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This book addresses modernism's ties to Romanticism, to post-Darwinian debates about evolution and religion, to evolving categories of modernist spirituality and to their collective relationship to aesthetics and thus modern art. The master narrative of the rise of modern art and literary modernism has long settled into the scholarly landscape. It has indeed come to appear as set, unproblematic, and rarely questioned. In this extensively interdisciplinary and transnational study Dr. Richard Lofthouse has set out to conduct a deep probe into that now well-traveled terrain. Whereas most previous scholars have looked to the power of French art and culture as the driving engine behind various modes of modernism, Lofthouse counter-instinctively looks to Germany and Great Britain. In the face of previous studies on the mechanical fascinations of modernists such as the Vorticists, Lofthouse rediscovers the power of European fin-de-siecle vitalism and its trajectory far into the twentieth century. Through Lofthouse's studies of Otto Dix, Stanley Spencer, Max Beckmann and Jacob Epstein a new counter-narrative of the development of modern art and modernism emerges.There is still the modernist rejection of many things Victorian, but these artists embrace a vitalist, organic scientific tradition with roots in the thought of Goethe and Lamarckians rather than Darwin and Haeckel. This study reminds us that the world of science and philosophy in 1900 reflected anything but a triumph of positivist science and secularism. The minds and artists of the day confronted a much more indeterminate world of ideas in which mechanism was not triumphant and the spiritual had not been banished. Each of Lofthouse's protagonists rejected anything resembling traditional religious orthodoxy, but they continued to seek some kind of spiritual meaning in the world and in their own existences. This volume leads scholars to reconceptualize their approach to early twentieth-century culture. Lofthouse emphasizes the manner in which four separate artists of prominence stood determined to forge a new path that ignored the impact of French art, embraced the thought of Nietzsche or overlapping ideas derived from the post-Darwinian landscape that emerged in England by 1900, and produced lasting works of art for which this book provides new clues to understanding.Lofthouse leads his readers to understand that they must henceforth contemplate a variety of modernisms, that they must rethink their comfortable, familiar categories of interpretation, and look for new byways on what they incorrectly took to be an adequate mapped landscape of the modern. ... Read more

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Der Erwerb des Buches enthält gleichzeitig die kostenlose Mitgliedschaft im Buchklub des Verlags zum Ausprobieren - dort können Sie von über einer Million Bücher ohne weitere Kosten auswählen. Das Buch besteht aus Wikipedia-Artikeln: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Roderick Chisholm, Karl Loewenstein, Max Roach, Jacob Abbott, Hans Speier, Archibald MacLeish, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Barbara H. Partee, Leonard H. Ehrlich, Robert Thurman, John Olver, Robert Paul Wolff, William Smith Clark, Anna Mitgutsch, Terry Jenoure, Lynn Margulis, Alexander George, Lynne Rudder Baker, Edmund Gettier, Joseph Levine, Ayi Kwei Armah, Charles Baker Adams, Benjamin DeMott, Volker Meid, Oliver Brock, Sheila Bair,. Online finden Sie die kostenlose Aktualisierung der Bücher. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (* 1. Januar 1960 in Amioun, Libanon) (arabisch ‏‎) ist ein philosophischer Essayist und Forscher in den Bereichen Statistik, Zufall und Epistemologie und ehemaliger Finanzmathematiker . Er arbeitete als Spezialist für komplexe Finanzderivate in mehreren Wall-Street-Unternehmen, bevor er eine zweite Karriere als Wissenschaftler begann und sich mit den Methoden der Berechnung und Interpretation von Zufallsereignissen und dem Umgang mit unvorhergesehenen seltenen, aber mächtigen Ereignissen (von ihm „schwarze Schwäne" genannt) beschäftigte. Taleb hat es zu seinem Stil gemacht, seriöse Ausführungen mit autobiographischen Anekdoten auszuschmücken. Talebs Wurzeln liegen in Amioun im Libanon. Er stammt aus einer griechisch-orthodoxen Familie. Er ist Sohn von Najib Taleb, einem Onkologen und Anthropologen, und Minerva Ghosn. Seine Familie spielte eine bedeutende Rolle in der libanesischen griechisch-orthodoxen Gemeinschaft: mütterlicherseits waren sowohl sein Großvater als auch sein Urgroßvater Vizepremierminister des Libanon; väterlicherseits war sein Großvater Richter am obersten Gerichtshof und sein Ur-Ur-Ur-Ur-Großvater war Gouverneur der ottomani...http://booksllc.net/?l=de&id=4033833 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Man Ray, Arnold Schoenberg, Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, Camille Pissarro, Max Jacob, Mark Rothko, Pascin, Moise Kisling, Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg, László Moholy-Nagy, Jane Frank, Walter Goodman, El Lissitzky, Robert B. Sherman, Eliahu Gat, Ben Shahn, Philip de László, Archie Rand, Chaim Goldberg, Lasar Segall, Ronnie Landfield, Lucian Freud, Ilka Gedő, Mark Gertler, R. B. Kitaj, Al Feldstein, Philip Guston, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon, Paul Burlin, Constantin Daniel Rosenthal, Lee Krasner, Barnett Newman, Sonia Delaunay, Wolfgang Paalen, Isaac Levitan, Jules Olitski, Avi Schwartz, Samuel Bak, Dora Maar, Roberto Aizenberg, Morris Louis, Carlo Levi, Eric Fischl, Rhea Carmi, Solomon Hart, Felix Lembersky, Nicolae Vermont, Jim Dine, Leonid Pasternak, Ida Applebroog, Jack Levine, Mordechai Avniel, Dina Babbitt, Bill Meyer, Simeon Solomon, Raphael Soyer, Solomon Joseph Solomon, Ilya Schor, Léon Bakst, Adolph Gottlieb, Larry Rivers, Jozef Israëls, Shimshon Holzman, Nehemiah Persoff, Jacob Kramer, Gerald Davis, Menashe Kadishman, Fred Uhlman, Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Zahara Schatz, Nathan Altman, Max Liebermann, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Louis Marcoussis, Julia Goodman, Nahum Gutman, Fernando Gerassi, Isaac Soyer, Paul Brach, Joseph Solman, Larry Zox, Grégoire Michonze, Maurycy Gottlieb, Gluck, Richard Lindner, List of Israeli Visual Artists, Jesekiel David Kirszenbaum, Judy Cassab, Michael Gross, Bernard Meninsky, Hyman Bloom, Mane-Katz, Lionel S. Reiss, Liebermann-Villa, Ahuva Sherman, Nat Mayer Shapiro, Eduard Frankfort, Anna Ticho, Lubov Rabinovich, Joseph Kossonogi, Michel Kikoine, Isidor Kaufmann, William S. Schwartz, Pinchus Kremegne, Ludwig Meidner, Moshe Maimon, Yitzhak Frenkel, Eric Goldberg, Ofer Lellouche, Romeo Niram, Paul Citroen, Isaak Brodsky, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=63135 ... Read more

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Followers of modern architecture will seize this opportunity to examine an important new building by master architect Max Dudler. The Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm Centre -- Germany's largest open-access library, which opened in 2009 at Berlin's Humboldt University -- is a conceptual work of urban architecture of sculptural proportions. The design reflects the university's status as a world-renowned institution with a long tradition yet a modern approach to instruction and research. The ten-story structure has already become a Berlin landmark. At the center of the building, shielded from the noise of the city, is the Central Reading Room, with seating for 252 readers. In total the library has over one thousand public work spaces in a variety of rooms. ... Read more

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Chapters: French Civilians Killed in World War Ii, Marc Bloch, Max Jacob, Bernard Natan, Robert Desnos, Guy Môquet, Georges Valois, Benjamin Fondane, Victor Perez, Gabriel Péri, Paul Cornu, Camille Blaisot, René Blum, Jacques Stosskopf, Max Coyne. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 97. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bernard Natan (July 14, 1886 October 1942) (born Natan Tannenzaft) was a bisexual Franco-Romanian film director and actor of the 1920s and 1930s. He was one of the earliest (if not the earliest) pornographic film directors and porn stars whose name was known to the public. After his adult film career, Natan moved into mainstream cinema. He eventually acquired the giant French motion picture studio Pathé in 1929. Pathé collapsed in 1935, and Natan was convicted of fraud. However, he laid the foundation for the modern film industry in France and helped revolutionize film technology around the world. Natan was born Natan Tannenzaft (possibly Tanenzapf) to Jewish parents in Iai, Romania in 1886. He moved to France after World War I and became a French citizen in 1921, changing his name to the less Jewish-sounding "Bernard Natan." Natan directed at least one hardcore pornographic film in Romania. But it was in France where he made his mark as a producer, writer, director and actor in adult film. Natan produced and acted in at least 20 hardcore heterosexual and bisexual hardcore pornographic films between 1920 and 1927, and established his own studio (Rapid Film) to develop and process the films he shot. Nearly all French pornographic films from this period which include bisexual and homosexual content were produced by Natan. Natan himself was bisexual, and engaged in intercourse on screen in a number of films, notably Le Menage Moderne Du Madame Butterfly (1920) and La Maît...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4861812 ... Read more

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Chapters: Max Jacob, Herschel Grynszpan, Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, Erich Mühsam, Stefan Starzyński, Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, Erwin Schulhoff, Ludvik Buland, Edward Fokczyński, Antal Szerb, Friedrich Weißler, Norbert Jokl, René Lefebvre, Karl Ernst Krafft, Herbert Baum, Ida Jenbach, Harry Vestli, Halina Krahelska, Imre Ámos, Věra Kohnová, Felice Schragenheim, Stanislav Zhukovsky, Rudolf Tayerlé, Józef Pukowiec, Mojżesz Presburger. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 119. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Herschel Feibel Grynszpan (sometimes spelled "Grynsban", "Grynspan", "Grünspan" or "Greenspan") (born March 28, 1921- circa 1943-45), was a Polish Jew and political assassin. Grynszpan's assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath on November 7, 1938, sparked the Kristallnacht, the anti-semitic pogrom of November 910, 1938. Grynszpan was seized by the Gestapo after the German invasion of France and brought to Germany. Herschel Grynszpan was born in Hanover, Germany. His parents, Sendel and Rivka Grynszpan, were Polish Jews who had immigrated from Poland in 1911 and settled in Hannover, where Sendel opened a tailor's shop, from which the family made a modest living. They became Polish citizens after World War I and retained that status during their years in Germany. Herschel was one of six children of whom only three survived childhood. The first child was born dead in 1912. The second child, daughter Sophie Helena, born in 1914, died in 1928 of scarlet fever. Daughter Esther was born on January 31, 1916, and a son, Mordechai, on August 29, 1919. A fifth child, son Salomon, was born in 1920 and died in 1931 as a result of a traffic accident. On March 28, 1921, Herschel was born. Herschel attended a state primary school until he was 14, in 1935. He later...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=84190 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Prix Amélie Murat, Prix Antonin Artaud, Prix Apollinaire, Prix Louis Guillaume, Prix Max Jacob, Paul René Machin, Prix Littéraires Du Journal de Montréal, Prix Félix-Antoine-Savard, Prix Abitibibowater, Prix Max-Pol Fouchet, Grand Prix de Poésie de L'académie Française, Prix Mallarmé, Prix Odyssée, Prix le Signet D'or, Prix de La Vocation En Poésie, Prix de Poésie Pierrette Micheloud, Prix Louise-Labé, Prix Alain-Grandbois, Grand Prix National de La Poésie, Prix Costa, Prix Brèves Littéraires. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Le Prix francophone de poésie Amélie Murat de la Ville de Clermont-Ferrand, est un prix littéraire de notoriété nationale qui récompense chaque année un recueil poétique manuscrit ou récemment publié. Amélie Murat, née à Chamalières en 1882 a écrit des romans et de nombreux recueils de poésie couronnés notamment par l'Académie française, la Société des gens de lettres, etc. Elle a remporté entre autres le prix François Coppée et le prix de la Fondation Henri Bergson. Elle a reçu la Légion d'honneur en 1932. Elle est décédée à Clermont-Ferrand en 1940. Le Prix Amélie Murat a été fondé en 1953 à l'initiative d'Hélène Angeletti (pseudonyme Hélène Jacques-Lerta) qui avait créé le Cercle éponyme dix ans auparavant en mémoire d'Amélie Murat. Ce concours a récompensé de grands poètes ; il contribue à la reconnaissance de poètes jeunes ou encore peu connus. En plus du prix proprement dit (doté de 800 €), le lauréat reçoit la médaille de la ville de Clermont-Ferrand. Le Cercle Amélie Murat organise parallèlement le Concours littéraire Hélène Jacques-Lerta. Ayant à cœur de rendre la poésie accessible à tous, le Cercle propose des réunions mensuelles, des conférences sur la poésie, d...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Tristan Bernard, Max Jacob, Édouard Daladier, Marcel Petiot, Philippe Tailliez, Germaine Lubin, André and Magda Trocmé, Alexandre Villaplane, Félix Éboué, Lisette de Brinon, Jean Decoux, Georges Gorse, Maurice Raichenbach. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jacques-Yves Cousteau (French pronunciation: ; 11 June 1910 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. He was commonly known as "le Commandant Cousteau" or "Captain Cousteau". Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910, in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, to Daniel and Élisabeth Cousteau. He had one brother, Pierre-Antoine. Cousteau completed his preparatory studies at the prestigious Collège Stanislas in Paris. In 1930 he entered the École Navale and graduated as a gunnery officer. After an automobile accident cut short his career in naval aviation, Cousteau indulged his interest in the sea. In Toulon, where he was serving on the Condorcet, Cousteau carried out his first underwater experiments, thanks to his friend Philippe Tailliez who in 1936 lent him some Fernez underwater goggles, predecessors of modern diving masks. He later worked his way up the ranks as he became more famous and more useful to the navy. Cousteau also belonged to the information service of the French Navy, and was sent on missions to Shanghai and Japan (19351938) and in the USSR (1939). On 12 July 1937 he married Simone Melchior, with whom he had two sons, Jean-Michel (born 1938) and Philippe (19401979). His sons took part in the adventure of the Calypso. In...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16252 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Studying theatre and the performing arts develops aesthetics. This in turn helps to develop an appreciation for the arts which develop personality and teach careful analytical techniques with which one is able to critically analyze things. In 1855, the enactment of the play Indrasabha (the Heavenly Court of Indra) written by Agha Hasan Amanat Ali in the courtyard of the last Nawab of Oudh, Wajid Ali Shah, marked the beginning of Urdu theatre. The drama dealt with the love story between a fairy and a prince. The Nawab, who was a Kathak dancer and had written theses on stage techniques, composed some of the songs and choreographed the dances for the play. It was a huge success. Its characters (Sabaz Pari (Green Fairy), Kala Deo (Black Devil) and Lal Deo (Red Devil)) live on as a part of the vocabulary of the South Asia. The distinct voice of Pakistani literature came soon after the Partition of India in 1947. Since there were many cultural similarities, Urdu and English Literature was inherited by this new state. Over due course, a literature which was somewhat uniquely Pakistani has emerged in every province. Initially the plays were all about the independence and the atrocities committed on the Muslims by the Hindus and Sikhs but this gradually began to change and the current trend is specifically Pakistani venturing into many different genres. Manto is arguably the most influential Urdu writer of the 20th century. He was one of the most controversial as well. His work is comparable with D. H. Lawrence. This comparison is made because like Lawrence he also wrote about the topics considered social taboos of his Society. He addressed topics ranging from the socio-economic injustice prevailing in pre- and post-colonial South Asia; he stirred up... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5043272 ... Read more

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Chapters: Breton Writers, Middle Breton Literature, Alfred Jarry, Max Jacob, François-René de Chateaubriand, Ernest Renan, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Olier Mordrel, François-Marie Luzel, Corentin Louis Kervran, Louis Guilloux, Eugène Guillevic, Charles de Gaulle, Noël Du Fail, Xavier de Langlais, Bernard le Nail, List of Breton Writers, Abeozen, Youenn Drezen, Anatole le Braz, Job de Roincé, Pierre-Louis Ginguené, Jean Markale, Paul Sébillot, Bertrand D'argentré, Xavier Grall, Jeanne Coroller-Danio, Jean-Pierre Calloc'h, Victor Segalen, Émile Masson, Yann Queffélec, Tristan Corbière, Théodore Claude Henri, Vicomte Hersart de La Villemarqué, Roparz Hemon, Jean de Montigny, Yves Lainé, Buhez Sante Barba, Pêr-Jakez Helias, Erwan Vallerie, Morvan Lebesque, Yann Brekilien, Louis Tiercelin, Jules Gros, Guillaume de Saint-André. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 165. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ernest Renan (28 February 1823 12 October 1892) was a French philosopher and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany. He is best known for his influential historical works on early Christianity and his political theories. He was born at Tréguier in Brittany to a family of fishermen. His grandfather, having made a small fortune with his fishing-shack, bought a house at Tréguier and settled there, and his father, captain of a small cutter and an ardent republican, married the daughter of Royalist tradesmen from the neighbouring town of Lannion. All his life, Renan felt conflicted between his father's and his mother's political beliefs. He was five years old when his father died, and his sister, Henriette, twelve years his senior, became the moral head of the household. Having in vain attempted to keep a school for girls at Tréguier, she departed and went to Paris as teacher i...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=191819 ... Read more