Author: Cissy van Marxveldt File Type: epub vervolg op De HBS tijd van Joop ter Heul. Joop moet bij haar zus en zwager gaan wonen en heeft het niet makkelijk.

Author: Evelyn Toynton File Type: pdf Jackson Pollock (19121956) not only put American art on the map with his famous drip paintings, he also served as an inspiration for the character of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williamss A Streetcar Named Desirethe role that made Marlon Brando famous. Like Brando, Pollock became an icon of rebellion in 1950s America, and the brooding, defiant persona captured in photographs of the artist contributed to his celebrity almost as much as his notorious paintings did. In the years since his death in a drunken car crash, Pollocks hold on the public imagination has only increased. He has become an enduring symbol of the tormented artistour American van Gogh.In this highly engaging book, Evelyn Toynton examines Pollocks itinerant and poverty-stricken childhood in the West, his encounters with contemporary art in Depression-era New York, and his years in the run-down Long Island fishing village that, ironically, was transformed into a fashionable resort by his presence. Placing the artist in the context of his time, Toynton also illuminates the fierce controversies that swirled around his work and that continue to do so. Pollocks paintings captured the sense of freedom and infinite possibility unique to the American experience, and his life was both an American rags-to-riches story and a darker tale of the price paid for celebrity, American style.ReviewJournalist and novelist Toynton . . . lends her multifarious talent to the story of the turbulent life of iconic artist Jackson Pollock. . . .Few are better suited to pen such a quotable and inspired contemporary portrait.Publishers Weekly(Publishers Weekly) This is a Vasari-like narrative of Jackson Pollock, and a case study of his depression, his propensity to get into fist fights when drunk, to be taciturn when sober, and to let himself be taken care of by the women in his life. But it is also a story of how he broke the ice, in de Koonings words, enabling American painters to take world leadership in a fresh style of paintinghuge, abstract, emotional, and direct. It is the book to read to find out what he was and was about.ArthurDanto, author of Andy Warhol(Arthur Danto) Toyntons sensitive and incisive book sorts through the wreckage of an imagination out of which so much of contemporary art would go on to assemble itself.Kelly Grovier, Times Literary Supplement(Kelly Grovier Times Literary Supplement 2012-04-06) Book DescriptionEvelyn Toyntons fresh, fascinating portrait of Jackson Pollock explores his work, his influence, and his legend in the context of both art history and the cultural history of mid-twentieth-century America. Jackson Pollock (19121956) not only put American art on the map with his famous drip paintings, he also served as an inspiration for the character of Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williamss A Streetcar Named Desirethe role that made Marlon Brando famous. Like Brando, Pollock became an icon of rebellion in 1950s America, and the brooding, defiant persona captured in photographs of the artist contributed to his celebrity almost as much as his notorious paintings did. In the years since his death in a drunken car crash, Pollocks hold on the public imagination has only increased. He has become an enduring symbol of the tormented artistour American van Gogh. In this highly engaging book, Evelyn Toynton examines Pollocks itinerant and poverty-stricken childhood in the West, his encounters with contemporary art in Depression-era New York, and his years in the run-down Long Island fishing village that, ironically, was transformed into a fashionable resort by his presence. Placing the artist in the context of his time, Toynton also illuminates the fierce controversies that swirled around his work and that continue to do so. Pollocks paintings captured the sense of freedom and infinite possibility unique to the American experience, and his life was both an American rags-to-riches story and a darker tale of the price paid for celebrity, American style. **

Author: Oto Luthar File Type: pdf The collection of well-researched essays assesses the uses and misuses of history 25 years after the collapse of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. As opposed to the revival of national histories that seemed to be the prevailing historiographical approach of the 1990s, the last decade has seen a particular set of narratives equating Nazism and Communism. This provides opportunities to exonerate wartime collaboration, casting the nation as victim even when its government was allied with Germany. While the Jewish Holocaust is acknowledged, its meaning and significance are obfuscated. In their comparative analysis the authors are also interested in new practices of Europeanness. Therefore their presentations of Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian post-communist memory politics move beyond the common national myths in order to provide a new insight into transnational interactions and exchanges in Europe in general. The juxtaposition of these politics, the processes in other parts of Europe, the modes of remembering shaped by displacement and the transnational enable a close encounter with the divergences and assess the potential of the formation of common, European memory practices.

Author: Ina Zharkevich File Type: pdf By providing a rich ethnography of wartime social processes in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book explores how the Maoist Peoples War (1996-2006) transformed Nepali society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with people who were located at the epicentre of the conflict, including both ardent Maoist supporters and reluctant rebels, it explores how a remote Himalayan village was forged as the centre of the Maoist rebellion, how its inhabitants coped with the situation of war and the Maoist regime of governance, and how they came to embrace the Maoist project and maintain ordinary life amidst the war while living in a guerilla enclave. By focusing on peoples everyday lives, the book illuminates how the everyday became a primary site of revolution of crafting new subjectivities, introducing new social practices and displacing the old ones, and reconfiguring the ways that people act in and think about the world through the process of embodied change