The Land Of The Hunger Artists

Author : Agustí Nieto-Galan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009379593
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of the Hunger Artists written by Agustí Nieto-Galan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1880s to the 1920s, hunger artists - professional fasters - lived on the fringes of public spectacle and academic experiment. Agustí Nieto-Galan presents the history of this phenomenon as popular urban spectacle and subject of scientific study, showing how hunger artists acted as mediators between the human and the social body. Doctors, journalists, impresarios , artists, and others used them to reinforce their different philosophical views, scientific schools, political ideologies, cultural values, and professional interests. The hunger artists generated heated debates on objectivity and medical pluralism, and fierce struggles over authority, recognition, and prestige. Set on the fringes of the freak show culture of the nineteenth century and the scientific study of physiology laboratories, Nieto-Galan explores the story of the public exhibition of hunger, emaciated bodies, and their enormous impact on the public sphere of their time.

Author : Agustí Nieto-Galan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009379585
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Hunger Artists written by Agustí Nieto-Galan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the exhibition of hunger, emaciated bodies and their enormous impact in the public sphere around 1900.

Author : Eliezer Diamond
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195137507
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Men and Hunger Artists written by Eliezer Diamond and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism has generally been either overlooked or actually denied. Diamond shows that rabbinic asceticism does indeed exist. This asceticism is mainly secondary, rather than primary, in that the rabbis place no value on self-denial in and of itself.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 1222378256
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hunger Artist written by Franz Kafka and published by Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see. One man who was so devout in his pursuit of hunger pushed against the boundaries set by the circus that housed him and strived to go longer than forty days without food. As interest in his art began to fade, he pushed the boundaries even further. In this short story about one man's plight to prove his worth, Franz Kafka illustrates the themes of self-hatred, dedication, and spiritual yearning. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.

Author : Joanne Jacobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunger Artist written by Joanne Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of memories of growing up Jewish in the Midwest suburbs that proves itself literature of the highest order. "Joanne Jacobson�s memoir of postwar suburbia, stories rendered in incandescent images and illuminating insights, unflinchingly depicts life�s insatiable hungers. The book�s multiple facets leave the reader delighted, disturbed, but ultimately, completely fulfilled." -Faye Moskowitz, author of A Leak in the Heart and Peace in the House: Tales from a Yiddish Kitchen

Author : Maud Ellmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hunger Artists written by Maud Ellmann and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has the act of eating become a metaphor for compliance, starvation the language of protest? How does the rejection of food become the rejection of intolerable social constraints? The author unravels the answers to these questions and more as she brilliantly explores the relationship between bodily hunger and verbal expression.

Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000835913X
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World written by Simon Winchester and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back.

Author : Tadeusz Różewicz
Publisher : London ; New York : Marion Boyars
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mariage Blanc; And, The Hunger Artist Departs written by Tadeusz Różewicz and published by London ; New York : Marion Boyars. This book was released on 1983 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mariage Blanc is a tragic farce set in a middle class household in Poland of the late nineteenth century and concerns itself with "respectable" attitudes towards love and sex in the society of that period. The Hunger Artist Departs takes its origin and inspiration from a short story by Kafka in which a showman travels from town to town with his inpressario, starving himself for long periods of time for people's amusement.

Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597265179
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Our Food Comes From written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country’s famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist—and vivid storyteller—has retraced his footsteps. In Where Our Food Comes From, Gary Paul Nabhan weaves together Vavilov’s extraordinary story with his own expeditions to Earth’s richest agricultural landscapes and the cultures that tend them. Retracing Vavilov’s path from Mexico and the Colombian Amazon to the glaciers of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, he draws a vibrant portrait of changes that have occurred since Vavilov’s time and why they matter. In his travels, Nabhan shows how climate change, free trade policies, genetic engineering, and loss of traditional knowledge are threatening our food supply. Through discussions with local farmers, visits to local outdoor markets, and comparison of his own observations in eleven countries to those recorded in Vavilov’s journals and photos, Nabhan reveals just how much diversity has already been lost. But he also shows what resilient farmers and scientists in many regions are doing to save the remaining living riches of our world. It is a cruel irony that Vavilov, a man who spent his life working to foster nutrition, ultimately died from lack of it. In telling his story, Where Our Food Comes From brings to life the intricate relationships among culture, politics, the land, and the future of the world’s food.

Author : Maud Ellmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674331075
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hunger Artists written by Maud Ellmann and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: