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits - and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . . A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.
Author : Laura Raicovich
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 1839760524
A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilized against sources of museum funding, as happened at the Metropolitan Museum, and against board appointments, forcing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders to resign at the Whitney. That is to say nothing of demonstrations against exhibitions and artworks. Protests have roiled institutions across the world, from the Abu Dhabi Guggenheim to the Akron Art Museum. A popular expectation has grown that galleries and museums should work for social change. As Director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York muni- cipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organizing high-powered exhibitions that doubled as political protests. Then in January 2018, she resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials. This public controversy followed the museum’s responses to Donald Trump’s election, including her objections to the Israeli government using the museum for an event featuring Vice President Mike Pence. In this lucid and accessible book, Raicovich examines some of the key museum flashpoints and provides historical context for the current controversies. She shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding conservative, capitalist values. And she suggests ways museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.
Author : Phairway Phil
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1642371696
Come, brother golfers. Let Phairway Phil lead you out of the Dark Ages of golf instruction—with its archaic advice and ambiguous language—and into the Bright Age. This guru of the game offers an alternative, enlightening approach that will simplify and clarify the process. “Swing,” the centerpiece of Dark Age instruction, “is an Evil word,” Phairway Phil preaches. “It must be banished from your mind and mouth forever more. It is the root cause of our misconception.” Instead, he is the first to introduce the concept of Coil/Strike. “All living things COIL and STRIKE,” he declares. “It is the basic movement of all life and the basic movement for all golf strokes.” Through step-by-step instruction and unique images—as well as LMAO stories to keep you smilin’ and energized—Phairway Phil describes the Coil/Strike approach in detail. All strokes are addressed, including chipping and putting. Simplify your game and pare down your handicap with this exciting, revolutionary approach. Let the fun begin! COIL/STRIKE has arrived as golf’s first creative nonfiction instruction book. Author Phairway Phil unites fiction with nonfiction in an original exploration of the genre—a groundbreaking introduction from Gatekeeper Press. Learning swing mechanics can make golfers loopy. But a coil strikes. At last, a brand-new concept to help millions of frustrated golfers. It’s a step-by-step method with merriment. COIL/STRIKE is meant for everyone who can meet the book’s easy Reader Qualification Requirements. Join the COIL/STRIKE revolution! READER QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: This Golf Manifesto should only be read by right-handed, males who are 33 to 75 years old. NOT A BEGINNER. Read at least one instruction book or taken more than three lessons. You’re frustrated, bewildered, or resigned by failing to improve. If you can’t meet all the qualifications, please stop! I’m sorry, I don’t want you to waste your time and presumably your money. For now, I can’t say with confidence that reading Coil/Strike can help you─just qualified readers. THANKS FOR UNDERSTANDING.
Author : Sarah Meister
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category :
ISBN : 9783958296961
Gordon Parks' ethically complex depictions of crime in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with previously unseen photographs When Life magazine asked Gordon Parks to illustrate a recurring series of articles on crime in the United States in 1957, he had already been a staff photographer for nearly a decade, the first African American to hold this position. Parks embarked on a six-week journey that took him and a reporter to the streets of New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Unlike much of his prior work, the images made were in color. The resulting eight-page photo-essay "The Atmosphere of Crime" was noteworthy not only for its bold aesthetic sophistication, but also for how it challenged stereotypes about criminality then pervasive in the mainstream media. They provided a richly hued, cinematic portrayal of a largely hidden world: that of violence, police work and incarceration, seen with empathy and candor. Parks rejected clichés of delinquency, drug use and corruption, opting for a more nuanced view that reflected the social and economic factors tied to criminal behavior and afforded a rare window into the working lives of those charged with preventing and prosecuting it. Transcending the romanticism of the gangster film, the suspense of the crime caper and the racially biased depictions of criminality then prevalent in American popular culture, Parks coaxed his camera to record reality so vividly and compellingly that it would allow Life's readers to see the complexity of these chronically oversimplified situations. The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957 includes an expansive selection of never-before-published photographs from Parks' original reportage. Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. An itinerant laborer, he worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself and becoming a photographer. He evolved into a modern-day Renaissance man, finding success as a film director, writer and composer. The first African-American director to helm a major motion picture, he helped launch the blaxploitation genre with his film Shaft (1971). Parks died in 2006.
Author : Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2024-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1669069443
YOU are in New York City on a sunny September morning. You're going about your day when suddenly the unthinkable happens. A huge passenger plane flies straight into a tower of the famous World Trade Center. A short time later, a second plane slams into the other tower. Clouds of black smoke billow from the towers. Will you rush into the buildings and try to help any survivors? Or will you try to escape the broken and burning wreckage falling to the street? Step back in time to face the dangers and difficult decisions that real people had to face on one of America's darkest days.
Author : Richard Schneirov
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252067556
The Pullman strike of 1894 shut down the rail system from Chicago to the West Coast, culminating two decades of labor unrest and helping to define an epochal transition in American history. In this wide-ranging collection, leading labor historians use the prism of the Pullman strike to broaden our understanding of the crisis of the 1890s. By examining the strike in the context of continuities and changes in labor organization, the influences of gender and community, the public representation and contested meaning of labor conflict, the emergence of a new politics of progressive reform, the development of a regulatory state, and a changing legal environment, these essays resituate the Pullman conflict in its historical context. Illuminating one of the most important events in labor's past, The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s testifies to the pivotal importance of the Pullman conflict and its aftermath for understanding the course of American history.
Author : Jerald E. Podair
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300109405
"This book revisits the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis - a watershed in modern New York City race relations. Jerald E. Podair connects the conflict with the sociocultural history of the city and explores its influence on city politics, economics, and culture. Podair shows how the crisis became a symbol of the vast perceptual chasm separating black and white New Yorkers. And the legacy of this critical moment, when blacks and whites spoke past each other like strangers, has ever since played a role in city issues ranging from mayoral elections to budget negotiations, disputes over police violence, and debates on welfare policy. The book is a powerful, sobering tale of racial misunderstanding and fear, a New York story with national implications."--Jacket.
