Asylum Of The Birds
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Asylum Of The Birds
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Author : Roger Ballen
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2014-04-22
Asylum Of The Birds written by Roger Ballen and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-22 with Photography categories.
A masterful new monograph from one of the most revered and highly collectible contemporary art photographers in the world Roger Ballen is one of the most original image makers of the twenty-first century. Asylum of the Birds showcases his iconic photographs, which were all taken entirely within the confines of a house in a Johannesburg suburb, the location of which remains a tightly guarded secret. The inhabitants of the house, both people and animals, and most notably the ever-present birds, are the cast who perform within a sculptural and decorated theatrical interior that the author creates and orchestrates. The resulting images are compelling and dynamic, existing somewhere between still life and portrait. They are richly layered with graffiti, drawings, animals, and found objects. In a world where photographers seek to avoid definition, Roger Ballen is a true original who not only defies genres, but has defined his own artistic space as well.
Asylum
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Author : Mark Davis
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2014-07-15
Asylum written by Mark Davis and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with History categories.
A photographic journey into the Pauper Lunatic Asylums of Victorian Great Britain
Asylum Improvisations On John Clare
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Author : Lola Haskins
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2019-06-01
Asylum Improvisations On John Clare written by Lola Haskins and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-01 with Poetry categories.
Constellated When the atoms in my body return to stars They will not remember this five am out my window, neither the moor asleep on the horizon, nor, across her darkened hips, the scatters of bright yellow gorse.
Asylum
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Author : Patrick McGrath
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-08-06
Asylum written by Patrick McGrath and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-06 with Fiction categories.
A story of self-obsession narrated by the point of view of a psychiatrist, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls 'the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an affair...
Blue Asylum
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Author : Kathy Hepinstall
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2012
Blue Asylum written by Kathy Hepinstall and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fiction categories.
During the Civil War, a plantation owner's wife is arrested by her husband and declared insane for seeking justice for slaves. She is sent to a mental asylum and finds love with a war-haunted Confederate soldier.
Ballenesque
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Author : Roger Ballen
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2017-10-10
Ballenesque written by Roger Ballen and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with Photography categories.
An exploration of “the Ballenesque” over the four-decade-long career of this daring artist—representing an entirely fresh edit by Roger Ballen himself and featuring many previously unpublished images Roger Ballen is best known for his psychologically powerful and intricately layered images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation, and photography. Ballenesque is the first comprehensive retrospective of his work. Separated into four parts, Ballenesque takes readers on a chronological journey through Ballen’s entire oeuvre, including both iconic images and previously unpublished works. Part I explores Ballen’s formative artistic influences and his later rediscovery of boyhood through photography, culminating in his first published monograph, Boyhood, in 1979. Part II charts the period between 1980 and 2000, during which time he released his seminal monograph Outland. Part III covers the years 2000–2013, when Ballen achieved global recognition and his work began to veer away from portraiture altogether. Finally, in Part IV, Ballen reflects on his career. With more than 300 photographs and an introduction by Robert JC Young, this book provides both a new way of seeing Ballen’s work for those who already follow his career and a comprehensive introduction for those encountering his striking photographs for the first time.
Behind The Scenes Or Life In An Insane Asylum
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Author : Lydia Adeline Jackson Button Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Behind The Scenes Or Life In An Insane Asylum written by Lydia Adeline Jackson Button Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Mentally ill categories.
The Theater Of Apparitions
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Author : Roger Ballen
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2016-11-22
The Theater Of Apparitions written by Roger Ballen and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-22 with Photography categories.
An immersive new monograph from the critically acclaimed photographer Roger Ballen The Theatre of Apparitions is an immersive and groundbreaking new monograph by the critically acclaimed art photographer Roger Ballen. The author of numerous publications, including Asylum of the Birds and Outland, Ballen is best known for his psychologically powerful and masterfully composed images that exist in a space between painting, drawing, installation, and photography. This book is both a departure from his existing oeuvre and the culmination of his unique aesthetic linking image-making and theatrical performance. Separated into seven chapters or “acts,” these Ballenesque images take readers on a journey deep into the subconscious. Initially inspired by the drawings and marks people make on their environment, Ballen started to experiment using different spray paints on glass and then "drawing on” or removing the paint with a sharp object to let natural light through. The resulting images are like prehistoric cave-paintings: the black, dimensionless spaces on the glass are canvases onto which Ballen carves his thoughts and emotions. Fossil-like facial forms and dismembered body parts co-exist uncomfortably with vaporous, ghost-like shadows—these images have the capacity to shock, inspire, amuse, and even elate viewers. Timeless and innovative, earthly and otherworldly, physical and spiritual, his work transcends the traditional concepts of photography.
Asylum
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Author : Quan Barry
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2001-09-16
Asylum written by Quan Barry and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-16 with Poetry categories.
Winner of the 2000 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize2002 finalist in poetry, Society of Midland AuthorsQuan Barry's stunning debut collection has been compared to Sylvia Plath's Ariel for the startling complexity of craft and the original sophisticated vision behind it. In these poems beauty is just as likely to be discovered on a radioactive atoll as in the existential questions raised by The Matrix.Asylum is a work concerned with giving voice to the displaced—both real and fictional. In "some refrains Sam would have played had he been asked" the piano player from Casablanca is fleshed out in ways the film didn't allow. Steven Seagal, Yukio Mishima, Tituba of the Salem Witch Trials, and eighteenth-century black poet Phillis Wheatley also populate these poems.Barry engages with the world—the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, the legacy of the Vietnam war—but also tackles the broad meditative question of the individual's existence in relation to a higher truth, whether examining rituals or questioning, "Where is it written that we should want to be saved?" Ultimately, Asylum finds a haven by not looking away.
Asylum
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Author : Jill Bialosky
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2022-07-12
Asylum written by Jill Bialosky and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with Poetry categories.
This book-length sequence by the critically acclaimed poet is a seeker's story, revealing personal and historical traumas and how we search for understanding and meaning in their wake. In Asylum, poet Jill Bialosky embarks on a Virgilian journey, building a narrative sequence from 103 elegant poems and prose sections that cohere in their intensity and their need to explore darkness and sustenance both. Taken together, these piercing pieces--about her nascent calling as a writer; her sister's suicide and its still unfolding aftermath; the horror unleashed by World War II; the life cycle of the monarch butterfly; and the woods where she seeks asylum--form a moving story, powerfully braiding despair, survival, and hope. Bialosky considers the oppositions that govern us: our reason and unreason, our need to preserve and destruct. "What are words when they meet the action of what they attempt to modify?" she asks, exploring the possible salve of language in the face of pain and grief. What Asylum delivers is a form of hard-won grace and an awareness of the cost of extreme violence, inexplicable loss, and the miraculous cycles of life, in work that carries Bialosky's art to a new level of urgency and achievement.