Catalogue Des Objets D Art D Ameublement Et De Curiosit Tableaux Anciens Et Modernes Porcelaines Et Fa Ences Paris S Vres Chine Bronzes Et Cuivres Pendules Anciennes Appartenant Monsieur X
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The System Of Objects
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Author : Jean Baudrillard
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-04-07
The System Of Objects written by Jean Baudrillard and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with Philosophy categories.
The System of Objects is a tour de force—a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day. Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, The System of Objects offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society. Baudrillard classifies the everyday objects of the “new technical order” as functional, nonfunctional and metafunctional. He contrasts “modern” and “traditional” functional objects, subjecting home furnishing and interior design to a celebrated semiological analysis. His treatment of nonfunctional or “marginal” objects focuses on antiques and the psychology of collecting, while the metafunctional category extends to the useless, the aberrant and even the “schizofunctional.” Finally, Baudrillard deals at length with the implications of credit and advertising for the commodification of everyday life. The System of Objects is a tour de force of the materialist semiotics of the early Baudrillard, who emerges in retrospect as something of a lightning rod for all the live ideas of the day: Bataille’s political economy of “expenditure” and Mauss’s theory of the gift; Reisman’s lonely crowd and the “technological society” of Jacques Ellul; the structuralism of Roland Barthes in The System of Fashion; Henri Lefebvre’s work on the social construction of space; and last, but not least, Guy Debord’s situationist critique of the spectacle.
Forty Acres And Maybe A Mule
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Author : Harriette Gillem Robinet
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-02-22
Forty Acres And Maybe A Mule written by Harriette Gillem Robinet and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-22 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.
Adam Elsheimer 1578 1610
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Author : Rüdiger Klessmann
language : en
Publisher: Dulwich Picture Gallery
Release Date : 2006
Adam Elsheimer 1578 1610 written by Rüdiger Klessmann and has been published by Dulwich Picture Gallery this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.
"Adam Elsheimer is first recorded in 1600 and by 1610 he was dead. But Elsheimer was influential on the coming century to a degree out of all proportion to his brief career and small output. Above all, he revolutionised the handling of light in landscapes and interiors, introducing novel ways of handling complex narratives as well as inventing new subject matter in painting." "Although his importance has always been recognised, appreciation of the artist has been hampered by a lack of good reproductions. This book offers for the first time a host of lavish colour details from his paintings that demonstrate Elsheimer's extraordinarily fine touch and feeling. This major study, the first to appear in English for nearly thirty years, accompanies a landmark exhibition being held at the Stadelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh and at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London."--BOOK JACKET.
The Burgess Shale
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Author : Margaret Atwood
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 2017-03-17
The Burgess Shale written by Margaret Atwood and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
“Atwood provides a window into her own early writing days . . . a treasure for readers interested in Canadian literature because this is where it all began.” —Prairie Fire Review of Books “The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It’s always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you’re in your teens, a decade earlier feels like ancient history and the present moment seems normal: what exists now is surely what has always existed.” In this short work, Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and “Canada’s most famous writer” (The New Yorker), compares the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that contains the fossils of many strange prehistoric life forms. The Burgess Shale is not entirely about writing itself, however: Atwood also provides some insight into the meager writing infrastructure of that time, taking a lighthearted look at the early days of the institutions we take for granted today—from writers’ organizations, prizes, and grant programs to book tours and festivals. “Allows the reader a brief glimpse into the mind of a great writer and her perspective and experience living through what would now seem to many the Stone Age of the Canadian writing scene . . . invaluable and very readable.” —Canadian Literature
A New Pocket Dictionary Of The French And English Languages In Two Parts
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Author : Thomas Nugent
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1770
A New Pocket Dictionary Of The French And English Languages In Two Parts written by Thomas Nugent and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1770 with categories.
Heroes Of Invention
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Author : Christine MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-06-24
Heroes Of Invention written by Christine MacLeod and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-24 with History categories.
This innovative study adopts a distinct perspective on both the industrial revolution and nineteenth-century British culture. It investigates why inventors rose to heroic stature and popular acclaim in Victorian Britain, attested by numerous monuments, biographies and honours, and contends there was no decline in the industrial nation's self-esteem before 1914. In a period notorious for hero-worship, the veneration of inventors might seem unremarkable, were it not for their previous disparagement and the relative neglect suffered by their twentieth-century successors. Christine MacLeod argues that inventors became figureheads of various nineteenth-century factions, from economic and political liberals to impoverished scientists and radical artisans, who deployed their heroic reputation, not least to challenge the aristocracy's hold on power and the militaristic national identity that bolstered it. Although this was a challenge that ultimately failed, its legacy of ideas about invention, inventors, and the history of the industrial revolution remains highly influential.
Reminiscences
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Author : Carl Schurz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
Reminiscences written by Carl Schurz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with categories.
Failed States And Institutional Decay
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Author : Natasha M. Ezrow
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-07-18
Failed States And Institutional Decay written by Natasha M. Ezrow and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with Political Science categories.
What do we mean by failed states and why is this concept important to study? The “failed states” literature is important because it aims to understand how state institutions (or lack thereof) impact conflict, crime, coups, terrorism and economic performance. In spite of this objective, the “failed state” literature has not focused enough on how institutions operate in the developing world. This book unpacks the state, by examining the administrative, security, judicial and political institutions separately. By doing so, the book offers a more comprehensive and clear picture of how the state functions or does not function in the developing world, merging the failed state and institutionalist literatures. Rather than merely describing states in crisis, this book explains how and why different types of institutions deteriorate. Moreover, the book illustrates the impact that institutional decay has on political instability and poverty using examples not only from Africa but from all around the world.
Materials
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Author : Hans-Joachim Braun
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2002
Materials written by Hans-Joachim Braun and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Science categories.
The theme of materials in the history of technology has never been as well researched as other more popular areas like energy, production technology or transport and communication. The present collection of papers originating from the symposium on Materials: Science, Technology and Early Applications in conjunction with the 20th International History of Science Congress in Liege, 1997, make a contribution to remedying this unsatisfactory situation. They concentrate on the 19th and 20th centuries and range from research on the metallurgy of zinc in the late 18th and early 19th century to the prospects of ceramic materials to ameliorate contemporary environmental problems.
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
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Author : James Joseph Rorimer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art written by James Joseph Rorimer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Architecture, Medieval categories.