Snake Dance In Berlin
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Snake Dance In Berlin
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Author : Ronny Noor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Snake Dance In Berlin written by Ronny Noor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Bangladeshis categories.
Rahyan, a young Bengali engineer from Bangladesh goes to Berlin to study computer science. He finds himself in a motley group of his countrymen, students and asylum seekers. They are organised in an association called the Golden Boys Association. Rayhan meets Saad, an eclectic philosopher who becomes a victim of collective ignorance. He also falls for Renata, whose love gives him the courage to fight against parental domination and bigotry. He goes to stay with Uncle Kabir, an asylum seeker, who becomes President of the Association in order to make it better and popular. The president succeeds little in his effort and in the end fails to accomplish what he had promised to do. The drama is played out through parties and picnics, love affairs and fisticuffs and reaches its climax when the German court bans, just before the celebration of the Independence Day of Bangladesh, all the activities of the Association till the court reaches a verdict. The novel mirrors not only a microcosm of a society portrayed through the Association, but also a social history of divided Berlin in the early eighties, told with irony, wit, and humour.
Snake Dance
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Author : Patrick Marnham
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Snake Dance written by Patrick Marnham and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with History categories.
The terrifying first use of nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 was the most controversial act of warfare in history, dramatically ending the Second World War but ushering in the age of mass destruction. Yet it was also the climax of a story that extends beyond Japan and Washington: the culmination of decades of scientific achievement and centuries of colonial exploitation. Snake Dance is the account of a journey that turned into a quest to discover how humanity reaches this point. Patrick Marnham travels from the opulent nineteenth-century palaces of King Leopold II of Belgium, built with riches plundered from the Congo, to the lethally derelict nuclear reactor of modern-day Kinshasa. He follows the shipment of Congolese uranium to the deserts of New Mexico for the Manhattan Project’s secret test detonation. Here he uncovers the legacies of Robert Oppenheimer and Aby Warburg, two ‘mad geniuses’ who confronted the devastating power of twentieth-century science in very different ways. Both men travelled to New Mexico. Oppenheimer was honoured for buiding a bomb, the ancestor of weapons that have enslaved humanity. Warburg, condemned to obscurity and confined to a mental hospital, regained his sanity by studying the rituals of the Native Americans of the Southwest who, for thousands of years, practiced the ritual of the 'snake dance' in an attempt to harness the power of lightening. And it was in New Mexico, at Los Alamos, that the ultimate act of playing God was realised. The circle is closed in Japan.. Faced with the catastrophe at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant in March 2011, scientific man, like the snake dancers, is faced with a power beyond his control. Spanning three continents and the history of civilisation, Snake Dance is at once an intrepid intellectual adventure and a wake-up call for mankind.
Where The Action Is
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Author :
language : en
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The Moki Snake Dance
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Author : Walter Hough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-18
The Moki Snake Dance written by Walter Hough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-18 with History categories.
The Survival Of Images
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Author : Louis Rose
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2001
The Survival Of Images written by Louis Rose and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
In The Survival of Images, Louis Rose offers an engaging exploration of these changes as they occurred in three key areas of inquiry at the turn of the century: art history, classics, and the emerging field of psychoanalysis." "Discussing each one's endeavors within a historically rich context, The Survival of Images offers insights into the concepts and methods that would animate the study of culture for much of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
The Sketch
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1921
The Sketch written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1921 with categories.
Raiding The Icebox
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Author : Peter Wollen
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Raiding The Icebox written by Peter Wollen and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Social Science categories.
Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the line between high and low art. Beginning with an analysis of the role of Diaghilev and the Russian Ballet, Wollen argues that modernism has always had a hidden, suppressed side which cannot easily be absorbed into the master-narrative of modernity. Wollen reviews the hopes, fears and expectations of artists and critics such as the Bauhaus movement, as fascinated by Henry Ford's assembly line as they were by the Hollywood dream factory, concluding with Guy Debord's caustic dystopian vision of an all-consuming "Society of the Spectacle." Finally, Wollen chronicles the emergence of a subversive sensibility as he explores some of the unexpected new cultural forms which non-Western artists are taking as modernism enters into crisis at the beginning of a new century: reversing the rules of the game and raiding the icebox of the West.
Choral Constructions In Greek Culture
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Author : Deborah Tarn Steiner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-22
Choral Constructions In Greek Culture written by Deborah Tarn Steiner 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 2021-04-22 with Art categories.
Demonstrates the centrality of chorality in the social, religious and technological practices of individuals and communities.
Hopi Indian Altar Iconography
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Author : Geertz
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-09-20
Hopi Indian Altar Iconography written by Geertz and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-20 with Architecture categories.
This study focuses on the altars of the major annual Hopi ceremonials which display ritual objects, the possession and use of which give religious and secular power. With the importance of such objects in mind, an iconographic study of Hopi religion is particularly illuminating. This study aims to demonstrate how to view Hopi altars and is supplemented by a theory of the mechanics of efficacy in the Hopi altar context. The text provides a general introduction to Hopi religious practice and distinguishes three levels of information: 1) the calendrical and ritual contexts of Hopi altars, 2) the functions of these altars within those contexts, and 3) the iconography and iconology of the altars, understood here in a literal sense as the study of the forms and structures of the altars on the one hand and the study of the implicit and explicit symbology of the altars on the other. The book provides keys to understanding through exemplification and typology, and is meant to be of particular use to museums and research libraries.
Chaos And Cosmos
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Author : Karen Lang
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-06
Chaos And Cosmos written by Karen Lang 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 2018-08-06 with Art categories.
Writing in 1940, the prominent German art historian Erwin Panofsky asked, "How, then, is it possible to build up art history as a respectable scholarly discipline, if its objects come into being by an irrational and subjective process?" In Chaos and Cosmos, Karen Lang addresses the power of art to resist the pressures of the transcendental vantage point-history. Uncovering the intellectual and cultural richness of the early years of academic art history in Germany—the period from the 1880s to 1940—she explores various attempts within art history to transform aesthetic phenomena—chaos—into the cosmos of a systematic, unified field of inquiry.Lang starts by examining Panofsky's approach to aesthetic phenomena in his early theoretical essays alongside Ernst Cassirer's contemporaneous publications on the substance and function of scientific concepts (and on Einstein's theory of relativity). She then turns to the subject of aesthetic judgment through a rereading of Kantian subjectivity and Kant's uneasy legacy in art history. From here, Lang considers the different organizing theories of symbolic form proposed by Aby Warburg and Cassirer, as well as Goethe's inspiration for both; Alois Riegl's notion of age value and Walter Benjamin's conceptions of the aura; concluding with an extended examination of objectivity and the figure of the art connoisseur.Extensively illustrated with works of art from the Enlightenment to the present day, this venturesome book illuminates an intellectual legacy that has profoundly shaped the study of the history of art in ways that have, until now, been largely unacknowledged. Addressing the interplay of chaos and cosmos in terms of history, art history, philosophy, and epistemology, Lang traces shifts in point of view in art history and the way these shifts change aesthetic objects into historical objects, and even objects of knowledge.