Author: Elisabeth Ingles File Type: pdf Edvard Munch, born in 1863, was Norways most popular artist. His brooding and anguished paintings, based on personal grief and obsessions, were instrumental in the development of Expressionism. During his childhood, the death of his parents, his brother and sister, and the mental illness of another sister, were of great influence on his convulsed and tortuous art. In his works, Munch turned again and again to the memory of illness, death and grief. During his career, Munch changed his idiom many times. At first, influenced by Impressionism and Post-impressionism, he turned to a highly personal style and content, increasingly concerned with images of illness and death. In the 1892s, his style developed a Synthetist idiom as seen in The Scream (1893) which is regarded as an icon and the portrayal of modern humanitys spiritual and existential anguish. He painted different versions of it. During the 1890s Munch favoured a shallow pictorial space, and used it in his frequently frontal pictures. His work often included the symbolic portrayal of such themes as misery, sickness, and death. and the poses of his figures in many of his portraits were chosen in order to capture their state of mind and psychological condition. It also lends a monumental, static quality to the paintings. In 1892, the Union of Berlin Artists invited Munch to exhibit at its November exhibition. His paintings invoked bitter controversy at the show, and after one week the exhibition closed. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Nazis labeled his work degenerate art, and removed his works from German museums. This deeply hurt the anti-fascist Munch, who had come to feel Germany was his second homeland. In 1908 Munchs anxiety became acute and he was hospitalized. He returned to Norway in 1909 and died in Oslo in 1944.About the AuthorElisabeth Ingles has been a respected freelance writer and editor for the past ten years, working for the British Museum Press and other major British and American publishers of art and music books. After a degree at the University of Edinburgh, she worked as a managing editor and editorial director for major publishers. She is the author of articles for several publications including dictionaries of art and music. She lives in London, where she is able to indulge her passion for opera.
Author: Tiffany Watt Smith
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Is your heart fluttering in anticipation? Is your stomach tight with nerves? Are you falling in love? Feeling a bit miffed? Are you curious (perhaps about this book)? Do you have the heebie-jeebies? Are you antsy with iktsuarpok? Or giddy with depaysement? The Book of Human Emotions is a gleeful, thoughtful collection of 156 feelings, both rare and familiar. Each has its own story, and reveals the strange forces which shape our rich and varied internal worlds. In reading it, youll discover feelings you never knew you had (like basorexia, the sudden urge to kiss someone), uncover the secret histories of boredom and confidence, and gain unexpected insights into why we feel the way we do.
Author: Ernst Breisach
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In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this updated second edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with sections on such current topics as postmodernism, deconstructionism, black history, womens history, microhistory, Historikerstreit, the linguistic turn, and more.About the AuthorErnst Breisach is emeritus professor of history at Western Michigan University.
Author: Pieter Aspe
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p itemprop=description Op Schiphol landt een vliegtuig afkomstig uit de Dominicaanse Republiek. De politie staat klaar om een drugskoerier, een zogenaamde bolletjesslikker, in te rekenen. Hij werd op heterdaad betrapt in het vliegtuig. Zes maanden later vindt de Brugse politie in een kanaal in de buurt van Brugge het lijk van een jonge vrouw dat al enkele dagen in het water ligt. Het blijkt te gaan om een Vlaamse stewardess. Via een reconstructie van haar recente verleden legt Van In de link met het vliegtuig uit de Dominicaanse Republiek met aan boord de drugskoerier, in wiens gezelschap het slachtoffer werd gezien.Is de moord een afrekening in het drugsmilieu? Was de stewardess een handlangster van de ingerekende crimineel en moest zij uit de weg worden geruimd omdat ze te veel wist? Bij de huiszoeking in haar appartement wordt in haar computer een lijst met de namen van twaalf mannen gevonden. Van In trekt de namen na en wordt daarbij hardnekkig tegengewerkt door een van hen. Wat is het verband tussen de twaalf mensen? Worden zij afgeperst? Zijn het klanten? Het zijn zonder uitzondering mannen van aanzien die het gemaakt hebben in het leven. Het kost Pieter Van In en zijn team de grootste moeite om uiteindelijk de onthutsende waarheid bloot te leggen. Recencie(s) NBD|Biblion recensie Vijfentwintigste deel in de serie politieromans rond de Brugse commissaris Van In en zijn assistent Guido Versavel, en onderzoeksrechter Hannelore Martens, het vaste trio in de misdaadromans van Pieter Aspe. Een oudere vrouw ontdekt op een zondag het lijk van een vrouw in het water. Het blijkt te gaan om een stewardess die regelmatig vliegt op de Dominicaanse Republiek in haar huis heeft ze onderdak geboden aan een drugskoerier, de zoon van een bekende politicus. Heeft zij zelfmoord gepleegd of is het moord? Ook in het priveleven van Van In doen zich allerlei verwikkelingen voor. Volgens het beproefde recept geschreven policier met veel dialogen, humor, sympathieke en overtuigende, maar ook na zoveel delen wat clichematige hoofdpersonen en veel authentieke Brugse sfeer. Van Aspe werd al meermalen genomineerd en bekroond voor zijn misdaadromans die ook verfilmd werden voor televisie. Gebonden, normale druk.(NBD|Biblion recensie, Redactie) (source Bol.com)
Author: Angelo Mazzocco
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Authored by some of the most preeminent Renaissance scholars active today, the essays of this volume give fresh and illuminating analyses of important aspects of Renaissance humanism, such as the time and causes of its origin, its connection to the papal court and medieval traditions, its classical learning, its religious and literary dimensions, and its dramatis personae. Their interpretations are varied to the point of being contradictory. The essays bear the imprint of the work of the eminent scholars of the second half of the twentieth century, especially Kristellers, and demonstrate an awareness of the various modes of critical inquiry that have prevailed in recent years. As such they are an important exemplar of current scholarship on Renaissance humanism and are, therefore, indispensable to the scholar who wishes to explore this pivotal cultural movement. Book jacket. Authored by some of the most preeminent Renaissance scholars active today, the essays of this volume give fresh and illuminating analyses of important aspects of Renaissance humanism, such as the time and causes of its origin, its connection to the papal court and medieval traditions, its classical learning, its religious and literary dimensions, and its dramatis personae. Their interpretations are varied to the point of being contradictory. These essays bear the imprint of the work of the eminent scholars of the second half of the twentieth century, especially Kristellers, and demonstrate an awareness of the various modes of critical inquiry that have prevailed in recent years. As such they are an important exemplar of the current scholarship on Renaissance humanism and are, therefore, indispensable to the scholar who wishes to explore this pivotal cultural movement.About the AuthorAngelo Mazzocco, Ph.D. (1973) in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley is Professor emeritus of Italian and Spanish at Mount Holyoke College. He has published extensively on antiquarianism, historical linguistics, Dante, and Renaissance humanism including Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists (Brill, 1993).
Author: Razia Sultanova
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The Turkic soundscape is both geographically huge and culturally diverse (twenty-eight countries, republics and districts extending from Eastern Europe through the Caucasus and throughout Central Asia). Although the Turkic peoples of the world can trace their linguistic and genetic ancestries to common sources, their extensive geographical dispersion and widely varying historical and political experiences have generated a range of different expressive music forms. In addition, the break-up of the Soviet Union and increasing globalization have resulted in the emergence of new viewpoints on classical and folk traditions, Turkic versions of globalized popular culture, and re-workings of folk and religious practices to fit new social needs. In line with the opening up of many Turkic regions in the post-Soviet era, awareness of scholarship from these regions has also increased. Consisting of twelve individual contributions that reflect the geographical breadth of the area under study, the collection addresses animist and Islamic religious songs the historical development of Turkic musical instruments ethnography and analysis of classical court music traditions cross-cultural influences throughout the Turkic world music and mass media and popular music in traditional contexts. The result is a well-balanced survey of music in the Turkic-speaking world, representing folk, popular and classical traditions equally, as well as discussing how these traditions have changed in response to growing modernity and cosmopolitanism in Europe and Central Asia. **About the Author Razia Sultanova is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Music and Visiting Professor at Moscow State Conservatory, Kazakh National University of Arts (Astana) and Ahmet Yassawi Kazakh-Turkish University (Turkistan). Her research examines culture, sound, place and authenticity in the Turkic-speaking world across Central Asia, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. Megan Rancier is a Lecturer of Ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio). She earned a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests focus on Central Asia, particularly Kazakhstan, and intersections between national identity narratives, traditional musical instruments and popular music.
Author: John R. K. Clark
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In Kalaupapa Place Names, John Clark presents a unique history of the leprosy settlement on Molokai, based on his meticulous research of more than three hundred Hawaiian-language newspaper articles. He first assembled an extensive list of familiar and long-forgotten place names associated with the Kalaupapa peninsula and then searched for them in the online repository of Hawaiian-language newspapers. With translation assistance by Iasona Ellinwood and Keao NeSmith, he discovered articles that show a community of Hawaiians from every island except uninhabited Kahoolawe. Their stories reveal an active community with its members trying to live their lives as normally as possible in the face of a debilitating disease. The first section of the book contains newspaper articles arranged under an alphabetical listing of place names. The second section organizes the material into chronological segments, from before the establishment of the Kalaupapa Settlement to the death of Mother Marianne Cope in 1918. These two sections are followed by a collection of kanikau or lamentations, interviews with Kalaupapa residents, and a list of Hawaiian language newspapers. Introductory paragraphs for groupings of newspaper articles assist the reader in visualizing the physical landscape and understanding the history and significance of a particular location. The poetry of the Hawaiian language is evident throughout the translations, especially in the kanikau. **
Author: Harriet Gross
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bWhy do so many people love gardening? What does your garden say about you? What is guerrilla gardening?b The Psychology of Gardening delves into the huge benefits that gardening can have on our health and emotional well-being, and how this could impact on the entire public health of a country. It also explores what our gardens can tell us about our personalities, how we can link gardening to mindfulness and restoration, and what motivates someone to become a professional gardener. With gardening being an ever popular pastime, The Psychology of Gardening provides a fascinating insight into our relationships with our gardens.