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Restless Ambition

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Author : Cathy Curtis (Writer on art)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Restless Ambition written by Cathy Curtis (Writer on art) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Art categories.

The first biography of Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) traces her rise from self-taught painter to art-world fame in New York, her plunge into obscurity after moving to Baltimore, her constant efforts at artistic reinvention, and her tumultuous personal life, including four troubled marriages and a chilly relationship with her only child.

Ambition

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Author : Eckart Goebel
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2022-06-02

Ambition written by Eckart Goebel 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 2022-06-02 with Literary Criticism categories.

We describe people who are “consumed” or “devoured” by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno. Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation-as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the human species. While philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and world literature have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of its shaping role in human history. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, ranging from the works of Homer through Shakespeare, Freud, and Kafka and from the history of ancient Greece and Rome to the Italian Renaissance and up to the present day (to modernity and the current neoliberal era), Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition - that insatiable hunter in the mirror - and power.

Pleasure And Ambition

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Author : Tony Sharp
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2001-05-25

Pleasure And Ambition written by Tony Sharp and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Augustus the Strong of Saxony's life was consumed by two addictions: the relentless pursuit of power and the no less relentless pursuit of pleasure. From his accession as Elector of Saxony in 1694 he pursued political power and glory by fighting the Ottoman Turks, purchasing the Polish throne and warring against Sweden. By seeking to attach parts of the Ottoman, Swedish and Habsburg domains to his Saxon realm Augustus' aim was eventually to supplant the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperors. But his hedonistic lifestyle continually distracted him and when finally defeated in 1707, he found himself back in Saxony fornicating and plotting revenge. This biography, based on primary German sources, tells the story of his remarkable life.

Ninth Street Women

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Author : Mary Gabriel
language : en
Publisher: Little, Brown
Release Date : 2018-09-25

Ninth Street Women written by Mary Gabriel and has been published by Little, Brown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-25 with Art categories.

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life. Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.

Encyclopaedia Of Quotations

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Author : Adam Wooléver
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876

Encyclopaedia Of Quotations written by Adam Wooléver and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Quotations, English categories.

Many Thoughts Of Many Minds

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1863

Many Thoughts Of Many Minds written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1863 with Quotations categories.

Ambition A History

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Author : William Casey King
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-29

Ambition A History written by William Casey King and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-29 with History categories.

Is “ambitious” a compliment? It depends: “[A] masterpiece of intellectual and cultural history.”—David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World From rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to CEO, ambition fuels the American Dream. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous vice, everything from “a canker on the soul” to the impetus for original sin. This engaging book explores ambition’s surprising transformation, tracing attitudes from classical antiquity to early modern Europe to the New World and America’s founding. From this broad historical perspective, William Casey King deepens our understanding of the American mythos and offers a striking reinterpretation of the introduction to the Declaration of Independence. Through an innovative array of sources and authors—Aquinas, Dante, Machiavelli, the Geneva Bible, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, and many others—King demonstrates that a transformed view of ambition became possible the moment Europe realized that Columbus had discovered not a new route but a new world. In addition the author argues that reconstituting ambition as a virtue was a necessary precondition of the American republic. The book suggests that even in the twenty-first century, ambition has never fully lost its ties to vice and continues to exhibit a dual nature—positive or negative depending upon the ends, the means, and the individual involved.

Ambition S Contest Or Faith And Intellect

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Author : Christine Faber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

Ambition S Contest Or Faith And Intellect written by Christine Faber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.

Treasury Of Wisdom Wit And Humor Odd Comparisons And Proverbs

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Author : Adam Wooléver
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878

Treasury Of Wisdom Wit And Humor Odd Comparisons And Proverbs written by Adam Wooléver and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Quotations, English categories.

Many Thoughts Of Many Minds

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Author : Henry Southgate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1862

Many Thoughts Of Many Minds written by Henry Southgate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with Quotations categories.