Pictures Passions And Eye

Author : Michel Strauss
Publisher : Halban
ISBN 13 : 1905559682
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pictures, Passions and Eye written by Michel Strauss and published by Halban. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Strauss embarked on an enduring love affair at the age of six when he saw for the first time paintings by Manet, Monet and Degas: the passion aroused by these artists never left him. This passion, this 'eye' as he calls it led to his becoming Head of the Impressionist Department at Sotheby's where he remained for forty years. He describes the personalities he met along the way: the collectors, the dealers, the colleagues and even the forgers, as well as the clients who shared his passion. There were times of boom and times of recession, there were very difficult times -in particular the anti-trust era -and there were times that brought great delight and a sense of achievement, in particular the British Rail Pension Fund sale which Michel had helped set up and which exceeded all expectations. An authoritative and highly respected figure in the art world, Michel Strauss has handled the greatest of all Impressionist works, some of which it was thought had been lost forever.

Author : Donna L. Sadler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004364374
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith written by Donna L. Sadler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touching the Passion considers the ways that the Passion in late medieval retables touched worshipers. The author explores the “aesthetics of immersion” through different lenses, such as scale, medium, the five senses, the effect of the frame, and medieval mnemonics.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401716587
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What essentially is a garden? Is it a small plot of land that we put aside to cultivate our favorite vegetables or to grow flowers for our personal enjoyment? Or is it a symbol, a mirror, a reflection of our human passions? The topic of the present volume is the mysterious ways in which Imaginatio Creatix plays within the human ingrowness in natural life, transposing dreams, nostalgias, and enchantments.

Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
ISBN 13 : 9781557839268
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune in My Eyes written by David Rothenberg and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of the social justice advocate and Broadway producer discusses his life's work of helping imprisoned men and women change their lives.

Author : D. Salwak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230374514
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Passion for Books written by D. Salwak and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-04-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading writers and critics, including Margaret Drabble, Alan Sillitoe and Ferdinand Mount, share their passion for books and the joys of reading in an inspiring collection of essays and writings. A Passion for Books is both a celebration of the value and importance of reading and a spirited defence against the many gloomy voices in our so-called electronic age who say the book will soon be obsolete. This book, itself a joy to read, is written for anyone who cares at all about the past and future of books and reading.

Author : Georges Bataille
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0141913673
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Story of the Eye written by Georges Bataille and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.

Author : Jeff Nunokawa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825652
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tame Passions of Wilde written by Jeff Nunokawa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if our strongest urges could be divested of their power to compel yet retain their power to fascinate us? What if our most basic appetites could be translated from the realm of bodily necessity to the sphere of artistic freedom? Jeff Nunokawa traces the variety of social pressures that inspired Oscar Wilde's lifelong effort to concoct forms of desire that thrill without menacing us, as well as the alchemies by which he sought to do so. Assigning Wilde a place of honor in a heady company of thinkers drawn from the ranks of philosophy, sociology, economics, psychoanalysis, and contemporary queer theory--Kant, Marx, Simmel, Weber, Freud, Hannah Arendt, Albert O. Hirschman, Erving Goffman, Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, and, of course, Michel Foucault--this is the first book to recognize Wilde not only as a blatant symptom of a familiar understanding of modern sexuality, but also as a grand theorist of the subject in his own right. The result is a wholly original portrait of the artist as a social critic who, in the midst of his humor, labored to illuminate and amend the book of love.

Author : Henri Cartier-Bresson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind's Eye written by Henri Cartier-Bresson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Now ninety years old, Cartier-Bresson seldom photographs; he devotes much of his time to drawing, and remains as forceful and discerning as ever in his writings. The last section of The Mind's Eye includes his commentary on photographer friends he has known - including Robert Capa, Andre Kertesz, Ernst Haas, and Sarah Moon - which reveal the impassioned and compassionate vision for which Cartier-Bresson is beloved."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Martha P. Nochimson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029274899X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Passion of David Lynch written by Martha P. Nochimson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is the best book on David Lynch that has yet been published. Nochimson’s book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary cinema.” —Brian Henderson, former chair of the Department of Media Study, State University of New York at Buffalo Filmmaker David Lynch asserts that when he is directing, ninety percent of the time he doesn’t know what he is doing. To understand Lynch’s films, Martha Nochimson believes, requires a similar method of being open to the subconscious, of resisting the logical reductiveness of language. In this innovative book, she draws on these strategies to offer close readings of Lynch’s films, informed by unprecedented, in-depth interviews with Lynch himself. Nochimson begins with a look at Lynch’s visual influences—Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon, and Edward Hopper—and his links to Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, then moves into the heart of her study, in-depth analyses of Lynch’s films and television productions. These include Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Dune, The Elephant Man, Eraserhead, The Grandmother, The Alphabet, and Lynch’s most recent, Lost Highway. Nochimson’s interpretations explode previous misconceptions of Lynch as a deviant filmmaker and misogynist. Instead, she shows how he subverts traditional Hollywood gender roles to offer an optimistic view that love and human connection are really possible. “Nochimson deftly deploys a mixture of feminist criticism, the Bakhtinian notion of the carnivalesque, and an intriguing blend of Jungian and Freudian concepts to make one of our most complex filmmakers seem quite accessible after all.” —J. P. Telotte, Film Quarterly

Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: The principal picture-galleries in England. Notes of a journey through France and Italy. Miscellaneous essays on the fine arts written by William Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: