The Mercury Fountain

Author : Eliza Factor
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617750360
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mercury Fountain written by Eliza Factor and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mercury Fountain takes place at the turn of the 20th century in a remote stretch of desert, West Texas. Owen Scraperton, a passionate Yankee, sets out to atone for his misspent youth by starting a utopian paradise in the wilderness. He begins to attract a following within the local population and further afield. Owen founds the economics of this new society upon Mercury mining, lauding its fluidity, beauty and usefulness and disregarding its darker properties. But it isn't long before Owen's utopia begins to unravel...

Author : Gregory Warren Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mercury Fountain written by Gregory Warren Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight depends on attentiveness, but can also strike us spontaneously as revelation. The poems in this collection are unified by the urge to look into things and reflect on them, but the responses they represent are as varied, and as revelatory, as the subjects they address: vegetable carving on a cruise ship, where to read poetry, a death-row inmate's last meal. By turns formal, informal, solemn and touching, quizzical and resolute, these poems are consistently informed by Warren Wilson's scrupulous eye for detail. He celebrates the ways in which we engage with the world - both with the analytical gaze of a crystallographer, and the impulsiveness of a sculptor designing a mercury fountain. This is his fourth collection.

Author : Kristi Lew
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1404217800
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercury written by Kristi Lew and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the characteristics of mercury, where it is found, how it is used by humans, and its relationship to other elements found in the periodic table.

Author : Mark Ley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530084425
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercury Fountain written by Mark Ley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of lyrical poems from the Magistery of Bismuth opus, covering a wide range of themes.

Author : Ann Coxon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300219156
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander Calder written by Ann Coxon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful new look at one of the 20th century's most celebrated artistic visionaries Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is one of modernism's most captivating and influential figures. First trained as a mechanical engineer, Calder relocated from New York to Paris in the mid-twenties where his acceptance into the city's burgeoning avant-garde circles coincided with the development of his characteristic form of kinetic sculpture. His early work Cirque Calder, which was presented throughout Paris to great acclaim, prefigures the performance and theatrical aspects that dominate Calder's pioneering artistic works and are situated as a primary subject of intrigue in this publication. Rather than simply refashion sculpture's traditional forms, Calder envisioned entirely new possibilities for the medium and transformed its static nature into something dynamic and responsive. Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture provides detailed insight into that pioneering process through reproductions of personal drawings and notes. Also featured is new research from a wide range of renowned scholars, furthering our understanding of the remarkable depth of Calder's beloved mobile sculptures and entrenching his status as an icon of modernism.

Author : Jed Perl
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307272729
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calder: The Conquest of Time written by Jed Perl and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography, which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why Calder was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal. This beautifully written, deeply researched book opens with Calder's wonderfully peripatetic upbringing in Philadelphia, California, and New York. Born in 1898 into a family of artists--his father was a well-known sculptor, his mother a painter and a pioneering feminist--Calder went on as an adult to forge important friendships with a who's who of twentieth-century artists, including Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Piet Mondrian. We move through Calder's early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s, and to his emergence as a leader in the international abstract avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-spirited Louisa James--she was a great-niece of Henry James--is a richly romantic story, related here with a wealth of detail and nuance. Calder's life takes on a transatlantic richness, from New York's Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, to the Left Bank of Paris during the Depression, and then back to the United States, where the Calders bought a run-down old farmhouse in western Connecticut. New light is shed on Calder's lifelong interest in dance, theater, and performance, ranging from the Cirque Calder, the theatrical event that became his calling card in bohemian Paris to collaborations with the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Virgil Thomson. More than 350 illustrations in color and black-and-white--including little-known works and many archival photographs that have never before been seen--further enrich the story.

Author : Peter Graneau
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810226817
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newtonian Electrodynamics written by Peter Graneau and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the resurgence of nineteenth century electromagnetism in physics and electrical engineering. It describes a series of important experiments, and new technologies based on these experiments, which cannot be explained by and analyzed with the modern relativistic electrodynamics of the twentieth century. The Newtonian electrodynamics of Coulomb, Ampere, Neumann, and Kirchhoff, which was current from 1750 to 1900, is fully reviewed and greatly extended to deal with contemporary research on exploding wires, railguns and other electromagnetic accelerators, jet propulsion in liquid metals, arc plasma explosions, capillary fusion, and lightning phenomena. Much of the book is based on the atomic definition of the Amperian current element. Finite element techniques for solving many electrodynamic problems are described.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Engineering and Boiler House Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scientific American written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael W. Cole
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836425
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambitious Form written by Michael W. Cole and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambitious Form describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. The book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors--Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti--as they negotiated the politics of the Medici court and eyed one another's work, setting new aims for their art in the process. Only through a comparative look at Giambologna and his contemporaries, it argues, can we understand them individually--or understand the period in which they worked. Michael Cole shows how the concerns of central Italian artists changed during the last decades of the Cinquecento. Whereas their predecessors had focused on specific objects and on the particularities of materials, late sixteenth-century sculptors turned their attention to models and design. The iconic figure gave way to the pose, individualized characters to abstractions. Above all, the multiplicity of master crafts that had once divided sculptors into those who fashioned gold or bronze or stone yielded to a more unifying aspiration, as nearly every ambitious sculptor, whatever his training, strove to become an architect.