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The Upside Down World
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Author : Benjamin Moser
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2023-10-26
The Upside Down World written by Benjamin Moser and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-26 with Art categories.
A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch museums. Soon, he found himself unearthing the strange, inspiring and sometimes terrifying stories of the artists who shaped one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity, the Dutch Golden Age. As he explored the hidden world of the Dutch Masters (and one Mistress), Moser met a crowd of fascinating personalities: the stormy Rembrandt, the intimate Ter Borch, the mysterious Vermeer. Through their art, he got to know their country, too: from Pieter Saenredam's translucent churches to Paulus Potter's muddy barnyards, and from Pieter de Hooch's cozy hearths to Jacob van Ruisdael's tragic trees. Over the years, Moser found himself on increasingly intimate terms with these centuries-dead artists, and found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions he was. Why do we make art? What is art, anyway - and what is an artist? What does it mean to succeed as an artist, and what does it mean to fail? The Upside-Down World is an invitation to ask these questions, and to turn them on their heads: to look, and then to look again. It is a brilliant, colourful and learned book for anyone, whether lifelong scholar or curious tourist, who has ever felt the lure of the Dutch galleries. It shows us art, and artists, as we have never seen them before.
The Upside Down World Meetings With The Dutch Masters
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Author : Benjamin Moser
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-10
The Upside Down World Meetings With The Dutch Masters written by Benjamin Moser and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-10 with Art categories.
Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive, decades-long study of the Dutch Masters to set his world right again. Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country’s great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity. Beyond the sainted Rembrandt—who harbored a startling darkness—and the mysterious Vermeer, whose true subject, it turned out, was lurking in plain sight, Moser got to know a whole galaxy of geniuses: the doomed virtuoso Carel Fabritius, the anguished wunderkind Jan Lievens, the deaf prodigy Hendrik Avercamp. And through their artwork, he got to know their country, too: from the translucent churches of Pieter Saenredam to Paulus Potter’s muddy barnyards, and from Pieter de Hooch’s cozy hearths to Jacob van Ruisdael’s tragic trees. Year after year, as he tried to make a life for himself in the Netherlands, Moser found friends among these centuries-dead artists. And he found that they, too, were struggling with the same questions that he was. Why do we make art? What even is art, anyway—and what is an artist? What does it mean to succeed as an artist, and what does it mean to fail? Is art a consolation—or a mortal danger? The Upside-Down World is an invitation to ask these questions, and to turn them on their heads: to look, and then to look again. This is Holland and its great artists as we’ve never seen them before. And it’s a sumptuously illustrated, highly personal coming-of-age-story, twenty years in the making: a revealing self-portrait by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation.
The Upside Down Book
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Author : Anna Brett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-02-07
The Upside Down Book written by Anna Brett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-07 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Activities include: write this sentence upside down, draw an upside-down world where fish fly in the sky and birds swim in the sea, flip over what you're watching on TV by using a magnifying glass!
Upside Down World
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Author : Seda Ünlüçay
language : en
Publisher: Seda Ünlüçay
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Upside Down World written by Seda Ünlüçay and has been published by Seda Ünlüçay this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
A young girl growing up in rural Turkey discovers the paradoxes at the core of life: the more she gives, the richer she feels, the happier she is alone, the more friends she makes, the more she embraces the quiet parts of life, the more she discovers that it is a beautiful mystery. The stunning watercolour illustrations celebrate Turkish culture and reinforce the universal nature of the lessons.
World Upside Down
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Author : Christopher Kavin Rowe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010
World Upside Down written by Christopher Kavin Rowe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Bibles categories.
No longer can Acts be seen as a simple apologia that articulates Christianity's harmlessness vis-à-vis Rome. Rather, in its attempt to form communities that witness to God's apocalypse, author Kavin Rowe argues that Luke's second volume is a highly charged and theologically sophisticated political document. Luke aims at nothing less than the construction of a new culture - a total pattern of life - that inherently runs counter to the constitutive aspects of Graeco-Roman society.
The World Upside Down
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Author : Lydia Habiger-Doxon
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2011-10-21
The World Upside Down written by Lydia Habiger-Doxon and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-21 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
What would happen if the whole world turned upside down? Lydia discovers that one day, as she observes her family, the neighbors, the pets and even a jet airplane, all upside down. Then suddenly we discover that Lydia has been hanging by her knees all along. In this children’s book we discover how much fun it can be to see the world from a different perspective. As Lydia observes this upside down world she playfully views all that is happening. We also discover that an upside down world can be set right again as she swings head over heels and turns the world right side up. Conceived and written by three sisters, ages 6, 8 and 9, the book offers a whimsical look at the world turned upside down.
Upside Down World
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Author : Penny Olsen
language : en
Publisher: National Library Australia
Release Date : 2010
Upside Down World written by Penny Olsen and has been published by National Library Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Amphibians categories.
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Eurocentric perceptions of natural history led to the flora and fauna of the new colony of New South Wales being viewed as deficient and inferior. The swans of the colony were black and eagles white, birds built shell-strewn avenues of sticks to cavort in and parrots walked on the ground. The mammals carried their young in a pouch and there were furred animals that laid eggs. This 'miscellany of the curious' fuelled the rage for Australian natural history amongst the upper classes of Europe, bringing income and, occasionally, fame to its collectors and documenters. On the ground, in the colony, it contributed to great change for the animals and, in some cases, extinction. In Upside Down World author Penny Olsen documents how our scientific knowledge evolved, using collectors' and naturalists' journals to enhance her stories.
Upside Down
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Author : Eduardo Galeano
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2014-05-13
Upside Down written by Eduardo Galeano and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-13 with History categories.
From the winner of the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, a bitingly funny, kaleidoscopic vision of the first world through the eyes of the third Eduardo Galeano, author of the incomparable Memory of Fire Trilogy, combines a novelist's intensity, a poet's lyricism, a journalist's fearlessness, and the strong judgments of an engaged historian. Now his talents are richly displayed in Upside Down, an eloquent, passionate, sometimes hilarious exposé of our first-world privileges and assumptions. In a series of lesson plans and a "program of study" about our beleaguered planet, Galeano takes the reader on a wild trip through the global looking glass. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car"--with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of "The Right to Rave"--he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness. We have accepted a reality we should reject, Galeano teaches us, one where machines are more precious than humans, people are hungry, poverty kills, and children toil from dark to dark. A work of fire and charm, Upside Down makes us see the world anew and even glimpse how it might be set right. "Galeano's outrage is tempered by intelligence, an ineradicable sense of humor, and hope." -Los Angeles Times, front page
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Author : BENJAMIN. MOSER
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Upside Down World written by BENJAMIN. MOSER and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with categories.
The World Turned Upside Down
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Author : Yang Jisheng
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-01-19
The World Turned Upside Down written by Yang Jisheng and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with History categories.
Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong’s ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union’s "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation’s economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.