Masks Of The Muse

Author : Veronica Cummer
Publisher : Pendraig Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0982031831
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masks of the Muse written by Veronica Cummer and published by Pendraig Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the Muse? Why do we need Her? How do we tap into that shining current of inspiration and create something never before seen, something beautiful and terrible, fantastical and infinitely real. The Muse is as vital to our lives today as She was in ancient times. She changes as we change and Her Arts are continually in flux, Arts that we simply cannot live without...or that we wouldn't want to. Among other things, they are tools to make and re-make our world even as we work with Fate to weave the web of life and death, of creation and destruction. Through four faces, four masks of the Muse, this book explores different aspects of inspiration, creativity, and magick. Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Ariadne, and the Lady of the Lake await--each to teach us of the Arts and what we are capable of at our very best. By the poetry, prayer, invocation, and ritual contained within we can come to know the Muse and so know ourselves and the gifts we all have within us that demand recognition and expression. The path of the Muse may not always be an easy or a safe one, but anything worth having is worth paying the price for. Who is the Muse? Who are we? This book is a journey, one that we must dare to take and dare to take hold of what is revealed.. As we must return to the well of memory, the depths of the ocean, and the currents below the earth, there to claim what was ours all along.

Author : Geste Publishing Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780925360168
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Masks of My Muse written by Geste Publishing Company and published by . This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew R. Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813061641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Masks of Modernism written by Andrew R. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wide-ranging collection that allows the mask-as artifact, metaphor, theatrical costume, fetish, strategy for self-concealment, and treasured cultural object-to clarify modernity's relationship to history."--Carrie J. Preston, author of Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance "Covering an impressive range of geographies, cultures, and time periods, these carefully researched essays explore the fascinating role of masks and masking in mediating the relationship between tradition and modernity in both art and literature."--Paul Jay, author of The Humanities "Crisis" and the Future of Literary Studies Behind the Masks of Modernism reconsiders the meaning of "modernism" by taking an interdisciplinary approach and stretching beyond the Western modernist canon and the literary scope of the field. The essays in this diverse collection explore numerous regional, national, and transnational expressions of modernity through art, history, architecture, drama, literature, and cultural studies around the globe. Masks--both literal and metaphorical--play a role in each of these artistic ventures, from Brazilian music to Chinese film and Russian poetry to Nigerian masquerade performance. The contributors show how artists and writers produce their works in moments of emerging modernity, aesthetic sensibility, and deep societal transformations caused by modern transnational forces. Using the mask as a thematic focus, the volume explores the dialogue created through regional modernisms, emphasizes the local in describing universal tropes of masks and masking, and challenges popular assumptions about what modernism looks like and what modernity is.

Author : Bernice Schachter
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 141840571X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Masks of My Muse written by Bernice Schachter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seeds for this book were germinated in the beautiful region of Tuscany. Here in Italy I lived my own three-dimensional life of discovery, dedication and discipline as a sculptor. I write about this community that spiritually embraced me with my own passion for the marvels of marble. It shows any reader how to nourish the mind and the spirit and motivates one to develop original ideas in any media of choice. Sculpture is only used as a metaphor or stepping stones to help find your own path for self-actualization and self-expression. With each passing year, more and more books and articles about the creative process are published. So why would I want to write another? And why might you be interested in reading what I have to say? This book was compiled in my years of teaching and researching the nature of creativity. It encompasses many of the theories, both past and present in a distillation of the many diverse writings on the subject. I believe that creativity can be taught and I have developed a unique method of doing it through my eyes as a sculptor using "Creative I's as explained in the Workbook section of this book. The focuses of the suggested activities are provocative words beginning with the letter I that will motivate you to discover new ideas for yourself. In summary, this book is for people who are open to discovering new perspectives and new ideas to stimulate their minds by keeping their creativity flowing. You do not need special ability or talent to participate in the thrill of a satisfactory creative experience or to enjoy the "Aha " discovering something for yourself or even about yourself. By sharing your joy with others in a group or workshop you might find your own "fifteen minutes of fame" if only with your peers, networks, classes, friends, or family. Perhaps even an anxious world might be receptive of your newest innovative thing. GO FOR IT

Author : Gauri Viswanathan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539576
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masks of Conquest written by Gauri Viswanathan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no longer be understood innocently of or inattentively to the imperial contexts in which the discipline first articulated its mission.

Author : James H. Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520294653
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice Incognito written by James H. Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks—nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men—could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison with the libertine Casanova. In Venice Incognito, James H. Johnson offers a spirited analysis of masking in this carnival-loving city. He draws on a wealth of material to explore the world view of maskers, both during and outside of carnival, and reconstructs their logic: covering the face in public was a uniquely Venetian response to one of the most rigid class hierarchies in European history. This vivid account goes beyond common views that masking was about forgetting the past and minding the muse of pleasure to offer fresh insight into the historical construction of identity.

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Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780892075584
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks written by and published by Guggenheim Museum. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From prescient proto-selfies to COVID and AI: the democratic portraiture of Gillian Wearing One of the most influential conceptual artists of her generation, Gillian Wearing first gained recognition in the 1990s for groundbreaking photographs and videos that recorded the confessions and interactions of ordinary people she befriended through chance encounters. In its candor and psychological intensity, her work extends the traditions of portraiture initiated by Sander, Weegee and Arbus. Yet in her ongoing attention to technology's role in the presentation of self, Wearing has presciently identified defining aspects of contemporary visual culture, from reality television to the rise of the selfie. Published for Wearing's first North American retrospective, Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks traces the acclaimed artist's practice from her earliest Polaroids and videos to her most recent production, including large-scale photographic self-portraits of Wearing in the guise of other artists; a more intimate body of self-portraits titled Lockdown; and installations and commissioned public sculpture. Essays by co-curators Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman provide an overview of Wearing's oeuvre, and a "self-interview" by Wearing offers a revealing firsthand account of the artist's practice, including her ongoing project Your Views (2013-), in which she has recently responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, and her exploration of AI technology in the video work Wearing, Gillian (2018). Gillian Wearing (born 1963) became associated with the Young British Artists (YBAs) after graduating from Goldsmiths College in 1990, and went on to win the Turner Prize in 1997. She works equally in photography, video, sculpture, installation and, most recently, painting. Wearing became well known early on for her now-landmark piece Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (1992-93), for which she photographed almost 200 strangers with placards of their own making.

Author : Angela M. Heap
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350190691
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Mask written by Angela M. Heap and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study of Menander casts fresh light not only on the techniques of the playwright but also on the literary and historical contexts of the plays. Menander (342/1-292/1 BCE) wrote over a hundred popular comedies, several of which were adapted by Plautus and Terence. Through them, he was a major influence on Shakespeare and Molière. However, his work survived only in excerpts and quotation until some significant texts reappeared in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on papyrus. The mystery of their loss and rediscovery has raised key questions surrounding the transmission of these and other Greek texts. Theatrical masks from the fourth century BCE discovered on the island of Lipari now also provide important material with which this book examines how the plays were originally performed. A detailed investigation of their historical setting is offered which engages with recent debates on the importance of social status and citizenship in Menander's plays. The techniques of characterization are also examined, with particular focus on women, slaves and power relationships in his Epitrepontes. It appears that the audience was invited, sometimes subversively, behind the mask of this sophisticated comedy to discover that people do not always conform to literary expectations and social norms.

Author : Max Silverman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526130696
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frantz Fanon’s 'Black Skin, White Masks' written by Max Silverman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1952, Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin, White Masks' is one of the most important anti-colonial works of the post-war period. It is both a profound critique of the conscious and unconcious ways in which colonialism brutalises the colonised and a passionate cry from deep within a black body alienated by the colonial system and in search of liberation from it. This volume is the first collection of essays specifically devoted to Fanon's text. It offers a wide range of interpretations of the text by leading scholars in a number of disciplines. Chapters deal with Fanon's Martinican heritage, Fanon and Creolism, ideas of race and racism and new humanism, Fanon and Sartre, representations of Blacks and Jews, and the psychoanalysis of race, gender and violence. Contributors offer new ways of reading the text and the volume as a whole constitutes an important contribution to the growing field of Fanon studies.

Author : Olʹga Simonova-Partan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781618115713
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vagabonding Masks written by Olʹga Simonova-Partan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the Italian commedia dell'arte has profoundly affected the Russian artistic imagination for over three hundred years, providing a source of inspiration for leading artists as diverse as Nikolai Gogol, Evgenii Vakhtangov, Vladimir Nabokov and the pop star Alla Pugacheva.