American Enchantment

Author : Michelle Sizemore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190627530
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Enchantment written by Michelle Sizemore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Enchantment' presents a new understanding of the social order after the American Revolution, one that enacts the concept of "enchantment" as a unique way of describing and coalescing popular power and social affiliation.

Author : Michelle Sizemore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190627530
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Enchantment written by Michelle Sizemore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Enchantment' presents a new understanding of the social order after the American Revolution, one that enacts the concept of "enchantment" as a unique way of describing and coalescing popular power and social affiliation.

Author : Diane Elizabeth Kelleher
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1491816163
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchantment the Art and Life of Lilian Westcott Hale written by Diane Elizabeth Kelleher and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, this book concerns the art and life of the world's only "American Linear Impressionist", Lilian Westcott Hale. Born in Connecticut in 1881, Hale was educated primarily at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and lived for many years in nearby Dedham, moving to Charlottesville, Virginia after the death of her beloved educator, art critic, author, and painter husband, Philip Leslie Hale. A woman, Hale far outpaced the success of many men, including her husband. During her early decades of activity, Hale garnered innumerable naational awards, accolades, and prizes, and international acclaim for her oil portraits of children, women in interiors, and charcoal sketches of snowy landscpes, all created in an Impressionist style utilizing only vertical strokes. Hale was the originator and sole practitioner of a technique which paradoxically used line in an Impressionist manner. While her classic art fell out of favor during the Modernist 1940s and later, it is now once again very much in vogue. My relationship with the artist's only child, her daughter, Nancy, was of immeasurable assistance in the production of this book. Diane Elizabeth Kelleher Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 2013.

Author : J. Eric Oliver
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022657864X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchanted America written by J. Eric Oliver and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens reject scientific evidence on climate change and vaccinations while embracing myths of impending apocalypse. And then there is Donald Trump, a presidential candidate who won the support of millions of conservative Christians despite having no moral or political convictions. What is going on? The answer, according to J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood, can be found in the most important force shaping American politics today: human intuition. Much of what seems to be irrational in American politics arises from the growing divide in how its citizens make sense of the world. On one side are rationalists. They use science and reason to understand reality. On the other side are intuitionists. They rely on gut feelings and instincts as their guide to the world. Intuitionists believe in ghosts and End Times prophecies. They embrace conspiracy theories, disbelieve experts, and distrust the media. They are stridently nationalistic and deeply authoritarian in their outlook. And they are the most enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump. The primary reason why Trump captured the presidency was that he spoke about politics in a way that resonated with how Intuitionists perceive the world. The Intuitionist divide has also become a threat to the American way of life. A generation ago, intuitionists were dispersed across the political spectrum, when most Americans believed in both God and science. Today, intuitionism is ideologically tilted toward the political right. Modern conservatism has become an Intuitionist movement, defined by conspiracy theories, strident nationalism, and hostility to basic civic norms. Enchanted America is a clarion call to rationalists of all political persuasions to reach beyond the minority and speak to intuitionists in a way they understand. The values and principles that define American democracy are at stake.

Author : Bénédicte Meillon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793631603
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dwellings of Enchantment written by Bénédicte Meillon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous entanglements between humans and other life forms coexisting with us–entanglements that, when fully perceived, call onto humans to shift perspectives on both the causes and solutions to current ecological crises. Working against the disenchantment of humans’ relationships with and perceptions of the world entailed by a modern ontology, this book illustrates the power of ecopoetics to attune humans to the vibrant matter both within and outside of us. Braiding indigenous with non-indigenous worldviews, this book tackles ecopoetics emerging from varying locations in the world. It underscores the postmodernist, remythologizing processes going on in many ecopoetic texts, via magical realist modes and mythopoeia.

Author : Lene Johannessen
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611680131
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horizons of Enchantment written by Lene Johannessen and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and original reading of the American imaginary

Author : Marci Kwon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691215022
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchantments written by Marci Kwon and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major work to examine Joseph Cornell's relationship to American modernism Joseph Cornell (1903–1972) is best known for his exquisite and alluring box constructions, in which he transformed found objects—such as celestial charts, glass ice cubes, and feathers—into enchanted worlds that blur the boundaries between fantasy and the commonplace. Situating Cornell within the broader artistic, cultural, and political debates of midcentury America, this innovative and interdisciplinary account reveals enchantment's relevance to the history of American modernism. In this beautifully illustrated book, Marci Kwon explores Cornell's attempts to convey enchantment—an ephemeral experience that exceeds rational explanation—in material form. Examining his box constructions, graphic design projects, and cinematic experiments, she shows how he turned to formal strategies drawn from movements like Transcendentalism and Romanticism to figure the immaterial. Kwon provides new perspectives on Cornell's artistic and graphic design career, bringing vividly to life a wide circle of acquaintances that included artists, poets, writers, and filmmakers such as Mina Loy, Lincoln Kirstein, Frank O’Hara, and Stan Brakhage. Cornell's participation in these varied milieus elucidates enchantment's centrality to midcentury conversations about art's potential for power and moral authority, and reveals how enchantment and modernity came to be understood as opposing forces. Leading contemporary artists such as Betye Saar and Carolee Schneemann turned to Cornell's enchantment as a resource for their own anti-racist, feminist projects. Spanning four decades of the artist's career, Enchantments sheds critical light on Cornell's engagement with many key episodes in American modernism, from Abstract Expressionism, 1930s "folk art," and the emergence of New York School poetry and experimental cinema to the transatlantic migration of Symbolism, Surrealism, and ballet.

Author : Laine Fuller
Publisher : 1000 Volt Press
ISBN 13 : 1734742275
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conjuring the Commonplace: A Guide to Everyday Enchantment and Junk Drawer Magic written by Laine Fuller and published by 1000 Volt Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there magic in your junk drawer or in the pieces of a broken china plate? In Conjuring the Commonplace, Laine Fuller and Cory Thomas Hutcheson answer with a resounding, “Yes!” and deftly show you how to incorporate that magic into your everyday. They also point to other hidden treasures in places in your home you may have never thought to look. As the hosts of the long-running podcast New World Witchery, Cory and Laine have shared the folklore and magic of North America and their own magical journeys with listeners. Conjuring the Commonplace continues that conversation, highlighting the folklore of the common objects and the practical ways they have each incorporated these small magics into their lives and how you might too. If you’ve ever questioned whether to toss out that bit of string from a sewing project or wondered what you should know before picking up that shiny penny on the sidewalk, this book is for you.

Author : Pierre Schlag
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822322146
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enchantment Of Reason written by Pierre Schlag and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA critique of legal scholarship and the way reason is used and deified in law, by one of the most controversial legal scholars now writing./div

Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
ISBN 13 : 9780836851564
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Mexico, Land of Enchantment written by Michael Burgan and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2003 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and illustrations present the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, customs, and attractions of New Mexico.