Border Diptych
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Border Diptych
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Author : Luis Mora-Ballesteros
language : en
Publisher: Luis Mora-Ballesteros
Release Date : 2024-02-12
Border Diptych written by Luis Mora-Ballesteros and has been published by Luis Mora-Ballesteros this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-12 with Art categories.
Translator’s Note “Perhaps Schopenhauer was right: I am all other men, any man is all men, Shakespeare is in some manner the miserable John Vincent Moon.” By opening his debut novel with these lines borrowed from Borges, Venezuelan author Luis Mora-Ballesteros foretells the central concern of his literary project: representing the universal in the particular. Here, the particular in question is the writer’s own Táchira State, in the rural borderland that straddles Venezuela and Colombia. In its portrayal of this place and its people Mora’s work exemplifies the defining themes of the twenty-first century: migration, assimilation, and the creation of new collective identities. Diptych is a term borrowed from visual art that refers to a symmetrical composition laid out on two panels side by side; Diptych of the Border is likewise symmetrically composed. It weaves together stories of migrant families who for decades have fled endemic violence in Colombia to settle in an overlooked region of Venezuela, forming a hybrid identity unique to the area. Later in the novel, in the 2010s, we meet migrants escaping Venezuela’s current economic disaster, moving in the other direction to form a new diasporic community in Colombia. Diptych attempts to show how such collective identities are constructed. In the following excerpt from the novel’s opening pages, we see a mosaic of images: new surroundings that provoke a sense of difference (“there’s no sea here…”), snapshots of the violence that drives people away (“the march of balaclavas and rifles…”), the conditions on the ranches and sugar plantations where some will end up as migrant workers, and countless small details that lend the text an authentic sense of place. The narrative moves loosely through space and time; events usually hinge around a shifting, expansive present tense. We meet a character and are promptly told what will happen to them months or years in the future; later in the novel we encounter them at another time and in changed circumstances, without entirely knowing what happened in between. This nonlinear temporality is characteristic of Mora’s writing and suggestive of how trauma flattens time and distorts memory. The central plot of the novel concerns a journalist, Juan Ángel, who has traveled to the borderland to write a story on a mysterious guerilla leader. We learn that he attempted to write a kind of crónica, or literary journalistic piece, about the region, before giving up and focusing on a straightforward feature story. It’s revealed that many sections of the novel, including this excerpt, are part of the failed crónica. With this narrative framing device, Mora creates another layer of symmetry in his diptych: the style continually oscillates between free-flowing prose-poetry (the crónica) and a tighter realism that relates Juan Ángel’s investigations. This collating of heterogeneous styles results in a work that “straddles the line between tradition and avant-garde.” (Bernardo Navarro Villarreal, writing in Latin American Literature Today.) The book was a finalist in Spain’s 2019 Martín Fierro competition for novels of social criticism. It is the first volume of a planned trilogy. Alex Halatsis
The Prayer Book Of Charles The Bold
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Author : Antoine de Schryver
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2008
The Prayer Book Of Charles The Bold written by Antoine de Schryver and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
In January 1469, the accounts of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy (reigned 1467-77) record a payment to the noted scribe Nicolas Spierinc 'for having written ... some prayers for my lord.' Seven months later, the same accounts record a payment to the illuminator Lievin van Lathern for twenty-five miniatures plus borders and decorated initials in the same manuscript. In this study, the late Antoine de Schryver - an internationally renowned art historian - presents a thoroughly researched and balanced argument suggesting that the documents refer to the exquisite prayer book of Charles the Bold which can now be found in the collection of the J. Getty Museum. --book jacket.
Letras Y Limpias
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Author : Amanda V. Ellis
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2021-08-10
Letras Y Limpias written by Amanda V. Ellis and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Letras y Limpias is the first book to explore the literary significance of the curandera. It offers critical new insights about how traditional medicine and folk healing underwrite Mexican American literature. Amanda Ellis traces the significance of the curandera and her evolution across a variety of genres written by Mexican American authors such as Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Manuel Munoz, ire'ne lara silva, and more.
The Poetics Of Indeterminacy
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Author : Marjorie Perloff
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1999
The Poetics Of Indeterminacy written by Marjorie Perloff and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Collections categories.
She traces this tradition from its early "French connection" in the poetry of Rimbaud and Apollinaire as well as in Cubist, Dada, and early Surrealist painting; through its various manifestations in the work of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound; to such postmodern "landscapes without depth" as the French/English language constructions of Samuel Beckett, the elusive dreamscapes of John Ashbery, and the performance works of David Antin and John Cage.".
Portable Borders
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Author : Ila N. Sheren
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2015-08-15
Portable Borders written by Ila N. Sheren and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-15 with Art categories.
After World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in the 1980s. Art at the U.S.-Mexico border came to a turning point at the beginning of that decade with the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Beginning with a political history of the border, with an emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, Ila Sheren explores the forces behind the shift in thinking about the border in the late twentieth century. Particularly in the world of visual art, borders have come to represent a space of performance rather than a geographical boundary, a cultural terrain meant to be negotiated rather than a physical line. From 1980 forward, Sheren argues, the border became portable through performance and conceptual work. This dematerialization of the physical border after the 1980s worked in two opposite directions—the movement of border thinking to the rest of the world, as well as the importation of ideas to the border itself. Beginning with site-specific conceptual artwork of the 1980s, particularly the performances of the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo, Sheren shows how these works reconfigured the border as an active site. Sheren moves on to examine artists such as Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Coco Fusco, and Marcos Ramirez "ERRE." Although Sheren places emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, this groundbreaking book suggests possibilities for the expansion of the concept of portability to contemporary art projects beyond the region.
Ivory Diptych Sundials 1570 1750
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Author : Harvard University. Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Release Date : 1992
Ivory Diptych Sundials 1570 1750 written by Harvard University. Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments and has been published by Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Diptychs categories.
This catalog illustrates Harvard's collection of eighty-three ivory diptych sundials, elaborate instruments widely used during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to determine the time by day or night. The collection encompasses a comprehensive array of styles and designs from Nuremberg, Paris, Dieppe, and other parts of Europe.
The Art Of Medieval Spain A D 500 1200
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Author : Jerrilynn D. Dodds
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 1993
The Art Of Medieval Spain A D 500 1200 written by Jerrilynn D. Dodds and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Art, Medieval categories.
The Jeweled Style
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Author : Michael Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-05
The Jeweled Style written by Michael Roberts and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The Jeweled Style, Michael Roberts offers a new approach to the Latin poetry of late antiquity, one centering on an aesthetic quality common to both the literature and the art of the period—the polychrome patterning of words and phrases or of colors and shapes. In Roberts's view, the writer or artist of this period works as a jeweler, carefully setting compositional units in a geometric framework, consistently demonstrating a preference for effects of patterning over realistic representation, and for a unity situated at a higher level than the literal, historical sequence of the narrative. Roberts's introductory chapter is followed by an anthology of representative narrative and descriptive poetry from the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. Next, Roberts traces the use of "jewels" as a literary metaphor from the first century A.D. to late antiquity. He then compares the works of late antique literature to wall and floor mosaics, ivory diptychs, Christian sarcophagi, and contemporary styles of dress. Emphasizing that the poetry of this period is not uniform, he differentiates the main genres of Christian narrative poetry—biblical and hagiographical epic—from secular examples of the jeweled style, such as the poetry of Ausonius and Sidonius. Roberts concludes by examining the influence of late antique aesthetics on the medieval poetics of Matthew of Vendôme and Geoffrey of Vinsauf. Elegantly written and augmented by twenty-three illustration, The Jeweled Style will be welcomed by many readers, including Latinists and other classicists, medievalists and Renaissance scholars specializing in literature, Byzantinists, and art historians.
The Ivory Workers Of The Middle Ages
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Author : Anna Maria Elizabeth Cust
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-11-14
The Ivory Workers Of The Middle Ages written by Anna Maria Elizabeth Cust and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-14 with Fiction categories.
"The Ivory Workers of the Middle Ages" by Anna Maria Elizabeth Cust. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Infinity Stage
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Author : Spencer Golub
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2001
Infinity Stage written by Spencer Golub and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Drama categories.
A moving and genre-defying text, written after a great loss, that blurs the boundaries between writing and performance